LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1049, 30 December 1882, Page 3

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Thb Hamilton Musder Cass— Mr K. Taylor, solicitor, Auckland, has retired from the defence of Priestly. Bawx Holiday.—Monday next (New Kear'a Day) will be observed by the Bank [of New Zealand as a holiday. ' Tbmuka Wssletax Chubok.—The services in the above church to morrow, morning and evening, will be conducted by Mr W. Holdgate.

Thb Ceops.—The very severe weather of last Thursday did, so far as we can learn, very little injury to the crops. Some heavy crops have been slightly damaged, but on the whole nothing seriou> hisooourred. Train Aeban&bkbstß Fob Nkw Ybab's

Day— The attention of our readers is directed to an advertisement detailing the \ train arrsngemen' s for New Year's Day. t The early morning train wilt leave Timaru 1 at 6.45 instrad of 7.30. Temuka at 7.22 * instead of 8.15 sind Winchester at 7.37. V Thh Etans.—Patrick Ryan, his wife and

.'daughter were brought up on remand at \\ Timaru on Thursday, and a further r«mand )to January 4th was granted on the appli- / cati.m of Inspector B>-oham, bsil being I. allowed on the terms previously fixed by Mr \ Watt, B.M. The prisoners had f •tiled to find . bad, and Mrs Ryan asked to be released on ber'j.pwn recegnisanc •» as she was unwell, 6yithe r ßeneh declined to interfere with th* tA<ms already fixed.

Primitive Methodist Church. UHhe anniversary of 'he above Church will celebrated on Sunday and Monday nex". Sunday, Mr Smi h, of Waimate. will three times, the afternoon service being for paren's and children. On Monday a public tea will be held in the Good Templars' Hall Tea will be on he table at 6.30. After tea addresses will be delivered by \i various friends. The Geraldine Primitive I Me'bodist choir will assist.

Experimenting With Oil on the Sea

—On I hursday afternoon last, taking ad Tan ; tage of a very rough sea, Captain Bascand 5 tried the effect of pouring oil on the water at I Timaru, and the result was entirely satisfaoI tory and bore out the statements made by ■ those who bad tried the experiment long { since. The oil used was olive and colza. Opposite Bruce's Mill was the phce selected for the experiment. Captain Bascand passed % small quantity of oil down a zinc pipe, the lower end being submerged in the water, and ; shortly afterwards tb* oil spread over an area of about an acre, in which the smallest boat could hare lain with safety, SlB G-abnet Wolseley. The distinguished officer arrived at Dover on the 28th October, crossing the channel in tremendous weather, but he proved as good a sailor as soldier, and does not fear mal de mer. His

reception was most enthusiastic. Crowds lined the pier, notwithstanding the terrible gale blowing at the time. In answer to addresses he made a short, speech eulogising the conduct of the troops under his late com |Bißnd. At Charing Cross station Mr and Mrs Gladstone ind many members of both

Rouses assembled to greet him, and the day llowing his arrival he went, by command of the Queen, to Balmoral to receive her thanks.

ACCIDENTS.—At Auckland on Sunday last Mr Walli-, jun., was taking a number of people home in a boat from a Wesleyan BPi-vice at Raglan, when the craft capsized. i Mie* Minnie Lavers, the daughter of an Auckland builder, and Miss Edith Wnlhs. \ were drowned. The body of Miss Lai-era has i been recovered at Baglan. Miss Edith ' Wnllis' has not yet be>n found.—The

illegitimate child of a girl nam?d Johnston was drowned at Cambridge on Wednesday in a ) tub, by overbalancing itself into it, during the { absetce of the mother at a neighbour*! house ': for a few minutts. —At Grahamstown a teriou« accident happened on Tuesday morning on the road from Te Aroba. A ■ younjj man namfd John Davis wat riding along it when be was thrown over a bridg-j. \ He was brought by steamer into the 'lhameo ;' Hospital, and ha 3 been unconscious evi-r ■ince. He is not expected to survive. H* '8 a son of the former Baptist mini-tei- at the Thames. —Captain Monaghan, hit wife and a little boy weio thrown from a buggy on the ■ Hutt road on Wednesday and sust iin<*d rather • terious injuries the full extent of which hac i' not been ascertained.—A Christehurcfa | telegram states that ss Sergeant Macdonalc! I was learing the Ohoka Racecourse on Tuest day bis ho so which was very restive, Ml, Wand the Se geant being unable to gee clear, W sustained a facture of the small bone of the F leg. His injury will incapacitate him t>r iomt> time.—A buebman named Wilks was

killed at Southland by a falling tree at Ingrob. bush on Thursday. He leavet a wife and tjn children unprovided for.

An Oteszealotts Constable. —A very pe

auliar case carr.e before Drs Fish and Trevor, J.P.'s at Geraldine yesterday.. The evidence adduced at the hearing of a c&eg in which two men named Joseph Kennington and J. D. Gore, were charged with the larceny of some cigars from the house of Georg* Fox showed the following facts: —On last Thursday Kennington went into Fox's house and broke open a case containing four boxsi of cigart.but ' left tl em here without taking any of them Subsequently m conversation with a man named tfichol he told him that the cigars were in the house, and offered Nichol 45s if

■ he would bring them to the Crown Hotel. I Nicbol and told Fox wkat Kennington ! had told him, and the matter was at once i reported to Constable Willough'y. The constable went to Fox's house, marked th» • cigars and old Nichol to go and steal the cigars as Kennington had told him to do Hichol did so, and brought theni to the Crown Hotel in a bag. Here a peracn was put o wa'ch them, and he found 'ha' Kennington took them away waß joined by Gore i on the s reet,and bo h wen l into be river»bed, I filled their pocke s wi h the cigars, brough' ■fee remainder of them in the bag to "he and left them inhere Kennington had 1 previously taken them from. Subsequently P Gore was seen distribu'ing ciews among his ; friends. Kennington pleaded guil y and was ' sentenced to one month's imprisonment wi h hard labor. Gore was discharged wi'h a cau'ion. The conduct of the constable in thus laying a trap for the men, and in fact advising IS T iehol to do what might bare been ''■: said only in a jest by Kennington,jwos_ most !' reprehensible. It is evident tha' Kenning on I would not.have stolen the cigars himself, when, after having found them at first he had left them untouched, and Nichol, who had given Fox the iniorraation, T*'ould cer tainly never hare taken them. It is evident therefore, that no theft would have been commie ed only for the mean tr ; ck the cou stable p'ayed, and we ceramly think that his conduct is not one which ought to be passed over 1 gbtly. We have very little sympathy with K- nnington, but at the a-vme time the manner in which he was entrapped wa3 neither fair, ju t nor creditable. The conatable mighfc very well have arrested him on t the first information he received, for breaking into Fox's house, and for inducing Nichol Ito steal. He might not have been able to obtain a conviction, but the pxposure wouli have suffifiently punished Kenningtou and the ends of justice would have been met. It was no business of the constable to throw •ternnatation in the man's way, for if such tricks were retorted to no one could consider -himself saf*.

A Heavt Bill —Tho damn of the doctor who was commissioned by the Victorian Government to investigate the supposed out break o? smallpox at Hamilton amount to £932. The Board of Health has referred the accounts to tho Chief Secretary. An ADVEBTISIN3 HlT.—The publishers of a Q-erman novel scored a bit recently in the line of advertising. They had inserted in most of the papers a notice stating that a certain nobleman of means, anxious to obtain a wife, wanted one who resembled the des cription of the heronie in the novel named. Of course every marriageable woman who saw this announcement bought the novel to see how much she resembled the imaginary beauty referred to. RM. CotTBT.—At the above Court last | Thursday 'before A-D. Barker Esq.. J.P, a first offender was fined 5s for drunkenness Charles Hawkins was brought up on reman* charged with stealing two bottles of beer from the Winchester Hotel. Mr Pearson appeared for the accused and protested against his client being so frequently remanded The Court said there was m help 'or it One Juhtice of the Pence could not deal with tho ease and another could not be got. Th<* cise was agon remanded for a week. Much Widowed. —Nine widows weeping at a husband's grave may seem to most . a doubtful occurrence, but such an incident did actually take place if we are to belisve a ISew | Orleans'oracle. According to that authority, Thomas Smith, a prominent mulatto resident in New Orleans, died recently leaving nine wives behind him Seven of them attended the funeral services and wept freely. Four of them rode to the cemetery, and after the interment returned to the late residence of the dead man, where, with the other widows they engaged in a free fight about the pro perty. Tne furniture was demolished, and all the women wore more or less injured* Smith was married by a Baptist minister every time he chose a wife.

The Bktebpeisino Bubglar.—A general panic has taken possession of householders in the suburbs of * London, owing to aever»] recent desperate burglaries haying been committed, accora anied with great violence to the inhabitants. No one feels quite safe, and the pistol- shops have been doing a roaring trade. The Home News advocates the intro duotion of the Yankee me! hod of dealing with burglars. By this system every house, on application, can be connected telegraphically with the nearest police station On the slightest alarm, instead of confronting a housebreaker in one's night dress, it is only necessary to press the Jelesrraph-button by one's side, and ring up :i -iT burglars would soon give it up as a bad job with stwh a preventive system. A Barbers' Congress.—The barbers of Berlin, in imitation of all other orders and degrees of men nowadays, have been holding a congress, and have passed some important resolutions. Thev have resolved that shaving shall always commence (as in nature —i.e, when a man shaves himself) on the left cheek and end with the rght. They have also decided and very properly that any member who touches a customer's nose, under pretence of steadying himself, shall be expalled from the Association. A great debate ensued as In ■-,•'• pit her conversation was to be provided by {.;_• i.;.lj or not. 'No binding resolution wa- pissed but the advocates of silence were in "iiic majority.' On the other hand it was asserted with much plausibility, that if customers were not to learn the news from their barbers, or ' be instructed in the current tendencies of political'bought,' they might just as well shave themselves.

A Turkish Beauty.—Mrs General Lewis Wallace has been permitted to see the greatest beauty of Prince Feramorz's barem in Turkey. Two wonderfully b'aok eunuchs met the visitor at the iron gate of a beautiful garden, and conducted her to a large room rather barren of furniture but hung with fine Eastern draperies. Here s'-e found the Prince's latest acquisition, whom she thus describes in the Independent: ' Among the billowy cushions and vaporous veiling rose the young face. Oh ! what a revelation of beauty' uplifted in a questioning way, to see what manner of women these are who come from the ends of the earth with un veiled faces, and go about the world alone, and have to think for themselves—poor things! The expression was that of a love'y child awaking from summer dumber in the happiest humor, and ready for play. A per feet oval, thejips a scar et thread, and, oh ! those wonderful Asiatic eyes! lustrous, coal-blaok, long, rather than round, beaming under joined eyebrows.

The Agent General's Ofpice in Lohdon. —After a visir. to the New Zealand AgentGeneral in London, the Home correspondent of the Christchurch Telegraph writes:— ' These same offices, I mav remark, are much pleasanter places to visit than during the reign of H.R.H. Prince Julhu Vogel Beneath that regime over>body, from the principal downwards, seemed to be afflicted with an overweening sense of their own im portance, and supreme contempt for anything in the shape of work. If visitors wore poor people, such as intending emigrants or applicants for free passages who wished to see the Agent-Genera', they had to call and wait, call again and wait till tired out they gave up the quest in despair. Now, you will be glad to hear, there is nothing of the kind. The staff appears o have been curtailed, and the civil and obliging Sir Dillon Bell is nearly always to be found at hit post. Those who make appointments may rtly on neither being kept waiting or listened to with impatience. I found the Agent General busy but willing to spare five minutes for conversation and after a few words about the objects of my visit we fell to discussing the direct steam project.'