The Temuka Leader SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1880. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Temuka Leader, Issue 233, 7 February 1880, Page 2

The Temuka Leader SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1880. LOCAL AND GENERAL

1.0.0. F.—A meeting of the above lodge was held at the Royal Hotel, Temuka, on Wednesday last, tho4|hinst. The minutes of'the previous meeting were read and confirmed. IjL was Resolved that a concert and ball take; place in about six weeks time, half tlie p-oceeds to go to tie Timaru Hospital. ' Tue.-m .eting then terminated. . .

Tkmuka Be assi Band. —V committee meeting of the above band took place in the RoyalHotelyTomiika, on Tuesday last, there being about 20 member.* present. The minutes of lastf- meeting being read and confirmed, the question of a bandmaster waa discussed at considerable "length. SeverarcVJ!rimtt!Uoatiiiii.s : werer(-" Xieived from parties willing to -'fill *the pp?t v Mr Adfield waited upon" the committee in person, and'explained the com itionstipon which he would be pi-nparod to. undertake: the construction of t ! io ban.l. • It was resolved that the se'eetion of a bandmaster, bo deferred t ; ll M-m lay night, 9th inst., when Mr Ad field would be prepared''to meet the committee, and give a specimen of his playing. The meeting then adjourned.,

Domain Boards Xx-A'AtinKb:— -We observe by the Gazette thai tho Governor has been pleased to pro'.dami the following gentlemen tho memb-'r-) of the Wbod-bury'Park'Btfar'il;.-t6''\y:it-V—Messrs Charles George Tripp', -Allaii'-MelWuldj Clement Tancred, Frederick Donldn, and Frederick gaze'iled' TKo ' «am>,'3 are:—Messrs, A. Wils(Mi,;J..Paterson, S. D, Barker,.'£. .F. Gray, and J. Meyer.-", under certain clauses of the "Public Domains Act, 1872."

Ii.EATKR AND seen' Cro'm an advertisement, in anothex.: column, .the Peering; string binder wil betried-atMrJohn Paterson's on Tuesday next, when we expect.to see a largo num;ber of farmers and others present. . Ayrshire Cattle.-—Tim 'Ayr-shir--a ol Southland are becoming famous in the northern part of. this Island. The agents for.a lady who desires to' found a herd", of this breed in South Canterbury, not long since procured oh her account a bull of (mw.oE pur most prized strains of Ayrshire blood. Sinca then they have •purchased ■from Mr John Russell, of Waianiwfc, seven heifers. These were hied by Mr George M'Leod, of Little i Bush farm, from cows specially selected from Mr John Morton's prize Ayrshire breed, seVeral animals of which tire prizetakers, and the parents of which were all imported direct from Sootland. The heifers are all believed to" be in calf to Sir William, dam,s[errily, g. d., Jean, by Merrytonf imported. .The animals •were forwarded teat week to Tim \rii.

Thjb Lincolnshire Delegates passed through- Temuka yesterday, in company with Mr J. T.Ford They inspected the district- in the immediate viciriiry of Teiiiuk;i, and then proceeded to Timaru,

' An-Undertaker's Keason.—Taut Neil waj3%right and presenter in? E'.linbargli, and a very droll character rv his way. Beltig questioned one dry by a«-lady, at wliose house he \vas eMiploye 1. as to the reason why people of the profession were so exhorbitant in their charges for coffins, he looked verj'.mysterious, and agreed to give her the necessary' information in return-'for a* glass of wlvsky. The sttpalar lion being carried out, Tarn said, "Wei riia'irn, are nVer brought back to be mended."

LiRGH Trout.—Mr R. T.C'Searrell caught i nice trout on Wednesday night in the Avon opposite the Govern-* merit building's', which-weighed 131 b. ThVfisb.if beautifully marked and inBplendid condition. It was presenfed jto Mr E. Cortfeon.. of tjie. Commercial Hotel, ami'exhibited'in the bar, where' it.; -attracted considerable'■•attention?; morning, Mr; Seahright, juh., took J' a", well fed j».fish•'.; a little below "mill, .weighing: 12i1b.., Both ..trput were killed with a minnow—-Times.' •

f '. v Sif H'emSf.jParkes, in His recent'speech. "in the New South .'W*les Legislature, on the new Education Bill, brought out remarkable facts th,at though' the .State g/ihpnls were de'rifunced:' J>y Archbish&p' Vaughan as "seed-plots of future immorality, infidelity lawlessness, calstandard - '* f human exc ■Hence, and to c< rrapt the political,, social, nhd individual life, iof future citizens,";-some 500 R>man ' < 'atholic teacheja occupied the fattest billets-, -anJ. they were not censured by the church-. ■';• Tae Home Ru ] e League is irr a mori.bu.nrl. state, owing to dissensions: • Mr Shaw I'efnscs the leadership, asUio ; ; considers Mr Parnoll's views , are too /extreme,. has resigned.

Thk'.LegioN'" of TTn\ T oß.—lh addition to the.awar'cf of the Gold Medal'. (L'Academic National/''),,'and Medal,: awarded to John Brinsmead "and Sons,.' of Wisyivore-street, London,, for- the.superi-orly-of the piano exhibited by themlafit Paris Exhibition, the founder l of the firm has been created ; Chevalier of the Leg ; on of Honor, this distinction being conferred on no; other: British!Pianofqrto Manufacturer. ' r i .

"P-JsaSONs vislitiiw, Geraldine'; wonld do vsell to call at J. RTaVrop's cheap sale at the Bnsh-Inn, ■GdiphUnA w|io, in consequence of his having; AeLaphf norl jtfk relinquish the drapery, depar (mefet M' Msjpli siness a£ - Temn'ra, will holdra at Mr Trengrove'43. Commercial %,oom, Bush Inn, for 14 days only, at and,lfclow cost price ; no reasonable offer will-be refused; remember for 14 days only, atthe Gommprcinl Room of the Bush Inn, Geraldine?—(Advi.);/• -: