LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 269, 6 July 1880, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

■We draw the attention of our readers to Mr Gray’s sale of -town sections this day at his rooms Also sale of sections, sheep, etc, at Winchester on Wednesday Also sale of reaper and binder, tilter, double furrow ploughs,harrows, harness, etc, attke Temvika Pound next Thursday—Messrs Maclean and Stewart will hold a sale of rural sections at Pleasant Point, next Thursday Also to sal oof horses,harnos8 j etc, at St Andrews on Thursday Dubxng Saturday, Sunday and Monday one of thetfid-fasbioncd-S W .bust era visited us, the result being that the rivers;are flooded, and much of the, early sown wheat will be ruined The roads are in a fearfnl state, particularly those at Waitqlii, which have been undergoing new formation

Dubiko the rain storm many of tho drains were overfilled, and the water spread ever the streets This cannot fail to bo good for the health of the place, as it will clear away the accumulations of filth and give us purer-air It mnsthave been snowing on the hills,otherwise we would, have had a muohheavierflood in our rivera This was expected by some townspeople who moved to higher ground on Sunday night

The Carandim Company, now in Dunedin will give an entertainment at Temuka on the 16t-U inst, the Yolunteor Hall having been engagcd'for that night

6b viba Leases of diphtheria are reported at Kaiapoi - -

■ Apparently some damage has been done by the floods on the line between Dunedin and Oamani, as the express had upt arrived up. to a lato.hour last night A man named Scott was found dead yester' day morning •at the New River, near the Elbow, Invercargill Ho is supposed to have fallen from his horse when under the influence of drink, and died from exposure

The Dunedin “ Star ” states that Messrs Stout and Bastings intend to offer themselves candidates for the general election

, At the Ashburton R.,M Court on Friday, Mr Burnell, whijejconducting a case, declined to obey His Worship’s order to sit down, and after some.words His Worship sentencel him to seven days in prison for contempt of Court An hour afterwords, however, yielding to the advice and counsel of;-friends, Mr Purnelp ckmo back to Court, fend tendered,, a qualified, apology, which was accepted by Hi» Worship, "and Mt Punibll was discharged from custody The Post understands that it is the intention of the Government to appoint a Royal Commission to report on the Supreme Court system and practice, with a view to the simplification and cheapening of legal procedure It is believed that the Commission will comprise the five judges of the Supreme Court,District Court judges, Attorney and Solicitor-Generals two Resident Magistrates, and six barristers of the Court, two to be appointed by the Government, and the other four chosen by the Law Societies of Auckland, Wellin ton, Christchurch, and Dunedin *

A new political and commercial movement has manifested itself in Montreal; .The, prominent features of • the platform are .commercial union-with, the United States, - and all rights and privilages of office, an independent nation. A mass meeting has been held, and resolutions in favor of the movement passed. !. , ' The Archbishop of Quebec has issued incondemnation of the trades .unions,and tHreateha'the excommunication pfany; Catholic who may. attack a person because ho chooses to work at any price he may think fit, The. wife of Edwin Hoyte, the murderer hanged at Bridgeport.recently, after taking a, tearful and apparently affectionate leave of her husband in his cell, asked the sheriff to show her, the .preparations for the execution, and bn seeing them ro marked, “I am glad he is to be hung. I would like to see,him banged now.” . At a legal investigation of a liquor seizure the judge asked an unwilling witness, - “ What was in the , barrel that you had?” “ Well, your honor, it was marked whisky ‘whiskey’ bn one end of the barrel and ‘ Pat Duffy ’ on the other endj so that I can’t say whether ;it was’ whisky or Pat Duffyj, was, in the •’barrel,, being as ! am. on uiy^oath.’’ \ : In Amoiica of . land sown In wjicatis 15 per - cent greater than last year. [The crop is reported in .fine condition, foats will 'be short but.majze.Js .up to the ■average, ' ' ■ '■■.■■■' .’ ~ : . V'iotob- Hugo attributes his hale' bid age to abstinence from smoking and drink*, iug, and a fat cheque from his publisher oiice a m®nth, Tiie electoral franchise in New York State is to be extended to women.

An aitepipt was lately made to blow up with dynamite a dwelling bouse situated in the heart of the city of Oakland, California. One side was blown out, and other buildings in the city ; suffered considerably. The author of tho crime escaped Pams has now two public soup kitchens whore horse is the only meat employed ] the Comte d’ Aguado presented to the kitchens a few days ago a noble animal'’that had broken ita thigh ; out of gratitude, ho authorities sent a week’s free admissions to each of the stable men.

When Talleyrand died, the Russian Ambassador said—“ I am sure the devil will thus address him : ‘My friend, yon have a little exceeded my instructions.’ ’’ An Albany woman brings suit against a telephone company, for trespass in putting wires on the roof of her building. It isn’t the trespass however, that troubled her so much as tho fact that there is gossip going on over head that she can’t get hold of. By the breaking up of the Jesuit schools and colloages, 392 professors of foreign extraction will have to quit Franco. The Princess do Metternicn describes a play as “ the eympony of the flesh. ”

Toe French com’ts have ruled that an apothecary, in the absence of all qualified practisionera, may try Ins prentice hand to save an invalid at death’s door, without incurring any penalty for failure. By tho new bill on public instruction, no foreigner will be allowed to gWe lessons in his native tongue in France, unless qualified by a diploma, obtained either in. .his own country or after examination hero. Cooks, valets, and butlers, out of place have no more hope.

“Comb, go to bod, Eddie-,” said an anxious aunt; “ you see tlio sun lias set, and tlio chickens all go to roost at that time.” “ Yes aunty,” said ..Edwin ; “but the old hens go with them.” : Two well-dressed shoemakers, being in company of some go tlemeu, were asked their profession. Says one of them, “I practice the heeling art“ and I,” says the other, “ labour for tlio good of men’s soles I”

Jones say-j bis wife is tho most thr y woman ho ever saw. “Why sir," ho says, “ she has made ten bed quilts during the last two years ; made them herself, sir, out of the samples she collected in her shopping tours duning that time. An Irishman, travelling in,a street that was paved, was mot by a dog with a threatening gowl. The traveller attempted to pull up one of tho pavingstonos to throw at him, but it was fast “Arrah,” said Paddy, “ what a country this—where stones aro tied, and dogs lot loose ”

“ A vaunt 1’’ —Froa Kirk Divino (of advanced opinions, who has recently introduced an organ into his chapel): “ I’m sorry to hoar, Mrs M‘Grawley, that you are by no means so regular in your attendance nt church as you used to bo ” Fair Beggito (indignant, at tlio pastor’s Latest iniquity : “Kirk, indeed ! Wad yo lure me tao Rome wi’ the rest o’ them wi’ your organs an’ antliums' an’ sicli like abominations 7 Na, na,, until yo glo mo tho ‘ Auld Hander* again, withoot the whustles,- I’ll tak’ ma’ speeritual, comfort at hame 1”