LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 251, 24 April 1880, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A TJiAOiOAL affair occurred at Little ' River, nearChrisiohureh, on Tuesday. At B(i< h.-<nai)V. house, a married woman with !■ child live years '■]•!, a?,d another servant named Annotta Maccioni. weft! in ono of the bedrooms together, when thu latter took up .i loaded rev-Ivor haying on tho table, and {.resented it at llv child, saying " I will shoot you." Thereupon the weapon exploded, tho Irdl going through the child's head. After lingering till 7 p.m. it tlied. Two more Veterinary Surgeon Inspectors havo b'-en appointed' at Waikato, wln-rc plcuro-pn'Mnnonia is spreading. At the Lst meeting of the South Auckland Cattle Board, veterinary surgeon Raven reported that tho disease was raging in tho C-'mb.id<;e district. Ono speaker alleged that tho alfccted cattle belonged to the Piako Swamp Company, and that the cattle of thi; Piako estate are in groat numbers in tho bush, A rigid scrutiny of tho Company's cattlo will bo made. Stephen Goad, a lunatic who os-aped from tho Wellington Asylum <d>out three months ago, has been apprehended _at Plymouth. O'ving to the doctors being imaMo to come to a decision respecting his case, ho was remanded for a few days for further examination. At a meeting of the Invercargill Acclimatisation Society, it was resolved to increase the bonus for killing shags from threepence to a shilling ; to petition Pnliamcnt for a general license in the colony; to impose a gun tax of ten (millings ; also, on account of the rabbit pest, to recommend and encourage the introduction of wasels, foxes, and stoa'S Tho last resolution is to bo fully ventilated by the committee before given effect to, Robert Robson Whiteler, ono of tho earliest and most respected settlers of tho Clutha, <lied on Thursday last, aged 73 years. Mr W. E. Saddler, of Auckland, lately determined to hurl tho whole weighty of his eloquence against some alh-ired injustice in the matter of the railway station in that city. This is bow he did it 1 Under tho heading "Reclamation Quite Necessary," Mr Saddler thus holds forth : —'' Sir, —I am quite sure every intelligent man in Auckland will endorse your every word of the leading artielo tonight about the stupid minority of solfism which has been hovering all round tho queer business of the railway terminus, | Auckland township, opposite lack CopI land'3 hotel. Ignorant selfism certainly consummate. And you observe,the whole thing was before thoroughly gone into ; and, now, curtailment here, for more and inoro extraordinary southern expenditure southern expenditure will not do." Mr Oliver does not know Auckland. The Lyttelton Times asserts that tho cashier and his department on tho railway have been quietly ordered to move to Dunedin on April 30th, despite the promise of the Minister of Public Works that no further romovd* should take plac«. A terrible hurricane has taken plr.. e in Wosiern America. A town has been demolished and 100 persons killed. The monthly meeting of the Road Board was hold on Tuesday last, there boing" present tho Chairman and three members. The minutes of last meeting being read and considered, tho following tei.ders wery accepted :—Weir, etc., at Woodbury crossing, J'.'S. Darby, L 200; near Kennedy's Forge,D. McCarthy, LBS ; Matthew's Cutting, W. Kennedy, 14G ; Raukapuka Road, A. Reid, L2lB ; horsefoed, Mr Mondelson ; Maslin street, T O'Coanor, L 26 ; Rangitata road, lower contract, F. Malloy, L 420 Is 8d ; Ragitata road, middle section, Pyeand Broker, L3lB 2s ; Rangitata road, upper section, Hugh Shanks, Lll3 10s. Correspondence of little importance was then read, after which the meeting closed. An extraordinary jump wss made by Ewrsley while on board the Arawataen route to Auckland. The Wanganui \ Chronicle says—On tho starboard side of the lore-hatch two race horses had been placed in ' boxes on deck. These are respectively Hilarous, a well known two-year old, and Evers;ey, an equally well-known steeplechaser. During the afternoon, tho hatch covering- was taken .iff' for the purpose of allowing good* to h* stowed. While thi* was goimr on »e-nothing- appears to have startled tho steeplechaser, who suddenly made a desperate spring right out of his box, and to tho eonxt'-rnation of the spectators he went luud'ong down the hatchway, but without infury. Tho Rev. Mr Byng- gave his lectura on " Matrimony " last week in Dunedin, which was full of practical and sensible advice, of a kind very difFceeut <.o tlmt of Punch to persons contemplating tho happy wtate. Whon to marry, whom to m»rry, and whom not to marry wore interesting portions of tho subject, ;ind a recit d of tho advantages of single MesHednosa, compared with those of tho opposite condition was given, much in favor of tho latter, as may ho imagined when it is told that the lecturer <-ook his hearers so far into his confidence us to inform them that he knew there were model women, since he hud sampied th«in and \va-< satisfied. It ffoes without sayinjr that the lecture was a nusing, boeauso Mr Byng, even in the pulpit, is racy. The Melbourne Argus say3 —At the period of tho dissolution of tho last Parliament there were in tho House of Commons 291 Conservatives representing English oonstitumombevs belonged to the same party ; in| ;dl 342. On the Liberal side 190 represented constituencies'in England and 71 in Ireland, the latter including 60 Home Eiders and ten followers of Mr Parnell. Thoro Tvero 41 Liberal Scotch members, giving a total of 302 Liberals. For the new Pacliainent there were 1 120 seats uncontested, while.for tho oemain--1 ing seats there were 476 Liberal candidates 1 463 Conservatives, and 75 Home Rulers, in--1 eluding 20 direct followers of Mr Pnracli. , It wilL bo seen by advt elsewhere that the Rev Mr Tudor, from Wanganui, will preach ! at St Saviour's Church, Temuka, morning and _ at usual hours

A CASE was ucai'ii iii dio-JJisirict Come, on Thursday, i ■> which a mim who bought Home Kalifat wheat, sued to rucover damages for loss of the crop. The wheat, which ia a Russian variety, was proved bad. It had been sold to him as spring wheat, whereas it was a winter cereal. He *owed in September, an 1 lost his crop, and was awarded the value fherco/. Ho also sued for the value of the grass sown at tho panic time, but it was held that an soon as ho aavv the wheat was going to be a failure, he ought to have taken measures to fiecwre the grass. The now training college for junior teachers, in V/ellesicy street, Auckland is cou:p!eted. Its cost is L2S9O, and it is now ready for-occupation. In addition if j will afford school accommodation for 400 children. The polling for tho election of a member to the vacant seat on tho Temuka Road Boar.! will betaken on Tuesday next between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m., ftt tha following polling places : —Road Board Office, Tomuka ; Button's Woolshnd, Rangitata Island ; Reading-room, Winchester ; and tho Schoolroom, Waitchi. The result will be declared at 10 a.m. next day at the lioad Board Offioa, Temuka. Three thousand four hundred a id fiftyfive sacks of grain wore received »• 'he Timaru Railway Station on Friday. It is notified in another column that By-Law No. 1, 1880, of tho Council of the County of Geraldini', relating to the licensing and management of slaughter-houses within that County, will eomo into force on Wednesday, the 28th April next.