LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 321, 25 November 1880, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Green peas, for the first time this season, were being sold* in town, yesterday, at 4s fid a,, peek. r f -•

The atmosphere for days past has been very sultry, ft and the advent of rain is being anxiously looked for by farmers in this and other districts

Messrs Maclean and Stewart will soil, at their rooms, Timaru, this day, at 3SO p.m., a quantity of wool and skins. .Also, on Satur day, at 2 p.m., theywill sell3B acres leasehold land situated at'lungsdown

We regret that the crops in many parts of the district, though advanced, are beginning to suffer severely for the want of rain In

of .jjthe at the’ Orarithe*grain averaged from eighteep incites, to two feet in lieigljt,,but unfortunately it is becoming f red and discolored' , i.A' <

"'d-'---’ ■' S' ’ ' SS'/ ■ s, The premises of. ; Mr Hou‘Bton, ironmbnger, Timarn, were entered by some amateur burg lars on Monday night The only property missed was about tea shillings, the pilferers having evidently been disturbed It was John Ilealan that was fined at the Police Court, bn Monday last, for being drunk and disorderly, and hot John Daley, as stated in Tuesday’s issue. The Empress of Austria has just re-, ceived a singular mark of honor from' the Czar. He has conferred on his august cousin the title of honorary colonel of a regiment of Uhlans. The H.M.S. Uanao arrived from Fiji with Sir Arthur Gordon on board, reaching the anchorage. Auckland, at dusk on Tuesday, and the official landing took place yesterday. A warrant for the arrest of Moftatt’a murderers has beep issued by ti e Government. Commenting on which' the Wangamii Chronicle knys —“ Whatever may be the intention of the Government with regard m this outrage, the issue of the warrant gives no indication of what their action will'be. We have no doubt that, iu order to put matteis in train, an ordi? nary information was sworn before a magistrate, and the warrant followed iu due course. The execution of it is quite another affair, and involves very grave considerations. It is not the only document of the kind which has been issued against a murderous Maori, but which is now lying in some pigeon-hole, whilst the person to whom it relates is still at large and likely to remain so,” That respectable paper,the Australasian, is vexed because Messrs Grant and Foster did hot visit Victoria and speak a good word for it. It says, “In point of climate and natural productiveness of soil, we are not one whit behind onr southern/neighbors, and the great boast of New Zealand, ‘that it is,a place where an Englishman may make an English home, and produce everything he requires to make life comfortable,’ is no more applicable to those islands than to the Australian continent.” Our Victorian contemporary should bear in mind that according to the latest statistics the yield of wheat in Victoria was 8f bushels per acre, while io New Zealand it was 28 bushels. For the same labour our settlers get three times the return the Victorians do. The latter are therefore greatly behind their southern neighbors, the Australasian notwithstanding. A fearful accident happened last week to Mrs W. Phelan, wife of a sclec or residing in the Wombat Ranges ’(says the Bmalla standard). From wJiat we cun gather it appears that, while coining into town on horseback, her dog stuck up an old-man kangaroo. Finding the dog was getting the worst of the encounter, she got off her horse to go to the animal's assist tance. The kangaroo immediately at tacxod her, and inflicted frighiful injuries on different parts of the body, from the effects of which siie has since died, leaving a' family of four young chjld-