LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 314, 6 November 1880, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr K. F. Gray will hoi J a sale of land, in the estate of James Moore, on Mond.-.y next, at 2 p.m. sharp, at his room«, Main .South Road, Temuka.

Messrs Maclean and Co. will hold their usual weekly sale of horses, &c, at the Timaru Horse Bazaar, to-day, at the usual hour. From a Melbourne cablegram of Nov. 3 we learn that Ned Kelly js to be execi ted on Thursday next.

In the pedestrian contest that was finished in Melbourne on Wednesday last, Edwards made 177 milep, Swan 163, and Campbell 150. Over one hundred thousand persons attendt-d the Melbourne races, and over 20,000 visited the Melbourne Exhibition in one day.

A paragraph published in an Auckland paper accuses Mr Maginnity of having written to Sydney asking the manager there not to employ telegraphists who went on strike in New Zealand . The Temuka Road Board is on the war path. By a resolution passed at its last meeting, the rate collector is enirowered to sue for all outstanding rates.

We were shown yesterday a splendid lot of bai-on and hams, cured by Mr Essery on his premises, Main South Road. The pigs were leared by himself, and all corn fed. Though we have not been favored with a sample, yet, from what we saw of the baon, we can recommend it as first-class.

We were under the impression when informed of the theft at the Temuka Hotel, that that was the first of the kind committed in Temuka ; but since the matter was pi iced in the hands of the police, a number of othpr thefts, of a similar kind, have been freely spoken of. It is a great mistake, and very unfair to the police, not to report these matters at once, as, by not doing so, they are kept in the dark, and the thieves are consequently emboldened at their inactivity. The prompt action of the police in having the two men—-Johnston and Malmey—arrested and convicted for the theft at the Temuka Hotel will, we trust, act as a warning to those similarly disposed .

It is announced that the American exploring party have discovered the remains of Sir John Franklin's expedition, after sledging for 11 months and following the route cohered by the crews of the Erebus and Terror. A man named Baker, res ; ding at Wei. lington, who claims to be a relative of Baker Pasha, went home drunk last Tuesday night and fired a revolver at his landlody, in order, as he said, to " wake her up," He was sent to gaol for a week. Satisfactory accounts are received respecting the harvest prospects in Ireland. In the agricultural districts in the south and in the west the crops give promise of a splendid yield. The distress, which was so widespread among the peasantry, is gradually subsiding, and the demands for relief can be readily met from the funds adrniuistered by the central committee in Dublin.

Our Waikato contemporary, in noticing the depression throughout the colony says the problem of how to unlock capital, employ the destitute, and relieve the growing state of depression, is one that must be early solved ; if it be not, the prospect is indeed a dark one.

When the Empress of Russia was placed i n her coffin she was arrayed in the Imperial robes, with long mantle, crown, and all her decorations, including that of the Red Cross of Geneva, which she prized most of all ; her feet were encased in white satin shoes, the whole costume being more fitted fqr a festival than for a journey to the land whence no traveller returns.

The New York papers state that on the 11th of August Dr Swift, of Rochester, discovered a new comet in Usar Major, but, a cloud intervening, he was unable to calculate the direction. It is said that he has discovered six comets in all, four during the last four years.

The ladies have done well in the first B.A. and IJ.Sc. examinations of London University. In French two of them stand alone in tho first claes, none of their male rivals having got beyond the second. In German there is a lady in the first j while one has obtained honors in Latin, two in English, and two in mathematics. A student from Newnham lias taken honors in botany and chemistry.