LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 236, 14 February 1880, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

- Orera -BougFE-Company.—;lt. will 'be. seen from our advertising columns of this ■day’s issue: that-Temuka is to, be favoured ■with■ a ; visit, from; the ;above highly re!spect,ablo and brilliant company of some h performeri... Borne of tbe names (po well known amongst us) are a sufficient guarantee that nothing that.wnuP offend tlic nio«t fastidious ’person will be met with on this occasion. So seldom arcive favored wif.lv viMls-by artistes of such high.stand•ing i-n‘this ’district, that ■ we feel sure we have only to make- the announcement to secure for them ,n .bumper-,house. ; S ene Dunedin ano other leafing journals thus speak of. them—-This little troupe .includes iu its number some of the tipsftalent of the age. Mr Tom Browning, a'first-class operatic singer w th a clear bass voice,.is alone worth- .■ hearing'; Mr Crothers, second tenor, has made his ■ mark ; Mr Fisher,, 'needs no recommendation frym us. Mr Wl A, Juncker, is musical director ; biit-the star of the 'evening will doubtless be, as elsewhere, Mdllo - Mena Miirie-lb 1 , dvitii her ahiiost ’ unequalled 'soprano voice. ; WJurevcr she has appeared she has fairly earned the reputation she •now enjoys all over the colony, boil for her singing-and acting bumper hous-p. have met uc-m.any where that (hey have gone, and we. think we can assure them that Temuka will show, by agood attendance, that it can appreciate operatic performances, as well as places of far higher pretentions. The short notice’ - given induces ns to draw attention, to their case,, lest any should miss the opportunity of attending the Volunteer I Jail. Temuka- off Monday, 16th ins}... Doors open at 730 p.m., to commence at 8 p.m. precisely.

Harvest and Crops.—Up to the present, we have .had excellent harvest weather Not withstanding this, blight and rust lias made its appearance in every part of the district; so much is this rim ca i m, that it will materially affect the yield of .good sound wheat.. This is the. more to ho regretted, as this cere 1 ff almost the only gnin that any monev can be raised upon. Good wheat' for home shipment will command an advance of 3s 6d. Some talk has been going on about shipping oats Home, Lit! the high rate of freight so (•( nsiderably affects ilm price as to make it a matter of very great.doubt whether it would be wffe to risk it. On ihe -other band, Australian markets -are well supplied with Home grown to such an extent as .makes-it hopeless to expect anything Uke a paying price by .slapping ■ hither, at least for many months to come. For wheat, the opening price for dab’very at Temuka, or W'nclies'or slntionis not bkely to exceed 3s 6d. BaHey, only (he best samples will Sell at paying pi ices 3s to 3s 3d, is the too price. Oats,-rub long doing. The yield everywhere exceeds that of any former •■■season. - ' Cattle, we hear that,graziers have hist all. their summer’s keep, and something beskies; the want of a market for fat stock i! the. cause of (bis. Sheep, a strange anomaly exists at present, stores.b ing within 6d n-hea t of 'he price of fat stock, this can only'lie accounted for by tiie abundance of feed, and the' belief that exists,' that, by mid-win ter fat stock will he more in demand. It would be well for producers to form a company to take advantage of the discovery of a process by which it is now proved, that' meat can ..be 'slapped Home ia a fresh state. If South Canterbury bad a market for fat stock, no part of New Zealand would beat it. Accident. —We regret to learn that a young - lady, named Miss Austin, daughter of Mr Austin, Orari, who bad gone from home to procure a nurse for her mother, Mrs Austin, -was returning, when her horse shied just as she was within a quarter of. a; mile from her home,, on Thursday, last and threw Miss Austin off, breaking her leg very badly. Dr Gumming, who fortunately was attending Mrs Austin, in her confinement, promptly attended to (lie young sufferer, who, on last accounts, was, doing well. Farm eor Sale.—lt will bo found from onr advertising columns -that Mr Alex! Wilsov, land broker, has in his hands for sale a valuable farm situated- near Invercargill, the owner only soiling because he has’more land than he can look after. The terms are such as will suit small capitalists by allowing them to use the same in stocking the farm, Mormonism. —A service will beheld in the Volunteer Hall on Sunday to explain the principles ot Mormonism. We understand the preacher (George Bntt) has been delivering disconrces in Timaru and other places, where the attendance was large. No collection will be made.

C.Y.C.— As will be seen by advertisement in anoMiercohnmi, Lieut. Slater of the Canterbury Yeomanry Cavalry wi'l attend at Teumka on Monday next, for the purpose of ionni g a contingent of the above company, and all intending members are requested to attend, to ire sworn in. Pigeon Match.—A m :, tch of some importance has been arranged between two gentlemen of Timnru, arm two from Tetnuka, to come oiT on the last Friday in March, tit the WnnhdykC. Not (tood StNoUGK.—A wee laddie was brought heiore one of the (ibasgow bailies, who asKed, “ Where do you learn so much wickedness?’-'—“Co you ken the pump in Uiassford street 1” “No,’' said the miilie. “ Week then, do you ken tiie pump in Brig-gate ?”—“Yes sure,” was the reply. “Weei,-then, ye may gang there and pmnp as'latig as you" like, for, .I’m lianged if ye pump me 1”

Bl« ExCFXLEKCY CifIVEIINOR i-vOB'NSON. r-V,’ e Vi mterstfci id -'that' His Excellency-the (Inverh'ir ■ asscd •fliroitjfli here on- hi* way toEnue. liu, . ,lo,be„ resent at the races, which 1 1 he pine • there oh the 25th and 27th. ‘ r

Eustr Nißksl— A ■‘New. P’ymouthtele■feram states that; ,«w,ihg tp hush tires in th« neighborhood of Alnj.>»• Atkinson’s estate he hasauffered. considerable damage, oyer a mile of fencing having been burnt, besides hedged and etc. It was -fts ired at one time that a large stack Mould have caught fire, but it was most, fortunately saved. Mr Adson, of Egmont village, had the greater part of his grass burned, off on Sunday by bush tires.

Mrs SooTT-SthboNs.—Mrs -Scott - Siddons (says the Sun) contemplates another visit to the cohmics, and hopes to reach Sydney in: June next. She is, at present at the head of a company touring the United States. . According tot the Hobart Town Mercury, letters received there by the last Californian'Snail from her contain mention of her separation from her , husband, ptr whom s]ie has. settled all her new Zealand property, matters having been s itisfm torily. -settled by mutual agreement', i: MissgMary Siddona, • a cousin of Mi's Scott-Siddons, now trav Is with her ; and" ishe js .(igcnted ,by Mr- James M ‘Mahon.

A Free! CouOT'RV.-*—Wli.it many wi’l recognise as “ an over (rue tale ” is told in the following portion'of a letter, lately addressed by a colonist to a friend in Great B itain, quoted by the Ashburton Mail ; ‘‘ Dear William, —Tim-isi one of the freest countries in the whole of Her Majesty's dominions. A man vyhp lias no money and'ip.ss reputation, can do better here than in any other part.of the .world, Nothing is easier than to get credit to almost any extent, and'then, by going through ‘ 15 10 mill,’ the liabilities arc winnowed from the hard cash, the litter being left in the pockets of the bankrupt, while the former are thrown upon the hands of the creditors. When a man in your country becomes a insolvent his ruin is complete. Ho comes put of .the white-washing process penniless—as social and moral bankrupt, probably to die in g workhouse ; but now different.is the case here ! The insolvency 0 nirt of New Zealand is frequently the path which leads to fortune— : the high mad by which many people have passed on to affluence and—respectability.

T'le Post states that the Victorian election will be watched with anxiety, and praises the Marquis, of Normanhy. The Legion of IToNon.—ln addition to the award of the Gold Medal (L’Academic Na(ionale), and also the Silver Medal, awarded to John Bnnsrnead and Sons, of Wigmore-street, London, for the superiority of the piano exhibited by them last year at < lie Paris Exhibition, the founder of the firm has been created Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, this distinction being l conferred on no other British Pianoforte Manufacturer. Beesons visiting Geraldine would do well to call fit J. j iarrop’s cheap sale at the Pash Inn, Geraldine, who, in consequence of his having determined to relinquish the drapery department of his business at Tern nka, wil: hold a -.cheap sale nt Mr Trengrove's Commercial Room, Bash Inn. for 14 days only, at and below cost price ; no easonable offer will be refused ; remember, or 14 days only, at the 'Commercial Room, of the Bush Inn,'Geraldine. —(Advt.)