POST OFFICE NOTICES.

Mails at the Ashburton Post Office close as follows For Christchurch and North at 10.20 a.m. 4 p.m., and 7.30 p.m., daily. For Chertsey at 10.20 a.m daily. . For Rakaia at' 10.20 a.m and 4 p.m daily. For Dunedin, Tinwald, Winslow, Hinds, Coldstream, Rangitata, Orari, Winchester, and Geraldine, at 10.20 a.m, daily. For Temuka, Timaru, and South at 10.20 a.m and 3 p.m daily. For Greenstreet, Ashburton Forks, Mount Somers, and Ashburton Gorge on Tuesdays and Fridays at 10.30 a.m For Ashton, Waterton, and Longbeacli, at 3.15 p.m. daily. . For Wakanui and Seafield, on Mondays and Thursdays, 7.30 p.m. W. St. G. Douglas, Postmaster.

NOTICE

Mails clos 1 at the Chief Post JOffice for the iollowing places (subject to the necessary alte rations) as under The mext mails for the United Kingdom via Brindisi and Southampton (for specially ad dressed letters only) will be closed at Christ church on July 28. The mail via Brindisi will be dite in London on Sept. 22, and the mail ■via Southampton on Sept. 29. The next mail foi the United Kingdom via San Francisco will be closed at Christchurch on Friday, August 15, and will be due in London on Sept. 30.

A travelling Post Office having been estab ished on the Southern line of railway, letters bearing a late fee of 2d. may be posted at any station in the mail carriage attached to the express train, and they will be included in the mails made up in transit for offices on the main line and branches. Sydney J. Dick, Chief Postmaster.

NEW POSTAL REGULATION.

Letters posted within the colony having the names and addresses of the senders printed on the address side of the envelopes, accompanied by a request that the letters be returned if not •claimed within a stated period, will be return ed unopened. Provided, however, such letters shall have remained in the post office to which they may be addressed, at least ten days.

UNCLAIMED LETTERS,

the first da3 each month a list is ex: hibitei at each Pc „t Office in the Colony of the addresses of all letters received from places be yond the Colony that have remaind unclaimed for one month at such Post Office; and such of these letters as remain unclaimed at the end of a further period of two months are then for warded to the Dead Letter Office, to be return •ed unopened to the countries where they origi mated. Unclaimed letters originating in the •Colony are not advertised, but at the end of ttwo months are forwarded to the Dead Letter •Office, Wellington, there to be opened and re iturned to the writers.

BIRTH.

Collins. —On August Ist, at her resi dence, Havelock-street, the wife of W. H. Collins of a daughter.

The Ashburton Herald AND Borough and County Advertiser (With which is incorporated the “Evening Echo”). SATURDAY, AUGUST 2, 1879.

At the Magistrate’s Court yesterday a case was heard and disposed of by His Worship that will cause some alarm amongst farmers. It arose in this way. Tyson Hodgson’s cows were being driven by his own children to the paddock on which they usually grazed. To avoid the sent the chil across a short cut, while the beasts fol lowed the road. The animals strayed into George Hoatten’s paddock. That farmer resented this intrusion, and pro ceeded to drive the cattle to the pound, first, however, sending Tyson’s child for her father. Tyson came, and Hoatten made a demand for damages—the “ or dinary damages” which the law allowed. But “ ordinary damages” was a phrase which neither honest-farmer could trans ! late into a definite sum in pQ s. d, and ! Tyson, to avoid either under or over paying the exact sum, paid nothing. J.foatten, anxious to get to windward of his: .neighbor proceeded with his im pounding intention, knowing that Tyson would not calmly submit. The evidence at this point -conflicts, but the Magis trate gave the weight of it to Hoatten, and fined Tyson £5. The cattle never reached the pound, and at the Magistrate’s finding of a “ rescue” in point of fact, we do not cavil, though it must have been X very easy rescue for Tyson, who holds that Hoatten’s dog scattered the cows, And Hoatten seeing this said that was what he wanted, and then, in Tyson’s classic language, went “ off like a flash to lay the information.”

It was not difficult for any one to see that the case was a “ no love lost” case between two neighboring farmers —a case that would never have been brought if the two had been on anything like neighborly terms —one certainly that would have been dismissed had the worthy R.M. been less rigidly righteous in administering the law according to the letter of so much of it as he allowed bore on the case; and been more in clined to use a wise discretion and to

allow for the weakness of poor humanity. This deciston of His Worship opens $ -e way to any disagreeable person to qj, ike himself more disagreeable and a ms tly nuisance to his neighbor. He CBn at any moment leave a hole in his fence ‘ t 0 a d m it h is neighbor’s cattle into i ’^ s paddock, and, finding them there tl ' ot tliem off t 0 the P ound > and an attei upted release makes the rescuer liable fc 3 a £5 fine - The Fencing ofdtoc e ’ we alvva y s understood, pro vided fer ences being erected as

„ ■ould tee, ' out '- uut ’ “ ,lu “ th at is «no fence at all ” and can ad, nit a cow without difficulty, is surely not a legal fence - A man drlves cattle i to markt ' f > aad one gets into a badlv fenced y ' ,addock : surel y the Y n f the md has no t 0 owner ot ttie P aQv ~ drive „ rat beast to the P ound n s « ht of the Anver > anc 1 Magistrate would fi, ie the drover for rescumg his cow under these And to c >ur seeming Tyson ° g- soa s £5 were forfeited under Stm. lar Cll ~ cumstances His children had c k are 0 *" ' en the cows— even full grown rti often fail t< ’ keep the cattle they are driving out of lane 1 insecurely fenced. H'owever, Tj /son has given notice o^ ap.peal, and the res ; ult will be woith watching for.

“ Drives a ( laßl’”--u On Monday. The Suiipri; 5B Parti " played last night to a fair house. The en tertainment was a very successful one. Enteetainm: snt to' ti ie Old Men. Some, kindly t jpirite amc >ngst the Good Templars are 01 rganising an entertainment to be given shortly to the inmates of the Old Men’s Hon ie. The Missing ; Man.—-Inti, irest in the fate of Gordon has not in any wa Y flagged, and to-morrow another large 1 party will start to make another search, 11S over a wider range of grornu 1 than tha covered last w jek. The party 1 rol f l burton will s tart from Waka. nE b and. another will lc save from Glrertsey. > two meeting half \ p.y.

A Lost Ordinance. —ln the absence of legal copies of tlie Canterbury Fencing Ordinances yesterday His Worship the R. M. had to content himself and make a shift, in Tyson Hodgson’s case, with such reprint of the law as was afforded by air old Tress Almanac. The almanac may be a very good medium for conveying infor mation on matters of law to Tom, Dick, and Harry, but it is scarcely an authority to swear by in a Court of Justice. Mr Guinness, however, said that Mr Ireland, who put in the almanac for His Worship’s information could not found on it, and also said the ordinances were out of print. The incident only bears out Mr Branson’s account, at the recent public mooting on works, of the shabby state of the Ashbur ton law library. Parliamentary.— ln tlic House yester day Sir George Grey stated to the House the result of his consultation with Sir William Fox on the Governor’s message re the dissolution. In doing so he said it had been Government’s intention to proceed only with the Loan Bill and the granting of supplies, before going to the country, but it had been thought desirable to pass also the Electoral, Representation, and Chinese Bills, before the dissolution. He had laid the importance of these three measures before Sir William, but that gentleman, after consulting with Oppo sition members, had writteu to him to say that the terms of the Governor’s memo precluded the measures referred to from being brought forward by a Govern ment not possessing the House’s confi dence. Sir Wm. Fox said the House possessed the right if it wished of refus ing supplies, and in that contingency it was his opinion the Governor would not feel himself justified in granting a disso lution. But the Opposition would take no course that would lead to a deadlock. They would allow the Supply and Loan Bills free course through Parliament, but would oppose any other measure that might imply the House’s confidence in the Ministry, and any supply they would grant would be for the shortest term consistent with the time necessary for the re-asembling of the House. They would also stipulate that no contracts be entired into in the meantime, and no ad ditions made to the Upper House. They should also ask that the Bay of Islands electoral roll should be purged, and the default of a county clerk 011 the West Coast in not sending in certain re turns to the Returning Officer, by which a member of the House was disqualified, should be put right by a short amending Act. Sir George Grey dared the Opposi tion to refuse supplies and held that if an Electoral Bill were not passed 00,000 persons would be disfranchised. In re gard to nominating members to the Upper House it was His Excellency’s privilege, and no such condition as Sir William asked in that direction would be granted. After a somewhat lengthy discussion taken part in by the lesser lights the House went into Committee of supply and adjourned until Monday, after supply had been granted.

THE MAN IN BLACK.

“ I know the man that must hear me, To him my tale I tcacli !”—Coleridge

I think that I only repeat a former re mark in saying that collectorships in our borough are not much run for. We have recently had a vacancy or two in our civic chamber which have been filled up with unseemly quietness by men eminently typical of that class of politician which the Premier predicted would be developed by these local-self-government fixings—men bristling with latent amor patrice , boiling over with laudable desires to indelibly carve their names by deeds of patriotism on the compiling archives of Ashburton history. Some of these legislators are just now endeavoring to nick up their appellation on the roll of fame by worry ing a few superfluous puppies about a ten shilling tax, thereby showing their inten tion to exercise 110 undue leniency towards their own class, and I think it a good move. Dogs are my pet abomination : there is the hound, that howls like a six teenth century barrel organ, and is called musical by some deluded imbecile, and there is the lady’s poodle that nestles on your knees, and while you tell its fail proprietress how you dote 011 every repre sentative of the canine species and her possession in particular, a nimble animal cule much resembling a liliputian rhino ceros leaves pup, and roams in search of pastures new down the leg of your trou sers, and for a week you go about with every indication of St. Yitus’ dance. Yes, tax these scourges of society by all means, but why not include the nocturnal cat, and perambulators, and butcher boys 1

Some months ago I wrote of the unem ployed, and on that occasion I ventured to express views which I subsequently heard stigmatised as “unfeeling.” I hurried to assure the public that my sym jiathy was entirely with any real cases of distress, and thinking to make complete reparation to the class I took a bad speci men of the “ bob-an-hour” man in hand to ameliorate. I ran him to church but I begin to suspect this was premature, as his surface presented a good field for potato cultivation, and his unkempt hair was showing up through the crown of his wide-a-wake, and he expectorated during the service in a most erratic manner, as frequently fetching the crown of my Paris hat as the toe of his own boot. Next n 'orning I set him to work digging, but by. e ‘, seven Brahma hens from my ’' or ' s yard had obliterated the sura total of day’s labor. -Finding-that this primitive st/ le agriculture was not Ins forte, I gave him three days mowing, during which tin ie two scythes, bisected all my pet plants, hacked the legs off a tame magpitb and took a favorite spaniel in the hinder parts. Yet not des pairing of instilling the rudiments of piety into my subject, I accompanied him to t.ho annual church meeting in the A own Hall, but of this description of entertainment he expressed his views in language more forcible than polite, got a pound on ac count of his wages and got very drunk the same night. Mr. Guinness let him pass with a caution, and iu due course ho looked me up with the announcement .bat I had better hurry up the ten sniffings due or his solicitor would communicate with me. I did not throw practice in the way of his legal adviser, but paid tuo “ bobs,” humbly admitting that I was not a full-blown reformer.

[The remainder of M. B.’s contribution is crowded out. —Ed, A, H.]

HUNTING AT THE LEVELS.

Invited by Messrs Barker Bros., I journeyed south one day this week, to transact some business and enjoy a run with the Ohapi Beagl es. Having donned my long-neglected hunting attire —which, by the way appears to have grown wondrou; small during its two or three years’ reft— I took my scat in the early morning train, and after two and a half-hours’ narrow gauge oscillation—bad enough for man, but abso lutely gvovious to the valuable hunter accompanying me—l readied Temuka. After a busy hour in this little hamlet, whore I found people rising a little from the late depression, I swung myself into the saddle, and a seventy-minutes’ trot brought me to the Levels station, the appointed rendezvous. Here I found Mr. A. Barker surrounded by his “little beauties,” some six couple of useful-look ing bounds, fully half of them being former acquaintances drafted from Messrs. ■Saunders Brothers’ kennel. Salutations with old friends and the acquisition of new ones occupied some minutes, and Mr. Barker then led his pack on to the undu lating downs which rise at the back of the homestead, followed by about fifteen real “goers.” We soon had a couple of hares on foot, and the hounds settling down to a fickle one we hunted her over a few paddocks and then lost. However, Fur was in abundance, and amidst a soul-stir ring chorus we ran another shifty one for a couple of miles, crossing some very pretty country, a sweet six-barred gate being one of the obstacles surmounted by a well-mounted half-dozen. A lot of covert hunting followed, until we got on to a better goer, which led us down a steep hillside, on to some nice fenced country, where we hung on to puss’ heels until she gave the hounds the slip in a gum planta tion. Here we found hares by the score but could get none to break away, and while Mr. Barker pursued his unavailing efforts in this direction, wo dismounted alongside the strip of plantation. The prospect was simply perfection, as wc stood on the summit of a well-grassed hill, with the neat farm buildings and fences lying on the flat beneath us, and the town of Timaru and the sea away to the far right completing a picture which would be exquisite under any circumstances, but with the undulating music of the hounds working backwards and forwards in the wood by our side, perfection is the only word capable of doing one’s sensations justice. I was thinking this, and think ing, too, how far in beauty the musical gems of the great masters fall short of the production of a well-tonyued pack of beagles, when a “ jack,” bolder than his neighbors raced away from the covert, and Mr. Barker soon had his clever little pack at him. A ten minutes’ burst, during which some of us became uncomfortably intimate with the soundings of a com modious waterhole, brought us back to the homestead, and over the country which we had hunted earlier in the day. Having again lost our hare the hounds were lifted down to the flat by the railway, and after one or two casts we got away after a real sportsmanlike’ hare. Crossing the rail way, where a few saddles emptied, we hunted towards the sea, with lots of jump ing, until the hare bent round towards home again, went through the farmyard, leading us out through some double gates of very respectable dimensions into a sheep yard, and away again into a plantation, where the hounds were whipped off, and the sport ended for the day. ’ It was a bad scenting morning, and hares were far too numerous, but..on the whole the sport was most enjoyable, and I most fervently hope that the time is not far distant when Ash burton will turn out horses, hounds, and men of calibre equal to these I have noticed. I wish for no better. Lonehand.

Stipe. —The Auckland “Free Lance” says—“ Yes, everybody feels assured that Colonial Johnny’s sprees at the public cost arc ended, and the brown daughters of the land will weep for the days gone by, with tlieir special trains, -spanking buggy teams, chartered steamers, cases of champagne, concertinas, sacks of lollies, and fivers from the Colonial Treasury.”

A New Trick.— When a firm doing business in Napier give half-a-guinea to aid a fisherman in distress at the same time sending a four-inch letter for inser tion to a local paper (says the Hawkes Bay “ Herald ”) they remind us of the ad vertising American, who, when asked to contribute to a local charity, cheerfully consented, and wrote, “ Seth Jones, who sells the best tea in town, lialf-a-dollar.” It is a shade less mean than going to a funeral with your name and business con spicuously painted on your umbrella.

The Chinamen' and Opium. —The “ Tablet” forewarns parents of danger to their boys, by stating that the “ Chinese are doing their best to spread the most pernicious, it may be, of all their practices through the white population of the colony. It has been discovered that they are in the habit of selling cigarettes com posed amongst other things of opium, and that these mischievous compounds have been considerably run upon by children, at least in Dunedin.” Who Pays for It? —The Taranaki “ Herald ” says : —The monthly Parihaka meeting is an expensive luxury which the natives indulge in to the neglect of their ordinary pursuits. The time occupied in going to and returning from Parihaka, as well as their stay of generally a week with the prophet, leaves them very little time to see about planting crops or performing any profitable labour. They live without care for the future. They are provided With money by means best known to themselves, but not quite understood by the majority of the colonists. When one looks at the abundant supplies the natives have at these Parihaka gatherings, the questions suggest themselves : Who pays for nil this ? How do the natives get the money 1 They can afford to waste their time in a manner that would soon bring utter starvation upon a European com munity, yet they are free from any kind of poverty. They revel in apparent abun dance. How can these things be ? Hard Up.—The Tuapeka County Coun cil is troubled vv itli the general complaint of impccuniosity. The Lawrence Borough Council is similarly ciicamstancyd, but it is rumored will get over its difficulty by. councilors becoming jointly responsible to* (he bank, affixing their names to a little bill. The Tapanui Borough Council is interviewing the Bank of Hew Zealand in regard to the sudden calling in of its over draft.

TELEGRAPHIC.

LATEST FROM EUROPE.

TO-DAY’S CABLEGRAMS. {Special to the Alelbourne Argus.) London, J uly 31. Hornby has published a letter in the Tetcgi aph relative to Gibson’s exculpa tion by the Sydney cricketers, and de clares that Lord Harris’ statement contained the truth and nothing but the truth.

(Special to the Alelbourne Age.) London, August x.

Mr. Gladstone’s article in the Nine teenth Century denounces the British foreign policy in connection with the Berlin treaty, Afghanistan and Zulu wars, and considers Lord Beaconsheld created an obligation impossible to the nation to fulfil. Home legislation was utterly neglected, and the Liberals were justified in having recourse to obstruc tive tactics.

A gun burst aboard a German gun boat. Five persons were killed and fourteen injured. Mr_ Childers telegraphs to Mr. Berry that Mr. Mills withdrew his resolutions in relation to the Victorian crisis, because he considered Sir M. 11. Beach’s embassy despatch well Calcu lated to settle the dispute, and that it was inadvisable to have a controversy with the House of Commons.

TO-DAYS TELEGRAMS.

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Auckland, Saturday,

The police are actively engaged in collecting evidence in a case of alleged illtreatment of the crew of, the ship Minister of Marine by the officers. A lumper named Charles Whittar, detected in plundering the cargo of the ship Landston, has got one month im prisonment.

The Auckland Agricultural Society hold t'neir stallion parade early in Sep tember.

The Herald contradicts, upon authority, the rumor telegraphed by its Wellington correspondent that the Bank of New Zealand would not advance more than on securities.

LAST NIGHT’S CABLEGRAMS.

[Reuter's Telegrams)

London, July 31. Five per cent. New Zealand 10-40 Loan,. 104 yi,. English harvest prospects are im proving. The weather has been showery for several days. The harvest is a month late. European harvest prospects are unfavorable, except in Russia. , ' ~v

The prospectus of the Panama Canal is issued. The capital is to be sixteen millions. The official state ment of Admiral Ammon, of the United States Navy, declared the Panama route to be practicable. Supplementary Army estimates con vert the surplus shown in the Budget into a deficit of The deficit is proposed to be met by Treasury Bonds. London, July 30. The tin market is depressed, with little business doing. Present quota tion is -£64 to -£64 ss. The Sultan has granted English and French demands on Egyptian matters. Mr. Gladstone, in the “ Nineteenth Century,” impeaches the Government’s foreign policy of creating obligations which it is impossible to fulfil. He considers that the neglect of Home legislation justifies obstruction. J ul y 31- The German Ultramontanes are sub mitting. Lord Northcote proposes a credit of three millions for the Zulu war.

The Goodwood was won by Jsonomy, Bear second, Parole third.

SHOCKING ACCIDENT AT OAMARU.

A dreadful accident occured at the Oamaru waterworks on Thursday evening and resulted in the death of two men, named respectively Patrick Markham and Paul Fitzpatrick, and in serious injury to Patrick Ford, one of the contractors on the works. The three men, with another named Rudy, were engaged in replacing the woodwork in the 28 chain tunnel, about seven miles from Oamaru, with masonry, when the woodwork gave way and a fall of earth buried them. Rudy escaped, and Ford crouched, against the side of the wall and escaped the falling earth and rock, but his leg was broken by the beams falling on it. Markham was killed instantaneously, but Ford heard Fitzpatrick speak before a second fall occurred, which it is supposed must have smothered him. The accident occurred, about half-past 4 o’clock, and it was nearly 2 o’clock yesterday morning before Ford was taken out. The body of Mark ham was recovered at 1 p.m. yesterday. Both men who were killed were un married, but Ford is a married man with a large family, for whom much sympathy is felt.

IMPORTANT MEETING OF DOGS.

From the Tyrone Constitution,

On Sunday night last a large and repre-.. sentative meeting of the most l’espectable dogs in Omagh and, neighorliood was held in the Diamond, to consider what action should be taken with regard to the Bill at present before Parliament for increasing the dog tax in Ireland from 2s 6d to 7s 6d. Besides dogs of noble, gentle, and middle class birth, from town and country, there were also present deputations, represent ing the cur tribes, from Gallows Hill, Sandy Row, Irishtown, Brook Street, and Gortmore.

On the motion of an elderly greyhound, seconded by thirty-two terriers, ‘ Rex” (a retriever) of the Royal Arms Hotel was called to th® chair. Letters of apology were read from sixteen dogs who were prevented by illness from attending, and also one from Shannon’s red setter Bella, intimating that pressing family affairs ne cessitated her continued presence at home for some time, and enclosing a cheque for £5 with the assurance that the meeting had; her warmest sympathy. The chairman, who was received with loud applause, said :—Canine Friends, while thanking you for the honor of plac ing me in the chair, I must. say.l think jou might have chosen some one more fitted for such a respons— A voice—We know all that, skip it, and goon. J

Chairman—l thank my humorous friend ill the background for his hint, and shall proceed. We,, are met. here this evening for ah-important purpose! A cloud hangs over us, which if it descend means in : creased taxation to our masters, but death to most of us. (Hear, hear.) My friends, it is a solemn time. I fear we are not pre pared to die, and that we should prefer a' little more of the vanities of this world to .Tsuddeu and premature end. (Howls.) Therefore,dt behoves us,to do something,, to act,' to take the (cat by the back of the neck, so to speak- Jt s ‘ T •'// : A Voice—Or the sheep by' the tail.- . Chairman—l must call my youthful friend to order.' / He does not seriously ap preciate'the -fix we are r in—(hear/, hear)- or else his thoughts are a wool-gathering, or, mayhap, RAM-bling. Well now, the question arises, how are we to act ?y/Funds are a very useful institution generally in a crisis like the present,’hut they are of no' use-to us; - The noble and generous lady-, dog whose letter of apology has been' read* this evening, sends us £5. The intention is good, but. the act futile. I may say we admire lier noble generosity as much- as her beauty. I myself have cast sheep’s eyes- —L (Uproar.) /'- . A voice—l hat expression cannot be al lowed here.; Chairman—Pardon me: it was a mere lapsus Ungues —l myself have been stricken ' with her extreme beauty, but the enforced caste which our masters make us sometimes observe precludes anything but the most distant homage on my part. Well, as we said before, we must act, and it now re mains for the meeting to say how. The; annual tax which is paid for each one of us is about to be trebled, and we want to prevent it True, if the calamity come, it will not kill us all. lam sure that . Neeley’s greyhound, Buchanan’s setter and pointer, French’s setter, Fady Taylor’s bull, White’s pug, Allan Watson’s terrier, and a ’number' of other distinguished friends whom I see before me, will escape death. I myself have lio fear of being in cluded in the general massacre of 1880. I am sure that I. will be safe as long as J. G. It. has got a copper. I now call upon my black and tan friend in the corner to move ' j : ... THE -FIRST RESOLUTION, This speaker having violently removed a few superfluities’from his neck with his .right liind paw, arose and said—Mr Chairman and canine friends, these are troublous times. .The Legislature know full well wo have led the life of dogs since they imposed a 2s Od tax on our existence and now they are about to attempt our extermination—almost. I may confess, if the Act passes I am one of the doomed. There is a mongrel taint in my blood, and a 7s 6d tax means for me the grave. (Howls.) Pardon me these tears, hut I know it will be a watery grave. (Yells.) I know not the taste of raw mutton. 1 never ran after a sheep in my life, and should the innocent suffer with the guilty? I am sure that not one present Over had at taste for mutton —uncooked. (Loud cries’ of .“No.”) Therefore I propose, “ That wc indignantly deny the charge laid against us as a body of being sliecp de stroyers, and loudly protest against an in creased tax on- those false grounds. ” The resolution was seconded arid passed unanimously. I

THE SECOND RESOLUTION. A Sandy Row Scotch terrier proposed the next resolution. He said—Mr Chair man, the resolution I hold in my paw is as follows That in the event of the Bill becoming faw, we pledge ourselves to a dog to take advantage of the present Free Emigration scheme to New Zealand, and forsake a country so lost to* till sense of canine feeling.’’ (Cheers.) Mr Chair man, there is aland of promise beyond the. ocean. In the far off isles of New Zealand there is a haven, for the harassed, and weary dog. (Y.ells of applause.) It is a land where sheep are in plenty. (A voice —Order.) I will not be silenced—where sheep are in plenty, and where the loss of a whole flock would not cause such a rumpus as a tail lost does in Ireland—— Chairman—This is . out of all order- - Sandy Row'Terrier—l will' not be put down by a puppy, •'•rt. . . .. For this remark he was ordered by a re tired pointer to apologise, .and h'aving done so gracefully, he. continued—l am sure'Mr George Yesey Stewart will give ns’'-the' straight tip should we go over to him pan d we would live the ; rest of . our lives in a land where taxesand troubles are unknown. Let our word be “action” and out motto “ No Surrender. ” Paddy. Murphy’s Dog—No party cries. The resolution was passed unanimously. THE THIRD RESOLUTION. , In proposing the third resolution a Ter rier from Gallows Hill said—Mr Chairdog and friends of every degree, we are a down trodden raceP '- The ornament whicli deco rates my neck and yours may be beautiful from' an artistic point of view, but it is not comfortable. ' It is an ever present wooden weiglit .pm, juy ,bosom,, placed there by i. lioti'e and : unfeeling Man. If-‘you but glance at my opposite end what is it meets your-gaze ? V'- . ; . _ ’

A voice—Thereby hangs a tale. Terrier—Thereby does not hang a tail, but only a portion of one. (Groans.) At an early age, I was, according to the ideas

of .mv biped superiors, improved upon and an operation known as <c docking” was performed, which leaves the tail as you now see it. The surgical application of the proverb, which says that “ Brevity is the soul of wit” is another grievance many of us labor under. Man alone is to blame. I shall trouble you now to look at my cars. What see you ? alack ! only a portion of them. They were pruned too by high-souled, Providence-improving Man. (Snarls.) Many of you have had the same experience, and does it not prove that we must act decisively, particularly now that we are about to be removed from the earth in hundreds. Do not your tails curl' with'indignation— those of them that can curl—at the wrongs which have been inflicted upon us. (Tail curling and groans.) I shall now- conclude by..^proposing—That a Committee consisting of one .greyhound, one setter, one pointer, ’ a reti’iever, four terriers, and two poodles, be appointed to introduce the resolutions ; passed into the other towns of the county/with a view to ■ their general adoption throughout Ireland —Mr Greyhound to be convener, Messrs Poodle/lion secretaries/ , " ,J!

The resolution was duly passed. Hughey Gahari’s Rover , having been called to the second' chair, ’an eloquent vote of thanks was passed to the Chairman of the evening. The proposer of the vote said that although his friend who presided had a shaggy coat liis heart was in the right place. ' At the call of’"duty he had come forward and had presided over the ,f .meeting with rare dignity and grace. The Vote was passed’enthusiastically. The Chairman in acknowledging the compliment spoke as follows : —Words fail me to- express how much I feel on the present occasion. I thank you sincerely for your'munificent expression of A Cur-—Oh'shut-iifiiJlit’s bed time. ■ A-Vbice—Put that cur out. Cur—Spell able. (Uproar, during which Able was ex-gellecL) vi . v . . ‘ Chairpian— p -was- about' to say when this unpleasantMrstttrbiiifcS arose / AnotherVpic^—Never mind ; don’t mention ife" MUi rimjtrr/i ■

Chairman—l readily pardon these inter ruptions, as Tkho% the-' time’ Same Voice—The time we went a-gipsy ing a long time ago. Don’t apologise. ;(CrieS: Of sit down.) . Chairman—l shall not'allow my temper 'to get the better; ofme, but if my clever friend “ below, wants to make a speech he must come oiv the'platform and do it, or perhaps-—(applause)—or perhaps Same Cur—Perhaps she’s on the railway, * * J ' Perhaps she’s on the sea, Perhaps she’s gone to Brigham Young A Mormonite to be! Perhaps she’s : dead—perhaps— Chairman (loudly)—I u protest against this attempt to make the meeting a mere burlesque.. :r We have tod’-important inte rests at stake to allow such abject trifling. Were there ever such unreasonable inter ruptions/or did you ever , . Sariie bull pup— . Did you ever see the divil, r.i s With his wooden spade and shovel, Diggin’ praties in the gerdin, wid his night-cap on ? • : (Terrific .uproar and riot for some time.) Chairman—The meeting stands— ‘ Same [disturber—Before adjourning us sing the dogsology. (Chaos and break up of the meeting, which stands adjourned indefinitely.)

A New Game. — “ F” in the Nelson Mail says : —A writer in an American paper said that he had arrived at the conclusion, after much observation, that every boy between the ages of ten and thirteen devoted three hours a day to endeavouring to discover a new kind of noise.' ThisAmay or may not be true, but even if it were, a novel, amusement that I heard of this morn ing will, I think, for originality and excitement, beat that which is said to be the favorite pastime of Yankee lads. If I do not vouch for its correctness, no one. will believe what I am going to narrate, so- 1 ; may commence by saying that it is perfectly true and that the occurrence took place within fifteen miles of Nelson. Three youngsters, tired of being idle, and wanting somer thing to amuse them, were suggesting first one kind of game and then another, until one e'xckiimed “ Let’s have a ride through the air.” Called upon to explain how this was done, he stated his plan in a very few words. It was simple enough; one of them was to climb to the;top of a poplar tree which the others were to chop down and he was to fall with it. There was some thing very fascinating about the notion which was at once adopted, 5. the youngest, only a tiny fellow, being sent up the tree while the others fetched the axes. Before they had cut through the trunk, however, the little chap accidently let go his hold, and without . waiting for the tree,' fell to the ground, a very black eye indeed being his share of the sport. ; Nothing daunted by this ' little mishap;- Noia climbed up, and in due course was "cut down, but did not get the full, force, of the fall, as the tree lodged against a bank, though he was so shaken that it was some minutes before he was sufficiently recovered to take his turn with the axe. In-time' however, he was himself again, and .now the eldest brother was to have his “ride.” He selected a tree over thirty feet high, and climbed to very nearly the top of it in. Order to have as long a ride as possible. Meanwhile the brother below was chopping away withe all his might, and in- the course of- time his zealous endeavours met with their re ward. There was a cr-r-r-ash, a whiz zing, through ,the air, and then-a dull thud. About; two hours later, the inanimate form that was to'- be seen stretched-on the ground a dew. yards from the topmost branches of the tree when it fell,’'began to move,■'•and a few minutes afterwards the eyes- opened, and now .when that youth is 1 asked by his young, friends if he would like a ride, lie' replies, with that’ forcible elegance which marks the expressions of colonial lads, “Golly, no, 111 give that best,” and then he rubs hs head and tries to recollect howmary thou sands of millions of stars he sav when he and the tree came to earth. ’

Saturday, August 3,

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