LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1166, 27 October 1883, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Meeting of Fahmers.—A meeting of farmers and others interested in the Temuka Butter and Cheese Company will be he'd in the Walliogford Hotel, Temuka, on Mon« day next at 7 30 p.in , when every information wjll he gif^n, Wool R. Wilkin and Co, auctioneers, Timaru, announce that their first sale of the season will be held early in December, and remind clients and wool growers that eTery care will be taken in carefully classing, and that their interests will receive the best attention.

Pedesthianism. —The forty-eight hours' match between Scott and Edwards at Chrisipburch begin at ten o'clock on Thursday night. In the first hour Edwards did 5 miles 15 laps, and Seolfc 5 miles and 13 laps. About 300 people were presjn<. At 2 a ui. on Friday, Edwards had covered 21 miles 20 laps, and Scott 21 miles 19 laps.

Suicides. —A Chinaman named Ah Wee committed suicide in Jacob's Gully (Otago) by hanging himself to a tree. A man named Charles Vines, committed suicide at East Invercargill on Wednesday night, bv shooting himself. He came over to New Zealand in 1879, and was rather queer in his wiy?. James Taiwhanga, a brother of Sydney Taiwhanga, was found hanging by the neck, dead, in his whare on Thursday morning at the loading ground at Russell, (Auckland.) He had been suffering from mental aberration.

English Properties for Sale.—The Times of a recent date contained a leading article based up >n the circumstances that in its advertising columns of Ist July there were advertised far sale properties amoun'ing to 50,000 acres. The Times reckons that a a very low estimate these 50,000 acres wou'd be worth £2,000,000. Allowing the same valuation for ether 200,000 acres the 'anded properties in England in the market at that timo amounted . o the value of £10,000,000.

TheTimaru Show. —The entries for the above show to take place next week display a marked fal hng off this year. Last year there was a considerable falling off, but this year the entries are far smaller. The entries comprise : —Merino sheep, 90 ; long woolled do, 46; crossbred do; 5 ; fat wethers 3 ; cattle, 25 ; draught horses, 45 ; other horses, 75; pigs, 14; poultry, 7 ; dogs, 6; implements, 65 ; dairy produce, 39 ; agricul tural produce, 21; extra exhibits, 26. Total, 467. N Z.Bible and Booz Society.—Mr J. R. Macdonald, the agent of the above Society, announces that he will open in Temuka to-day, with an extensive assortment of books, Christmas and birthday cards, etc , which he will sell cheap. He offers special terms to public and Sunday schools. He also announces that he wi'l shortly pay Greraldine and Pleasant Point a visit. Doubtless he will do a good business, as his annual visits are always looked forward to.

St Saviour's Chituch Temuka-—On Sunday (to-morrow) the induction service at the above Church will take place at 11 o'clock a.m., and not at 11.30 as previously announced. A sacred concert by the members of the Church Choir assisted by severalothtr ladies and gentlemen and the Temuka Brass Band will be held in the Volunteer Hall on Monday next. The doors will be open at 7 30 and the concert will commence at 8 o'clock. During the interval an address of Welcome will be presented to His Lordship the Bishop. Mr W. G. Rutland is the conductor, and Messrs Inwood and Proudlock accompanyists. The programme is published elsewhere. Pbesebyation of Dead Meat. The preservation of dead-meat cargoes (says the European Mail) is a problem to which many solutions more or less satisfactory have been offered, but it is still open to the ingenuity of inventors, aud there is yet room for practical improvement in the methods adopted for rendering available to any country the most distant flocks and herds as sources of fresh-meat supply. Professor Hunting now claims to be able to keep the carcase of a sheep perfectly good for over five months and that by a process simple and inexpensiveThis plan dispenses entirely with refrigerators and the machinery connected therewith. .

An Extbaobdinaby Swindle. —A curious discovery was made by the police on search" ing the premises of an ostensible, but unlicensed ' spirit merchant,' named Lambert, in Sussex-street, Sydney. Some casks were sounded, and found to be full. Then they were tapped by means of a sampler, and 'tasted,'and the liquor was good. But on closely inspecting one of the casks it was found that a tube was let in neatly through the bunghole, and fastened thereto by means of brass fastenings, and that the liquor was confined to this little tube, the remaining contents of the cask being water. All the casks were found to be the same. It will be seen that the quantity of spirits necessary to carry on this fraud was very small, and if the whole of the casks were sold at the market prices of whisky or brandy, the operator would be able to make a good haul out of the proceeds and clear away. The police have not yet been able to discover the whereabouts of Mr Lambert.

The Kaiapoi Woollen Factory.—The sixth annual meeting of the Kaiapoi Woollen lactory was lield on Wednesday. The Directors' report stated £3OOO had been spent on the plant; they had completed all the additions proposed, and the mill was now fully equal to a'l requirements. The operations of the year were satisfactory, but not without a large amount of pushing and careful watching. If the import trade continued to be overdone, as during the past year, the present woollen mills in New Zealand would be more than equal to all demands, The profit and loss account, after due allowance for depreciation on plant and buildings, showing a surplus for the year, including the balance brought forward from last year, of £19,222, to be appropriated as follows: Dividend at the rate of 10 per cent, absorbing about £9OOO (he interim dividend to March 31st at the, same rate having already been paid) ; £SOOO to the formation of a reserve fund ; leaving about £4700 to be carried forward to the new account. Referring to iheGulclier light now iu use at the factory, the Chairman said it was a great saving in Ihe cost of lighting and labor. It was working splendidly, and compared with the ou'lay on kerosene, the actual cost of the whole machinery would be defrayed in one year. In conclusion he called attention to the apathy of tradesmen in not keeping proper and large supplies of the Company's goods. The public were anxious to support this and every local industry, out tiaders failed to meet the demand, and in many cases offered spurious articles pretended to be manufactured by ttw Company. The retiring directors, Messieurs Alun and Blackwel), were re elected Mr Isaac Wibon was roeleoted Chairman of Directors.

The Difference. Two soldiers were bivouacking in the neighbourhood of dria ; lying behind their blankets they were lookiig up at the stars. Said Jack—'What made you go into the armv, Tom ?' ' Well,' replied Tom,' I hu I no wife, and loved war.' ' What made you go fighting, Jack ?' 'T. had a wife, and loved pnace, so I went.' Forcible Entry.—The Glasgow Mail says that the Salval-ioners of Port Glasgow are in the happy possession of a grievance. They have a big drum, and their landlord would not allow them to bang it inside the hall they have leased from him. They banged it in spite of him, or to spite him, and he locked them out Thereupon they appealed to General Booth, who told them (as they seemed to think) to get in again anyhow, as their lease ga?e them a right to (he possession of the hall. So they got a crowbar and bursl in the door taking care to lock and barricade it ajjain as soon as they were inside.

HOMOEOPATHIC TREATMENT. —• Homo3o' pathic treatment for cattle has seldom been resorted to, although when one sees the quarts and gallons of nasty stuff poured, nolens nolens, down the throats of sick animals, common humanity suggests the a'ternalive. But a scientific flockmaster in England has just given his experiences of ewes which suffered from severe inflammation previous to lambing. To each of these he administered five drops of tincture of aconite i i a desert spoonful of water every hour, and the effect, he says, was marvellous. All tb« animals recovered, although bis shepherd hai given them up.

The Bank of New Zealand.—The Bank of New Zealand's half-yearly meeting was held in Auckland last Thursday. The net profits for the half year are reported as £B4 being rather less than those of the last, half-year. The usual dividend of 15 per cent was declared. £25,000 was placed to the reserve fund, and £B9OO carried forward. The coin and money at short call in London is £1,900,000. The deposits and advances havo both somewhat increased as compared with the previous half-year. As the Hon. P. Whitaker was the only candidate for tha vacancy in tlte directorate, he was declared duly elected. .Messrs W.J. Taylor and J. L. Wilson were appointed auditors.. Votes of thanks was passed to the Directors, the General Manager, and the officers of the bank.

An Entbbpbising Poundkeepeb.—They appear to have an enterprising poundkeeper at Heathcoate —one who does not mind specu- . lating a sixpence for the certainty of making two shillings. At the Christchuroh R.M. Court oa Monday last, E. Perkins, keeper of the Heathcoate Pound, and Theodore Ironvitch his servant, were charged with a breach of the Cattle Trespass Ordinano*. The evidence for the prosecution was that a pony had been tethered on private land b* permission of the owner of the land, and had been deliberately loosed and led to the pound by defendants, who exaoted 6s pound fees before they released it. The case against Ironvitch was withdrawn, and he gave corroborative evidence. He stated that Perkins employed him to round up animals for the pound, paying him sixpence per head. If the beast were immediately released Perkins got two shillings per head for them. Mr Stringer for the defendant raised the objection that the validity of the Ordinance under which the information was laid had not been proved as required by the Provincial Laws Validation Act, 1877. On this ground the case wis dismissed. Colonial Ratlboads. Writing on colonial railroads, the Railroad Gazette, a New York publication, saya:—New South Wales lines earned 5.31 per cent, South Australian railway* only earned 3.50, Queensland, 2.60; New Zealand, 341; and Victorian 4 per cent. Now, the larger portion of the debt of New South Wales has been borrowed at 5 per cent., so these railways are paying the interest on the money borrowed for their construction, and during the period noted many of the tariffs for freight and passengers have been lowered; but there appears a determination on the part of the present as well as the past New South Wales Ministry to manage their State lines with economy and foresight. The publio Press of these colonies watoh the vaiious movements of the different colonies with a keenness of perception that is a credit to the leading journals, and these receive a full explanation from the Ministry or Commissioner of Railways of the policy intended to be adopted and the administrative ideas that are about to be introduced, so the management of the leading colonial railways is made familiar to the public. American Women.—Some very remarkable statements made the other day (says tho Pall Mall Gazette) by ' a prominent member of the New York detective department' to a somewhat credulous Boston reporter, will no doubt help to confirm old ladies of both sexes in this country as to the dreadful nature of the American women. According to his authority the result of the woman's rights movement in New York is that more women go armed than men, and the softer sex are declared to be much more formidable to rouglis and burglars than men. A man when he hears a burglar, throws up the window and shouts for the police ; a woman slips her hand under the pillow, and, rushing up to the Intruder, thrusts the barrel against his clothes arid fires. 'A woman With a pistol,' ■ays the detective, ' is the gamest thing on earth. In every ease where a man has been shot. by a woman his clothes have been buuied.' That may be; but when the prominent detective went on to state that every other woman in Broadway parries a pistol—usually a nickel-plated Smith and Wesson—in her bosom, and when he added that Mdme. Modjeska sleeps with a brace of pisto's under her pillow, that Mdme. Adelina Patti is a ' terror with a revolver,' and that Miss Anderson once Beared the whole United States aimy at Leavenworth by firing blank cartriges from her revolver, he must have felt that he was presuming a little too much upon the simplicity even of a Boston reporter.

Femalb Pugilists.—A disgraceful scene is reported as •having occurred, at Ultimo, New South Wales. It appears that fwo larrikin looking young women hid a fight in the hollow of a Tacant piece of land on the east side of Harris-street. Girls (friends -of t)(e fighters) acted as seconds. The combat-: J ants fought for a considerable time. There was, however, a great disparity in their sizes. Both were severely punished about the face. The'heavier one, however, had the advantage, and, when a correspondent came upon the scene, had her opponent's head in cbaacery. There were about 100 people watching the fight, comprising old and young of both sexes, many of whom were respectably dressed. • This|is the third known fight fl that has taken place in the locality- between women within the last month. - Messrs 8., Wilkin. and Co,, auctioneers. Timaru, will hold a special sale of exhibited and other stock at their Horse Repository, on-■ Thursday next.-; ' Flies and bugs, beetles* insects, roaches, ';' anis, bed-bugs, rats, mice, gophers, jackrabbits, cleared out by 'Rough on Bats.' }' MfiBBS, M 039 and Co, Sydney, General ■ Agents. ** V, 1 ;A Lovely Chaplet A late fashion says : "Nothing can be prettier than a chaplet of hop vines in blossom." A recent medical review says: " Nothing can be a better renovator of the health ; than Hop Bitters. They aid in, all the operations of nature ; toning up the weak' stomach, assisting the food to becomeproperly assimilated, and promote healthy fraction in "all the organs. The' dictates of ' fashion, as well: as the laws of health,; alike favour a. right applications of hops." Head.'