The Temuka Leader SATURDAY, APRIL 1, 1882. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 933, 1 April 1882, Page 2

The Temuka Leader SATURDAY, APRIL 1, 1882. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

. Wesleyan Church. Services.—'The list of services to be held in the various Wesleyan Chuiches in the circuit will be, found _ in another column.

Yital Statistics. —The vital statistics for the quarter ended March 31, were : 44 ; marriages, 6 ; deaths, 9., Foy the month ended March 31 :—Births, 15 deaths, 3,

Thu Circus. —We are sura. that our readers will be glad to learn that Burton’s ■Great Australian Circus is not going to pass •us by without giving us a chance of seeing ib 'lt will be here on Thursday, April the 6th, •On the piece of - vacant, ground ; adjoining the Temuka Hotel* when we hope to see it having a crowded house., SERVICE .OF Soko-.; —A.service of -song . was held in the Church of England . last, Tuesday evening, and passed off.- very successfully. The service was “Israel in the Wilderness/* and it was done full justice tp by a choir of 50 voices, under the cpnductprship of Mr Rutland. A collection in aid of the Sunday School fund was made, wi*h a satisfactory result, ‘ Chinese’ Cordon. —The famous ‘Chinese 5 (Jordan, with all his strange power, is not a man of commanding presence. He is, small, -and modest, and fair, and bushy.-headed ; has quiet grey eyes and a stammering uncertainty of speech as of-one tongue-tied. He is a devout man ? and deeply religious,. It is said of. Colonel Gordon that there are not two men in a dozen., generations so strangely gifted as ho is to compel into obedience or to inspire to action hosts of savages or halfreclaimed people. Accident to the Princess op Wades. —Alexandra, Princess of Wales, met lately with what was nearly a, serious accident, i Whilst playing with the children at a game of . ‘ snap-dragon’ at Sandringham, she unwittingly overturned the vessel of burning spirit. Her dress caught fire, her eyebrows were singed, and. one arm , was injured. Brave lady , that she is, she was the coolest of the group.; while the flames of her sleeye were being extinguished she tore away the burning portion of her skirt, Aeowhenua Sports. —lt will be seen by an advertisement,, in another column that our friends at. the other side of the river contemplate celebrating Easter Monday with sports, and that, the proprietor of ■ the Arowhenua HoteLwill giye on . that , evening.. The programme of -sports is certainly a capital one. There are twelve events, and priz.es to the amount of £2O will be given, which should prove sufficient inducement to attract a large number of visitors. Thr Price of Wheat. — Here is a ; problem (says the Oamaru Mail) which call s for some solution. At .Timaru the quotations for wheat are from 4s to 4« 2d, while in Oamaru they are from 4s 5d to 4s 6d.- Our authority in the N.Z.L. & M.A. Company’s latest circular. What is remarkable is that wheat should be higher hero, where there is no Farmers’ Co operative Company, than it is in Timaru, where there is such an institution , Cricket. The North, v,. The South Canterbury Schoolmasters. The follow ing are the. names of. tha players in the respective teams, in the match to come off at Ashburton on Saturday .the Bth inst., between the North . and South Canterbury schoolmasters : —North Canterbury : J, Baldwin, L. Cohen, A. Cooper, J. Dawo, W, Dixon, L. Eaa.on, J. S. Poster, E. N.- Just, W-. Taylor, J. O. Taylor and J. R. Wilkinson. South Canterbury; G. Barclay, J. ; M. Baecbley, F. Bethune, A. Dunnett, T. Hughes, A.. Mclntosh, T. H. Ritchey, M. Shepherd, D./M., Yeats, Wake and J. Andrews. Emergencies : Mewexa, Walker, Stewart and Mahan. • • ’

The Meeting vntit Ttta Native Krxtj. -—Government in the reply to be sent co Tawhaio’s invitation to attend his meeting frill leave open the question of thaJfetive Minister being able or unable owing to the proximity of. the the v jneeting and the opening of 'improbable that Mr Bryce will be able to be. present, but in case he can be, it was thought desirable to leave the question open. The form of reply was settled by Ministers yesterday. Liability qb Sheatihs. —A case of some, interest was heard at the Magistrate’s Court Wellington last Tuesday as to whether surety I given for good behavior could be recalled. I a cabman, had been convicted for a I breach of the peace, and was bound over in I two sureties to keep the peace for eight I months. He obtained the necessary sureties, I but these now applied to be discharged from I their responsibility as they feared Carter 1 would commit another breach of the peace. I The, Court held that it had no power to I relieve them of their responsibility. -I Noy.Ep Society.—One of the English. I society papers states that a novel society has, I been established at Exeter, under the patron- V age of the Bishop, its object being the pro. ■ motion of good manners, the members giving . I the fol’owipg undertaking: —“I promise, by ,■ God’s help, to avoid cursing and swearing, I and all e-v il-speaking, to bear no grudges, aptifl to discountenance the same in others, to obey.l all lawful authority, to honor the Queen, to H study to do good to all men, and to show I kindness to animals.” A better picture of-l the character of a “gentleman” could not be.lfl drawn. H Pardoned. Lawrence Hayes, who, in.H October last, was convicted at the Auckland.® Supreme Court on a charge of committing H rape on a woman at Hamilton, and was sen-H tenced to five years’ penal-servitude, has been pardoned. From the first a large numher of the residents of Hamilton were of® opinion that the evidence was not the character to warrant a conviction, since that time have taken, steps to jiaye, released. His Excellency, on i the. recom-® mendation of Ministers, agreed to Hayes, and. ho will be set at liberty delay. •> Thb Flax. Industry.—There is a in the flax industry at Ragland. The correa pendent of the Waikato Times says;—“ that a fair pi-ice is being again got.for article,,most of the old ; mills are started, two new. ones have heap erected. There now six. mills going, turning out on. average ten tons of the .finished article week. Reckoning the market.value of from £2O .to £2l : per ton, we , will at Perceive the, val\ie of ■ this export, been told that quite lately the Mokau. took . away 5 .i 18 tons on a two new mills which I have . having, been erected belong lips and Oymsby, of .Ruapuka, and the . to Mr Ellis, of, Aotea., That owned Messrs Phillips and Ormsby is, as far as gards the quantity of flax growing adjacent it, best off.. The supply is almost unlimited. Liberation of a Native Criminal. — - ernment has remitted .the remainder of sentence of imprisonment for life passed ■ 1872 upon Temati Raitia, one of Te followers, for the murder of a friendly messenger. On the occasion pf the Bay campaign, Temati jßaitai received a tence of death which was commuted to petnal imprisonment. on, ii# being ohpwn.tbat the prisoner acted under Te orders, and was in fear of death at bis if- he had disobeyed him. It was also mined that if the prisoner’s conduct in was good he should be released as soon as completed a term of ten years. This having just expired, and his conduct been unifoi-maly good, Ministers have ingly recommended .the Governor to the rest of the sentence, and His has done so. Infanticide.—Mary O’Suiliyan, a whose husband was killed by a vehicle cident here, eighteen month ago, was rested on Wednesday evening in Fstea, infanticide.. T|ie body of a male child a week old was found wrapped up in an towel under her house bv some children. their alarm she removed it, telling was a little pig, and when the police she was in the act of carrying it away kit. A string was found tied tightly its neck, and she remarked on being to the station she would get two or years. In the evening she appeared fully realise her position, and her gnef great that, she is in a very low state. inquest will.be held - this afternoon, O’Sullivan, who is only 27 years of age, considered a highly respectable woman the death,of her husband, by whom she four children, but since then she has loose life. She has been committed *or Burglary.—A most daring piece of glary was perpetrated last Thursday whsn Mr L. Tombs’s Arowhenua Hotel broken, into, but fortunately the found very little to repay him for his It would appear from surrounding stances that he first came to the window, broke some laths which from the outside, raised it up, and into the Hera he regaled with red herrings and bread and after having partaken of a a calm .contented manner, he investigate the house. He opened i all cupboards and drawers, and then upstairs, entered intp the rooms were were sleeping .and ; stole .a watch and of a man named Daniel l ane, which lying alongside of him in the room where slept.. This was all he took away, no because ho met with nothing else which his ; taste, excepting some probably took with the intention of on another occasion and making use of The colice, however, are now on his and most likely he will shy clear of place for some tima.^

New Zealand C6ulbgks.— By the Home mail on Sunday there was a despath from ti.c ‘ Minister of Education, requesting the AgentGeneral to take immediate measures to secure • two professors for the proposed College at Auckland. Along with Sir Dillon Bell are to be associated the following gentlemen well-known for classical and scientific attainments. viz. : —Dr Jowett, master of Balliol .College, Oxford ; Professor Sedgwick, of .Cambridge ; Professor Tait, of Edinburgh University ; and the Rev Mr Jewett, provost of Trinity College, Dublin. five are appointed a commission to select snd appoint candidates deemed fittest for their respective offices. The chairs t<? be established are : (1) Classics and English, (2) Mathematics and Mathematical Physics, The endowments are £7OO a year and fees, and the term of engagement for five years. It is stipulated that the professors shall bo in the .colony by the Ist Janury, 1883, so as to have time to arrange for entering successfully on .their duties, They will act as agents of the Government, until such time as the College is fully established, when other terms and arrangements may be made with them, provided always these are not worse than the Government terms under which they will he .engaged. An Extraordinary Arrest. A great deal of excitement and surprise was created last Thursday evening by the spreading of the news that Messrs McCaskill and Rooney, and Mr McCaskill, junior, were arrested on a warrant charging them with the larceny of pome of the wool of the City of Cashmere. The excitement was not less in Tixnavu, where as much as £SOOO bail was offered for them .and refused. They were brought up yesterday in Timaru. before B. M'oollcombe, and E. Wakefield, Esq., J.Ps. Mr White prosecuted, ' and Mr Hamcrsley appeared for the defence j The evidence of J. Beasley, who gave the j information on which they were arrested, was to the effect that he was in the employment of Messrs McCaskill and Rooney, that he heard Mr McCaskill give instructions to Jiis men to take some merino wool out of the porting bins and put it into the woplpacks j which was done. He also saw six hales pf (scoured Tool being carted away, Tyhich he said belonged to the insurance company. In cross examination he contradicted himself spd had no definite recollection of anything. [ Mr Rpopey was acquitted, as there was not a j particle of evidence tp connect him with it, | ]jut Mr McCaskill and his son vyere remanded at the request of Mr White, who said he had piore evidence tp produce. They were allowed put on bail, themselves in £2OO each ancLfour guretjes of £IOO, tp appear again next j T|W? da 7- ' j School Entertainment. The enter- l jiainment held in aid of the school prize fund last Thursday evening was most successful. The attendance was large,and the concert was of a really excellent character, the. only improvement that could be. made in it being that a little more of the comic element would j gender it more acceptable tp the, general run of people.. Af 8 o’clock sharp the. bapd opened the performance with a musical f elect ion entitled ‘ The Red Cross,’ and at intervals during the evening played ‘La •< Trivata,’ and ‘ Lucky Stars’ in a manner that j Won for them a considerable amount of applause, Mr E. Foster who is well known in Timaru as one of (he best amateur singers in it next sing. * The. Man-of-war,’ and at a subse. (juent period the ‘ Friar of Orders Gray’ in a capital manner. A duet by Misses Inne g find Bamb.ridge, entitled ‘The,Wind and the Harp’ was next rendered very effectively, and Mr Walcot sang ‘ Unfurl the Banner’ with much verve and' spirit, in a good tenor voice,. Mrs J. T. M. Hayhurst sang *. Bouquetiere’ With a gppd deal of feeling, and Miss Rowe recited a piece in very good style. Miss Brown made a very favorably impression by the capital rendering she gave of ‘ The Fpiry Tempter’ and ‘Love Not’. She has a sweet, fresh mezzo-soprano voice, of good compass and flexibility, which with training and experience wfll eventually enable her to take a very high class a,s a singer. ‘ The British Lion’ by Mr Edmonds was rendered in the masterly style for which that gentleman is well known, and Miss Innes gave ‘Jessie’ Dream’ in a manner that elicited great ap, plause. A song by Mr Rutland who efficiently filled the place set down for Mr Adams concluded the first part of-the enter, tainment. A duet by Mrs Hayhurst and Walcot entitled ‘ Come with thy Lute to the. Fountain’ was admirably rendered, and Master Storey recited ‘ Hodge the Yiear’ effectively. Miss Bam,bridge, sang * Kathleen Aroon,’ Mrs Edmonds ‘Oh Fair, Qh Fond Dove,’ and Miss Innes ‘ Tis but a Little., Faded Flower’ in a manner that left nothing fo be desired, and the second part wound up, with the trio entitled ‘ A Little Farm Well Tilled’ by Messrs Edmonds Storey and Walcot. The entertainment concluded with the juvenile farce ‘ All that Glitters is not Gold,’and was done full justice to, in fact some of the actors were very good, while all „ of them showed a thorough acquaintance with their parts. It was a most laughable affair, and was certainly not the least enjoyable part of the programme, On the whole the Committee haye every reason to congratulate, themselyes of their efforts,as the entertainment was a success from every point of view. At the conclusion Mr D, M. Mackay, who acted as Chairman, thanked all present for their attendance, and moved a vote of thanks, to those who assisted in carrying out the programme, which was carried by acclamation. Attention is directed to the advertisement pf Mr K. P. Gray in' which he purposes to sell by public auction, at his auction, rooms nett Monday and Tuesday the whole of Mr Essery’s stock-in-trade,.. .particulars of which will be found in the advertisement.