The Temuka Leader SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1880. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 305, 16 October 1880, Page 2

The Temuka Leader SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1880. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Inspector of has been making unexpected visits to the back yards, &c, of the different premises about town, during the last day or two.

The suggestion thrown out by us last week to the members of the Temuka Brass Band was given effect to on Wednesday evening laHt. On that occasion the band formed up in marching order nearly opposite the Ohurcli of England, and, escorted by a number of boys bearing torches, marched through the town discoursing sweet music. ,It was quite a surprise to the inhabitants, besides being a novelty, and a large number of persons soon congregated in the main street. We are informed that a cheque for £5 towards the band fund was the result of the even ing's outing. The drum and fife band also paraded the town the same evening, play ing several lively airs.

A statement has been published in nearly all the papers to the effect that the "privilege tickets " to railway employees, enabling them to travel at one-fourth ordinary passenger rates, had been withdrawn.' It now appears that intimation has sincj been received that the issue of Buch tickets is to continue in the meantime, the matter being still under consideration.

Our readers will be glad to learn that Inspector Pender's services/ are not to be dispensed with after all, the Government having wired him to that effoct on last Wednesday. A late Melbourne telegram says that private advices from London reporL a decided advance in the English wheat market.

The success of Laycock over Bhckmau, in the boat race from Putney to Mortlake, created considerable excitement in Sydney Flags were hoisted at several places. The Wellington correspondent of the Christchurch Press telegraphed on Oct. 14 as follow? :—" The Government have received a communication from Sir J Vogel explicitly tendering his resignation as Agent-General. At a Cabinet meeting this evening the matter was considered and it was decided definitely to accept t e resignation, and Sir J. Vogel was advised accordingly. The appointment of a successor, together with the salary and other points relating to the Agency - Gene/al are now under consideration of the Go» vernment.

A girl named Greaves, or Green, aged 17, w;iß charged at the Police Court, Tim.iru, on Wednesday, with the larceny of £4 belonging to a widow lady. The accused, who was formerly an inmate of the Cliristchurch Orphanage, represented herself as a governess, and repaid tlie widow's hospitality by stealing the money during her absence and decamping to D uhed in. As the girl refused to pie id, she was remanded for medical examiuatiorr

In the South Australian Assembly attention was called to the great influx and probable enormous increase of Chinese in the Northern Territory, and to the necessity oi increasing the police force with a view to tlie protection of Europeans. At Temora a fine-looking reef has b Jen broken, showing gold freely Forty-two pounds weight of gold has been taken out of Nugent and Adams' alluvial claim, and Kea thing and party, adjoining, got a nugget of 670 z. last Saturday. Three boys, whose ages from 14 to 16 years, left their homes, Wellington, taking with them a horse, arms, and ammunition. Nothing has been heard of them since, but it is supposed that they are in the Wairarapa district. The police are making inquiries. The free-pas 3 system would appear to have grown to enormous proportions on the Victorian Railways. It was recently stated in the Legislative Assembly that if free passes could ba stopped £IO,OOO a year would be saved to the revenue.

The circulation of books for the year endiug Apri', 1880, in the Wellington Athenaeum has been tabulated as follows : Divinity, 12 ; mechanics, 25 ; natural history, philosophy, &0., 610 ; history, 266 ; biography, 269; travels, &c, 1010 ; miscellaneous. 805; poetry, 127 ; magazines (bound), 2120 ; ficti >n, 20,200 ; magazines (in numbers), 3838 ;—total, 29,272. The number on the roll, including 39 life members", is 782.

If Ah Lee, sentenced io death on Saturday, be hung, he will be the third person Ranged in Otago. Captain William Jarvey, BcaiiMQ, found guilty of poisoning his wife, was sentenced to death on September 15, 1865, and was executed on October 24, 1865. John Jones, also a seaman, found guilty of the murder of Richard Atkinson, at Waipori, on the 33rd December, 1865, was sentenced to death on March 5, 1868, and was executed on the 6th April, 1866,

It is therefore over 12 years since there has been an execution in Dunediu.

According to the N.Z. T\ms* the reason why.it was found necessary to send Mr Stratford on to Greymouth in such haste was th=it Mr James Mackay, the R.M. at Greymouth liad been arrested for debt. This' misfortune has necessarily entailed on Mr Mackay the loss of his appointment.

News from Norfolk Island states that Bishop Selwyn has been kindly recived by the natives of Santa Cruz, four miles from where Commodore Goodenough was mur dered. The Rev Mr Wadrizan was left there as missionary. Father O'Sullivau, half brother of Mr It. O'Sullivan, Inspector o£ Schools and head of the Benedictines, is on his way to Auckland.

Invercargill must be a lively place to reside in according to the following, taken from the local paper :—• For nearly three hours, from 6 to 9 Dee street was on Sunday night, we are informed by a correspondent, patrolled by a number of grown up larrikins, who apparently set themselves deliberately to annoy every female who, on her way to or from church, had not a masculine companion. Tiicse were carefully shunned, but the others were persecuted by fellows who would be mightily insulted were they considered anything else* than men, forcing their company on them, aud making use of un seemly language.

On the subject of New Zealand Horses atMelbourne "Augur" in the Australasian writes :—Camballo's running at the late meeting of the V.R.C speaks well for the New Zealand Cup horse MaU, who can give the brown a lump of weight and beat him over any distance, For instance in tiie last Dunedin Cup Mata carried Bst. 91b. and won, while Cambello with 7st 31b up could not get a place, though in the Autumn Handicap, Cambello, Bst, beat Mata, 9st 81b. I should say, however, that over a distance of ground, the son of Raupo could give him twenty one pounds and beat him. When the handicap for the Melbourne Cup first made its appear unce I selected Mata and Sweetmeat to beat all the top weights, and Progress as undoubtedly the best of the threa year olds, at the weights, and should Sweet meat get alright again, of which there is every probability, I don't think I shall be far out when Mr Johnston gives his ver diet.

Previous to the Gloucester math, in which the Australian Eleven gained a brilliant victory in the cricket-field over this crack county team, a letter, which we append, was sent by some mean-spirited person to W. G. Grace, who, with proper manly feeling, at once showed it to the Australians. The letter was as follows : —"Dear Sir,—l must ask your pardon fur giving such an astute cricketer as yourself any advice, but as I "am very anxious to see the Gloucestershire men win the match, 1 thought I would give you a tip or two. Well, then, to begin with, ihe Australians can't play slow underhand a bit. If you have a man who can bowl underhand fairly well, put him on early. Look out for Blackball! (wickefckeper); he does not scruple to ask anything and gets many out through frightened or nervous umpires. I have given you this information because I dislike the Australian cricketers greatly. They are moneygrubbers, and there is not a gentleman amongst them. lam an Australian born j and know all the team land their play.— (Signed) One Who Knows." At the Temora goldfield the chief want seems to be water, and unless some permanent supply can be obtained the rush seems likely to collapse. A party of water prospectors, with boring apparatus, recently arrived at Temora from Adelaide, and one of the numbej, writing on Sept. 21st te a relative at St. Kilda (Victoria), thus describes the position :—"We started work this morning, and are doing good work. If we strike water we shall be considered the salvation of Temora. We have great hopes of finding it before long. As it is, everything is at a standstill, not a pound to be seen. There are a few getting gold, but there are thousands here doing nothing. The great cry is' water V Everyone is waiting for the result of our trial I think if we were to find an artisiao well it would be a fortune for us. If we do not I don't know what the people will do, for they have no" place to keep water if it were to rain for a month, and the country is so flat that they have no place to make dams. The only way they can ever keep water is by making large reservoirs to hold it, aud 1 think there is not much chance of that being done.".

In her lecture on " Melboure by day and night" Madame Wilmott pidnts, ia words, an apparently faithful picture of the daily action of a Melbourne merchant. On Sunday evening last, pit, stalls, and the dress circle were fairly attended. A few of the fair Bex were eager listeners, and some children sat in the circle. Referring to the river Yarra she said, " 343 death, uiimentioned by police or Press, tuke place in the Yarra annually, and these deaths are all suicides."

Some amusement was caused at the Supreme Court (says 0- JO. Times) on Wednosdey by the examination of Alex* ander M'Kenzie, » witnesa in a case iu which the defendant was sued for the amount of a promissory note given as col-

lateral security for the sum of £350 advanced to the Blueskm Good Templars' Hall Company. A portion of the examination of the witness waa as followa : Mr Haggia ; " Are you a Good Templar, or were you one?" Witness: "1 was one." Mr H.. «* Have you seen the error of your ways V " Well, I don't see anything to be gained by being a Good Templar." Mr H.: " Was there a lodge there called theßlueakin Good Templar Lodge?" Witness : "No. There were two lodges. The name of one was the Pride of Waita ki." "Mr Haggitt : "It's astonishing how proud people get when they become Good Templars." Another witness called during the case said that " he was no longer a Good Templar, that he has had enough of them, but he still worked up to Good Templar principles."

The Taranaki Herald says : —" Parihaka is at present in a filthy state, and fears are entertained that another epidemic similar to that of last year will break out amongst the Natives We learn that a death occurred there yesterday under circumstances which would point to the presence of ferer. Additional cause for alarm is to be apprehended from the fact that the Armed Constabulary camp is at present in the immediate vicinity in the Native settlement, and the epidemic would tlmost inevitably spread among the ranks of the Constabulary."

' From a return recently prepared by Mr Ogg, audit commissioner, it appears that in Victoria, from 1855 to 1880, municipal institutions have received from the public revenue no less a sum than £5,000,000.

Anstralian papers report a new form of swindle. Some of the Melbourne publishing firms propose to issue an Exhibition Supplement. One of them has issued a circular to exhibitors, in which they promise, on paymeut of a fee, to publish a literary notice of any articles exhibited. The notice will, however, be submitted to the exhibitors before publication. The Argus exposes and denounces the swindle. Hitherto the faithfulness of the .reports, and the honesty of the critisms of the c olonial press have been unquestioned, and it would be impossible for any reputable journal to countenance the above proposal. The impartiality of any criticism by the press ought to be above suspicion.