LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 917, 14 February 1882, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Served Him Right.—At Masterton last Friday, John Burke was committed for .ti ial on a chai’ge of indecently assaulting a girl aged ten years.

B.M. Court.—At the above Court yesterday before S. I?. Barker and J. Mendelson Esqrs«, J.P.’s, judgment by default was given in the cases of Peter Coira v John Thompson —Claim £6 3s 6d, and Seigert and Fauvel v. J - Gibson—Claim £5 6s Bd. Sculling.—Messenger has issued a challenge to scull anyone in New Zealand for LIOO. but declines to row the match in Wellington. It is expected that a piatch between himself and Hearn will be arranged. The latte? wishes the distance to he three and a half miles. A Novel Surgical Operation. —Dr Wilkins, of Christchurch, has succeeded in grafting the front portion of a rabbit-’s eye on to another animal’s eye,and getting it to grow there without any serious inconvenience to either. The doctor hopes that the time will come when the operation can be extended to human eyes. G-reat Loss. —A destructive fire m New York lately burnt the Fourth Avenue railway stables, with the large furniture stores adjoining. The loss is four hundred thousand pounds. Mr William H. Vanderbilt is the landlord. The furniture stores were the depository of valuable goods belonging to the leading families. Among the burnt articles was a fine painting, owned by Mr Vanderbilt, and valued at ten thousand pounds. One hundred horses perished. Our Exports.—There has been a decrease of 10 per cent in our wool experts during quarter ended 31st December, 1881, as compa; ed with the corresponding quarter of 1880. But the value of rgbbit skin exports has increased 75 per cent, being a total of £36,30Q and the increase in wheat export was valued at £102,334. There has been a decrease of 15 per cent in gold, 25 per cent in oats and 43 per cent in Kauri gum. On the whole this is pretty satisfactory. The great increase in our wheat exports gives a healthy aspect to our agricultural industry, which is the post important of any. The Wertheim: Sewing Machine. —Wo direct the attention of ladies to the advertisement of Mr Charles Gilligan, agent for the Wertheim Sewing Machine, who will visit this district on I riday and ..Saturday next to canvass for the above macliine. The Wertheim is described as one of the most wonderful machines extant, and as the terms of payment are very liberal we have no doubt he will meet with much encouragement. During last week Mr Gilligan sold 60 machines in Tirnaru, and in the previous fortnight he got rid of 150 of them in Oamaru. The Marchioness of Lorne. The London correspondent of a contemporary says : —“ A serious libel case has only just escaped being dragged into Cojrfi- In a article under the head of ‘Queer Stories,’ Truth gave a very slanderous sketch of the Princess Louise, alleging some very remarkable reasons for her declining to stop with the Marquis of Lorne, and dragging out the, old story about Canon Duckworth. The Prince of Wales instituted proceedings against Mr Laboucbere, the proprietor of Truth, on behalf his sister, and the end was a compromise, the Prince obtaining a written apology, which be might show to anyone whom he liked.”

A Rotai Maeeiag-b.— The announcenaent of the approaching marriage of the youngest son of the Queen (says an exchange) has been hailed ■with cordial satisfaction by all classes in England. The lady chosen for his bride is the Princess Helene of Waldeck, younger sister of the Queen of the Netherlands, and niece of the Queen of Sweden. She is eight years younger than her future husband, and comes of a Protestant family. The father, the Prince of. Waldeck-Pyrmont, rr es over a small principality of the Herman Empire, the capital of which, Arolsen, contains only five thousand two hundred inhabitants ; and the royal family are described as leading a simple and patriarchal sort of life at the Castle of Arolsen. Fiee.—A disastrous fire destroyed about £ls,oop_ worth of, property in Napier last Friday evening. It broke out about 8 p.m. in Mr Fair’s drapery establishment, and destroyed the offices of Mr Cornford (solicitor), MrCarnell (photographer), Messers Large and Townley’s furnishing warehouse, Peddie’s Hotel and smaller places. The following are the losses by the fire as nearly as can be estimated;—Fair’s stock, at wholesale value, £5500. When he bought it it was put down at nearly £7OOO, but he gave only eleven shillings in the pound for it, viz: £3600. Cornford’s loss is slight. Carnell puts the damage to his plant at from £3OO to £4OO, chiefly from removal. Blackwell’s loss is £l5O, not insured. Peddie, of the Clarendon Hotel, loses about £2OO from fire and damage. The contractors for the new hotel lose about £ISOO. Large and Townley’s loss is about £7OO to £BOO, of which nearly £6OO is from fire, the rest from damage. Another hundred will cover the slight damages to other buildings. The correct insurances are : —Royal, Union, Scottish, and Imperial, £IOOO each; Victoria and National, £SOO each. On Fair’s stock, in the New Zealand, £2OO ; on the buildings, £IOO. Cornford’s books and furniture were covered in the South British for £2OO, Large and, Townley, in the Union £3OO, in the New Zealand £2OO, in the South British|£7oo, in the Victoria £3OO, and in the {

National £SQO. Peddie, in the .Union for £6OO. \ Messrs Maclean ,and Stewart will hold a large sale of stock in the South Canterbury Saleyards on Thursday next. Mr K. P, Gray will hold a sale of live and dead stock—including five hundred ehgep*"“S(J thirty-five beau cattle, wool and skins —atom's rooms on Thursday next. qp