LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 326, 7 December 1880, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Temuka Boad Board will hold its usual monthly meeting to day, in the Road Board Office.

The quarterly licensing Court, advertised to be held to day, is adjourned for a week, on account of the absence of Mr Wood, R.M.

We would draw attention of builders to an advertisement of Mr Hayhurst calling for tenders for erection of four shops and dwellings, and Temperance Hotel

The Hinemoa with the murderer, Tuhi, on board, arrived at 11 o’clock on Saturday morning. A large number of people were on the wharf ‘to catch sight of the prisoner. Tuhi walked ashore, aud was at once driven to the gaol. He appeared quite calm.

It is understood that the Government have decided to reduce the rate of wages paid to the unemployed on works provided for their benefit. The new rate will lie 4s per day for married, and 3s for single men, the prices for piece work being proportionately lowered.

Mr Hammond commenced yesterday to examine the children attending theTeinuka School in standards 283 were present We are glad to be able to say the school has not this session been interrupted by sickness, consequently wo expect tfie result will be highly satisfactory It will take all to day to finish the examination Mr G. M. Reed has completed arrangements for the purchase of 12,000 acres of excellent farming laud for bis first special settlement within a few miles of Gisborne, Poverty Bay. He has also nearly completed arrangements for future special settlements of various blocks further along the coast.

T 1 o recent discovery of an apparently rich gold bearing reef at Port William, Stewart’s Island,-is attracting considerable attention. Already a number of miners, and Bluff and Invercargill residents are on the spot., The information'yet to hand is somewhat meagre, bht there appears to be no doubt that a gold bearing reef has been found.

Mr Mahnke, bootmaker, finding his business rapidly increasing, and also to keep wi|tl| the times, has recently gone to considerable expense in altering and re-, fitting his shop. He has also added considerably to hi? stock of boots and shoes, which are to his pwn special order, and from the best manufacturing houses in

New Zealand. The fact of Mr M-’ixnke being a practical tradesman plight to be a that his stock of boots and shoes are pf fir,s class quality, and we would recommend fathers of families and others to pay him « visit, and judge for themselves. IJis prices are very reasonable.

Professor Haselmeyer, the clever illusionist, who is now performing in Invercargill, intends paying Temuka a visit shortly, The Professor comes to the colony with a first class reputation, having shown himself to be a conjurer of rare ability, and possessing all the powers to please and interest an audience. To enumerate the feats of deception he accomplishes would occupy too much of our space—suffice it to say that tor a couple of hours he succeeds in mystifying and thoroughly pleasing his audience. In every place he has visited he appears to have been well received and to have drawn large houses.

The usual monthly inspection parade of the No 1 Temuka Rifle Volunteers took place in the Volunteer Hall on Friday evening last. Present—l captain, 2 lieutenants, 3 sergeants, 31 rank and file, and 24 band. Captain Young was the inspecting officer. After inspection the company, headed by their band, had a march out. The monthly meeting of the company was held immediately after their return, when it was announced that class firing would commeM* this morning, and that a silver medal, presented to the company by Lieut Findlay, would be given to the best marksman. A challenge from the Timaru Artillery to fire a friendly match on the 16th inst. was read and accepted. The meeting tuen adjourned.

It was mentioned yesterday (says the Melbourne Argus of November 25th) that Miss Ella Carrington and Miss Lilly Reid, of the “ Stray Leaves” company, had been arrested in South Australia on a charge of child-murder at Coleraine. From the Hamilton Spectator we learn that the arrest took in consequence of the disclosures made at the inquest held at Coleraine last Saturday on the body of « female child, “ whose body had previously been found imbedded, head downwards, near the creek I’he evidence all went to show that a most brutal murder had been committed, and subsequently an information was laid and a warrant issued for the arrest of Ella Carrington and Lily Reid These persons were members of the ‘ Stray Leaves ’ company, who recently peformed one night in Hamilton, and did not appear, as intended, on the second night, owing, it was alleged at the time, to Ella Carrington having ‘ sprained her ankle.’ Dr J. F. Andersan deposed to having made a post mortem examination, and found that the child, which had evidently breathed, must have been dead from seven to 14 days. The bones ar the top of the head had been extensively fractured, the baain protruding between them. He believed that the child had been born alive and-met its death by v : olence and neglect” The jury returned a verdict of Wilful murder against some person or persons unknown,” and ui>on this the podee acted.

Erskine Wood, shot by Hiram C. Briggsat Coeymans U S., recently ran half a mile and lived fifty-eight hours after .the bullet had passed through his heart.

“There is something like excitement in medical circles just now,” writes the London correspondent of a Scotch paper received by the last ma 1, “i.i regard to the announcement of what appear to be startling discoveries by physicians. , A short time since M. Pasteni, an eminent physiologist in Paris, gave out his belief the day would come when almost all epidemic diseases might be prevented by inoculation, in the same manner that small-pox is prevented by vaccination. He h«d a*ready succeeded in proving that the principle might be advantageously applied to fowls, to protect them from the species of cholera to which they are subject. Now, Professor Touissant announces that he has discoveied the means of saving sheep and cattle from the terrible effects of the foot-and-mouth disease, which yearly destroys so large number of animals If this news be true, the professor will have proved a benefactor to the race of men as well as quadrupeds. His mode of procedure is to take some blood from an animal which has died of the same disease and simply to defibrine it by means of heat, and this done, to inoculate sheep several times with it, and the animals are unable zo contract the malady. The only question which remains is as to whether the good effects continue for any length of time, and we may safely suppose that the inoculation operates as a safeguard as long in the animal as in the man. Several .French physicians are now pursuing similar investigations on a large scale. They believe that a new era is about to dawn, in which all contagious diseases may have the pre ventives.” *

A matter-of-fact correspondent with the French army at their autumnal manoeuvres, completely destroys one of the pretty illusions fostered by the stage, and hitherto invested with an almost romantic halo The “ cantiniere,” he says, though not herself an under officer, is, commander-in-chief of them all. 1 am sorry to say that a pretty cantiniere has never been known in military history. She does not ecen march with tfie Regiment, cracking jokes and singing sougs, Slie is, on the contrary solid, tn jbherly old ady, whq travels in

a one-horse cart, with a sharp eye On own liquor. She has often a beard a's strong as that of the colonel,' and she is proud of it. She makes a comfortable thing of her canteen, but no cantiniere ever grew rich. The board of the midor officers, which it comes under her province to provide, is supplied at a price fixed by the colonel, and it does not leave a large margin of profit, it is strictly proportioned to their pay. However, her trade is strictly conducted on readymoney principles, and she does make something out of the officers’ messes, especially on strangers’ and festival days. , The Melbourne Argus says : —We understand that it is the intention of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company to adopt during the ensuing grain season the system here which has proved so satisfactory to their constituents in New Zealand, viz.,, to open up the London market, aud give the option to every one of their clients, large or small, of selling their produce either here or in London, for whichever market a preference may he shown.