LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 996, 26 August 1882, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Indtarism -Two stacks of oats heir to Mr A. McNaughty, of AwaInear Oamaru, wore destroyed by I Monday night. ' They were not H. The fire is supposed to have been I by an incendiary. |al Accident. — James Lucky, a [in the employ of Findlay Brothers, Ln, was killed on Wednesday afterIhrough being kicked by a horse ■was rendered restive through being Idnby a lengthy piece of timber. L killed instantaneously. , He leaves I and three children. LivE Meeting,— An important meetIjoing on at .Kokoranui, Maungar Tawhiao and a large number|of btial chiefs are present. The object liscuss the desirableness of putting b large blocks of land through the [Courts, also ef turning all halfeastes [ the King country, in consequence j action taken by Barlow in the capiniata.

Irrikinism,— Larrikinism is increasIn Auckland. Two . larrikins, John ■in And William O’Keefe, have been Itedfor pushing nan eld man named Lin Dyer through a plate glaas window, bh was damaged q the extent of £ls. y ; were,, remanded. A i decrepit old i named John Walker was knocked In" by another gang. The fire alarm I wak broken two nights in succession 16. 3' post in attempts to hoax the Fire rade;

[amaru Industry! —The Colonial Barb to Manufacturing Company has been Uessfully floated in Oaraaru. The fcphhy takes over the pate.»t, plant, and Ik of the patentees, and commenced rations yesterday. The system of Hng barbed wire by this process is bosed to be the most ingenious yet luted, and the quantity that can be led the manufactory by the Ihinery in use at the present time ia Fectod to establish the Company’s aucl*s a piying concern. The,” patent ia tree in all the Australian Colonies, and [ther countriee, and is known as Lee’s wit.'. j"' 1 ; "'I] A,.;’.'.. I ,' ’ IRE IN Timaru.— An inquest into: the in of the fir# which took place in the chmaker's shop occupied by Mr; T.: S 3. Is, Timaru, was held laat Wednesday, evidence was ito the effect that ; the Ik was insured for £420, that the Unt at which the gsods were valued at Messrs Bower and Shappero was '9 5a 94, although , the value put upon n by Lyle himself was £4BB. Books id in the premises showed that Lyle c stock immediately before the fire! a °d ;it consisted principally of watches left dm for repairs, there being only about worth of his owu property in the |e. There was £ll worth of aa injment taken home by Lyle. There I gome marks on a window, as if made Iroeone trying to enter it, but there lie sign of anyone having entered by ■means.’ The only other means of Inca was through the doors, and they Blocked. Lyle said he bad a dispute

Lomeone who said 44 he would do for ot.” Lyle told the police he locked

ick door on the previous evening

agoing to a Good Templar eft the key in the imido but no key

be found. Further evidence of a

h of turpentine being found in shop, and of tho position in which the watches and clocks were Li under the counter, just whore re was started, was given, and the returned a verdict to the effect that

iremiaes of Mr T. E; Lyle were set #n •y some person or persons unknown; ‘ j. " ■ * !! T»C!

Wesleyan Services.—The services tomorrow ih the Wesleyan Church, Temuka, will be conducted by the Rev. W. Beck, of Timaru.

No Goon.—A resident of Ashburton applied for a prohibition order against himself. He said he could not avoid the temptation of drinking: The order was granted.

Cruelty to Animascs>— William Munro .’ a contractor at Astibifrton, was fined £5 and -costs yesterday.” ~A* tiorse belonging to him fell down a gravel pit and injured its spine, and sustained other injuries, and defendant .neglected to have it killed for some hours, during which it was exposed to very inclement weather.

( Budden Death.—Doctop Jo|m Parker, aged 60, was found dead iijj hi* bed at Chrisichurchyesterday morning. He waa of intemperate habits, and had been ailing \ft'*l'ff UV., JA ■[ \I U f/, L -.1 I • for aom* time, A man living with him found ,hini ; raping at two o’clock. He went back to bed without fetching assistance, and f#uhd ! hitri’ at 8.30 o’clock. Fire.— At New Plymouth at fire o’clock yesterday mbroing the Stratford Hotel was burnt down. The fire is supposed to .have originated in the apirit store under the Stairs,! and then communicated with: the lining to the roof. The in»uranc9s are £6OO in the Victoria office on the building; and £250 it the Norwich Union; and £l6O in file United, on the stock. ' " ' * •-' , i i f { ) Lecture.— A lecture on “Dr Guthrie, the preacher, author, and philanthropist," will be given by the Rev W. Motley, exPresident of the Wesleyan Conference, next Friday. In the hands of the lecturer, there can bo no doubt the subject will be handled in a masterly manner. The Volunteer Hall has been secured for the occasion, 90d the admission fixed at

Is 6d and Is. The New Pulveriser.—This is the name of a new agricultural implement—which, it is said, .will supercede the plough —introduced by Mr Moody, ef • Tiaearu. It is a combination of the plough, sower, and harrow, and has done excellent work where it has been exhibited. Ih front is a seed box from-which' the seed, U distributed, next come knives that Out up the ground, and then follows a harrow. It will cross plough, sow, and harrow sixteen acres a day. The patentee’s name hip not transpired, but Mr Moody ia engineering it at present. • Thi White Cliffs Massacre.—Re-

ferring to the While Cliff*, murder the Taranaki New* aays :—The murder of th# Rev, J. Whiteley was a most brutal one. The unfortunate gentleman wa* not killed in war time, neither is 1869 a generation ago. That Mr King, grandson of Mr Whitley,has taken Steps todbring»the murderers to justice is quite truef and we trust he will be successsful. The list of criminals who have recently keen captured and triad for their crimes will not be complete until the murderous scoundrels who took part in the White Cliff# massacre are >put to (rial, and the Government which takes the credit® Of capturing Hiroki and Winiata ahould also jwe thi* matter cleared up.. , . , . . Determined Suicide.—A i determined case of suicide by a youth named James , Smith, aged 20 years, is reporled from Port Albert, Victoria.' The/young manwas charged with cattle-stealing, and was let out on bail. Other' cases conning to light, he’was again arrested.. While in the lock-up the constable heard him crying very bitterly, and haring pacified him' he left, for the night. On visiting himin the coll the next morning the constable found the prisoner dead, with his (waist-belt, a common saddle strap, passed round hia< neck as a noose, and the other# end tied to an iron bar across the window, which is about 34 inches from the fleor. Strangulation had evidently been effected by stretching the head backwards, either by means of the hands or feet. In whatever wa y it is marvellous how he could suffer, as he must have done; for some": minute* before life became extint wj ( thpjjt)naking efforts, to save himself. v

; Christy Minstrel ClUb.'— The Temuk* Christy Minstrel Club gave an entertainment in the Assembly Rooms, Pleasant Point, last Wednesday evening. Th* attendance was very fair, bnt it would deubtless have been much better Only that the Rev. Mr Chaffers-Welsh lectured there on the same evening, | Th* following programme was gone through in-4 manner tliai elicited much applause, end a great' many encores, via.:—Chorus, ‘ Down the river ‘ She laughed behind her fan,’ Mr Burrows ; 4 Time f may steal away the roses,’ Mr Clinch ; 4 The tailor that cut me out,’: Mr Levens ; ‘ Rosea underneath the snow,’ Mr Bell ; 4 That’s what makes me grin,’ Mr Burrows; 4 Caught him alive,’ 4 The Caliph of Bagdad, Orchestra ; Anniversary of Temuka,’ Mr Bolton ; 4 Le Lun# de Miel,’ cornet solo, Mr Stratton ; 4 Old Log Cabin,’ Mr Clinch , songs, Messrs Burrows and Bell; solo on the Madagascar fiddle, Mr Bell 3 waltz, orchestra; concluding with th* 4 Darkie Photographer,’ in which Mr Bolton appeared as.Culloden, Mr Bnrrowa as Gumbo, and Mr Levemi as Adolphus. The whole performance was gone through in a manner that frequently tittled the risibility of the Pleasant Point -natives, 1 who were astonished at ’ the 'talent displayed by our Temuka artists, and 1 judging from the heartiness with which they applauded and encored, they wer«> highly pleased. The club intend giving an entertainment at Geraldins shortly.

Important Information — Lieutenant Marriott, of H.M.S. Monarch, early in disguised himself as an Italian of the lower class and entered the forts at Alexandria, bringing away most valuable ■/ information as to number of the guns and the strength of the earthworks. From this repert it was believed that one ironclad could silence the Egyptain forts, the guns being of inferior type„mostly smoethbore 64-pounders, and the native soldiers working them being fearfully exposed. The principal work, the lighthouse fort, could be cut off from support immediately '.'v by fire from the ironclad. The event •bowed that this estimate was not far from the mark. ' I ■; j Result o* the Recent Subvkt of Palestine.— Theßight Hen. the Earl of Shaftesbury, K.G., presided at the annual meeting of the. Victoria Fhiloso- ' pineal Insiitute of Great Britain, which took place.in London on the 15th. of June. ; The honorary secretary, Captain F- Petrie, read the report, which showed the total number of Home, Indian, and Colonial a l members to be 950.; Professor Pasteur and many other well known men of science had joined in the past year, to further the Society’s object—namely, the investigation of all philosophical and scientific • questions, especially those said te mill. "■ ate agaiist the truth of Revelation. An ' address i was delivered by Mr Trelawney :il Saunders,"the Official Geographer of the Survey ef Palestine. He , described the j Mientific results of - the of historian, especially as the resent work of . the exploration seamed to, bring the - v country before students of the present day as it appeared to the inhabitants nineteen centuries ago, and confirmed in a most [remarkable manner the accuracy of the Bibfo record. Among the speakers were the Right Hon. A. S. Ayrton, the 1 Bishops of Adelaide and of Nelson, who spoke of the value of the Victoria Philosophical Institute’s Transactions, and their . great anxiety for the increase of the number of its members in the colonies, where its Journal, recording the investigations of learned men into the truth as regards the philsophical and scientific questions of the present day, would bs even more >, welcome than in England, Dr Stern, the celebrat-d Abyssinlan captive ; Mr J. F. Bateman, F.R.S. ; and Mr D. Howard, Vice-President of the Institute of Chemistry of England; and others, also spoke.

Attention la drawn to impounded notices * ' . in another column. Mr A TVilaon, of Seadown, invites tenders for ploughing and harrowing, and for 70 chains fencing. ! Messrs‘Maclean and Srewart will hold thair weelky sale of horaea, drays, etc., at their Tiraaru Horse Bazaar today. On Monday, at Wash'dyke Yards, they will ■ hold their monthly stock aale. S Messrs R. Wilkin and Co., Timaru, will, hold a sale of horses, drays, pleught,! harness, etc., at their yards today. They , t will attend Washdyke Yards on Monday,* and dispose of fat and store stock. We are glad to find that a thorough tradesman, Mr J. Ogilvie, has taken the ; premises lately occupied by Mr D. Far-; quharson, and is now carrying on business there. The new occupant of the premises! is: a young man, who ha« a very extensive : ioaperisnce in the plumbing, tinsmithing; ' 'and bellhanging trades, and has been for some couple of years managing a branch establishment at Geraldine for his father, who has the largest shop of the trade in Oanaru. The Geraldine and Terauka branches are still connected with the Oamaru establishment, and will thereby have; the advantages of being able toi draw any amount of stock] that is neces sary for the requirments of the districtMr Ogilvie has shown us several specimens of bis work, and so far as we are able to; Judge they have been very well done.; He is prepared to undertake anything in. the liae of plumber, tinsmith, and bellhanger, and solicits a trial from residents: in the locality before they take their work elsewhere. As he is thoroughly cornpe- ■! ent and work s cheaply, ho certainly ought to be patronised.