LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 256, 13 May 1880, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Wanganui Herald emphatically asserts that Sir George Grey was privy te the defection of the four Auckland iu«mb*r> before the fact was publicly known. The Herald adds :—“ As the information, however, came from Mr Swanson, the Ministerial side must haue known it before we thought of mentioning it as a rumor.” On the last .trip of the Te,Auau a saloon passenger on leaving the vessel at Auckland forgot to take with him the sum of LlOl he had placed under his pillow before going to h«d. At the Bay of Islands 'tie money wt.a found wtiere hie owner had left it, tuougli the bed had been occupied on the way to Russell. Amo>osi the converts who accompanied Elder Pearce, the Mormon, to Salt Lake City was a Mrs Jackson and her three children, from Christchurch. Mrs Jackson ia a buxom widow, whose husband died some time ago. and left her a little property, which was sold to defray her passage to the City of the Saints. It is said that sho is to be Mrs Pearce No. 6. A meeting of the Provisional Directors of this Company was held on Tuesday evening, in Messrs Maclean and Stewart’s offices. Tiie revised prospectus and valuations wore road over and fully discussed Mr Bruce, in the couiseof the discussion, guaranteeing 10 per ceut upuu the paidup capit: lof the Company. On ths motion of Mr Stumbles, it was resolved that the Same be accepted as rent The shares will shortly be available for al!otiue..t, and as a large number have "Iready been applied tor, those who have any thought of investing in the Company, shoo'd h a-j no time in making application for the number tney require. The prospectus, which contains every information as to bite objects cf the Company, and the capabilities of the mills, will bo published in a day or two.

V" • A visit to the O:ford N'lrs r w-ml ■ repay any one who talon an i-itcrest in trees and plants. The nursery is mo<t ■ conVeni-iitly situated near the main tine of road parsing through Temuka, The proprietor. Mr W-ieelband; bin spared neither laboj nor expense in order to secure the custo-n of those who are taking ii[ house ■•roperty. The n - at little- garde is always <t valuable adjunct to the domestic circle Indeed, no home is com-pl-te without it We do not see the necessity of sending our money to C-irist-church when equal or better goods can be got in ourinidst. We must supfo.it Io<"«l institutions if we wish the town to go ahead. The Sun is responsible for the following “ Mr Doraay Ogden, who filed Ids schedule at Christchurch lately, representing unpaid amounts to the tune ol some LBOO, quietly left New Zealand last weed in the s s. Hero, bound from Auckland to Melbourne. A warrant, it is said, has bee . app led for and granted by the Christchurch Bench for his capture In the ’ist of his debt appear particular items. One is for Ll2, value of a diamond ring, which was presented on the stage some weeks ago by the Mavor of Christchurch to Mrs Ogden, as ‘ fwtn a number of admirers _and friends.’ Neither the diamond ring, and ‘admirers and friends, ’ nor the Ll2 due for the bauble ar- to be found anywhere. fcvJ much fur the tricat presentations, ihc Egyptians have been properly bled this time, and people are laughing at ‘liia ” orB dp. Lloyds’ agent at Colombo, in a letter dated the 2Utli February, says " Captain Shaddick, of the British ship Vancouver, reports as f Hows :— 4 Passed within five miles of the inland of Amsterdam on Dec. 16th last, ar.d ob-ierved on the south-east >ide several lights along the shore, Smoko was seeu-on the isaum by dusk. Captain Shaddick is under lh« impression that th'-re is no village on the Island, and that what he saw would be some shipwrecked crew, probably that of the Knowsley Hall, reported as missing on the voyage from London to New Zealand.” —London Times of 20th March. The Otago Dal y Times Ins it upon the cautious and reli.-ble author Ay O; one who gpe.iks from experience that, omitting altogether the larger retail grocers, drapers, etc., in Dunedin who mix the wholesale in many cases with their retai. business, the small retailers—a very host, lying thickly along Princes and George streets, and streets contiguous and suburban—haw on their -books about an average of fro-** LIOOO to LISOOO each,'and that the aggregate of book debts cannot be much, if at all. under « sum ranging from L 200.000 te L 300,000, say a quarter of a million sterling, apart entirely from current bills of exchange under discount by the banks. The Magistrates in Wellington it appears, in the habit of questioning prisoners brought befor** them for drunken ness as to the amount of tln-ir earnings, and the propoition they spend in drirk. In pit suing this course some amusing scenes occasionally take place, and one of them Is. I bus-reported by the Times;— “ The third man io be cros-<-questipned was amative of the Emerald Isle, ycl-pt Micky Ryan, and when h- stepped into the box to anssver 10 a chargo of drunkenness, some amusemei t w-s expected. What ar- yon 1 said tin* presidimr Solon. What am I ? re-echoed Mikv» Yes, what are you ] Shure, I’m =< l ib..nr. And what do you earn a we.'h 1 Wlnt do I e .rn a week, is it! sometimes more than I do a' others. But what do you nV'-rag* ? What do I ■ average 1 sure I cant fell. How long do you want me 1 1 > avenge my earnings 1 Oh, say for a year. Well, sometimes I earn tuck- r. and sometimes I don’t; but I have to got it anyhow. This reply SO overcame the Bench that the question, Wliat do you spend a week in drink 1 was not asked, and we must faiu manage to exist a while longer wilr obtaining the desired information upon this momentous subject. A baba avis is to be seen at Mr Park’s at Milford, in the form of a white lark, white as the snow. The li.tle beauty seems to be n fledgling of only a few we -ks It is well worth a visit to look at and would be • rai® specimen for «n exhibition. Sir George ‘ Grey held a n eeting of his constituents at Auckland on Tuesday last As usual the meeting was large and influential. He refuted the statement, ol his opponents, especially that of Sir William Fox At the close he was warmly thanked, and a vote of confidence passed in him as their representative and leader. It will he seen that our townsman, Mr Wareing, holds n clearing out auction sale of the balance of Mr Harrop’s bankrupt stock. i A poll of the citizens, testing their wishes regarding the raising of a loan for the Christchurch water scheme, has been taken, and the resuit is the rejection of all the propositions. Some Sunday evenings fcgo, a Scotch church up north was put in darkness suddenly, the gas going tn»t in a mopt extraordinary manner. There wae some confusion, but on, candles being procured, it was found that an old tom cat, in making a jump, had alighted on the top of the meter, and effectually stopped the l ! ght A regular Handy Ardy type of Irishman came ‘into the clerk’s office at the R.M, Court lately and asked for a summons. Against whom ? asked the assistant clerk. Shure, I don’t know, was the queer reply. But how can wo grant you u summons if you don’t tell us who it is you want summoned? Bedad, sow I remember ; i'tg the man that does the railway work. That won’t do, said the clerk, you must make out two copies of your account and bring them here, and then wp con issue the summons ; not until. The man scratched his head 'and then went away. In about an hour be returned, and handed in to the clerk a new slate on w hich was scrawled—l, Pat , claim tin- sum ef L 6 I 9«. for work done on the railway near Carterton. Signed, PatIn the left hand lowes corner of the slate a shilling postage stamp was stock. The ol»rk smiled, and told the simple-minded fellow that he had better came in later in the day, when Mr Mansfield Would ha disengaged, and could have a talk with him. Several shopkeepers iu W*nganui. says the lo< al U» aid, were last week “ akeii back” by an unusual call upon their afioating capital,” in the shape ot

a :,I()l) I) iti- placed Ivj .nv tliem Ly a! well known,.bankruptcy trustee, who at' last went into the Captain the Captain of tin; Fire Brigade’s grocery store, and planked the big note in payment of j a dividend on an estate, amounting in all to Indt-a-crown. Captain Cummins was-equal to the oc- 4 : ion, as he put the note in Ids pocket and told the trustee to call round next week or next year for the change. A potOgra.di of the trustee face at this juncture has ’em secured for ivxt year’s Comic Annual. The matter was sett.ed’gt^l^s: by the trustee taking a cheque for the change, and going away minus his hundred-pounder, which had gone off when leist expected. The last seen of this strange monetary phenomenon was in the hands of one of our leading jewel ers, who had possibly burrowed it for an hour or two, much in the same way as ’Arry borrows his friend’s diamond ring vlien going out to give the ladies a treat 1