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Oamaru Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 5085, 22 September 1891, Page 2

The rainfall at Maheno for August was 0'57 inches. The maximum fall was 033 inches on the 20th. The following are gazetted Trustees for the Waitaki North cemetery :—Messrs Geo. Park, David Ritchie, W. J. Williams, John Gray, and Nicholas O'Toole. The annual Hampden ploughing match will he held on Thursday, October Ist. The usual classes are embodied on the programme, and the match gives every prospect of maintaining the high standard of interest of former years. Ploughs must be on the ground at 5.30, and ploughing will begin punctually at 9 o'clock. An extraordinary meeting of the Kurow Jockey Club will be held in the Bridge Hotel to-morrow night, at S o'clock. A full attendance is desired, as business of primary importance will be put before the meeting. The following will represent the Lake Ohau Football Club in a match against fifteen of the Tailor's Football Club:—Backs: —May, W., Wray, Welsh, Donovan, Sincock, J. May (captain); forwards: Cook, Veitch, M'Murtrie, Burns, Benmore, Milne, Sullivan, Barraclough, Waitangi ; reserves : C. Cook, Totara. The ordinary monthly meeting of the Harbor Board will bo held on Friday morning.

The University of New Zealand December examinations for matriculation, junior scholarships, medical preliminary, and barristers and solicitors' general knowledge, will begin on December Ist. Candidates must send in to the Registrar of the University, Wellington, a list of subjects in which they desire to be examined signed in full, and with their age last birthday stated. Such notices, accompanied by the fee, must be forwarded on or before October 24th. Notices will be accepted up to October 31st on payment of a treble fee. Candidates will be examined locally. Messrs S. A. Staples and Co. of Christchurch draw attention, elsewhere, to their •i übilee pumps and sprayers. These pumps are specially adapted for spraying and dressing fruit trees, shrubs, etc., which may be attacked by scale or blight. Full particulars appear in our advertising columns. The Lyttelton Times says :—Some idea of the opinion of the Legislative Council held by the residents of Lyttelton can be gained frojn the fact that in le6S than an hour on Saturday morning over JOO names were signed to a petition expressing disapproval of the Council's recent actions, and asking the Government to effect some speed}' constitutional means of placing that Chamber on a footing that will make it properly represent the wish of the country. Recently we published a telegram containing an extraordinary story of a boy who was thrown from his horse on the sea beach, became unconscious, and the next thing he remembered was being outside the breakers floating on a log. A northern exchange gives the name of the lad as George Bell, and adds that the log had several branches, and when the boy had recovered his senses he found himself resting partly on a limb and partly on the log. A large shark, with evidently an eye to business, persistently kept the" lad company, and only disappeared about two hours before sunset, when the lad seeing his opportunity, stripped, ftnd boldly struck out for the shore, and' after a swim of half-an-lioijr, managed co reach dry land. At daylight next morning he walked in a nude state to Warea, where the adventure ended. The lad was none the worse for his extraordinary voyage on a log, and persists in liis statements. The inhabitants of the Ngapara township are anxious about the sanitary condition of the place. We understand that a quantity of dirty water and filth is allowed to lie about" in places, and a meeting will take place in the local Atfccnramn on Saturday night, to adopt gome method of drainage.

Mails for Australian Colonies, China, Japan, etc., via Sydney, and India, Europe, and the United Kingdom, for specially addressed correspondence, via Brindisi, close at Wellington, per Janet Nicoll, on Wednesday, 23rd inst, jDw i.n tendon on lltli November.

A meeting of the Waimate Agricultural and Pastoral Association was held in the County Council Chambers, Waimate, on Saturday afternoon last. About 20 members were present. Mr G. Morton (President) occupied the chair. After some routine business had been completed, the chairman stated that the chief business of the meeting was to receive the report of the committee that had been appointed at last meeting to select a suitable draught entire for the coining season. The committee reported inspecting several horses and recommended a ftojrse palled Hard Times, belonging to

Mr James Cullen, Qf Taieri, as the most suitable. The horse lias a good reputation in the Southland district, and his pedigree was indisputable. Mr Cullen would require a guarantee of 60 mares before bringing the horse up. It was unanimously resolved to decide on giving the necessary guarantee and obtaining for the district the services of Mr Cullen's horse. A vote of thanks was passed to the committee, who had taken considerable time and been at no little personal expense inthematter of selecting a horse for the benefit of the district. Class stewards for the forthcoming show were elected, and there being 110 further business, the meeting terminated.

A meeting of the Oamaru Plunipton Coursing Club was held last night in the Royal Hotel, for the purpose of winding up the Club. Resolutions were carried in accordance with the purpose of the meeting, and Messrs \Y. Christie and J. R. Sewcll were appointed liquidators. The book containing the business transactions of the Club was ordered to be left with Mr J. R. Sewell for subscribers' inspection. The money in hand will pay ll3s Gd in the ,1". Like most of the steamers engaged in the trade of India and China, the steamer Booldana, which was in Lyttelton ?n Saturday, is manned entirely by Asiatics, the officers and engineers only being Europeans. During the vessel's stay at the wharf, a large number of people boarded her and appeared much interested. The aft part of the ship, including the saloon and oilicers' quarters, was a picture of cleanliness, as was the vessel throughout, for that matter, but in the forecastle the opium smoke was peculiarly oppressive.—Lyttelton Times. It may not be generally known that Mr Perceval, the New Agent-General, is a New Zealander by birth, but we believe this is a fact, ge will be the first New Zealand born youth to represent the colony at Home. It speaks well for New Zealand that at the end of the first half century of colonisation it is enabled to send Home a colonially-born plenipotentiary who will do credit to the land lie represents, and certainly not lower the estimate of the capacity of the men of mark in the Empire.

A meeting of t!ie Upper Waitaki Medical Association is called for Friday evening.

Mr S. M'Cully has taken over the timber yard at Kurow which was opened by Mr James Munro and lately carried on by Mr H. Mainland. As a timber yard at Kurow must be a great convenience to the settlers and runholders at Kurow, wo hope that Mr M'Cully will be supported in his new venture.

In the House of Representatives yesterday a long discussion took place on the proposed withdrawal of forest reserves in Southland. The Railway Authorisation and Management Bill was passed through all stages, and the Bill vesting the management of education reserves and endowments in land boards passed through its second stage. 111 Supply, Mr Houston carried an amendment against the importation of timber for railway sleepers. All amendment which was intended to further Sir .lulius Vogel's claim against the colony did not pass. The Public Works Estimates were then discussed.

The Otago Daily Times' Wellington correspondent says '.—The Minister for Lands says that- if any further legislation affecting land settlement is to be carried, the colony will have to get another Minister for Lands, since he is convinced that the Upper House will not pass any Bill which 110 brings forward.

Inquiries are being made as to whether the Government intend to give effect to the recommendation of the Waste Land Committee 011 the petition of Messrs Ilazlett- and Glctulining re the Shag Point railway. The Wairarapa Daily says that a nephew of Sir William Gordon Gumming was married to a Wairarapa lady the other day. There is a growing opinion in Australia that New Zealand is on the high road to prosperity, and that its rapid revival from a long period of depression points to its future successful career.

After the end of the present month the rate of book postage fiom Great Britain to the colony wil! be reduced from Id per oz. to id per half oz. A caucus of the Opposition party was held to-day, when the plans of the party for future operations were very fully discussed. There was some difference of opinion as to the course to be adopted, but ultimately it was agreed that local committees should be formed in the interests of the party in all the centres of population, and indeed in every electorate, and that steps should be taken to exchange and disseminate all information likely to be useful in furthering the party's interests. It was resolved in short that every possible means should be used to obtain the ear of the country, and to put the party in a greatly improved position before the next general election, and in sonic degree before next session.—Otago Daily Times.

Notice lias been given by Mr W. Hutchison to move —"That inasmuch as private monopolies are always more or less adverse to the general welfare, and inasmuch as the only remedy against their mischievous influence is supersession nr control, and inasmuch as the only power which can legitimately supersede or control them is lodged in the State, it is the duty of the Government to take such steps as may be necessary either to abate or minimise all such private monopolies ; and, further, inasmuch as the Union Steam Ship Company practically monopolises the coastal and intercolonial trade of this colony, charging high fares and freights to the public disadvantage, this House hereby resolves that the Government, as a first step towards relieving the public of a portion of the burden caused by this monopoly, shall take measures during the recess to connect the traffic of the North and South Islands by employing two or more moderately sized steamers to carry passengers and lighter bales of goods from Wellington to Lyttelton and from Lyttelton to Wellington, joining the through railway trains at these ports respectively, and in connection with this arrangement this House further resolves that the Railway Commissioners be called upon to revise and reduce their tariff of through fares and charges." A ijnjall company has been formed at Hastings, with a capital of LIOO ill L2 shares (LI paid up), to deal \yith SO tons of potatoes as a test of making starch from them.

The steamer Huuroto brought from Oamaru yesterday a superior lot of purebred Ayrshire cattle for Mr S. W. Luxford, of Palmerston North. The cattle were bred by Messrs T. V. Duncan, Donaldson, and Dalzell, of Oamaru.—New Zealand Times. A deputation comprising Captain Russell, Messrs Houston, W. Kelly, Swan, and W. C. Smith, representing various County Councils, interviewed the Premier, and asked that the subsidies given by the Government to local bodies under the Local Bodies' Finance and Powers Act should be paid on the basis of the counties' rate instead of the Road Boards'. At present, when a Road Board has struck the rate, the subsidy is paid on that one part to the Road Board and the other to the County Council. The deputation complained that the Board rate is often too low for the wants of the county, and that some Boards did not apply for the subsidies. The Premier replied that the Government would consider the application. He said that it. was plain that the subsidies would have to be increased if they were paid on the basis of the county rates, and in that case, if the revenue would be seriously affected, the matter would have to be considered very carefully.—Otago Daily Times.

A special meeting of the Star of the North Lodge, Enfield, was held in the Enfield School on Friday evening to bid farewell to Sister Pirie and Bros. Dalton and Donald, who are leaving the district. After the meeting the Brothers of the Lodge were invited by Sisters Worley and Burn.s to tea which they had prepared. A very pleasant evening was concluded with hearty \otes of thanks to the sisters named.

This was a story told to the English Labor pommissioners at a recent meeting by some schoolteachers from the textile districts " I have seen healthy and rosy - cheeked children go from my own school," said one witness, " to the mill, and in a short time become sallow and worn-out." " The little ones have to be at the mill from G in the morning till 12-30, and girls of 11 and 12 years old are on their feet mo.rt of that time. They come to school in the afternoon, but their receptive powers are gone, and a teacher might do all ho could with them, but they are drowsy and half asleep, and too tired out to follow a lesson. I have often heard them jn the streets at 5.30 in

the morning, and, looking out tlirout.l, window, seen them half asleep uiul r jj!\!")' their eyes, going oil" to the mill u,,. 6 snow and rain. They lose all UlO w ° 11 ?' 1 children, and become little old nic^'''' women before their time." 1 We arc requested to stair, by t | 10 , sec. of the Martini-Henry Kille "ciuli 11 ' in the report of the opunini; matr-l, I,' 5' to us for publication, (he avcniijc fn absentee on ill' M'C'orkinilaie's s i,l c xv ' '. i" 1 advertently omitted. This avcrtcc ** and, although not affecting UlO result, „f "J 1 match, considerably reduces the lciul of \ I'robert's side, the majority Wiim !4 i, ~ of ;u. ' " M,a: