The Temuka Leader THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 1881. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 345, 27 January 1881, Page 2

The Temuka Leader THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 1881. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr K. F. Gray will sell on the premia sof Mr Tester-, Teniuka v this day, at 1 sharp, the whole of the household furniture and effects.

Messrs McLean and Stewart will sell, at the TiiUiU'n Horse Baza. hi , this day, at 12 o’clock, draught horses, contractors’ plant, &c.

Air Joseph Ivess, proprietor of tlic Ashburton Mail, got » verdict for £25 damages and costs against Mr Crisp, u solicitor in Ashburton, for malicious prosecution for libel.

A plot to murder Mr Charles Bradlaugh, M.F., has been discovered and frustrated.

Mrs Dunn, of Grain, while proceeding home on Tuesday, met with a slight accident by the upsetting of buggy. Through some unexplained cause the buggy which she was driving at the time capsized, precipitating her to the ground with consisiderable force. Beyond the fright and a severe shaking, nothing more serious happened.

The following is the result of the annual election of School Committees for the ensuing twelve mouths : Winchester : Messrs Allwood, Bisset. R. Smith, Murray, Dcße- zy, Moore and Lewis. Geraldine : Rev. J. Preston, Messrs R. H. Pearpoint, J. Dunlop, J. Unify, J. Mundell, R. Taylor, A. Sherratt. The Rev J. Preston was elected Chairman. Kakahu : Messrs Bradley, C. Leary, J. Kelland, Beattie, Duncan, Hay, and R. Skinner. Pleasant Point: Messrs Acton, Morris, Butler, Jackson, Greig, Aguew and Halstead. Mr Butler was re-elected Chairman. A serious accident occurred on the Main South Road on Tuesday, by which- Mrs Thompson, of Milford, had a leg and. arm broken. From what we <an learn it appears that Mr and Mrs Thompson were driving in a trap along the road named, when the horse took fright, it is supposed, at the high wind which was blowing with considerable force at the time, and carrying with it clouds of dust and small stones, and bolted. The trap was capsized, and the occupants were thrown to the ground with some force. Mr Thompson, beyond a slight shaking, escaped without injury.

Hanlon, while going through some training exercises lately, slightly sprained his arm. He is reported to be in splendid form, and in no way affected by the sprain He practises daily in company with Ross, over whom his superiority is so marked that his backers are now freely offering 4 to lon him. Laycock is also in excellent condition, and reported to ho thoroughly game. Both ho and his friends are confident that he will pull a great race to the finish. He is reported to be absolutely without any fear of the result, and fully satisfied that he can win.

The Auckland Star says : —“ A curious rumour has been gaining currency during the past few days as to the real purpose of Sir A, Gordon's visit toKawau It is that Sir Arthur’s abject was to see, on behalf of the Imperial Government, whether Sir George would bo willing to return to his cld Governorship at the Cape, with a view of settling the increasing difficulties between the Boers and native tribes of the interior of the Colony. It is further rumoured that Ministers were made aware by Sir Arthui of the purpose of his visit to Kawau before proceeding there.

A very exciting meeting for the election of the School Committee was held in the Temperance Hall, Dunedin, on Monday evening. The building was packed, and many were unable to gain admission. The result of the polling was that four out of the five candidates who were on the “ Bible-in-Schools ” ticket were returned anti three secularists were elected. Mr Livingstone, one of the candidates in favour of the Bible-in-Schools, was returned by a majority of one over Mr Nathan, a strong secularist. The proceedings did not close until half-past 1 o’clock next morning. The Daily Telegraph, commenting on the case of Debenham and Freebody v. Mellon, settled recently by the House of Lords, says :—“ The Lord Chancellor’s dictum that ‘ evea when a wife lives with and is maintained by her husband she has no authority in law to pledge his credit ’ is true as a broad principle, but it is modi tied by the presumption that a wife living with her husband is Ins agent so far as the ordering of necessaries is concerned which we have stated. Yet such a presumption may be rebutted; in other words, directly the husband steps forward and says, ‘1 have given a sufficient allowance, and forbidden her to go beyond it,’ the presumption of agency ceases. The whole hardship is in the possible secrecy of the transaction,” The latest development of the land strike in the West of Ireland (says the Fall Mall Gazette) is the taking of a pledge on the part of the young unmarried men

resolution must-: seem by far the ;>vorst species of “Boycotting” yet invented—sufficient in itself to justify the suspension of a dozen Acts of Heabas Corpus. It is true it iV somewhat difficult to see how the Lord-lieutenant, even if he had the right of arbitrary arrest, could compel a reluctant baehelo to lead a “ landgrabher’s’’ disconsolate daughter to the alter ; but ns the same objection might be taken with, regard to almost every other phase of the land strike, the suspension of Hebeas Corpus may as well be demanded to suppress any other form of “Boycotting.” It would be equally “ vigorous ” —and equally useless. At the meeting at Toaines at which this ferocious resolution against “ laikfgrabber’s ” daughters was enthusiastically received, a novelty was introduced in the shape of a solo sung amid great applause by a farmer from the platform. His song exhorted farmers to bind themselves together in dauntless combination, and concluded as follows ;

You’ll yet have your laud, at Griffith’s valuation • That’s the word to sav —Down with confisca-

tion! That’s the rent we’ll pay —Griffith’s valua

tion. ;,/ ; The “Down with confiscation I” will sound peculiarly Irish in the ears of landlords whose rents are 50 per cent over “Griffith’s valuation.”

M. Regal, late Russian Consul on the RussoMongoliau frontier, publishes the followiug characteristics of Chinese views on Free Trade :—“ During my stay in the town of Thiko, in the spring of last year, a guard of honour, with flags, every morning and evening stood before a large proclamation posted in the centre of the bazaar, and after beating of drums, an official read the following ;—‘ In the last moon of this year a great misfortune befell the celestial Empire. An Englishman, without receiving permission from the Son of Heaven to trade upon his sacred soil, nevertheless dared to pass into the province of Yunnah, and instigating a quarrel was killed by the inhabitants who did not know him So, in consequence of this, the subjects of the Son ot Heaven had to pay to the wife of this Englishman an enormous amount of silver. ishiog to spare our beloved subjects from similar misfortune in the future, we order in our wisdom each of our subjects shall devoutely keep watch to prevent any other single foreign trader from penetrating into our empire without our permission. We order this to bo read before all our subjects every day, morning and evening.”

A correspondent writes to the Bombay Gazette :—The following incident which I witnessed will probably serve as a warning to bicyclists. While driving down Dadur road in my dogcart on the evening in question, I hear the erica of natives howling in a most alarming manner behind me. I turned round and great was ray surprise to see a young man on a tall bicycle flying along at the rate of about fourteen miles an hour, with an infuriated bull, head down ! a'nd tail erect, a few yards behind. As the bicyclist passed ray dogcart, I heard him cry out “ Kelp !” I pitied the poor fellow, for I could see the bull gaining ground, and apparently nothing could save him. On went the bicycle, but now the bull was only about a yard behind. Suddenly, with surprising skill and dexterity, the rider turned his bicycle round, and as quick as lightning was go iag in the opposite direction to the bull, amid the cheers of hundreds of natives, who could not help admiring (he address of the hunted youth. Alas ! a worse fate was reserved for him. A heard of buffaloes suddenly turning a corner of the road received nim, not with open arms, but with lowered horns. There was a cry, a groan, and all was over: the . beautiful bicycle, which a few seconds before was flying along at railroad speed, was now so many pieces of steel, and the rider, braised, cut , and bleeding, lay looking at the. wreck.