LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1255, 21 October 1884, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Life Asspbaxob.—Meisrs J. Mundell and Co., hare been appointed agent* in Q-craldine for the Mutual Life Association of Australasia.

Thk Ixwabd ’Fbisoo Mail.—Correspondence, etc., by the ’Fri«co Mail for this district, may be expected to arriye to-night, or to-morrow by the express.

A Fast Stkambe. —The Zealand!* arrived at San Francisco on September 7th, from Sydney via Auckland, haring made the fastest ] passage on record from Auckland to Honolulu. Importation of Apples. The whole consignment of American green apples ex Zealandia at Auckland (1338 boxes) is stored on the wharf for inspection according to the Government proclamation. Bad Management. —The Eailway department, in three prosecutions during the week rel at ire to season tickets at Auckland were cast in costs about £2O, the Magistrate dismissing all the charges. Thb Triumph. The repairs to the Triumph (which some time ago ran on the Tiri-tiri reef, Auckland) are now completed, and she will make a trial trip on Thursday next. Inritations to the number of 650 hare already been issued. Ceicibt.— Owing to the unpropitious state of the weather on Saturday last the opening of the cricketing seasen in Geraldine was postponed till Saturday next. Some of the members of the Club, however, were present and had a good practice. Boating. The Timaru Boating Club opened the season on Saturday by a procession of beats and scratch races. The list of members bus been considerably increased lately, and it is probable that the Club will take part in tbs outside regattas. Escaped pbom Burnham, Two girls, Beatrice Boss and Kate Eichmond, aged seventeen and fifteen respectively, escaped from Burnham on Saturday evening, walked all night towards Christchurch, and were captured by the police on Sunday morning at Eiccarton. They were back at Burnham before noon,—-Press.

Spobtiko. —At the Victorian Amateur Turf Club's meeting at Caulfield on Saturday, The Caulfield Cup—a handicaplof 2000 sots 5 1,300 sovs to go to the first horse, in addition to a trophy, value 200 guineas, the gift of Mr Matthew O'Sbanassy; 500 sovs to the second, and 200 sots to the third j one mile and a half—was won by Mr E. G. Talbot’s Blink Bonny, with E. B, Tothill’s Lord Wihon second, and Vergy third.

Wikohhhtsb SCHOOL. —It was decided at a special meeting of the Winchester School Committee to recommend that Mr John L, Cooke, the preient matter of the Geraldine Flat School, and Mile Feanon, now acting ai Mistress at the W inoheeter ichool, ehould be recommended to the Hoard of Education ae maiter and mistress respectively of the Wincheeter school, injtho plaee of Mr Dunnett and Miss Young. The recommendations seem judicious, but, should ho bo appointed, Mr Cooke will be missed at Geraldine Flat.

Dbath or Ms T. D. Sullitak, M.P,— News of the death of T. D. Sullivan, Esq., M.P., will be read with feelings of deep regret by Irishmen all over the world. Mr Sullivan wa» a brother of Mr A. M. Sullivan, the famoue orator, barrister and author. He wai one of the nqit amiable of men, and has made an imperishable name for himself as a post. He was born in the County Cork, and removed early in life to Dublin, where be was smploysd on tbs Nation newspapsr, which bscams tbs propsrty of Mr A. M. Sullivan aftsr Sir C. Gavan Duffy relinquished it. When Mr A. M. Sullivan was called to the bar the deceased became proprietor and editor of the paper. He was electsd Msmber of Parliamsnt for Westmeath, which he represented at (be time of his death. His death will create a gap in the Parnellite ranks which cannot easily be filled.

Thjb Shoetlaxd Cask.—Mr Hugh Shortland, who wa* arrested in England some months ago charged with the murder of his wife, arrived by the Doric. In a letter to the New Zealand Time*, after a recapitulation of his afreet he says :—“ I trust to bo able to give practical form to the the piiuciple of international right by representing my case for national remonstrance and reparation, if such there can be, at the bar of the New Zealand House of Xtepresentatires, simultaneous to raising the same point by proxy in the English House of Commons.”

Ix Bankeuftct,—James Joe, farmer and threshing machine owner, Woodbury, appeared before hie Honor Judge Ward on Friday for his public examination : —Mr Hamersley appeared for bankrupt. The bankrupt was examined by Mr KnubJey as to the varying statements he had filed, and how he bad disposed of the money he had received far threshing last season. He paid away in wages and accounts all he had received. The accounts filed “ must hare been a calculation ” from the books. There was a difference of £l6O between the stated receipts and expenditure for which he could not account. He was also quests to his neglect to supply his tally-book to the Assignee, and discrepancies between the tally in the book (which was now produced) and the statement of work done supplied to Assignee. He said the account had been taken from another tally-book, which bad been lost. He denied having gone reund collecting accounts after filing, but admitted having asked one man, Mr McDonald, in Dr Foster’s presence, to pay his account to him, but Dr Foster said it would be wrong to take it, and McDonald did not pay. Could not say how much he owed for wages when be filed. Did not think it was over £5. Friedlander Bros, had a bill of sale over everything, and they sold all off, leaving a deficiency of £75. In his statement of assets he bad valued the stock at over £3OO above their claim. He bad received £760 from Friedlander Bros, daring some months previous to filing. Had paid it all away in clearing off old scores, Mr Knubley asked the Court to exercise its powers of summary punishment under clause 73, for endeavouring to collect accounts after filing, or for an order to prosecute under clausa 163 for making false entries, there being discrepancies between the lists supplied to the Assignee and the debtor’s books. His Honor did not think it was a case calling for the exercise of his summary jurisdiction, and the other matter could be mentioned when the debtor came up for his discharge. Examination closed.

Don’t Die in the House —■" Bough on Bats ” clears out rats, mice, beetles, roaches, ed bugs, flies, ants, insects, molur, jack* rabbitF, gophers. Kemptborne, Prosser and Co., Christchurch. 1

Tenders for ploughing 100 acres grass land at Woodside, for Mr W. U. Slack, close today. Mr E. H. Fostlethwaite invites tenders for ploughing 100 acres (turnip land) on the Eaukapuka Estate. Good pos Babies. —“ We are pleased to say that our baby was permanently eured of a serious protracted irregularity of the bowels by the use of Hop Bitters by its mother, which at the same time restored her to per* feet health and strength.”— The Fabbnts. See Advt.

Mr D. Mahoney, so favorably known bs the host of the Lynwood, has taken the Sh imrock Hotel in Timaru, which he has refitted and furnished in fine style. The hotel is in good bands, and will without doubt be a farourite one with boarders, and with trarellers and others needing refreshment. Messrs Booth, Macdonald and Co., of the well known Carlyle Implement Works Christchurch, draw: the attention of farmers to the superiority of their Carlyle Disc Harrows, which in recent trials at Eirwee and Papanui were declared to be superior to all the others shown. The implements on view at the Temuka agents’, Messrs Henry and Findlay, show the excellence of the work executed by Messrs Booth, Macdonald and Co., and those who are in want of really first-class agricultural machinery should secure their make. Good Wobdi -From Good Authority. . ... We confess that we are perfectly amazed at the run of your Hop Bitters. We never had anything like it and never beard of the like. The writer (Benton) has been selling drugs here nearly thirty years, and has seen the rise of Hostetter’s, Vinegar and all other bitters and patent medicines, but never did any of them, in their best days, begin to have the run that Bop Bitters have, We can't get enough of them. We are out of them half the time . , ,

Extract from letter to Hop Bitters 00., Aug. 22, 78, from Benton, Uyeri and 00., Wholeeale Druggists, Cleveland, O. Be sure and s to Advt.