LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1020, 21 October 1882, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Industrial. The Ashburton Butter and Cheese Factory will open on the 30th of this month.

Wesleyan Church, Tekuix.— The Rev C. Griffin wlil conduct the services at the above church to-morrow, morning and evening. Royal Recognition. —Archbiship Lynch, of Toronto, is the first Roman Catholic Prelate presented at the British Court for the last 200 years. Well Done, —The applications for shares in the Frozen Meat Company, Napier, are several thousands in excess of the number to be allotted. The Tiharu A. and P. Show. —The above show will be held next Tuesday and Wednesday. In addition to the prize list they will offer first, second, and third prizes for 41b loaves of bread made from New Zealand flour. The entries close to-day at 12 o’clock.

Caught at Last. —The wife of Ryan, who levanted with the money of his creditors, has been arrested. Receipts and documents to the value of £2IOO have been found in her possession. The creditors will, very probably, get their own now. Larceny. —The young girl, Alice Bramble, who was reported a few days ago to have hidden herself for five days in the grand stand of the racecourse from the police, who wanted her on a charge of stealing money to the amount of £l2 from her employer, Mrs Langdon, was committed for trial last Thursday in Timaru.

Pheenolooy.— Professor Lio Medo has been up to his eyes, so to speak, in business since he came to this town. He is literally beseiged with persons desirous of getting their “ bumps ” read, aud amongst them are many ladies* He will leave here for Timaru this evening, as he has net finished his business there, but we believe it is his intention to return to Temnka, and give another lee ture.

The Synod Censured. —The Episcopalian Synod is now sitting in Eapier. For the convenience of the members all the desks and forms were taken from the Borough Council chambers without the leave of that august body, and when the Council met on Wednesday night the members had to adjourn to the Town Clerk’s office, where they passed a hearty vote of censure on the Synod. Leniency to aßankeupt.— John Stickey, a bankrupt appeared by his counsel for an oi’der of discharge before Judge Gillies in Auckland. The creditors’ counsel drew attention to the fact that the trustee had given back to the bankrupt three sections of land he had. The judge commented very severely on the conduct of the trustee and said the creditors had lost £IOO by it. The bankrupt was not to blame, and got his discharge.

Vegetable Life. —Seeds found with coins of the Emperor Hadrian, in an ancient barrow in England, and a heliotrope from a Roman tomb 1500 years old and more, vegetated and grew rigorously. The same was the case with wheat, rose and clover seeds found with an Egyptian mummy, and Indian corn from a Peruvian mummy 1200 years old. There would seem to be no known limit to the duration of the principle of life in vegetable seeds. Accident. —Q-eorge Duncan, aged 18, and William Leighton, his cousin, while working at brickmaking at Henderson’s mill, near Auckland, were buried alive by the fall of a bank of earth 14 feet high. Watson Duncan noticed the accident from a distance, and went and dug where he heard the voice of Leighton and got him out alive. When Greorge Duncan was got out ho was dead, evidently having been suffocated. The bank had been loosened by late rains, Loxal Alexandrovna Lodge, 1.0.0. E. —The usual fortnightly meeting of the above lodge was held at the Oddfellows’ Hall on Wednesday evening last, Bro. R. White, N.GK, in the chair, After the roll of officers had been called, and the minu f es of last meeting read and confirmed, E. S. Pearson, Esq., of Temuka, solicitor, was duly initiated as an honorary member of the lodge. Several important matters were then discussed, and it was ordered by the P.Gr. that in future lodge meetings should be held for the purpose of instruction. The lodge then closed. ■

Conspiracy. —A new trial has been granted in the case of Adams, found guilty of conspiracy in Wellington. The charge against him is that he censpired with his daughter, aged 8 years, to convict George Longhurst of rape on the latter in 1 880. The Late Colonel Packe.— The funeral of the late Colonel Packe took place last Thursday afternoon, when a large number followed his remains to their last resting place. The body was borne to the grave by members of the old No 2 C.R.V. (now defunct) ,of which Colonel Packe was Captain, and was followed by a large number of prominent residents and well known Volunteer officers. In deference to the expressed wishe* of tht deceased, no music was permitted and no funeral volley was fired. There were 28 volunteers from this town and 35 from

Timaru present. Troubles in Dunedin. —There is trouble over the case of Mr Ramie, the teacher who was discharged iu Dunedin for writing to the papers- Mr Ramie having complied with the rule binding him not to correspond with papers again was appointed to a higher position in the Normal school than he had previously held. This has led to further trouble, whieh has caused some members to resign and others to threaten to do so. A fresh inquiry is proposed to be held. Tha bumps of self-esteem and combatireness appear to be highly developed in Dunedin educational authorities.

Ak Electrical Sheep-shearer. —The call for an electrical sheep-shearer, made by a New Zealand correspondent in the columns of the Scientific American some months ago, has apparently brought forth fruit in an unexpected quarter. The head of the Hudson’s Day Rur Company of England is Sir Curtis Lampson, by birth a Vermonter. It is now announced that he applied electricity tc the trimming of sealskins. The skin is “fed” over a knife-edge bar, above which is stretched a fine platinum wire, which, raised, to a white heat by an electric current, meets the longer hairs which rise above the under fur, and mows them down.

Fatal Boating Accident. —At ten o’clock on Wednesday morning a boat containing Mr Laing, chief officer of the British ship Ashmore, and Robins, Teigler and Connor, seamen, left the Queen street wharf - Auckland, their intention being to go on board that vessel, which was lying in the stream. A strong westerly gale was blowing, and before the boat had gone three hundred yards from the wharf it capsized, and Robins and Veigler were drowned. Mr Laing and Connor supported themselves on an oar, and ~ were rescued by the ferry steamer Alexandria. Robins was observed swimming, but sank before he could be reached. Freak or Nature. —An unusual occurrence took-place on Mr T. Parke’s Beach Farm last week. On Saturday, 7th October, o»e of Mr Parke’s cows calved. The calf was rather small, which surprised Mr Parke,as, from the previous appearance of the cow, he expected a very large one. Eleven days afterwards, the matter was explained by the cow giving birth to a second calf, which was • dead, and had evidently been dead for some time. The cow milked very well during the 11 days, but she was noticed to be ill at ease, as if in pain. This is a very unusual occurrence, but no doubt the explanation of it is that the second calf died during the delivery of the first.

A Flourishing Colonial Industry.— The fifth annual meeting of the Kaiapoi Woollen) Company was held on Wednesday* Owing to the alteration of the date the balance-sheet presented deals with nine months operations only, instead of twelve as heretofore. The balance of the unissued shares, 1399, have all been allotted, and the expenses of the floating the same written off. Considerable and inportant additions have been made to buildings and plant. Eighty looms are at work, and the mill and clothing factory give employment to neai’ly 500 hands. The profit and loss account show a surplus of £9043 11s 7d, out of which it is proposed to pay a dividend of ten per cent, absorbing £SOOO, the balance being carried forward to the new account. It is probable the electric light will be in use before the next annual meeting. The Kaiapoi Fastory Company have presented their Chairman, Mr . Isaac Wilson, M,H.E., with the industrial trophy won at the Exhibition.

Messrs Maclean and Stewart, will hold their weekly sale of horses, drays, harness, etc., at their Bazaar, Timaru, to-day. Messrs R. Wilkin and Co., will hold a sale of horses, etc., at their yards, Timaru, today.

Mr John Lawson notifies that a young unbroken hack will be sold at the pound next Saturday, if not released.