The Temuka Leader THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1880. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 294, 23 September 1880, Page 2

The Temuka Leader THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1880. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The steamer City of New York, with the Sni Fiancisco mail, arrived at Auckland sho'tly b. fore 3 o'clock on Monday af ernoon. It is not probable that the nval for Teinuku will be delivered b fore Saturday.

We have great pleasure in intimating th t Dr Wilkin, from Christchurch, the celebrated eye doctor, will be in Timaru on th« 4th ofOciober, wh re lie intends staying ten days or a fortnight- Many remarkable cures of the eye hare be<m performed by Dr Wilkin since he came to Canterbury, some of them in this township and neighbourhood Since the beginning of the year he has, lie says, operated on no less than 275 persons without more than one single failure One case is very remarkable The patient had been without the sig'it of one of his eyes for 25 years, when he injured the other, and brcaiue b'ind.' Dr Wiik'n rocentry operated on both, the resti't being that sight is restored to both eyes This gentleman is no Professor Waliingburg, whom, it will be n membcred, we warned the settlers in this part of N w Zealand to be on their guard with Di Wilkin also prescribes for ehroal diseases See advertisement over leader

Mr K F Gr>y held his first monthly sale of stuck &c, at the Pound yards, on Tuesday last There was a veiy large number of buyers present, and the prices attained were satisfactory

The privileges at the forthcoming Temuka Races were sold at auction by Mr K F Gray yesterday The prices real sed were as follows : —Licensed booth, £l2 ; refreshment booth, £3 ; gates, £2O 5a ; cards, £2 2s 6d ; games, £1

At the Resident Magistrate's Court, Temuka, yesterday before Mr F. Gain-rie.-s. George McCarter was charged with being drunk and disorderly. Accused failed to put in an appearance, and Ids bail, £2, was forfeited. The civil case, Franks v. Darroch, was adjourned.

G rrard, the head of the unemployed iu Auckland, has written to a large Sydney contractor, offering to employ a large number of artizans for him.

A meeting of over 100 unemployed at Greymouth passed a resolution on Monday evening calling on the Government to provide them with work.

Mining matters at Mapourika are progressing favorably, and seven or eight parties are on gold. There are at present in Christchurch. according to information supplied to the Benevolent Society, ninely-four cases of abject poverty.

Messrs Fraser and Nicholl's tender—£74o—was accepted on Monday for the first section of the Timaru waterworks.

A fire broke out twice on Monday night in Dunedin, on the premises of Mr Carrigan, chemist Considerable damage was done to the stock by breakage and water.

Mr G. M. Reid, as the representative of a larg'' and wealthy special settlement, is expeced to arrive in Auckland in the middle of October, to select a blook of land in anticipation of their arrival. The first of the party, numbering twelve or fourteen families/and bringing with them sixty or seventy thousand ' pounds, will arrive at Auckland or Napier some time in December.

The f;irui"rs in die Ng.ipira district says the O.D. Timss, arc looking forward to a good h irvest. "Frank Fu Ige," in the N.Z. Public Opinion, says : —The Australian cricketers have been beaten at last, but by such short odils that the lanrls may well be divided between themselves and their victors The brave "gnm-suckfis" dave behaved Sj>len'lil3y throughout; their tour, and every colonist should b- proud of them. It amuses me, my boy, to listen to the " high f dutiti" of the haw-h..w new chum gentry 0 >e often m-ets with at the dinner tables of some of our leading Christ-church hotels. '" Everything in the c lony is de.n'd backwam, aw, a t! t!:e fellahs one meets with are a dem'd lot of

uncultivated booahs who know n thing, aw." One feels sorry for gassers of this class, and it is only charitanle to attribute their ignorance to their inexperience. Mad they knocked about like yon -nd I, my boy, they would discover that the your g blood of Australasia is a stronger, healthier, and purer fluid tha the old stream that gets muddy for want of clean r atmosphere in the old lands. A "poor victim'' of the graduated sca'o writes to the Chrisu-bimh Echo and puts these pertinent inquiries ; —" I want, to know how to live on and pay my way out of 6s a day 1 I have a wife and four children to support, and my coat of living is ; Eent, 10s per week ; firing, 3a ; butcher, 7s ; baker, 3s 6d ; grocer, 10s ; vegetables, 2s 6d . having for clothing, tobacco, and beer nil. As to recreation, I don't want any ; and, as to sickness, take its course. I must get into debt (and that I mean to do), for that is my only means of preventing semi-starvation ; and then, sir, being u Civil servant, I cannot claim the protection of the bankruptcy law.-' under pain of dismissal So I ask a generous public, what am I to do ?" Aoi temporary replies .—" Feed on porridge and milk, or butter-milk and potatoes, ns many of your masters have done; and grow your own-vegetables."

A new invention, in the shape of a resonator, formed of a couple of go'd plates, which can be pla' ed in the mouth of a singer or a public Rpeaker, is, according lo repoit, likely to produce a revolution in vocal performance. OH Mrs Rothschild, when 97, once said to her physician, "Doctor, you must keep me up for three years more at least ; it would be discreditable for a Rothschild to go off under par." Franklin wrote: "He that by the plough would thrive himself must either hold or drive." The Yankee version, adapted to the times, is— ,J He that by his trade would rise, mu <t either bust or advertise."

In a North Island township recently a disciple of St Crispin filed his schedule. His assets were three pairs of boots and £7 in book debts. His liabilities were ±l7O.

In one of the West Coast townships recenUy a bridegr om led to the altar a lady aged three score and ten. Toe united ages of the "happy pair" make up nearly a century and a half. It his been stated that gold has been found in the ashes of crude petroleum and in the residue from petroleum stills. Good sound bricks are now being made, it is reported, on a small scale in ~eeds and Birmingham from sewage sludge mixed with about one-third its quantity of clay. According to the. experiments of Dr Bollinger, the nrlk of cows suffering tubercular disease is capable of cunmunithis affection to human brings. As five per cent, of cows when advanced in life suffer from this disease, the danger is considerable. Bulling the miik is not a safeguard.

At a fancy-dress ball at Napier the other day a Civil servant appeared in evening dress, .vith patches on knees and elbows, an empty wallet labelled "ten percent, recln tion " at his side, and placards bearing the wnful legends "economy," "hard times," at front and rear ; but over his heart was the inspiriting motto "NilDesperandum !"