The Temuka Leader. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1883 LOCAL AND GENERAL

Temuka Leader, Issue 1071, 15 February 1883, Page 2

The Temuka Leader. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1883 LOCAL AND GENERAL

Winchester Fair. -Farase t un i ether are ra uiudeJ that the ah -va Fair tahea plaa-to-dav.

Fueehole Pe peett Salk.—Mr K. F. G ay advertises that he wdl sell on the 22ml February, a i- ere faction on which is erected agio I 4 r mmed'cottage. Toe h mss is t v property of Mr G. Tho risen, a d aij tins the prone-ties tf Messrs B rn t and Vote.

He wilt Nor do it lot in —At the RM. Court. Christchurch, last Monday morning, Joseph Cryer, for attempiig to smuggle watches and jewellery from the barque Firth of Forth, was fined £25, and tho goods were ordered to be forfaited. Their va ue is stated tob' £403. Cricket.— The cricket match between representative Canterbury and Otago Elevens finished last Monday. The match occupied three days. At the conclusion of the first innings, 0 ago was two ahead. In the sec nd innings Canterbury made 94. Tho chances were then very much in favor of Otago, who had only 92 to make to win. This they failed to do, only scoring 87 The excitement towards the end of tne game was intense, this being the hardest fought of the twenty matches now played between the two Provinces. Liberal Subjects.— Tawhiao will go hick to his own se tlements a much richer man than when lie left it. At every pah he has vi.-ited on the Coast (says the Rangitikei Advocate) -übstantial presents of £l. notes have been offered for his graeious ac eptance, and ha has generously deigned to receive tho offer ings of his people. At Turakina, he ‘accepted a cons ! derahle sum ’ and at To Eeu Reu and Kakariki similar offerings were made, while at Awahuri—the principal meeting in he district—it is asserted that at least 500 £1 notes will be given him for his coude scendon in visiting his ‘ subjects at the pa'i.’ Lost llis Notes.— The Hawke’s B>y Herald is quite enthusiastic in its admiralkn of Mr Dick’s sagacity, and tells the following story in frustration thereof:—‘ When the Hon. Mr Dick was in Napier some time ago the Mayor drove him all round the town t o the Spit, pointing out the encroachments of tho railway on our roads and of tho Government buildings in other streets, and pointing out t ic urgent necessity of a new railway s ation, etc, Mr Dick made copious notes, and promised to lay the various matters bo fore the next meeting of the Cabinet. As nothing was done, however, the Mayor again wrote to Mr Dick, reminding him of (he notes he made. We now learn, in a roundabout way, that Mr Dick his‘lost his notes.’ We always thought that Mr Whitaker was ti e inusi sagacious nun in tho Ministry, but in an eiueruencv Mr Dick is evidently ahead of him. Wo cun fancy him returning from a toil' with a sin ill portmantea i full of juttin g of loca requirements, and innocen'ly allowing his housemaid to light his study fire with them.”

Altk (ation of Boundary —The TV nmka Road Board nott y that they intend to petition the Geraldine County C mneii to alter that part ot the boundary between the Teinukiiand Geraldine districts lying be'wo n the Oiari and Kangitata, from its present position along Hie Main South Road to the railway line.

Licensing Committee.— The first meeting of the newly clouted Licensing Committee was held in the Courthouse yesterday Present Messrs Talbot, Meyer, and Ensor. On the motion of Mr G isor, seconded by Mr .VTeye-, Mr John Talbot wis elected chair man. The 7th of March was appointed as the next meeting day, to which day the Court I lien adjourned.

Serious Accident.—A man named Michael Hurley, engaged on the Manawilu Rail way works, was seriously injured by tin explosion of a powder bag, fie other day The powder had been place 1 on the groun 1 prepara ory to its being used for blasting pur poses, and in doing so some of the powder appears to have been spilled. Tie injured m m was engaged in preparing the fuse for t he charge, and lighted a portion of it for the the purpose of testing it. After doing so he threw it, on the groun 1, and it happened to t'al. among some of the powder which had been spilled. The latter caught alight, and forming a complete train to the bag, which contained thirteen or fourteen pounds, caused the laiter to explode. The unfortunate man Hurley was propelled violently a distance of several yards by the force of the explosion, and on being picked up i was found that his hair was burned off his face much scorched, and that, the skin and pirbofthe flesh was burned off one of his arms. The sufferer wis lemoved to Wellington for medical attendance.

Horsebick Exmctsu fob Ladies —At a recent di-cussion at one of the American medical societies, there was a statement made th t, for delicate women, horseback exercise was no: a good thing as a rule. Another statement was quoted by one of the speakers that no w mien ought to rule on horseback \uierican pbvsiciins nuy take heart of grace (says the British Medical Journal) from the U' - gor experience in this respect of English practitioners. In this country, happily, equestrian exorcise is the h ippy p udiege and da ly practice of thousmds of all ages, and ileliea eas well as rjubust constitutions. It is impossible for anyone who has seen the healthy glow spnad over the cheeks, pale jus' before, of soma laly after half an ho r s exorcise on horseback, to agree with the piv. posed dictum. Indies take, far too little exercise in the fresh air. It is rather the luty of the medical mm to seek to encourage ahle’tc exercise of all kin b, than to deprecate it f 'otn fanciful fear. Americans will gain health, and lose nothing in grace or refinement, by emulating the accomplishments of their English sisters as horsewomen.

Th« Duamos of Dhrams. - One of the mist remarkable phenomena connected wi h dreams is the shor ness of time needed for thei oonsu ninV.ion Lord D rough ton says that, in dictating, a m n may frequently fall asleep after uttering a few words, and be awakened by the amanuenss repea mg tlie last word to show he h s written the whole ; but though fire or six seconds only have lapse! between the delivery of the sentence and its transfer to paper, the sleeper may hive passe I t'rmgh a dream extend ng through half a lif.-rim', Li-d Holland and Mr Babnage both confirm this theory. Th one was listening to a friend reading aloud, and s eot from the 1 eginning of one sentence to he latter part of the sentence immediately succeeding ; yet, during this time he had a dream, the particulars of which would have taken more than a quarter of an hour to write Babbage dreamt a succession of event s, and woke in time to hear the concluding words of a friend’s answer to n question he hal put h m. One man was liable to a feeling of suffocation, accompanied by a dream of.-, skeleton grasping Ins throat whenever he slept m a lying posture, and had an attendant to wake him the moment he sank down. But though awakened tho moment ho began to sink, the time sufficed for a long strusg’e with the skeleton. Another man dreamt that he crossed the Atlantic, spent a fortnight, in America, and fell overboard when embarking to re’ urn ; yet his sleep had nob lasted more thin ton ramu'es.

Education in New Sooth Wales —Com ment ng on the withdrawal of the Sfcite sub veaMon to the denorm mtional sch ols of New Sruth Wales, the Sydney Evening News, in its issue of the Ist ult, says.— State aid to ■lenomina'ional s-bools has now ceased in N T ew South Wales, n-ver in all human prob ability to be resume;!. From and after to day the religious denominations choosing to maintain their schools, which have hitherti received grants of monev from the Govern m jnt, must do so at their own charges and otpens». Those who are unable or unwilling to do so will have either to negotiate with the Educa ion Department for the occupation of their school buildings, slum d they be needed for the public, or £nl some other mode of u iiising the premises. The Koman Catholics have fully determined upon their course. They will neither give nor take quarter. They have been busy for the pas year in preparing new schools of their own, and in constituting councils to organise and regulate their system of education ; and their plans are well matured, so that the absence of the Archbishop (that determined foe to secularism in every form) who leaves for Rome in April, will not retard the development of the scheme. So far as the public are concerned, however, the Roman Catholic schools will henceforward take rank entirely among the private seminaries of the colony, and their value will, like other institutions, be tested by resul s The Church of England authorities seem, wifli few exceptions, t • have accepted the inevitable, and resigned t io reaching of their ohil Iren to the care of rtie Stile The other religious bodies if we excep the Jews, are already heart and soul with the public schools arrange meats,

Fatal Accident.— A young man named William Ba”. y, supposed to be a runaway sailor, was killed last Tuesday morning in Thames street, Oamaru, by falling from a horse. Theanimil beca ue restive, end the man in attempting to jump off fell he-d for.* most, breaking his neek. One Mork Attempt — A. meeting of the Taranaki Iron Sand Company was held last Tuesday night* when the report recommended anotliercall of 2s 6d per share, which was authorised, and would leave a balance cf £250. This was authorised to be ned in having another trial at the works, under the management of Mr Haskett.

The Pardoning op Tb Koon.—There isg'eit f xoiement in Gisborne and in the country ub ut the pardoning of Te Kioti, i ni t,brent* of frenzy tre mad-' that should he ever appear here the wi'l be thot down like a dog, whether p irdou dor not. Hopes a-0 enteitaine.l that Sir Wm. Jervois will n;»t eodo’se the a-tlon of the N»t vo Min step Romance is Brief.— Romance is, not yefc dead, in spite of all the croakings of latter* diy cynicism. The other day at Ipswich the marriage of Count Carl Esterhazy whh Miss Mary Charters, of Stoke Park, was duly cele* brato l. The details up to the happy event; afford more than sufficient materials for a realistic story. A boat capsized on the Nile —the occupants shrugging in the water un* ft the gallant rescue by the Count, who was passing in his yacht. Further acquaintance ripened into affection, and the happiest consummation of all.

Pebmiture Burials.—The question as to whether premature burials of living person* are nob more common than is generally imagined has frequently been discussed (say* the St. James’s Gizetie) ; and an incident r ported in one of the New fork papers is not calculated to relieve anxiety on this point, Mrs W. L, Pettit, wife of ti e teller of the First National Bank at Fort Wayne, apparently died, and the undertaker look charge of what wa< supposed to be hr rem ins. Arrangements were made for the f'.lueral, and w itchrs were sitting with the bo ly. At 10 o’clock at night the watcher* stirr.ed to their feet in alarm on hearing a fa : nt sigh, which thrilled through the room. It proceeded from Mrs Pettit, who a moment la er was seen sitting up with her eyes open an 1 asking in an audible whisper for her husband. T e attendants were at first speechless with wonder, and then screamed with excitem >nt. T ieir screams brought .Vr Pettit to the room in haste, and ‘with joy unspeakable, he clasped again his living wife in his arms.’ The doctor was sent for, and would not believe his eyes at beholding living what in his exact medical science he had dec ared dead. His position was in fact an awkward one ; but he seems to have made the best of the situation, for ha ‘ administered restoratives,’ and Mrs Pettit, by latest accounts, ‘ was never better in her life ’

Thb Hakbjr Board Elkction.|— Tho poll for the election of representatives on the above Board for Geraldine, Levels, Mount Uook. Borough of Timaru, and Makikiisi, came off last Monday. The following is the result : Geraldine :J. Kelland, 48 ;

It. A. Barker, 35 ; Mr Kelland was therefore elected. Levels: W. Moody, 294 ; E. Acton, 200 j G. Smith, 163; Messrs

Moody and Acton were elected. Mount ' ook: Messrs Wilson and A. B. Smith; Mr Wilson was elected. Timaru: J. 8. •libson, 173 ;J. H. Sutter, 122; M. Jonas, 9i; J. Jackson, 84; J. Bruce 84; W. Evans, 63 ;C. Bourn, 46; J. Hall, 42; G. Cliff 38; Messrs J. S. Gibson, Sutter, and Jonas, were elected. Makikihi: A. Hayes, 170; G. F. Lovsgrove, 49; Mr Haves was elected. The new Harbor Board will be composed of Messrs J. S. Gibson, J, H. Sutter, M. Jonas, E. El worthy, A, Hayes, K. F. Gray, J. Talbot, J. Kelland, W. Moody, E. Acton, and J, Wilson Mr Moody was a memner of the lust Harbor Board, and Messrs Sutter, Elworthy and Acton, occupied seats at previous times. On he declaration of the result of the poll at Geraldine, Mr Kolland thanked the ratepayers hr the honor they had done him, o-peciilly as many of them bad attended at givat pe.sonal inconvenience to re ord t heir votes in his favor. Mr Barker, the other candidate, was an old and tried man, and ho was pleased to find that he enjoyed the confidence of the ratepayers to such an extent a* to gain the substantial majority of votes they lud given him over Mr Barker. He, in return for l heir confidence, would do bis bast to serve their interests on the Timaru Harbor Board. He should take his seat on the Board as an independent member, thoroughly free of any clique, and he won d ba no parly to log rolling. On the other hand, he would do his best to make the Breakwater a success. His idea was that the present work ohoul I be extended a considerible distance seaward, possibly 500 feet, so as to afford accommodation for the largest ships and steamers. Already there had been spent a large sum, and the present structure was no doubt a substantial work, and with £IOO.OOO they proposed to borrow he though.a harbor could be made suitable to the wants of and c ".editable to the district. In conclusion Mr Kolland sai 1 he was well known to those present, tnd he wished to say that at all times ho shou'd be pleased to receive febeir advice on any question of importance to themselves, and he would always do his best to carry out their wishes. One matter seemed to call for some remark, that was the exceeding y msuilable time at which the o’ections were held, namely in the middle of harvest. At this time farmers were busy securing what was to them the result of their year’s labor, and it entailed great hardship on them (o leave their work at such a time to attend to election matters. It would be will if the authorities could arrange the elections for some more suitable time, as at present it give every opportunity to cliques to secure the ret urn of their candidates, though he was pleased to say that in this district such had not been the ease up to the present. Ho again than! dt (ia ratepayer for the honor they had done him. (Applause.)

Ostbnd Rabbits.—Londoners ore par tieularly i artial to Ostend Rabbits, and thousands of these rodent quadrupeds find their war weekly into the poorer districts of the metropolis. A fact has just come to light which should Tend to check the demand for this article of food. The wife of a workman in Berm mdsej haring some doubt cot • cerning the anatomy of her. purchase, took her * Ontend rabbit ’ to the medical officer of health, who at once pronounced it to be a cat! The subject was brought before the local authorises, and fears were expressed that this was no' an isolated case —not a stray tabby in fact but an indication that the skins of cats were in demand amongst the Bermondsey tenners.

Native Mittebs.—The Fon. Mr Bryce and party met Te Kooti and bi» eseorl by ap pointment last Monday at Mangarango, a few mi es from Kihikihi. Mr Br ce and ie Kooti (hook hands af er the interview. Te Kooti said he would lire peaceably and not offend against the law in fu'ure. Mr Bryce then said that he end all political offenders would be pardoned, and this pardon would b* g. zett d within ten days. Te Kooti might now consider himself a free man. Mr Bryce goes to Raglan to-morrow. To Kooii was accompanied by 150 adherents on horseback. He was dressed in a long s Ik coat, whi e shirtpants and leggings, and carried an umbrella. He betray ?d little, if any, anxiety or timidity To Europeans who kaew him in former days, he seemed very little altered. It is said that the natives who accompanied Te Kooti to meet Mr Bryce had arms and ammunition concoaed, to rely upon if required. This rumor originated with the natives'hemselres La’cr news states that the amnesty has been gazetted.