Daily Circulation, 1680. The Oamaru Mail. FRIDAY, MARCH 26, 1897.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXII, Issue 6849, 26 March 1897, Page 2

Daily Circulation, 1680. The Oamaru Mail. FRIDAY, MARCH 26, 1897.

A telegram from Wellington states that it is understood that it has been decided to ho'.d a short session of Parliament, opening on Monday, sth April, though no official announcement has been made on the subject. Parliament at present stands prorogued to Friday, 2nd April, and some determination as to what is to be done must, therefore, be announced ia the course of a few days. A fter the foregoing was in type we received a telegram from our Wei ington correspondent stating that ifc has been decided that the Premier shall go Home, and that Parliament shall meet on Tuesday, 6th April. William Henry Webber, against whom a jury has returned a verdict that he wilfully caused the fire in his store at Geraldiae on Monday evening, was for some time manager of the Oamaru branch of the New Zealand Cloihing Factory, and relinquished that posi ion a few weeks since cn the purchase by him of a business at The 1 imaru Herald repor:s that on being brought before the Court and remauded until Tuesday, Webber was admitted to bail himself in LlO3 and two sureties in LIOO each, and understands that bail was forthcoming last evening.

At a recent meeting of the Wellington City Council, Councillor Harcourb is reported to have said that "if Councillors would only lay their heads together, the city streets would soon be paved. ;J And in the thoughtful silence that followed the coughing of an elephant in an adjacent swamp was distinctly heard. Mr Cooper, editor of the Scotsman, who ran through New Zealand recently on a holiday tour, has been " drawn" in Sydney, and has been giving his impressions of New Zealacd. Had Mr Cooper confined himself to remarking upon New Zealand as he found it physically and socially there would be no need for protest, but when he ente:s into criticism of our politics and elects to pass judgment upon our methods of government he at once convicts himself of piti ible ignorance of his subject. We should have thought that a man of Mr Cooper's ability and jourralistic experience would have known the utter impossibility of forming, from casual impression and suggestion, opinions for the proper formation of which months of local saturation and study are required. &s a matter of fact, the opinions expressed by Mr Cooper are not his own; they are those suggested by the people with whom he came in contact. Those people were, naturally enough, the Conservative element, and it is the opinions of these intelligent people that are reflected by Mr Cooper. He talks of grandmotherly legislation" of the folly of payment of members, and of the fad of woman's suffrage. On thi3 last theme he is particularly eloquent, stating that it simply doubled a married man's vote and provided block family votes. In proof of this he quoted a story he had been told in Christchurch of an election where, at the close of the polling day, one candidate had a lead of twenty or thirty votes. "But just before polliDg ceased an Irishman, with his wife, his sons, his his female relatives, and his entourage arrived, and turned the

scale by a family block vote." Juit how the fact was ascertained that one candidate had a leid of 20 or 30 votes at a given time is conveniently not disclosed. If this sort -of story is a sample of the data upon which Mr Cooper bases his conclusions, we cannot wonder that he has gone grievously astray in them.

The Sydney Morning Herald, like Mr Stead, dearly loves to keek through a key - hole at impropriety. It has not Mr Stead's facility for picking the tit-bits from realistic novels and parading thorn in the " Rev! :W of Reviews " as " The Book of the Month," with a string of expostulatory connecting paragraphs as jastification. When the Herald desires to be giddy if) has to plead "News" to get away from its ponderous propriety. B ence its publication of a vivid cabled description of the Corbett-Fitzsim-mons fight for the heavy-weight championship of the world—an account glowing with blood and bestiality, broken out under captivating headlines, What a pity Mr Stead doesn't edit the Herald.

Mails for United Kingdom and Europe, per direct steamer, Aotea, via Teneriffe (for specially addressed correspondence) close at Lyttelton, on Saturday, 27th instant, at 9 a.m., due in London on May 12th.

Mr Cochrane, Returning Officer for the Wainono Drainage Board, established a record in the way of polls on Wednesday last. A vote of the ratepayers in the Wainono drainage district was taken for the purpose of raising a Loooo loan to carry on the drainage Echeme. < 'ut of 16 ratepayers, who have 38 votes, only seveD, having 16 votes, appeired at the election. All of these voted in favor of the loan, but, as the nine ratepayers, who have 22 votes, but did not record them, are deemed to have voted against the proposal, it is consequent'y not carried, and the proceedings will have to be gone through de novo. Yesterday's Lyttelton Times has the following :—A bankrupt hotelkeeper, whose first meeting of creditors was held yesterday, set down LB4 for book debts among his assets. It appeared that most of the sum was for liquor supplied, and the Official Assignee remarked that he considered th« asset absolutely worthless, as he had hardly ever tern able to recover even a small proportion of debts owing to hofelkeepers for liquor. On one occasion he had mad l ? special exertion to do so, and had even engaged thu hotelkeeper at a handsome commission as collector, but had failed to iecover a penny. Mails for United Kingdom and Furope per direct steamer Aotea, close at Ly ttelton to-morrow, Saturday, 27 uh inst., at S p.m. Where is the Oamaru public morgua ? An Act, passed last session makes it incumbent upon municipalities having 1000 or more inhabitants to provide "a suitable building for the purposes of a public morgue." The sample roo:i s at the Star hardly come under the statutory designation. It wou'd be a3 well if the Council took steps to make the necessary provision before a scandal is created by the Licensed Victu dlers, who have been long-sufieiing in the matter, refusing a lodgment to some unfortunate who comes to a sudden end. From tha Christchurch Press we gather that at Addington stock sales on Wednesday a line of fat crossbred maiden ewes and wethers from Mr >T. M'A'ulay, Oamaru, realised lis lid. Oama u fat lambs realised 8s 10d to 10s, and Mr J. W. Johnstoo, Glenavy, sold at 10s to 10s Bd.

A collision occurred on the North Foad on Wednesday evening between two vehicles one going out to the racecourse and the other coming in. Some damage was done to harness generally and we believe also to one of the horces. The accident was the result of unpardonable carelessness, and more will probab'y yet be heard of it. At the meeting of the Land Board yester day the Receiver of Land Revenue forwarded a list of selectors on the Maerewhenua, Ardgowan, and Alakaraeo e-tates in arrear with their payments. Consideration defei red.

Mr Paulin's forecast last night was as follows :—"Equally to light S.W. to N.W. winds; heavy rain showers; barometer rise."

A small boy, somewhere from S ?o 10 year 3 old, was noticed on Tuesday in the thick of the traffic on the North Road tooling an express load of passengers out to the races This criminal tempting of Providence is another evidence of the necessity of a still stricter supervision of the licensing of vehicles plying for hire. Interviewed in Sydney, Mr Borchegrevinuk, the Antarctic explorer, Said it was not his fault that he did not get southward this season. " Ifc was entirely," he observed, ''because I tried to make a commercial company serve the cause of science " Mr Borchegrpvinck states that he still holds the funds collected for his first expedition, and he hopes to increase the sum sufficiently to enable him to get away nex'i season, leaving Australia about October. Mr Borchegrevinck thinks that his scheme has been prejudiced ia the minds of some people by the proposal of a naval expedition to leave England for the Antarctic. He thinks that, in view of the unsettled state of it u rope, it is highly improbable the expedition -will leave this year, and thut in any case his voyage would not clash with the other, but would prepare the wayfor tli2 more costly undertaking. My little boy, when two years of age, w? s taken very ill with b!oo iy flux. I was advised to use Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera, and Diarrhoea, Remedy, and luckily procured pari of a bottle. I carefully I'ead the directions, and gave it accordingly. He was very -low, but slowly and surely he began to improve, gradually recovered, and is now as stout and strong as ever. I feel sure ic saved his life. 1 can never pra ; se he Remedy half its worth. I am sorry every one in the world does not know how good is, as I do.—Mrs Lina S. Hinton, ahamsviiie, Marion Co., Florida For sale by if. O. Lanh