The Temuka Leader SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1880. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 311, 30 October 1880, Page 2

The Temuka Leader SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1880. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Fresh tenders for valuing and compiling the Valuation Roll of th« Temuka Road District are to be in by Tuesday next, not later than 10 a.m.

The public arc warned that the boundary from De Reuzy's to the Kakahu Road is dangerous for traffic, especially at the river crossing. Tenders for a numb r of works are invited by the Ternuka Road Board, to be iu not later than 10 a.m. on . Tuesday next.

"Mr K. F. Gray notifies to runhoJders, iheepfarmers and others, that he will hold periodical sales of wool, sheepskins and hides, during the season, at his rooms, Main South Road.

We are glad to state that Miss Phillips, ivho met with the accident on Saturday last, is rapidly recovering. Messrs Maclean and Stewart will sell, at their rooms, Timaru, this day, at 2 p.m., two quarter acre sections, situate iu High street, iTimaiu; also quarter acre section close to the railway statiou, Mikikihi. The officer commanding the Volunteers in the Nelson district has received an intimation from the Defenoe Office to summarily dismiss a sergeant iu the Waimea Rifle Corps for repeated absence from parades. About 300 persons attended at the land sale at Hawera, on Thursday, Sections sold from £5 Is to £lO 2s 6d. There was Keen competition for some of the sections, but others went low.

The notorious money lender, Michael Murphy, and a man named Watt, were committed for trial at the Resident Magistrate's Court, Christchurch, on Wednes day last, for perjury. The ohargo arose out of a supposed conspiracy between the two men for the purpose of upsetting a charge of forgery against the former's brother.

The unemployed in Ashburtou have been petitiouing the Government for work, and hare received a reply from the Minister of Public Works to the effect that the Government is unable to find employment for them ; but at the same time intimating that directions had been issued to the Engineer in oharge of the Middle Islami to prepare for contract and call for te .deis n short length of formation on the Mount Somers line.

The following item from a Sydnev paper will bo news to a good many J*eiv Ze tlanders—" The initiator of the free breakfast table in New Zealand —Mr Woolcock, ex M.HR—is uow acting in the capacity of ganger over the unemployed. Voiily, ' a man in his time plays many parts,' especially in the Australian Colonies." Agrarian outrages in the west of Ireland still cotMiniie. Strong reinforce ments of military and police have been sent to that part of 'the,country,-which is now under a state of martial law.

A grand demonstration has been held in New York in honor of General Grant. The city was magnificently decorated, and a procession numbering over 40,000 people, and consis ing principilly of old soldiers who had served under him during the Civil War, m irohed through the street at night. The city was brilliantly illuminated.

The Government are exhibiting a determinaliou to act wit!) rigour in the repression of disturbances in Ireland.

Intelligence received froai Candahar states that sickness is very prevalent among the British troops stationed at Candaliar. Tiiay have suffered much from the excessive h: at. Fever is common, and their condition of health generally is unsatisfactory.

The Bruce Herald throws out the following brilliant suggestion—" The baby who was born in a mil way carriage is the offspring of a member of the Byron ic Dramatic Club If the letter Bis deducted from 'Byronic,' the remainder is 'yronic.' The railway is au ironical road, and if the baby is named Ironia the title will be strictly appropriate." A plot of a very serious character has been discovered at .Constantinople A const iraoy, in which a large number of people were concerned, has been discovered, the object of which was to create a riot, under cover of which it was intended to pillage the bazaar At Stamhoul. Three hundred persons have been arrested on suspicion of complicity i'i the mutter. The Allahab-td correspondent of the Indian Mail sends it an instructive illustration of what it calls the tenacity with which the Hindoo sticks to old institutions :—" It appears that at a tremendous expense the Government got a steamplough out from England in order to induce the richer zemindars to do.likewise, and commenced operations with the machine on a model farm tliey have here. Th« plough worked badly, but the cream of the joke was, that after the ground had all been ploughed up, and the natives had expressed their intense admiration of the English machine, they turned to with their common country ploughs and did the whole business over again."

A writer of small talk in an English <x. ehungesays : — "Apropos of the shooting at Winbledon, I have heard a rather amusing instance of Ameri?an ' tftU tnlk,' attributed to one of the American marksmen now encamped within the Association lines. An English volunteer was remarking on the worderful good scores that had been made at this meeting, when the American replied ' Oh, I don't think so much of this kind of shooting now. When I wasiu the Northern army we used to practise a good deal and had some pretty fair shots among us, but then we practised at a barrel, which we rolled down a hill, and any man who put a bullet into it, except through the • buug-hole, had a pretty rough time of it. There were lota of us who could do this, and I have seen many a man put a dozen bullets through the buug-hole.' ' Tall' shooting this with a vengeance."

', A good tale is going the rounds of cricketing circles in England respecting a certain Lancashire profess'onal and country cricket p'ayer. The garrison at Preston had a cricketing engagement with Bossal School to fulfi', and being short of bowling talent secured the services of the player in question, who was enlisted for the day with the rank of " full private," and the nom de guerre of Jones. The unsuspicious schoolboys went in to bat in that happy but delusive confidence which ignorance can alone inspire. Were they got out for 5, or 6, or 10, or some such insignificant total, making a most disastioiw display of themselves ? Not they ! The atrocious miscreants stayed in all day, and scored 398 off the couutry and his military '•pals." One desperate villain obtained 205 "to his own cheek," a'ld now that prominent professional swears and declares that he will in future "fight shy " of tender school boy teams.

Discontented with the 10 per cent, reduction, a hundred members of the Armed Constabulary force ou the West Coast have resigned their positions. It is uuderstood (says the Oamaru Mail) that the Govern merit will not till thair pi ices. This is so fur satisfactory, inasmuch as the Government willjsave thereby at least £SO u day. But the expenditure for •' defence " purposes on the Yy est Coast is still between £4OO and £SOO per day, and one feels inclined to wish that the Government nviy be led into still further reductions of such a reckless waste of public money by additional retirements. No one knows why such a force is maintained, except it be to bolster up the languishing district which is represented by the Colonial Treasurer It is farcial to pietend that there is, or has been for years, any danger of a Native outbreak in the district.

The Sarali Bernhardt incident at Copenhagen which wai briefly referred to in a recent cable message, ia thus described by a correspondent of the Whitehall Review ; - " A fete was given ia honour of Sarah Bernhardt, to which the German Minister Baron Von Magnus, was invited. The Baron, one of Sarah's most enthusiastic admirers, proposed 'La belle France ! represented by one of her most lovely d-iugliters.' Sarah replied, 'I drink, Monsieur le Baron, a la France entiere, an overt a lusiou to Alsace and Lorraine at once seized upon by the company. The band struck up the ' Marseillaise,' and worst of all, t-ie Chancellor of the French legation, M. de Serre, proposed ' The Old Alliance or France and Denmark.' Naturally the German Minister left the room, and Sarah is now the cause of rivers ot diplomatic ink, and perhaps of serious mischief,"

We extract from the Inverness Courier of the sth August the following notice of the promotion of Dr W. A. Mackiunon who served with distinction in the New Zealaad War of 1883-66, and who is the brother of Mr Lachlan Mackiunou, one of the proprietors of the Melbourne Argus : "We are glad to understand that Dr W. A Mackiunon will shortly he promoted to the rank of surgeon-general, and will in all probability proceed to Malta as principal medical officer of that command. As deputy surgeon-general, Dr Mackiunon serveu in ihe Eastern campaign of 185455. Me likewise served as surgeon on the personal staff of Lord Clyde during the ludian Mutiny, and proved himself very active in the New Zealand War of 1863' 66. In addition to this, he wss principal medical officer in the second phase of the Ashantee War of 1873-74. Dr Mackiunon is one of the most distinguished officers in the department, and it is hoped his next move will be to headquarters, Whitehall Yard. Dr Mackiunon is a Skye mam and son of the late Rev. John Mackiunon, of the parish of Strath, in Skye." Mr Elliston, late chief officer of the Assam, who, on the strength of Martin Weiberg's statement, was arrested and tried, but acquitted in L>ndon for the great robbery of gold from the ship named, has returned to Victoria, and entered an action for £SOOO damages against the Melbourne Daily Telegraph. He is also bringing libel actions against several other papers. It will be remembered that th** P. and O- Company gave Mr E liaton £IOO by way of compensation for the wrong done him at their instance. A clergyman who has recency come out from England says that the extraordinary spectacle of a Roman Cardinal sitting in the British House of Lords will be witnessed before many years. It seems that

the heir apparent to the title and estates of the Pefre peerage is a Roman Catholic priest, upon whom the Pope has recently conferred the title of Monsiguore. The rev. gentleman has already renounced his claim to his eslates, but of course he cannot dispose of the title in the same way, and when the present peer dies the Modsignore will succeed to hia seat in the House of (of course if he should ■urvivo. him), and beyond doubt wil' receive the Cardinal's hat from the Pope.

The Chinese (says the Bulletin) have captured Hawaii. They already outnumber all the other foreign residents on the Islands, and within the next decade they will outnumber all the natives. Chinese coin has recently bought the Assembly and the King, and obtained for a line of Chinese steam traders a subsidy of £3600 per year. The object of the Chinese capitalists is to make Honolulu the centre of the opium traffic. It was pointed out that the English companies at Hong Hong who I ave long had a monopoly in the trade, made one million a year dear profit.

A specimen of the many attractive pickings with which contractors were .wont to be treated under the old Provincial regime (says the Western Star) came to light at a meeting of the County Council the. other day. The matter of erecting a bridge over Hamilton Burn was under discussion, when it was stated ihat the banks of the river had been cut some years ago to enable access to be gained to a fordable spot, and it was incidentally mentioned that the contractor received LIBO for doing the work, which the County Engineer said was only worth Ll 4.