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Oamaru Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 4978, 20 May 1891, Page 2

A private letter from Bourke, New South Wales, informs us that a young man namcil Charles Maodonald, late of Timaru, died there recently, of diptlieria. He took the disease on a Monday and died on the following Friday. We believe that a brother of the deceased man is a butcher, residing in Timaru, and we publish this information in order that he and other persons interested may be made aware of the occurrence. The following team from the Excelsior Football Club will play all-comers 011 the North Road ground to-morrow afternoon at 2 o'clock. Backs—Foss, Meredith, Heron (2), Hinton, Hastie. Forwards—Ogilvic, Emerson, Wylie, Familton, Jack, M'Taggart, Huia (2), Robins, Crawshaw. The following householders were elected on the Whare-Kuri School Committee: — Messrs N. Bain, William M'Caughtrie, I). Aubray, J. Stewart, W. Gard (treasurer), John Collins (secretary), and Thomas Anderson (chairman). A match between the first fifteens of the Athletic and Excelsior Football Clubs will be played on the North Road Ground to'morrow afternoon. As this is the first time the Excelsior Club, which has only recently been constituted a senior club, lias been pitted against either of the other senior clubs of the town, considerable interest is centred in the match. The Athletics will be represented by : —Full-back, W. Glass ; three-quarters, EL P. Johnstone, D. Hurst (captain), A. Harrison; halves, A. M'Culloeh and Heron : forwards, M. Connolly, J. Barr, Jas. Grant, C. Grant, J. Barclay, I). Smith, C. Johnstone, C. Rivers, and D. M'Ghie. The Excelsior team has been already published. The concert and dance in aid of the Pukeuri Library fund will be held on Friday week instead of Friday next, as previously announced. The change has been made in order to suit the convenience of the Sunflower Minstrels who have promised to attend and give an entertainment. The following are the liabilities and assets in the estate of Robert Smith, carpenter : Liabilities —R. Butt, L2 los 8d ; W. Grant, L 7 18s 5d ; J. Annand, LI 14s 6d: J. Craig, L 5 los 6d ; John Taylor, L2 10s ; J. Smith, LlO : Nelson, Moat, and Co., LI; R. Smith, L 8 los ; W. Foss, L 3 10s; A. J. S. Headland, L 7 10s ; W. L. Bannatyne, L2-I 3s ; Cowles and Paterson, L2 lis. Total, 3s id. Assets —Furniture, LlO, A conveyance will leavo the Post Office punctually at 5 o'clock on Friday evening, to convey to Awamoko those who have kindly promised to help at the Awamoko school concert. All those interested in the formation of a club for evening amusement and social intercourse are requested to meet at the Coffee Rooms, to-morrow night, at S o'clock. The meeting is called at the instigation of the Excelsior Football Club, but an open invitation is extended. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, have received the following cablegram from their London office, dated the 15th 111 st. : —Tallow—There is little demand. Fine mutton is worth 2Ss 3d, and good beef 26s 3d per cwt. Frozen meats : Mutton—Market quiet. Canterbury mutton, stocks of which arc light, is wortli 4gd per lb. New Zealand lamb is in rather better demand. Beef—Market quiet. New Zealand beef, hindquarters, worth 4gd per lb. Other quotations unchanged since last telegram. There have been 110 entries made for the bicycle races at the forthcoming Kurow sports. There was no quorum in attendance at the meeting of the North Otago Agricultural and Pastoral Association called for this afternoon. Only Messrs Morton, Hedley, Little, M'Whirter, and Jas. Reid attended. Messrs Thomas Hall and Thomas Stevenson were announced as having been elected to the Committee from the four who tied at the general meeting. We understand that the Clara Merivale Opera Company which was announced to appear at JJunedin next week, and about which many conflicting rumors have been circulating, will open in Christehurch in the first week in November. Mr Hannington, a brother of the late bishop of that name, who was murdered ill Africa, delivered an interesting lecture last night in St. Paul's Church. The Rev. A. B. Todd occupied the chair and briefly introduced the lecturer, who gave a discursive and chatty discourse on Palestine and the Jews. As Mr Hannington has travelled from Lebanon to Jerusalem, he is, of course, specially qualified to speak on all matters pertaining to the scriptural country, and his lecture was replete with interest and instruction.