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Temuka Leader, Issue 1397, 26 September 1885, Page 2

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Matthew Daniels was at Blenheim on Wednesday sentenced to imprisonment with hard labor for assaulting Steven Oliver. The parties were neighbors, and the quarrel arose about firewood and children throwing stones at one another. Oliver went to Daniels’ house to enquire what the row was about, and after a dispute, threatened Mrs Daniels and hit her on the mouth. Daniels drove Oliver out in the road, knocked him down with a heavy piece of scantling and stunned him. The parties are both laborers. At the Otago Land Board meeting if was resolved to reduce the rentals of eighteen runs owned by the Crown and nineteen owned by School Commissioners. Nearly all the runs had be«n offered more than once at former rentals. The reductions in some cases ate fully one half. A license to prospect for minerals over 3480 acres at Big Bay on the West Coast, was granted. At the half-yearly M.U.1.0.0.F. District Meeting the receipts were given for the Otago dictrict as being £3826 and the expenditure £2748. The value of the Lodge funds stands at £38,707. The number joining was stated to be smaller and the number leaving larger than in previous yea’s, which was attributed to the depressed times. The consignment of 199 boxes of apples from San Francisco by the mail steamer has caused another codlin moth scare in Auckland. The apples were placed on the Te Anau, which left on Wednesday evening for Sydney’, where they can be disposed of. The Mayor of Auckland telegraphed on Wednesday the facts of the case to the Government, relative to Fryer’s circus being detained in pursuance of the Order-in-Oouncil absolutely prohibiting the importation of live slock from the United States. The Mayor represented the ruin which the prohibition would bring upon the proprietor of the Circus animals. To his representations the following reply was received :—“ Deeply regret the total impossibility of permitting Circus animals to land on New Zealand soil. They must be kept afloat till takeu out of New Zealand waters. Faith must be kept with the Australian Colonies or their markets will close to our stock. (Signed) P. A. Buckley.” The order is tantamount to the confiscation of the Circus Company’s property. The Company can do nothing, £6OO was paid for their passages down, and they are now completely stuck, being unable to perform in New Zealand or to go back. The proprietors had no means of acquainting themselves beforehand with the existence of such a law, and the captain of Ihe steamer which brought them was also ignorant of it. At a meeting of representatives of Friendly Societies at Wellington it, was docivTtl that the second request received from tiie Christchurch Societies, asking that the demonstration should be postponed until October 16th could not be acceded to, owing to inability to get a holiday proclaimed on Friday, that being a heavy shipping clay in Wellington. The Maori performers who gave an entertainment at the Exhibition will leave for the South at the end of the week. They intend exhibiting their dances and other performances in the principal towns of the South Island. The fine of £SO recently imposed on Capt, Munro of the barque Altaic, at Auckland, for neglecting to report a quantity of sugar on his manifest, has been reduced to £lO in consequence of representations made by himself to the Government by petition. Last Thursday night before the Te Anau left Auckland for Sydney her warn carried away unexpectedly. Id was discovered on examination it had been cut by some sharp instrument. Later on it was found the warps of the Waihora and of the ship Duchess of Argyle had also been cut partly through so, that any ordinary strain would cause them to snap. The police are on the outlook for the perpetrators of the act, the motive for which it is difficult to imagine.

Mr Joseph Ford Duncan, of Riwaku, Nelson, a settler of 43 years, died on Thursday. He was 79 years of age and leaves a widow, 8 children, 60 grandchildren, and 3 great-grandchildren. At the Resident Magistrate’s Court, Christchurch, on Thursday James Willis, printer, was fined £5 for a breach of the Printers and Newspapers Registration Act in failing to print his name nod address on a copy of the Pall Mali Gazette disclosures, which he printed for sale for Robert Aherne. Charles Christian Seminars and Alfred Simpson, booksellers, were charged with selling the pamphlet, but the information was dismissed, as the Bench did not think they had committed any offence, A singular case of love of adventure in a boy was beard at the Police Court, Dunedin, on Thursday, when the father of a 10ysar-old boy applied to have his son committed to the Industrial School, as he was unable to control him. It was shown that since attaining six years of age the boy has made ceaseless efforts to become his own master. He has been away from home for more than a week at a time, and has been discovered in the bush, where he managed to exist somehow. Last Saturday he secured £3 during his parents’ absence, and was not discovered till Wednesday. The lad could not be got to school, and preferred sleeping in a dog-kennel to a bed. Ho was committed to tho School.