LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 911, 31 January 1882, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Road Closed. —The Temuka Road Board notifies the temporary closing of Grant’s road, during the erection of a culvert. Obituary. — The Rev Thomas Jaggar, Wesleyan minister, of Kaukapaka, is dead. He was one of the first missionaries sent by the J ohn Wesley to Fiji. Accident. —We regret to learn that Mrs T. Sullivan, of- fimaru, who was out here last Sunday with hor husband, was seriously injured by the horse kicking her in the knee while on the journey in from Pleasant Point to Timaru., She was taken in Mr Flaherty’s buggy to the Shamrock Hotel, Tiraam, where she was attended •by Dr Hammond, Her knee was not broken, bqt she -was very much hurt. A Successful Colonial Industry. —The balance-sheet of the Kaiapoi Woollen Factory shows the profit for the year to be £5014. A dividend of 6 per cent has been declared for the half year, making 10 per in all. £1235 was carried forward. All the shares issued when the Company was enlarged have been taken up, and £25,000 spent on new builpings and plant, the total outlay, on which will reach £30,000. The clothing factory is almost ready for work, and will employ 300 hands. The report, and balancesheet were adopted unanimously.

Mining.— The Marlborough Company, of Macetpwn, have lodged in the Bank a cake of I 720 ounces, from 250 tons of stone. j Land Sale. —Messrs Moody and Ziesler, on ; behalf of the Colonial Real Property Com- j pany, have purchased the Sherwood Downs estate of 10,000 acres from Messrs Cook and , Raine. Temuna School. —The above school was j opened yesterday. The Chairman has notified by an advertisement that the compulsory clauses of the Education Act will be j strictly enforced. * i The Licensing- Act. —The- hotelkeepers | of Timaru were warned last Saturday even*, j ing that the Licensing Act had been brought into force in the district, and that conser quently they would have to shut their houses at 10 o’eloak. The hotelkeepers, however, declined to take any notice of the warning, maintaining that they Could not be made close until their present licenses expired. Harvesting.— It is expected that the damage done to the. grain crops by the recent winds will not be so serious as was expected, although a good deal will be lostthrough it. -he farmers, however, are doing their best to save their crops. On last Sunday machines were at work all ever the. district cutting down the grain crops, and, in places they were.kept going on in the moonlight on Sunday night. Resident, Magistrate’s Court. —At the , above Court yesterday, before S. D. Barker and J. Mendelson, Esq.’s, J.P.’s, the following civil cases were dealt with : —Mrs. Douglas v. Mrs Bourk —Claim £1 2s. The, sum of 14s fid, which was paid into Court, ws accepted by the plaintiff, - and j judgment was entered accordingly. v. J. Barratt—Claim £2 12s lid. , Judgme t by default for the amount claimed with costs. The Gaming and Lotteries Act. —Some time ago a few Chinese were fined in Wellington for playing fan-tan. The people of that city held a public meeting at which it was resolved to. petition for a remission of the fine. In reply to, that petition the Mayor received the following letter from the Undersecretary for the Department of Justice : “ In reply to a petition signed by yourself and others praying for a remission of the fine inflict ed on certain Chinese for a breach of the Gaming and Lotteries Act 18S1, I have the honor, by direction of Mr Dick, to inform you that the petition, having been laid before the Governor, his Excellency has declined to accede to its prayer. Inquest. —An inquest on, the body of a man named John Anderson, was held last Saturday, in the Timaru Hospital. It appeared that Anderson, on the 14th inst., went to bed sober in the Geraldine Hotel. About 3 o’clock in the morning a man named Hammond heard him fall down stairs. He got ftp and found deceased lying helpless on, the stairs, face downwards. The doctor who examined him next morning recommended his removal to the hospital, Drs Macintyreand Macdonald,who made a pest mortem examination of the body stated that the spine was broken at the root of the neck, two inches and a half of the spine was bruised, and that the injuiries to the spine were sufficient to cause death. A verdict of accidental death was returned, Death From Burning. —On last Saturday evening the infant son, aged ten months of William Lewis, named Harry Langton Lewis, was burned to death. It appears that the mother of the child was living with a a man na med Charles Smith in a tent near the beach to the north of Orari, where he had a contract for cleaning some swamp land. On. last Saturday afternoon the mother put the child to bed, while she was lighting a fire in an open fire place a few yards from the tent. After having lit the fire she went some distance to fetch water, and when she returned she found that the fire, had extended to the tent,.which was one mass of flames. Smith also, on observing the fire, hurried to the scene, but too late to save the child as he could do nothing more than look on' The body of the child was fearfully disfigured, in fact all the flesh was burned off. Smith then came into town and gave information to Constable Morton who at once, proceeded to the place indicated and brought the body into town, which he reached about 2 o’clock on Sunday morning. An inquest on the body was held yesterday evening in the Courthouse, before J. Beswick, Esq., coroner, and a jury, of whom Mr F. Franks was chosen foreman. The evidence taken was substantially the same as stated above, and the verdict of te jury was to the effect that the deceased met his death by being accidentally burned. Fires. — It Nelson, last Friday, a sevenroomed house was destroyed by fire. Richard Thompaon, owner and occupier, is a cab proprietor, and he and his wife were from home Nothing practically was saved from the house, but three horses were got out of the stables at the rear,and also Thompson’s three carriages. Ultimately, the was saved with but little damage, and notwithstanding a good breeze, the spread of the fire was pre-, vented. The house was insured in the Standard for £l5O, and the stabling in the same office for £IOO. A fire occurred at Caversham.last Friday, by which two dwelling houses and the Presbyterian Church were burnt. The church was on old building, and was insured for £2OO in the Colonial. The South British is affected to the extent of £IBO. At Reefton, last Saturday, a fire was discovered in a pottage adjoining the Inangahua Herald office, occupied by Donald Ross and family. Before assistance, could ! be of avail the fire extended to the Herald 1 office, and both promises were burnt to (he ground. Some type and other effects were saved from the Herald office, but a lot of I frames and plant generally were ->_,nsumed_ : j Ross and family had a very narrow escape ■ for their lives, and saved nothing owing to | the rapidity with which the ■ e spread, j Ross’ premises are said to be uninsured.; The Herald office and plant is said in. j sored in the Victoria office for £4OO, j

The Grand Grange Lodge. —At the ' annual session o£ the Grand Orange Lodge North Island, at Auckland last Saturday, 120 I delegates were present. The Grand Master* j Mr T. W. Dunn, suspended- fckg. warrants of the Waikato Lodges, Thelir delegates refused to leave the Protestant Hall, and the Grand Master declined to procOTpto business j till they retired. The up in j confusion. The Waikotos tabling an adverse motion concerning the year’s adj ministration.