The Temuka Leader TUESDAY, MAY 11, 1880. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 256, 11 May 1880, Page 2

The Temuka Leader TUESDAY, MAY 11, 1880. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Horsewhipping contests ars somewhat rare in Dunedin, so that a mild sensation was caused in Watson’s Cafe this morning, when an indiuidusl known ,as “W. F. Hewlett 8.A.” was soundly threshed with a light walking-stick by Herbert better known as “ Cosmos,” author of a’pamphlet : :against the totalisator. A Court case will ’prohahty result. - ; ‘ ,J'

A traveller at a Southern hotel. got out of his bed one night to see what sort of weather it was, but instead of looking out upon the sky, thrust his head through the glass window of « cupboard. “ Landlord, shouted the guest, “what sort of weather do you call this, the . night is as dark as Egypt, and smells of cheese T’ •• ‘ ’ ,

Dr McCosh,in his book on the emotions treats them as separate from feelings; For instance, a man feeling aroun d for a match in the dark, stubs his unprotected dexter toe on the ragged edge of a cylin£ol^ stove—that's feeling ; he swears—that is eihotioo, BoHB-wheat stacks on the farm of Mr H. Matthews, near Pleasant Point,. were burned to the ground last Friday. ; The owner was away from home at the time, and had beer, away two days. The stacks were insured for L3OO in the New Zealand Office.

A man named Jns Mil’er was arrested at •amnru on Thursday,on a charge of larceny as a bailee. The property stolen was stated to be a horse belonging to James Ruddick, of Teniuka. The accused will appear at the R.M Court to-morrow week.

.The. Auckland Shipwright’s Association has adopted rules, and appointed; an Executive Committee to protect tha iateies s of the shipping trade, and to qbmmimicate with the Government respecting their grievances. One grievance is the payment of overtime after Customs hours, for work dope on ships from outside the colony.

The Government have■; received a telegram from Mr Parris, stating that * Ma pi boy had informed him that Te Wniti had given positive orders that. there must he no Interference -with' the Constabulary or road-making parties on -the part of the na tives, who were ordered to let the roadmaking proceed without obstruction. .

At the usual sitting of the Waste Lands Board, held at Christchurch on Thursday,. May 6th, sales were made, as foil- ws Ashley,' 28 acres ; Ashburton, 4 acres,; Goraldi-e, 85 acres ; Wnirnatr, IC .ncret 2. roods ; total, 133 acres 2 rb klb, producing L 267.

VkT another scourge has visited Holy Russia. A letter from St. Petersburg to ike Temps says .thst the news received from the interior of ti e Russian Empire is heartrending. Famine and diphtheria are decimating the population. The pro vinces of Saratof and Keif, which annually export e ormous quantities of grain scan ely had any crop at all last year. The calamity is aggravated by the want of fodder for the cattle, the peasants being forced- to sell them ni any prico.

A trick played bn a Victorian, recounted by l ’ AEgies.” Tuns'; surely have been,on the Ist of April The pride of. Cprnpeg, the district, surveyor, was chiefly centred in his new buggy, which he had brought from Sydney, and which, to the astonishment of the bush stations, was nightly-enveloped in a white covering sheet. These bushmen, however, exchanged the wheels upon the fore and hind axles, bo'ting to the latter th» front gear pole. When Cornpeg was about to make a start In the morning, he stood pale and horrified ; anddt'waa not until he had dismissed his groom and roco»erad his calmness, that he discovered the trick.”

Them will be po sitting of theRM. Court to-morrow, the same having been adjourned till Wednesday week.

It will be seen by; an advertisement in another column that the unsold portions of the Old Rail way Reserves will be open for sale on and after June 1, at auction upset price.

The football season opened at Tiraam on Saturday by a scratch match in Captain Cain’s paddock ; about 30 players being present. We hope the Temuka footballers will soon bestir themselves.

The London Dally Telegraph gives currency to a rumor apropos of racing prospects, that Sir Hercules Robinson is in treaty with Matthew Dawson for a boy who may dou the Gubernatorial colors at Christchurch, and make the New Zealand psople familiar with a sight of those Zetland spots, which wore wont to nrouse the enthusiasm of Northcountrymen when borne to victory at Empson and DoncasWr by Yoltigenr, and nt Newmsrket by Vedette.

Sb husks at Waikato are iac-'iise . at the slaughter of cat tie suspected of pleuro pneumonia, h.ut which, on examination, i several ca es have proved to be Bound and healthy.

The following is the result of the Ran gitikci electiontt-Fjix 232, Fraser 133, nhd Lyon 69. r

The road works on-the Wauhnte Pl«i’i* are advancing slowly at present, as each camp has to contend with a Lid swamp iri a Ivance of them.; /

Ate advertiser in a S mthern contemporary requests ‘* all whom it may concern to pay their accounts within the current mouth. There would be nothing in this, were it not for a novel parenthetical remark, The advertisement runs:—All parties indebted to the firm (and tharo ars a great many) are respectfully requested to pay, etc.

Another portion of the branch line tramway to Manchester street, Christchurch, was openod ; pn Friday. t ,

The Wanganui Chronicle has been going for Mr B illancb : Mr B doesn’t appreciate the W. C’s opinion of himself, so he returns-the compliment, and speaks.as follows re the literary scavenger, employed by the Chronicle ‘.—How any man claiming to be considered sane, and to some extent accountable for his actions, can write such trash as appears in the. Chronicle s leading articles without perceiving the outrageous vanity manifest in such assertions, it is not easy to understand.

Lately such a hiiip swarm of barracoota, kawhi, and other fish was’in-the Wellington harbor, that .they could be kill'd from boats with’ the oar.

Latest new s from Russia states that the Czar sle -pn on a feather bod, and one night he gmliped into it ho hard that the ticking hurst and the air was filled with feathers, and when he drew in his breath to yell»he found.out. how.eider-down tastes and the more he struggled the more feather* flew, and wlitn aroused by his cries the servants came in with lights, an I after gropi g about in the cloud found the old man and hauled him out, it took four hours to convince him that it wasn’t the mos* horrible attempt yet made on his life,-and twenty servants have been at work for the last six weeks picking up the fathers.

A sad misfortune lately betel a wellknown Q.C. It is related of him that, as he was riding in a railway carriage, from a single glance at,a lady by his side he imagined that he knew her, and ;remarked that the day was pleasant. She.'only answered, Yes. Why do you woair a vei ? Lest I should attract gentlemen. It i; the province of gentlemen to admire, re plied the gallant man of law Not when thsy are married, said the lady. Bit I am not 1 Indeed ] Oh, no llam a bachelor. The lady gnietly removed her v il, disolosing.to th* astonished counsel the face, of his .mother-in-law.

A Wellington correspondent, signin' himself V Zuid Afrikann,’’ Lis been writing to the Cipe Times, warning anyone thinking of leaving the Cape for Now Zealand not to do so.

A Wellington billiard marker named Philips, has invented a marker, whereby cheating in the game of pool cannot take place'. The contrivance is as ingenious as simple, and will be appreciated by lovers of fair play. ; We hear that another English Opera Company will visit this Colony in September next. The Company will be under the directorship of Madame Simonson, who wifl'ihtroduco to our notice three of her daughters. >' Remarks a writer—A gentle hand can lead an elephant by a hair. Now what foolishness that is to put into the heads of children. Why, blels you, elephants don’t have hair ; they have just hides, that’s all. Perhaps a gentje hand might lead him by the tail, but mind yon we have our doubt g even of that.

A remarkable disc*very was made; by Mr Boon on hia section, Manse road, Blenheim, cn Friday last. Whilst digging a post hole the spade struck upon something hard, which, on closer examination, proved to be a skull Sinking the hole deeper Mr Boon brought to light the complete skeleton of a man. The hones have the appearance having long lain in the ground, and as a small greenstone adze was found beside them, they are most probably those of a native; This supposition is borne out by the fact that traces of a Maori cooking place were found on the same section si me time ago.

Minisxeb to small boy who has been using., profane language : lAre you not *ware„mylittle boy, tliat Satan hears all these bad words 1 He is everywhere and hears everything. Small boy, wonderfully: i j he in every place ? Minister ; Ten, in every place. Small boy t Is he in of r house 7 Minister Yes. Small boy: In t'io kitchen? Minister: Yes, in the k tohen. Small boy : And in the room? Minister : \tes, even in the room. Sine 1 boy : And in the coal-cellar? Minister : Yes, my boy, he is even there, too. Small boy’ running away laughing : Oh, a lee I We’ve nae coal-ceftar “Anglo—Australian” in*the European Mail says that a Mr Harry Clinch Stanley has been trying to swindle a lot of people by getting them to take s lares in a hank which he cabled the Bank of

London a,iid South Australia, of which he wn promoter, secretin y and dire tor His chief victims seem to have been ladies. . Mrs. Jali i • Bennett signed the “articles of association” -for 500 ,shares, the win of which she becam 'liable b ing f r L2oot). A friend of hers was induced to for 495 shar-w, Stanley, tdling her it was u mere matter of form. A number of others were sw ndled in a similar way, and a warrant is out for his apprehension.

One morning recently (says the Home News) an Irish M. P. received a letter dated from a rembth corner of his constituency and du'v signed, announcin ' that a meetin.; had been held with in ent to encourage him in Ins patriotic obstructi n of the fcsaxpnjand that a deputation had been appointed to w iit upon him with the resolutionSi ; Where and when might they Ire received? The M.P., promptly taking up his pen, made an appointment for an early day, and, renewing Ins injunction about the baPiff, gave orders that the deputation was to b« admitted . With the hour catne they brimful of loyalty. The M.P. received them in a private room, and holding o’it Ins hand to receive from the spokesman the resolutions agree 1 upon at the meeting of his constituents, ha 1 placid in his hand a writ.. The meeting, the deputa lon, the green ribbons, and tie copy of the resolutions were all a dev’ce of an astute firm oi Dublin Solicitors,.,