LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 251, 4 May 1880, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The coursing season opened on Ist May. ®amaru is tiie tirat to open the ball wit 1 ' a Puppy S ake an I AU-Ag.-d Stalo- "n t!>e sth inst. Mr TV Kitt left the Ternuka kenn-Ts for Oamaru on Saturday last with nine dogs, all going for the above stages. Mr B. Thomson sent off his lot (6) yeai ul..y, in charge of Mr il. Smith, h;s trai The dogs ’-ere as fol lows :—Shamn ck. Lockwood, Taiigi, and Te Whlti, entered lor the Puppy Stake; and Of hollo and RichmondAged Stake. We must compliment the trainer upon the first-class condition his dogs are in. Shamrock by Balmoral— Chance, took our sj eo.al a mention. This dog is only eighteen months old, and looked a perfect picture. Should the T re. bo strong and he gets over his first course we should not bo surprised to see tho Puppy Stake of the North Otago Coursing Club come to Temaka. The meetifi" held list week at Messrs Maclean and Stewart s building, to consider Mr Bruce’* proposal re forming his business into a company, was well at--temded, and a decision come to to form a company. -aniu iiber of gentlemen throughout the district were nominated"to act as Provisional Directors, who meet this we“k for the purpose of ennso'idating the business. A misapprehension lias arisen as to a sum of LSOOO represented by 1000 shares as a bonus to Mr Bruce for tiO good* i'l. We are in a position to state th.-.t Mr Bruce receives no such sum or equivalent. The 1000 shares arc merely to cover preliminary expenses, and Mr Bruce, who would of course be ■chosen as a tit person to.manage the busl- . ness, would only receive a fixed salary. Dunedin, .with its companies, has done much to keep the trade of the place, and give employment to the working classes. It has been a means of keeping Dunedin up when other towns are going back. We are aware this company would chiefly benefit Timarn. If it was anything that we could lay claim to, of course we would have a fight for it, but it is not so. It vre expect to have any manufactories in o"” midst, we must move in the matter. If T maru moves first in the mutter, wo can on y wish them all success. We have no grudge against their prosperity, no long as it is not brought about by decoying or unfair means, Akt important meeting of the Board of Education will take place at Timaru tomorrow morning. Bishop Sblwyn attracted largo congregations, morning and evening, in Timaru on Sunday last. He proceeded North yesterday morning. Thursday next being Ascension Da”, special services will be held in the Rom# i Catholic Church. On the same day that the attempt wad made to blow up the Winter Palace at St. Petersburg, there appeared in Holland the first livraisnn of a work which rofesses to be aii impartial inquiry into the causes and working of Russian Nihilism. In about fifty pages the author reviews the woil-knowD volume of Nicolai Karlowitach. According to Karlowitsch, himself a staunch Imperialist, the Nihilists,, most of them of the upper classes, have but ouo programme—ubiwaite, strHjnite, hm-ti.d-—murder, shoot them down, rebel. An English paper says; —“The carcases of 10,000 sheep brought by ilioParu* guay from South America have arrived ~t Havre in first rate condition, and quite fit for human consumption. Two forwarded to London weighed 581bs. and 421bs. 'eacTr,'ana~were~s weet and good, dressed ready for cooking, and if hung up in an open thoroughfare no ordinary passer by would have suspected that they had been sent 7000 miles after being killed.’ 5 A fire broke out at Christchurch, on Friday evening, in a gas-fitter’a shop in High street It started in an upper storey but the brigades were very smart and with tho aid of a hand-eugiuo put out tho flames before they did much damage. The building was a very old one in the centre of a block of old buildings, and was insured for L2OO in the National. Tne principal damage was caused by break* ages and removals from the shop next door. The births during April in Christchurch and district were 187, marriages 45, deaths 60. The figures foi the same month last year were 191, 36, and 27, respectively. We clip the following from the Wanganui Chronicle ; “The Rev. Fathe Larkin, wuose career in Now Zealand ha not been altogether untroubled, but whos conscientious efforts on behalf of hi Church and co-religionists none will deny, is about to leave this Colony for San Francisco. lie has just had two addresses presented to' him : one by the Catholics of Wellington, and the other, bv the Hibernian Soeieiy. The first v. as accompanied by a purse of sovereigns. Father Lajkin, in returning thanks, s'nted he ; was leaving New Zeal i.vd for tjver.” 1 .. • - ■ ,; ■

The winner ,pf tie Two Thousand Guirea Stakes at Newjnarket, is Musket, who belongs to the Aickiaud Stud plyA serious accident iccurred at Palmerston off Saturday. A nan was riding on the railway Hub, whip the engine overtook bin., instantly klling tho horse, and seriously injuring themun. Ho is not expected to recover. i A fxee occurred oi Saturday at Port Chalmers, in the premises of Mr Dench, The building was totdly destroyed. The work of replying the temporal y work on the Timaru breakwater with a solid work capped ly a moduli;h, was comm-need on S.atmlny, about, twenty feet being put in trin. Operations have been considerably deayed of late, owing to tiie email and rregular supply of cement coming torwad. What the real cause of this is we ai? not in a posbion to • stato, but \\d certrinjk think tho flarbcu 1 * Board should lake immediate steps to. remedy the evil, s<» that th" necessary aiock should always L, on hand in future. If tho present u ■•■ trailing firm for supply of cement cannot Gary out the terms of their agreement, tho. Board should obtain it elsewhere and cli -.go thorn accordingly. Certainly tho prosecution of the works should not be stoppe.l for an hour, A beautiful stone tomahawk has been found near Geo Ir tho road-making party. Mr J. Findlay, ofthe North Taieri, has threshed out a smill paddock of oats, which yielded at the rate of 290 bushels to the acre, and anotbei twenty acre paddock of Tuscan wheat yielied G 8 busho.s to the acre. Yet another instaico of the advancing civilisation of tho Maori I From tho Mana.vatu Herald w< learn that H.ikaraia to Wbcnua (B>‘vun) las filed his schedule. He e-timates his debs at LSOO, quid his J,fi fti .A-L. iHnlraraia r J,qip been_ working ns a contractor for tho. County Council on the Otaki-Fuxton road. Sir H. Havelock Ims been left half a million by his father’s cousin, on condition of changing h ; s name-to Allen. Sir Henry, havi g accepted I lie bequest, is nb'ainiug a royal license to assume tho name of Havelock-Allm. Sir Henry Havelock served for sometime in New Zealand under General Sir Duncan Cameron, who commanded the Imperiid and Colonial forces in one of the Maori wars. “ Two of a trade can never agree ” is an old saying, and is being amp ! y verified just now. The lawyers in Nelson appear to be animated by the worst of feelings towards each other, and now we find that the medical profession of Hokitika have started to wash their dirty linen in public A controversy started there in regard to diphtheria, and it has rapidly grown diplomatically dirty. A serious fracas occurred at Charleston on April 23. The Manager of the Government water race and a road contractor iu-e.li in » louely Sj'o.t, ■yvb<->’“ fought savagely. An information has be n n laid, and will bo heard before the Resident Magistrate. The matter causes comment. A tdegram lias been received at Christchurch from Sir George Grey saying ho will (if wall enough) start from Auckland for Christchurch this week. We urge upon the Liberals in Timaru to try and gel this veteran statesman to giv<* an address as he passes through to luvoicargill. The additional duty imposed on tobacco in Germany lias had the not unexpected effect of greatly stimulating the smuggling of foreign tobacco. This contraband traffic is described as having assumed most extrusive proportions across the frontirrs of Holland. It ah open secret that gangs of ten or twenty men are regularly engaged in taking large quantities over the borders and it is asserted that the manufactories in Nymwegen are unable to keep pace witli the! demand which- has sprang up from this cause. The Customhouse guards on the frontiers do their utmost to prevent tho traffic, but .they.’are far too few in number compared with the extent ot frontier, to produce much effect, nnd the smugglers manage constantly to escape detection. Subscriptions are being raised for Taylor, the jockey, who had his leg broken in the Auckland Handicap. At Timaru there has been quite a rush for passages for C'pe Town. About a dozen able-bodied men pissed through Temuka eu route for that place yesterday morning. Sir O-'iafiea Qavan Duffy is on a visit to Paris, where he intends to make a short stay. News from -New Caledonia to Aj.ril 17th. state that the effects of the recent hurricane; are gradually disappearing. The Government have refused to vote compensation to the settlers who suffered by the recent revolt. Suicides and murders are numerous. A body was found in the harbor with one leg and one arm cut off. Two men and a woman have been arrested. The object of the murder is said to be that ithe, man had seventy francs. Shant’s copper mine is mow cleared, and work is resumed. The grasshopper pest is causing great loss. An old woman of tho name of Gordon in tho north of Scotian 1, was listening to the account given in Scripture of Solomon’s glory, which was read to her of by little grandchild. When the girl came to tell of the thousands camels which formed part of the Jevish sovereign’s live stock, * Eh, lassie,’ cried the old wo mm, ‘ a thousand Camobolls, say ye 1 The Campbells are an auid clan, sure enough ; but look if ye dinra see the Gordons too 1’ Those men who destroy a healthful constitution of body by intemperance, and an irregular life, do as manifestly kill themselves, as thosi) who hang, dr poison, or drown themselves. Sir Henrj Bulwer, Lieutenant Governor n r Natal, succeeds Major Strachau at the Windward Island, There is a split in tne camp of Home Rulers, the followers of Mr Parnell being dissatisfied with tho moderations of small section of the party. The “Irish Nation ” newspaper identifies itself with the extreme partyi and in consequence of a violent article in a recent issue, the proprietor, Mr Arthur M. Sullivan, has been served with a writ for libel by Mr Plilip Callan, memierfrrDnndalk.Ja well-known Home Ruler.l

Tinwald School Committee, The monthly meeting of this committee was held ou Tuesday last. The master’s repoit showed the average attendance for the past month to have been sixty-five. The chairman was authorised J.o procure the necessary fuel for the winter, an 1 the sec. was inshucted to write to the Board of Education for a grant for special repairs ; also for some copies of the Education Act 1877, for the use of the committee, The meeting then adjourned, A Paris despatch says the Communist at Geneva, who were condemned in default in 1871, are about to meet to consider the propriety of inrrendoring themselves to stand trial in Paris.