LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 296, 28 September 1880, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

It will be observed from our advertising columns that the Bank of New Zealand at Temuka will be closed at 12 o'olock on Thursday, 30th inst., on accourit of the Temuka races, which take place that day, so that parties who have business to do with the bank would do well to bear this in mind.

The Temuka Bifles and Cavalry held a Church parade on Sunday last. The church seleoted this time wa& St. Saviour's. There ,was a go6d muster, and the volunteers proceeded, headed by the drum and fife band, to the church mentioned at a quarter to eleven. After service they marched back to the Volunteer Hall, and were then dismissed. ,

Captain Jackson Barry gar© one of his lectures " On what he saw in England ' to a very unappreciabive audience at Geraldine on Thursday evening last. Eggs and other missiles were freely used during the lecture. The Captain also made his appearance in the Volunteer Hall, Temuka, on Friday and Saturday evenings. A contemporary says:—"The seven prisoners who were sentenced to. twelve months' imprisonment some time sine* for attacking the Orangemen near Barrett's Hotel were set at liberty on Saturday by order of the Government, to whom it had been dhown that in the punishment already inflicted they had sufficiently atoned for their offence. They were also recommended on account of good conduct since their incarceration at Lyttelton.' The four other prisoners who were.sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment were informed that a continuance of their present good conduct would secure to them their discharge in November next.

The Rangitikei Advocate is responsible for the following :-—A ewe waß run into the other day between Greatford and Marton. The poor animal was cut to pieces, and of course killed on the spot. Strange to relate} however, a lamb was

seen to r|se from the mangled remains. The lamb which came into the world in so marvellous a manner is still alive and healthy. The railway employees in Auckland have resqlved, as a first step towards obtaining equitable treatment, to petition the Commissioner of Kail ways for the North Island to be 'placed on an equal scale of pay with the Southern men.

, Aman in Auckland is suffering from an enormous cancer at the back of his neck, which he attributes to a bath in thß hot springs at Oh inemutu.

Mr J. M-Oargaville and Mr Larcher, have been visiting places up the northern Wairoa, Auckland, where the former owns land suitable for a vineyard, Mr Larcher selected a place called Rohoatua, twenty miles above Darguville township. He expressed satisfaction with the land in. unqualified terms. Orders have been received for the Constabulary; to proceed to Tara-. naki. v

HrHalse, counsel for the Maori prisoners convicted at New Plymouth last week, has intimated his intention to appeal to the Supreme Court. The Wellington Post says that at Cabinet meeting on Thursday last it was decided to throw open for settlement the blocks lound Okaiwa, on the Waimate Plains, on the Ist November next, at Carlyle and Hawera, The terms and conditions on which the settlement will be open for sale are as follows :—Land is classed under three shedules, the prices being respectively £5, £6, and £lO per acre. Land specified in the first schedule will be sold for cash, and the lands enumerated in the second and third, schedules on deferred payments, subject to the provisions relating to suburban and rural lands. No person will be allowed to acquire more than one section upon either immediate or deferred payments. Captain Moorhouse has resigned the command of the Wellington Artillery. During the pant winter, from May 3 to August 21, over 800 railway passes to the various sections of the line now under construction, were issued to the unemployed at the Public Works Office, Christ church.

The Directors of the Kaiapoi Woollen Factory, having decided upon the necessity of obtaining a new and powerful engine, have further resolved to invite tenders from New Zealanu firms. The engine will be 60 horse power. Pierangi, aged 60, one of the native prisoners in the Dunedin gaol, died on Thursday night from consumption. Lee Guy has been committed for trial for the murder of Mrs Young at Kyeburn. i

The {Tuapeka correspondent of the Otago Daily Times writes :—"Our local Building Society holds its fifth annual meeting on Monday next, when it will show (in spite of the hard times we have passed through) a dividend of over 10 per cent., which I am cure will give satisfaction to the shareholders." Nearly five hundred people (says the Wellingcon correspondent of Public Opinion) left here in two days by the 8.8. Hero and Wakatipu Such an exodus lrom our shorescannot be a souice of congratulation to us, particularly as those who left were in a position to pay their passages, and in many instances took a small capital with them to try their fortunes in countries where taxation is not so heavy and remunerative employment not so scarce.

A letter from a gentleman well known in Dunedin, now on a visit to England, states :—" I saw some New Zealand oats in the Mark lane Corn Exchange, London, the other day ; there was nothing at all to compare with them ffom any other part of the world. They had sold at a very high figure." This js comfort for depressed fanners in Canterbury end Qtago. The Wairarapa Standard, at a rough guess, estimates the cost of the breakwind sheds, on the Rimutaka at from £BOOO to £IO,OOO. We (N.Z. Times) fancy that when the work is tendered for, even the highest tender will be much below this estimate.

It is difficult for people on this side to get at the truth of affairs in New Zealand (remarks the European Mail of July 30th). The consequence is that in some quarters the greatest alarm prevails, and some timid individuals who own New Zealand bonds, heariiwihat the Budget shows a deficit of sterling, have so flooded, the their " paper " as to greatly depreciated the stock of the Colony. •;->

From a case of polished kauri, now on view iu-{he. shop of Mr Jewell, cabinetmaker, Hereford street (says ihe Lyttelton Times) look* firth the head of the gallant old racehorse, Tetnpjeton. The case also contains two of the hoofs which, have so often" brought Bob, Ray to the front. This work of the taxidermist has been well done, and no doubt numbers ot people will avail themselves of the opportunity to look once more at their old favorite.

The numders of working meu who left for Australia by the Hero and the Wakatipu last week (says the N. Z. Times) took with tnem, in the aggregate, a large amount of capital. During the early part of the week there was quite a " run " upon the Post-office Saving Bank, and the num r .

ber of £3O, £4O, and £SO deposits withdrawn in so short a period was wholly unprecedented. It is estimated that a sum between LIO,OOO and L 15.00 has been taken from Wellington in this manner and is on its way to Australia.