The Temuka Leader SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1884. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1263, 8 November 1884, Page 2

The Temuka Leader SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1884. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Temuka Town Board. —The Town Board notify that it is their intention to enforce Town By-law No, 2 on and after the 17th November next. Ball.— A grand Masonic ball, under the auspices of ■ Lodge Southern Star, No. 619, S.C., will be held in the Oddfellows’ Hall, Geraldine, on Wednesday the 19th November. r Land Sals, —The N.Z. and A.L. Company Christchurch have sold about 2500 acres, of the most valuable, portion of the Levels Estate to Mr E. T. Rhodes, of Timaru, at a satisfactory cash price. Religious. Instruction in Schools.— At the Anglican Synod, Christchurch, on Thursday, a resolution was unanimously carried in favour of petitioning Parliament for the amendment of the Education Act to provide for religious instruction. Eire Brigades Demonstration. —A Fire Brigades demonstration will be held in Christchurch in the last week in January. So far the following Brigades have entered : Napier, Port Ahuriri, Masterton, Wanganui, Hokitika, Tiniaru, and Port Chalmers. Cruelty to Animals. — A man named Joseph Harding, better known as “ Oatmeal Joe,” was' brought before S. D. Barker, Esq., J.P., at Temuka, yesterday, on a charge .of cruelty to two horses by overloading and overworking them. Constable Oaaey proved the case, and the defendant complained of having been thus victimised whilst other people, who treated their horses much worse, were not interfered witir. He was fined £2 and costs. It is about eighteen months since he was fined £5 fora similar offence. Cricket. —A match between the married and single members of the Geraldine Cricket Club will be played to-day. Members to-be on the ground not later than two o’clock. The players-in the match against the Ashburton team on the following Monday will be chosen to : day from a list of players whose names are given in an advertisement. We wish the local team every success. The match between the Timaru National 0.C.-and the Temuka Young Men’s 0.0. will be played on the ground of the latter to-day. Play will begin at one o’clock, and players are requested to be early on the ground. Train Arrangements. —The attention of those of our readers in the habit of travelling on the railways is directed to an alteration in the time of running the trains on Wednesday next. The first train will leave Timaru at 7.10,-Washdyke at 7.22, Temuka at 7.47, Winchester at 8, Orari at 8.12, and Rangitata at 8.28 o’clock a.m. This alteration is made to suit the convenience of those attending the Christchurch show. The same night a special train will leaye Christchurch for Oamaru at 8.25 pan. loaymg passengers on their destinations on the way, Tlis wifi enable passengers from this district to pay a visit to Christchurch, attend the show, and re'ttirn-the same day,'return’tickets as on Saturday-being available. Full particulars will be found ■in , the advertisement.

Ehtkhtainment at Gkealdinb. — Professor Lio Medo, the well-Known phrenologist, gives an evening’s entertainment at the Oddfellows’ Hall, Geraldine, on Monday next.

Cabexaqe of Maxes.— Messrs J. Mundell and Co.’s tender has again been accepted for carrying the mails from the Orari Post Office to Woodbury via Geraldine. Mr J. H. Dean’s contract has been accepted for carrying the mail from Rangitata to Peel Forest.

Wool. Messrs J. (Mundell and Co. announce that they are prepared to make cash advances on wool placed in their hands for sale privately or at auction. They will also hold periodical sales of wool and skins during the season, and have. woolpacks on sale.

The Temxjka School.— In the Christchurch Press of Thursday a local appeared to the effect that Mr John Wood, of tbo Temuka school, bad been appointed master af the Southbridge School. On making inquiries we found this was correct and-; that Mr Wood had accepted the appointment. This is the outcome of the harrassing annoyances to which Mr Wood has been subjected by the Board of Education. He ; has been the most successful teacher Temuka has ever had, and ho has been absolutely driven away by the action of a few antiquated fogies who constitute the Board of Education, The sooner such useless institutions as Boards of Education are abolished the better.

Literature.— The New Zealand Bible, Tract, . and Book Society, through their agent, Mr J. R. Macdo.nald, announce that they will open a temporary depot in Temuka on Monday next. The stock of books, and wall, text, Christmas, New Year and birthday cards, etc,, etc. is a largo and choice one, and the prices reasonable. Mr Macdonald will show a large supply of books suitable for school prizes and a# this is just about the season for the presentation of such works he should do a good trade in that line. Among the books in stock at the depot is one we have been specially requested to mention, viz., a Life of “ Chinese’’ Gordon, a man whose doings in the Soudan are at present the admiration of the world. Mr Macdonald stays in Temuka a week and then opens in Geraldine.

Gold Mining. —A couple of weeks ago a paragraph appeared in this paper to the effect that Mr Ooltman had found some gold-bearing quartz in Geraldine. This evidently attracted attention, for yesterday a‘prospector rushed excitedly into this office and asked for a copy of the paper containing the information. So far as we could gather from him, he and his mate are professional prospectors who have been dispatched from Christchurch to prospect this district. Wo were sorry we had very little information to give him, as very little is known concerning the Geraldine gold find. We have been assured the specimens of quartz exhibited by Mr Coltman were, got from his son who is on the West Coast, but on the other hand there is another rumor aflo at that they were found in the well sunk for the Geraldine Dairy Factory, and it is asserted they only show mica. Which story is true we are not in a position te state further than that we were shown yesterday in Mr Coltman’s shop at Temuka specimens of quartz which are undoubtedly very rich. The quartz contain a large per cantage of gold without a doubt wherever they were found, and if on this side we think the matter ought to be followed up vigorously.

The Young Men’s Club.—The sports under the auspices of the above Club will be held next Monday in the Temuka Park, and if the weather keeps fine, they will, we be a great success. The programme is a good one, and, -judging from the number of entries the events will be well contested. Por the 100yds handicap eight are entered ; for the 250yds, nine; i-mile six; one mile eight, and there is every reason tn believe that the post entry events will be still more numerously contested. The prizes consist principally of cups, but there is also a good deal of the ■“ mammon of unrighteousness” to be won there, There • can be no doubt but that for a Club of this kind it is better that they should give cups, because when the money is all spent the cup remains as a souvenir to be proud of, and it is more in keeping with the tone of the institution to give cup prizes than of money. In all eight cups are te be given. Pour of these have bean presented—one by the VicePresidents of the Club, one bp Mr Coltman, one by Mr J. T. M. Hayhurst and one by Mr Thomas Thomson, and the others have been purchased by the Club, One thing deserving of remark is that the Committee have bought everything in Temuka. They have thus set a good example, and they deserve the patronage of the public. Beside* the cups there are many other valuable prizes to be given, including a handsome time-piece, an album, an inkstand, a fisli carver with case, two travelling cases, fancy pencil stand, three cruet-stands, flageolet, piccolo, workbor, tea cuddy, cricket bat, a shaving case, gentleman’s companion, silver albert chain, and a teapot—rail capital articles. The articles have for the last week been on view in Mr Colt man’s window, and.have attracted much attention. Their appearance in the window proved an incentive to much practice among the athletes of the district, who have been training vary bard with the view of, winning some of them. There are in all seventeen events op the programme, and as Monday will be a holiday, and the r oung Men’s Club is an pxtremelv popular institution, we feel pon ; vinced that if the day keeps fine , the at tendance will be very large. Mrs Hamilton will, we learn, present the prizes to the successful competitors.

Concert at Temuka, —The concert in aid of the Temuka District High School prizes passed off very successfully in the Volunteer Hall Temuka, last evening. There was a large attendance, and the singing was excellent. A full report will appear in our next issue.

St. Joseph’s Catholic Church,. Temuka.—The Right Rev. Dr Redwood will administer the Sacrament of confirmation in the above church on Sunday (tomorrow), and will preach at both morning and evening services. On the folfollowing Sunday he will be in Geraldine.

Geraldine Dairy Factory. —An announcement appears elsewhere- under the hand of the Secretary of the Geraldine Dairy Factory to the effect that they will be prepared to receive milk at the Factory on Monday next, not later than 8 a.m. and between the hours of 5 and 7 p.m. We hope the farmers will keep the faetoryjjwell. supplied with milk. Serious Accident, —On last Wednesday a serious accident occurred on the works of the Opihi Bridge, by which one of the men narrowly escaped instantaneous death. The man, whose name we were unable to ascertain, was working a crabwinch, when the structure which supported it gave way and the winch dropped into the river. The man fell on the top of the winch, and some of the scaffolding fell on him and struck him across the loins. He was very much crushed. The accident took place in four or five feet of water, and only that immediate. assistance was rendered the man would have been drowned. His fellow workmen had considerable difficulty in getting him out, but they at last succeeded, and he was subsequently attended by Dr Campbell. The man, who had only been a couple of days on the work, belongs to Timaru. He was removed by train to the Timaru Hospital last Thursday.

Telkqeafhic News.—The Auckland unemployed are agitating, and the City Council have resolved to find them work by contract. —The charge of arson against the Charnocks at New Plymouth occupied the Supreme Court for two days. The charges were dismissed. —At the Police Court, Hawera, a a . market gardener named George Hilliar was charged with stealing £4OO. The amount was lost by a man named Frederick Wallis some weeks ago, and among it was a £IOO note. The accused paid the note into the Bank, and was immediately arrested on the charge. He was remanded for a week. —Mr Herbert Inglis of Christchurch, has secured the Gilchrist scholarship at Home. — The cargo of the Lastingham is being steadily recovered.' The vessel was broken in three places. — A man named A. H. Lockburn, lately* of Canterbury, was sentenced to two month’s imprisonment at Hawera for forgery. —Nine persons were charged with cockfighting at the Marsden Police Court, but the charges fell through on a technical- ground. The Magistrate spoke strongly on the disgracefulness of the cause and directed that further proceedings should be taken. —Michael Patrick McCarthy, charged with stabbing the captain of the H. J. Libby on the high seas, and hold in custody till the American Consul interfered, has been discharged from custody by His Honour Judge Johnston on the ground that the warrant was bad. Further steps can be taken.—A number of the unemployed at Dunedin will be found work at Mosgiel. —A man named James Cheney has been arrested at Auckland for wife desertion at,Dunedin. —The Rev. James Duller, Wesleyan Minister, died at Christchurch, at noon on Thursday, aged 72 years, He first arrived in this colony about 45 years ago. —Mr Beetham, R.M., Christchurch, decided - that the Roman Catholic High School and the Young Ladies’ School at the Convent are exempt from drainage rates. — The Mosgiel Woollen Factory Company’s annual report states that the out-turn has been fully maintained. The amount of profit remaining for disposal, after writing off £2OOO for depreciation of plant, and payment of dividend at 10 per cent, per annum for the half year ended April 6th (£2890) is

£7497 11*, of which the directors recommend the payment of a 10 per cent dividend for the year, absorbing £2BOO, the transference

of £3OOO to the reserve fund, which will then be £17,000, and the carrying forward of £1697 lls.—A miner named Richard Tierney, at Bendigo, Vincent County, fell down a 70-feet shaft, and lay for over four days. Ho was rescued in an apparently dying condition with a broken jaw and his head badly cut, but no other injuries. Ho is doing favorably in the local hospital. Not A BbvhbAGß. beverage, but a medicine, with curative properties of the highest degree, containing no poisonous drugs, Taey do not bear do ■ an already debilitated system, but build i up One bottle contains more r«>al hop strength than a barrel of ordinary beer. Physician* prescribe them.—Rochester Brewing Express, on Hop Bitters,” Bead Advt.

Messrs J, Mundell and Co., will hold a sale of goods seized under distress wa-rant on Tuesday next. Mr W. Middlemiss, of Woodbu'-r, advertises that be does not hold himself responsible for his wife’s debts. Unless the claim is previously settled, the bailiff of the K;M. Court, Temufca, announces that a sale of goods and chattels will * bo held on the premises of Mr Francis Franks on Wednesnay, next. A Beautiful Painting -Mr G. G. Green, of Woodbury, New Jersey, U r- a., i. presenting to druggists and others in mi country some very fine pcturrs in o.il rf ht magnifio nt house and grounds and laboratory at that place, Mr Green is the proprietor of Bosobec’s German Sytup and Qretn’s August Floser, two very valuable medicines, which are meeting with groat favor, the first as a remedy for pulmonary complaints, and the latter for dyspepsia and discrfe.-s of the liver. These preparations have attained ap imtnetjse sale solely on their (upsrior merits, and are sold by all Druggists throughout the world. The price is tbesame for e»ch, 3s bd per bottle, or sample bottles fjr 6.1. The sample bottles enable sufferers co prove thoir v.t ao at a trifling cost.