LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 245, 20 March 1880, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

{'on-isiNO —A meeting of 1 lie S.C. Coursing wa> held at t!ic Royal Hotel on Timr.'(i;iy evening la-i. .Present —Messra Thompson (Cbaii uiaiq, I tardea.-! le, Dr Haves, Wilha inson, Wilson, ami the Secretary. Correspondence f-oiu the .Secretary of the Canterbury I Van ring Club was read in reference tu the Southland Club having fixed same date as the 5.0.0. Club, viz., the 2(U h M ay, and asking that they would alter same. The Secretary was instructed to reply, stating that >is they had fixed the 2b*(h May, some three months ago, they could not see their wav clear to altering if, unless the expenses of doing so was guaranteed. Two new members were elected, and the account for stationer,’, etc., 10s 3d, was passed for payment. Mr George Holton tendered his resignation as Secretary to (be ('bib. ilo stated that be found bis did ies required his full time, and therefore he could not do the club that justice which it. required. The Committee, in accepting Ids resignation, carried a hearty vole of I hanks to .Mr Holton for the eflicient manner he had always attended to the interests of the elnb, and regraded bis inability to continue as Secretary. At the proposal ion of i)r llav-'s, seconded by Mr llardeastle, Mr A. 1). Wilson was unanimously elected Seere(ary, in the place of -Mr Uollon resigned. The next incetmg of I ho chib was fixed for Wednesday, 7th April, at the Orosronor Hotel, at S p.tn. Inquest.— An inquest was hold by F. Guinness, Esq., on Wednesday last, at the South Baagitata, o« tlm body of Peter McGainnes, who tih-d v-ry suddenly on Monday. Mr A.. Hope was chosen foreman of the jury, it appeared from the evidence (hat deceased had fallen off a dray. On I cing picked up and carried into his house by a man that was with him, deceased only moaned once or twice, and then expired. He had been ailing for sometime previous, hid did not get medical attendance. Dr Hayes, who made a post mortem examination, deposed that ho was of opinion that bisde db was caused from rupture of the heart, the result of a long standing fatty degeneration of.its tissue. The jury retained a verdict to that effect. (I appears that (he deceased was an old settler, and leaves property to the value of L2OOO and has no relatives in the colony. Ho was a single man, was about 45 years old, a native of County Cavan, Ireland, and came to the colonies about 15 years ago. Obituary. —The ’Frisco mall brings intelligence of the death of Mrs Shearman, the beloved mother of Mr R. W. Shearman of the Somerset Hotel, Ashburton. The deceased lady died at her residence, Scouler street, Polar, London, at the ripe ago of 72. Embezzlement. —On Tuesday, Edward Barringer, agent for the Bank of New Zealand at Kaikoura, was arrested at that place on the charge of embezzling L3O, the property of the bank. The Dunedin Murders. —On Wednesday an inquest was opened on the bodies of the murdered Dewar family, and the evidence of relatives taken for identification of the bodies, and respecting the mode of life of deceased. The witnesses testified that Mr and Mrs Dewar lived very happily together.. The inquest was resumed on Thursday, and several witnesses examined, but nothing was elicited to connect the man Butler with the murder. Journalistic. —A new evening paper, to be called the Echo, price one halfpenny, will be issued at Christchurch today. The proprietor is understood U bo Mr Caygbill, who was formerly publisher of the Evening Mail, printed some years ago. Embezzlement. —At the R.M. Court, Timarn, on Wednesday, the man Read was remanded to Warrnambool on a charge of embezzling Ll5O, the monies of the Permanent Building and Investment Society there. So soon as the warrant for his extradition is signed by the Governor, ho will be forwarded to that place in custody of Constable Cornan, who arrived in Timaru from Victoria on Wednesday morning. A Decency Bill. —A bill compelling natives to wear clothes, on tbo main roads of the colony, has been passed through committee in the Natal Parliament. A Failure,- —An inebriate retreat established in Adelaide a year or two ago has not been an unmixed success. The receipts last ye ur were LBOO less than the expenditure, and although a certain number of drunkards had been kept sober for a limited period,the return under the head of decided cures is very meagre. Tramway cars are now rimming regularly at Christchurch, after sevorpA dnin-gg.

A Number of Socialists were holding a meeting lately at Warsaw when the police entered the house in which they were t s ecmbled, and arrested sixteen of the number, Preaching the Gospel in Japan does 'not seem to be a paying game. A Presbyterian Church was recently opened at Thihohu, and a graduate, who could command 50 or 100 dots per month in the service of the Government, has become the pastor at the pitifully small salary of four dollars a-month. Late telegrams state that diamonds to the value of L 50,000 have been stolen from the Capo mail bags. A Valuable Situation. —An institution in London lately advertised for a secretary, at a salary of L3OO per annum, and among the applicants were two members of Parliament, 15 clergymen, and 73 retired military and naval officers, besides a largo number of ordinary persons, the applicants amounting altogether to over 300. A Bio Diamond. The story conic ß from Parteall, India, where diamonds are usually found—Golconda being the place where they are merely cut and polished (bat the largest diamond in the world has lately been discovered th ore. It is said to weigh more than 400 carats, 33 carats more than the famous stone belonging to the Rajah of Mat tan. Coursing. -Lovers of coursing are likely to nave plenty of their favorite sport during the forthcoming season. The Gamut u Mail says : Hares are very plentiful, us is fully evidenced by the fact that large numbers of them have fallen victims to the reapers and binders in various localities. A large number have been killed in this manner in one paddock of the Aw. •> uuta Estate, while hares have been seen in abundance in many of their favorite iocnlit ief.. "Death from Lockjaw.—At Napier Mary Stafford a little giH six years of ago died last we- k from lockjaw, caus'-d by a cut in lb® hand, Uu; result of a fall. The wound was but slight, and no serious eonsoquoi.cos were at the time of the accident anticipated. Elobismenx.—A public,<n is reported to have disappeared from Dunedin, taking with him a lady friend, and L9OU belonging to his creditors. Owing, however, to the accident to the steamer To Anau, lie is not likely to see Melbourne for some time, as a constable is after him with a warrant for liis arrest. A M-cmcer of a suburban Council at Dimedin is to bo called to account for a peculiar reason of disqualify aii m. It is alleged that, having assigned tin* whole of Iris property to his wife—a comm.; winch always suggests doubts —ho has now no qualification as a ratepayer. He will make a fight for it. T R Y —A special parade of this Company took place last night, Capt Young commanding There was a good muster, and the icon were put through skirmish, battalion, and other drill, after which a meeting was held, when it was decided to hold a church parade at the Church of England, lemuka, tomorrow morning (Sunday) The company was dismissed at 10 : 30 There were last year 207,188 dealers in tobacco in Groat Britain. The number of d-sectors from the Army in 1879 was 5810. In 1878 it was 8309. The public r venues of England, apart from local taxation, bear up-m ihe people at the late of over l is per head ; the actual taxation of India b-mrs upon the Indian people at a rate of under 4s pel’ bead. The comm mil of the licet in the Mediterranean will be conferred upon Sir Beauchamp Seymour, whose services in every part of the world are well known, and who still experiences the unpleasant effects of a wound received in action in New Zealand. The Local Industries Oommissisun,having Wellington as its place of mooting, has adjourned for a month in order to allow certain information to be received from all the various Chamber of Commerce throughout the Australian colonies. A Woman named Faith Gibson, alias Faith Minnie, was sentenced to a month’s imprisonment at the Christchurch Court on Wednesday, on two charges of shop-lift-ing. The woman had no excuse to offer, ami her lawyer threw up the defence before the case had gone far. Trout are being destroyed in some of the southern rivers by netting. The homeward mail via ’Frisco was delivered in London on March 15. The homeward ship William Denny reached London from Timaru on the 15th of March. The King of Slam is about to visit all the European capitals. The fastest homeward voyage has been made by Ihe Albion Company’s ship Timaru, which made the passage from Otago to London in G 8 days. This is the quickest time on record. Geo. Wells, who shot a man while sticking up a Queensland bank, baa had bis death sentence respited, legal points having been raised by his counsel, which require delay for consideration. For soiling drink at a walking ma'ch In the Arcade at Wellington, Mr Wukoford, of the Dank Hotel, was fined L 3, the place not being licensed. It is usual in such cases to apply for a license, but ho didn’t ask for one, so Boniface bad fo pay for bis presumption. Praise. — Che Hon John Sheehan, exNativo Minister, at a banquet in Auckland on Tuesday, paid a high compliment to the honesty and ability of the Hon Mr Bryce as a politician, and expressed his belief that Mr Bryce was fully able to cope with the Waimalo difficulty.