Daily Circulation, 1660. The Oamaru Mail. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1895.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XX, Issue 6361, 16 September 1895, Page 2

Daily Circulation, 1660. The Oamaru Mail. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1895.

The Papakaio ploughing match will take place on Friday, 20th instant, in one of Mr John Paton'B paddocks on the old ferry road, Papakaio. 'J he Waitaki River is in high flood at present owing to, the warm weather and snow melting on the ranges. Mails for the Australian colonies, United Kingdom, Continent of Europe, South Afiica, etc, via Hobarfc, per Talune and French packet, will close at the Bluff tomorrow, at 1.30 p.m. Our Waimate correspondent writes: —A deputation consisting of the Revs. Barclay, Clover, Kelly, Murray, and l.otham, with several laymen, waited on the Waimate Band on Friday evening last, to ask them to discontinue playing in Victoria Park on Sundays, and gave their reasons for so doing. After the deputation had withdrawn a meeting of the Band was held, S'hen it was considered impracticable to earpy out the wishes of the deputation by plajing on Thursday afternoon, as most of the band.emen could not be got together on that day, and the original intention of playing on Sunday will be adhered to. At a meeting of the Canterbury Land Board it v> as resolved that the Board was of opinion that payment of the half-year's rent, due 5-eptember Ist, 1895, should not be enforced for the present, nor the penalty infl c'.ed with regard to the following runs, pendiDg further enquiry as to the merit 3 of each case: Mouut l'eel (parts oi), Mount Nessing, Waitangi, Black Forest, Haldoo, Grampians, Gray's Hill, Tekapo, Mistake, Mount Cook, Iris man's Cree<, Ihe Wolds, Symon's Pass, Ben Ohau, Green Bush and Island Flat, Blackford, Mount Somers, Dunbars. Lake Heron, Benmore, Castle Hill, Acheron, Glenthome, Ashwick, Rollesby, Lilybank, Glenmore, Balmoral. There were large attendances at the Baptist Church yesterday when the anniversary was celebrated. Jn the evening the church was crowded. The Rev. Frank W. Boreham preached at each service. In the morning the text was John xi, 40 : " S iid I not unto thee that if thou wou'dst believe thou shouldst see the glory of God," and.in a most interesting sermon the preicher drew encouraging lessons for Christian workers from the incident of the raising of Lazarus. Ihe evening text was Mark viii, 3tJ: " What shall it profit a man if be gain the whole world and lose hs own soul?" In an impressive manner the pieacher urged upon all the claims ot Christ. Both disc urses were listened to with a very great amount of interest. In the morning for the offertory the choir sang the ant-hem " I was gla I" the duet being taken-by Mis and Miss Smith. Before ihe evening service the choir also sang "Trust ye in the Lord," "Lo my shepherd is divine," " The Lord is my light," "O shepherd so tenderly leading," " tlow beautiful," and during the service, "In the cross" and "Be near us." Sol" parts were taken by Mesdames Carrad, Smith, and Pennington, and Misses Carrad, Smith, Bee, Cunningham, and Dale, and Messrs G. W. Carrad, Verey, T. Olds, W. Olds, and A. Sahuack. Mr W. Duguid presided at the organ, Mr E. Schnack led with the cornet and the Rev. A. Dewdney conducted the choir, who deserve special praise for their excellent singiDg. The ann.versary will'b* continued on Thursday when the usual tea meeting will be held. Our Wellington correspondent wires that he has the best authority for statins; that the Government will withdraw the duty on Island fruit?.

The question of " Salmon or no salmon ?" has, it appears, not been definitely settled after all, for Mr A. Giinther, of the British Museum (Natural History) writes as follows to the Field :—" In the editorial note appended to Mr H. A. de Lautour's letter respecting certain Waitaki salmcnoids, which appeared in the last number of the Field (p. 113). you assume that one of tie specimens sent to you and examined by 'myself is Salmo quinnat, commonly called ' Californian salmou.' This specimen differs so much from the others of the same consignment, in the form of the head and i'.s component parts, in the shape of body and tail as well as in coloration, that I must consider it to have a different origin" than the other specimens, which, in fact, I regard as beautifully grown specimens of Salmo fario. It is certainly not a Salmo salar (as I think I demonstrated to Mr T- getmeier), neither is it .--aluiO quinnat, which has a many-rayed anal fin, and is readily recognised. Being told that Ca'ifornian i-alinonoids had been introduced into the Waitaki waters, I <onsider it probable that that specimen might represent one ot the numerous species of Salmo of the west coast of America, with which I am very imperfectly acquainted. What it :s lam unable to siy; but, tq„prevent the misunderstanding from passing to the Waitaki Acclimatisation Society, I thought it necessary to trouble you with tola note"

The store and offices occupied by Mr Q, Sumpter, valued ia the recent Harbor Board valuation at L9oo—an exceedingly low valu a . tion according to general opinion—were today sold by the Union Bank to the tenant fur L 315 ! Our Waimate correspondent James Baqust was arrested at Waimato on Friciay last, on a warrant of commitment from Wellington, he having been sentenced there to 14 days' imprisonment for using ob. scene language. He will be taken to Timaru to serve the sentence. Before Mr Justice Hawkins, the trustees of the late Earl Somers sought a declaration that Lady Henry Somerset, the tenant for life of the estate, was not entitled to refaaa a renewal of the White Hare Hotel, Reigat<> as a house licensed for the sale of intoxicat! ing liquors. By affidavit the defendant stated her reasons for refusing to grant a renewal of the lease to be that the number of licensed houses i tt England is far in excess of the public requirements, and that as there are four other licensed houses within the vicinity of the White Hart it is unnecessary. His Lordship said it appeared that the defendant was conscien iously opposed to the sale of i n . toxicating liquors, but she was not, as a life tenant, entitled to act on this private opinion, and he therefore granted tho declaration asked for.