LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 269, 15 June 1880, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

li< will be seen fom our advei tiding columns that Messrs E. llutton ami Co. intend opening their really geuui e cheap sale of drapery goods, in the Oddfellows llall on Thursday, 17th iu.-t Since th ir arrival in Te'"uk'a, a little ovei four weeks their success has been really marvellous We have been accustomed to cry out that, money is scarce amongst us Tho result of Messrs llutton and Co's sale gives us tlie lie direct, and shows that when a good article can he got cheap, the money is forthcoming—to take some LSOO in four "weeks (L2OO a week) for drapery alone in a small place, in the dullest season of the year, is proof positive that not only is there money in the district, but that the goods sold have been good and cheap There need be little doubt that Geraldine will take advantage of the company's brief stay to aecurj bargain* There is also another remarkable feature connected with the sale The Tkuuica Lkader is the only paper in which this advertisement has appear-d This reveaJs to us two things, first the Tkjiuka Le\)>EU reaches the houses of the most distant, between tho Kiwgitata and Timaru,and i'." is a fact that customers from Hilton, Waitohi, Pleasant Valley, CU-raMine, Woodbury, Scotsburn, Kangilata, as well as Orari, Winchester, and Alilford, have been at Messrs llutton and Co's sale and made extensive purchases It also reveals the fact that the Lkadf.u is received into almost every family ; the people prefer a paper that, fearlessly defends the principles by which it is guided, these principles being" Liberal laws and free trade it is j roof that the people haveat least a strong leaning that way, some of our readers would be "lad to see the Lkadkr come out in a larger form to enable it to embrace every subject in answer to such we can only say " bide a wee," times do not encourage additional expenditure, when the tide turns we will not be slack to take advantage of it, meantime we deem it advisable to be cautious We may state that without canvassing the country for advertisements and subscriptions the paper is paying, wc have only yet been about two years in existence and have taken good root, we fear not for the future, but we do think our fellow townsmen and others might benefit themselves as well as benefit us, by advertiseing more liberally in the local paper, see what result has followed in the ease referred to abov.s.

It is somewhat curious (says Truth) that the Zulus at the Aquarium, although they have now been -.vany months on exhibition, still continue to attract sightseers in undiminished numbers. The other day a young girl arrived from Scotland. She wax aged about seventeen, and she was, according to her own account, the daughter of a Presbyterian minister. She had come, she said, to marry a Znlu, and, accompanied, by one of the oldest and most ill-favored of these dusky strangers, she presented herself. to the manager of the Aquarium, and requested him to aid hor in lior object. In vain he remonstrated with heron hor folly. She replied that her h art was given. In"vain lie suggested to her that she would only be one of the many wives when her contemplated husband returned to Zululand. She answered that the tvrMfth part of the affections of the object of her adoration was preferable to no part at all. So, finding that it was useless to reason with her, she was told, that she could not marrv without the assent of her parents, and sent back to Scotland to obtain ifc.

Entertainment. —It will be ae«n on reference to our advertising columns that a select Variety Troupe will appear in the Volunteer Hall this evening ; most of the cli'ir ct' rs in the bills are old fricicls of Teniuks) play-goa - -, so we think that the manager wiil have » bumper house. Lrtioly many troupes have visited us, hut the majority of them have not been up to much, for instance. " Diorama of the Zulu War" vVe can assure our r adurs that a r<al treat is in store for them at th«hn I, and that we cm vouch fur from ex erience Sigcora Aniles c-. - not be excdlcd in her daring a real act.; and Nlcnarf, the miraculous, R .ibcrf< , the Lrliputnn, are ho*ts in themselves, while the MariHa Bros, fairly elee'rify 'h • ainlience hy their grand acting Tho doors open at the usual "Entertainment hour," and the price of admission is 3s and 2s We hope that the Troup's efforts to please will receive the reward tiiey merit—viz, a f u 1 house.

A sensational oc< ui'encc is repo. ted by the Manawatu Times. Two children b -lon.Lvi'ig to Mr Jordan, saddler, it appears, had just crossed the line at Palmorston as the ballast train w.-is approaching, when, unfortunately, the hut «f the youngur was laowh back on th,e track.

Th*> elder of the two rushed to secure if, but by that time the engine was within twenty yards of the spot, and a horrible deatn eeemed immi tent. Amongst thu horror-stricken and spell-bound spectators was the father of the cr.ildren, powerless to utir hand or foot, when Mr Ayers, the ott'ejer in charge of the gords shed, who luckily was in a truck by, jumped down and dragged the child from her perilious |. osition, just as he en, i ie shot liy, tearing his jacket in the contact. Those who witnessed the occurence speak in the highest terms of Mr Ayers' cemluct but for HrhoßO coolness and courage a human life would have been sacrificed.

Tk Whit* lias ingeniously turned the mad-making and ihe ore tio-i of telegraph iiitri ;i fulfilment <f Lis p oph.. y, t t the Governor Would eo:u. to him. ik lo'k the natives that tie wire is being b'oiight to P'irihaka. th.it they ca.ii t, Ik to ,b ■ lliiv i'ii"r; and, tb refore, the (iovjmioi- was coaling to i.im as he prophesied years ago.

Saivkhat night's W -llingten dhroni> le reports that an organised Oppos'tion has been formed, but that the name of the leader has not transpired* There! is probably nothing ili it.

A meeting of the Auckland Licensed Vitnallers held on Thursday, and it was decided that beer should be raised to 6d a pint, and 5d outside;

Saturday night's Star publishes a statement showing the cash in band of the various Road Boards in the Canterbury Provincial eft the Ist of January. 1880, and calls upon those bodies to provide work, within their district, for the unemployed, so as to do away with the scandal of having a soup kitchen in our midst. The return shows that the great bulk of the funds has be' n derived from subsidies, ami not from taxa tior.