LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 271, 17 July 1880, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Timaru is evidently looked upon at homo as a very important city. A local paper says “ Two torpedo boats are to be sent out to protect our barb >ur.” These .warlike communications may possibly have had something to do with the drilling of our Cavalry the other day. It is about time that our Volunteers were thinking of throwing up earthworks around Paddy Carr’s residence, as some spies found their way into his parlour tho other day and played great havoc amongst the Jewellery.

The s.s. Ringarooma, with the New Zealand portion of the Suez mails on board, left Mel. bourne for the Bluff on Tuesday last

The Invercargill Volunteers have firmed a vigilenee committee, with Captain Feld wick as chairman, to watch their interests in connection with the threatened withdrawal of the capitation allowance The following is the new scale of fees which will come into operation in the Resident Magistrates’ Courts on and after August Ist: Under £5, 4s, and hearing fee, 5s ; under £2O, lls, and hearing fee, 8s ; under £SO, 13 s and 12s hearing fee; under £100,175, and 20s hearing fee A match will be played at Temuka this afternoon between four members of the Tiiparu Chess Club and four of Temuka The following gentlemen, we are informed, will represent Temuka : —Messrs J. Olivier, G. J. Mason, 'Geo Bolton, and A. D. Wilsou

The Deceased Wife’s Sister’s Bill has passed its third reading in the Legislative Council, and its first reading in the House of Representatives

The “ North Otago Times ” says, “ The hunting which the hares have lately experienced in the country districts may account for the fact that they are now beginning to appear in the streets of the town A wellknown citizen sighted one in Tee street the other day, and, starting in pursuit, was soon joined by about a dozen others eager for the fray ‘As swift as a hare,” however, received little exemplification in any individual’s case, and although the quadruped must have been nearly, terrified to death with the incessant and vai’ious war cries of its pursuers, the chase resulted in nothing more than the ‘ blowing ’ of the bipedal coursers fortunately for the hare, tire want of condition in many of the pack told greatly against their running or staying powers, and proved incontestably that the regimen to be followed to lit one for coursing hares had boon sadly neglected in their cases ”