The Temuka Leader TUESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1880 LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 281, 24 August 1880, Page 2

The Temuka Leader TUESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1880 LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A football match between the you'hs of Geraldiie and Temuka ca-ne off on Saturday at the former place. Owing to u heavy downpour of rain, the game had to be drawn, though, at the time, the chances were considerably in favor of Temuka. Each side scored two forcedowns. For Geraldine, F. Bethune (cap tain) and B. Ana in played well. C. Rayner (captain). J. MeCa-ikill. and J. Oliver done go-d service for Temuka

We have heard at different times of various means taken by lodgers and others to satisfy the just claims on them by hotel and lodginghouse keepers, but we think ihe following trick beats all :--A lodginghouse keeper, not a hundred miles from femuka, having had left with him a swag as security f-»r board and lodging, notified that the same would be sold, unless the amount owing was paid by a stated time. No response being made to the advertisement, the lodginghouse-keeper opened the swag, and to his dismay found that it contained a number of articles of his own property. At the Resident Magistrate's Court, Naseby, on Friday, Ah Lee and Lee Guy were charged with the murder of Mary Young, at Kyeburn digging, on the 4th inst. Inspector Hickson asked for a remand uniil next Thursday. He stated that the whole aspect of the case had changed, and that he would be prepared to go on wtih the trial on that date. The remand was granted. In connection with this mysterious case it appears that since the arrest of Ah Lee, against whom suspicion seemed strong at the inquiry before the Coroner, he has either confessed or led the police to belisve that Lee Guy, who first gave the alarm sf the murder having been committed, was implicated in some way with ti.e perpetrator of the deed. Lee Guy was arrested yesterday. It is believed that the police are now on the right track, but of course they are very reticent. - The charge was interpreted to the prisoners this morning in Chinese, but it did not perceptibly affect them.

The remarks made by Mr Levin in the House that Sir William Fox, though now a strong opponent of horse racing, has in his time not only kept racehorses but donired the silk, has raised a question as to itH absolute correctness. Mr Levin, however (remarks the Zealand Tijnes), spoke strictly by the card, as will b<3 Been from the following particulars furnished us by a correspondent: —The last time Sir William performed as a jockey, on Bnrnham Water Racecourse, was on the 14th February, 1850, when a bye-day's racing was got up by the Wellington Jookey Club in compliment to Gaptnin Stokes, of H.M.S., Ach ron, who was then visiting this port with two racehorses on boird. Mr Fox rode a horse called The Saddler, belonging, we believe, to the late Mr Armstrong. Mr Bromley now of H.M. Customs, rode a mare c died Lady Eleanor, belonging to Captain Stokes, in the same race which was over hurdles. The race was won by Mr St. Hill's Harriridden by Lieut, Gordon, of the 65th Regiment, then quartered in Wellington. Mr Fox has admitted the truth fulness of Mr Levin's statement, but stated that horse racing in those days W'as very different to what it is at the present time.

We have been informed (says the Mataura Ensign) that Mr G. Maunseli, of Mataura, despatched a quantity of oats to London through Messrs Cars well, White and Co., lnvercargill, and has received advice that they yeilded in London 33s per quarter, or equal to 4a per bushel.

It will please our agriculturalists to learn (aaya the Mataura Ensign) that there is, in this district, an increasing demand for oats, and that prices consequently bare fin upward tendency. The prize to be awarded by the Canterbury Club to the winner of the Canterbury Cup (Mr James Macdonald of Mel-

bourne) is at preseat on viewrt Moasrg

Ivohn and Co.'s, Princess street, It consists cf a very handsome fruit and flower stand, elaborately worked in silver. The stand for fruit is a large oval silver mounted glass dish supported upon a pedestal composed of two Cupids worked in the same material. The flower stand is similar in design to the fruit stand, and rests upon two candelabra which branch out from it. A long tulip-shaped vase rises from the centre of the upper dish The entire ornament rests upon a hanisome marble slab, manufactured by Messrs Thompson and Co. The stand is elaborate in design and effective in appearence, + A reflects great credit on Messrs Kohn an 1 Oh)., in their selection of so handsome i present. The following inscription is engrave 1 on a silver plate ;<ttatel>ed to the foot of the ornament:—' Trophy presented bv the C uiterbury Coursing Club to James Macdonald, won by Rhoclo iendron ami Ciner ria.' An important decision (snys the Ashburton Guardian) was heard at the Resident Magistrate's Court on Tuesday, in which the plaintiff sought to recover cer. tain goods from the defendant, who held them as a lien until an account was settled Mr Branson argued for the plaintiff that no lodginghonse-keeper could detain goods in such a manner. The learned gentle men quoted cases in support of his argument, and showed the different rela-

tionships in which hotel keepers and lodginghouse-keepers stood. An hotelkeept r is compelled bylaw to accommodate travellers, and would be running the risk of being indicted should h<j refuse, and hence ihe law that mvle it compulsory on the hofce keeper to supply accommodation also gave him a m-ans of protection from loss in allowing him to detain the goods of his "guest'' as a lien for the debt contracted. A lodginghouse-keeper stood in a different position. He was not com. pelled to accommodate the public. It wag entirely a matter of choice with him, and he could accept or refuse any person apptying for accommodation. Hence, as the law does not force a lodginghouse keeper to take in travellers neither does it allow him to detain the goods of his lodgers, pending the payment of a debt incurred for such lodging. The Magistrate agreed with Mr Bruuson's statement of ihe lodginghouse-keeper's posiuirm and gave judgement in favor of the lodger. The Chicago Journal's New York correspondent on the Ist July sent the folio iving particulars of the extraordinary attempt by a Dr Tanner to fast 40 days : —' Since Dr Tanner commenced to fast—on Monday at noon- he has lost four and a-half pounds of fksh. Since Tuesday night at twenty-five minutes past 11 he has taken five ounces of water. His normal temperature shows no material change as yet. During the night he slept well for seven or eight hours His face has a ruddy color, and his general appearance is that of a man iu excellent health, and under no extraordinary restraints. The third day of the fast ended at noon today. This morning, when the reporter asked the doctor how he helt, he replied : 'As fresh as a daisy. ido not feel any particularly disagreeable effects thus far, but I expect to at the end of 10 day.«.'' Tne mail left San Francisco immediately after this, and no further details are yet to hand ; but from a telegram which we recently published, it will be seen that Tanner successfully completed his task.

Certain members of the County Council (says ihe Tuapeka Times) appear to have a good idea of the value of advertising and of the importance of giving the fullest publicity to County announcements, but they fail, however, to appreciate having to pay for the value thus received. An instance corroborative of the foregoing remark transpired the other day. Mr Rodger (member for Tapanui) succeeded in getting a motion carried that tenders be called for making passable the road lead ing to the Borough endowment there. The motion was no sooner put than Mr Mervyn volunteered the information that it was only necessary tc advertise in one paper—that circulating in the immediate neighborhood. The member for Chirks concurred, and added that perhaps the proprietors of the Tuapeka Times would insert the advertisement in that paper gratis. 'You can hardly expect that,' replied the Chairman. 'lf the proprieors of that paper are to piy their employees twenty shillings in the £, and pay everyone else their just due, it is not by inserting such advertisements gratis that they are going to act fair and squire.' The matter then dropped, Of course comment is needless ?

The Fielding Guardin is responsible for the following somewhat extraordinary B tory :—' Some passengers by rail a few days ago were highly amusad at the precocity of a child three and a half years of age, by name Albert Gordon. After giving an opinion on every known topic, Master Gordon produced pipe, tobacco, and matches, and forthwith proceeded to fill his pipe. A lucifer was furnished, and the old-fashioned style in which he lit his pipe and placidly smoked would have been a subject for a painter or a physician. We are told that he has been a devotee of the pipe for over a year, and appears to enjoy h.is smoke immensely. Young Gordon is a particularly healthy-looking specimen of juvenile humanity."

" Our Perambulator," the funny man of the Echo, treats his readers to. the follow-

ing account of a Road Board Clerk's

various positions,— <( J happened to be down at tl|r; Wakaia lately. It is a pretty place uw\ the scenery most picturesque, J had 01 onsion to visit the Road Board office, and I can assur.) your readers that I was in perfect dread of the gentlemen I interviewed, as he appeared more like the Lord Mayor of London th.«n a small pettifogging clerk. lam creditably informed ihat he gets a good salary, viz., £2OO per annum from the Road Board and £SO per annum from the Government, but he has a sole above salaries, and he has therefore engaged himself to an Insurance Company, as their agent, for which he receives a very large remuneration. Our friend is not, however, content with that He serves his own summonses from the Court, and gets his own servant to clean out the offices, although he has authority to employ labor for the purpose. Tne Hon. John Hull should not lose sight of such a valuable acquisition to the public s rvicc," A rumor is very current in B 'echworth at present (says the Melbourne Argus) t' at some difficulty has arisen in connec" lion with the plant of the Kelly gang' That there is a large amount of their loot planted somewhere is undoubted, but where it is remains a mystery. If it is concealed in the bush, no one but the members of the gang knows it. Ned Kelly is of course the only person alive who can tell where it is, and even had he an opportunity of giving Ids friends the des ; red information it might be after all /is difficult to discover as the pot of sovereigns which were hidden by Weiberg at the Tarwin River. On the other hand it may have been hidd'-n in a place lie could easily explain to his friends. The rumor is that a certain friend has managed to le-rn where the loot is, that he ha 8 'sprung the plant," and that he has disappeared. By whom the statement was or ginally made is not konwn to the authorities. So ftr as can be ascertained, it must have been observed in the conduct of certain relatives of the the gang.