LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 286, 4 September 1880, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Temuka Rifle Volunteers will] hold a Church parade to-morrow (Sunday;, at 11 o’clock. The company will full in at the Volunteer Hall, aud then proceed to the Presbyterian Church. At Lyell, owing to the Borough Council withdrawing the susidies, and public subscriptions falling off, the District Hospital affairs are nearly at a standstill. The Committee have resolved to hand the institution over to the Government.

The Board of Education for South Canterbury, at a meeting on Wednesday last,

osproped to institute aided schools in thinly populated districts, giving the amount of capitation grant due pp the attendance in each case.

Mr Peter Stewart, of the firm of Munrp and Stewart, Oamaru, was killed on Wednesday last, by falling from a q?ane, He wa?(in the act of loosening a pin at (he head of the arm, when the crane tipped up and threw him about 30 feet o.n to his head. His skull was fractured, and a nqmber of his ribs broken.

Parliament was prorogued by cqiqnU ß ' sion o,n Wednesday last,

Mr Qeqrga Outtg arrived in Dnnedin on Wednesday by tfie s,s Rotomahana, with thk Victoria!} horse King of Clubs, purchased by him for the Middle Park Stud Company, qt Christchurch. The horse is iu very good condition, ilthough the pasage from the Bluff to Port Chalmers was very rough.

Mr H. Goodman has scratched York for for the Publicans’ Handicap and Sylvanus for the Cup at tbe Geraldine races, considering that the weights (published on Thursday morning) were altogether tpo heavy for the horses named.

We notice (say 3; the Bruce Herald) that several School Committees have adopted a similar, plan to. our local one, with reference to levying a nominal fee on children attending school, among which are the Tqapeka, and Naseby Committees.

One day. last week an extra hand was employed on board, the Government steam launch, Lyttelton, qt 8s per day. When the voucher cqme down from Wellinglon the sum. had been reduced to 7s 2d, in accordance with the 10 per cent reduction.

An accident happened at Oamaru to the Express train from the North on Thursday on account of a horse being on the line. The cow catcher caught the animal, but did not throw it off, an,d the engine left the metals, requiring an hour and a half to replace it. The train did not arrive at Oamaru until 5 o’clock.

At a meeting of railway employees at Christchurch on Thursday night, a telegram was read from the Minister of Public works, the piypoyt of which was that (government did not intend to apply the 10 percent reduction to railway men. The raee ing determined to. do nothing in the way of strike until they had received the revised scale of wages.

The Council of the New Zealand Rifle Association has concluded its sitting. The accounts show a debit balance mainly on account of the paucity of subscriptions. The Qoyeimmcot h‘ is obtained a vote of £SOO for the Association vyith which the Council hope, to be able to have another meeting at Nelson. The programme for the next event has been prepared, showing a total prize list of over £6OO in addition to matches, in which the entrance fees will he divided. ;The company team matches have been improvedthe first prize in each, being a cup and £25, A new match for a trophy has been introduced to be fired for y one representative from each company. The Nelson Colonist has the following in connection with the retirement of Mr Campbell, who, some year or threahouts ago, was Resident Magistrate at Temuka and Geraldine“ Mr Le-Grand Campbell, R.M. and Warden, is to retire from his position on a pension, his judicial duties falling for discharge upon the Nelaon Magistrate. Mr Campbell who was the R.M. at Ashburton just before Mr Guinness, filled a multiplicity of small offices at Collingwood—such as Postmaster, Collector of Customs, Registrar, &c,, and these are no.v to be discharged by a junior Clerk, who, can be spared from Nelson. The new policy of retrenchment is the blast before which our late RM. has had to agccumb.”

Recently (says the Ballarat Star) o,ne of the warders of the.Ballarat gaol took the “soundings” of a can of tea that was sent by the captive’s wife. There bad been a coucle of figs of tobacco first laid in the bottom-of* the can ; then there had been a small tightly-fitting- can lid put down over the tobacco, and all round the side of the cqn “ soldred ” with paste after which the can had been filled with tea, the tobacco lying quite dry in the bottom of the can, testifying to the effective manner in which the good woman had “puddled up.” The Tuapeka Times says There is at present a considerable demand for carpenters in the Fiji Islands, were wages rule as high as 14s or 15s a day. Several carpenters have recently left this Colony for Viti-Levu

At a meeting of the Working Men’s Political Association to consider the report of the Royal Commission on Local Industries, the. following resolutions were passed :—l. That this meeting condemns the report of the Royal Commission on Local Industries as being incorrect in many details, very one sided, and entirely unreliable and worthless. 2. That the Auckland members of the General Assembly be requested to use their influence to have an impartial committee appointed of skilled m.en, with a knowledge of manufactures, to determine in what manner local industries may be forwarded. Those who know Archer, the jockey, s.ay that, by his extraordinary instinct, he is enabled to estimate, not only the powers of the horse which he rides himself, but

he ,can a certify |«^g( e °f the capabilities of his The income qf a good jockey is «t )e«st equal to that Qf the Lord High- Chancellor? of a year. Ayohep receives q from thelNke of WesfeTflUStef amounting to £IOOO> jMrcaiv simply U fide «* a iw nice either b,e selected!. This says «o#ing <rf f e69 i «F pf the nettings which a man proficient In knowledge makes out of judicious beta. Archer’s income last year has been escin.ated at £II,OOO, qnd this yea? it 13 pot likely to be less. The Hawke's, Buy Herald, in the course of an article strongly attacking the Audit Department, tells the following story . —- “ A tradesman in N a Pt ar liad an aceo.upt for about £3O against the Government. After waiting some time, as is the usual experience of those >vho want money from the New Zealand Government, a cheque for the amount came down. It was duly countersigned and paid, The surprise of the tradesman may be conceived, when, fwo or thrqe months afterwards, he received a severe letter from the department concerned, saying that on several items of the account there had been an overcharge, and that this excess would be deducted. Enclosed was a second cheque for the amount, less the deductions. He was honest enough to return the cheque at once pointing ont that the account had already been paid in full. He has not since heard anything about the overcharge. The own correspondent of a contempoT rary at Wellington telegraphs as follows —lt. is now finally decided that Sir Hercules Robinson sails in the Rotomaluma on Saturday next. All the Volunteers and Constabulary will parade and fire a salute, as also will H.M.S. Danao. There will be an undress farewell levee at three o’clock, and the Corporation will present an address, also other public bodies. .His Excellency's wishes as to any special festivity such as a dinner or ball, were privately ascertained. He expressed a desire that no fuss should be made, but that his friends should simply take leave of him at a levee. There is no news yet regarding the advent of Sir Arthur j Gordon, and Chief Justice Prendergast is preparing to assume the reins of Government.