LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 987, 5 August 1882, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Public Msietino.—Om readers are reminded of the meeting at Woodbury to night, in reference to the Terauka-Oxford Railway. Perjury. —At the Christchu?ch Resident Magistrate’s Court yesterday morning. Francis lanes, brewer, was committed for trial at the Supreme Court, for perjury. Railway Improvements. —A large number of men were employed yesterday in making improvements at the local railway station. Another siding is to be added where trucks can be loaded and unloaded during the grain season. Unpleasant. —The Wellington correspondent of the Dunedin Stir says that Messrs Pilliet and Petrie and Captain Sutter are termed traitors by the Opposition for having voted with the Government on the Native Reserves Rill the other night. Mr Pilliet has now become designated a staunch Ministerialist. Forbear. —Says the Christchurch Telegraph ; —The members of the legal fraternity are generally considered authorities on nearly all questions submitted to their consideration. A disappointed husband sought the advice of Mr Joyce, and having stated his case received as he alleges, a reply similar to the following : —“ Forbear, forbear—that’s what I did to my wife. Never allow her to master or conquer you. If you do you are done for.” Whether the applicant acted accordingly did not transpire during his evidence.

Wreckage. —What appear to be portions of a recent •wreck, hare just been picked up on the beach, at the Bluff. It is asserted that the ■wreckage does not belong to any ▼essel that has been ashore at or near the Bluff; and it is possibly a portion of the missing vessels, Min-y-Don, Loch Maree, or,, some others. Cruelty to Animals. —A resident of Kakahu, who ekes out a living by carting firewood from the Kakahu Bush, has got himself into the elutches of the law. On last Thursday he was driving a team of four horses into town, but one of thorn got knocked up on the road, and he tied it behind the cart. When in front of Messrs Kichol Bros’, forgo the unfortunate animal dropped down and died, and its unhappy owner is to be made amenable for his untimely end under the Cruelty to Animals Act.

Citil Servants in Italy. —Civil servants appear to have a “ rosy time ”in Italy. The Opinione makes a few amusing extracts from the accounts of public expenditure in that country. It seems that over £SO was charged for ice to cool “ drinks ” for the clerks in the War Office, and £6 for “toilette requisites and cosmetics ” for the Ministry of Grace and Justico. The sum of £lB was paid for a sapphire ring presented to a clerk by the Minister of Public Works, and the same clerk received also a present of £3O in money.

ENTERTAINMENT AT PLEASANT POINT. — An entertainment in aid o£ the Church *f England Sunday School prize fund was held at Pleasant Point last Wednesday evening. The room was crowded to excess. The Eev. J. Chaffers-Welsh presided, and after having addressed those present distributed the prizes to the children. The concert was then held,at which Messrs H. Clinch, A. Bell and Diamond sang and were encored. A musical selection of great excellence by Miss and Masters Morris on the piano, voilin and organ was given and Miss Morris sang “Kaiser, do you want to buy a dog?” capitally. The entertainment was a capital one.

Railway Traffic. — A telegram has been received from Mr W. Postlethwaite M.H.R., stating tint the amendment of the railway traffic had been under consideration for some time, and large reductions will probably be made in the charges for agricultural produce. This is a matter in which pretty well every public body in and around Christchurch is agitating at this present moment, and facts and figures of all kinds arc produced to show that the present traffic weighs unfairly on Canterbury. It is known in many places waggons are doing work cheaper than the railway, and the charges on the Government lines arc much heavier than on any other similar line in the colony. This, it is argued, ought to be changed. Electric Lioht Company. —The prospectus of the New Zealand Electric Light Company, Limited, has been circulated. It is to be floated in 10,000 shares of £lO each. The Company is formed for the purpose of lighting the principal cities in New Zealand by means of electricity, and also using it as a motive power. An influential provisional directory has been appointed, in addition to whom local directorates consisting of throe shareholders in each will be appointed in Dunedin, Christchurch, and Auckland, to take the management of the works in their respective cities, and by this means do away with the expense of having full lists of directors in those places. Nearly 6000 shares have already been subscribed.

“ Hespekothek.” —The concluding sentence of the Argus’ critique on the above work by Dr Bussell, the well-known war correspondent, runs as under: —“ Commenting on the American policy towards the Bed Man, Dr Russell has some remarks on his own countrymen in Australia and New Zealand which are worthy of some wild aboriginies’ protector rather than of a sensible citizen of the world like him. We are told that we ought not to be too hard on the Americans in their treatment of the Indians, seeing that ” we have worked out the same policy in the Australian continent and Yan Dieman’s Land,” and can “ only be restrained from its pursuit in New Zealand by the strong arm of the Home Grovernment.”

Natives and Winiata. —Mr Dufaur, Winiata’s counsel, has returned from the King Country after conveying the murderer’s last messages to his relatives* Tu Tawhiao, the King’s son, said to Mr Dufaur that the Kingites were principally vexed at the means adopted for Winiata’s capture. If the relatives of the murdered man had come and taken him, it would have been fair and just, as his body should be payment for his sins. But for Barlow, who pretended to be a friend, and who slept in the aame house and ate from the same disk, to capture him, was very wrong and treacherous. Tawhiao remarked that both men (Winiata and Barlow) were murderers. Winiata had killed a man for money, and Barlow had given up one of bis own people to death for money. The Kingites deny that Winiata’s father intends taking utu, and consider the rumors were circulated by Europeans for the purpose of getting the Constabulary stationed at Alexandria.

Utah. —A crisis is at hand between the Mormons and the Gentiles. The former have instructed their leaders not to trade with the latter, and the Gentile merchants have eschewed all transactions with the Mormons, and have discharged all their employees who belong to the sect. Class feeling is becoming more and more bitter in the State of Utah and the ladies of Ogden city who belong to the Episcopalian Church have determined to present Mrs Senator Edmonds with a satin quilt as a token of their gratitude to the sentator for his endeavors to promote a bettor civilisation in Utah. The quilt will be embroidered with the names of all those who contribute 50 cents, the money to be employed in the foundation of an anti-Mormon school. Meanwhile the re-organised Josephite - Mormons have despatched 200 missionaries to England with orders to bring back as many recruits as possible,

Obtaining Evidence, They hare a primitive way in some parts of Hungary of proceeding against persons accused of crime. Mikea Trailla, a boy of fifteen, employed as a sei’vanfc in the neighborhood of Temesvar, was suspected of stealing about 8 dols from his master. He was handed over to the police, and being suspended by the feet, head downward, from the ceiling, was belaboured with a wet rope for two hours. The next morning the half-dead boy was stretched on the floor and beaten on the legs and knees with a cudgel. A few hours later a magistrate ordered him to be again suspended by feet, and in that position he remained until he was unconscious. In the evening, still refusing to confess, he was held with naked breast and arms against a red-hot store. A brother of the lad, who implored the local notary to intercede and put a stop to the torture was thrown into 'prison by order of that functionary and heavily ironed. On the third day, by order of higher officials, who had been informed of these doings, the two brothers -were released.

The services at the Temuka Wesleyan Church are announced elsewhere. A notification re a deed of arrangement by Henry Selwood Austin appears elsewhere. The Temuka poundkeeper, Mr John Lawson, will dispose of a black hack horse, next Thursday if not previously released.

Messrs Maclean and Stewart will hold their weekly sale of horses, drays and harness at their Timaru Horse Bazaar today. On Monday, at Studholme Junction yards, they will dispose of a quantity of fat and store cattle and sheep.