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Oamaru Mail, Volume XIX, Issue 6048, 13 September 1894, Page 2

At the Land Board meeting yesterday the application of Win. Dobsonto complete purchase of deferred payment land : Section 25, block 11, Maerewhenua, was approved. Maurice Cleary, who was remanded by the ! Magistrate yesterday pending inquiries, was, in the afternoon, brought up again and committed to St. Mary's Industrial School, Nelson, until 15 years of age. A meeting of the Headquarters Range Committee was held at the headquarters office last evening, when there were present —Lieut. -Colonel Sumpter (presiding), Major Headland, Captain Rice, Lieut. Commanding Mahan, Lieut. Forrester, Sergeant-Major Piper, Band Sergeant Mitchell, QuarterMaster Symon, and Corporal Roll. The accounts s-Jiowed a substantial balance to the credit of the Committee. Major Headland, Lieut. Forrester, and <J.M. Symon were appointed a sub-committee to put the range in order apd jpaintain it during the season. The following allotment of days was made: —Garrison Band, Monday morning ; Naval Artillery, Tuesday and Friday njorpinga; I Battery, Wednesday and Saturday morn.ings; Mounted Rifles, Thursday morning' and Saturday afternoon; Middle School Cadets, Monday aftwnocm; Waitaki High i

School Cadets, Tuesday afternoon; North School Cadets, Wednesday afternoon ; South School Cadets, Friday afternoon; Thursday afternoon being given in rotation to the Mounted Rifles, Navals, and I Battery in the order named. The North School Committee will meet at six o'clock to-morrow evening, instead of at the usual hour. The Ladies' Committee in connection with the Garrison Band bazaar will hold a working meeting to-morrow afternoon, and on each succeeding Friday afternoon, at the Athenasum. It is announced that the Committee will be pleased to meot any ladies who are interested in the bazaar with a view to ascertaining how matters are progressing. The anniversary services in connection with the Wesley Church Sunday School will begin on Sunday next, when there will be special services morning, afternoon, and evening. On the Thursday following the tea and public meeting will be held. It is intended this year to make the anniversary specially attractive, and to place it upon a basis likely to live in the children's memories and to be of use to them. Mails for Australian colonies, per Wakatipu, close at Wellington on Wednesday 19th inst., at 11 a.m.

The committee, appointed to canvaßS for subscriptions towards the erection of a native meeting house at the Waihao Maori Pah, acknowledge the receipt of a donation of L 5 from Mr John M'Lean, Redcastle. The Hon. W. Rolle'sfcon was in town today. The annual entire horse parade in connection with the N.O.A. and P. Association will be held on Tuesday, September 25th. Details appear elsewhere. This evening Captain i ilbrook will lecturo in the Salvation Army Barracks on " The Ups and Downs of an Army Officor's Life." During the evening the Captain will sing the famous Drum Solo. On FrMay evening next the grand sacred cantata " I aniel " will be given in the Wearstreet Hall, by St. Paul's choir. Admission will be <ree but there will be a collection in aid of the Hall Fund. As the choir have had this cantata in rehearsal for some time, they should be able to acquit themselves creditably and provide a good evening's entertainment. As the women were becoming better acquainted with the scope of the Hon. Mr MacGregor's Divorce Bill (says the Star) their opposition to it was generally waning, and there is good reason for stating that if the women's views on the question could bo obtained l>y means of a referendum they would be found to be strong supporters of the measure. At Christchurch the other day the Women's Institute discussed the Bill at some length, and unanimously came to the conclusion that the author of the Bill had the interests of women at heart. The first provision, that divorce be made equal for man and woman, being mere common justice, evoked but one opinion ns to the need of its immediate adoption. The second provision, that wilful desertion for three years be a ground of divorce, was negatived, it being considered that five years should be the limit. With regard to the third provision, that habitual drunkenness be a ground of divorce, it was unanimously agreed that the Bill should be supported, and this was argued from the children's standpoint. That children should be born and nurtured under such conditions was considered iniquitous. The fourth provision, that divorce be obtainable from an habitual criminal, was considered from the same point of view as the preceding one. The last provision, entitling a wife or husband to divorce for brutal cruelty, wan unanimously upheld.