The Temuka Leader SATURDAY, JANUARY 29, 1881. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 348, 29 January 1881, Page 2

The Temuka Leader SATURDAY, JANUARY 29, 1881. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

We observe that the Wesleyan Conference, sitting i<< Nelson, have finally determined to remove the Rev. Mr Harper from Temuka to New Plymouth, and that his place will be filled by the Rev Mr Fee.

The reports from Te Arohagoldfiekl are not so promising. Men are working steadily, bat no rich finds are reported. The olaimholdcis are making strenuous efforts to get a crushing buttery erected, but the reside).ts of the Thames and Auckland refuse to take shares in the undertaking.

At the Appeal Court, Wellington, on Wednesday, judgment was given in the Crown appeal case Murphy v. the Queen, an implication to reverse the judgment upon a verdict given at the Supreme Court at Ohnstchurcii, whereby tiie prisoner was sentenced to four yearV penal < su v vitude for forgety, T e application was successful, and ihe pr soner will be discharged. Messrs Lightband, Allan and. Co. are establishing a tannery in connection with their boot manufactory on a site of five acres at Hillsborough, on the Christohuroh Lyttelton railway. All the buildings mid pits are to be substantially built of brh kwork. A 20-horse powor boiler and horizontal engine are to bo constructed by local firms.

An endeavor is beii:g made in Timaru to start a Working Man's Club. We wish the undertaking every success.

The first stone of the New Plymouth harbour work's will be laid on February 7th. Preparations are being made fur a grand demonstration on that day.

Since the evacuation of the camp at Opua. four miles from Opunake, the Natives have erected fences across the new road there, necessitating the public trayeh ling for miles along the heavy beach.

The cricket inat r di —Australian Jijleven v. Twenty-two of Timaru—resulted in a victory for the former by one innings and 108 runs. The Australians play fifteen of Ohristchurch io-day, and as the latter have been practising assiduoi.sly for some time back, it is anticipated a close game wiP take place.

Large numbers of swagmen, in batches of two's and three's, have passed through Temuka in search of employm nt. Great dissatisfaction is expressed at so little harvesting being done this year, and the low prices ruling. We have been informed by a good many men that it is their inten? tion, as soon us possible, to leave New Zealand.

A meeting of those interested in the forming of a Debating Society in Temuka will be held in the Templar's Hall on Monday evening, at 8 o'clock. In a letter to the Chief Postmaster, 'Mr Pyke, M. H. li., in his well-known forcible style, comments at some length on what he terms the " new derangements" in connection with some of the mails in the Duns tan district. He says:—" Dear S>—l desire to uiv.te your attention to the exquisite inconvenience caused by the new mail arrange ments in this district. The discontinuance of a weekly mail to the Nevi* inflicts an inconvenience such as has never before been suffered by the people in any part of Otago. . . The residents there cannot be isolated from all creation for 14 days at a stretch.

To add to the torture inflicted by the process, the mail leaves Cromwell on Tuesdays (alternate), so that the Saturday mail, which brings up the Witness and other week y papers (much read by the miners) is delayed at Cromwell till nearly the middle of the following week. The same remarks apply to the new derangements of the Bannockburn moil. . . . Saturday is the only

day of rest from labour, and the keeping back of the mail, which briDgs the woeks news, is a refinement of cruelty most merciless in its operation."