LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 256, 6 May 1880, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

We, sometime ago, complained of the "state of iho Post Offi<e,.and its surrounding's..' We.ijave now to complain of do light being provided in the soiall space there allotted to the public. When niglit comes on, if anyone who expects correspondence by the evening rn'ml. has to attend for the purpose of receiving letters, lie has to grope away in the dark, unless he is provided with a.supply, of matches. This, females are not. expected to be, at least not in Temuka. j W<=>. ohco was •favored''with a.-« ;ip; now that small boon is withdrawn. ..Is this another instance of the cheese-pariug policy of the present Ministry, or is it a recommendation of some Royal Commission ? , , Ajjkeat deal of excitement prevails at NeMsbn owing to rumors to the effect that the Government lias resolved to let no fresh contracts for railways in the colony. There are large numbersi of unemployed who have bee■• looking forward to ing work on the trunk railway to fee West Coast, and their means being expended, a feeliog of great uneasiness prevails. The following paragraph ieads one tp behove it not improbable that the steamer City of Duno liu's remains may yet be found :—-While at Chalky Island, West Coast, the crew of the cutter Cygnet found thn figure head nud common support* holonging to the Jack Forest, which sailed from Nelson sixteen yen. 8 ago, and had not since been heard of, The following Assessor** for the Wstitiikl District are *» azotted:—Cal'.-b Ezekiel Sherrat, Geraldine Road Board District } John Levels Road Board District-; Robert Irvine, Mount Peel Road Board District; Frederick Carles Shrimpton, Mount Cook Road Board District ; Eiiwin ileiiry Lough, Borough of Timaru; Frank M'jor, *W>ugh of 'Wannate; Andrew Carter and J<mn Bell, the outlying district of Waimate.

Paul, of. Orakei, has left forWaikato to visit TWhaln. Rewi is at HikiaUga with the whole To Mariiopotp. - The youngest'child'of MrJ'amesj a ; brewer at Auckland, was accidentally drowned in a tub of water. The Commission on local industries visited Russell, and inspected tho coal mines. ■ - . A son of Captain Stevens, wlnl- bathing at Mechanic*' Bay, Auckland, had a narrow escape from a shark. A young man named Joynor jumped into the water and attacked it with a knife, finally driving it away. The remains of the late. Mr Neilson, of Phrißtchurc.lv, were buried on Tuesday. The coffin was carried to the grave by six of his friends, and there was a large following. Mr Nelifcw was a relative of Mr .W.E. Gladstone. The Hon Mr Bryce. Nathe Minister, l'ft Wellington on Tuesday for the A.C. camp. He will proceed from thenc- to Cap.ain Goring's camp, and thence on to ■Hnwera, where he will bo met by his private secretary. Mr Bryce will stay u few days in,.Wanganni, an 1 procted to Vt"llington next ''Monday. . Advicbs have been revived nt Dunedin pf the arrival of the John Elder at Ad<*» ori May Ist ; and of tin Lusitana from Plyn-onih, with 312 passengers, on the game dateBowbeli/.s hookinakfr'K shop, ir.d Stanford and Cdi's g-meral store at Lumsdon, liivercaraill, were burned down on Timsday. Stanford was insured in the New Zealand for LSOO, and Ll5O in another. offiC'.'. Fit f. Parker, assistant to Prof. Huxley of tho London University, has been appointed Profc-Kasr of Natural History and Curator of the Museum, in the Oiago University. ThK cyurning season opened on Saturday last, mi I as showing the wonderful prolihcneSN < f the hares in this district, we may mention that on that day a smal, party of sportsmen shot sixteen bunnies on tho Mount Four Peaks Esta'tn, and ori Monday another party made a bag of ninety. THEGoTerTimcnt printing office (says a l.»cal journal) has exported ..Home a valuahle cargo, in,tho shape of 34 tons of waste paper.v>'What a mournful record of abortive legislation' and good intentions does that cargo contain'} i;/ The number of sacks of grain received : at the Tunaru Railway Station on Tuesday L was no less than 1949 A immificeht bequest of two hundred thousand pounds has. just, been made to ilje city of/Glasgow for educational purposes. Mr'Willjam Marshall, a well-known ■merchant in that;city, died recently, leaving the residue" of his pjoperryjfor the erection and endowment of an institution for the education, board, and the training of destitute boys and girls. A sister of the donor had the life-rent of the money, but her death is now announced, so; that will be applied to tho purposa for which it was bequeathed. The Foresters of Dnnedin are going to *erect a monument to the murdered IX-war family. The beach at Whang.rel Heads,: Anck--1 and/is thickly strewn with dea<i snappers The cause of their presence is a puzzle to lot-al savants. '..■■• The caterpillar pest is very bad in districts' south el Auckland. We (Ashburton Mail) hear that.a capital day's sport with the harriers was 'obtained last week at Geraldine. The field numbered about forty-eight, including several ladies. In the morning there was a capital run of about twenty minutes without a check, at top speed, puss being finally pulled down in the open in first rate style. Three of jthe ladies were in at the death. After luncheon, there was another rim but the scent was not so good ; as in the morning, and there was no kill. ■ Mr O, Potjlbaux, who represents, a' : largo number of German and; Australian" papers at the Melbourne Exhibition, intends visiting New Zealand. A site for the . new courthouse at Ashburton was selected on Monday. It is to be built on the cornrr section at the junction of East acd Havelock streets, near the Town HalL ' Ai Wilts Assizes, before Lord Justice Thesiger, Henry "Hannah, pleaded guilty to the murder of Joseph Grynies, at Purtg% near Swindon on Jan 17, 1874. was suspected at the time* but the evidence' being insufficient, he. was discharged. Recently, he gave himself-up and confessed. Ho was sentenced to death. The Government have deciried to open the Post Office Savings' Banks from 630 p.m. to 7'45 p.m. on Saturday. This is done as in experiment to ascertain what benefit working men will derive from such extension. A notification by the Governor of New South Wales cancels the,'reward offered for the capture of the Kelly's, at the of three montha, but continues the pension for th i wives and children of the men killed or injured in attempting the capture of the bushrangers. ' At.a meeting of the D'Urville Copper Company, inf Wellington on Wednesday-, it was resolved to recommence work, and have the mine' thoroughly tested; also that an extraordinary meeting be called for May 17th, to confirm a resolution that i 10,000 LI shares be offered to the existing shareholders at 5s per ■ Bhare. Two thousand Rharea were ■ubacribed in the room. Oke of the features of- the present revival of trade is the enormous schemes of railway construction just put forward both in Europe and iAsia. The French Government have sanctioned lines which must cost L 150,000,000 ; those of the Italian Government, 840,000 millions of francs ; and the Austrian schemes are of equal extent. Yet, great as are the requirements ''f European States, they are but a drop in the bucket in comparison with those of Asia aud America.

The vital statistics for the month of April in the Temuka district wero, births, 14; deaths, 2; marriage^'20 r THEquaterly sitting of the Licensing Court fur the Gera'ldlne "and Mount- Peel District*,/wil'beheld in the Courthouse Geraldino on Tuesday Ist Juno, Mas W. E. Gladstone never once lef* the side of her distinguished husband : al 1 tlirough the Scotcn campaign, and, being near him, she never takes her eyes off him. She wraps him up when he leaves the room, places a chair for him when he enters, is as careful of him, in short, as if he were her only sen a.id still in petti conts. ..'-■• .'■ The affiliation case;of Washington, y Eden occupied all yesterday at tliejß.M: Court; but was heard with closed doors "Adjourned till next Court day ■ ■■-■.. Tab S C Education Board' met. yesterday Present—The Chairman and four members It was resolved to Have an Inspector, at L4OO a yeir.anrl distinct & om ev?-ii other Of the Lli-i granted at» subsidies to public libraries, Temuka receives L:si; CTera'.dine, L 29; Wincnester, LIO ; Waitohi, about L 4 We are glad to find the Board.doing a good thing at last, as, with, a _ good secretary,; the commitees will haye their""cofrespondence. attended to It will r,o doubt tend to iconsolidate the' Board, and stop the general gtlintbing.- We are glad our strictures on the Boards doings have led to this good result "/Other good- may.follow and cause us to complaining, as it is no pleasure to have to complain, and only on public grounds could we be" dragged into, it It is to be hoped the scholarship affair will also come to as satisfactory au,en^, s .;: .;,,