LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 9418, 15 June 1882, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Exhibition. —At Sydney an exhibition of electric appliances has been opened. The opening ceremony was performed by the Governor. Harvjst Prospects— The harvest in Ireland this year is said to be an unusually favourable one. The harvest prospects in America are very unfavourable. The French harvest prospects are excellent. A Caution.—At the Dunedin Police on Tuesday last, Hugh Cller, a contractor, was fined 5s for paying workmen in a public - house. This is the first case of the kind that has been brought before the New Zealand Courts, hence the noir'nal penalty. The Suez Canal.—Traffic through the Suez Canal is increaiing. Dur.'.ng the past year the number of ship 3 of all nations passing through the canal is shown by the returns to have been 34 pe • cent greater than was the case during the previous 12 months. The tonnage shows a p -oportionate increase during the same period. Escape of a. Pbisokeb.—The prisoner Langmore, a! : as Elms, alias Elmsdale, on remand for burglary, nrade b : s escape yesterday monrag through the window of the room in which he confined at the Eesident Magistrate's Couvt, Chr'stchurch, in waiting for the opening of the Cou- i. He ha,-, not yet been re-captured. The Cut of Pebth.—The cable by which this vessel was fastened parted yesterday moaning and the rising tide drova her back on the Benvenue. The steam tug Lyttelton (engaged to tow the vessel off) arrived at about half past 1 o'clock, t'oo late to be of use, as the tide was missed. Another attempt w" I bo made to day. Accident.—On Monday evening Inst a a hoi*3e and buggy belonging to M-s McNair ■net e either run into, or frightened, by a pa-sing vehicle. The horse was tied to a feice outside the Volunteer Hall, and when f r'ghtened bolted up the road towards the Park, but came to grief opposite the police station. The buggy had the shafts smashed and other damage done. The horse, with the harness, escaped, and was not secured till the following morning, neither a great deal huri. The same evening a valuable horse, the property of Mi- J. Lowe, while being driven into Timaru from Temuka, by some means, when tu-.-ning a corner, ran the shaft of the vehicle it was drawing into its body, and had to be k'^ed.

SacciDE. —An old woman, aged sixty-nine, named Noble, committed suicide on Sunday < at Hokitika, by hanging herself with a rope \ tied to ft nail in her bedroom. An inquest ] was held, and a verdict of " Suicide while ] under temporary insanity" was returned. ■( At the inquest on Mackay, at Hawera, a ( similar verdict was returned. Salb of the Grampian Hiii.B Station. —A contemporary states thai. Messrs R. Wilkin and Co. have sold to Mr J. A. Sutton, of Dunedin, Dr Fisher's Grampian Hills Station (including 3000 acres of freehold) in the Mackenzie Country, together with | 22,000 sheep. The price, which we are not at liberty to mention, is a highly satisfactory one. Intbhesting Relics.—On account of the very low level of the waters of Lake Constance, many interesting lacustrine relics have been found near Stockborn, in canton Thurgau. Among them are bone and flint implements, harpoons, pottery, many specimens of which are intact, olubs, baskets, arrows, field-tools and animal remains. Among the latter are ; skeletons and part skeletons of the bear, the bison and the moorhen. The find also iuincludes a considerable quantity o": oats and wheat in a good state of preservation, and a remarkably perfect and artistically executed stag-horn harpoon. The relics have all been removed to Frauenfeld and added to the collection of the local historical and natural history society, which is now the richest in lacustrine objects in the Confederation. Fiax Growing in Walks.—Mr Richard Stratton, of the Duffryn, Newport, has been encouraged by the manager of the Ely Paper Mills, near Cardiff, to try flax growing, and he is prepared to give £4 10s for the fibre instead of Esparto grass, which the Ely Mills have long been using. The result is far from discouraging. Upon eight acres the yield was twenty-two bushels of seed per acre, at Bs, equal to £8 16s, and 32 cwt of straw, equal to £7 4s, giving £l6 per acre as the result of his experiment. The next crop produced £l7 per acre upon a field of twenty-one acres. A field of poor, stiff, clayish land produced £9 12s per acre, but it paid, after all, better than wheat on the same quality of land. Mr Stratton is so well ploased with his experiment that he intends to devote seventy acres to it this year. He I says a friend of his on the Cotswold Hills has also experimented in the same direction with the result of realising £l4 10s per acre from his seed and straw. —Hereford Times, April 15th. Milfobp School Committee. —An adjourned monthly meeting of the above School Committee was held last Monday evening. Present —Messrs Cox (Chairman), Maze, White, and Cain. The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. The following correspondence was read: —From the Board of Education, with voucher of payment of salaries for the month of May, viz., head teacher, £5 8s 4d; and pupil teachers, £3 6s 8d ; also, voucher for the payment of incidentals, £4 10s, to end of; ' quarter, 30th June, 1882. From the head teacher calUjg the attention of the Committee to the insufficiency of closet accommodation, also, pointing out that there are no basins for the children to wash in. Resolved—- '• That the Board be appVed to order the proposed additioi al closet accommodation) and that the Chairman see that the basins are supplied." A list of stationery handed in by the head teacher, r.s requisite for school purposes was also ordered te be supplied. The Chairman here reported that he had pointed ont to the inspector that there were repairs to the teacher's residence nece3sary to be done, and that if the Board contributed £5 in aid the Coimrrfctee would contribute the remainder. The suja. of £6 2s 6d was handed in as the proceeds of the entertainment held in aid of the school prize fund. This sum, after deducting expenses connected the arrangements, was agreed to be invested in prizes to be deliveied to the chil- , dren on Tuesday the 20fch inst. Mrs Greaves ; was appointed to the office of sewing mistress. Mrs John Talbot wants a general servant, i Mr D. Farquharson aflverticss a sale of ' t" lware on Saturday next, A cow t> U be sold at the pound on Satur- ; day next if not previously released. Persons tresspassing on Mr John Paterson's prope'-vy will be prosecuted. 1 Maclean and Stewart will sell horses, ' drays, and harness at their horse bazaar ' Timaru, on Saturday next. 1 Messrs R. Wilkin and Co. advertise a sale 1 of statuary in the premises adjoining the ■ Theatre Royal, Timaru, on Monday next.