LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1049, 30 May 1882, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Hamilton Murder Cask —Hr K. Taylor, solicitor, Auckland, has retired from the defence of Priestly. Bank Holiday. —Monday next (New Day) will be observed by the Bant New Zealand as a holiday. * Temuka Wesleyan Church.—The services in the above ctiurch to morrow, morning and evening, will be conducted by Mr W. Holdgate. The Crops. — Tba very severe wsather of last Thursday did, so far a* wo can learn, very little injury to the crops. Some heavy crops have been slightly damaged, but on the whole nothing sorion* has occurred . Train Arrangements For Nsw Year’s Day.—The attention of our readers is dir*-cted to an advertisement detailing the ■. train arrangement for New Years Day. ; The early morning train wil l leave Timaru at 6.45 instead of 7-30. Temuka at 7.22 \ instead of 8.16 and Wiuchfster at 7.37. V Thb Ryans. — Patrick Ryan, his wife and daughter were brought up on remand at : Timaru on Thursday, and a further r#tnand to January 4th was granted on the apph- .- cati.m of Inspector Brobam, bill being V allowed on khe term* previously fixed by Mr Watt, R.M. The prisoners had failed to find -'bad, and Mrs Ryan asked to bo released on bert. own rocegnisanc ■» a» sb* was unwell, f>MiHhe r ßeneh dec-lined to interfere with th<-tA-ms already fixed. Primitive Methodist Church. anniversary of 'he above Church will celebrated on Sunday and Monday nei'. Sunday, Mr Snu h, of Waimate. will three times, the af'ernoon service b|ing for paren’s and children. On Monday a public tea will be held in the Good Templars’ Hall Tea will be on -he fable at 6.30.1 After tea addresses will be delivered by f various friends. The Geraldine Primitive I Me" hodist choir will assist. Experimenting With Oil-on the Sea. —On I hursday afternoon last, taking advau . tags of a very rough sen. Captain Bascand \ tried the effect of pouring oil on the water at { Timaru, and the result was entirely satisfactory and bore out the statements made by . those who had tried the experiment long / since- The oil used was olive and coha. Opposite Bruce’s Mill was the place selected for the experiment. Captain Bascand passed a small quantity of oil down a zinc pipe, the lower end being submerged in the water, and shortly afterwards the oil spread over an area of about an acre, in which tho smallest boat could have lain with safety, Sir Garnet Wolseley. The distinguished officer arrived at Dover on the 28th October, crossing the channel in tremendous weather, but he proved as good a sailor as soldier, and does not fear nml de mer. His reception was most enthusiastic. Crowds ,• lined the pier, notwithstanding the terrible gale blovring at the time. In answer to [.addresses he made a short speech eulogising conduct of the troops under his late com Hjmand. At Charing Cross station Mr and Gladstone aud many members of both assembled to greet him, and the day BRllowing bis arrival he went, by command of the Queen, to Balmoral to receive her thanks. Accidents. —At Auckland on Sunday last Mr Walli«, jun., wa* taking a number of people home in a boat from a Wesleyan service at Raglan, when the craft capsized. Miss Minnie Lavers, the daughter of an Auckland builder, and Miss Edith Wallis, were drowned. The body of Miss Lavers has .• been recovered at Raglan. Miss Edith ' Wallis’ has not yet ba-n found.— Tha illegitimate child of a girl named Johnston was drowned at Cambridge on Wednesday in a i tub, by overbalancing itself into it, during the } absence of the mother at a neighbour's house ; for a few minutes.—At Grahamstown a geriou* accident happened on Tuesday morning on the road from Te Aroha. A young man nam'd John Davis wa* riding along it when he was thrown over abridge. I He was brought by steamer into the Ihames ! Hospital, und has been unconaciou* ever since. He is not expected to survive. H* '* a son of tho former Baptist mini-ter at the Tnames —Captain Monaghan, Vi* wife and a little boy thrown from a buggy on the ' Hutt r >ad on Wednesday and iustiuwd rather - serious injuries the full extent of which has '- not been ascertained. —A Christchurch telegram states that as Sergeant Macdonald was leaving the Ohoka Racecourse on Tues|L day his ho so which wa* very restive, fell, ■and the Se geant being unable to get clear, B sustained a f acture of the small bone of the leg. His injury will incapacitate him for lome time.—A bnehman named Wilks was killed at Southland by a Mlingtree at Ingres* bush on Thursday. He leave* a wife and tjn children unprovided for. Ah Oyeszealous Constable. — A very pe euliar case catr.o before Drs Fish and Trevor, J.P.’s at Geraldine yesterday. Tha evidence adduced »t the bearing of a case in which two men named Joseph Kennington and J. D. Gore, were charged with the larceny of some cigars from tho house of George Fox showed the following facts; —On last Thur»day Kennington went into Fox’s house and broke open a case containing four boxes of cigars,but ' left tl cm here without taking any of them Subsequently m conversation with a man named Nichol be told him that the cigars were in the house, and offered Nichol 45s if he would bring them to tho Crown Hotel, j Nichol wet and told Fox wkat Kennington I had told him. and the matter was at once i reported to Constable Willongh'y. The constable went to Fox’s house, marked tha • cigars and old Nichol to go and steal the cigars as Kennington had *old him to do Nichol did so, and braught them to the Crown Hotel in a bag. Hera a paracn was put o wa' ch them, and he found ha' Kennington took them away was joined by Gore on the s reet,and bo h wem into he river-bed, W filled their pocke s wi h the cigars, brough kkhe remainder of them in the bag to'he and left them where Kennington had ■ previously taken them from. Subsequently B Gore was seen distribu' ing cigars among his friends. Kennington pleaded guil yarn! was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment wi h hard labor. Gore was clisibarged wi'h a cau ion. The conduct of the constable in thus laying a trap for the men, and in fact advising Nichol to do what might hare been said only in a jest by Kennington, was most reprehensible. It is evident tha' Kenning on would not have stolen the cigars himsel’, when, after having found them at first he had left them untouched, aud Nichol, who had given Fox the iniormation, would cer t-ainly never haye taken them. It is evident therefore, that no theft, would have been commit'ed only for the mean tr ; ck the con stable p'ayed, and we cer amly think that his conduct is not one which ought to be passed over 1 ghtly. We have very little sympathy with K-mjin”l”ii, but at the same time the manner in which he was entrapped was neither fair, jn t nor creditable. The conI stable ungl't *c- : y well hare arrested on the first info'tnsrion he received, for breaking into Fox’s house, aud for inducing Nichol ttA'eal. He might not have been able to obtain e conviction, but tho exposure would have sufficiently punished Kennington and the ends of justice would have been met. It was no business of tho constable to throw •tempatitiou in the man’s way, tor if such tricks were roeorted to no one could consider -hiimelf safe.

A Heavy Bill —Tho claim* of the doctor who was commissioned by the Victorian Government, to investigate the auppn*' . out break o e smallpox at Hamilton amount to £932. Tho Board of Health has referred the accounts to the Chief Secretary. An Advertising Hit. —The publishers of a German novel scored a hit recently in the line of advertising. They had inserted in most of the papers a notice stating that a certain nobleman of means, anxious to obtain a wife, wanted one who resembled tho des cription of the heronie in the novel named. Of course every marriageable woman who saw this announcement bought the novel to see how much she resembled the imaginary beauty referred to. B.M, Court. —At the above Court last Thu's btfora -.9. 13. Barker Bsq., J.P, •' first offender was fined 5s for drunkenness Charles Hawkins was brought up on remand charged with stealing two bottles of beer from the Winchester Hotel. Mr Pearson appear j d for the accused aod protested again** hi* client being so frequently remanded The Court said there was m help r Of it One Justice of the Pence could not deal with tho case and another could not be got. The case was again remanded for a week. Much Widowed —Nine widows woeping at a husband’s grave may seem to most a doubtful occurrence, but such an incident did act ually take place if we are to belisve a ISew Orleansjoracle. According to that authority, Thomas Smith, a prominent mulatto resident in New Orleans, died recently leaving nine wives behind him Seven of them attended the funeral services and wept freely. Four of them rode to the cemetery, and after the interment returned to the late residence of the dead man, where, with tho other widows they engaged in a free fight about the pro pertj. T"e furniture was demolished, and all the women were more or less injured 1 Smith was married by a Baptist minister ever}' time ho chose a wife. The Enterprising Burglar. — A general panic has taken possession of householders in the suburbs of London, owing to sevenl recent desperate burglaries having been committed, accom anied with great violence to the inhabitants. No one feels quite safe, and the piatol-shops have been doing a roaring trade. The Home Nows advocates the intro duction of the Yankee method of dealing with burglars. By this system every house, on application, can be connected telegraphically with the nearest police station On the slightest alarm, instead of confronting a housebreaker in one’s night dress, it is only necessary to press the telegraph-button by one’s side, and ring ud u • Burglars wouk; soon give it up as a bad job with such a preventive system. A Barbers' Congress.— The barbers of Berlin, in imitation of all other orders and degrees of men nowadays, have been holding a congress, and have passed some importan resolutions. They have resolved that shaving shall always commence (as in nature —i.o , when a man shaves himself) on the left cheek and end with the r : ght. They have also decided and very properly that any member who touches a customer’s nose, under pretence of steadying himself, shall be expalled from the Association. A great debate ensued as tn ■•■•'ii'iber conversation was to be provided by i . rude or not. ‘No binding resolution wa- missed but the advocates of silence were in ; :.e majority.’ On the other hand it was asserted with much plausibility, that if customers were not to learn the news from their barbers, or ‘ be instructed in the current tendencies of political 'bought, 1 they might just as well shave themselves. A Turkish Beauty. —Mrs General Lewis Wallace has been permitted to see the greatest beauty of Prince Feramorz’s harem in Turkey. Two wonderfully b ack eunuchs met the visitor at the iron gate of a beautiful garden, and conducted her to a large room rather barren of furniture but hung with fine Eastern draperies Hero s’m found the Prince’s latest acquisition, whom describes in the Independent: ‘Among the billowy cushions and vaporous veiling rose the young face. Oh ! what a revelation of beauty l uplifted in a questioning way, to see what manner of women these are who come from tho ends of the earth with un veiled faces, and go about tho world alone, and have to think for themselves—poor things! Tho expression was that of a love'y child awaking from summer slumber in the happiest humor, and ready for play. A per feet oval, thcjlips a scar et thread, and, oh! those wonderful Asiatic eyes! lustrous, coal-black, long, rather than round, beaming under joined eyebrows. The Agent General’s Office inLosdon. —After a visit to the New Zealand AgentGeneral in London, the Home correspondent of the Christchurch Telegraph writes: — ‘These same offices, I may remark, are much pleasanter places to visit than during the reign of H.R.H. Prince Julius Vogel. Beneath that regime everybody, from the principal downwards, seemed to be afflicted with an overweening sense of their own im portanoe, and supreme contempt for anything in tho shape of work. If visitors were poor people, such as intending emigrants or applicants for free passages who wished to see the Agent-Genera', they had to call and wait, call again and wait till tired out they gave up the quest in despair. Now, you will be glad to hear, there is nothing of the kind. The staff appears o have been curtailed, and the civil and obliging Sir Dillon Bell is nearly always to bo found at his post. Those who make appointments may rely on neither being kept waiting or listened to with impatience. I found the Agent General busy but willing to spare five minutes for conversation and after a few words about the objects of my visit wo fell to discussing the direct steam project.’ Mr Leonard Tombs offers £1 reward for the recovery of a black pony and a bay hack filly. Mr R. L. Smith, of Binder Farm, Waitohi, wants tenders for cutting abouts 300 acres of crop. Meserg R. Wilkin and Co., will hold a sale of pure-bred Berkshire pigs at their Yards, Timaru, to day. On Tuesday next at Wash dyke Yards, they will sell steers and heifers, sheep, etc. Messrs Maclean and Stewart- will bo’d their usual sale of horses at their Horse Bazaar, Timaru, to clay. On Tuesday next at. Wash dyke Yards, they will se 1 fat and s ore cattle. On adaeto bo mentioned, they will hold an immense clearing sale of live and dead stock on the farm of Mr M. Wightman, Waitohi. Holloway’s PJb. —Easy Digestion. These admirable PnU cannot be to > highly app-sciated for tho wholesome power they exert over all disorders of the stomach, liver, bowels, and kidneys. They instantaneously relieve and steadily work out a thorough cure, and in its course despel headache, b 1 iousness, flatulence, and depression of i Tv It fn nr of oti fho flail r improvement of the complexion, as Holloway’s Pihs purify the blood and restore plumpness ! to the face, which lupl lost both flesh and colour. These Pills combine every excellence desirable in a domestic remedy. The most certain and beneficial results flow from the occasional use of this regulating medicine ; , even persons in health, or when following sedontory occupation, willjfiud it an invaluable 1 aperient.— [Adtt. j ;