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Oamaru Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 4973, 14 May 1891, Page 2

Mr George Morton, of Waihao, was gored by a young bull yesterday morning, and sustained serious injuries. He was opening a paddock gate when the bull rushed him and tossed him about in a terrible manner, inflicting most severe wounds. An seeing the accident, ran to Mr Morton's assistance, and succeeded in getting the bull away. The sufferer was then carried home, and Dr Barclay sent for. Mr Morton is gored all over, his body being just a mass of wounds, and at present he lies in a most precarious condition.

There was an exceptionally sharp white frost in town last night. The mutton jettisoned by the Mamari was loaded at Wellington, and was fully covered by insurance. Mr E. T. Smith has been conducting very effective meetings in the country districts this week. The Rev. Mr Wright presided at a most enthusiastic meeting held at Herbert on Tuesday last. Mr Smith gave his original lecture, entitled, " A Notorious Thief and Murderer," and when, at the close of the lecture, the audience were asked to give a decision, a verdict of "Guilty" "was unanimously returned. —At Mr Smith's meeting in the Public Hall, Hampden, last night, members were unable to get seats, and the lecturer received quite an ovation at the conclusion of his address, which lasted nearly three hours. The campaign

has been most successful th r great hopes arc entertained I) 0 !®"'!, friends as to the result of licensing elections. "ic A paragraph appeared i n Tuesday statiug that wheat coull S in California at a cost of ; j,| a help of labor-saving appij a palpable error, and arose thro I'' being printed " :}(!," instead of cost of wheat production beinir a dollar per acre. ° a <|ts^ The annual meeting of the V, will be held 011 Saturday next the County Council Chambers A correspondent writing to 11 Star saj's In last night's Stap'° the coincidence that the nuinlw and the number of acres in Oamaru are the same, namely sir, they say there is luck inn,],! * and. let us hope that the O.inwn find it so, for the Uf Xlan, > the more remarkablo from th e Oamaru Masonic Lodge, W.iitli - 1111. ''."X

For the Moeraki licensing electi is being taken to-day, there dates—five Moderates, live ProU"?* proper, and two candidates wk "**> alleged the Moderate party have J?' stand as Prohibitionists with the of splitting the Prohibition Moderates proper are Messrs WyliA ) ham, Aitchison, Scott, and Ure j Prohibitionists are Messrs Em,Elder, Morton, Robertson, and In Tuesday's Dunedin Star aim!?! paragraph from the Melbourne coriK of that paper giving a circun, st J?y count of the alleged attempt of j • to poison a policeman by means of J* in which strychnine hail heeti nl' This is one of a string of accusation, 5 appear to have been levelled at the mj in the absence of proof of the real ent and some of which, it seems probaWe? been trumped up in order to make tl appear worse than they really is 110 necessity to do this. All men uv unionists, or free laborers, or c ' Vcn ? tralian pastoralists, are bad enough !. been said, and published in a large nc>: of Australian newspapers, that, i cases, the bush fires that have been ft the charge of unionists, have actiiaju caused by pastoralists themselves, m: idea of makinga rise in the shape ofWj money. But we arc unwilling this, till it has been established |»j! proof more satisfactory than nert i* just as we refuse to swallow tfie sensii poisoning yarn, regarding which, jv graph in the Sydney Morning Heirddt " The police have been unsuccessful in arresting the unionist who attenwj poison a trooper at Barcaliline 011 day. The strike committee voluntte" assist the police, if the police ran 1, them that it is not a hoax,' 1

At the Land Board meeting ycstcrii following applications to complete pujj of deferred-payment land were grany J. E. Wcrlc, section 5, block 4, Kui«M'Kerrow, section ] 40, block ], Oio C. Martin, as agent for R. Wilson, r stating that ho considered the rent In license for part of the grazing 3, Oamaru, was too high, ami suggested; it be reduced to LI per annum. Cons! tion was deferred for a fortnight.— requested permission to fence in a sun!) tion of water reserve, section <1(1, (j, Hawkesbury, for the purpose of cattle have access to tlic water, 84, to Ranger Hughan to report as to ikfe arrangement to suit all pat ties. Over a ton oi grapes have beensoss sea,son by Mr W. H. Beetham, from an eighth of an aero of hlJifl per lb, this would mean the rccsf.ijj; Not bad for an eighth of an acre, , Some very good crops of wheatMi raised on the flat land close to tlietal Makikihi.

Owing to the rise in the price oi J (says the Tapanni Courier), there inn for farming land. Last week Mr I/J reported to have sold 000 acres of tlitCi vale estate to Messrs rainier Bros., J per acre. A further block of Monti dale estate will be in the market iM Only one section of the Won. Flat hlodj was open for sale or lease now remanj selected, and the large property n| seem inclined to unload their cstatoii prices.

The'Otago Daily Times says:—Were stand that the following arc tki i arrangements in connection with tliecls in the Stock Department in Otagti Southland :—lnspector Turner is r® from Gore to Invercargill, ami li.iste the Southland district; Inspector Bu removes from Dipton to Lawrence, ui charge of the Tuapcka district: lift Scaife removes from Outram to Diw and Inspectors Miller, Corbctt, nndK ton remain at Oamaru, Clyde, and Biltk respectively, the district of eachols inspectors being enlarged. I| l 5 P tc '* Hull is removed to Wanganui, nua U Inspector Douglas will probably tak(« of the Timaru district.

Mr H. Warner, in a speech at a M at Cavcrsham to consider the licensing tion, said :—For his part lie liked agJ beer, and meant to get it when hen it, but if there were too many hotel! # no objection to those that wore not w being closed, if the selection wwt made with regard to public convffi What, however, he thought, was ft great importance was that there shcti an amendment of the Licensing'" mitting every man on the parliaiM electoral roll to vote on the question« hihition. He would himself surpon hibition when it was carried on the vl the multitude. (Applause). On Saturday last a cable mcssag' Sydney informed us that a Polish set!® been speared near Albury by the» From Australian exchanges we lean the outrage was committed 011 May ®' it was consequently a week after before the cable authorities commi® it. The arrival of the barque Sydney was only cabled yesterday, a private message stated that the l rived on Friday last. Somebody wanes waking up. A fashion journal, in its ladies, states that " sloping shoii be shortly introduced." After sumably, broken legs and wall C J CS the order of the day. The Edwards case (says the J 8 * correspondent of the Lytteltonl® ' mises to be a very big thing. T"® on both sides are working lo»g J 10 "™ ranging over vast periods of time mense spaces of printed matter, w any case caused so much trouble p to the lawyers engaged. It m " , the best and closest arguments ever this country. , . George Giffen heads the Atistralian averages for the season ISOO-01. , average of 91 in intercolonial 195 for hiß club. _