LOCAL LAND GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1365, 14 July 1885, Page 2

LOCAL LAND GENERAL.

Gehaldine Eoad Boabd.—The monthly meeting of the Geraldine Road Board takes place to-day. Monthly Stock Sale.—Mr K. F. Gray advertises that he will hold his monthly slock sale on Friday nest. He is now receiving entries for ii. Coubsihg.—At the Waterloo meeting on Fridav, at Plurapton Park, the Pura§ was won by Erica, who beat Le Loup; the Plate by Market Day, who beat Abercorn. The result of the Cup appealed in Saturday's paper.

Sale of Crown Lands.—The Commislioner of Crown Lands, Mr J. H. Baker, notifies that the sale of sections in the town of Geraldine advertised to take place in Christchurch on the 29th July will " not" take place. The sections will be submitted to public competition in Geraldine on a date to be named.

The Homeless.—A person who drove into Titnaru on one of the wettest days of last week informs us that on the road between femuka and Tiraaru lie met twelve swaggers trudging along in the rain. Surely no one could help sympathising with these. Twelve swaggers on a road twelve miles long showed a most undesirable state of things. Parliamentary Union —Preparation* are being made for a regular "set-to" this evening at the meeting of the Temuka Parliamentary Union, when the debate on the Laborers' Homes Bill will be resumed by Mr Hargreaves. We have been requested to state that a meeting of the Opposition will be held at 7 o'clock in the Institute, to appoint a leader, and form a properly organised Opposition. There are, evidently, " rough" times in store for the Ministry. " lolanthe."—lnet Friday and Saturday nights the Timaru Musical and Dramatic Society gave a representation of Messrs Gilbert and Sullivan's opera " lolanthe." The opera is a bright and sparkling one, abounding in beautiful music and entrancing scenes, and the manner in which it was pourtrayed by the Society was Tery creditable. The asting was good. Several of the solos were real gems, and could hardlj hare been surpassed by professional*. The dresses were rich, and the stage appointments first-class, no expense having been spared, It was pleasing to notice that the efforts of the Society ware appreciated by the public, the theatre being full on both occasions, and we are sure that alt who were present on Friday and Saturday nights would be glad to see the opera repeated. Fike AT Geealdine.—A fir* occurred on Sunday luorning, by which & shed, the property of Mr Chas. Waller, Kaukapuka Downs, was totally destroyed. Mr Waller was awakened about two o'clock and discovered the fire, and he at once aroused a neighbor, and by their united efforts thoy were able to save a pigstye adjoining the shed, though the pigs did not escape without a scorching. The building in which the fire originated was about 30ft bv 12ft, and part was used as a workshop, where paints, oils, and carpenters' tools were kept, and the rest of the building was used as a storeroom and a cow shed. The building was totally destroyed, and Mr Waller was unable to save any of the contents. He estimates his lojs at £SO, and there was no insurance on building or contents. The origin of the fire is not known.

Narrow Escape from Drowning.— About four o'clock on Saturday afternoon a child, about two years of age, son of Mr A. Finlayson, Geraldine, had a narrow escape from drowning. With four others, he was amusing himself by throwing stones into a stream of the river opposite his father's house, when he overbalanced himself and fell in. A little sister of the child, about seven years old, went in and attempted to pull him out, but did not succeed. The child was washed down on to a spit in shallow water, where by his struggles he saved himself for the time being from drowning. The screams of the other children quickly attracted the attention of several people, and Mr Finlayson running to the spot soon got the child out and took it home. Restoratives were at once applied, and the little sufferer soon recovered from the effects of his immersion in the cold water. Had not prompt assistance been at hand, there is" little doubt but that the child would have been drowned where he was, or by his struggles have again got into deeper water and been carried away into the main stream where his fate would have been certain. Timabp A. and P. Association.—At a meeting of the Committee of this Association, the President (Mr D. McLaren), stated that up to the present £416 12s had been received by the Secretary from members of the Committee who had canvassed for subscriptions to reduce the Association's overdraft, anJ when all the lists were in he thought that fSOO would be reached. Mr Moody's proposition that subscribers of £lO to the overdraft fund should be entitled to a life member's ticket was negatived ; but a resolution to the effect that if 100 "new " yearly members are enrolled, their tickets shall entitle their families toadmiasion to the association'sannual tbow was carried unanimously. Present members will be entitled to the same privilege. Mr I. L. Morris (of Pleasant Point), Mr Jas. Bulfour (of Totara Valley), and Mr Jno. Loregrove (of Geraldine), were elected members of the Association. A Revising Committee was elected as follow-:—I he President (Mr D. McLaren), the Vice-Pres - rtent (Mr W. Moody), and Messrs Tescl.pmakor, A. Cox, G. Talbot, Geo. Rhodes, Stevenson, Davie, Goldie, Kelland, A. Macpherson, A. Wyllie, H. Ford, C. N. Orbe 11, R. McKay, and Edward Elworthy. It wus decided that the Revising Committee should meet at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, the 28th inst. The meeting then ad-journed.

Temuka Disteict IIia» School.—The Chairman of the District High School Committee notifies that the School is now reopened. Saltation Abmt. —The te i held under the auspices of the above in the Voiunlo.er Hall, Temuka, last night, was a great success, over 300 persons being present. The hall was crowded, to excess at the public meeting. A full report will appear in our next issue.

Judgment Summonses.— In reply to a question regiirding judgment summonsed, Mr Baddeley in the Court at Geraldine, yesterday, said that he would still make orders as usual in regard to judgment debtors. The remarks of Judge Gillies at Auckland, recently, he said were merely on expression of opinion—a judicial dictum —and not a ruling of the Court. Till there wna an express ruling on the point His Worship snid he would not take any notice of it, and he expressed doubts as to whether the Judge had been correctly reported. The Abowhbnua Hotkt..—Last Saturday in Tiraaru, at a special meeting of the Level's Licensing Committee, Mr Hamersley applied for a transfer of the license of the Arowhenua Hotel from Mr W. O'Driicoll to Mr Michael Scannell. The report of Constable Morton, of Temuka, was to the effect that Mr Scannell was a larrikin, a habitual drunkard, und a gambler, and hed been for a long time under police surveillance. To rebut this charge most of the bu*il\3»s people of Temuka were summoned to give evidence, with the result that the Court was pretty well filled. The evidence of such people as were examined went to show that they never knew Mr Scannoll to have been either a drunkard or a gamblor, and consequonlly the temporary transfer of the license was granted te him.

Destitution in Auckland.—A reporter of thfl Auckland Star lately interviewed the matron of tho Woman's Refuge, and in the course of conversation asked if there was r enlly much destitution in Auckland. Her reply gave him to understand that there was more than was generally believed, though it wss not so much caused by want of employment as by drink. " Indeed," added Mrs Hutehison, " if you could only seesoms of the miserable and wretched houses that I hare visited, where the children are starving and deßerted by both father and mother while on their drunken sprees, your heart would bleed for the little ones. I could tell you of six or seTen little children in a house without a morsel of food, and no one near them to look after them. They had only half a loaf of bread amongst them for two whole days, and y»u may imagine their delight when I carried them some food from the butcher's. This was in Newton, but worse cases are frequently to be met with in town. As a rule they are all the immediate result of drink." One exceptionally pitiable case was related. "A little girl," said Mrs Hutchison, " only fourteen years of ag«, came to me recently and gave herself up. She had a comfortable hom#, but her stepmother and herself did not g»t on well, and she ran away from home. For several months she had nowhere to lire but m the Domain, and she slept there night after night in all weather. At last she grew weary of her life, and came to the Home." We expressed surprise at the statement that the girl had lived in the Domain for two or three months, but Mrs Hutehison said this was nothing exceptional. Numbers of people, she added, were compelled through force of circumstances to sleep there every night.

Lively Proceedings.—Temuka was unusually lively last Saturday evening. First of all the Saltation Army wai unusually demonstrative because of the arrival of Boms offlcers who earne to take part in their tea meeting. The army formed a torchlight procession and marched to the railway station where they received Captain Keuben Smith. They then paraded the Btreets and returned to tbe barracks. Ihey had enly just entered their barracks when down the street came another large procession headed by a few persons carrying torchlights. Behind these came men upholding poles, suspended from which was a well-deyeloped representation of a man with a swag on his back. Somewhere in the crowd was a party who made desperate effort* to elicit from a bugle " The Dead March in Saul," but, though he struggled hard to produce the desired sounds, he never succeeded in bringing out more than a few notes of the tune. The bugle sounded very much like being very bad with a sore throat, but it must be admitted that it harmonised pretty well with the groaning and hooting which accompanied it. This was an effigyburning procession, got up to giro expression to the indignation of working men at something said against them by a well-known citizen. The procession marched down town, and across the railway to an open space in the Arowhenua township. Here a solemnlooking individual, got up for the occasion, produced a book to r?ad the funeral service, but was interrupted by the arrival of the police, who ordered the proceedings to be stopped. The procession inarched on down the Arowhenua township, where they submitted the object of their attentions to the flamec It is a pity the men did not take some other means of expressing their disapproval of what they complained of. Effigy-burning is a stupid, useless practice, oal culated to do no good. If the men had held a public meeting, and showed their cause a good one, as it certainly is, they might have done some good for themselves. We understand that the matter will be brought before the Court in due time.

Tenders for cropping, ploughing, etc., for Mr A. M. Clark, Arowhenua, close to-day. See advertisement. Messrs Miles, Archer, and Co., Timaru, announce that they are now buying ryegrass, cocksfoot, and Timothy. Mr J. D. Hellwell, surgeon dentist, and maker of artificial teeth, announces that he can be consulted at his rooms, over Anderson and Co.'s Grocery Establishment, Timaru, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. His charge for extracting teeth is 2s 6d. How to Get Sick.—Expose yourself day and night, sit too much without exercise, work too h.ird without rest, doctor all the lime, take hII the Tile nostrums and imitations advertised, and then yon will want to know

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