LOCAL AND GENERAL

Temuka Leader, Issue 1091, 5 April 1883, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The 'Frisco Mail. —The Teinuka portion of the 'Frisco mail arrived by the express yesterday. Half Holiday.—The stores in Temuka will be closed on Friday uext from eleven o'clock, the Timaru races coming off on that day. Masonic.—A meeting of the Master Masons of St. George's Lodge, 1856, E.C., Temuka, takes place this evening at half-past seven. Sir Arthur Gordon.—The Coylon people are delighted at Sir Arthur Gordon's appointment to the Governorship of that colony. May he not disappoint them.

The Gbain. —The grain is now coming into the railway station in large quantities, and in consequence the station master and his staff are having an extremely busy time of it.

Sheep Dipping. —Mr R. A. Barker notifies that before the first of July he will dip sheep at the rate of three half-pence per head. After that date the rate will be twopence.

Two Men Drowned.—Two men named Peter Murray and Jameson were drowned at Alexandra South, Otago, on Tuesday by the swamping of a boat. They were employed in a gold mining dredge. Vital Statistics. — The following are the vital statistics for the Temuka district for the month ending March 31st, 1883 :—Births, 18 ; marriages, 3 ; deaths, 6. For the quarter ending fame date : —Births, 42; marriages, 5; deaths, 15. A Totalisator Case. —A totalisator dis pute will shortly come before the Resident Magistrate's Court, Duuedin, on a suit by a man who took a winning ticket, but who } owing to tho crowd, could not get paid that i:ay, and when he presented it next day payment was refused.

The Small Birds.—At Tuesday's meeting of the Road Board, the Geraldine County Council applied fcr the number of small birds and eggs paid for iu the Temuka district. The total number of eggs was stated to be 49,464, costing £25 15s 3d ; and the number of birds 11,098, costing £ll lis 2id.

Counterfeit Notes.—Counterfeit notes on the Union Bank are in circulation. A man named Robert Farmer was charged at Dunedin, on Tuesday, with uttering a counterfeit £5 note at the Police Court today. He had been warned that it was counterfeit by Mr Walter of the Occidental Hotel, but afterwards gave it to McFarlane Bros, for groceries. He was remanded, and bail refused.

Fire in Auckland —At four o'clock on Monday morning a fire broke out in a millinery shop in Wynard street, occupied by Mrs Mary Scott, who, with a child and five boarders narrowly escaped. One boarder injured his leg by jumping from the verandah. The fire was suppressed after the shop had been completely gutted. The insurance on the stock and furniture was in the South British for £l5O. The entire block, of which the shop forms part, was insured in the Union Office for £IOOO. A man named Hare was found in the adjoining shop stupefied with smoke.

Winchester Institute.— A meetiug of the "Winchester Library Committee was held in the Institute on Tuesday erening. There were present Messrs Klee (chairman), J. A. Young, S. Haar and George Slater (Hon. Secretary). The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. Mr Jackson's tender of M for painting the outside of the building was accepted, the work to be completed by Saturday, the 7th inst. Messrs Young and Northam were appointed a subcommittee to see that the work was properly carried out. Messrs Inwood and Young were authorised to sign cheques on behalf of the Committee.

The Fradulent Bankruptcy Case. — The District Court at Timaru was occupied all clay Tuesda}' in the matter of Patrick Ryan, convicted of fradule.nl; bankruptcy by removing and concealing a sum of £414 10s belonging to his creditors. Mr Whit", Crown Prosecutor, was called on to show cause why the verdict of the jury should not be set aside and a new trial had. Mr Perry appeared for Ryan. The result was that a new trial was refused. An application is to be made to the Supreme Court on the 18th inst. *o annul the bankruptcy. The Court was then adjourned till the 16th inst.

Well-Deserved Censueb.—At the inquest on the body of the lad Wain, at Ounedm, the medical evidence showed that death was caused by tuberculosis. The Coroner in summing up directed tho jury that they must bring in a verdict of death from natural causes, reflecting on the grossly inhuman treatment of the child by its parents. The jury brought in a verdict at first that death was caused by the disease a'nove mentioned, accelerated and induced by il[treatment and neglect on the part of the father and stepmother but the Coroner pointed out that this was equivalent to a verdict of murder. The jurv then iecon--Bidered their verdict, and eventually found that the child died from natural causes, adding a rider that he had been subjected to gross brutality and ill-treatment.

The Tbadb in Human Hair.—Humao hair cut from the fair heads of Swedish and German girls, and amounting in value to £4OO, has recently been stolen from the premises of a firm in Birmingham. Ernest Lodge, a discharged clerk of the firm, has just been arrested charged with the robbery, and remanded. Prisoner, as alleged, sold nine pounds of the valuable material to t local hairdresser for a sum considerably below the price paid to the girls, who cultivate their flowing locks for the market. Fine hair, 33 inches in length, it was explained, realises & sovereign an ounce, whilst the weight of the hair stolen was 871bs. The Poet Chalmers Bab.—An accident happened on Saturday last to the barque Monarch on the Port Chalmers bar. It is said that the vessel first bumped heavily forward, then amidships, then under the mainmast, and so on to the after part of the ship. The rigging is said to have swayed to and fro by its sudden slackening, and as the vessel has a list to port, the cargo must have shifted slightly. The false keel was considerably damaged. The vessel at the time was in tow of a steam tug, and under the charge of a pilot. The vessel was drawing 20ft, and there was supposed to be 22ft of water on the bar. The pilot assured the captain of the Monarch that it was quite safe. The vessel proceeded to Lyttelton, where she will have to be unloaded and docked. She had about 1200 tons of wheat on board, and was bound for Falmouth. Winchester Yards. —Mr Young h<ti made considerable improvements in his ya'di at Winchester recently, He has added tlr.'ee arge yards for sheep, and put new gaten to all t he old ones, rendering them all that could be desired. Around the place where cattle are sold he is putting something like the shape of a grand stand, which will be covered over, and where there will be three rows of seat* so that people will be safely provided for in wot or cold weather. A special stand is beiug erected for the auctioneer, and will be covered in also. There was a very large number of sheep yarded there yesteiday, which were sold as follows :—IOOO merino ewes, 5s 6d per head ; 850 \ bred ewes at lOi 8d per head; 350 merino ewes, full mouth, at 4s 7d; 390 merino ewes, full mouth, at 4s Id; 350 crossbred ewos at 13s 6d per head ; 600 merino ewes at 5s per lidd ; 180 i bred ewes at 10s 6d per head. 11am Faib. —The ram fair held annually under the auspices of the Temuka and Geraldinc Agricultural and Pastoral Association, took place yesterday. For the convenience of the public, as the Winchester Fair was held oil the same day, the rams were yarded in the Winchester saleyards instead of on the Association's ground as heretofore. The entries were greater than last year, when only 169 rams were yarded. This year there were 288 rams put in the pens by the following owners :Mr A. Grant, 125 ; Mr J. Patersou, 64 j Mr F. H. Barker, 36; Mr C. G. Tripp, 23 ; Mr Aitken, 22 ; Mr S. D. Barber, 7; Mr Roberts, 5; Mr Morrison, 4 j and Mr Lewi-, 2 ; nuking 288 in all. The auctioneers were complaining very bitterly of the bidding, but still a grea l . many ranis changed hands at prices varying from 5a 6d to £4 4s. On the whole the quality of the rams was equal to former years and thero were more of them sold than last year. The Colonial Treasuuer at Dunedin.— Major Atkinson delivered the first of his addresses in Duuedin on Monday night to an audience of 500 or 600 people, He went over exactly the same ground as in Christ•hurch, merely referring to one remark made by Mr Montgomery to the effect that it was unusual and extraordinary for a Treasurer to address public meetings throughout the colony without asking his hearers to take a party view. Regarding this he said that he thought it would be a bad day for the colony when a Treasurer could not address the public on matters of importance without giving them a party coloring. A vote of thanks to Major Atkinson was carried on the motion of Mr C. S. Beeves. On Friday night Major Atkinson delivered his address on the prevention of pauperism to about 600 people. At its conclusion, the meeting was addressed by Messrs Green, Fish, Bracken M H R.'s, and Stout, all dissenting from the plan proposed, but Mr Stout principally in details, and speaking in complimentary terms of the scheme as a whole. Mr Fish, like Mr Green, announced his intention of holding a meeting to place a rival scheme before the public.

Mr K. F. Gray will hold a sale of househo!d furniture on Tuesday next. It is notified that Mr John Worthingtou, of Pleasant Point, Farmer, has filed. Mr W. 'JJeid, of Timaru, is his solici r or.

Messrs Maclean and Stewart advertise a most important sale of freehold and leasehold pr'oporty and stock, the property of Mr Frew at Arowhenua, on Thursday the 12th mat. Mr K. A. Barker, Ohapi, Orari, notifies that he has best screw-pressed chaff for sale. He is prepared to cut farmers' straw or oat sheaves, to grind peas, beans and grain of all kinds, either fine or coarse, for stock feeding, and has crushed oats always on hand.