Daily Circulation, 1750. The Oamaru Mail. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1898.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXIII, Issue 7355, 1 November 1898, Page 2

Daily Circulation, 1750. The Oamaru Mail. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1898.

The Chief Inspector of Machinery (Mr R. Duncan) draws the special attention of all owners of machinery, in his annual report, to the necessity of their employees wearing suitable clothing while at work. He more especially urges the discarding of long apronß and long coats, and that all girlß should have their hair done up in a net, and not hanging down their Dacks. Last year three serious accidents occurred in the colony through failure to attend to these matters. The value of the suggested precautions is so obvious that they should not require any commendation to the attention of all concerned. We regret to learn that the injuries sustained by Mr C. Kennedy yesterday, while training Vanilla, were more serious than anticipated and resulted in his death at the Hospital, this morning. It is stated thit he received internal injuries which caused Ms demise. At the inquest this afternoon a verdict of accidental death was returned. During the September quarter in the Oamaru Postal district 134 accounts were opened in the Savings Bank and 120 closed 'l here 931 deposits, representing L 11,016 0s 6d, and 729 withdrawals, representing L 12.601 7s lOd, the excess of withdrawals over deposits being L 1585 9s 4d. The revenue collected in the Oamaru Postal district for the beptember quarter amounted to L 1929 19s 9d, made up as follows:—Private boxes, Lll 10s ; money order commission, L 47 7s 6d | stamps, L 1435 11b OJd ; Postal Guide, Is ; postal note commission, Ll6 17s 6Jd ; telegrams, L 389 13s lid ; telephone exchange, L 26 8s 9d; miscellaneous, L2 10s. During the quarter 6164 ordinary telegrams [and 196 urgent telegrams were dealt with A return giving the quantity and value of gold entered for export in the September quarter shows that 157 ounces, valued nt L 616, were entered for Waitaki County. The total for the colony for the quarter was 66,642 ounces, valued at L 254,031. The Cußtoms duty collected at Oamaru during the iieptember quarter amounted to L 2948, made up as follows : —Spirits, L 1133 ; cigarettes, LlB ; tobacco, L 360 ; wine, f -IS ; tei, L 8 ; sugar, molasses and treacle, L 164 ; goods by weight., L 3 ; poods ad valorem, L 1175; other duties, L 69. The total for the corresponding quarter of 1897 was L 3288. The Mines Department notify that an examination for certificates as first and second class mine managers and battery superintendents will on Tuesday, January 31, 1899, and three following days. Applications must be put in, in terms of the advertisement, before January 4th. At the Magistrate's Court, this morning, before Major Keddell,- R.M., the following civil cases were heard :—Robert Brown v. Hichmond, Glaim L 8 3s. Judgment by default for amount claimed, with costs 9s. W. H. Kettlewell v. H. G. Gould, claim L 5 10s 7d for scenery aud effects. Mr Crawford appeared for plaiatiff and Mr Lee for defendant. After hearing some evidence, his Worship adjourned the case till Thursday next. . _ .

Ib is again necessary to forcibly remind intending exhibitors at the forthcoming show that entries will positively close on Monday, 7th instant. Mails for Australia, Tasmania, Ceylon, India, China, Japan and Straits Settlements, also Continent of Europe, South Africa and United Kingdom, clo e at Wellington, per Talune, on Saturday, November sth, at 2 p.m. Mails for the United Kingdom and Europe, via Monte Video and Teneriffe, close at Wellington, per Kaikoura, on Saturday, sthNovember, at 1 p.m. It would appear that a bush fire, though it be disastrous and widespread, is not an unmixed evil. At anyrate, so it would appear from" the following paragraph in the Wellington Post The refreshing admission was made by a settler in. a letter to the 1 and Board yesterday that the value of his property had been increased by about L2OO through the bush fires last summer. It was explained by a member of the Boaid that a fire which had swept over the section in question had burned bush and scrnb which ib would have cost the selector about L2OO to have cleared in the ordinary way. _ A Wellington resident) has tjyerla in Tattersall's big sweep on the Melbourne Cup, while two Petene syndicates have also drawn horses - one The Chief in the LI sweep and the other Rosebery in one of the 5s consultations. Two Gleniti res : dents have drawn loxteth in one of the sweeps. The increase of juvenile criminality in Wellington has led the Stipendiary-Magis,

rate to follow the example of Magistrates t Home, and, where he had tho power rder floggings to be administei ed Ho said hat he thought the course a stood one. Th o Senders didn't get cont iminated by contact rith other prisoners, and did get somethini? lse that they remembered for a long time. i more general adoption of this view would te of advantage to society. A correspondent at Lawronco writes that he contest for the Tuapeka seat to-morrow vill lie between Mesera Ramsay and Rawins, and that Mr Ramsay has a good show if securing the seat. Mr Sim, who has been mffering from congestion of the lungs, took L turn for the better on Sunday, and it j 6 loped that he will bo about again in a few lays. In the Ruapehu's passenger list appear the lamea of Messrs P. Green and W. Light, lolder, passengers for Oamaru. " If Alfred the Great had granted a loaae such as this wo are asked to grant," said the Commissioner of Crown Lands (Mr Mar. chant) at the meeting of the Wellington Land Board last week, " it would bo just about expiring now." The requeßt which drew this remark came from Dr Anson, who desired to change his present tenure of eomo land, which has eleven years to run, to a perpetual or 999 years. It is recorded that) in the course of the discussion one member replying to a remark that the matter should be closely watched, urged that the question should be dealt with practically, and then added, "We should not allow our senti. ments to influence us until the 999 years have expired." But the Board did not smile. It waa elicited that the land in question amounts to 3000 acres, about a third of which is level or undulating land fit for subdivision into sections of from 100 to 200 acres. When the question was pub the voting was even, and Mr Marchant gave his casting vote against granting the request, saying that the policy of the Crown was to encourage small settlement. As showing the development of the dairy industry in the North Island, it was mentioned to a Wellington Times reporter tho other day t.hat a gentleman who camo out from Home eight years ago as oho accredited agent of an English firm, to secure a connection with first-class butter-making eßtab. lishments, was only able to obtain LIBOO worth of this product in the first year. Last year he forwarded L 30.000 worth. The suggestion of Sir fl. Kitchener to establish a college at Khartoum in memory of General Gordon, which would be of an unsectarian character and give ordinary educational and technical instruction to tho Moslem youths of the Soudan, appoars to have met with a good reception in England. The Daily Telegraph publishes letterß from bishops and mayors in favor of the scheme. An endowment producing LISOO a year and a sum of LSOOO for initial expanses would bo required, and four British teachers with native assistants would constitute the staft. An anonymous donor is said to have offorod L 50.000 towards the scheme, so that its success seems to be assured. A strange accident happened to a horse in Marton the other day. While the driver w»s eating his lunch the horse, which waa feeding from a nosebag, went to get a drink. The nosebag filled with water, and the result

was that the horEe was suffocated. The Christchurch Press says :—The wheat crops in the IS orth Canterbury district are covering the ground thickly, and the color and appearance of the crops since tho rain are moat satisfactory. There is no port of the district between the Waimakariri and Hurunui in which crops are in anywise backward, or showing any but the most healthy and perfect conditions, in which respect hitherto tho season is an exemplary one. We have been favored with a copy of tho "New Zealand Cricketers' Annual" for 1898, and are pleased to observe that tlio publication still maintains the attractions which at once popularised the first number on its production some few years ago. Tho little volume is undoubtedly the Bradshaw of New Zealand Cricket, keeping, as it does, in touch with every club of any standing in the colony. The annual is priced at Is. The Wellington Post of Saturday says:— " Six homing pigeons belonging to the North Otago Pigeon Flying Club were brought to Wellington from Oamaru by the s.s. Penguin yesterday, and were liberated at 5.45 this morning by Mr E. B. Bristow, Tho distance to Oamaru is a little over 500 miles, and the birds are expected to reach their homes by 6 o'clock this evening," Tho birds we may mention belonged to Mr A. Foss' loft, and they homed at 6.25 p.m., on Saturday evening, despite the weather being misty and rainy. In a recent Journal of the Royal Colonial Institute Lord contributes a paper on Social and Political Progress, in tho course of which he relates an incident which came under his own observation in relation to the settlement of Argentina To commence a settlement of the country, somo hundreds of families had been sent over to Argentina from all parts of Europe. Their passages were paid, and on their arrival a free grant of SO acres of fertile land was made to every family; for each a house was built, a well was dug, tools and seeds were provided gratis, and provisions were supplied for one year. At the date of my visit threo years had elapsed since the settlements were formed, and, though all started level in the race of life, and all had had a good start, a third of the settlers were being fed at soup kitchens, while others had already attained prosperity, and were eager buyers of the land allotted to those less fortunate. Inequality of success seems inherent in human conditions. With the view of encouraging the production of tobacco leaf, the Victorian Minister f r Agriculture intends renewing his offer to give a bonus of 3d per lb on all leaf of approved quality exported next year. He is also again giving a bonus of f d per lb on all raspberry or apricot pulp exported. Mr C F. Dole, an American, has published a book in which he argues that the prophecy that " the meek shall inho-it the earin " is a scientific prediction within the realm of law if the word " meek " be understood in the significance in which it is intended. Ho claims that the word has been perverted bo as to bear an ignoble meaning, and says that the meek who shall inherit the earth arc simply the gentle, friendly, humane, and upright. These are the people who shall eventually cover the earth and hold it, and he boldly insists that it is this typo of charac er and of race that is being evolved under the fierce business competition Of the United States—under all the clash and stress of rival interests and the noise and conflict of the industrial era It is the law of righteous competition which tends therein to prevail in the end. But though it is the gentlo, humane, and upright peoples who are destined to cover the earth, the development of the virile qualities under tho influence of which the earlier progress of the race took place is not really tending to bo either suspended or weakened. It is only the conditions of the stresß of life which are changing in the modern world. " Give us," says Mr Dole, " plenty of men, well-born, well-fed, well-trained, men of clean lives and orderly habits, temperate and selfcontrolled men, precisely such men as the type of the Christian gentleman requires, and we will show you more men of virile, physical courage than any army that Alexander, Cassar, or Napoleon ever saw." As there is no immediate danger of a war tax being levied in the colonies, time and capital can find profitable employment in commercial enterprises. Wives and daughters will not be asked to give any painful farewells or to economise, though it must again be brought to your mind that the present advantages of getting a dress made up free of charge is uniqne, and that the address of the cleverest mi iner in Oamaru is—Penrose's Drapery Establishment, Thames street. Bricks.—lt's brick by brick that builds house, it's saving penny by penny that builds a fortune; and it's buying your Boots aud Shoes from MVDonald and M'liiarmid that enables you to create a savings fund of your own. For splendid variety see our windows. No value like • ours anywhere. —M'Donald and 61'Diar taD, Macallan House.—AD VT. Spring Furnishings.—We have opeedn ex Duke of Devonshire, Gothic and Elingamite, a fine supply of House Furnishings, Sheetings, Door Mats, Counterpanes, Toilet Covers, Towels, Cretonnes, Table Covers Sateen Cretonnes, Lancaster Blindings, Cur tains, etc., etc. See our Millinery. See our Dress Materials. See our Hosiery aud Gloves. See our Men's Mercery.—Clation Gardiner, a'd Co, Maudtu'd Houbo.— Advt.

Gbiax clearing sale of boots and shoes at the New Zealand Boot Supply Co.'s Branch, Thames Btreet. We have decided upon the above as our great movement for the end of July and the month August With us to will is to do. We save no means untried to prove the quali of our goods. This great clearing sale will demonstrate to your satisfaction the claims we make on your custom. Gentlemen's Boots, the well-known K.G. Brand, were 22a, now 16s 6<L Ladies' evening shoes in great variety at the lowest quotations ever seen Ladies' lace and strap shoes 10 per cent over cost price. Dozens of odd pairs of evening shoes at bargain prices. Children's bootsj ahoea, and' - slippers at astonishing prices. Gents' canvas shoes were 6s 6d, now 4a 9d. Great variety of evening shoes t 2s lid; Men's and Women's strong qolonjal-made boots and shoes at wholesale prices. See tickets in the windows and at he door. School Boots—A sing'e pair a the wholesale price. Women's slippers from ! s per pair; Children's Blippers from 9d. We expect our Spring and Summer Goods within a month, and must reduce stock. Remember this great clearing sale will last for one month only. Come early, as many of the lines are limited in quantity. Be member the address—New Zealand Boot Supply Co., opposite Post Office.—Colin gievwright, Manager. Tsmpus Fugit, and how rapid its Light Scarcely have the last echoes of the past season died away, and the new season dawns npon us with its new hopes, its new demands, its new responsibilities. Taurus Fcget, and again Time proves the result of a year's conscientious labor! Again it is our privilege to bring our announcement of a vast selection of novelties before you. Tbmpus Fuget, and yet again we are able to make the time-honored claim, as wellounded &3 of yore, that the new collection in all its divisions and sub-divisions is once more in advance of all its predecessors that it has kept pace with flying time, that Immense Variety Wide Range, and Absoute Novelty, coupled with rare beauty and high finish, are more than ever the distinguishing characteristics of our Spring Show. We will make good the claim. Immense Variety and Wide Range are certainly embodied in our collection, New washing materials, new stuff materials, new millinery, new ribbons and laces, new Btraw hats, new everything —John Bulleid and Co. Universal Providers.