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Temuka Leader, Issue 179, 27 September 1879, Page 2

LkctuUt —Tlie Rev. Mr Gillies will delive: a lee'%:« in the Presbyterian Church, Teriiuka. . next, at 7 pm. We need repeat that the lecture, which was postponed on account oit,be weather, will be found a highly interesting yue. Sai,b of Property.— Mr Kobert Wood has sold his property at. Milford, consisting of seven roomed house and two acres of land, to Mr Philip Wareing for the Considering that the property is in ctose ■proximity to the proposed Milford harbor, we do not think Mr Wrreing wiPbave any cause to regret his-bargain, while at the Bame time we think the price a reasonable one, considering the times. ‘ Land TAX.-Itwill by an advertisement column that parties /liable for the Land Tax will have u. nay the same on Wednesday next, to the Postmaster, W. W. Beswick, Esq., > Timaru Complaints are made that no notices have been served of amounts due by those who have to pay the tax. ilns must be through an unforeseen delay m ■issuing the notipes, > . Sparrow NxnsAN6B.r—Temtika promises to be. at no distant date, in as unenviable a position with regard to this pest as -most other towns in t the north. Great complaints are made about them destroying the buds of the fruit trees in the town orchards. Once let them gam the ascendancy, and it will .bo no easy matter ot exterminate them. Pigeon Shooting. —Some evil-disposed persons seem to take pleasure in shooting down "these harmless; . interesting birds Pop, pop, pop, go their gtms-Sunday and week day alike,. It-would be well for the police to keep an eye upon the^ miscreants. They may not be aware that it is punishable to shoot, upon the-Sabbath, and not at any time allowable to shoot » m town ‘ Evil-disposed persons take delight in almost anything that is mischievous.

One would think there is no picture co be ■ found in destroying the creatures that • walk amongst our feet, and that is doing p’jj them no harm. is -. Opihi Bridge.— The numerous accittinlentathatoccnr almost every week through mitlie want of an extension of the Opihi nicßridge is-no trifling matter. It is high be ,-ime that something were done, but, as is leal-siial in these cases, be done, is-eptkilsome loss of life o-curs; More than one * r>f r x both" to persons and >• ' ‘ place, yet the chance l0j " ' v/w i same happening over no great cause of th*' *' thejiieedfn! work f* •wgSkv---'* ■■■ ■- y '

more died/ of starvation. Two hanged themselves, two drowned and one cut his throat, driven, to despair by his superior’s relentless brutality. _ All these tenures are alleged .in' to have oeea inflicted by Fathe^' Isidore upon monks Who refused to act as. panders between him and the female! members) the congregation attending service in'the cliurch of the monastery. The Prior spent the revenues of the brotherhood in every description of debauchery, and any remonstrance upon the'-jiart of the monks drew upon them the most horrible punishments. The attention of the Czar is said to ha?e been called to the tragedy of Lebiadyn, and it is excepted that His Majesty will order a searching and exhaustive investigation into the actual state of Russian monastic establishments to be institutes

bh soon as the repressive measures now being enforced to put down the revolutionary movement shall have restored order ’and tranquility to his Empire. The Channel Tunnel.— I The Pas J'Caais publishes the following pai^^ 3 ; about the proposed timneJ between England and E* ,'. engineers who have been , k have not yet commenced the tunnel • airthe3'i have , fl °ne;at present being a Shalt in order to ascertain the depths and current of the water. When these preliminary experiments are concluded the work of making, the tunnel itself will begin. The shaft now being sunk has a diameter of about 9 feet, and is to go to a depth of about 260 feet. Work in the shaft has been suspended for the bast 3 months, as the water comes in so rapidly that it has been necessary toconstruct a machine which will extract 600 gallons per minute, or double what the machine at first used could remove. 1 The shaft has already been sunk to half the proposed depth, and work will be resumed before the end of the year. The walls of the shaft hre being lined with small oak planks with a corking of concrete. The earth: which has been excavated is of a white chalky nature, and very hard. Selling Liquor On Sunday. —At the Resident Magistrates Court, Kaiapoi, lately, Mr Whitefoord stated that publicans ancj| others seemed under the impression that so long as drinks which were served on a Sunday were not paid for the law was not broken. He assured them that tins was a mistake i idea, as any publican serving drink to anyone not a bona fide traveller or Jndger was breaking the law whether the drinik was paid for or not. The Cheat Wall of China. An American engineer, who, being engaged . in the construction of a railway in China,

| has had unusually favourable opportunities 1 of examining the , “Great Wall built to obstruct the incursions of Tartars, n-ivos the following’ account of this wonderful work-.—The wall is 1728 miles long, 18ft wide, and 15ft thick at the top. "The foundation throughout is of solid granite, the remainder of compact masonary. At intervals of'between 200 and 300 yards towers rise up, 25ft to 30ft high and 24 feet in diameter. On the top of the wa Is and on both sides of it are masonary parapets to enable the defenders to pass unseen from one'tower to another. The wall itself is carried from point to point in a pci rect y strait Sine, across valleys and pi uns nud I over hills, without the lightest regard to j th* j configuration of the ground, sometimes i T-bm-ring down into •&««* a? thousand rlveti*,.-are while on both '•ng flanking 1 . J 1 J-/-,