LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 282, 26 August 1880, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A number of representatives of our Chess Club went to Timaru last evening lo play the return game with the Timaru team. We wish them all success, and believe they will stand a fair show ; but, at the outset, they were checked at the very first move The two horse buggy, having on board the king, two rooks, two knights, and two bishops, made a fair start from Nicholu’s stable A number of pawns were as usual on the board, but instead of being i front of the officers they were placed b hind,and wisely so for the officers seemed ther chary of going info battle ; the pawns therefore, had to go behind the ’•ggy to push them forward After a time a fail start was made The next news w e i xpect to hear of them is that they successfully bombarded the enemy, and bailed them up in the capital of the South

The Temuka Race Committee have arranged their programme. It comprises a Hurdle Handicap of 30 so vs, which is made an open race instead of being confined to county-owned horses as last year ; a Maiden Plate of 20 sovs, for country horses only; the Temuka Cup Handicap, open to all horses, the added money being increased to 40 sovs ; the Publicans’ Purse, of 20 sovs ; Hack Race, of 10 sovs. The programme is.very similar to that of last season, the added money being only LlO in excess of what was given on that ocasion. In answer to Mr Pyke, in the House on Fiiday last, Mr Oliver said the Government were not aware (hat the railway line from Oxford to Malvern (Sheffield), recommended by the Railway Commissioners, was a mere pretext for cornmi.'ting (he colony to building a line from Oxfo/d to Temuka; and farther neither the Premier nor Mr Wright had property near the line at present in course of construction

It is reported at Hawera that Rana, one of the Opunake natives, went to ihe Parihaka meeting, and Te Whiti hearing that he had knocked down fences on the way up, ordered him to go down and put them up again. Rana refused, telling Te Whiti he did not care about being sent to Dunedin gaol, and that he preferred living with bis wife. Te Whiti asked where his wife was. Rana replied, ‘ln Hawera, selling land.’ This made Te Whiti angry, and he s dd, ‘Do ymu not know your wife is doing wrong 1 Tell her to come to Parihaka,’ Rana declined to put up the fences, and decli ed to send his wife to Parihaka.

A young man named W. H. Izon was drowned in the Broken River in the back country on Saturday. He was well-known in Christchurch, having been landlord of the Now Brighton Hotel. Henry John Gildford, who has for some time held the position of cleik of the Portabello Road Board,Otago, wasarreste<j on Monday by the police on a charge of having embezzeled L2ootho property of the Board.

Lemons and oranges have been grown in Auckland district: The Herald says they are of good size and excellent appearence. The trees are only three years planted from the nursery, and one of the lemon trees bore nine dozen well-grown fruit.

The men working f"t Tal.bot and M'Clatchic, sfevedors, bt Lyttelton, struck on Monday. Up to the present they have been pa : d 12s ft day of eight hours, which has been reduced to lls. the crews of the vessels at present under contract are working them. The strikers have hitherto be paid half a day if they worked even an hour only,

The two men who were injured at Lyttelton 'gaol and Cashmere, in the recent gale, are recovering from (he effects of (heir injuries.

At a meeting of the Christchurch Benevolent Association, held on Monday last, it wag proposed to close the soup-kitchen at the e % d of next month, but this was thought premature, and it was decided to keep up the organisation a little longer. An Angling Club has been formed at Tapanui with strong membership. The object of the Society is to protect the streams for poachers, and to afford information to licensed anglers coming from a distance

Our friends will be pleased to learn that Messrs E. Hutton and Co., who so successfully opened a drapery sale some time ago, will again return and open on Friday week, in the same shop, with the first of this season’s Spring and Summer Goods, when tbe usual good bargains may be expected. — Advt.