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Oamaru Mail, Volume XXI, Issue 6504, 13 March 1896, Page 2

The Hon. W. Hall-Jones, who is in town representing the Government at the Rifle Meeting, will deliver an address here on the occasion of the forthcoming Labor Conference. As a result of the deputation, comprising Majors Sommerville and Cjllins, which waited on the Hon. Mr Hall-Jones asking the Government to re-consider their decision re assistance for a picnic to the Australians we understand that a vote has been passed for the purpose. The probabilities are that the picnic will ta-e place at Klderslie on Sunday. A meeting of the Local Committee to consider the matter will be held at the Borough Chambers at 8 o'clock this morning. A well-attended meeting to consider the advisability of resuscitating the Athletic Gymnasium Club was held in the Coffee Rooms la t night, some 30 persons being present. Mr F. Wad'ell was voted to the chair. It was stated that Mr J. H. Milligan had made a very liberal o<fer for the use of a hall. The following were appointed a committee t > make arrangements and confer with Mr Milligan re the hall: Messrs Wadclell, Hair, Gibbs, Burns, and Veiteh (secretary) 'I he meeting closed with the usual compliment to the chair.

In order that we may supply the fullest possible information concerning the Kifle Meeting np to the hour of going to press, we may iiud it necessary during the next few days to place a number of new telegrams and cables upon our outside pages. Our Wesle an friends arc congratulating themselves upon the decision of ihe Conference now in session with regard to their church debts, which was reported in our columns a day or two ago. r J he burden has been patiently borne for many years, and has proved a great hindrance to church work and progress, and notwithstanding that many efforts have been made to reduce it, very little success has been achieved in that direction hitherto. This decision of the Conference will afford immediate relief to the trustees, and enable the entire debt to be extinguished within a limited time. There will still be need of continual effort, and careful administration, but the longdesired goal is clearly in view ati last, and should mean increased hopefulness and zeal in all branches of Church work. We wish our frien s every succc ss.

A circular has b6en issued to the local corps of Volunteers by Lieutenant-Colonel Webb notifying that it is intended to hold East.-r encampments this year, and that due notice of their localities will be given hereafter.

The quarterly summoned meeting of the Pride of Ngapara Lodge will be held in the Lodge Room, Ngapara, on the 14th inst., at 8 p.m. Mr A. Grenfell (" Rip") and Miss Innes (" Katrina") left for Invercargill to-day. The Hon. W. Hall-Jones arrived from the North yesterday to represent the Government at the Federal Rifle meeting. The Phoenix Bowling Club extend a hearty invitation to any of the visitors to visit the Club's green. At the Magistrate's . Court this morning, before Henry Aitk-n, Esq., J.P., Edward Slattery was fined 10s with the alternative of 24 hours' imprisonment for drunkenness. The last performance of Rip Van Winkle was uiveil last night to a good house. Prior to the performance Mr H. Mitchell (st 'ge manager) bespoke the indulgence of the audience for Miss Grave who was suffering jrom a severe relaxed throat, and who had really no business to appear if she studied herself before the performance. Miss Grave was obviously suffering and the audience applauded her " grit " in acting the part as thoroughly as she did. Several of her numbers had to be cut and others sung by the noderi-tudy but despite this unfortunate drawback the performance went with a sparkle and abandon superior to any previous representation and the audience, who were exceptionally sympathetic last night, frequently testified to their approval by rounds of applause. The limelight effects have r ?en nicely worked throughout the season ly Mr R. Brown«

The horticultural exhibition at the "Middle School opened thn morning, there being 4 splendid show of flowers, pot plants, frujj and other g irden produce. The was visited by numbers of those in matters horticultural. The exhibition | 8 well worth a visit. The formal opening ceremony will take place at 8 o'clock to, night, his Worship the Mayor officiating. It is said (says '.ha Lyttelton Times) the parties who laid an infornm'ion f ot perjury against Mr R. D. Thomas are ig a quandary, as the justice of the peace befo re whom the information was sworn decline to issue a summons, and no other justice can do so.

The Ranginra correspondent of (j 1; Lyttelton Times writes : —ln the northern district good progress is being made with the threshing, and the yields of wheat ate turning out very satisfactorily. 'I he oats, however, are proving a failure on the p!(ii ni and downs districts. The potatoes arc expected to turn out a very good crop, th c samples being as a rule excellent in quality, Tiif- o'.over crop will be a very uneven one. Of late several farmers in tho Ash'ey an,} Kangiora districts have suflorcd serious lo ss through their sheep being worried by dogs. It appears, how« ver, that dogs have not been the delinquents in every case. Las', week Mr F Bu.-di, of Rirgiora, lost, pov ( .„ ortighl-, and there was every imlica. tion of their deaths having been caused by dogs. >'n Sunday, however, as two men were passing the paddock where the sheep were grazing they observed ahorse, which was running with them, in the act of worry, ing a slici p in a determined manner. H e was lifting it by tho wool with his teeth and shaking it, ancl it was evident that the sheep would very soon have succumbed to the treatment. There was little room to doubt but that the other sheep lmd bceuj worried to death by the horse.—-Lyttelton! Times.

The idea of tho Australian Eleven plnyiuj a combined Australian Eleven buforo leaving for Home was adversely commented upon by a number of writers in Australia! One writer in the Sydney Morning Herald pro. dieted pretty much what has happened when he said .—lt seems very much like a cascol attempting to dethrone the newly-crowned king. The game of cricket is a curious one, anrl it is very possible that the selected team will be defeated. What will happen then! The public will clamor for an alteration of the team in opposition to the faithful sclee. tion by tliree of the most capable judges of cricket in this part of the world. Who arc to select this team, the public, who one day laud a man to the skies and next day howl him down, or cricketers who havo toured England and made their selection after viewing it from every pointlf I he Australian Eleven are defeated by combined Australia, a review of the selection will probably lie asked for, and if such review takes place iwill mean endless confusion in the business a rangements of the team ; and if it does not take place the Kleven will be regarded in Kng ; aud as inferior, and it is well-known that we have not in Australia two Aits, tra ian Elevens, as is the ease in England, where they ha' e two equally good All England Elevens. Mails for the Australian colonies, United

Kingdom, and Coni incut of l<uropo, via Meibou' iie and .Suez : also Ceylon, India, China, Japan, &c. and Mauritius (per French packet) ; correspondence specia ly addiwct] via Suez, per Waihora, close at Auckland, 011 Tuesday, March 17th, at 4 p.m. Mails for Fiji, per Upolu, close on Tuesday, March 17th, at 4 p.m. The following will represent the Oamarj Cricket Club in a match against the Wuinmti Cricket Club to-moirow, on the North Ron Ground :—Crawford, 51' Donald, Francis, Holmes, Borton, Pochiu, H. King, Chaffey, Macdonald, Waddtll, and l'l. J. Tesche' maker. The travelling public will miss from the trains the familiar face of Mr U. L Pratt who, owing to ill-health has been compelled to seek lighter work in the service. Mr Pratt is one of the oldest guards in the colony, and his friends will bo glad to lean that his services are still beiug retained by the department. Mails for the Australian colonies, vis ITobart, per Australia, close at (Jreymouti: on Saturday, 14th inst. at 5 p.m. '1 here were on view yesterday, at the slit} of Mr J. Knight, butcher, of High Sires; (says the Lyttelton Times), a number of car cases of mutton which had been marked will an indelible brand, which has been p>tent«l by a syndicate of Christchurch gentlemen, who have also protected the apparatus in Argentina, Australia, the United States and England. The contrivance is intended mori particularly for marking frozen meat, and the object is in a great measure to proven! dishonest salesmen in Great Bi itain sclliui New Zealand mutlon under another nam The br aid, as it may be called, consists oil number of pointed knives made to repmci! any particu'ar letters or desigu that miiyh required. It is applied to the carcases wlii; they are warm, just aft-r killing, and asi meat cools the marks are made plainer I; the contraction of the tissues of the skint! the sheep. Those on view boic the initM CMC in letters about two inchcs long, an! these could not bo effaced. Besides beio; indelible, the brand has the recommendatk of not injuring the meat in any way whal ever. To-day 500 sheep, intended for er port to London, will be branded, and ttf will be inspected by Mr Weddel on a ret urn from the south this evening. We have been requested to announce thf correspondence addressed to competitors' the priz .'-ti ing will be taken out to th range every morning by ihe officer in charp of the post office tent; also that lettei arriving by the South express will be tain out the same nfternoon bo far as circuc stances will permit. The following telegram lias been recciw by Inspector Pardy from the secretary of ft Commissioner of Police, Wellington J' Inspector-general of Police at Sydney WW that the advertisement in Otago signed " William Bruce, box 1445, G.M Sydney/' offering to secure engagements R shearers in New South Wales, is a frw i'leas-T notify newspapers. We are now showing a splendid as®'' ment of men's clothing, ties, shirts, so® braces, belts, etc. Just landed—SpeoidvaC i t ereme, while, and colored silk hundktf •chiefs (full size), from la 9d, l> cnl * stitched do, 2a 3d each, worth 4s 9(1. wj a large stock of man* hestcr, dress, W 1 and showroom goods at lowes") cash Quality is the test of value, and » this basis we unhesitatingly invi'c c®'

parison, with anything to be got in " eolouy. Kindly remember ! Open all ®! Th rsday, 12th inst. Closed all day It' 1"!' 13th ins'. Brown and Gibbard, Imports and ready-m ney drapers, The I'olytecM Thames street. [Advt. ]