LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 328, 11 December 1880, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Rial of Tula for the murder of Miss Dobie will take place on Monday or Tuesday next. 'Jlepders are wanted for the erection of a hall for the 1.0.0. P., M.U., to be sent in ou vVednesday next

Messrs Maclean and Stewart will sell, at their Horse Bazaar, Timaru, this day, at 11 a.in. horses, harness, etc.

Mr K. F. Gray’s usual monthly sale of fat and store cattle, etc., will take place ou Wednesday next, at his sale yards, opposite the Presbyterian Church.

The Mount Peel Road Board advertise for tenders for forming Bridle) Track to Forest Creek, to be in by 11 a. m. on the 17th December. ,

On Wednesday evening last, while the son of Mr Findlay was playing with a son of Mr James Radford, a dog belonging to the latter, bit him severely on the right forearm, one fang penetrating to the bone. The boy was attended by Dr Camming. No serious result is apprehended.

The members of the Temuka Brass Band seranaded Mr and Mrs Arenas, at their residence, on Thursday evening, in honor of their marriage, which took place at Christchurch early this month We are given to understand that Mrs Arenas has presented the Baud with a pair of handsome cymbals All those in the habit of riding and driving frequently through the town have reason to be very greatful to our Road Board for (he work in which the men have been engaged during the last day or two, viz., removing the loose boulders that have been kicking about tor several weeks past, to their annoyance and danger, A general meeting of the shareholders of the Farmers’ Co-operative Association will be held in Mr Green’s store, Timaru, this morning, at half past eleven. We should direct attention to the fact that unless allotment fees are paid prior to the meeting, shareholders will be debarred from voting or taking part in the proceeding.

, The seventeenth annual prize meeting of the Otago Rifle Association commenced ou Wednesday. In the first match sixty competitors took part. A new feature in the meeting was tne using of the new Wimbledon targets, (a description of which appeared in our issue of Saturday last,i points scoring as follows :—Bull’s eye, 5 ■ inner, 4 ; magpie, 3 ; outer, 2,

We would direct the attention of members of the Temuka and Geraldine Agricultural and Pastoral Association, and those interested in the same, to an advertisement calling a meeting at the Star Hotel, on Friday, Dec, 17, at 7.30 p.rn., to discuss matters having reference to bring ing the Association under the “Agricul tural and Pastoral Societies Act, 1877,” and other matters of importance.

A public, meeting will be held in the Crown Hotel, Temuka, on Monday next, at 2.30 p.m., for the purpose forming a company to work the Kakahu coal mine We are informed that already a large number of shares have been taken up, and that the coal from this mine is equal to any in the market. We were shown a (number of testimonials from business people in Temuka and Timaru,-' testifying to its good qualities for steam purposes. We hope to see the matter taken up .with spirit, and a company formed for the purpose of working the

mine. The following volunteers will represent Temuka in the rifle match to be fired on Thursday next between eight of No. 1 Temuka Rifle Volunteers and a like number of the Timaru Artillery Sergeants

Breyrer and Smith, Drum-Major Gapes, Corporal Hobbs, Volunteers Guy, Olhvier, E, C. Smith, and R. H. Smith, As the Temuka team is armed with the long Enfield, and the Artillery with the Snider Carbine, an exchange of prow will take place every three shots. Our men will’ proceed to the Volunteer Camp, Saltwater Creek, on Wednesday evening, and the inatch will come off early the following morning. We believe a challenge has also been issued, to the officers of the Temuka Rifles by Captain Hammersley, to fire a match, the same day.