The Oamaru Mail. SATURDAY, AUGUST 6, 1910.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10526, 6 August 1910, Page 3

The Oamaru Mail. SATURDAY, AUGUST 6, 1910.

The monthly meeting of the Council of the Waitaki Acclimatisation Society was held last night, there being present —Messrs Glen (President). Mitchell. Swinard, Gunii, Fa mil ton. Dnimmond. Sinclair, T. Jones. M'Phail, and Mackintosh, A discussion with reference to the liberation of ova in the various rivers of the district was engaged in. and it was decided to defer the quantity to be apportioned to a future meeting. It was decided to liberate a number of mallard thicks at present in the Society's enclosures. Mesrs Jones and Swinard, were appointed the Grounds Committee for the month. On the motion of Mr Swinard it was decided to obtain a couple of seats for the grounds. Accounts amounting to ;t2() were passed for payment. During the month of February there were slaughtered at the Oamaru Borough Abattoirs 109 cattle, 107 sheep and lambs, and) 10 pigs, of which 4 cattle, 9 sheep, and one lamb were condemned as unfit for human food and passed into the Eveline digester. We are in receipt of the balance-sheet of the Sun Insurance Company from the. local agents, Messrs Milligan and Bond.

News was brought to Sydney last week by the Island steamer Suva that j. Mortlemans, of the. famous ANhite Rose (or Nueva. Tigre) crew, who was tried for piracy on the high seas in April, 1909, was found guilty, and sentenced to penal servitude for lite, had been placed on board H.M.S. Cambrian at Suva for Sydney. Mortleman's story, as told at the trial in Suva, was of the penny dreadful type. .He picked up a living in London till he jvas eighteen years old ; he was steward on various cargo boats, with good conduct discharges of consecutive dates for the next eight years: a shipmate widt Skerrett out to Callao, with three months of time unaccounted tor the j foreign port; shipmate again with Skerrett on the Nueva. Tigre, that- leit Cal- j lao under Captain Mel is in November, 1907, with a mate, and Mortlemans and Skerrett as crew, and was found with Skerrett by the Laurel on the White Hose on Apamana Reef (Gilbert Group) in January. 1908. According to Skerrett, who turned King's witness, Captain Melis and the mate were attacked by Mortlemans with an axe .and a gun, and forced to jump overboard when the Nueva Tigre_ was some fourteen or fifteen miles oil the coast of Peru, Skerrett being so terrified by Mortlemans' threats that. he. dared not to even, 'throw planks overboard for the captain and mate. Neither of the men knew anything ot navigation, and. beyond throwing the cargo overboard and repainting the ship, did nothing until winds and waves landed them on Apamana roof —and, ultimately, in the hands of British law. It has, it seems, been considered by the authorities that the Suva, gaol was hardly suited to Mortlemans. At any rate, Canada was approached as to her willingness to take over the prisoner, and some arrangement -has at last been made for New South Wales to keep him in durance vile in one of the State prisons. "This wood was under water for 110 years," said Captain J. H. Watson, at Sydney, on July -6 (says the Sydney Morning Herald), exhibiting a wellpolished walking-stick, ruler, gavel and pin-tray. They certainly did not show any sign of their long submersion, Init the lecturer explained that on September 19, 1795, the merchant ship Endeavor sailed from Sydney, hound for Bombay via New Zealand. Before reaching her intermediate port of call she sprang a leak, and Captain Bampton beached his vessel in Dusky Bay. Subsequently the wood of which the articles were made was obtained and forwarded to Captain Watson by a. friend. "The remains of the Endeavor," said the captain, "are still to be seen there, and form an item of interest to tourists." Whoever has tried Zymolc Trokeys never goes without them. Every day their popularity increases, simply because they do just what is claimed for them. ' 10