LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 263, 27 May 1880, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Account sales report thit the Strathleven shipnu nt was submitted to a committee on the 15th, the result being a slight loss, but Ihe experiment is regarded as an entire success. The meeting resolved to take steps to present Messrs MTllwra’th and M‘E acharu with a testimonial in recognition of their services in the foreign meat business.

The North Eastern Ensign thus writes respecting the Kelly out.-aws :—“lf a constable or stranger is seen in the Valley of the King River, the fact is carried straight to the Kellys by bush telegrams. It is net necessary that ‘the telegraph ’ should speak to the K<-llys or even see them A certain v-ay of tying a handkerchief on the sleeve of a coat, when riding along a bush track, constitutes a cypher word which the ou'laws can rear! without showing themselves from one of their watch towers. Toe garg have given up all hope of being able to break away, and they are now playing a waiting game, which must inevitably be won by the police : but whether the end will come in a month, or six months, or twelve, no one cm say. Th° present operai.on of simply watching the Kellys is costing the Colony nearly LSOOO a year ; and all the return the Colony gets for the money is this that the police have deprived the outlaws of all hope of escape, that they are leading a wretched life of anxiety and daily becoming less and less trustful of their friends. It is some satisfaction to know that they have been effectually cornered, and that their capture or death is only a question of time. We know also that anything like another crime outbreak of crime in the infected district has become impossible. ”

Two men unknown were drowned in the Wairarapa lake on Saturday. They were endeavoring to drive a mob of cattle over the mouth of the lake, when the boat which they were in capsized. The body of one was washed up on the beach, but the other has not yet been discovered.

The Government have received mi official telegram from Bombay stating that a steamer named the Genei, flying Liberian colors, left Aden on the 24th April for Port Briton, and that she hus on board arms and ammunition, and a number of persons of various nationalities, supposed to be on a filibustering expedition.

Thebe is considerable dissatisfaction at the Weka Pass, the scale of wages p. id to married men being more than to single, though the value of their work may biequai: again, rightly or wrongly, the single men think that they should be supplied with firewood, and do not appreciate the kindness of the official who throws off wood at the nearest point to any lent occupied by married people. What seems to irritate the unmarried men (says the Lyttelton Times) is that “ benedicts” have their meals cooked for them when they come in from work, whilst they have not only no meals cooked, but no firewood to cook it with. Certainly the lot of the women camped in the Weka creek is not one to be envied, even if firewood were plentiful; but to be short of fuel in cold weather, with perhaps children in the tent is about the height i f a woman’s discomfort.