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Oamaru Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 5092, 30 September 1891, Page 2

The garrison corps will parade in drill order on' Friday night.

The Daily Times' Palmerston correspondent says :—The complimentary banquet to be tendered to the Hon. J. M'Kenzie by his constituents on his return from his parliamentary duties is fixed for Friday, the 16th of October, in the Town Hall, when the Hon. J. Ballance (Premier) and other notables are expected to be present at the banquet to do honor to the guest of the evening. The Union Company's steamer Oliau's sailing date for Auckland and East Coast ports has been altered to Tuesday, October 6th. The following will represent the Bootmakers and Tailors in a match against a team of the Athletics on Thursday next : Waterworth, Heron (2), Irvine, Smith (2), Cunningham, Cairns, Brydone, Halpin, Rankin, and Munro. The Oamaru Draughts and Chess Club have challenged the players of Ngapara to a draughts match. The match will be played at Ngapara on Thursday week. There will be 10 players on each side. The Ngapara men have a special reputation for draughts playing, so a close tussle is confidently expected. The Oamaru team will leave by a drag early on Monday afternoon, and, given fine weather, should enjoy a very pleasant holiday. The Hon. J. G. Ward, PostmasterGeneral, passed through here, on his way home, last night by the express train. He was informally interviewed by a number of members of the Harbor Board, who had some private conversation witlx the Minister, but nothing of importance was elicited. Mails for Australian Colonies, United Kingdom, and Continent of Europe, via Melbourne, close at the Bluff, per Te Anau, at 2 p.m. on Saturday, 3rd prox The Gazette notifies that on and after Ist October, 1891, the charge for a telephone will be L 5 per annum, in addition to LI entrance fee, During the month of August there were 18 births and 7 deaths registered in Oamaru. The proportion of deaths per thousand of the population was 1 '25. The highest death rates for the month were at Hokitika and Nelson with 4'59 and and 2'72 per 1000 respectively. The lowest rates were at Greymouth and Wanganui with 0'53 and o'6oper 1000. Mr D. Christie Murray has discovered that the title "Chums" which he had given to his new drama, is an old one, consequently he has had to alter it to " Mates." Mr and Mrs Rutherford, of Mendip Hills Station, were the victims of a buggy accident on Saturday. They were driving in a buggy, in which were also a station hand, a servant girl, and quite a quantity of luggage, and in going down a steep and slippery cutting the buggy skidded to the side, went over the bank, and overturned. Mr Rutherford fell on the top of Mrs Rutherford, escaping quite uninjured ; the man partly jumped and partly fell, getting off with no broken bones, but was badly shaken. Mrs Rutherford had a collar-bone broken and was badly bruised. The buggy was considerably damaged, but the men managed to patch it up with straps and flax and get home in it. The following team will represent the Oamaru Juniors in their match with the Young Blues second fifteen on the Chelmerstreet reserve to-morrow : Backs—Familton, Jones, Holt, Kimberley, Thompson, Boster; forwards—Lindsay, Badeley, Quested, W. King, Jostler, Maude, M'Farlane, Geffrey, Ferris. Reserves—Williams, Waddell, and Hanley. The Salvation Army will make an attack on Kurow on Friday night. Full particulars appear in another column. A smart thunder-shower passed over Timaru between 6 and 7 o'clock last evenitig, with flashes of lightning and dull rolls of thunder. As the storm passed northwards the lightning increased iu frequency and brilliance, and presented the peculiarity that the flashes flew in horizontal curves, with many branchings. Thunderstorms are so rare here that a good deal of interest was taken in the brilliant display. —Timaru Herald. We (says the Dunedin Globe) have received a copy of the Prohibitionist, a quarter of a ton weight of that periodical having arrived here last night from Christchurch. It is the intention of the Prohibition party in Dunedin to make a free distribution of 5000 copies weekly, 100 persons having volunteered to carry out a door-to-door visitation. The paper is edited by the Rev. L. M. Isitt, and the lion, secretary is Mr Thomas E. Taylor. At the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning, before H. A. Stratford, Esq., R.M., George William Bennett, aged IS months, was charged with having no visible means of support. He was convicted, and committed to the Caversham Industrial School. Dr Nedwill, who has just returned from a trip to Europe, concluded an interview with a representative of the Lyttelton Times as follows :—" I do not know that there is anything else I cau tell you about medical matters. I may say, however, that, from my experience, I think the people in Loudon know very little indeed about New Zealand. I ivas constantly dropping across men who told me they had just met someone from my part of the world ; but, upon inquiring furtlier, I would find that the man was from Melbourne, or Sydney, or Brisbane. Another thing I may tell you is that I do not think we may expect, for the present at least, any men with money to come out to New Zealand. People at Home take no interest iu New Zealand. There is nothing about New Zealand in the papers. The only telegram about New Zealand that I saw was with reference to federation. That was sent from Wellington. On the other hand, in one or two private houses I heard New Zealand mutton very much praised." To-morrow is the great Kurow outing day —the day of the year among our Kurow friends. As our readers are doubtless aware, a special train will be run by the Railway Department from Oamaru to Kurow to enable townspeople to participate in the enjoyment of their country friends. Apart from the local races many people annually take advantage of the occasion to make pleasure trips and to see their up-country friends and breathe the famous Kurow air. Given a fine, day to-morrow—and there is at present every prospect of glorious weather—and we have no doubt large numbers of excursionists will patronise the special train. Mails for the Australian colonies, United Kingdom, and Europe, via Melbourne, per Te Anau, close at the Bluff at 2 p.m. on Saturday. Mr Charles Hugo's Minstrel Troupe will pay a visit to Oamaru next week. They will open on Monday night for a short season. Miss Priscilla Verne and Mr Charles Hugo still remain the "stars" of the company, and they are assisted by a number of specialists in all departments of negro minstrelsy. Miss Verne will introduce her new sketch entitled " Waiting for the Verdict," and Mr Hugo will also present a number of novelties in the way of new parodies and sketches. The lady correspondent of the Wanganui Herald sends the following to that paper : The Hon. Mr Rolleston is rather heavy as Leader of the Opposition. He usually seems choking with earnestness, and gives us in the gallery the impression of a man struggling with emotion. This style is very effective sometimes, and when great interests are at stake. But the worst of the thing is his mode is unvarying. When I first heard him I was greatly impressed. He was then wrestling with a big subject, and I thought he was realising all its importance. But I've got used to him now, and I must confess his cheerless ponderosity rather palls upon one. When applied to the discussion of mere trifles, as it so often is, it reminds one irresistibly of the mountain in labor. His face is not capable of much expression, and when in repose looks not unlike a graven image. Nothing could make him animated, he's not built that way, but when he rises to speak he looks even more solemn than John Bryce, shows himself possessed of an infinitely smaller vocabulary and appears to be troubled with a lump in the throat. His liberality of view seems strictly limited to questions of land. In other respects he is a Tory of Tories. He strikes one as being rather slow of perception; anywas, instead of initiating opposition, he seems content to take the cue from his followers.