LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 342, 18 January 1881, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Nihilists are ngsiin giving trouble in St. Petersburg. Mr K. F. Gray will hold his usual monthly Hide of stock, &c, to-morrow, at nooii, at his sale yards, opposite the Presbyterian Church.

Over £4O has been collected in Waimate towards the Paruell Relief Find.

O'Driscoll, for the Boxing D <y riot, was fined £IOO at a sitting of the District. Court, 1 elil in Timaru on Saturday last, and the others implicated were bound over to keep the peace in sums of £IOO.

The concert in connection with the settlement of the Rev. Mr Walsh came off on Fiiday night last, and was a great success, the hall being filled in every part by a highly tespeotable audience. Alfred Cox, Esq., presided. After an overture by Mrs Cox, Miss Cox, tnd the Chairman, played in their usual good style, the Chairman introduced the rev. gentleman as the new clergyman for this parish. The latt<r, in suitable terms, acknowledged the warm reception he had met with, and hoped the same kindly spirit would continue lo prevail between pastor mid people A number of our local amateurs, who have been ever ready to assist on such occasions, took part, also several ladies and gentlemen, who are comparatively new to a Temuka audience, contributed largely to the evening's enjoyment. Altogether the da\'s and evening's woik was much enjoyed, and Mr Walsh has every reason to be pleased with the reception be received, and, as one remarked, he is a good speaker, a good preacher, and au earnest Christian, and what more do they need. Only good niu.iic, say soma, to make the congregation s prosperous as in day's gone by. A trial of one of Osborne's stringbin 'ers took place yesterday in a field of oats belonging to Mr Reeve Thomas, near Temuka. Twine was the ODiy materinl used. WitU this Uio machine did toe work —after a few breakages—to the satisfaction of all present. Three horses worked the machine and pulled it about over lots of very rough ground without the least breakage or interruption. The machine cuts a breadth of nix feet, and does it very cleanly, leaving s- arcely a straw behind. The twine used was the common flax twine, not very much twistea The crop, not being a very heavy one, did not prove the capabilities of the machine so well as a good rank wheat crop would have done. As it was the sheaves were firmly tied and thrown off the platform very gently ; but the way the finger grabbed the sheaf to tie it could, we think, be improved upon. Eich bundle, as it left the platform, seemed incl ned to take a portion of its neighbor in it. On the whole, however, it is a marvel in these dayß, and does not give the trouble nor the disappointment that the Dearing has doue this season. The Osborne is, in our opinion, the least complicated of any of the Yankee production* yet to hand We are requested to draw attention to an advertisement notifying that unless all outstanding accounts due to the late firm of dimming and Hayes be settled by the Ist February next, they will be sued for without further notice