LOCAL AND GENERAL

Temuka Leader, Issue 1171, 29 April 1884, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Crown Hotel, Tbjiuka.—Mr A. E. Kirk lias parted with his interest in the above hotel to Mr Peter Bertie, of Timaru. Mr Bertie took possession yesterday. Eatepayees’ Eoll. —A notice appears elsewhere to the effect that persons who , desire to have their names put on or taken ( off the roll of ratepayers of the Temuka , Eoad District, must give notive in writing ] before the Ist May nest, as the roll is being j altered. i

Our Fourth Page. A quantity of commercial intelligence will be found on oup fourth page. Temuka Eoad Boabd.—Wa understand, that Mr H. Nicholson, of Waitohi, will be a candidate for election to the Temuka Eoad .Board for the ensuing year. Mr E. Smith, of Winchester, has also been nominated. It is, we understand, probable that Mr Quinn will stand again. Football.—lt will be seen by advertise* ment that a meeting is to bo held to-night in the Crown Hotel, Temuka, for the purpose of forming a football club. Although the season is rather advanced, we trust that all footballers in the place will come to the fore, and make an attempt to redeem the laurele which Temuka has lost of late season*. Immigration. The number of nominations of adult immigrants at the different parts of the colony this month has been as follows Auckland 17, Hawke’s Bay 13, Wellington 9, Canterbury 22, Otago 13, Southland 8, making a total of 82 adults. Of these there are 79 single women and||l single man. The nationalities are as follows ; —English 34, Irish 38, Scotch 10, foreign 1. The amount received has been £lO2. Blue Ribbon Meeting.— Mr M. W. Green, M.H.K.,of Dunedin, will deliveran addressthis evening in the Volunteer Hal/, Temuka, at the monthly meeting of the Blue Ribbon Army. Music will bo contributed by the choir. The chair will be taken at half past 7 o’clock by the Rev. T. A. Hamilton. If the evening is a fine one there will doubtless be a large attendance. Obituabt.—Our readers (say* the Preii) will learn with regret the decease of Mr H. J. Tancred, the Chancellor of the University which occurred on Sunday afternoon. The deceased gentleman had been connected with the history of the province from its earliest days. He was Speaker of the Provincial Council, and has also held other important public positions, not the least of which was that of Chancellor of the New Zealand University, which be occupied at the time of his decease. The Effects of Maori Superstition,—• The Wood villa Examiner says A native u lying ill with typhoid fever in a whare on one of the banks of the Mangatainoko river. Ho has been altogether deserted, and owes hi* life to the kind attention of a Mr Carver, who visits him frequently, and bestows on him what aid lies in bis power. On the opposite bank of the river, in another whare, an old prophet is suffering from asthma. He lies naked on a mat and is tended by two men and a native woman. Over his chest are a number of deep gashes, made, it is said, to aid in relieving him of the “ taipo.” Temuka Linseed Company. —A meeting of the Directors of the above Company wa* held on the 25th inst. Present—Messrs John Talbot (Chairman), E. Pilbrow, E. Brown and R. A. Barker. The minutes of former meeting were read and confirmed, and accounts amounting to £275 3s 8d were passed for payment. The Secretary was instructed to ascertain the rate of insurance on the building and contents. Mr Davis attended, and stated that the quantity of flax now in hand would give about 12£ ton* of fibre ; also that the machinery would be in working order in a day or two, and suggested that native flax should be procured for dressing. It was decided to sink a well and set up a flood pump. Mr Talbot offered the use of an engine to drive the machinery, which was accepted. It was further decided that all flax received from farmers should be treated in the same manner this season, viz,, the Company to work it up, dsduet expanses, and band over the balance to the owner. The meeting then terminated. A Good Suggestion,—Under the heading “ A hint to Official Assignees,” the Christchurch Weekly Advertiser makes the follow, ing suggestion: “An application to the Property Tax Department for a copj of the returns rendered under the Act by insolvents might lead to the discovery of assets that otherwise would never come to the knowledge of the Assignees. We may hope that in these days of Nineteenth Century enlightenment, recl-tapeism will not be a bar to these officers obtaining this information for their own guidance ; espscially as it might be the means of bringing in money to go towards the expenses of managing bankrupt estates; for we strongly incline to the opinion that, unless insolvents are squeezed a little more than at present, the Government will find that the expenses of carrying out the provision* of the Act will far out-balance the commission obtained from realised assets.” Whether (an exchange says) this is likely to promote a full disclosure of their property on the part of ratepayers in making out their return*—especially on the part of those parsons inclined to be a little “ shaky ” financially—our contemporary does not say. The French Convicts.— The St. Jame*’ Gazette mentions that a party of 50 women recently left Bordeaux for New Caledonia under rather peculiar circumstances, “ They are, in fact, women sentenced to a lengthened term of imprisonment for grave offences, who hare elected to go the French penal colony, where they will each find a husband in one of the ‘ convicts of the first class’—that is, tho’6 convicts who hare by their good behaviour entitled themselves to a Government grant of land and obtained permission to marry. An inspectress of prison recently made the round of the six central female prisons and selected the 50 women—all of them described as young and good-looking—-who are now going abroad to make a fresh start ih the world. Once out, they will be housed in a religious establishment in Noumeaj managed by a community of sisters, where bachelor convicts of the privileged class will be permitted to visit them, and as often as a marriage is arranged the Colonial Government will provide the bride with a trousseau and set the couple up in a small way. It was Prince Napoleon who, when he wa* Minister for Algeria and the colonies, introduced this system of convict marriages which has given excellent results to far."

Contract Works.— The Geraldine Road Board Overseer invites tenders for several works. Tenders to be in before 10 a.m., on Tuesday, 6tb May, 1884. The Bush Hotel, Geraldine. —We understand that the ownership of the Bush Hotel, Geraldine, has changed hands, the hotel becoming the property of Mr Mclllwraith, the well-known coach whip on the road between Geraldine and the Orari, A Great Pitt. —At the second annual meeting of the Canterbury Linseed Oil and Fibre Company, which took place on Saturday in Christchurch, the balance sheet showed a deficiency to date of £778 11s. It wa» resolved that the Company be voluntarily wound up, owing to the want of support by the farmers. Lecture. — A lecture by the Hon. J. B. A.. Acland on the “Past history of the Moon ” will bo given in the Oddfellows’ Hall, Geraldine, on Thursday night. There will be music and songs by members of the choir and others -A before and after the lecture. The proceeds will be devoted to the building fund of St. Mary’s Church, Geraldine. Ratepayers’ Meetings. The annual meeting of the ratepayers in the Mount Prel Road district takes place on Thursday next, at 12 noon, and nominations of candidates to fill the vacancies on the Board caused by the retirement of Messrs C. G. Tripp and R. Mackay must be made on the same day. The annual meeting of ratepayers at Geraldine takes place on the 6th May. Cheap Land. —People who talk of the fall in the value of land in New Zealand (says the Tnapeka Times) should visit Western Australia, if they sincerely wish to learn what cheap land really is. The Government of that Crown Colony are leasing land at the yearly rental of 10s per 1000 acres. The custom there is for a man to rent 1,000,003 acres at a time. The leases are for ten years, with a right of renewal for a longer period at a email advance. A man with £SOO can rent 1,000,000 acres. Taxes are proportionately light. As the country proves to be well watered and the laud ,excellent it is fast being taken up and stocked both with sheep and cattle. Very large sums are being invested in the country chiefly by syndicates of wealthy men. The tide of immigration is fast flowing thither. Accident. —Yesterday morning a young man named Edmund Wilcox, second son of Mr Wilcox, Geraldine, mot with a severe accident, under the following circumstances :—For some little while past he had been breaking in a horse for Mr Wooffenden, and yesterday morning, whilst in the act of taking hold of it, by some means, the tether rope got twistsd around his legs and he was dragged a considerable distance, tearing the clothes off his body. When rescued he was a mass of bruises from head to foot. Luckily assistance was at hand and Ur Fish was called in, who found that he had received a severe shook to the system as well as the bruises. It is to be hoped that nothing more serk us than this will ensue, although Dr Fish coufid hardly tell *- at the time whether he was in danger or not. Customs and Revenue Returns. —The following are the number, tonnage, and crews of vessels entered inwards at the principal ports for the March quarter :—213 vessels of 138,144 tons, and crews numbering 5350; corresponding quarter, 1883—221 vessels, of 147,713 tons and crow* totalling 5003. Those entered outward during the same period were: —221 vessels of 131,619 tons, with crews numbering 4941 ; corresponding quarter, 1883 —218 vessels of 129,666 tons, with crews totalling 4557. The number of telegrams issued were 362,405, of a value of £23,407 16s 2d; corresponding quarter, 1883—360,429 telegrams, of a value of £23,914 19s lOd. The postal revenue for the colony for the same quarter is £37,879 8s 2d j corresponding quarter, 1883 —£29,872 8s 3d. The money orders issued were 45,949 —£140,837 19s 8d ; paid 37,932—£116,373 4s Bd. Corresponding quarter 1883, issued 39,423—£124,753 Kh 9d; paid, 33,154£104,73710 11. The Savings Bank deposits were £315,599 15s 7d ; corresponding quarter 1883, £315,062 lls 9d. Of withdrawals, £331,704 12s Id; corresponding quarter 1883, £389,191 0s sd. Don’t Die in the House, —‘ Rough on Rats’ clears out rats, mice, beetles, roaches, bed-bugs.Jflies, ants, insects, moles, jackrabbits, gophers. New Zealand Drug Co., General Agents. 1 Mr K. Sando, broker, Timaru, in another column publishes a long list of properties now in his hands for disposal. Farms of all sizes, town property of almost every description, and shares in a great many companies can be obtained from Mr Sando. Beware of psackages of injurious stuff purporting to make genuine Hop Bitters ; also preparations and fluids said to contain all the properties of Hop Bitters. They spring up on account of the great popularity of the genuine, which is only put up in large square panel amber-colored bottles, with the names ‘Dr Soule,’ and ‘ Hop Bitters’ blown in the glass, and is the best family medicine ever made. Read Advt, Mr K. F. Gray will hold his monthly stock sale at his yards, Temuka, to morrow, the sale being postponed from last week on account of the Timaru Races. Immediately after the stock sale there will be a sale of miscellaneous articles, particulars of which will be found elsewhere. Messrs J. Mundell and Co., will hold their monthly stock sale at Geraldine to-morrow. A list of the entries to date are published elsewhere, and further entries will be received till the hour of sale. On Thursday the Bth May they will bold a sale of live and dead stock on the farm of Mr Thomas Blair, Scotsburn, Peel Forest.

Truth iND Soberness. —What is the best family medicine in the world to regulate the bowels, purify the blood, remove costiveness and biliousness, aid digestion, and stimulate the whole system? Truth and soberness compel us to answer, Hop Bitters, being pare, perfect and harmless. See Advt