The Temuka Leader TUESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1882. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 985, 1 August 1882, Page 2

The Temuka Leader TUESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1882. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Good Investment. —At the half-yearly meeting of the Kupuri Coal Company, a dividend at the rate of 10 per cent was declared. The monthly out-put is 2500 tons. Resident Magistrate's Court. —At the aboTe Court yesterday, before S. D. Barker and J. Mendelson, Esqrs, J.P.s, Charles Nicholas sued E. Inncss for £3. Judgment was recorded by default. Death of an Old Resident. —Mr P. B. Luxmoore, one of the oldest residents in South. Canterbury, died last Sunday morning at his residence, near Timaru. He had been for some time ailing, and his death was not unexpected. The Native Murderer. —Mr Dufaur, Winiata's lolicitor, goes to tli3 King Country with letters from Winiata to his relatives. Winiata says in them that he regards himself as a dead man, and counsels tliem not te avenge his death. Cusioub Strike. —A curious strike is reported from Vienna. The beer drinkers of that easy-going capital have determined to drink no more beer until the local brewers consent to revise their prices, which, were lately raised without any satisfactory reason. Death from Drowning.—lsaac Erricksen, a labourer, was drowned at Rhodes' Bay last Saturday. He waded into the water after a boat, and when about a chain from the shore was seized with cramp and went down. His body was washed ashore on Sunday. Buenbd in Effigy.—Mr Pillict, who was recently returned for Stanmore, is to be burned in effigy. He went in as an ultraradical, pledged against the present Government, but no sooner did he take his seat in Parliament than he turned round and voted ' with' the present Ministry. Bookmaking.—The Sporting Times says : —" As an instance of the gains of bookmakers at Goodwood we have only to meation that Messrs Bayliss and Foster won £30,000. On settling night the principal partner, who re* joices in the nickname of ' The Gloater,' took the money, consisting of notes, cheque*, and gold, home, and throwing it into a bath, solemnly undressed himielf and rolled in it." The Murderer op Suliivan. The Waikato Times is informed by its Aotea correspondent, " That Sullivan's murderer, who lives in Kawhai, has been so much frightened at the capture of Winiata by Barlow, that ho has actually been trying to induce the Maori chiefs to take steps to prohibit any half-castes from coming to Kawhai. They, however, turn a deaf ear to all his pleadings: This is the only murderer at large here or in Kawhai, the Native who murdered Mr Todd being dead."

Accident. —We regret to hear that a son of Mr Higgins met with a serious accident yesterday afternoon. The child while playing behind Messrs Nichol Bros.' shop, pulled towards him a wheel, which fell on hini and broke his leg below Hie knee. Dr Hayes attended the sufferer, and set the injured limb. The child, who is only five ©r six years of age, behaved with extraordinary pluck. "When he released himself he looked down, and, on finding his leg crooked, proceeded to put it straight with his own hands. This he did, and then was trying to walk on it when assistance arrived.

Burned to Death. —A public house known as the Rocky Waterholes Hotel, in the Darling district, was burned down one night, and with it the landlord and his wife. When the fire occurred, two traveller!, a male and a female scrAant, O'Brien and his wife, and their four children, were in the house, all of whom were saved except O'Brien and his wife. The body of Mrs O'Brien was completely charred. The fires in the house were all put out before it waß shut up for the night, and there is no clue to the origin of the lire, which is supposed to have been accidental, as both O'Brien and his wife went to bed drunk. The fire occurred at 1 o'clock in the morning, and w»s fi: st observed by the female servant, who immediately removed her own box and bedding, which wer« the only articles saved, but gave no sufficient alarm to the other inmates. The children all slept in the same room with their parents, and got out of the bedroom window. Mrs O'Brien wm seen going from her room towards the bar which was all in flamos, and was called on to get out of tho window, but paid no heed to the warning. This was th» only time she was seen. The house was of wood and thatched with cane reeds, and, the barman says, burned rapidly. There was nearly £4OO in the house at the time of the fire. O'Brien had not been sober for sU months,

Bigamy.—The case of bigamy mjaimt Samuel Joy of Auckland, is a singular one. It appears that twenty-four years ago lie married a half-caste -woman at Tapuri, who within half-an-hour after the completion of the ceremony eloped to the King Country with a Maori lover. In January last Joy contracted a matrimonial alliance with a woman named Pramley, who arrived by the Lady Jocelyn, and it ii understood she laid the information.

Policeman Hoaxed.—The Auckland police were swindled the other day. Three men called at the station at an early hour in the morning, with the startling intelligence the body of « man dressed in black was floating down tho harbour. Eager for something to reliere the dull monotony of their Hves, several members of the force collected a quantity of grappling appliances and pulled off in a boat in the direction indicated, to discoTer—a big black dog.

Fire in Dune din. —A fire was discovered early on Sunday morning in tho cellar of a draper of Dunedin, named Thomas McGrill, in business in the Arcade. A constable was the first to see the fire, McQ-ill, who was on the premises, not being cognisant of it. With assistance the lire was soon extinguished. The stock, etc, was insured for £2OOO, equally divided in tho New Zealand and National ( Insurance Companies. McQ-ill states that the value[of the stock ranges between £I9OO and £2IOO. A quantity of oiled wrappings, rags, etc., were discovered on lire in such a position a 9 led the police to arrest McGrill. Rainfall in the North Island.—Very severe weather was experienced in the North Island last Friday. In Wellington it did considerable damage by blocking up the railway in Kaitoki with a heavy landslip, taking away the approaches to a bridge, destroying many streets in the town, overflowing the rsservoir and threatening serious consequences. The fall was between 5 o'clock on Thursday and 9.30 on Friday. Registered 3 inches, and is said to be the heaviest since 1864. A temporary bridge over the Rangitikei river was washed away, though the traffic was to have been resumed on Monday. "'he Dead Unknown. —The body of a man, unknown, has been found in the Auckland harbor. It is that of an elderly man, clre3sed in a suit of black clothes, with white ' shirt, elastic-side boots, and worsted stockings, a silver watch and black cord guard being attached to the vest. The features are completely gone. The hair is dark, and there are traces of side whiskers. In the pocket a letter -nas found, but this gave no clue t« the man's identity. The missive was written by a sister on a visit to Cambridge, Waikato, and dated April 30th, 1882. It commences " Dear John " and concludes " Your loving sister, Ada," but no particulars are contained therein by which the surname of either the st nder or recipient can be discovered. Legal Compliments.—Compliments of a flowery kind are oocasionally exchanged at the solicitor's table at our local Temple of Justice (says the Ashburtou G.ui-dian). Said a certain member of the profession at the conclusion of a civil case last Thursday in addressing the Bench—" My witnesses have all given evidence in an honest straightforward way,your Worships—they are honest people." " And my clients," interrupted the counsel for the " other side " "are all dishonest people and ruffians." " Birds of feather, I suppose," softly murmured the opposition gentleman sitting down. The '• learned friend " addressed said nothing, but he gave a withering glance through Ms eyeglass at his opponent, which was more eloquent tha2i words—and won his case.

Sensational Advertising in London.— For some time past advertiiing hai been carried on in London after a fashion hardly surpassed by that of America it«elf. All previous efforts in the advertising lin« must however, pale before the expedients recently ressrted to by a popular London theatrical manager. The latter recently produced a comedy called "Fourteen Dayt" at the Criterion Theatre. By way of publishing the fact he retained the services of a itring of " sandwich men," who, dressed as convicts paraded the streets accompanied by a warder in full uniform, and armed with a gun. The idea was a success. But it resulted in some of the crowded city streets becoming almost impassable. The people thought the men were veritable convicts, and stared at thom just as the manager wanted them to stare. The illusion did not last. Each man bore the legend across his chest in bold type "Fourteen Days." "With another set of sandwich men, dressed as " moths" (the title of another London comedy), and a few more as "mothers-in-law" (the title of a third drama), the streets would bs blocked and all traffic suspended.

A notification from the Geraldinc Pound* keeper appears elsewhere. Messrs Maclean and Stewart will hold an important sale of valuable household furniture in the Volunteer Hall to-morrow. At Winchester Fair, on Thursday, they will sell fat and store cattle, sheep, etc. At Studholme Junction Yards, next Monday, they will sell a quantity of live stock. On Saturday, 12th August, they will] sell a quarter-acre freehold section with four-roomed house, situate at Temuka, to which date the sale of the Temuka Hotel is postponed.