LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 269, 26 June 1880, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Rev Mr Paige will officiate next Sunday at the morning and evening services, in St Saviour's Church, Temukn, tnd at Winchester in the afternoon.

In reply to a question asked by M r Turnbull in the House of Representatives on Thursday night, the Minister of Public Works aaid that arrangements- hud been made to provide work for unemployed on the Albury line.

Kakahau Coal—Yesterday we were shown a sumple of this coal ; although tue sample was not superior to Shag Po'nfc it is really » ftood one, and if it can be supplied at the price quoted by Mr Meredith viz., 20s per ton in Temuka a ready sale for a large quantity must be the rosuit.

Wk would draw tlio attention of settlers in the district, particularly working mon, to a sale of town flections by Mr K. F. Gray on July 6. The terms are so easy that anyone who wishes to secure a home will find no better chance than that now offered, while for gardens or orchards the soil is most suitable. It will be seen from our advertising columns that Mr J. P. Armstrong, surgical and mechanical dentist, from Dunedin, can be consulted at Terntikaon and after the Ist July n*ixt. Mr Armstrong is compelled to travel for his health, and is coi.sequently making a professional tour through New Zealand He intends to remain a few days in Temuka. The installation of Worshipful Mastor and officers for the Winchester Lodge 1737 will take plauo next Tuesday by Br<». Thomson D. D. G. M.. Cliriatclnirch visiting members cordially invited to attend

There are several Turkish youths study ing in Paris at present. At a recent examination a professor wanting to make matters easy for one of the young fellows, asked, "Can you mention some of the some of tho Greek authors ?" No answer. ' X instance, you must know something about Homer?" "Oh. yes!" answered tjno Bt\ident j ! " Omar Pasha—everybody knows about him."

If the particular address of the newspaper could be got, thousands from all parts of th" world would during the Exhibition time il.nk to see the phenomonon alluded toby "Ogles'" in the Australasian who says :—" An Australian journal-

ist tells me jhat a paper in an Australian city *• runs" on alcohol. This is his allegation. The editor has been drunk for y • ars ; the Mib-editor is invariably tight ; the leader of the reporting staff, like his superior*, has n'-ver been eob«r within th" memory of any pressman ; the musical citic observes talent through the bottom of a tumbler ; the shipping reporter never fries to write without a preliminary ob servation just over his Utile finger; the rank und hie of the staff, including police and Parliamentary reporters, ure never in their right senses unless they can't help it ; the machinist needs as much luhricatio as his printing-press, and the compositors drink whiskey f"r breakfast. The singular and quite discouraging moral is thitt there is plenty of money in the paper, and its circulation is increasing daily."