LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1003, 12 September 1882, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Fi/AX Industry.—A meeting of the promoters of the proposed Fax Factory will be held next Wednesday afternoon, at 3.30 p m., in the Wallingford Ilotel. Most of those who have been asked to act as provisional directors have consented, and much interest appears to be manifested in the project. The provisional directory are to be elected at to morrow's meeting. Ashburxok Enterprise.—The director* of the Ashburton Woollen Factory CornI pany have decided to send Home for £6OOO worth of machinery in addition to what they jiave already bought. They intend to enlarge the premises 30ft x 80ft, and will offer an additional 2000 shares to the public- Mr< K>amsden,.late of the Kaiapoi factory lias been appointed manager; • Mysterious Cask. —The body of an infant was found at Boutb Tnverca'rgill on Sunday. It had been placed in a box which had been buried two feet deep. The discovery was due to a dog, which called attention to the ipot by scratching, and refused to leave. The body was clothed, and had a cap on. The box aad content* were removed to, ! the hospital. The police have » clue te the I mother, and it ii hinted that the affinr will probably net be found of euch a tragic nature ai the mode of burial indicates. The Shamrock Hotel —The above wellknown hotel has changed hands, Mr Morgan, late of the North Western Hotel,Palmerston, and the Cave Hotel, Mackenzie Country, having recently obtained jiossession 0 f it, The hotel is certainly one of the largest, the most commodious, and the bes' furnished in Timaru. It is fitted up with every convenience that is necessary to eomfort, and in the hands of so experienced a host as Mr Morgan it ought to become very popular. We wish Mr Morgan success in hii undertaking. .„„.,. Oub Bankruptcy Laws.—Says 'Asmodeous' in the New Zealand Mail :—' A new Bankruptcy Act is not to be paiso'd this session, but one has been drafted and laid before Parliament, and will be. I presume, freely circulated during the recess. It is much needed, that is, if it is the right measuro ; but who can tell if it, is a right measure ? for bankruptcy has become a tangle that puzzles the most astute, and really invites the sashing of some lethal weapon to clear away its "intricacies. It is in fact, m a horrid mess, and I here contribute a thousand and one instance of its, abominations. There was an estate of one asset only, valued at £250, .Against this estate was a liability of £l3O, leaving a balance of £l2o' for expenses, or, as was fondly hoped, a something to go to the good of the poor debtor. The affair was quite easy to administer, and was expected to be settled in the course of a month or two, the time given by the executors for the arrangements of certain family matters, j Time, however, slipped by, as it always does in such cases, ou well greased axles, and lo ! at the end of the third year, the result was declared in a first and final dividend of 5s in the £. 'J hat is to saj, £lB7 10s had been swallowed by expenses, and £62 10s paid (o creditors. This is not an extreme case, but it is recent and worth recording. S'I'OWAAVATS. —A cbnplo of knowing travellers who thought they would get a cheap steambo.it trip wero very much deceived on the last run to-Nelson of the s.s. Penguin from Wellington. On the purser going his round to collect tickets, as usual, while the vessel wis going down the harbor, two individuals were found in the steerage who had no tickets, and who told the purser to go to a very warm place.. He appea'ed to the cap tain and the chief officer, and they received from the intruders similar replies. The skipper wasted no time in parleying. As the men would neither produce tickets nor money and were still abusive, he slackened speed, put the men in a host, their exit over the side being accelerated by the remark of the burly and muscular chief officer, that if they did not look sharp he would help them along, and they were landed on the rocks at Pencarrow Head, with a cheerful prospect of night clos iugiu, and t a thirty five miles walk before reaching Wellington. How they fared on the journey we know not, but this effective method of dealing with stowaways seem infinitely better than detaining a vessel in port while the offenders, get. sentenced to a week's free board and lodging in goal, after, having had a free trip to tho port they have desired to reach; ■ \

. Sale op Valuable Peopeety.—The attention of our readers ii directed to a sale by Mr G.F. Martin of that valuable Soutland property known as the Edendale Sawmill. The sale takes place next Friday. Full particular* will be found in our advertising columns. -■ Pa-wxueokees.—From a return presented to Parliament on tke motion of Mr Tole, we learn that Auckland possesses 5 pawnbrokers ; Thames, 1; Welhngtbn,*2 / Clmstchurch, 3 • ABhburtonr»'lT"*-"Timant;--2*;' ,, '*Ofmaru, 1; Dunedin, 11; and InTercargill, 3. FeenchOWNlOJT.—The».French Kadical Press is very bitter on England for bombarding Alexandria, and intervening alone in the affairs of-Egypt; and the feeling of ani« mosity exhibited towards !' Albjpt." i* pretty general throughout France, tlie fesulfc (says a, contemporary) of "not having a finger in the pie:" Suicide. —A woman named' Ellen Galloway, wife of the master of the Harbor Board dredge, at Hokitika, was misled from her homo on the South Spit on Frldajjfat about eleven p.m. Sho appears to have got out of bed and walked into the creek, foi her footprints ware traced to the water. The body was recovered on Saturday. A Falling Ojfp.—The Official Statistics of German Emigration to Anierica*s>hows an extraordinary falling off in, th« figures for May, as compared with the corresponding period last year. While in May, 1881, the number of German emigrants, tq»the United States was about 14,500, in; May, 1882, fckay had decreaned to 7000, a falling off of more than 50 per cent. Sumuart Vkkgeaiccb.—During a voyage from Calcutta to-New York; Captain Dwight, of. the ship Freeman .was murdered [n his state room, on the 27th of May, by the Chinese cook and steward of the vessel. The murderers also attacked the mate, but he escaped and aroused the crew,,-' Jjho then seized and killed the. murderers and ihrew their bodies overboard. The Chinese, it is said, were incensed because they. had b»e» deprived of opium. ■-"-■ A Lucky Accidekt. —Thektest method of curing the deaf and dumb ...is that adopted at Harwich.. -This, is to fall and fracture one's collar bone. A little deaf and dumb boy, four years old, ; sorf of a ship's carpenter named Elvin, did it the best result. At first there was unfortunately, "an offensire discharge from the fracture," but " it was succeeded by the-establishment of the child's sense of hearing? and he is now beginning to speak." ------ **- ** Football—The team of .footballers from New South Wales played at, last Saturday, and were beaten by. lhe,Auckland boys by a goal and a try to nothing! There was a very large attendance and interest was manifested in this game. At the banquet given to them by,,the Mayor of Auckland the captain Of the New South Wales team said he never, saw .a "team that worked together so well as «the-> Auckland one. They will play down here;* 1 "* A Stupid Joke.—The practical -joker in Wanganui says the '• Heivdd," has struck » new line. Exaggerated rumors of packets of strjehnine having been found in the streets have led to alarm which on inquiry proves to be groundless. The loss of "these? packets has been very ingeniously traced!to imaginary farmers, who have been taking, th/jm-away for the purpose of killing small •- birds-,* and have accidently dropped them in the streets. The fact is no such packets have beenfbund, but several small paroels of ashes, labelled*" strychnine, 3oz ; " "dynamite, loz;''"nitro-Jycerine, dangerous, ioi;" etc., have,been found, and the finders in their alarm have: rushed to the police and urged them to do their duty, and find out the treacherous villain who was trying to'poison' the little innocents of Wanganui.

A Juvenile Chiiiiiul —There is a boj in Leicester who -in olJen timss ; would hare stood a fair chance. of being summarily dealt with as the yictim of diabolical possession, or "as ; apinp in human shape. He is only" two. y«ar§ and nine months old, and as yet-<is unable to speak, but he is a big rough boy, the s despair of his parents, and the terror: of 'all the children in the neighbourhood; TWe othei day he seizetl a baby one ~year.;h'is : junior (lung him to the ground with such* force as to fracture his skull and then walked.away with a blood-stained pinafore from the corpse of bis little rictim At the inquest*-this infant terrible seized the coroner's "papers, in order to throw.them on the floor, and' his mother admitted she eould do nothing, with him. Although technically guilty.of manslaughter, if not murder, he is too young to »be; criminally responsible for his acts, and he bids fair to bocome one of the most incorrigible of those juvenile offenders who are_ the/despair of the Horn 3 Secretary. ;; ■ I / . The Chiustchurch Poisonixg Case. — The recent fatal case of "poisoning in Christ- "X' c'uirch presented some peculiar feature?, and Dr Patrick, in a letter to the Lyttelton Times, endeavors to thvow;»ouie liglil; on the matter. He says:—"At the adjourned inquest the verdict of the jury was —'That the deceased had died from the effects of an irritant poison, but how 'administered the jury are not in a position, from the eyidence, • o say.' Dr Irring could not account for the death of the child otherwise than by irritant poison. Professor TJickerton analysed the contents of the stomach, some flour, a. portion of bullock's heart, and some salt, with only negative results. "When so cipable a chomisfc as Professor Bickerton fails to find a poison, it may b» safelf inferred that there is none-of the" ordinary poisons to find. Is it possible that the child died of a poison which analysis cannot detect? I think so. "Flesh, and especially fat, in a state of ineipient a poison which will produce exactly inch symptoms as the Howard .family .exhibited. , Now, the family partook-.of- suet dumplings, f I think the suet did the mischief The nature of the poison, generated in ussound flesh is quite unknown, and cannot be detected by the nicest chemical fcesM,*^

Not What He Intended.— People should mind how they express themselves at public dinners. Wc read the other day that the builder of a church, now in course of erection, when the toast of his health was given, vathei enigmatically replied that he was “ more Sited for the scaffold than for public speak* Resident Magistrate's Court. At the above Court yesterday, before S. D. B- vker and J. Mendelson, Esqrs, J.P.’s, P- Carr was fined 5s for haring been drunk and disorderly. E. Pilbrow v. W. Essery—Claim £7. Mr Austin appeared for defendant* £3 12s was paid into Court. Judgment was given for £4l2s and costs. J. M. Ollivier y. Q-. Munyard —Claim £5, dishonored cheque. Judgment for the amount claimed and costs, B. Thomson v. C. Childs —Claim £7 15s. Judgment by default for the amount claimed and costs. Evidence was taken in a ca’e in which W. Rt. TJprichard and S. Norton were were sued by a Christchurch firm for tte price of two cases of stout. The evidence was taken for transmission to the R.M. Court, Christchurch, where the case is to be heard. It appeared from the evidence of both defendants that they met a man named Rogers in the City Hotel, Christchurch. Rogers owed Mr Norton money, and when he asked it of him he said • gentleman who was stand mg near would supply him with two cases of porter in part payment of the debt, and that he (Rogers) would bo responsible to the Christchurch firm for the price of the porter. So as to get the money somehow, Messrs Norton and Uprichard agreed to take a case of porter each in payment of what Rogers owed. Mr Rogers did not pay the Christchurch firm for the amount, and now Messrs Norlon and TJprichard were sued for it. The case is to be hsard next Friday in Christchurch.

An apprentice to the printing business is wanted at the Leader Office. Mr H, Nicholson, Waitohi Downs, Temuka, is in want of a good ploughman. Mr James Franks advertises the loss of a greenstone pendant. The reward is five shillings. A notification from the Temuka Poundkeeper anent «. bay hack gelding appears elsewhere. Mr F. B. Oldfield, Milford, notifies that any person trespassing on his laud will be prosecuted. Messrs Maclean and Stewart notify that they will hold a sale of entire harses immediately after the Timaru Horse Parade on the 7th October. Early entries are solicited. Th« y also notify the sale by auction on 20th September at their rooms of a farm and town taction. Attention is directed to Mr J. Tangney's advcrtisemeat in another column. The rapidity with which Mr Tangney gets rid of large consignments of boots and shoes, is scarcely credible in a town where the complaint is that all the business is going to Timaru. Mr Tangney neTer complains of this. He boasts that Timaru people buy of him, and yet Mr Tangney neTer takes his advertisements to Timaru. He patronises local industry, like a sensible nan, and the result is that his business is prosperous. Ought not this to be a lesson to other business men ? Mr Tangney has now a large stosk of new boots to offer to the public, and we have not the slightest doubt but that our readers will get as good a Talue from him as they can get anywhere else.