The Temuka Leader SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1880. LOCAL AND GENERAL.
We have to apologise to our subscribers for a little unpunctuality in delivery of their papers, as we have been engaged in removing the pLint to a more central part of the town, which put things a little into confusion. It shall be our study to make up for this and other matters by doubling our diligence in order to make the paper jpome out in better form and fuller of matter than we have been able to do for seme time. Qur office is on the Main South Itoad, nearly right opposite the Bulk of New Zealand. We shall be glad if our subscribers will inform us of any cases of uon-delivery in future, when their cast; will be carefully attended to, and the cause searched out.
We are often asked for a reason why no further progress is made with the Opihi Bridge, bill have l>een unable to give a satisfactory one. On enquiry, however, we find the reason is that the Government have not replied to the request that the bridge should be made in connection with the railway bridge. Tlia is reprehensible on the part of the Government keeping a whole district back for months by want of attention to our local requirements. It is to be hoped that some of the County Council members will table a resolution at their next meeting condemning this carelessness. Mr Proctor's Camera Obscura is now the centre of attraction. Many go to see it, but we wonder more do, not go. To those who have not seen anything of the kind before, the surprise at seeiug the whole traffic at the railway station and neighborhood must be to them a startling surprise. Men are to be seen shovelling eoals into a dray, others riding along, teamsters with their teams dri.ing along, and every building is splendidly brought out. The Catholic Church is a prominent feature, as is also the Scotch, Church, the schools, and others of any note, as well as the smallest cottage ; cows and poultry feeding, men passing up and down, others delivering messages at the different places, and passing on. The modern discoveries of the optica nam not the least of the wonderful productions of the age. We understand the exhibitor has arranged for a visit of the school children to-day, under the charge of the headmaster. AH parents ought also to pay it a visit, as many a shilling and sixpence—the charge made for adults und children—has been willingly given, for what leaves po good impiession behind. To boys;4l cannot fail *;o give them a taste for the beautiful. Saturday is advertised as the last day of the exhibition.
Mr K F. Gray's general Saturday sale of furniture, etc., has been postponed from 2 o'clock till 4 o'clock this day. In the presence of a lnrge fomp.viy, the Pruuiier presented Mr Wilkin, at Cimihmch, on Wecnesdiy, \i '> an 1 li'-js ' t r i i 'f v'i c 1 h i
A man named John Archer threw him T s;'lf info the river Avon, Christehurch, on Weduesdny, and was rescued by some m«n in a boat. He had been suffering frem low spirits.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 299, 2 October 1880, Page 2
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