LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1006, 19 September 1882, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Parliamentary.— On Friday last Parlia • ment was formally prorogued to December nth. •- : • ■ * -*1 rii Legal. —Mr H. S. Austin, solicitor, notifies that he has recommenced practice in Temuka and Timaru. , f/ r > » Temuka School Committee.— The usual monthly meeting of the above Committee will be held this evening. False Pretences. —Tire charge of false pretence? against Dennis Heffernan broke down in th* District Court yesterday. • Auction Sale,— Mi- K. F. Gray will hold a clearing sale of live and dead stock on the* Leys Farm, to-morrow. Luncheon will bo provided. - . d/. I Black Diamonds.— The Kaitangata Coal Company declares a dividend of 15 per cent and carry forward £4600, making the reserve fund £IO,OOO. - K Sheet Worrying.— Mr Crawford, a pub* iican at Palmerston South, has had to pay £4B damages for sheep worried by his dogs on the Mount Royal Estate. O’Connor T. Burk.— An impression has got hold of the public mind in Dunedin that the race which came off last Saturday between O’Connor and Burk was not all on the square. Death prom Poisoning—A photographer named Herman Bruice died suddenly in Dunedin last Saturday. At the inquest a verdict of "Poisoned by chloral” was returned, but there was no evidence to show by whom it was administered. . Football. The football match New South Wales r. Wellington was played on Saturday afternoon, and resulted in rather an easy victory foir the former, oy two goals and .-two tries, total 14 points, |o Wellington’s one try, or two points. | The match was played at Newton, and the weather was all that could be desired. » 1 - Fatal Result oe an Accid^x, —A firs*

man named G-osshng, who was oa board the / Lioness at time of the wreck; and met with 1 an accident, died in the Hospital last Friday night. The immediate cause of'death was inflammation of the lungs, brought on, it is supposed, through not changing his wet clothes after the occurrence. The deceased was 46 years of age, and -is said to leave a brother in Wellington. ... • -

Mining Accident at Greymouth:—The body of Hill, killed by a fall of earth at Red Jack’s, has been recovered. It would appear from the distance between the bodies, ajld the position in which they lay, that Derery had seen the danger and endeavoured to escape f but was overtaken before he gob far enough away. Hill must have been completely prised by the slip, _and was killad at once. The latter’s body was shockingly mutilated.

Wesleyan Church, Waitohi. —An advertisement in another column tiofcifies-' Hiat the anniversary tea meeting i atad entertain* ment in connection witli the above shurch takes place next Friday ' evening. „. ? Tea commences at G. 30 o’clock. . Those desirous of spending a few hours pleasantly could not do better than attend, as, Judging from the names of the gentlsraen who are to deliver addresses, and the ladies who-are to something very good may be anticipated.

Ihdighant Volunteers. —The feeling of indignation against tlie actidiiiand insult of Mr Bryco re the Thames Volunteers’ contingent at Parihaka, found vent last Saturdi£ night at the Thames in the Binning of Bryce’s effigy. One huHclrjed, meb belonging! 4 to the late contingent - followed a eapitaf figure of Mr Bryce, set bn a white: hone, and were accompanied by fully 2000 people, who inarched through the principal' streets of the ' Borough, headed by an impromptu band composed of small boys equipped with tin cans and whistles, playing the “ Dead March in Saul.” A .

Scalded to Death, -Da Lantern® -- gives a harrowing account of the scalding to death of a mad woman at the : Salpetriere £ Hospital. She was a seamstress, Georges, 27 years old, and'had, 'to calm her 4 nerves, been ordered hot baths, One day she was placed in a bath haying a lock-down ■ lid, with an orifice through which her head and neck passed When thp hot; Water was on, the servant, with the key Of theVap, went to fetch linen and remained to gossip. The screams of the lunatic, she being reputed violent, were unheeded, and she was literally boiled to death before the negligence through which she had disco|ered. E. W. D. Gray, M P.— E. W.*Dyer Gray member of Parliament and proprietor of the Dublin Freeman’s Journal, was on the 16th iur. sentenced to two moEfchs’ -imprisonment and a-fine of £SOO for contempt of Court in publishing a letter from O’Brien, editor of the United Ireland, accusing the Jury which canvicted Francis Hayes of the.murder of John Doughty of being drunk on the day previous to the day the verdict was ‘given, and an article commenting thereon. O’Brien and Davitt were put out of Court for creating a disturbance. Gray, after being sentenced was handed over to the proper officer, who evinced same reluctance to take charge of him. but the Judge called upon*,him *to do his duty, and he conveyed his prisoner to Richmond prison. At the expiration <sf the term of imprisonment, Gray must find two sureties for himself for £SOO and ’ two others for J £2OO each. The decision'of the Court caused ] a great sensation. Gray was Lord Mayor of Dublin for 1880, and a* high sheriff when imprisoned,

"t'"An Enterprising Showman. The Chicago Inter-Ocean has the latest joke on . Haverly. Ho heard the Duke of Edinburgh ' had accompanied Marie Roze’s singing on the riolin at a concert, and an idea struck him that he could run H.R.H. through America. Filled with this sublime ambition, Mr Haverly posted off to the American Minister, and after some trouble secured an audience. Coming abruptly to business, in characteristic fashion, Mr Haverly demanded : “ Do you know the Duke of Edinburgh ?” •' I do,” said Mr Lowell. “ What sort of chap is ho P” “ A very pleasant gentleman.” “ Much on style ?” “ Consider- ■ able.” “ Good figure, and plays the fiddle well ?” “ I believe so.” " Well, I want , him. You just tell him that Jack Haverly wan's him at his own figures and in his own fashion. I’ll run him about the United ■ States in a special car, and give his lithograph an equal shew with my own 5 some- • thing I have never done with any attraction I have ever handled: I'll make up a special company to go along with him, and we 11 bust any other concert show on the read. • You tell Ed. that what I say goes, »nd I’ll put him through a bigger string of theatres than - any other man in the wor'd. I don’t oaro a darn if I have to pay 600 dols a night. I can knock out more dollars with a real bang ■ up duke than I ever did with that cussed Queen’s Own Opera Company Mapleson led me into and regularly did me with. You just put that strong to Ed., and say I have the inside track on the biggest lithograph . . shop in the West and size of cut is no circumstance. There’s my card and a ticket to Pony Moore’s, Go down and see what I i taught those fellows about nigger minstrelsy. I’m going down to that concert where Duke plays, and you can have him talked up ready form*." And Mr Haverly gracefully retired and cabled to Brooks and Dickson, .New York : “ I’ve got the biggest attraction ' *n earth. Knocks Jumbo hollow.” New Drabbet Shop.—Messrs Davis and Murphy opened a branch establishment in this town yesterday. Their advertisement states that it will be for one month only, but we have it from the head of the firm that if the venture meets with sufficient patronage they will establish a permanent branch here. We also find that it is no rubbush they have opened with. Most of the goods have never been opened before, and are quite new. The people Will therefore have no excuse —they will be offered good value for their money, and as Messrs Davis and Murphy are admittedly the cheapest drapers in Timaru,the prices they will charge will be less than goods can be bought at elsewhere. We have always urged upon owners of house property in this town the necessity of concentrating all their efforts on keeping the trade in the place, because if they do not the town will go _ down and their houses will he only valuable for firewood. The number of empty houses now in the town proves . .that. They are given an opportunity now, by the most enterprising firm in Timaru opening here, and it is the fault of the people themselves if this branch will not be per manently established. We ask them plainly, is it not better to support a shop established , in this town, than give orders to a Dunedin firm that brings the trade into contempt by going into competition with hawkers when that shop will give them better value for ■ their money ? We have been assured that it is not only one but several shops in this town that give better value than the hawker and it stands to reason, because the hawker who comes from Dunedin has to incur heavy expenses, and he his bound to put it on the goods. He cannot possibly undersell people in this town, so let the people be not duped into believing such a thing. Let them support ■ local institutions, and when the hawker waylays them in the street, tell him that goods can be got cheaper from their own neighbours. If they Avant a cheap shop Ist them patronise Messrs Davies and Murphy, and they will settle permanently In their midst. Mr J. J. Heap has several properties for sale. Mr M A Toomey has a notice in reference to the trotting pony stallion Duke of Ediuburgh. Tenders for building chimneys and plastering a six-roomed house, close with Mr James Blyth to-morrow. Messrs Corbett and Pcarpointhave notifications respecting Daniel O’Rourke and Jangler, thoroughbred horsss. Messrs Maclean and Stewart will hold a sale of valuable freehold property, and a special sale of skins, at their Horse Bazaar ( Timaru to-morrow, and will attend Winchester Fair on Thursday, and offer a number of cattle and sheep.