The Temuka Leader TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 1881. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 403, 21 June 1881, Page 2

The Temuka Leader TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 1881. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A Rich Bankrupt. —On Lis arrival at San Francisco the bankrupt Lingard is reported to have said that he cleared £14,000 in the Colonies. The Omn Hotel. —At an adjourned sitting of the Licensing Court in Tiraaru yesterday, an application for the temporary tramfer of the license for the Opihi Hotel f.om Joseph Nelson to T. B. Butler was refused. The Unemployed. —The Mayor of Timaru, yesterday received a telegram from Mr Turnbull, M.H.R., to the effict that the Government, having received Mr Ca'cutt’s report re the unemployed, will call at once for tenders for the formation of the Fairlio Creek line in small sections. Working Men’s League. —On Saturday evening last a meeting of the unem* ployed was held in Timaru for the purpose of forming a Working Men's League and Political Union. After appointing officers, the men proceeded to Mr Price’s who gave away a quantity of fish, and Messrs Peacock and Geaney allowed them to help themselves to meat, from their shop. Mr Jonas has placed one of his rooms at the disposal of the League to hold meetings in. Entertainment. —The Mammoth G’ft Show opens in Temuka on Wednesday (to-morrow) and Thursday. We see by the Timaru papers that they have just finished a highly successful season there. We understand that the Company give away to its patrons, furniture, bedding, drapery, jewellery, etc, and that some of the gifts are very costly, so we hope to see a large attendance. Mr W. H. Manning, the ventriloquist, is with the Company. Some of the prizes will be on view at Mr Sheen's. The English Coal Trade. —The Manchester City News is authority for the statement that the annual consumption of coal in England has been kept for several years at a fixed figure, if it has not declined. This is accounted for by the fact that great economies have been effected, chiefly in connection with the iron trade. Since 1871 the annual saving of coal in the raannfactme of pig iron amounted to nearly 5,000,000 tons, and a similar reduction has been effected in other trades. This economy ia no doubt, due iu part to the popular agitation produced years ago by prophecies that the coal fields would soon have been exhausted.

I The Opihi Bridge. —The last pile of i the new bridge was driven yesterday afternoon. Good por the Farmers.— New Zealand oats are in great demand at the present time in London. The Electric Light.—’ The Queen is about to introduce the electric light into Windsor Castle. Worths' op Imitation —The Like (Otago) County Council have expended £3OO in forest plantations and conservations. Destitution in Christchurch, —On Friday last a man was sentenced to a week’s imprisonment for stealing a loaf of bread.

New J.P. —J Mendelson E«q., «LPhaving subscribed to the necessary oath took his seat on the Magisterial Bench yesterday for the first time. Medical. —Wo observe that Dr H. W. Campbell, recently of Guy’s Hospitah Loudon, lias commenced practice in Temuka in conjunction with Dr Gumming.

The Courthouse.-— For some Utile Brno to come, during the alterations and additions to the Resident Magistrate’s Courthouse, the siLings will be held at the Temuka Road Board office. Population op the Colon*. —The population of the Colony is as follows : Auckland, 91,169; Taranaki, 14,6391 Wellington, 61,049 ; Napier, 17,027 ; Marlborough, 9,273 ; Nelson, 26,177 ; Westland, 14,756 ; Canterbury, 111,430; Otago, 134,401. Oub Bots.— The police In Virginia City (United States) arrest all boys under sixteen years of ago who are caught iu the street after eight o'clock at night. If our police were authorised to do the same it would be a grand cure for Colonial larrikiuism.

The Dunedin Exhibition.— Up to the present time the Dunedin Industrial Exhibition has been a great success. On Saturday last three thousand visitors were present, and over £l2O were taken in single admission tickets. People hed to be refused admission after eight p.m. Steam v. Prntiincj —A very sensible conclusion was arrived at the other evening by the Greymouth Literary Club The question was—“ Which is the great, est benefactor to humanity: steam or printing 1” It was decided that printing was morally the greater benefactor, while steam was physically. A Peculant Hebe,—The barmaid of the Southland Club Hotel got a holiday a few days ago, and was afterwards found to have removed her luggage to the railway station. A party to ahom she owed a small sura went there and removed her tnmk. This on being opened was found to be literally packed with effects belonging to the hotel. It has since transpired that she was privately married two day previously. N.Z, Cement. —It is understood that Mr A’eiander Brogden, M.P., who is now in Wellington, intends testing the practicability of establishing the manufacture of cement in New Zealand. He has obtained from Taranaki a number of Vocks of limestone, some clay, and other materials apparently suitable for cement manufacture, which he purposes sending Home in order to have the materials made into cement, with the view of testing the non,; ter thoroughly.

Homb Rum Dbink. — A writer in a London paper says he was recently introduced for the first time to what is now known in the House as the Home Rule Drink, the very backbone I understand of obstruction ; for after a jorum of it one becomes imbued with staying powers for any number of consecutive hours. Ttrs is the receipe—beat up well two raw eggs, mix with a large glass of hot milk, and add a wine-glass of real Irish whisky This beats Mr Gladstone's nostrum of sherry egg-flip into a cocked hat, to quote the expressive language of the House, and is guaranteed to make the most silent member eloquent. The Broqden Claims. —The special correspondent of tiie Press at Wellington telegraphing on Friday, says :—Regarding the Brogden claims I may add that their claims are divided into three classes —(1) Those on the score of immigration, which are now the subject of a petition to Parliament for rehearing, and which amount with interest to about £20,000; (2) those on account of two contracts not passed according to the Government Contractors Arbitration Act of 1872 : they amount in round numbers to about £30,000 more; (3) a balance of about £200,000 is at present prevented by the Government Contractors Arbitration Act from coming on for trial, but a petition of right la to be filed. Church and Stage. —The gulf between stage and church is rapidly being bridged over in England. At Chester an amateur performance of a comic opera has taken place, no less than three clergymen sustaining prominent parts,and acquitting themselves well. Nay more, the chorus of one hundred voices was trained under the direction of the Reverend Precentor of Chester Cathedral, We, Melbourne Bulletin) should like to sea church and stage more in unison in this part of the world, and we cannot but think the feeling which prompted the Chester clergymen well worthy of imitati on, although we express no opinion as to the happiness of the class of lyric drama chosen.