LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 231, 3 February 1880, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Copyright Act.—la gal proceidinus have l>een commenced at Wmlrngton again. l , till? Itivercnrg l !] Garrick Ohio for the ui l'.eensed representation of “ linncirg ihe Turtle”.on the 261 b. T!.i« is the flnri. ease brought under the Copyright Act of ;‘;,o Erorvir.--Tbo Empress if ;p v..)v.-, s if r tho i'eno ;>* Uio Union -::n- v Carman on tlm 26'h Mi : Xlv’-co.

Education/L.—The following summary olu-'.srt bo- ii.„ money >f oil lloaid is squa com! npifti .■ ucli schools as the Ot iht s ho«*1 with niiv; child cos- ft« <h * average attendance, and the upper Otaio "i h ti n chili ire ll : Attendance for tie qt ,ifccr t ruling December Mist. 1879, shows that the Si iuh Canterbury Board of Education h d u r di r lie charge at too i in’ of ih' quarter 2d schools, sof which. viz, Burke’s Pms, Fairixe Crook. '.lran North, Or iri South, an' 1 Upper Olaio, '•< ro rii coed during the quarter. 41 male and 36 female it arhera. and 6 S'-wing mistresses, = it, 1 in tin- employ of the Bo- rd. At tlm beginning of tiie quarter there were 2916 eh ldrehTm the rolls of the district, and at the end of the quarter, 3103. The strict average aße’dauce was 21G9, ami the working average 2321. Parliament. —Parliament is further I rorogued lid the 22nd April. Fever at Parawanui. —Typhoid fever is pi, valent among the natives at Parewannh Mori te ITaharoa, bettor known as “ Young Mori,” a man about 25 years old, died there on Friday last. Mo was I pi.kclni-Maori, and coidd speak English fluently. Several other natives are i 1 with the same conipda nt. A Thwe’s Reward —Mr Wbeelband’s fruit garden at the Orar|.haaboeu robbed expensively of late, so much so that lie ei gaged a im-n nam< d Thomas Dawber, who was armed with a gun,to keep watch. Last Friday night ho saw two men enter fl. , garden, and recognised one as a shepherd named A vine r, and odd him to stop. The thi'-f not stopping, Dawber lire ! and struck him in the thighs. The other nan seems to have escaped. The wounded man was ordered to the hospital by Dr Fish, where he now lies in a very uncomfortable but not dangerous posh’’on. We should think this will be a lesson to thieves in future

Pastor Chiniquy. Pastor Chiniquy has arrived in Christchurch, where he received congratulatory adT esses from several religions bodies, and also from the Orango Lodge. Debrino Twine Binder — Wo regret to hear that the horse bolted with the machine near Timaiu, and 1 roke some cog wheels, so that no trial wdl take place at "Mr Paterson’s for about a week. The Ashburton Mail. —We learn that the AshbuMou Mail is about to change hands, Mr IT. C. Jacobson, agent for the Press at Ashburton, and a gentleman connected with the literary department of the Press, Christchurch, having leased the paper for a term, commencing from April 1 next.

Mr H. S. Fish. —This gentleman has been presented with a purse of L 230 by his supporters to recoup him for his recent election and law expenses. The preset.tatioo was made at the Athenaeum Hall, Dunedin. Mr A. Sligo occupied the chair, and there were about 200 persons present. Larceny.' —A lad, for stealing letter from the Taratahi Post Office, Featherston, has been committed for trial.

A Married Catholic Priest. —Roman Catholic priesis are not supposed to marry Indeed, they are prohibited from manyiug. To the surprise therefore of the War Office (says the United Service Gazette) au application has been sent in for a pension by the widow of a military chaplain of the Roman Catholic persuasion who recently died. Though opposed to the regulations of the Church to which he belonged, in law the marriage is recognisable, and the lay officers have reported accordingly. “ A Mistake.” —Two sisters, on a visit to a large home near W«nganui, were sleeping together in a room upstairs. During the night (says a correspondent of the Marten paper) one of them had toothache, and descended to the kitchen en dishabille to procure something to alleviate the pain. She returned to the bedroom, ai d exclaiming “ ;t’s so cold,” jumped into bed. The exclamation aroused the occupant, who proved to be not her sister, hut a male sleeper. She had. got into the wrong room. He turned over, and thinking a burglar was in the room, caught hi Id of her. She managed to escape, but not before his rough handling had scratched he/ face. Sue related the circumstance to her sister, and, to hide flora the gentleman which of the two had been his unwilling guest, both appeared with a strip of Bt’ek’.ng-nlaster on her cheek. Rather Hot,—Tho Auckland Eveir'ng Star is responsible for the following : “ A Hiss Novato had been playing dub'?, in the ‘ Hunchbui k,’ and her newspaper critic, wh’le admitting that she delivered her hm s with eloquence and taste, Muted that her appearance was against he/ perfect success ot the character But Miss Novaro nad a husband—an old army surgeon, one Dr Roht. M'ller, who probably enough had been captivated by tho young lady’s ‘appearance,’ and therefore thought something of it. Dr Miller ‘wont for’ Jie critic in a style that would not have disgraced Mr Grant, In a letter full of italics, and even capitals, he informed the newspapers that he was there the night in question. The audience were amazed he declared. One person behind bun, when she first came on, cried, ‘Good heavens ! isn’t she beautiful V Ho heard another say, 1 Why, she’s like an angel !’ and the whole theatre sat spell-bourn! by the witchery of her loveliness. Not only ;hat, but Dr Miller went on to inform tho cantif us critic upon a delica.o point, of which, being the lady’s husband, lie was, perhaps, not ill-calculated to judge. Her form, ho said, was the nearest approach to the divine. He had taken hone-a ia his university in anatomy, aud he could assure the critical world that Mies Nova.ro’s H.mbs were perfeciion, and her entire modeling a picture. Tho doctor was evidently one of toe fondest, foolishest old men, oat it is questionable whether Miss Novaro was entirely fortunate in having such ach amnion. Those naughty newspaper men are so apt to laugh at people who disagree wi h their judgments.” The Yea ji ISSl.—The yeav 1331 wiR be a mathematical curiosity. From left to light and from right tt left it reads the fame ; 18 divided by 2 gives 9 as quotient ; 81 divided by 9 and 9is the quo./ent. If 1831 is divided by 209, 9’s the quotient : if divided by 9 the quotient contains a 9 ; if multiplied by 9 the product contains two o’s. 1 a.id 8 are 9 ; 8 and 1 are 9. If the 18 be placed under tho 81 and added, the sum is 9 ,; . If the figures be added thus —1,8, 8, I—it will give 18, two 9’s. Reading from left to right is 18, and reading f'rm right to left is 18, and 18 is two-ninths of 81. By adding, dividing and um'tinhing 19, 9's are produced, being one 9 for each yeav required to complete a century.

Political. —The Gira Heston 11. raid says —“ If Hr S urnders were to devote little atieininn !<> m -r-lisiug on the checkered career of Mr E. W. Staffords mesaageboy whoso summary and nn eremonious dismiss; 1 for beirayal of cor.ftJc-uco has not bnMi forgotr. u,his time might ho better employed. Mr S-’ umlers \v ; is ;ho Whi!i:o.r<on ‘ bjv oia) ’ of ti e Christ’-hunch Presdmigtac session. And a high'y pm’fi.uel one a 1 tha. ! ’

A Narrow Escacb. — A young girl wbi'sfc haloing near Luke Macquarie, Now Smith Wales, was seized by a shark. Her young sisi'T rose ued her, but licr,lcg was mu oh injured. The Pt ankt JuriTßß. — The Berlin newspapers direct attention to the up poaiame winch the j lanet Jupiter just now presems. A vermil'ion-eulored spot covers a space equal to about one-fiftieth of the whole'visible surface. It is situate iu the northern hemisphere of the planet, and is e Hptical in shape, and tho astronomers decl..re that it is at; affection of the planetary body tsclf a.tul not ol irs atmosphere. There is no record of a similar phenomenon having been previously observed, and the explanation generally given is that’ it, indicates that some gre it disturbances are in progress wi thin the planetary substance. We may obtain some notion of the extent of the disturbance by noting that tho size of the spot with reference to the whole area of Jupiter’s surface is as large as the whole of Europe is with reference to tho surface of tiie earth. The Phincr. —The Prince of Wales has au idea that lie would rather go to India to shoot t’gers than to fight the Russians. The trouble wi.h tho Russians is that, after the prince should shut himself up in a tower nine stories high, and wait for the Sepoys to go out and drive up a Russian for him to shoot at. it would be just like the Russian to shoot the Sepoy, and then come up iu Jus own way and knock tho stuffing out of tho tower. A Russian is not to he so thorogghly depended on as a tame tiger. Magnetism.—A brother of the Rev. H. W. Beecher believes himself the possessor of oceans of personal magnevam, 1 > cause,” lie told a Chicago reporter, ‘‘ ho once wrote a young lady a letter, and ic actually made iu r fed sleepy.” It may be tru, ; a letter from an old preacher to a young lady may have that effect, but you bet your magnetic soul, Ei other Beecher, a letter to a young lady from a young man of the right age is one of the wakingest tilings you ever saw a girl get hold of.

Dbcetved.— Vermont newspapers tell of a Burlington woman, who, when her husband came home drunk, waited nntd he went to sleep, then took his only pair of pants and made them over into a peer for her twelve year o'd hoy, working nearly all night to finish them. The husband woke about the middle of the fo renoon, ready to eat breakfast ami start out for another drunk, but when last seen he was wrapped in an old skirt, and had pn • mised to joined the reformed men s club. “ Y ankeelsm. ” —“I, Edward Hanlon, brand Charles EL Cyj|f*iiey as a coward, and will only take boSrtko-insult when ho takes the word ‘go ’ frnnpa referee.” This is the sequel to thlPfcfrßlfengea, races, and recrimiiiuJous between the Canadian and Yankee oarsmen, as published in American papers. Pooa Fellow.—A young lady who lately ran away with bet mother’sfuotm.n has been arrested and lodged in prison at Enniskillen, Ireland, without bail, on a charge of stealing £2l from her mother before leaving home. Her partner in flight was also arrested, but was liberated on bail, the magistrate probably believing his s'ory ; that it was the girl who carried him off. and not he the girl.