LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1125, 24 July 1883, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Masonic— The ordinary monthly meeting of St. George'* Lodge, No 1886, E.C., Temuka, takes place to-morrow evening. The Resident Magistrate.—As u?ual the Resident Magistrate did not attend the Temuka Court yesterday. Mr Wills of course did his best, buf lie experienced great difficu'ty in getting a Bench of Justices of the Peace to sifc. He, however, was able to communicate with Messrs S. D. Barker and John Talbol. and they lat and heard some cases at 2 o'clock.

Saceed Concert in Gkealdine.—The sacred concert in St Mary's Church, Geraldine, to-morrow evening, commences at eight o'clock sharp,and the manager wishes it to be understood that the first .three seats are reserved. After the concert has commenced no person will be admitted during the singing of any of the solos, as the noiae of walk ing would distract the more punctual people. There never was such a programme offered before to a Geraldine audience and the names of the performers ought, to attract a full attendance from all parts of the district. Geraldine Coursing Club.—A meeting of the members of this Club was held in the Bush Hotel, Geraldine, on Saturday night last, to comider whether it was advisable or not, to hold the meet on Wednesday next, as previously announced, owing to the few nominations, consequent on owners of dogs having been in Christohurch. on the nomination day. After some discussion on the subject it was decided to hold the meet on the day named. It will take place on the Four Peaks Station. It was resolve 1 also to hold another meet on the Bth August, which will be duly advertised. We have been requested to state tha* Mr Fan-ell's nomination should have been for the Puppy Stakes and not for the All Aged.

Football Match— The football match b&tweon Canterbury and Otago ieams at Christchurck last Saturday resulted in a victory for Otago by one goal and three tries to nil.

Eleotbic Lighting.—Some mild excitement was occasioned in the Victorian Legislative Council Chamber the other evening by the fusing of two of the Edison electric lamps, owing to the shortness of the oircuits In each case there was a noise resembling that produced by a rocket, and an intense heat -was produced, which meltsd the. brass brackets. The molten metah/ dropped on the cushioned seats, and burned them slightly, but serious damage was prevented by the prompt.action of the officials in turning off the current of electricity. The mishap, fortunately, occurred after the House had risen. Most of the members and strangerj had gone, and those who did remain gave the strange phenomenon a wide berth-

After Many Days.—The Hobart Mercury of 22nd May says that while some workmen were excavating under the bri'lge in Macquarie street they discovered a large case, which, on being opened, was found to contain about four dozen bottles of wine, ibout twenty of these bottle 9 were secured in an unbroken condition, the remainder being smashed in getting them out of the case, which w»s firmly embedded in the mud about 12ft below the surface of the creek. The wine proved to be in very good condition. It smelt like pert, but tasted more like sherry. Near where the case was discovered, portions of a sofa and of various other articles of household furniture have been found ; also s veral lumps of timber of different kinds. It is probable that the case of wine and the other thi'gs have been buried in the mud under the bridge ever since onn of the floods that proved so destructive to houses and other property about thirty years ago. Tbespassing.—-Two men and a boy, named respectively Ellery, Logan, and Wright, were summoned to the Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday for trespassing on the Rangitata Island with gun an I dogs on the property of Messrs Emnson and Shiel. The case was, ho*ever, settled out of Court by the defend ants paying the sum of £lO. Our readers may remember that'a similar case was heardlast Junuary M in the same>Court in which one of wj,s .implicated, and the case was then settled by tha imposition of a noratnarpenalty the defendants under.taking'not to transgress; again. On this above is the result/ We understand that Mr Totton is always willing to give a free day's shooting without dogs% any one applying are wh«a.dogß,.are taken over ihVebuntry. ' i

The R'M'sOir Way.—lt had long been a mystery to me how the missionaries were so prosperous who out on small salnries to place* wher« a'tfgejt and a cannibal were the principal inhabitants;;.; The other day I happened upon ajlittle secret which went far to enlighten me. An enormous trade with savages is done, I find, with patent medicines, such as pills, blood purifiers, etc. Nearly every properly accredited m'ssionary is also an agent for somebody else's lotion. Di-ectly a missionary gets among the savages and the heathens his first task is to figure as a ' medicine man,' and administer a pill or a dose of something to any of the population who will consent to be experimented upon. Gradualy the people are taught to have faith in the whosesome remedies, . and boxes of pills are exchanged for produce. I heard of one missionary who made £IOOO out of pills and ointment in a single year, and one of the big advertising firms in London has over 500 missionaries on its books as agents.—' Dagonet' in the Referee.

Important to Taxpayers —At Uie conclusion of the business of the Court yesterday, Mr White, on behalf of the Property Tax Commission called attention to the fact that several persons who had been summoned bad paid before their cases bad been called upon. It was their own fault that I hey had been summoned, and ho asked the Court to allow solicitor's fee in these cases, as he had to come from Timaru to appear on behalf of the Property Tai Commissioner. He would ask for £1 Is where the claim exceeded £5. and 10s 6d where it was under that sum, His fef> would have to be paid by Jthe Government at any rate, but he did not see why the Gavernment < should pay it, when it was the fault of defaulters that the cases were brought into Court. Their Worships decided to allow solicitor's fees, and judgment was accordingly given against E. K Parkerson, Beattie. Thomson and Essery. Persons who owe taxes would therefore do well to pay at onc e ( for if tney do not they will have to pay 10 per cent fine, the cost of hearing, anl a so'icitor's fee, which will in many cases a mount to more than the original claim. Lecture. —On Friday eveniug last Dr Foster gave the intr ducfcory lecture of the seas n in the Geraldine Leterary Institute. Owing to the severe coldness of the wearlier . the attendance was not so luiye as it might otherwise have been. The Rev J. Preston, in the absence of the President, the Rev G. Barclay, was voted to the chair. The worlhy doctor prefaced his lecture with afe* words of advice to the Committee and members of the Institute urging them to have a room set apart, as a smoking room, and thu3 make the place more attractive for people to join. The lecture proper was devoted to giving advice to his bearers as to how to a geod speech The first thing to do was to speak sense, not to say anything out of place if it could be avoided ; not to exaggerate . and lastly, to be sure and not repeat their speeches. The doctor interspersed his remarks with witty and good humored anecdotes,and at jts conclusion he was heartily applauded. Some conversation afterwards ensued as to the advisabi ity of forming a Debating Society, This was war.nsly taken up, and we hope to see the society ere long broughtjinto existence.

Tjie Sheep Inspectorship.—MrKelman Geraldine, lias received a letter from Mr Post let hwaite, .U.H.R., re the She p Inspectorship for South Canterbury. He states that on the loth inst. Messrs Turnbull Sutter. M.H R's. and himself wailed on Mr Dick (the Colonial Secretuv), in regard to .Mr Mucdonald's ease,and the following arrangement has been* armed', at :—That Mr Macdonald wi 1 receive three months' salary, arid one month's salary for each'of 'the eight years he has served as a Government officer, which will bring his bonus up to about £375. Experiences of a Note.—A note, for £IO,OOO on the Bank'of, England once had a singular history. It was paid out to one of the Directors of the Bank, .who;soon after lost it under.such', circumstances, that he was satisfied, and succeeded in satisfying the Bank, that it had fallen Into his fireplace and been destroyed. He was given a new. note for which he returned a proper receipt i'ahd guarantee. '-Many: yeari; 'after the original note was presented for payment j .the Bank endeavoured to disown it, but could not, for it was genuine.and in the hands of an innocent person,,and the Bank had to pay it. Its hutory was then looked into, and it was ascertained that, instead of being burned, it had been carried up the chimney by a draught and had found a safe lodgment in some cranny in the* flue. Here it had remaiQed until alterations in the house necessitated the removal of the chimney; then it was discovered by a workman, who regarded .it; as a legitimate find, and who presented it for payment. ;•:'•: ■■- ■■■-':■ ;,'i'_,.„

A Lo'£<J f SfcEßP.—James Healey; his Iwife and young son, living at Batavia.^N'X'), retired to bed <it the usual hour one Saturday night. , A coal .stove was situated in tin adjoining room, and during the night so much, coal gas escaped from it that the .sleepers were, rendered insensible, and in that condition they remained, until Monday morning. Mrs Healey regained consciousness about seven o'clock when 'She arose and. prepared breakfast. She was suffering from a headache, and she noticed that'the fire';io-the! stove which warmed the room, off from, which they'slept, was out. At eight • o'clock -she called her husband and son', who responded and ate tneir meal; They all supposed it was 'Sunday, and Mr Healey, who is employed on the railroad put on his best suit,, expecting to go to church with his wif % buther Head pained her so that she concludedtb remain at horns. Therefore Mr Healey s'ayed around the bouse. Late m the afternoon another son,-who bad been out of,town, returned home, and ihe>family discovered -their error and realised that thev had s ept thirty-six hours. ' - ' *» r 3 T>' •

Bed Taveim —Mr S. '"fee tells us an amusing story that' fu. ly corroborates what TS.Y Pyke said in the House rtfcr"*" other day with regard to the w»ntof economy in forwarding a packet of pins, sTbottl* of ink, and a quire of note paper trora Wellington to a remote part of Otago. Last April twelvemonth an American broom and some other trifling jtliings came from Wellington from the Native "Department' for use at Little River. The expense of the carriage m these six shillings, and when a local storekeeper at Little heard this he hut /lands and remarked that he could left theVmcis out of his store ;at considerably -.-Jess - than the carriage came to. .this of course nothing to, do with the carrier, arid so he tent in ,his aceounb to the Government for the six shillings. • This wa* not all'his charge for carriage, for he had te pay for the goods being brought by train from Ly ttelton to Christchurcb, and also for the carrier taking them from the railway station to Mr Ulrich's, office, and no doubt steamer freight had had to be paid also. Well the bill was sent to Government in comse of time, and after a long delay was returned with the notification that before it could be entertamed > the receiver's receipt must be procured. This la's* straw broke the camel's back After paying the carriage from Lyttelton on behalf of the Government and waiting nearly a year, to fan told he wquld have to spend a day! in riding to Little River and back to procure from tht receiver the receipt for the American brdom was too much, and we understand a legal claim will be made on the Government tor this famous six shillings.—Akaroa Mail.

Messrs Siegertand Fauvel hare the Stone Store, Temuka, to let*

Mr E. M. Godwin offers £2 reward for the recovery of a lost horse. A strong lad is advertised for, to milk cowi and make himself generally useful.

' Mr AM. Clark, Temuka, invites Unders for clearing 150 acres of land.at, Riverslea.

Mr C. S. Totton gives notice that any trespassers on the < properties of Mossrs Empson and Shiel will be prosecuted. Mr K E.' Gray, auctioneer, Temuka,'will hold a saleof live and dead stock on the farm of Mr A. W. Ensor, to-morrow.

■'-Dr Foster, Geraldine, announces that D. Caro, of Christchurch has been appointed trustee in the estate of R. S. Cook.

Messrs Siegert and Fauvel, Temuka, notifiy that they intend ho'dlng an immense cleaving sale commencing on June 28th. Mr F Storey, the proprietor of '"the Wallmgford Ilo'el, draws atieivion to the superior advantages possessed by his Hotel for travellers and boarders., Messrs J. Mundell and Co, auctioneers, will hold a sale of fancy good-, cutlery, E P. ware, clothing, etc. at Ollivier.'s auction rooms, Temuka, to hior.row.

Messrs Maclean and Stewart, auctioneers, Timaru, will hold an extensive sale of live s'ock on the farm of the Lite, Mr W. Gillespie, Washdyke, to-day. Special entries for this sale will be received. .._ The demnnd for the great American remedy, Hop Bitters, in this part of the world has lecome so great that the Hop Bitters Company, whoso headquarters are at Rochester, New York, U.S.A., have b'*en compelled to open a laboratory in Melbourne. It will be in charge of Mr M. H Van Berg, .a gentleman of seveial years' experience with this (Jompiny-, and the trade may be assured of receiving goods eqtii'l to the parent houge, a "d tns most courteous treatment. The H.B. Compnny.hrtve establishments at London, Paris. Ant werp, Belgium'. Breda, Holland, and Toronto, and I heir Bi iters »re probably the known medicine in the world.