Daily Circulation, 1680. The Oamaru Mail. MONDAY, MARCH 8, 1897.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXII, Issue 6833, 8 March 1897, Page 2

Daily Circulation, 1680. The Oamaru Mail. MONDAY, MARCH 8, 1897.

The North Ofcago Cycling Club's sports 011 Thursday promise to be a great success, .-incs the handicaps were issued the men have all been training hard, and the Oamaru contingent should give a good account of themselves. Thompson (Wellington) is now in Oamaru, and is going very well on the track, and such men as T. Thomson and Chalmers will give the Christchurch men all they can do to catch them. The running men are alao training hard, and it will be very difficult to pick the winners of these events. Jean Dhennin, who in 1855 was convicted of a plot to blow up the train ia which Napoleon 111. was to pass between Lille and Calais, and was pardoned in 1870, committed suicide on the 13th January last. Mails for Australian Colonies, United Kingdom and Continent) of Europe, via Hobart, per Tarawera, also for Mauritius, close at Bluff, on Tuesday 9th, at 2 p.m. The anniversary soiree in connection with Columba Church will be held on Wednesday next, at 6.30 p m. Addresses will bs given by the Rev. Jas. Milne and Rev. H. Kelly, and a programme of musical items will be rendered by the choir and friends. Tickets may be had from Messrs Watson and Co., W. H. Cottrell, and A. Fraser. Mr Curtis Bennett, {says the London Times) in hearing a case at Marylebone, urged that publicans should be proceeded against whenever drunken persons were seen leaving their premises, and said that, if this course were pursued, the management of publichouses would be very different, and drunkenness would greatly decrease. The Canadian authorities are dissatisfied with the amount of immigration which falls to their share from Great Britain, aDd " a concentrated effort will be made to advertise Canada in Europe." Cardinal Richard has forbidden the priests of his diocese, in France, to attend dramatic performances. Cheap railway fares will be issued to Timaru in connection with the St. Patrick's Day Sports at Timaru, on the 17th inst. The tender of Mr Mulvena, L 63 93, for gravelling 57£ chains of road north of Ahuriri, has been accepted by the County Council. Nominations for candidates for the Waitaki Licensing Committee will be made up to 5 p.m. on the 18th instant, and the poll, if necessary, will take place on the 25th instant, Mr G. H. Graham, Waimate, is the returning officer. Eight unemployed, three from Shag Point and five from Oamaru, have been sent to Wairakei, 40 miles distant from Rotorua. The men left on Saturday afternoon, in charge of Mr David Faris. The Arbor Day Commi'tee will meet in the Borough Council Chambers on Wednesday next, at 7.30 p.m. A decision of importance to the textile trades was delivered at Blackburn Quarter Sessions lately, when the Recorder ruled that the provision of shuttle guards on cotton-weaving looms was obligatory. The Treasury called a large number of operatives who had lost either one or both eyes through shuttles flying from looms. ODfce Recorder said that the adoption of shuttle guards would enhance the risk to young children, but he hoped some endeavor would be made to find a remedy. Does not this care for operatives suggest that grandmotherly legislation for which the Liberal Government of New Zealand is so much abused by their political enemies '! There are some signs of approximation between churchmen and Nonconformists. The action of the Bishop of Rochester (says a Home paper) in connection with the approaching meeting of the Free Church Council has produced a good impression. The Guardian proposes a conference to arrange a compromise on the education question, and it is possible this, too, might be arranged. There can be no doubt that the vast majority of the laity cordially approve of these pacific measures and very much dislike angry controversy. A generous subscriber to the Church of England Temperance Society has Bent to the Society a cheque for L 250, in commemoration of the preferment of a total abstainer to the Primacy of all England, ,

The Triad for March will be found a very readable number containing as it does a vast amount of interesting information as well as several good illustrations of New Zealand scenery and portraits of some leading Wellington musicians. We notice that the LlO prize competition is to close on the 20 111 March, and the result is to be published in the April issue Particulars of this competition may be found in another column. The New Zealand Times records the death of another very early settler, Mrs Caroline Ashbolt, who was in her 86th year. She left England in the ship Gertrude on the 17th June, 1841. and, after a passage of 136 days, arrived in Wellington on the 31st October of the same year. The Times says that, so far as it knows, only some half dozen passengers by the Gertrude are now living in the Wellington district. These are Mr John Plimmer (the father of Wellington), Mr Isaac Plimmer, Mr Dash, and Messrs William, Jame3, and Henry Mitchell, the three surviving brothers of a !arga family who were amongst the earlier settlers. Mr Paulin predicted as follows last night:—"Equally to light S. W. to S.E winds; heavy rain showers ; indications stormy ; barometer further rise." The Christchurch and Sydenham (combined) poultry show dates have been fixed for 17th, 18th, and 19th June. The various methods of buying fruit wholesale in this colony have a tendency to confuse growers, and some understanding for the adoption of a universal system ought to be come to. For example while in Wellington apples are, according to the English style, bought by the case, in Dunedin they are bought by the weight. This is calculated to confuse growers who send fruit to both markets, but the divergence of method has its advantages as well as its disadvantage s, as a large Canterbury grower, of whom we have heard, has discovered. His method of meeting the difficulty is simplicity itself. All apples do not weigh alike. Some are large and light, and others are heavy though not large. The Canterbury grower referred to has hit upon the happy idea of shipping his light apples to Wellington, where fruit is sold by the bulk, and his heavy apples to Dunedin, where fruit is sold by weight. He says he finds the result of this way of dealing with the divergent methods eminently satisfactory, and we have no doubt that he does. A noteworthy incident occurred recently at a meeting of the Biandford Farmers' club, an old and flourishing institution, numbering two hundred and fifty members. Prior to the initiation of a discussion on " Land and its Tenure," by Mr Chatterton, of Richmond-terrace, Hyde-park, the chairman invited the members, who numbered nearly a hundred, to name the nature of, their refreshments. " Coffee ?" he cried, ! and many hands were held up. "Tea!" and a similar number of palms were exposed. " Whisky !" No response. " Beer 1" No response. "Alcoholic liquors of any kind ! " and for the third time every member remained mute. Temperance principles, among agriculturists, at any rate, seem to be rapidly advancing in favor, and the circumstance of nearly a hundred farmers sitting in the upper room of an hotel and declining to take any alcoholic stimulant even at this season of the year, emphasises the fact in a remarkable degree. This is not a paragraph from a Temperance journal, nor from a Prohibitionist source. It is an excerpt from Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper. It is not, however, surprising that farmers should be so inclined towards Temperance. The rage for intoxicants is largely due to artificial conditions of city life. Farmers, who live in a purer atmosphere and follow a healthful occupation, have neither the inclination nor the time for wanton indulgence. This is the expedience everywhere. Even in Norway and Sweden the agricultural communities have abolished the drinking establishments. The hope of tbe Temperance reformer is in the rural population. Trooper Marshall, of Otepopo, i 3 the fourth man selected to represent the Isorth Otago Mounted Rifles in the English contingent. It has been decided in the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court, by Justices Hawkins, Cave ; and Wright, that persons living in almshouses are not disqualified from being put on the list of voters as occupiers of their dwellings. Mails for Tonga, Samoa, and Fiji, per Taviuni, c'ose at Auckland, on Wednesday 10 th inst, at 4 p.m. The Bishop of Worcester advised his clergy to read the first lesson on Christmas Day, especially at morning prayer, from the Revised Version. The sense of the Authorised Version is, he says, not merely incorrect, it is directly contrary to the true sense of the original, and utter shipwreck i? made of a magnificent prophecy. An incident of Mr Seddon's visit to Adelaide, recorded by the Sydney papers, was his visit, as an old friend of Sir George Grey, to the tomb of the veteran statesman's only child, which is situated in the West Terrace Cemetery Mrs Peddon laid a magoificent bouquet of white flowers at the foot of the g<-ave It was arranged that Dr Cockburn should tike a photograph of the grave, and send it to Mr KedJon for presentation to the parents, such a remembrance, following so close'y on their reunion after hilf a century of separation, being specially interesting. Mr Brookes, the present curator of the cemetery, who pointed out the tomb, was an officer of the Supreme Court when Sir George Grey was Governor of South Australia in 1845. Mr Stead got into trouble for reviewing so copiously Mr 3 Humphrey Ward's ''Sir George Tressady " in the Review of Reviews, under the heading of " The Book of the month," and in the popular New Novel series'. The publishers of the work, Messrs Smith. Elder, and Co., applied to Mr Justice Kekevich for an injunction restraining Mr Stead from issuing any copies of the Review containing the article or of the abridged novel, An agreement was arrived at mutually. Mr E. Nixon, the oldest driver on the Caledonian Railway, having died at Lockerbie, the Queen has written expressing sympathy With his family, whose loss she trusts may be somewhat alleviated by the sense of the evident respect in which their father was he'd. Mothers will find Chamberlain's Cough Remedy especially valuable for croup and whooping cough. It will give prompt relief and is safe and pleasant. We have sold it for several years, and it has never failed to give the most perfect satisfaction.—G. W. Richards, Duquesne, Pa. Sold by E. G. Lane.