LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1189, 22 December 1883, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Christmas Holiday. Tuesday next being Christmas Day, this paper will not be published on that day.

Shooting! Contest.—The Timaru civilians have challenged the Temuka Yolunteers to a shooting contest, and the challenge has been accepted. The event will come off on Boxing' day morning. Masonic.—A. meeting of the members of St, George’s Lodge, 1856, E.C., Temuka, for the installation of W.M. and officers takes place next Thursday evening, Dec. 27th, at half past six. Geraldine Public School Holidays.— The children attending the Geraldine Public School broke up for their Christmas holidays on Thursday evening last. A full account of the proceedings appears in another column. Boxing Night Ball at Woodbury.—A ball will take place in the schoolroom, Wood* bury, next Wednesday evening, dancing commencing at half-past eight o’clock. Messrs Somerville and Levens will supply the music. , 1.0.0. P. Sports, Tekuka.—A very fair number of entries have been received for the handicaps at the above sports, and doubtless the events for which post entries are to be made will be equally well patronised. Given fine weather on Tuesday next the sports in the Temuka Park should be largely attended. The Direct Steam Service.—The New Zealand Shipping Company are advised by cable that the lonic reached Rio Janeiro on the 15th and sailed on the l7tb. Her passage from Lyttelton was the fastest on record, viz., only twenty-one days. Her frozen meat is reported to be in prime condition.

Bolts and Accidents.—A horse attached to a trap belonging to Mr A. M. Clark, of Arowhenua, was standing in front , of Dr Hayes’s residence, last Thursday, when the blinkers fell off its head and it bolted. Knocking against a post it separated from the vehicle by breaking both shafts. The horse ran along the foothpath with the shafts dragging on the ground, and met with no accident until it brought np safe and sound in the Star Hotel stable. The trap was very much damaged. The same day a horse and trap belonging to Mr Wightman, of Waitohi, was frightened by horses which Mr Lawson was “ running in ” and bolted towards the river. Mr Lawson let go his prey and went aftpr thp runaway, which he' caught in the river not a bit the worse for the run. The same day the axle pf Mr Ackroyd’s express broke and there was a very sudden fad in mutton, but no serious injury was (lone.

This Unemployed.—The Goveniffies«pave|mased to alter their decision re gmng work to the unemployed. The Committee of the unemployed bare resigned, telling the men to accept or reject the offer (4s 6d a day) as prefers. A Large TE^iT !:i: Press states that Mr R. Richardson, of the Empire Hotel, had on view on Wednesday afternoon one of the largest, if not the largest, tron yet taken in Canterbury. The,* lish, which was caught in the Selwyn River, was said to weigh 22flbs.

Supreme Court, Timaru.—At the Su-" preme Court, Timaru, last Thursday, the case of Allan and Stumbles v. Tosswill, claim £IBO, counter claim £7O 7s sd, was resumed) and after occupying the attention of the Court till the midday adjournment was settled out of Court, each party paying their own costs.

Temuka Sunday School Union.—lt is pleasing to find that the recent demonstration by the united Sunday schools,of the Temuka district was financially a success. The committee of the United Schools Picnic desire to* state that the jincome, from subscription lists, etc., was £4O ss, and the expenditure on.'• provisions, etc, £35 4s 7jd ; the balance in hand being £5 Os 4£d. Boxing-night Concert.—A grand concert under the conductorship of Mr J. H. Edmonds, and under the patronage of W. Postlethwaite Esq, M.H.E., the members of the Oddfellows' Lodge, and the Temuka Brass Band, will be given in the Volunteer Hall, Temuka, on Boxing Night. A very fair programme has been arranged. At the conclusion of the concert a dance takes place, to which ladies will be admitted free, gentlemen being charged 2s 6d. Mb Bryce and the Natives. —Mr Biycs has held a meeting at Kibikihi with the opposing Ngatianatas. They object to the survey being carried on, and hold bv documents signed at the Kuiti meeting of 1881, in which the land was assigned over to Tawhiao. Mr Bryco said " The paper on which those lands are handed over to Tawhiao is waste paper. My march is onwards, and the sooner this is understood the better for the Maoris. lam speaking in your interest. There is no such authority in this country as that put forward. It never existed in my eyes and does not now." A triangulation survey of the King Country will now be made. This will, if not interfered with and with fair weather, take 18 months. A Good Appetite.— Dr Jessop tells a story in the Nineteenth Century which deserves a larger audience : —"Somewhere in the neighbourhood of Aylsham lived a certain Jerry Eke, whose appetite was said to be superhuman, and whose prowess at harvest suppers was the boast and wonder and envy of the villagers around. It came to pass that at a farmers' market dinner, the talk turned upon Mr Eke's performances, when someone present protested that what had been narrated waa impossible. 'lmpossible,' said another, ' I'll bet you £5 that Jerry Eke will eat a calf at a sitting.' The wager was taken, and the preliminaries were arranged. The calf —let us hope it was only a baby calf—was killed j the bones were cut out, the flesh was chopped into minute particles, and apportioned into seventeen enormous pasties, whose outer crust was a thin film of batter, made lovely and tempting to every sense, but car'efullye kept from any ingredients that could cloy the palate. Jerry was called in he having agreed to the wager with evident delight, and was told he might fall to. He did so and steadily gorged. He had made no difficulty of the first nine pasties, but when a tenth was brought in he seemed to flag. To the horror of his backers he sighed sad looked perplexed. It was but for a moment; he only desired to expostulate. * I say mas'r, I aint got nuthin' to Bay agin them poys; I loik 'em amazin,' but I'm a-thinkin' et'a about lime as I should begin on that thar calf !' " Messrs B. Wilkin and Co., auctioneers, Tiniaru, will hold a sale of double and sing'e buggies, spring carta, phaetons, etc., on the premises of Messrs Evans, Grandi and Dooley Timaru, to-day. Messrs J. Mundell and Co., auctioneers, Geraldine, will hold a sale of drapery, clothing, millinery, boots, cutlery, crockeryware, groceries, saddlery, etc., to-day ,under instruc tions from Mr J. Davis, late of G-eraldine. Messrs Maslin and Sherratt auctioneer?, Geraldine, will hold an important sale of freehold property consisting of a quarter acre section, with four-roomed brick house thereon and other improvements, situated in Geral I dine, a dray, tilter, d.f. plough, drapery clothing, etc., at their rooms to-day. " Gebman; Syrup."—No other medicine in the world was ever given such a test of its curative qualities as Boschee's German Syrup. In three years two million four hundred thousand small bottles of this medicine were distributed free of charge by Druggists in the United States of America to those afflicted with Consumption, Asthma, Croup, severe Coughs, Pneumonin, and other diseases of the throat and hmgs, giving the afflicted undeniable proof that German Syrup will cure them. The result has been that Druggists in every town and village in civilised countries are recommending it to their customers. Go to your Druggists and ask what they know about it. Sample Bottles .6d. Regular size 3s 6d. Three doses will relieve any oase. 1