LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1094, 17 April 1883, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

To our Readers.— Owing to circumstances over which we hare no control we have to hold over our re. ort of the Geraldine Road Board and other items of news. We hawm hud a struggle to carry on at all time past. About three weeks ago our staff left us, and on the folk another took sick and has not return 1 ' We get a man in Ashburton, but did he arrive than another nearly leg. He only returned yestrrdav, still not well able to work. He had returned when another man met cident and had to leave off work. these circumstances the hare been issued three It would seem as if fate had l that it should never be publisSefT' iffjSSay have been the casualties, that have combined to prevent it, but,we determined to issue it, come what would, and we have done so. We trust our readers will recognise tiltdifficulty under which we are working, and make allowance for our shortcomings' until our staff is reorganised. A long Price.—A farm in Northi’Taier has changed hands at the long price of £33 10s per acre. British Territory.— The British flag was planted on New Guinea on the 4th inst by Mr Chester, Police -Magistrate of Mel* bourne. Heavy Costs.—lt is stated that the costs of Mr T. B. Walker, the defendant in the Cambridge native ejectment case, amount to nearly £3OOO.

Auction Sale.— Messrs J, Mundell and Co., auctioneers, Geraldine, will hold an important sale of horses, cattle, sheep, drays l ploughs, harness, etc., etc., at their yards tomorrow. Big Turnip.— Mr Andrews, Crown Hotel. Geraldine,has on view a monster swede purple top turnip grown by Mr B. H. Templar, Fairfield. Its measurements are Length, 18i inches; circumference round the inches. It weighs over-231bs. . r M The Leach Estate.— There will nsifl be an end to this. At the meeting H creditors held after the last Court case, SS Job Brown offered to pay over to the tr I tees £l7O in consideration of all the proceed! ings against him being withdrawn. Th« creditors accepted the off r, but Mr Brown' failed to pay, and so proc edings were com monced de novo. The case, in which the trustees sued him for £2OO was to have been heard in Timaiu yesterday, "but the 'mult did not reach us by the last train from Timaru last night.

Geraldine School. Our Geraldine school is getting in a sad state of decay* The Committee have made repeated applications to the Boad of Education for a frant of money to put the school in proper repair, but have had no reply to their numerous applications. A short time ago the Com mittee made applic«tion for a grant for a now fence for the front of the school, and to shift the back fence. Tins is very much needed i as the back fence has been blown over and is very dangerous for the children.

A Capacious Dock.— The Governor on Friday, 'with Captain Da’e of H.M.S. Diamond and the members of the Harbor Board, visited the Auckland Sugar Company’s works, and the Calliope Graving Dock. Cap’ain Dale, of the Diamond, spoke in laudatory terms of the undertaking, saying when com* pie tad the dock would be able to take the largest vessels of Her Majesty’s navy, the Inflexible not excepted. His Excellency also spoke favorably of the dock and its si'e, and commended the wisdom of the Board in making it so capacious.

Accident. — A man named John Northam met with a severe accident on Friday afternoon last, near the residence of Mr A. Reid. It appears ho was proceeding homeward with a load of firewood, when; missing one of his chains, he took the leader and rode back to find it, and while so doing some dogs rushed at the horse which threw the unfortunate man. When found he was insensible. Dr Fish was speedily on the scene of the accident and ordered his removal to Geraldine, whither he was conveyed by Mr R. Taylor, at whose hotel he now lies, nob having gained conscious, ness up to the time of the latest account.

Hoenkd Mbit.—Horned men hare been, discovered in Africa by a Captain J. 8. Hay, who recently read a paper before the British Association, in which he stated that he had seen them, and exhibited sketches of these curiosities. He thought that'they belonged to the class of malformation, of which there was a noted example in the case of the ‘‘porcupine man,” who had horny plates on various parts of the body. It was remark* able that the horns were peculiar to the male sex. Most anthropologists think that the gallant captain is either joking or romancing The Dunedin Suicide,—The inquest on the man named Henrich Longfoot, who shot himself on Wednesday, was held on Saturday. The wife, after giving details of the occurrence, said she had been having some words with her husband about a young woman whom he kept company with and corresponded with, and she supposed he was troubled in his mind in consequence. She blamed the woman for the trouble, for he was a very quiet man. The night deceased shot himself witness accused him of writing to this woman, and told him if he did not stop corresponding with her she (wi ness) would leave him. He promised not to write to her any more. The jury returned a verdict to the effect that deceased committed suicide while in a state of temporary insanity.