The Temuka Leader THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1882. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1019, 19 October 1882, Page 2

The Temuka Leader THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1882. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Winchester Pair. The usual fortnightly fair takes place to-day at Winchester. A Thorough-going Bailiff. —A woman named Chentees, County Donegal, was shot by a process server recently, because she objected to the seizure of her cattle. Erratum:. —In our report of the breach of the Licensing Act case, published last Tuesday, Mr G-. J. Mason was reported to have sworn that he had drink in the Royal Hotel* This was incorrect. The sentence should have read that "he had no drink there," but the word " no " was left out, and altered the case altogether. Presence of Mind. —Five men in a small rowing skiff had a narrow escape from being drowned last Monday near Port Chalmers. The air-tight compartment in the boat burst and only for one of the party getting out and holding up the side of the compartment the boat would havo sunk. When rescued qhey were greatly exhausted, and all had lost their clothes. Attempted Suicide. —On last Tuesday a man namsd Q-eorgo Ingram attempted suicide by throwing himself off a cliff on Mie beach,St Andrews. Some of inhabitants of the village seeing what had happened hastened to the spot, and found him lying on the beach in a helpless state. He was removed to Timaru and placed in the Hospital, where it was discovered that he had sustained ■erioua spinal injuries. He is a carpenter and had been drinking lately. The Ti'MARU Show. —The railway authorities announce that ordiuary single-fare tickets issued at Lyttelton, Oamaru,and intermediate stations issued on 24th and 25th insts, will be available up to the 26bh inst. A special train will lsave Temuka on Thursday at 11.15 a.m. for Timaru, calling at wayside stations. The last train from Timaru will leave at 5.25, instead of 4.30. The above arrangements should enable all to visit the show without inconvenience.

A Sad Accident. —A peculiar and "sad accident occurred at Ilotham (Victoria) recently. Arthur Huxley, aged 10 years, with his cousin, Clarence Miller, and his sister, were playing soldiers. Young Huxley, assuming the character of Arabi Paslia, made a dash at his sister with a fork, when his cousin as an English soldier came to the rescue. He had a small knife in his hand, and in the play by accident stabbed little Huxley in the groin. The boy was removed to the Melbourne Hospital where he lingered for a few days, and died. The coroner's jury returned a verdict that the wound was inflicted accidentally.

I-;]IUJIAN Treatment. —The jury returned the following verdict, in the case of J. E. Bradburn, who died suddenly in Chiistchurch recently ;'" The deceased, John Edward Bradburn, died from congestive apoplexy, accelerated by the use of intoxicating liquors, and the inhuman treatment received in connection with his removal from the White Hart Hotel. The jury desire to add a strong vote of censure on the authorities of the White Hart Hotel, and that the Coroner be requested to bring tha matter under the notice of the Christehureh East Licensing Committee." The Coroner said the charge of inhuman treatment amounted to manslaughter, and he could not accept it. After an animated discussion between the Coroner and the jury, the word inhuman was struck out, and the verdicfc recorded,

A G-o-AHEAD Town.—A vote of the burgesses was taken in Oamaru the other clay upon a proposal to borrow £14.000 to extend the Borough waterworks. The object is to increase the motive power for manufacturing and other purposes. There are 566 burgesse on the roll, 460 of whom voted, 395 being for, and 65 against the proposal. The extension is reckoned to give an additional 350 horse-power, the greater part having been applied for in advance. The people of New Zealand never say no to borrowing.

Thk Frozen Meat Industry.—The N.Z. Shipping Company have made arrangements to provide carriage for frozen meat from several centres of population. The Opawa is being fitted up at Home, and will load at Lyttelton. The Mataura goes to Napier. Machinery is coming out for either the City of Perth or the Piako, the vessel to load at the Bluff. Shaw-Savill«'s Lady Jocelyn will load in February at "Wellington, and the above, with the Sorento at Port Chalmers, will make five vessels ready to take away mutton during this summer.

Barncm's Show.—Mr J. B. Laylord, advance agent of Barnum, was a through passenger by the Australia to Sydney. The great showman has conceived the project of forming a congress of nations, consisting of representatives of all the savage and uncivilised races on the face of earth, and Laylord's business is to appoint an agent in each centre for procuring these human curios, besides keeping a look out for animated monstrosities and people of extraordinary powers or peculiarities.

The Otago Runs. —The Land Board on last Tuesday met in Dunedin to determine on the sub-division of 43 runs to be sold in February of next year. The great bulk of the runs were agreed to be released, some for seven, some for ten, some for fourteen, and som» for twenty-one years, and the upset rental was was fixed at from Id up to as much as 5d per acre. One run that is now leased by Cargill and Anderson at Roxborough, containing 32,000 acres, was entirely reserved for settlement, as was also a portion of one at the head of Lake Wakatipu, and Smith and G-ellibrand's Mount Stoker run, containing 18,500 acres, was decided not to be released at present. Cost of the Egyptian War.—Every round fired during the recent bombardment of Alexandria from the four 80-ton guns of the Inflexible cost £25 10s per gun. The 25-ton guns, of which the Alexandra carries 2, the Monarch 4, and the Temeraire 4, cost £7 per round per gun. The 18-ton guns, of which the Alexandria carries 10, the Sultan 8, the Superb 6, and the Temeraire 4, cost £5 5s per round. The 12-ton guns, of which the Invincible carries 10, the Monarch 2, and the Sultan 4, cost £3 12s per round per gun. The Penelope which alone carries 9-ton guns has Bof them, which were discharged at a cost of £2 15 per round per gun. A prominent financier estimates that Egypt will lose nearly £70,000,000 by the war. The cotton crop, which is enfcirrlv 1"«\ would have been worth nearly £40,000,0>.w. Tuere is little hope of saving any of the sugar crop if the country is not in a settled condition within two months, and it will then be too late for sowing next year's cereals.

Decay or the Maori*. —The Home News states that two important meetings,were hold in the conference room of the House of Commons, to consider a scheme for arresting the the decay of Maoris. Need for such a scheme is said to exist, in the fact that the chief native lands are rapidly being alienated and the proceeds squandered. A scheme is proposed by means of an association to be originated in England to whic h all tlio waste land may be transferred. For the purpose of opening up the land it is proposed to invest, by way of a sinking fund, the price value of the land as it is gradually sold at enhance! prices to settlers. Permanent alienable annuities are to be granted by the New Zealard Government in favour of the individual owners of the land or their heirs, and the shareholders in the Association are to share with the natives any further profit on improved values of the land. The quantity of land'proposed to be dealt with is 10,000,000 acres, and it is estimated that in 18 years tho native landowners will be in the enjoyment of interest amounting to £4,000,000. Taiwhangi and the other chiefs at Home strongly advocate the plan. The movement has secured the approval of Earl Shaft9bury, the Bishops of London, Liverpool and St Asaph, Sir Penrose Jul van, Alderman Mc Arthur and others.

TiiE Battle of Kassassoun. —The following description of the above battle recently fought in Egypt has been furnished by an officer . —" We charged about 9.30 last night. The light was sufficient to make young soldiers uncomfortable. The enemy had about 20 guns in the entrenchments, and every few minutes several guns would blaze out in the darkness. As an officer it made one feel a curiously helpless sensation, being fired at in the dark. Just before the charge, the artillery advarced at a gallop, with the cavalry in the rear until within 400 yards, then, quick as thought, thoyjunlirnbered their guns and poured in a deadly fire ®f shrapnel shell, which mowed the enemy down. Then came the cavalry charge, and 200 at least were cut down among the guns. Their infantry nearly all fell on their faces to avoid the slashing of the Life Guards swords, and many escajjed who would otherwise have been cut down. The dead bft on the field of battle were found next morning to have been mutilated, the first time such a, thing has occurred during the war. According to some accounts the bodies of some of the men were fearfully mutilated. They were quite unrecognisable, and their faces were horribly gashed about. One body had on* of the hands completely severed from the arm, while the other was nearly so. One of the eyes had been scooped out of the socket. The hands of another body were just hanging to the wrist by a piece of fle»h and «ome linews."

The Liquor Traffic—John Alexander Dowie has commenced an anti-liquor crusade at Collingwood, Melbourne, A band of men and women assemblo outside the bar 3 and publichouses, and denounce the dealers, exhorting them to prayer and inTiting them to throw their liquor into the gutters. Obituary.—Wo regret to learn that Col. Packe, well known in this district in connection with the Tolunteers, died in Christchurch last Monday. Col. Packe was about 47 years of age. and saw some service, having been engaged in the Crimean war. He has been in New Zealand since 1862, and for some time past was in command of the Canterbury volunteers. The Timaru and Temuka volunteers left here this morning at 5 o'clock, by special train, to attend the funeral, which takes place to-day. Over the Mark. —They hare a nice idea of our Supreme Court in Australia. A correspondent of Jthe South Australian Register is responsible for the following :—" I» New Zealand the costs to litigants in a Supreme Court case are seldom less than £3OO, but more frequently they amount from £BOO to £IOOO, There is a case now pending in the Supreme Court in civiljurisdiction, where the amount of propertv in dispute docs not exceed £2OOO in value ; but before the matter is finally settled I am told that the Court f-ses, solicitor's and barrister's charges will not fall short of £3OOO.

Episcopalian t. Catholic—There wai a discussion at the Episcopalian Synod, now sitting in Dunedin, on a motion by the jEev Mr Byng, seconded by Archdeacon Edwards, affirming the desirability of a school for girls being established in connection with the Church of England, The mover stated that his special reason for bringing the motion forward was that the practice of sending girli to the Eoman Catholic Convent Schools, as is largely followed in Dunedin, might be obviated. It was stated that some twelve cases were known in which girls had been proselytised to Roman Catholicism whilst attending these schools. All the speakers concurred in the opinion that influence, direct or indirect, must be exercised towards proselytising m such schools, according to the wellknown tenets of the Eoman Catholic Church. A motion was also carried affirming the desirability of doing away with the ten shilling fee for performing the mamago ceremony.

An Autistic Production.- This is how the Sydney Bulletin describes a portrait of G-aribaldi that appeared in a New Zealand society journal:— Erom the front it looks more like a fore-shortened German sausage, with an Evening News man in the distance. Sideways it seems to be a mixture of a hungry dog gnawing a bone, and a three-legged frog wallowing in pool of gore, Diagonally it is the '' dead spit" of a blackfellow whose face has been mashed up in a sawmill. Upside down it is a happy blending of the bloody battle and the maiden's prayer. We now understand how it was the liberator of Italy was able to strike terror into the hearts of his foes. But, as we continued to gaee upon it, a smile of joy played round our ears and a tear for old times trickled out of either eye. We recognised the old familiar block under its thin disguise. Sixty years ago, when we were children, the girls of that time used to scare us with a horrible picture of a hanged man's head. Then, in later years, it went upon the batter round th« colonies, acting now as a " diagram of the sea serpent," now as a " sketch of the winner of the Cup, taken on the spot." The last time we saw it, it represented the face of a smallpox corpse.

PHREsoLooY.—Professor Lio Medo lectured on phrenology last Tuesday in the Volunteer Hall. The attendance was not large, but those who were there were more than satisfied, and if the professor were to repeat his lecture we feel sure he would hare a larger attendance. Professor Medo is evidently a man who studies effect, and who poisessts a due appreciation of the fitness of things. That he is a man of taste could easily be s»en from the neat way in which he had furnished the stage. It was all carpeted, chairs were arranged all round it, the background was hung with pictures of the heads of distinguished characters, and on a table were the skulls of different races of mon, in the centre of which was a phrenological bust that showed the locale of all the mental fatuities. Messrs Lerons and Heap presided at the piano and played some good selections'; of music. The prcfessor commenced with a reading from Shakespeare, consisting of a part of the fourth act of Eichard the Seeend, where that monarch resigns his crown. Tho reason he gave Shakespearian readings at his lectures was because he believe 1 Shakespeare to have been the greatest phrenologist that ever live-I. After his reading, which was delivered in a very masterly manner and with much histrionic ability, the professor commenced his lecture on phrenology. He claimed for phrenology a position equal to any other science. Nay, more, he claimed that it was superior to any other scienci. It was a system of mental philosophy that dealt not with the mortal hut the immortal. The other sciences dealt with matter, phrenology dealt with the mind. Matter was mortal, and the mind was immortal therefore the science of phrinclogy was superior to any other science. People talked about the bone and sinew being the making of a country, but ho held that the mind was the making of it. George Stephenson was An example. He next referred to the Grecian motto "Man know thyself," and enlarged upon the importance of possessing that knowledge. The Grecians did not mean that man should know himself physically ; mental knowledge of self was what they sought to acquire, and phrenology alone imparted this knowledge. The importance of knowing what one was fitted for was next dealt with, and the fact that every man acts in accordance with his mental organisation was put forth in a telling manner. He next opened the skull of the phrenological bust, j

and took out a representation cf the human brain. Ho explained the working of th« various faculties of the brain, ho elaborated on the skulls, and after an exhaustive discourse invited those present to ascend tho stage for the purpose of submitting themselves to a phrenological examination. A great many presented themselves, and short sketches of their mental characteristics were given in words free from anything disagreeable. This appeared to us the weakest part of tha whole affair. Th« Professor appears to guard against telling anything that is bad, being no doubt unwiling to expose th« weaknesses of people. If he had th; owd a little more fun into this part ef his lecture we should have been better pleased. On the whole the lecture was a very instructive one, and that it was thoroughly appreciated was manifested by the frequency with which he was applauded. Professor Medo will remain in this town until about Saturday, and may be consulted in the Walhngford Hotel, where he has engaged rooms. Mrs C. J. Riyner requires a general servant. Messrs R. Wilkin and Co.,'wiltatfetend Fair at Winchester today. ' Tenders for the erection of a oottageu close to-morow with Mr Blyth. "mi" Tenders for road works for the Peel Road Board close to-morrow. Messrs Siegert and Fauvel want to purchase dairy-fed (killed and dressed) pigs. Mr J. Cramond offers £1 reward for the recovery of a dark bay trap horse lost from Paterson'd paddock. Messrs Siegert and Fauvel announce that they have received a quantity of favourite brands of sheep shears and euperi > r Turkey ■tone. As the shearing season is now commencing these should sell readily. Messrs Maclean and Stewart will attend the Winchester Fair to-day. They will sell.tomorrow,on the premises o f Mr Best, LeOren's Terrace, Timaru, a lot of superior household, furniture and effects. On Thursday next they will bold an important, silo of draught and other horses.