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Oamaru Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 5098, 7 October 1891, Page 2

The direct mail, ex Kaikoura, will arrive by the express train from the north. There will be a counter delivery between 7 and 8 o'clock.

The Garrison Band will open their shooting season to-morrow morning with a match married v. single. The following are the teams :—Married: Sergeant Mitchell, DrumMajor Bisset, Bandsmen Avery, Leslie, Sinclair, and Wilkie, and Hon. Member Davis ; emergency man, Bandmaster Slater. Single: Corporal King, Bandsmen J. Bee, D. Hurst, J. May, W. Maynard, M'Queen, and A. Rodgers ; emergency men, Bandsmen D. Bee and Everett.

Alexander M'Naught who was arrested on a charge of fraudulent bankruptcy and committed for trial 011 Monday last, declines to be admitted to bail, although it has been offered in several quarters. He is to be removed to Dunedin.

The banquet to be given to the Hon. J. M'Ke.izie, by his constituents, will be held at Palmerston on Thursday, the 16th insl. The estate of Matthew Moss, Oamaru, is gazetted as being placed under the charge of the Public Trustee. The value of the estate is entered as Ll2. Deceased died oil September 10th. His supposed British residence is London, and his relatives are unknown.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, have received the following cablegram from their London office, dated 2nd instant: —" Tallow : Mar ket has an improved tendency. Fine mutton is worth 27s 6d, and good beef 26s 3d per cwt. Frozen Meats : Mutton market unchanged ; beef market dull. Since last report prices have declined jd per lb. Quotations nominal. New Zealand hemp : Market continues drooping."

Collegiate reserves in Blocks 2 and 5, Hakateramea survey district, have been exchanged for other reserves in the same blocks.

Messrs James Campbell Scott and Thomas Muir, of Palmerston South, are gazetted as officers under the Fisheries Conservation Act, 1884, for the Otago Acclimatisation Society. The Rev. Algernon Gifford is gazetted as an addition to the list of officiating ministers for 1891, for the Church of the Province of New Zealand. Mr Gifford's name was omitted from the original list. The Parliamentary correspondent of the Auckland Herald states positively that the rumor + .hat a large number of Legislative Councillors were to be nominated is not true. " There is a floating idea that the Hon. E. Richardson, the Hon. J. A. Tole, and Sir Robert Stout may be nominated, but nothing will be clone before the eve of next session, if these nominations should be made even then. Many people think tho nomination of these gentlemen would be an acquisition to the Council, and that the appointments would be popular." There is no need that any one should apologise for the Government. If the Government did not intend to make the Council less obstructive to reforms that have been deemed necessary in the circumstances of the colony, then they should change their mind, and accomplish that end by any means that may be available.

The Taranaki Herald says that after the Oamaru dredge has been scraped and cleaned at Lyttelton she will be towed to New Plymouth by one of the Union Company's steamers. Her arrival is looked for about the middle of the month.

Mr Forbes, of the Christchurch Museum, says the discovery of moa bones on Mr Meek's farm, near Oamaru, is the most important ever made. This find is a most remarkable one, as he estimates 800 bjgds must have died at the spot, and he has recovered the bones of 350.

Admiral Scott has consented to allow a man-of-war to attend the Jubilee celebration of the foundation of Nelson next February. The Nelson people want two ships. If the Admiral will only inflict the Curacoa upon them they will find that they have had one too many.

A member of the Opposition,. while inspecting a pit;, had his finger bitten by the beast—so says a Northern exchange. We understand that the poor animal has since died.

The Temuka Leader, says ; —We understand that his Excellency the Governor, accompanied by the Hon. John Ballance, will visit the Tiniaru Agricultural and Pastoral Association's show this year. His Excellency will also open the Roman Catholic bazaar in Timaru on the second day of the show.

Seeing that the next sitting of the District Court was fixed for the 23rd October, the second day of the North Otago Jockey Club's spring meeting, his Honor Judge Ward haß been requested to adjourn the sitting, and he has been good enough to do so. His Honor will take the bankruptcy business on Monday, the 26th, at 3 p.m., and the civil business on Tuesday, at 10 o'clock.

The following will represent .t, Draughts Club in their m J.,° Ngapara to-morrow :-Crook H„i • * ham, Harding, Patterson, Smilt" 1 ' Thomson, Cowles, Cormack 'l'l 1 I'U be conveyed to Ngapara by' a draff ttam, » The Waitaki North Recreation Reserve is gazetted as brought V rotll provisions of the Public Domain* 1 r 1 The powers delegated to the ]{ n ]' 'S9 the above Act are briefly (]\ i'm " n| i shall meet monthly, at. 8 p.m o Monday in the month, in the Wait' ]!■ schoolhouse, or other place anLit. first meetiug to be held on Nov„ i ' (2) Special meetings may l,f° the Chairman or by two members C ' lCl ' 1 two days' clear notice be given of I? 0 *' 1 ' ness to bo transacted, and no other) ' ,ll shall be taken at such meeting ciS"' shall form a quorum. (4) The me m L elect their own Chairman from then i the annual meeting. (5) If t), c q . Cs lie not present at any meeting, a j aitllli chairman shall be appointed at tint'" 11 ing. (6) A new Chairman may 1, 0 at a monthly or special nicotine in ,I™'' of the death, resignation, or incm" 5 CVe the Chairman. (7) All questions sK 1 '; determined by a majority of the Hoard In reference to the re-arrangeii) M ( electoral boundaries, it is said by t ] Jl lington correspondent of the Ant?' Herald that tho Commission have a ! difficulty in fixing tho boundaries n^ Cc ' occasion, the migration of the pun 1 ! '!■ having been so great of late. Tho ! ' 1 idea (says the same authority) j s J 6 !I®l' 1 ® 1 ' North Island will have an additional l ' ber, and the South an additional tut"? The Commissioners have three nmJ which to do their work. It has been' elsewhere that the North only Would I an additional member, and so ninny 0 | settlors have left for the North Island ,! this really seems to be more feasible tj" the idea expressed by the Herald's con: pondent.

The following teams will represent Oamaru Juniors,' and tho Young fifteens in a match to be played to-mortT on tho Chelmer-street reserve .•—Out' Juniors—Backs : Familton, Jones, p, Kimberley, Thompson, Boater, For**? Lindsay, Badelcy, Quested, J ostler, Jfc W. King, Ferris, Geffrey, M'Farlano,t serves : Williams, Waddell, Hnnley, y t Blues—Backs : M'Gregor, Roberts, !).' Dixon, Morrison. Forwards: l'ockii n » Black, M'Kenzic, Kay, Rankin, y O ,J Baudinet, M'lntosh, Barraclough, 1

Mr W. R. Yorke, of Christchurcfi, at present in Wellington, telcgraphe'l tot(i Press on Monday night as follows J ceived this morning from Boyd and g, Liverpool, a cable dated October y follows:—'Future prospects butter',,, cheese bad.' "

The shallow-draught steamer whisky Yarrow and Co., of Poplar, London, In constructed for Messrs Hatriek and Co Wanganui, for use on the upper resell, the Wanganui River, is on board the Zealand Shipping Company's steamerT(fo which left Auckland for day afternoon.—Post.

The annual prize fund entertaiiMg l the scholars of the South School place at the Public Hull on Friday, 30t inst., when the kinderspiel Quixote " will be produced.

The Oamaru Bowling Club willopemlJ season on the Meadowbank lin®! J

The Timaru Herald says :—PoUtaJm been selling as low as iis a ton k':J Canterbury. They are cheap cattkiJ that rate. 1

Mr Roberts, of the "Orrery,"™ street, has received from Mr J'ope,il awarded the prize, the following rcpofl the papers sent in by the sehool children! the subject "The solar system nm! tliocd of the change of seasons"l enclose i 67 papers that you sent mc to examine i Saturday last. I have licen well picas with the work done. In nearly every ci the candidates show a grip of tlio nulimci of astronomy, and of astronomical geograph that they could hardly have obtained wilho the aid of your instruments und your lac interpretation of the meaning ot them. Wellington Post.