The Temuka Leader TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1880. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 312, 2 November 1880, Page 2

The Temuka Leader TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1880. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Temuka Rond Board hold their usual monthly meeting to-day.

Tender* are called for additions to the Breads! I bane Store, to be in not latter than Saturday next. The Qeraldine County Counc ; l hold their usual monthly meeting to-day,"at 11

a.m. The larder of the Temuka Hotel was pilfered of its contents late on Saturday night or early on Sunday morning, and the hostess was considerably put about in consequence, aud had to get a fresh supply of nv.'at for Sunday's dinner. This is a new industry sprur gup in Temuka, and the sooner it is nipped in the bud the better. The matter was placed in the hands of the police, and we hope the thief will soon be run to earth, and receive the punishmeut justly deserved for such a contemptable action. We have learned since that the meat, carefully place! in a bag, was found in some flax close to the Opihi bridge, by the police yesterday.

What might have been a serious accideut, but fortunately resulted only in a "wetting" to the driver, occurred to a man in the employ of Mr Ackroyd, butcher. It appears that while crossing the Orari river on Wednesday last, with a horse and trap, the swingle tree of the trap gave way, and the horse, finding himself free, made off, leaving the driver and trap in the centre of the river, which was running with great force at the time. The dr'vcr had to wade up to his neek for assistance, which was soon at hand, and the trap brought safely to the shore

The military display on the Prince of Wales birthday by our Volunteers, is likely to be on a much larger scale than we at first anticipnted. We now learn that tho Ashburton Rifles, as well as the Timaru Artillery, with their respective bands, will take part in the day's proceedings. Temuka ought to be well off for music on that day as there will be no less than four bands in town.

The Auckland Education Board have reduced the sp.ice per child, in the city schools, from 10 to 9 feet square, giving additional accommodation to 200 children.

All the cash and deferred payment sections at Hawera have been sold. The value of the cash bind was nearly £31,000 and nearly £BOOO was received on deposit for cash land. The deferred payment land averaged £7 an acre, and the cash land averaged £6. Mr W.Rutherford, of Montrose, Amuri, reports the appearance of scab i. his flock It is stated on good authority that Mr Rutherford purposes destroying the whole flock (about 7000) running on the infected country.

Mr Wood, our future Resident Magistrate, was presented with an address at Waiaku, before leaving that district. He h is been Resident Magistrate and Warden for the last 17 years. The Old Maids' Association of Geauge County, O. (says the Ivew York Tribune), held a picnic on the lake recently, and mustered 86 souls. This Society was an outgrowth of the war, and waa organised in 1868 by a bevy of young Indies whose brothers and sweethearts were fighting for their country, and left them without the resources of male escort, except the laggards who remained at home. Unwilling to accept tho gallantry of these young men, the young ladies preferred to depend upon themselves, and formed the association mentioned. Out of revenge the gallants dubbed these independent damsels " old maids," and they accepted the cognomen and made it their own.

For some months a Philadelphia physician had under treatment an infant afflicted witfy the rare disease melanosis, in an aggravated form. The child was born wij;h a fair complexion, dark eyes, and brown hair. Soon after birth he began to turn dark of skin, the colour deepening from yellow to saffron, and finally £o black The colour was uniform all over the body, except at the joints, wliere it was a little darker, and in the palms of the hands) where it was lighter. The once brown hair grew stiff and jet black, and tlje eyes, also grew darker, so that the line between the pupils and the iris could not be distinguished, In spite of medical treatment the boy became wqrse, and grew very weak, all the time the colour of skin deepening. At last he became aa black as a full-blooded negro. Then he wns attacked by convulsions, which grew more frequent and violent, until they threatened the child's life. It was in one of these that a physician was called in. He succeeded in curing the spasms, and then devoted his attention to the strange disease which afflicted 'the child. He at once recognised it as melanosis, or pigmentation, which is mentioned in the books in a general way, but there is no case given where it had developed all over the body. Thi3, occurred when the child was 13 months old. At last accounts the boy had greatly improved, by degrees becoming lighter, until he is now of a light chestnut-brown colour.