LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1120, 12 July 1883, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Captain Baeet on the WaePath.— Captain Barry is now exhibiting his while skeleton in Dunedin. He has dubbed the monster the Prince of W (h) ales. The ‘lndian Ccen Doctoe’. —Henry Winter, an insolvent known as' The Corn Doctor,’ has been remanded from Brisbane, where he was arrested, to Melbourne. Lecture on Daiet Farming—Mr W Bowron will deliver a lecture on dairy farming in the Oddfellows’ Hall, tomorrow evening. We hope to see a large attendance. Suicide. —A man named Long committed suicide at Mount Somers on Monday. Long obtained a gun, and going into a small plantation adjoining Hood’s Hotel, shot himself. ' Auction Sale at Levels Plains. —Mr K. F. Gray will .boW a cleaving sale of stock find implements on the farm of Mr John Elder, Levels Plains, to-day. He will also sell the freehold of 203 acres Edmonds’ Glee Clue.—The third and final concert of the season in connection with the club takes place in the Terauka Volunteer Hall next Thursday evening. At the conclusion of the concert a dance will be held. * Love, Courtship, and Maeeiage.’— This is the title of a lecture to be delivered by the Bov Mr Standage, of Ashburton, tomorrow evening in the Wesleyan Chapel, Temuka The lecture will begin at 7.30 and the admission is fixed at the very low price of one shillingThe Annexation Question. A Mel bourne telegram says Mr Service, the Premier, has received a telegram from the AgentGeneral in London, stating that public opinion in England was favorable to the establishment of a pvotectora'e over New Guinea and the New Hebrides. Mr Murray. Smith suggests that the colonies should make further collective proposals to the Imperial Government, offering to pay a share of the expenses of establishing a protectorate. Petitions to Parliament —We have received a letter from Mr W. Postlethwaite, M H.R., asking us to call attention to the fact that many petitions forwarded to members of the House for presentation are found to be informal and consequently rejected, owing to the Standing Order not being com plied with. Standing Order 263 runs as follows :—‘ Every petition is to be signed jit least by one person on each skin or sheet on which the pe ition is written, printed or lithographed ’ From this it. will be seen that the petition will be informal if each sheet is not signed by the petitioners.

The Site toe the Geealdine Daisy Factory. —Offers of suitable a pieee of land for a dairy factory at Geraldine, must be Sent in to the Chairman, W. TJ. Slack, Esq , on or before Saturday next.

Too MffCH FOB Him. —The jury, in the case of Davies versus Harris, N.S. W- returned a verdict for the plaintiff with damages of one farthing. Davies, who is a C.M.G., in crossexamination made four attempts to spell the word January, and each time failed. Concert and Ball.—A grand concert and ball will be given m the Volunteer Hall, Temuka, next Tuesday evening, by the members of the Timaru Artillery band. As this is the band that won first prize at the Christchurch exhibition, the concert ought to be well worth hearing. Thu Prick of a Foot.—At the Auckland Supreme Court civil sessions, the ca e of John Gibbing r. the Kaipara S'.eamship Company, comes off. It is a claim for £2OOO damages for the loss of a foot to.n off at the ankle by being caught in a bight of the steamer’s hawser at Riverhead wharf. Clearing Sale at Waitohx.—Messrs Maclean and Stewart will hold a clearing sale of stock and farm implements, on t he farm of Mr W. Wightman, Waitohi, on Friday next, at 11 a,m. Conveyances will leave Temuka and Pleasant Point on arrival of morning trains. The Milton Potters’.—The pottery employees of Milton have made a fair start. A loan of £IOO was placed at their disposal by local residents, which has enabled them to get their first kiln of ware ready, which contains about £2OO worth, and they have a second kiln ready for firing. Trade with China.—The Union Steam ship Company have chartered a large steamer which will bring a cargo of teas from Hong Kong, She is expected to arrive in Port Chalmers in a few weeks’ time, and, when her inward freight has been discharged, the remains of something like 300 Chinamen who have died in the colony, will be pub on board her by their relations, and she wi 1 return to China. Riverbed Crossings.—Some of the crossings over the river-beds in the Geraldine district require seeing to, notably the one over Waihi, on the road leading to Woodbury, and opposite Mr Angus Macdonald’s. The crossing over the same river opposite the Geraldine Hotel, in the township of Geraldine requires a little attention, The expen dituro of a few pounds would set matters right, and render these crossings less dangerous to lite and limb. Hares in the Geraldine District.—A party of men are reaping quite a harvest in the district snaring hares (which are plentiful just now,) by means of a not, 300 to 400 yards in length. The net is placed in the paddock and by beating the hares up in its direction they become entangled in it, and are easily captured: By this means they have been taken in large numbers on Mr A. Macdonald’s property. The party mentioned are obtaining good prices for the hares from the newly started Coursing Club at Templeton. The Dunedin Tragedy.—A Dunedin telegram says:—The victims of the Manor PLce dynamite tragedy have now been buried, Mrs Stephenson on Sunday and Stephenson on Monday, The excitement over the affair has almost passed over, and there is almost a feeling of relief that the death of both was caused by the desperate deed, as . had Stephenson himself escaped, a protracted trial with its attendant; sensational features would have harrassed the public miud. As it is, the dreadful occurrence is on the fair way to be forgotten. Sailing of the lonic. —Says the Press of yesterday:—The steamship lonic passed the heads at 6 p.m. bound for London. She calls at Rio Janeiro, and expects to go thence direct to Plymouth. One hundred and thirteen passengers, equal to nineiy seven and a half statute adults, went by her, and the steam tug Lybtleton was crowded with friends who went down the harbor to see her off. An unusually heavy sea was running at the time in the port, rendering their excursion nob an mnmixed delight. The steamer carries 99 of a crew, and left with 1400 tons of coal in her bunkers. Her cargo has equal to 4500 tons measurement, and the circumstance is significant that she was net large enough to take all the freight the New Zealand Shipping Company were a ked to find room for. She was exactly seven working days loading and discharging iron afc Lyttleton, which may be considered fairly quick despatch. The magnificent. Cunard steamship Catalonia is to follow the lonic, if poaible this month. Fire at Pleasant Valley.—On Monday ast, at about half-past one p.m., a two roomed lean-to, belonging to Mr James Cregan, and rented by Mr Lawrence Cogan > at Pleasant Valley, was burnt to the ground The fire obtained mastery of the house so quickly that not a single thing was saved. No one was in the house at the time of the fire, it being left a short time previously by the family after partaking of their dinner. The only surmise as to its origin, is that as a small fire was left burning in the fire-place when the family left, a spark from it lodged in the side of the mantel-piece, and this becoming ignited, set the place on" fire. The younger children were at school at the time, and the father and eldest son at work cutting ugorse fence near Mr Brophy’s. On the return of the children from school, the father sent them to Mr Farrell’s, at the Bush Inn, Geraldine, walking the whole distance, arriving there about 6 p.m., in charge of their eldest brother, the father joining them shortly after. It is needlees to add that they were most hospitably entertained by the genial host, Mr Farrell, who lost no time in B‘arting a subscrip'ion list for the purpose of building n house for the homeless farailv. The loss is estimated at about £59, and there was no insurance on the building. Amongst (he .property des royed were five bags of llour, seven boy'e new suits, and a bridle aud saddle belonging to Mr Brpby. j

Madame Lotti Wilmot. —The above farfamed led nress will lecture tlrs evening in the Volunteer Hall, Temuka, on ‘ Muddle since the clays of Adam and Eve to the present time.’ On next Saturday evening she will deliver her lecture on Courtship and Marriage in the Oddfellow’s Hall,Geraldine, on Sunday evening her lecture on Ereelbought in the same place. Floods in Auckland. —The Coromandel correspondent of the ‘ Evening Post’ wires as follows ‘ Reports coming in from outdistricts toll of the lamentable destruction of roads and bridges. In some par's there are v great chasms a hundred feet deep across the road, as if caused by an earthquake. A man at Cabbage Bay was jammed between logs and four of his ribs were broken. He is in a precarious state. At Whangapoua 2000 logs came down one creek and carried away a bush house with twenty men in it. The occupants had a narrow e cape. At Kennedy Bay hundreds of logs were carried out t) sea. The total damage to roads and bridges in Coromandel is estimated at at least £12,000. The mailman is missing from Kennedy Bay. He was due on Saturday, and has not arrived yet.

Messrs R. Wilkin and Co, will hold a sale of draught mares and geldings, at their yards, Timaru, on Saturday next. Notices re deeds of arrangement made by Mr If. Franks, brewer, and Mr W. A. Ensor, farmer, appear elsewhere. Mr R, S. Cook of Q-eraldine, chemist and druggist, has filed a declaration of iusolyeucy. Dr C. F. Foster is his Solicitor. Messrs J. Mundell and Co, announce that on Saturday next they will sell a black sheep dog snt by coacli from Woodbury on July 28th, if it is not previously claimed and expenses paid. On Thursday, 18th July they will hold a clearing sale of stock farm im* p'ements, etc, under instructions from Mr C E. Sherratf