The Temuka Leader. SATURDAY, JANUARY 4, 1879.

Temuka Leader, Volume 2, Issue 110, 4 January 1879, Page 2

The Temuka Leader. SATURDAY, JANUARY 4, 1879.

J. R. Emmet said he suffered not from the blow lie received from Zimmerman, but the blows on the nose cured him of catarrh of fifteen years’ s'andiug. Whether or not our plain dealing with our contemporary, the ‘Timaru Herald,’ wiil lead to the same happy result remains to be seen. We fear the disease to which our contemporary is subject has become chronic. Wo do not despair, however, having seen the good effects of a straight thrust more than once, even if it is somewhat severe. 'Wind we do say, we say straight out and done with it. We do not believe in stabbing a man in the dark. It is not so with our contemporary. Its editor is of so sensitive a nature that he cannot endure an attack except with the greatest pain, forgetting how unmerciful he is himself when attacking others. During the last five years the ‘ Herald ’ has written clown in their (urn almost every public man in lire Colony, yet when any one attempts to speak the truth about that journal, if it cannot refute the arguments used, it will collect ail the garbage that comes within its reach, and put it in suen a shape as to make it tell against the party who dared to call such deeds in question. When we a short lime ago staled that the ‘ Timaru Herald ’ was the cause of all the ill-feeling that has sprung up connected with the Geraldine County Council we were in some quarters perhaps not believed through the misstatements of the ‘ Herald.’ Now the storm has blown over, the ‘Herald,’ acknowledges the paternity. It is useless to ask that journal to be truthful; it cannot understand such language. Even the Timarn Harbour Board, which is mostly composed of the loading men in Timaru, pronounce it to be a journal full of lies from beginning to end, and unfit to bo received into respectable society. Yet this journal says it is the educator of the people. What a glorious future must bo in store for South Canterbury if it will only lie at the feet of the ‘ Herald ’ and be instructed in lessons on morality ! It tells yon it is purity itself. Sir Julius Yogel was a scoundrel till taught by it. Major Atkinson was a boor, Macandrev/ a weakminded Otagoite, Mr Ballance not to be spoken of, Sir George Grey, once a dear fellow, is; no better than a bullock driver, Mr llolleston a puppy, but he is now taking lessons in the ‘ Herald’s school, and wo could FOB that ho was hopefully spoken of ata meeting lately hold here. Ho public man is safe from the pernicious, poisonous venom which it vomits forth fpraiiAt ail and .‘■•und.rv who dare to go

against its sedish and unjust crith isms. Worn it not 13i;> t the ; Herald ’ is so well known as a journal that has no fixed princip'es, many of tin; leading journals in the Colony would .sit upon it, iuit because it is one thing one day. ami mint her tiling another, ihe weight of its particles go for what they lire worth. It never forgives any one who dares to state the truth about it and every opportunity that comes in its way it contrives to (urn to advantage to serve its purpose for revenge. This is why it is so much lot alone in its g'ory, because people do not care about having their names dragged before the public, even when they are only iloing a public duty. Unfortunately its editor has a gift for writing in a way to make things look as if there were something - awfully wrong with the party who offends it, and in the most unscrupulous manner it maligns all and sundry from the Premier downwards, without tho shadow of basis for the nasty articles 'it publishes. We publish an extract from one of the most respectable leading journals in 'Wellington as it is an index to what is the opinion of the whole of New Zealand of the ‘ Timaru Herald.’ We observe it is again about to start that ingenious, irresponsible wiry of trying to damage its opponents in that form called notes. Some .gentlemen in this quarter who have called clown its ivo may look out for a full share. It Is more than likely the present opportunity is chosen for a commencement for that very purpose .

The following is taken from the leading daily paper in WePington in its issue of Wednesday, 2Sth D member ;—The leading matter in the ‘ Timarn Herald,’ take it all the year round, is about iho best fun that can be g'd in the colony. At one period some private citizen excites the editor’s ire by making a mistake on a dark night, and knocking at the wrong ,!nor ; at aootlu r the Premier is the delinquent; now it pours the inky vials of its wrath upon Mr G E. Barton, and then shrieks with ddirons excitement over the rascality of the land tax ; there is not a department of the Public Service but what, at some time or other, is held up to ridicu’eand scorn ; nor a public man but wlmt has suffered abuse and invective in its columns. For years past it lias been utterly void of all political principle, its leading columns being tinted by the political state of the writer’s liver. Picking np an odd number at a venture we Pud its special mahdiction is now directed at the Timarn Court House. It is ugly, uncomfortable, nnsnitabm,. is about the wry worst public building in Hew Zealand. It is useless for the Supreme Court, and unsuitable for the District Court, and not at all adapted for the Resident Magistrate's Court. “ It is,” the ‘ Herald ’ goes on, “very hard to say, indeed, what it is fit lor, or whether it is fit for anything. With some considerable alteration it might he turned into an inferior lend of horse-repository ; or, if it were weather-proof, and had a decent sized entrance, it might be made to answer indifferently as a grain store. If it could only 1)0 burnt or knocked clown if- would not bo so bad ; but, unfortunately, its concrete solidity is equal to its hideonsness or its uselessness. It cannot be turned to profit, and it cannot be destroyed. There is only one chance for it. and that is to be converted into a swimming bath and wash-house, when the waterworks arc finished.” Our object in writing this paragraph is to inform our readers of two facts. The ‘ H -raid ’ states Hint the building complained of was made hideous and useless —and it is neither —for the reason that “a hammer and tongs note ”•—whatever Unit may mean—appeared in its columns before the building was designed, and the other thing is that they want a fresh Court House in Timarn to give a local architect a “show,” to see what lie can do. How, if this gentleman at Timarn wishes to show his architectural abilities, let him des’gn a new building for tiic ‘ H‘raid ’ ofli'-o. as the present one is about the most unsightly structure in the. whole township. There is no other newspaper office in fact in New Z-aland resembling it in the slightest degree. It is a had imitation of a half-bred medieval almshouse.

Woodbury. —A correspondent writes ; the river is dry, or that the bush grows beautifully less day by day, or from both (hose causes, or from others unknown to me, that the old name of this place—’ Waihi Bush —is being steadily replaced by that of Woodbury. A few years ago many in the neighbourhood fully expected to sec this same township of Woodbury decay as rapidly as it sprang into existence. Those expectations have not been realised as yet, and, judging from present appearances, never will be. The little township not only maintains itself, but grows, slowly, perhaps, but surely.- Yon have already mentioned the erection of St Thomas’ Church but without mentioning that it is so named. Another building is now in course of erection, where the body, not the soul, will be cared for. I mean the new hotel which is being built by Messrs Taylor and Fatrnan, at the corner diagonally opposite their general store. Mr Heatloy, who now holds (he license of the Sawyers’ Arms down the road, is to be the lessee, and is to have his present license transferred to the new premises. The building is, I should think, about as large as the Winchester Hotel, and therefore will fully supply the present needs of the place. It is nearly finished, and wiil be opened as soon as possible. Another proof that Woodbury is ‘looking up.’ Messrs Taylor and Flatman, who laid out the township, refuse to sell any more sections at present. Perhaps when the Oxford-Ternuka railway is made it will be Pound fiiat- f!ioy am acting with foresight

and discretion. Of course no one j>ro- | tends to know exactly where tiiat line ! will pass tnrough this neighbourhood, but i it can scarcely fail to do so within a short j distance of Woodhun - . Another tiling that must help ua forward is this, Messrs Taylor and ITatman will at an early date remove their saw-mills, now at Eaukanuka, to the U'aihi Bush. Messrs Webb | and Penny’s mills are busy at the upper end of the bush. The appearance of the place will be further changed directly by the erection of new school buildings Mr Hammond, the Inspector, was up lately, and I understand that lie and Mr Dean, chairmen of the school committee, determined upon a site ou the reserve, a few chains from the store towards Geraldine. The old buildings and site are still unsold I believe. Mr Hammond inspected the school on Monday, the 23rd of December, and considering that the school had been dismissed for the holidays during the previous week, there was a very fair attendance—fifty-four— at the examination. The results are not yet to hand of course. The crops in this district are of very varied quality. Some will yield an average return, while others will scarcely, if at all, be worth cutting. New Peak's Day.—Tcmuka on Wednesday afternoon might alumst have been taken to be the residence of the Last Man, so deserted was it. The attractions of the sports at Timaru, and of picnics and junketings in the country, were so powerful as to draw nearly everyone away. Except the railway officials, who in the rush of passenger traffic forgot to get their own tickets, the stable-keepers who had lent all their hcrscs, and therefore could not get away, and the bar tenders waiting for the thirsty customer who didn’t come, scarce a soul was to be seen. If by any chance two persons met it appeared to be quite the proper thing to apologise for remaining near home and to offer excuses for not swimming with tiie Ihe tide. The weather was just of the right kind for an out-door holiday, and out friends, we hope, enjoyed themselves thoroughly. Journalistic. —On January Ist the Ohristchnch 4 Press’ was published at the price of one penny per copy. The directors desire to supply a first class paper at the lowest possible price and they look to the dcvcloperneut of the resources of the district to secure them from pecuniary loss through the alteration. Gammon ASTCI DeKISKTO’s Harvester. — From the ‘Press’ we learn that a public trial of this no vly-introducod binder was made at Rangiora a tew days ago. The crop was of oats with straw a out 2ft Gin. long and looking like thirty bushels an aero. The machine cuts a width of Gft and can take the straw off close to the ground. The elevator seems to be of a kind not liable to got out of order, raid the binding apparatus exceedingly simple in construction. As a rule the sheaves were firmly bound and of convenient size. The machine was then adapted to hand binding and two crack tyers went to work, but in a little time they asked for assistance. Tlrrco men bound the corn as fast as the elevator brought it to them the horses going at full speed. Says the ‘ Press : This was looked upon as the‘ grandest feature of the trial, and cannot fail to place the Marsh Company's machines in the foremost ranks among the grain growers of the present season. The trial was in all respects satisfactory tothose present. Road Board Election. —Wo observe that Tuesday 7th January is the day appointed for elections for the Teniuka and Geraldine Road Boards. For the former we hear Messrs ITayhurst, Eusor, Badham, and to com ; forward ; for Geraldine, Messrs W. PostMhw.alte, J. P. Wilson, James Hay. mud Mr D ;Benzie. One important pledge ought to he taken from cadi candidate, and that is that they will do away with all gates on roads where public money has been spent. It is high time the practice of land owners putting the gates on public roads were put an end to. Wc have abstained from writing upon this subject, expecting to hear of some accident to help as to advocate the subject successfully. The necessity of every driver of a vehicle leaving the animal he drives in clnagge of the occupant whether male or female, old or young, while ho steps down to open these gates, is dangerous in the extreme. Any day a. spirited animal may bolt and bring ruin and death to some worthy settler. We hope the ratepayers will not only o’eet men who have a stake in the district but that they will elect such men as will do their duty without fear or favour. Ranoitata Bridge. Railway authorities expect to have this bridge sufficiently repaired to admit of ordinary traffic by Monday. The County. —Tiro Timaru correspondent of the Christchurch 4 Pmss ’ says that there is every prospect of G r *raldinc County going to pieces, and each of the five ridings forming separate counties. This is owing to the county town being at Teirnka instead of Timaru, as the largo majority of people think that if Temuka is allowed to be, the headquarters, Milford Harbour will be studied instead of Timaru. There is intense excitement in the whole of the county over the matter, and the majority of members of the County Council at the meeting' yesterday refused to vote iu favour of the Act, so that time should ho given to break the county up.

Tkmuxa I'inr B;!I.:adk —Thu members of this Brigade m-wt for pna-tico ou -Mon dav evening. Iu ord -r to summon them the fire bell will bo ring, but iu such a way as to excite no alarm. Four-stroke tolls will be given at short intervals. Holloways Pills.—Fw Indians*ion, \ Stomach, and Liver Complaints.—Persons suffering from any derangement of the liver, stomach, or the organs of digestion, should have recourse to Holloway’s PUD, as there is no medicine known that acts on these parficalar complaints with such certain success. They strengthen the tone of the stomach, increase the appetite, purify the blood,yand correct depraved secretions. Tyfw ,vel -complaints, they remove all jmtrbid, humours, and soon restore the ymaent td sout/d health ; nervous or syuy'heacWches, and depession of snirits maybe sj/eodjly,removed Oy these Pills. They are dompbsed of rare balsams without the admixture of a gr .in of mercury or any noxious substance, and are as safe as they are ellicac'ous. CABLEGRAMS. — (From Exchanges.) London, December 27. A ‘ Times ’ telegram states that Yakoob Khan arrived at Jdlalahad with the intention of submitting to the English. December 28. The Khedive of Egypt’s palace at Abdino has been piavtially destroyed by fire. A destructive fire at Hong Kong lasted two days. There was great destruction of property. The Northam, from London, bound to Sydney, was completely destroyed by lire. The crew and passengers were saved. Greek commissioners have been appointed for the rectification of the frontier. Melbourne, December 27. There has been nothing but amusements and festivities for the last few days, and Melbourne has been crowded with visitors. The Canterbury Cricketers were to have been received by a deputation of the East Melbourne Club, but the Arawaia stuck on the mud batdi, and they did not arrive in town till next morning. January 2. In the match, Lord Harris’s team versus Australian E'evon, the former in their first innings scored 113. Ciicy had seven wickets down for 2G. Lord Harris made 33 ; Absolom.s2. The Australians have lost three wickets for 25. Sydney. January 2. At a meeting of the Sydney Exhibition committee it was announced that a large number of German and Austrian exhibitors had applied for space at the forthcoming exhibition. Tue French Government had inserted in the budget 115,000 francs to assist, exhil iters. It is stated that there is every prospect of a settlement of the dispute between the A.S.N. Company and the strikers by modi ition. Tue strike is expected for certain to terminate to-day. The company yields.