LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1047, 23 December 1882, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Harbor Loan.—The official tion of the poll gives the number for the prt posalat 12,9, and againßt 35.

Weslezan Chcxrch Temuka. The services at the above Church will bo con ducted, to-morrow, morning and evening, by the Rev. T. Fee. Personal.—The Rev. G. Barclay and his wife arrived in Timaru yesterday morning, having returned from their visit to England. Holiday.— In order to g\n Christmas Day as » holiday to our employees' the Temuka Leader wdl not be published on Tuesday next.

Auction Sale.—On Wednesday next MiMr K. F. Gray will sail by public auction the s'ock in trade and premises of Mr I. B Mendelson. The property is situated in the Main Eoad, and should be a good invest ment.

Volitxtbeb Prizes.—lt is something for Temuka to be proud of to find that out of the Government prizes for volunteers, the largest number of them, including the first prize -will come to Temuka. Lieutenant Finlay has one first prize, in competition with all Canterbury, with a score of 63, Ashburton get ing secon i prize for a score of 62. Sergeant Guy gets a prize also, and several other prizes will come to Temuka. We congratulate the volunteers on the success which has attended their efforts.

The Fisk at Hampton Court Palace.—The extent of the damage sustained through the fire at Hampton Court Palace has not yet been accurately ascsrtained. Fortunately the picture galleries, containing a superb collection of paintings were saved from destruction. The tapestry in the staterooms was not injured by the fire but has suffered considerable damage from the effects of the water thrown on it for the purpose of preventing the spread of the conflagration. The cook employed in the palace was suffocated before he could be extricated from the burning builcl-

Lectukk ok Chbesb.—Mr Eowron will lecture on Cheese Factories, in the Volunteer Hall next Wednesday evening. Mr Bowron, a gentleman to whom Ihe people of Ashburton gire credit for suggesting to them the desirability of starting a dairy factory, is said to have a life long experience of dairy factories. He visited Temuka a few days ago, and was driven to the site selected for the factory. Ho was highly pleased with it; and also said that he did not see in tsew Zealand a district better suited for dairying than Temuka. He was also shown the plans of the building that is to be erected, and ap proved of them. We trust that all farmers will come to the lecture, as it cannot fail to prove interes ing to them.

Entertainment and Ball.—Many of our readers will be glad to know that an entertamment and ball will take place in Temuka on Boxing night—a fitting csnciusion to Christmas festivities. The first part of the evenings' amusement will consist of the laughable farce " Waxination Gratis." This is not in accordance with the issued programme, but the alteration has been made at the solicitation of many who were fortunate enough to witness this piece last Tuesday night. Part 11. will consist of a musical melange, in which many of our local favorites take a part, and the third part will consist of a second farce, entitled " Rum'ns from Rome," by the Temuka Christy Minstrels. The whole will conclude with a ball. The pianist is Mr Morris, and the director Mr J. H. Edmonds.

Thb Oddfellows' Sports.—The annual •port?, held under the auspices of the local Lodge of Oddfellows, will take place next Tueiday in the Park. The Brass Band will leave the Volunteer Hall at 11.30, and the sports will commence at 12 o'clock sharp. The Committee have been working very hard for the last few days collecting subscriptions, and Mr Uprichard, the indefatigable Secretary of the Lodge, to whose exertion they owe a great deal, is able to show g>od results. Yesterday we were shown the childrens' prizes, which the storekeepers of the town have given as their contributions towards the •ports, and had our special attention directed to the prizes given by Mrs Louis, as being by far the best of any. The prizes are all good, and will amply reward the competitors for them. Should the weather prove favorable, a good day's sport may bo expected. The entries for the sports will close 10-day. Entries for the handicaps will be received up to 9 p.m.

Too Much Competition.—The Pall Mall Gazette says:—"Bo heavy have been the marine insurance losses from which Lloyd's have suffered, that we hear that as much as £750,000 has lately been paid away by the underwriters there. Quite a number of them have withdrawn/rom the bu-iaess altogether some perforce because their means were at an end, others because they saw no hope of doing a more raofitable business in the future, and preferred to keep what was left of their fortunes. The competition of the outßide marine insurance companies is blamed for this s'ate of things. They have knocked rates down, it is said, till it no longer pays to take rials. Judging by the accounts of many of these marine compaires there must be a good deal of truth in that view, and if matters are so bad with the underwriters of Lloyd's as to cause a serious talk of closing the marine business done there altogether, what can wo expect to be the end of the companies who by their recklessness have brought matters to l*oh a pass?"

Bank Hol bay.—The Temuka branch of the Bank of New Zealand will be closed on Monday and Tuesday next. Good TemplaßlSM:.—Teetotal organisations are multiplying to an enormous extent in the Old Country. Temperance Societies, Good Templar Lodges, and orders which wear ribbons of all the hues of the rainbow abound. There is talk now of ' Boycotting' all who dare to indulge in any beverage more potent than tea.

Horse Dealing.—ln the District Court Dunedin, on Thursday, Judge Ward gave judement against one of the Goodison Bros for £145 in the claim made against i hem by Edmonds, to whom, whilst in drink, they had sold a horse for that sum, and which was only worth £4O- The counsel for the plaintiff termed the transaction the ' simplest, ••ninionest and vulgarest horse-coping swinable' ever perpetrated.

Another Manufactured Attraction. — A melancholy announcement reaches us from America. The Albany mastodon has been discovered to be a fraud. A gentleman who in early life was much attached to menageries) has sworn on his death-bed that he helped to bury the pseudo ' mastodon,' in 1829 at the very spot where it was discovered; and that it was none other than an African elephant, belonging to a well-known travelling show. He has protested ever since 1866 that the ' mastodon' was only an elephant, but the geologists of Albany have gravely shown him his error, and snubbed his indiscreet revelations. It is naturally not very easy to convince a man who believes that he has found a 'Mastodon.' How many of the riverdriftman's implements, we wonder, are as spurious as the Albany mastodon ?

Beer Drinkers.—Those who have watched beer drinkers, and have learned their habits, says the Western Brewer, have made the discovery that different nationalities act differently under the same circumstances. For instance, when a fly is found in a glass of .beer just as the drinker is about to drink, each nationality has a distinct course of action. The scientist who has watched the matter says: 'An American will joke about it and order a fresh glass. A Spaniard will pay for the beer, but move off without touch- t ing it. A Frenchman will pay and go, but will loudly sputter. An Englishman will empty the mug and order another. A German will carefully fish out the fly and swallow the beer. A Eussian will swallow both fly and beer. A Chinaman will rescue the fly and eat it, and pour the beer under the table.

Curiosities of Divorce.—An American journalist has been carefully collecting curiosities of divorse, some of which are highly amusing. . At Los Angelos a divorced couple married again within 2-1 hours. At a town called Berlin a wife applied for a divorce because her husband had become blind ; her application was refused. At Clejgind a '.: male and female doctor resolved to enter into a medical and matrimonial partnership, the' husband to attend the male patients and the wife the females. The lady was indiscrreet enough to write to one of the male patients whom she was about to hand over to her intended husband that, although she could no longer doctor him, she could never cease to love him, whereupon the intended bridegroom cried off the bargain, and was sued for breach of promise and breach of contract by the lady.

Gossip.—Writing of a ball at Cowes, a lady says in a private letter:—The Prince and Princess of Wales came early (about eleven) and stayed late -that is to say the Prince did, letting his wife go home alone (not an unusual thing with his Eoyal Highness). It is curious how fond he still is of dancing. He never by any possible chance misses a valse, that being his favorite dance ; for which reason does it always predominate on London ball programes in the ratio of at least three to one of all the other dances combined. With all the practice he has had—for he has been out since he was seventeen—it is strange that he should be a bad dancer. Yet he is. And a little short hoppity skippity step he has that sends him spinning round like a badly-balanced teetotum with a velocity that would make one's head swim merely to look at. He likewise gets very hot and out of breath, and his collars grow limp early in the evening. As to his ' steering ' powers, i fc is quite impossible to judge, for when he dances everybody gets carefully out of his way, and lets him have the floor to himself. One mustn't jostle royalty, you know, even in a dance. The Eta>- Family in Court.—At the R.M. Court, Timaru, on Thursday last, before I. N. Watt, Esq, R.M., Patrick Eyan, Bridget LeonW Eyan (his wife), and Mary Eyan (aged 14, their daughter), were charged with that they did on the first day of August 1882, unlawfully and wickedly conspire, combine, confederate and agree together to remove a certain part of the property of PatrickRyan to the value of £lO and upwards, that is. to say £2oi 10s, the said Patrick Eyan, having on the 18th day of September, 1882, been duly declared a bankrupt. The accused Patrick Eyan was further charged with that he did on the 16th day of August 1882,. at Timaru, feloniously steal, take, and lead away, one black gelding, the property of one William Moore, and he was further charged with fraudulent bankruptcy. Inspector Bror ham asked for a remand on all the cases for a week, and Eyan himself said he wished for a remand, and also asked for bail to be allowed. His Worship granted the remand asked for and fixed f he amount of bail as follows: — Patrick Eyan, on the conspiracy charge, £IOO and two securities of £3O each ; on the charge of horse stealing, £IOO and two sureties of ■ £SO each ; on the charge of fraudulent, bankruptcy, £lO. Mrs Eyan. on the charge*, of conspiracy, £SO and two securities of £23 each; Mary Ryan, one surety, £lO. The charge sheet showed that P. Ryan was arrested by the Melbourne po'ice, dn; ythte ,; charges of horse stealing and fraudu%&jt bankruptcy on the 30th September, &n«l allfl three prisoners on the charge of conspiracy on the 19th Octob»r.

Sale or Pastoral Runs in Southland. —The sale of pastoral runs on Wednesday did not attract a large attendance. Of nineteen lots offered all were disposed of, with the exception of runs 15 la and 302. In only one instance was a higher rental thau sefc obtained, vi*., for run 193 c which fell at a rental of 3Jd. Two deferred payment pastoral lots failed to elicit a bid, and were passed in. The lots sold, with the names of the purchasers, were as follows : —Run 119 b, R.Taylor; runs 148 and 148a;'J. and T. Maben; run 181, H. Holmes; runs 181 a, 188 b and 188 c, Thorrfhill Bros.; runs' 198a/' 198 b and 199 c, C. Bastian ; run 302 a, Ellis Bros.; runs 302 c, 199 a, 207, 146 and 191 a, New Zealand Agricultural Company; run 300 b, Burwood Estate, A. C. Begg. The Supposed Murder at Auckland. — Acting upon the permission given by the Presbyterian Cemetery Trustee, Superintendent Thomson hnd\ the bodies of the late Hugh Hamilton and*his infant child disinterred on Wednesday morning, and conveyed to the morgue. Dr Goldsbro made an au topsy, there being also present Drs Walker and Dawson Superintendent Thomson, De tectives Strathern and Walker, and the , undertaker who interred the bodies. The Press requested permission to attend the examination, but was refused. The body of Hamilton was in an advanced stage of posi ion. The p elirainary stages of the autopsy disclbsed facts that had not even been suspected, and that will, when made public, intensify the painful interest which is concentrated upon the case. The fracture of the skull was found to be more extensive and serious than bad been anticipated. As to •trychnine, nothing was found to indicate anything of the kind either in the body of Hamilton or the child. A Middlesex Romance. —A romantic ta'e of love in humble life had a curious denouement at the Middlesex Session the the other day. A youth of 20 and a girl of 17, both in the service of-the same employer, had loved not wisely but too well, and -as the only way of deliverance from the girl's com ing sorrow and shame, they resolved to take arms against a sea of troubbs, and, by opposing, end them. Having tied themselves together, the unhappy pair flung themselves into the river Colne ; but they were Boon afterwards fished out in au apparently lifeless ♦ condi ion by a gentleman who noticed from the river bank a strange object in the water. The restoratives which were applied were succe sful in both cases, and the lovers took their trial at the Middlesex Session for attempted suicide. The counsel for the defence pathetically appealed to the Court for mercy, and announced that the relations of both parties had arranged a marriage be tween them, which he considered would be a very happy result. A boy and-girl marriage is certainly to be preferred to a double funeral, and we would fain hope that the anticipations of the advocato of the lovers will be realised. But, after all, a juvenile marriage in humble -hfe is not a thing to be

gushed over. The Emplothekt oi Females Act.—A 5 Sowing Girl,' writes in the Dunedin Star of Thursday night as follows .—' 1 think it only my duty to let it be known through the me dium of the Press, that there have been gross infringements made on the Employment of Females Act by two or three well known establishments, who at least ought by experience to know better. Saturday after Saturday I hare been compelled to return to work till six or seven o'clock, and that under the very nose of the Inspector- I am only a unit, and for fear of my bread, I dare not open my mouth in protest. • Sir, in the establishment where I am employed, I hare known the Inspectors to threaten, and sometimes drive us out at two o'cock on a Saturday, but no iooiier is his back turned than we hare had to return by another door, and the poor simple man takes it for granted that ' all' is well' At other times we hare been huddled up with other workers, locked up within a saleroom, while the Inspector goes his rounds and on his departure, after interviewing the forewoman, she wi'.h an ingenuity worthy of a statesman, pi ots us back to work till 7 or 8 o'clock' having soft-soaped the Inspector. The same thing occurred to my knowledge in another house in Princes street as well as in two or three in George s'reet, where the Inspector has bocome so easy going that the forewomen take a delight in hoodwinking him.'

The Cbeswick Disasteh. —The "Wakatipu brings the following additional particulars anent the recent terrible mining accident in Victoria : —Tbe disaster at the new Australasian Mine, Creswick, has occasioned the greatest sensation. All Wednesday the fate of the unfortuuate miners remained uare vealed, and there was no relaxation of work in renewing the air-pipes. The water was well got under, but the chief danger arose from the foul air and the danger of suffocation. The relief party entered IS o. 1 rise early on Thursday niowiing, but found it un-

tenanted. At Nos. 10 and 11 no ono was found. In the evening the mine was so far ,#* free from foul air that, the men could work below. At 6 p-m. a pitman named Clark was hoisted to the surface, and shouted as he seared ifc. ' They are all right.' Wild joyous exultant cheere followed, lien jumped frantically about, hugging and kissing each* other for joy. The intense excitement spread like wildfire to Creewick, where the people cheered lustily. In a little more than half an hour the first of the survivors was brought up amidst loud shouts of joy. The man was deadly pale and apparently unconscious. It was found that he had suffered chiefy from want o? nourishment. The tank was again lowered and another man brought up ap parently still more weak. Five men were then brought up more dead than alive. Then came a long pause, and when the manager of the mine and two others came up, it was then learnfc that the remaining 22 were all dead. Sudden wails, of anguish, shrill and piercing, struck tb'e ear. The men had one after the other- taken cramp and perished.- Th» bereaved widows and rela-

tions of the unfortunate inon became almost, mad with grief. One of the survivors gnye a graphic account of the suffering of the men. They where without liglrt He heard his companions drop off and falLinto the water. I They spoke of their wives and little onus ; they said some prayers and sang some by ins The air was terrible, but improved as the men died. It was very hot, and they could not drink the water- They heard the men at work, but could not answer back. The men weie of good cheer, and the narrator 3ays he was sure they would be rescued. Acid foe Consumptives.—lt is said that an English gentleman, supposed to be in the last stage of consumption, and who was in 1871 residing at Madeira, happoned to try carbolic acid as a preventive of tha attacks of mosquitoes in his chamber. To his surprise he found that the fumes had an immediate beneficial effect on his lungs. He therefore persevered in its use, and speedily recovered his health. This valuable acid may probably become far more extensively u«ed than at present in the destruction of minute living organisms, not only in the bodies of men and tho lower animals, but in houses and other buildings infested with them as well as those insect pests in our orangeries and orchards, which cause the loss of many valuable trees and large sums of money.

Messrs Maclean and S'ewart, will hold their usual sale of horses, drays and harness, at their Horse Bazaar, Timaru, to-day. Mr P. Coira of the Royal Hotel, Temuka, notifies that he will have on tap tonight, a prime lot of Marshall and Copeland's ale. Conuoiseurs are invited to give a call.

Holloway's Ointment and Pills—Though it is impossible, in this climate of changing temperature, to prevent ill-health al ogether, yet its form and frequency may be much mitigated by the early adoption of remedial measures. When hoarseness, cough, thick breathing, and the attending slight fever indicates irritation of the throat or chest. Holloway's Ointment should be rubbed upon these parts wi'hout delay, and his Pills taken in appropriate doses to promote its curative action. No catarrhs or sore throats can resist these remedies. Printed directions envelope every package of Holloway's medicaments, which are suited to all ages and conditions, and to every ordinary disease to wh ch humanity is liable.—Advt.