Daily Circulation. 1590. The Oamaru Mail. WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 1893.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XVIII, Issue 5690, 19 July 1893, Page 2

Daily Circulation. 159 0. The Oamaru Mail. WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 1893.

It is intended by Mr Studholmc to cut up and sell 15,000 acres of his estate, which consists of the best land in South Canterbury. The areas will be from 20 to 200 acres. The Hospital Trustees met last night, there being present—Messrs Mainland (in the chair), M'Douall, Headland, Finch, Fleming, and Montagu. The minutes of the previous meeting were confirmed. The thanks of the Trustees were recorded to the following donors ;—Mr Grumitt, illustrated papers ; Mrs Filleul, flowers. The medical superintendent's report showed that during the month 11 patients had been admitted, 8 discharged, none died, and 10 now remained. The House Committee reported everything in good order, and the patients well satisfied. Accounts amounting to L7l 17s were passed for payment. Messrs Fleming and Mainland were appointed a Visiting Committee for next month, and the meeting closed with a vote of thanks to the chair. Piripi Rakeiia, a native chief at Mangamuka, Hokianga, has written to the Rev. H. H. Lawry, of Auckland, complaining of the opening of a hotel at Mangamuka. The Maori chiefs of Hokianga petitioned the Hokianga County Council not to allow the hotel to be opened. Piripi wants to " trample down that hotel. " Among the passengers to Sydney by the Miowera from Vancouver is Mr J. I). Taylor, a journalist and member of the staff of the Daily Colonist. His mission in Sydney is to obtain for publication by the press in the trade centres of the Dominion information obtainable bearing upon- the possibilities of trade between the two countries. Mr Fader a fishcurer, is also a passenger, and is desirous of opening up trade with Australia in frozen salmon trout. At an Orange celebration up Auckland way recently an attempt was made to sing "Rouse ye, Ulster.'"' As nobody knew the tune, and most of those present had forgotten the words, and there was no piano, and the leader had a bad cold, the result was far from satisfactory, from a musical point .of view, though had Ulster been within " coo-ee " there can bo little doubt it would have been successfully " roused," and would have swept down like the wolf on the fold, bent upon the complete extermination of the authors of the horrible tumult. The last ambulance classes for this session will be held to-morrow, at the usual time. The evening class will be for practical drill. Evolution is the key to many mysteries, and even in our little corner of the world we strive to help the scientific world to a proper understanding of its wonders by occasional " terrible examples." Not long since it was reported that the rabbits in South Canterbury were "evoluting" a hooked claw in order to enable them to climb the wire rabbit-proof fences. Now word comes from the Forty-mile Bush, a region of incessant rain, of the birth of a web-footed child. So science turns another triumphant page in the history of evolution. The last number of the New Zealand Graphic contains a further article on dress reform. Two portraits of Mrs D. 'V. M. Burn, in bicycling costume, illustrate the article. Our Kurow correspondent -writes:—The funeral of Mary, eldest daughter of Mr James Menzies, Hakateramea, took place yesterday. The cortege was a very large one, consisting of people from all parts of the district. In the train were the schoolmates of the deceased, with whom she was a great favorite, and, en route, these again were largely augmented by the children of the Sandhurst school. Quite 200 people must have been present. OTie ceremony at the grave was conducted by the Rev. P. S. Hay. Great sympathy is felt for Mr and Mrs Menzies at the loss of one go full of promise.

Mr Soobio Mackenzie, speaking of "electors as judges," reminded the Government recently that a question was once remitted to electors and they chose Barabbas. The reason for this extraordinary self-abasement on Mr Mackenzie's part does not appear. That he should bo the one to point, out Uio exceptional nature of the circumstances attending his election to the House can only be explained on the hypothesis that he was anx ous to show the wide extent of his Biblical knowledge. A meeting of the Arbor Day Committee was held last evening in the Middle School. There was a srood attendance, and Mr Karl occupied the chair. The Sub ■ Committee reported lecommciiding the planting of .'ioi) trees on the hillside at the scene of lust year's operations, and about f>(K) in tin; Tyne-street. Gardens. The report, was adopted, and the Secretary was instructed to write to the Borough Council for the necessary authority to deal with the ground. It was decided to take the necessary steps to have Arbor Day observed as a holiday, and to write to the two bauds asking their co-operation. Messrs Gcbbie, Edwards, and Stephens were appointed a Tree Committee, and Messrs Crombie, Mollison, and Aitkcn a Finance Committee. After a number of details had been discussed, the meeting adjournal for a week. The Supreme Court Judge at Blenheim recently complimented the jurors on the public spirit shown by their attendance. Whereupon the Marlborough Express rises up and crows feebly, oblivious of the fad. that his Honor was probably bilious, and that his remarks were "writ sarcastic.'' Any juror will show a strong sense of pnWie duty when a fine of LI to 5 for a failure to recognise that public duty hangs like the sword of Damocles over bis devoted head. Albi Assam, an Indian, was sent to gad for six months, with hard labor, at Sydney recently, on a charge of stealing a geranium plant, valued at Is. The same week a man, convicted of a brutal assault on his wife, was lined 40s and LI costs. Oust ice in Sydney apparently not only realises the ideal of blindness, but is at the same time amicably imbecile and commendably brutal. A mission to rescue Sydney Justices from darkness far blacker than that encircling the heathen of the l'acilic should meet with support at this juncture. Those old antagonists the Oamaru ami Athletic football clubs will try conclusions again to-morrow on the North Road Ground. An advertisement appeals elsewhere. The no*v light for the Oamarn Harbor Board arrived from Melbourne yesterday. The lamp is a flash-lamp of the latest, typo and the apparatus by which it. is worked is very ingenious. The light will be powerful enough to be visible to vessels 17 miles at. sea. "The (lash is timed tc recur every ]'t seconds. When erected the lamp will .stand about Oft Gin high, li is now b. ing erected in the building on the Cape, and will he ready for use in a few days' time. The first batch of petitions presented to Parliament in favor of the female franchise contained signatures amounting to 'J.">,")7<). The "Southland News" mentions, as an instance of the increased interest of the women in this question, that in one township near Invercargill only one woman signed last year, whereas ninety-live women in the same place signed the petition tins year. The Committee of the Shearers' and Laborers' Union met last night to consider the question of the establishment of a Libor journal for the colony. Mr M. J. Bower, Vice-President, submitted a scheme for such 1 a paper, showing its advantages as a menus ' of binding the branches closer, and also 1 iroing into exhaustive technical details. Ultimately, Mr Leslie moved, and Mr llrady seconded, and it was carried unanimously : "That the Committee considers Mr Bower's , scheme a grand one, and would recommend it to the careful consideration of the Itclc- [ gates' Conference, to lie held in Septemb.f next at Ashburton ; and, also, that this 1 meeting is indebted to Mr Bower for iho time and trouble he has taken to arrange his scheme, and would suggest that a general meeting be called at an early date to enable the members of the branch to licar the scheme and discuss it." In the course of the Cadman-Bees discussion Mr Seobio Mackenzie said that nothing would give him greater pleasure than to contest the Auckland scat against 1 the whole Cabinet. Which valiant, boast i forcibly recalls the Irish orator wiio, .m being accused of speaking evil of a man whq was 100 miles away, indignantly declared ■ that he would say the same thing were this man 1000 miles away. Wo can understand the possiblity of Mr Mackenzie being elected on the Conservative vote for a scat wheru seven popular candidates vreve standing in the Liberal interest. Mr Mackenzie would ' doubtess prefer this to meeting one member = of the Cabinet, a probability which stares him in the face and will give him quite enough wai'k prior to his political extinction. t Mr Bruce, in a recent speech in the House, was continually badgered by interrupt inns. ) Mr Duncan threw some remark . goodhumored ly at him, and the speaker rounding on him, quoted Aristotle and Plato at the member for Oamaru, silencing him as coni- ' pletely as the proverbial Billingsgate li-h----wife who burst into tears on being called a [ substantive. \ We leani that several of the wisest ladies [ of this community are ordering their walk- [ ing dresses to be made with skirts six inches , from the ground, in order that, when they | take their walks abroad, they may avoid the brushing up of cigar ends, banana skins, , orange peel, and rejected titbits of a more ' varied than delightful character, in connection with this'subject we notice Unit the Arena for June has an admirable article on , dress reform oopiou-ly illustrated. Wo I commend this to the notice of the ladies of the community, as much of the advice contained therein is worthy of more than passing notice. • The measles agitation has reached oven I the Press Association agents. Yesterday [ the Wellington agent forwarded the in- \ tercsting information that the epidemic was \ supposed to have been started by a monkey in Fillis' circus, since deceased. The theory that the measles had kindly skipped ' the missing link betwixt monkey and man, and "smiltlod" the latter, was eminently ; calculated to comfort those individuals who 1 have been down with them, and ribald out- ! siders who had escaped were not slow to \ hint at the readiness with which the disease ; is transmitted among relations. This solace is upset by the unfeeling Press agent i» ; Duncdin, who hastens to telegraph thai the ' monkey in question died from the kick cf .'■ horse. The kick of a horse is certainly not contagious, so the doctors' diagnosis cannot I be attacked, and the only comfort we can hold out to those who have been disappointed by the explosion ot the monkey theory is the suggestion tUat perhaps the horse which kicked the monkey had. the measles, and forcibly transmitted them per kick to the ape.