LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 281, 14 August 1880, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Messrs Maclean and Stewart will sell at the Timaru Horse Biziar this day at 11 a.ra., draught horses and implements

Mr K. F. Gray will sell this day, at 11 o’clock at his rooms, Temuka, a quantity of furniture, etc.

As will be seen by advertisement in another column, a special general meeting of the South Canterbury coursing Club will be held at the Grosveuor Hotel, Timaru, on Tuesday, the 17th inst., at 8 p.m., to consider the question of last year’s judge and other matters of importance We would again draw attetion to the Government sale of lands for cash and on deferred payment, in the Town Hal l Ashburton, on Tuesday, August 24th.

The Christchurch Municipal reserve at Geraldine, of 2000 acres, is to he tendered for. Tenders to be sent in to the City Council office, at Christchurch, on or before 31th inst.

The fancy fair now going on in the shop called Rotherham House, lately occu pied by Mr Harrcp, is now in full swing. Great baigains are said to be the order of the day. The time is now short, and all should pay a visit

We learn from Napier that the E lucation Board there will not have to make reductions in expenditure in consequence of the reduction of the grant. Salaries i bonuses, etc., will continue to be paid as heretofore, the Board having so husbanded its resources.. It has £3OOO invested on fixed deposits.

The railway line from Kopua to Makatako, Hawkes Bay,fwhich Mr Oliver in his Public Works Statement says will be gone on with during the year, has been finished three months, and trains run ro' gularly to Makatako.

The Wellington correspondent of the Lyttelton Times telegraphs :—“I hear that an estimate has been made showing that if the whole of the Colony participated to the same extent in the expenditure of public money as does Taranaki, the annual expenditure would be £12,000,000. This estimate is on the basis of population, and includes cost of general adminstration of government. It applies simply to public money expended within the district.

Our contemporary, the Hawke’s Bay Herald, is responsible for the following : ‘ A rather curious incident occurred in Hastings street the other day. A gentleman was walking somewhat briskly, and in turning a corner he bumped against a well known draper. He was about to apologise for his clumsiness, when the draper interrupted him with the exclamation, * You have saved ray life !’ aud in explanation stated that he had suddenly become lock-jawed, and was on his way to the doctor, in great pain, when the collision effected a speedy and unexpected cure.’

The following incident, showing how far youthful precocity sometimes goes, occurred some short time back in one of cur local schools, according to the Hawtra Star ; —Master: ‘ Any of you who are willing to try and save something from your pocket money for the Irish Relief Fund will please hold up your right hands, or, if you don’t get pocket money-go without sugar in your tea, or butter on your bread, for a month, and thus create a claim on your parents’ generosity.’ After the above, a generous little fellow about eight years old stood up, and with a firm voice said, ‘ I promise to do without tobacco for two mouths. ”

A gieat deal of amusement was afforded at the Christchurch Court lately. A case was being heaid, in which a charge of embezzlement had been preferred against an ex-traveller employed by Mr Francis Innes of the Waltham Brewery 7. Mr Joyce, the solicitor for the offence, produced two labels, and elicited the information that they were samples as used for putting on bottles in the brewery. The Bench asked to seo the labels, and appeared to be much interested. The public on hearing the labels read, laughed outright. One label ran as follows ‘Bass’ India Pale Ale. First quality. M. B. Foster and Sons, 27, Brook street, Bond street, London.’ Trade mark—A hunting horse, green. The other label referred to ‘ Dublin Stout.’

The Grey River Argus protests strongly against the excessively misleading account published by a Christchurch paper, and pretty extensively copied, concerning the diggings to the south of Ross. Tim goldfields in the neighbourhood of Ross have been prospected over and over again, and the new disooveiies at Paringa, Waiho, and Okarito diggings are up to the present limited, and not worthy of being called a rush, much less to recommend that a trial shipment of Canterbury unemployed should be sent over to prospect for gold. What does it mean this sending over a shipload of unemployed ? It means that a number of half-starved unfortunates are to be landed at Hokitika or Okarito, and then left to shift for themselves. It means that they will be left in a wild country, without food, without means, and to die, as the expression is, ‘like rotten sheep.’ The Mount Misery goldfield continues to attract people from a distance. We (Bruce Herald) are informed the flat through which the creek runs has been tried, and excellent prospects obtained. The flat is about three miles down from the workings on the creek, and is much more extensive ; the gold also is coarser, but there is water to contend aeainst and the sinking is deeper, being about six to eight feet. There are now about forty persona on the place, and more going to it. A correspondent telegraphs from Naseby on August 11, to the Otago Daily Times. the following farther particulars of the recent murder at Kveburn Different Chinamen have been arrested by the police on suspicion of the Kyebum murder. Several have been released, but four or five were taken to Kyebum to attend tlie inquest. It is believed by the police that among these are the murderers, but whether the crime can be fixed on them is doubtful. One has been secured rftor a week’s search. Two or three of them have marks on them such as might have been sustained in a struggle of the kind that evidentally took place. A coni similar to what was discovered at Mrs Young’s house, covered with blood, hag been found on the person of one China, man. The top and bottom teeth of one of them are also said to correspond to the marks on the arm of the deceased woman, and his boots also appear to have caused the imprints left near her house. The police are being collected from different districts, and a large force is now under Mr Weldon’s personal charge. They are working energetically.” There are hopes (says the Bruce Herald) of the goldfield at mount Misery turning out better than was expected. On last Saturday evening we heard from a party who had been working there, that he and another obtained gold to the worth of over £3 in thirteen hours work.