The Temuka Leader SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1879.

Temuka Leader, Issue 207, 6 December 1879, Page 2

The Temuka Leader SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1879.

c '’-rronx O'CCviiTTMi:.—Tim above Coiav.ln meet next Tuesday at the ■uni hour.

Sale.- ?■ ir iv. I. Gray imd a sale m the properly in He (-stale of .Mr Jaa Radsord. T’ '• i!w -fling i:o"'.o of 5 rooms wish a quarter of an -mro of ground with orchard, brought £250. Tim ;*djoin'ng section framing unoilv r ft co with stahl *, Ac., £.IBO. Tbe jmnu was bought at sntifaetory prices. Concert.—We learn that a conc--rf vvnl he viven on Boxing Night, in aid of St. Saviour’s Ohim-h.

Childrens’ Pion:c. — A children.--.’ pionic will he held in the Temnka Dom.-.in on Tuesday, the 23vd in«t.

Hauve't- —The bite !i ie weal her ishaving a marvellous «.flf ct on the crop-*,which are now coming on sp end dly. Bar'ey will be ready at Christmas. Mr T.aven-di-r has a pad do k of splendid ba-r ley, which ni l be ready for cutting in about hoi days.

Midnight Prowlers JFr -qnent complaints have been made to ns of fowls In vino b -cn s boffin from them roosts. We w<ml! advise tbe-e mif night depredators that they will so! n have to make the acquaintance of the Peak” if they do not stop it. lion rooms will be closed 10-dain owing to Air Cray having to go (oThnar.i and till the place of Mr D. Maclean (of Maclean and Stewart), who, we regret to say, has been called away to Dunedin on account of his brother’s seriou-i d'noss.

.An honest min v sat in .1 contemplative mood before the door of a saloon in one of 1 lie thoroughfares of Denver. Slowly down the street came a sol it--r" horseman, illmonnted, poorly clad, meagrely equipped and shopped in front of the «3ttor. “ Stranger.” said he, “ 1 want io sell you a horse ” ‘ What is lh.» j>r»< e ?’’ asked the iOn!empla:ii/i! man.” "A hundred and fifiy dollars, and dir! cheap at that” The enqnipr meditate I, for a few moments and then, blankly re-marked—‘ Stranger, Til give yon five,” The equestrian dismount'd, saying with earnestness, • W--U, f won t allow a hundred and forty five dollars to stand between you and me and a trade. The horse is yours.” AN irishman of the hotter class, who thought he must conform to the fashionable mania of paying a v-sit to the Tails of Niagara, arrived at the Falls, and on taking a look at the surrounding wonders, addressed himself to a gentleman with — “ And this is Niagara Falls?” ‘‘Yes,” was the reply. “ And what is there here to make such a bother about?” asked Pat. “ Why,” said the gentleman, “do you not sec that mighty river, the deep abyss, the great sheet of water pouring down?’ Pat looked at the water and replied hesitatingly. “ An’ what’s to hinder it. The Queen- and the Heed Laddie. — One day some years ago, when her Majesty was standing on the public road near Balmoral, sketching the castle from a particular point, a flock of sheep approach. Her Majesty, being intent on her work, took little notice of the flock, and merely moved a little nearer|the side o,| the road. A boy in charge of the sheep shouted at the top of a stentorian voice, “ Stan’ oot o’ the road, ’oman, an lat the sheep gac by !” Her Majesty, not moving out of the way quite so fast as the shepherd wished, bo again shouted, “ Fat are yo stand’in’ there for ?. Gang oot 0’ that, an lat the sheep pass !” Olio of her Majesty’s attendants, who had been at a distance, on hearing his Royal miseress thus rudely assailed, wont up to the shepherd and thus addressed him. “Do you know who it is you have been speaking so rudely to, boy ? ” “Na —I neither ken nor care; but, be she fa’ she likes, she sudna be i’ the sheep’s road.” “ That’s the Queen said the official. The boy looked astonished, and, after recovering his senses, said, with great simplicity, “ The Queen ! Od, fat way disna she pit on claes that folk can ken her ?” Drawing the Longbow. —lt was just 20 years a, go yesterday, says Reid Gordon, that a party of us fellers went over to Bergen Creek, on « skating match- The day was colder than ten icebergs, the ice as smooth as glass, and we made up 0 it minds to have a heap of fun. Bill Berry was the leader of the crowd. He was a tall six-footer, full of pluck, and the best skater in all creation. Give Bill Berry a pair of skates and smooth sailing and he’d make the trip to Baffin’s Bay and back in 24 hours, only stopping long enough at Halifax to take a drink. Well, we got to the cn ek and fastened onr skates on, and after taking a good hern from Jot Turner’s flask, started off in good stylo, Bill Berry taking the lead As I was telling yon, it was'a dogged cold day, and we had to skate fast to keep the blood up. There was little air-holes in the ice, and every now anil (hen we would come near going into them My skates got loose, .-ukl I tiled to fasten ’em. Just as I had finished buckling (he straps. 1 saw something come along the ice like lighning - . It was Bill Berry’s head. He had been going it like greased electricity, and before he knew it he was into one of them air-holes. Tim force was so great as to cut Ids head off against the sharp corners of the ice. “ it’s all day with Bill Berry,” said I. ‘‘Ami all night loo.” said Joe Turner. Just as he had got these words out of his mouth, I looked at B.li’s h al. which had been going it on the ice, and ail at once it dropped into another lime. We ran to it, and I heard Bill Berry say : “ Quick, boys, quick ! pull me out!” I looked into the nolo, and there, as 1 am a sinner, was 81l Berry’s body, which had

shnothed along under the ice, and met the head at the hole in the ice. It was so shocking cold the head had frozen fast to the body, and we pulled Bill out as good as new. He felt a little numb at first, but after skating awhile ho felt as well as the rest of ns, and heartily laughed over the joke. We went home after dark, all satisfied with the day’s sport. About tin o'clock in the evening somebody knocked at the door and said 1 was wanted over at. Bill Berry’s. I put on my coat and went over. There lay Bill’s body in

one place and his head in another. His wife said that aster ho had mine home from skating lie sat dowy by the fire ty warm himself, and, while attempting to blow his nose, he threw his head into the fiivylace. The coroner was called that night, and the verdict of the jury was—--1 That Bill Beiry came lo his death by

skating too fait An Incendiary. —Donald McKay was arrested at Invercargill on Monday cm a charge of arson. It will bo remember that some time since he, along with two other men named Whiddon unci Cameron, was charge'’ with firing the old Police Barm ks at Mat-aura, then owned by McKay. The other two were committed for trial, and McKay discharged, the evidence not being sufficient to justify his committal. S nee (hen tiie | ohc" have got hold of further evidence, and hence leave again arrest a I McKay.