The Temuka Leader TUESDAY, JUNE 22, 1880. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 269, 22 June 1880, Page 2

The Temuka Leader TUESDAY, JUNE 22, 1880. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ax a meeting < f the Christchurch Acclimatisation Society, held last Friday.-Mr J M. Barker, of Waihi, was granted permission to shoot hares on Ids estate, as he said they were a nuisance. Mu Corner >n, G WS. of Good Templars in New Zealand, is on a visit to the West Coast at the present Line, to confer the Grand Lodge D. greo mi till the eligible loen.b rs of the Order.

The Oriental Exhibition opens m the y, la,deer Hall to-day, acat3pm ci n,eqncntly owing to He unique nature o! the “ show,” we expect to so- a ’argf rjimber of persons attend it We can ti lly i*c'mim nd <mr ionds to \7ait the Exhibition, as it is really worth v s ting As a person says ho h*s vi.-iteu \t wants to be seen to be appreciate I. Wi: learn fm in the Oaniarn Mail that the Shag Point miners are out on strike . f. r an increase of pay and the establishment of the eight hour system As a seqne’ oecoal from the'pi’s is becoming sc rje ’Mr Pyke’s P.ir'y Pro ossinns Bil' mal<>-s it a misdemeanor for persons to umet amt parade in procession for the pu’poso ol c lebratinsr anv festival or anniversary ■ onnected \v : th religions or other disHictious or difFercnco. Justscos of tlu* Po * ( tJ*oe empowered to instantly disperse such g .tin-rings by repeating Hie following words : -“Our Sovereign Laly the Queen i-liarg l th .and commandeth all persons being here assembled to disperse themselves, and pmicably to de"art to tiieii own homes. God save Hie Queen.” Any person refusing to disperse shall he liable to a penalty of LoO, or imprisonment not exceeding three months. The imposition of the Bie> - Tax appears to have been quite uni Hiked for among brewers throughout the colony. By sin • peculiar means Ampler appears to hambeen an exception, as the news reached there in time to enable the local firms to clear out their stocks before the excise duty was co ! leet .ble. The tax is expected to yield LBO,OOO. Already’ most of the I-reweru have notified their customers that the lax will he added to the cost price of beer, so that, in reality it is Hie licensed and through them the consumer, on whom Ihe impost will fall. A good deal of 5 s*uff is talked about taxing the poor man’s beer but the imposition will not in any way affect the hulk of beer-drinkers in up country districts, whoso cipa" : ty is generally gauged at a half-pinf for sixpence which should leave an ample margin for profit to both brewer and publican,notwithstanding the tax. Besides, the,re is the satisfaction that Colonial is now protected by a prohibitive impost being put on the import ed article. Some journalist with a very vivid imagination writes^ as follows in the Financier : —All over (lie* world, where do yon find a gardener, a bailiff, a farmer, an artisan—aye, or u hanker—to beat a Scofchm n 1 You want a man, let ns say, to stand next under yourself in the control ot your business, or of a business department. Put a conscientious Scotchman there, and he will ■do his duty. You wish to reform a department —to substitute energy for sloth, economy for extravagance. Put a .Scotchman at the head of it, and the national characteristics will do the rest. Mu Darwin might turn some account a story which is told in Hie German papers about the manner in which an intelligent dog adapted himself to his condition. A deaf and dumb lady living in a German city had as cromp-m : on a .younger woman, who was <'lso .deaf and dumb. Tiny lived in a small set of rooms o; ening on the public corridor of the house. Somebody ga’e the elih r lady a lifle dog as a present.-' For some time, whenever anybody rang the bell at the door, the dog barked to call ilie attention of his mistress The dog soon discovered, however, th it neither the bell m.r the barking made any impression on the women, and he L ok to the practice of merely pulling ene of thun by the dress with his teeth, in order to ex plain that someone was at the door. Gnviu ally the dog ceased to hark altogether, and for more than, seven years before his death he remained as finite as Ids two “companions’’ When expression ly >ound was usede«s, it fell with him intonbsu ute disuse- Examiner.