FROM OUR EXCHANGES.

Temuka Leader, Volume 2, Issue 130, 19 March 1879, Page 2

FROM OUR EXCHANGES.

As registrations for the electoral rolls must be made by 31st March, we publish the following summary of the qualifications of voters l —Every man of the age of 21 years or upwards, and being a natural born or naturalised subject of the Queen. 1. Having a freehold estate in possession, situate within the district for which the vote is claimed, of the clear value of LSO, above all charges and incumbrances, and of or to which he has been seized or entitled either at law or in equity for at least six calendar months before the 30th April: or, 2, having a leasehold estate in' possession, situate within such district, of the clear annual value of ten pounds, held upon a lease which on the 30th April shall have not less than three years to run, or of which he has been in possession for three years or upwards next before 30th April ; or, 3, being a householder within such district, occupying a tenement and residing therein six calendar months previous to 30th April, if within the limits of Temuka, of the clear annual value of LlO, and if without the limits of Temuka, of the clear annual value of L 5. -i An individual at the Police Court edin lately showed that he was of 3f strongly practical turn of mind, with a\' leaning towards estimating all the troubles' of life at their value from a financial point ■■ of view. He was charged with having \ committed a grievous assault upon an 1 individual who had the reputation of being a harmless and decent sort of fellow, and having heard the evidence, gave the Bench the advice to “make the best job they could of it.” Having done so, their Worship fined him L 5 and 32s costs, with an alternative of one month’s imprisonment. He considered the matter for a niinute or two, and then thoughtfully remarking that he believed he could hardly make that much money in a month, was removed by a constable, still apparently working out the problem which would pay him best—work on his own account or her Majesty’s. From a return just issued (says the ‘ Post ’) we gather that up to the 31st December, 1876, the total area of Crown lands alienated since the foundation of. • the Colony has been 12,220,071 acres, for*! which L 8,439,812 has been received, and 17,998.421 acres are open for sale. In the Wellington Provincial District 1,672,376 acres have been soldvTor L 644,604, and 85,397 acres x’emain open for selection. Ganterbxxry has, of course, hitherto been the “milch cow” of the Colony, 2,291,460 acres in that province having been sold for L 3,667,766, and she has still 6,401,566 acres open for sale. 1 Otago has disposed of nearly as much land —or 2,056,064 acres—but the amount received has only been L 1,807,658, .and the land opexx for selection comprises only 197,961 acres. It is rather surprising to find that 5,871.777 acres are open for selectioxx in the Nelson province, only 1,013,721 acres having been sold, of the value of L 349,352. Even little Marlborough has still 2,159,000 acres for saleher land fund having hitherto reached L 264,282, the proceeds of 840,999 acres sold. Auckland has always been regarded as a spendthrift in regard to her wealth in land, and this is proved by the return, which shows 2,168,625 acres alienated for only L 314,480. She has 1,254,181 acres left for sale. This re* urn is only up to the Abolition of the Provinces, but the relative positions of the Provincial Districts remain about the same. Power, the bushranger (says the c Gundagai Times’), who lies just now in Pentridge, cor fined to his bed with consumption, expresses bis regret that he is not well enough to take part in the search for the Kellys. He speaks positively of his ability to run them to earth, if they have not left his old haunts on the ranges, and he states that the capturing of Edward Kelly would be with him a work of revenge, for to his treachery he persists in attributing his own capture. The four big guns for the defence of Lyttelton harbor will be landed from the ship City of Quebec probably this week, and taken thence to the Gladstone shed until they caxx be placed in a permanent position. Oxx Saturday morning sixtyfour cases of ammunition for them, equal in weight to six tons, were landed and stored in the magazine. The distress (says the ‘ Spectator ’) caused by decaying trade has been exasperated by He weather, which, throughout Europe, has been unusually severe. From Hamburg to Moscow the whole plain of Central and Eastern Europe was, in the early part of a week in January, one sea of snow. The snowfall in Switzerland was so severe that it arrested all traffic, as it did also in the xxorth of Scotland, where eighteen trains were snowed up at one time, and where communication was kept open with Aberdeen by steamers. Peterhead, it is said, went out of sight for a week, and throughout the country ordinary traffic almost ceased. In London, though the snowfall was not heavy, the register marked unusual cold, the thermometer having fallen on Tuesday - night at Greenwich Observatory to 15 :> deg. of frost. The Thames was frozen over at Windsor, and the ice in tile Parks box’e thousands of skaters, who escaped with fewer than the usual immersions. It is noteworthy that the last year of great commercial distress —1866, when Overend Gurneys fell, and it seemed on Friday, the 11 tlx May, that we should be reduced to a state of barter—was also marked in the following winter by the unusual severity of the cold, which, however, in these days rarely passes an endurable limit. Deep salt-water has not, we believe, been frozen in England in this century.