LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1475, 4 March 1886, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Unregistered Dogs,—The police are looking up the owners of unregistered dogs in the Temuka district.

Gbbaldinb lowff Board.-— The monthly meeting of this Board takes place this evenini, at half-past seven. Parliament.— lt is rumored that if no dissolution takes place Parliament will bo called together early in May. School Tbbat at Obabi Bbidge.— The annual school and distribution of prizes at the Orari Bridge School takes place tomorrow.

Death’oe Mr John R. Gough.—A telegram published elsewhere notifies the death of John B, Gough, the moat noted temperance orator of the day.

Secretary fob Education,— lt is underg'ood that the R-v. W. J. Habeas will succeed Ur Hedop as Secretary for Education. Ur Heslop retires on a pension.

The Wool Season. — Up to the 2Ttb nit. 17,152 bales of wool were received by rail at Timaru and 5258 bales by road, making a grand total of 22,410 bales. The Butt Seat.— lt is rumored that Mr E. Wakefield, Mr T. Mason, and Sir William Fox will contest the Hutt seat with the present member, Mr Fitzherbert.

Wjnchesteb Fair.— -The monthly fair at Winchester takes place to-day. Messrs J. Mansell and and Go. notify that they will sell fat and store cattle and sheep, pigs, etc.

Customs. —During the month of February the customs collected at the port of Timaru amounted to £1705 7a sd. In February, 1885, the amount collected was £1634 5s 6d. Thursday Half-Holiday. —It is said that a large number of people in Timaru are signing a paper pledging themselves not to do any shopping after one o’o ock on Thursdays. The paper is Using taken round ou behalf of the E»rly I M, sng Association.

Assault.—At. the R.M. Court, Timvu, on Tuesday last, a young man named John Williams was fined £5 «nd costs for assaulting a woman named Mary Turnrow, who was driving some of hie cattle away from her husband’s fences. The parties were neighbors, living at Otipua, nearTimaru. Bowling Club. —At a meeting in Timaru on Monday last it was decided to form a Bowling Club, and a Committee was appointed to obtain all information necessary, and report to a meeting to be held in a fortnight. Two sets of bowls have bean promised by gentlemen in Dunedin and Christchurch,

Timaru Harbor Boabd Loan. The Timaru Harbor Board fire per cent, loan of £IOO,OOO, has proved a great success. The loan was pi toed in the market at the minimum of £lO2, and tenders for no less than £580,000 were sent in. Tenderer at, £lO6 15s 6d will receive 20 per cent, of their applications, and above that in full. The average is expected to be £lO5 18 J .

Careless Creditor.—At the February meeting of the Temuka Road Board e small account was received trom a tradesman who had forgotten to state on the account to whom the Board were indebted for the amount. At last Tuesday’s meeting the account was again sent in. This time the name of the creditor whs sta'ed all right, hut it was too late lo be included in the month’s accounts, B) he will have to wait yet another month for the money. Bolt. — A horse, with a cart attached belonging to Mr James Wright, b .lted away yesterday from near the Temuka railway station, and came down Commerce street at a terrible rate. It turned the corner of the Wallingford Hotel, and also the corner of Mr Yelvin’s store, without mishap, and made towards the river, which it. reached and crossed in safety. After having cross'd the river someone stopped it, and, with the exception of some little damage to the harness, nothing sustained injury. The way it steered through the streets and round the corners without meeting with any mishap was very fortunate.

Primitive Methodist Church, Tbmuka. —On Sunday afternoon next, at 3 o'cltek the Rev. H. Clark, who at the last Conference w«s appointed to a station in the North Island, will preach his f arewell sermon in Terauka, and as during the two yea a Mr Clark has been resident here lie has secured the respect and good-will of all with whom he has been brought into contact, no doubt there will be a largi congregation. On the following Monday evening a public farewell tea and public meeting wll be held, 'file tea will commence at half-past 6 and the meeting at 7.30, adults being charged Is 6 I for adnvssion to the ten, and children under 12, le. The Revs. W. J. Dean (of 'Tiniaru) and H. Clark, and others will deliver addresses.

A Warning to Storesebpbrs.— At the R.M. Court, fimaru, on Tuesday last, J. Beewick, Esq,, on the Bench, a case was heard in which a husband was sued for goods supplied to his wife. The plaintiff proved the delivery of the goods sued for to the defendant’s children and to a woman who was working for Ins wife. The d fendant affirmed that he had forbidden his wife to get goods on credit at any shop m town, and for that and other reasons he declined to pay the account. His Worship held that it was not necessary for a husband to let anyone know he was not responsible for debts contracted by his wife without his knowledge or consent, or to publish the same; it was qnite sufficient for the husband to forbid his wife to get things on credit. He expressed the hope that this would act as a warning to shopkeepers, and would make them more careful in the future as to whom they supplied goods on credit. Judgment would be given for defendant.

Accident.— A nasty accident happened to a painter named Grey, while working at Green Hayes, near Temuka, on Monday last. Grey was engaged in painting the frame of a window about 11 feet from the ground. He bad painted one side of it, and was probably leaning across attending to the other side when the ladder moved from under him, and he fell heavily to the ground, alighting on the right side of his head. His full attracted notice, and he was quickly picked up, when ha was found to be quite insensible, Dr Campbell was at once summoned, and was very promptly in attendance. The man had then partly recovered consciousness. and the doctor found that he was suffering from concussion of the brui >, and that the skull was denuded of the scalp for a •pace of about 4 square inches, but, he could not find any injury to the skull. Kestoratives were applied «nd >he wound attend d t>, and on the arrival of Grey’s employer, Mr Murdoch, of Tirnaru (who bad been notified of the accident), it was deemed safe to accede to Grey’s wish that he might be taken home, and thither be was conveyed. The man lost a considerable quantity of blood, and was badly bruised about hi* right, shoulder, and had his ni ck somewhat'wigted, but considering that he fell on io a concrete basement, the wonder is that he was not more seriously hurt.

Fibb. —IVmuka narrowly escaped being the scene ot a serious fire on 1 at Tuesday night. It appea s that Mr Ogilvie wajust about going to bed, shortly before 11. o’clock on the night in question, when a young man, who lives with him, called his attention to the fact that there wns a fire next door, in Mr Coltman’s jeweller’s shop, Mr Ogilvie, with the young man in question and Mr Ooltman’s brother, who w*s in the house at the time, ran round to the back, and found that, a fire bad broken out in a little scullery at the ba k of t.'ie premise*. Mr Col man, junr., went immediately to look for bis brother, who boards at Mr Tomb.*’, but found that on that evening he went, to Timaru, in connection with a Band of Hone concert. He then gave an alarm of ure, and Mr •Sarridge proceeded with all haste to ring the fireball, but the first pull he gave the ropetbe bell tumbled to the ground, and be narrowly escaped being killed by it. The alarm, however, succeeded in bringing the Fire Brigade and the police to the scene in a very short time, but before their arrival the fire had been extinguished by Mr Ogilvie and his assistant. Mr Ogilvie, on bursting the door open, found that the fire was confined to an old box, the contents of wh cb were in a blaze. This box contained odds and ends of various kinds, and, amongst other things, some sulphur 5 and, as it was adjoining a heap of dry firewood, and' very near a wooden wall, had not the fire been discovered so readily, nothing could have been saved the shop, Mr Ogilvie’a shop, and the Salvation Army Barracks, and the other building in the block. As it was no damage was, done, as Mr Ogilvie succeeded in extinguishing the fire brf .re it had ex'ended beyond the box in which it originated. No one ran account for its origin, but it is conjectuiel tbit rata must have been eating matches,and thus set fire to the contents of tho box*

A Large Apple. The Ashburton Guardian notes that an apple weighing 20£ ounces, and rather more than 15 inches in circumference, is now to be seen in the shop of a local seedsman. The apple was grown by Mr R. Miller, at Winchraore.

The Shooting Season.— At a meeting of the South Canterbury Acc imatisetion Society in Timaru yostirday, it was resolved— *' Thaa the season for shooting native game be f mm April Ist t • July 31-4, inclusive and for cock pheasants and Californian quail from June Ist to June 30tb, inclusive,” Wxfs Desertion,— At the R.M. Court, Tetha ordinary buainers whs disposed of, Mr Aspinall applied to the Court for warrants to arrest two men, who have failed to comply with an order of the Court to provide for the maintenance of their wives and children. It appeared that orders were already made by the Court that they should pay a cert in sum weekly towards the support of their famdies, but that ihess orders Were ignored, and the present application was made to get the police to arrest them. Mr Berwick told Mr Aspinall to see him in Vim ou on nest Friday, and that ho would grant the request. Appointment of a Rang**.— The appointment of a ranger for the Geraldine Hoad District, continues to be a “ burning qm stion,” and a great deal of warm discussion takes place upon it among various sections of the ratepayers. Owing to the small meeting last Road Board day, the members decided to postpone the appointment till a further meeting, a numerously signed petition having been presented praying that a ranger be not appointed. We believe (liar, a petition is now being circulated for signa'urea asking the Board to postpone the appointment till the annual meeting of ratepayers, or call a public meeting to discuss the matter.

Unemployed Agitation. Yesterday morning about 20J unempoyed met in Cathedral Square, Christchurch, and passed the following resolution—“ That it is esssentially necessary, nay, the bounden duty of our present Government, if it is to exist at all, immediately to establish a national bank of issue ; that steps be t‘ken to employ the unemployed and to pay them with the money we shall issue, making that the current coin of the realm.” The men afterwards wailed on Mr Austin, Dntrict Public Works Engineer, applying for work. Mr Austin requested to he furnished with a list of their names.

Hospital Returns. -The following is a return of tie patients in the Timaru Hospital for the month of February, 1886 Patients under treatment at date <>f last return —males 13, females 9, total 22 ; admitted during inonr.h —males 9, females 9, iotd 18; totals treated—males 22, females 18, total 40 ; discharged during month—Cured—males 9, females 6, total 15 ; relieved —ma'e 1, females 2, total 3 ; incurable—male 1, female 1, total 2; totals discharged-males 11, females 9, iotd 20; remaing under treatment —males 11, females 9, total 20 ; uut-patioi ts treated during the monthmales 11 females 26 total 37.

Revenue. The Customs and beer duty returns for February are just completed. The Customs duty in February yielded £117,039, as against £118,965 for preceding month, and £99,4 n 6 for February, ]BBS. The total Customs revenue collected for the eleven months has been £1,301,695, being £8990 less than eleven- 1 welths of the Treasurer's revised estimate for the year. The beer duty for February produced £4754, being less than January’, 1886, and February, 188'>. The total beer duty for the eleven months has amounted to £50,059, or a deficiency of £367. Suicide.— About six o’clock yesterday morning, when the Hawea was about 20 miles from New Plymouth, a lunatic named Kaye managed to get through the port-hole of the bathroom unobserved, and went overboard and was drowned. It appears that Kaye was being conveyed to Wellington in charge of a keeper, his sister and brother-in-law having recently arrived from England for the purpose of taking him Home in the Arawa, which leaves Wellington on Saturday. Yesterday morning the lunatic was allowed to go to the bathroom alone, and being there half-an-hour, and not replying to the keeper’s knock, a seaman was let down the side to look into the port-hole. He reported that it was open, but he could see nothing but the man's ohithes, A bey then got through the port-hole and opened the bath-room door. It was found that Kaye must have squeezed himself through the hole and been drowned.

MeßaldanCß at Bakaxa.— On Tuesday last the Hon. Vl r Ballance paid a visit, to the village settlement of Siaka'.a, and was p resented with a petition setting forth the grievances of the settlers. The peiition stated that, in ’he se'tlement 320 souls were crowded on •o 480 acres of land —about the quantity re quired to sustain the -ame number of sheeo It stated that work was scarce and the men only averaged about three months work per annum, during which time they earned from fil2 to"£2o, The petition urged that all adu ts over the of 14 years, accustomed to the cultivation of land, be given as much land as would support him with profit to him-nslf and the State • the resumption of the large estate! by Government for the purpose of seUlment, and further that 100 acres near a railway station was as small an area as a man maid make a living out of in Canterbury. In rep'y, Mr Ballance said he was fully aware that the sections were not large enough for a man to make alning from, and it never was the intention of the Government to make 'hem Irrge enough for that purpose. The village se' tlement had bean provided to give men a start, and enable them to make home, and bettor their position. He thought however, that ten-acre blocks would be small enough. He would have much pleasure in enabling settlers to inorease their holdings to ten acres. The question of resumption of lands by the Grown was now under consideration, and probably some alterations would be made in the present system. He was not in favor of allowing a boy of 14 years of age to purchase land under the deferred payment system. He thought that £5 an acre would be a fair value for the land, and, in future settlements, sections could be taken up at that price. Iho reply failed (o give Ba"sfnetion,it being held by the petitioners ’hat 50 to 100 acres should be allowed each family. Mr Ba 1 lance replied that, they were confusing villige settlers with farmers. The vill ige settlements were only for the piirp-ige of giving men ft start. It would, no doubt, be a good thipg if all the lands in the colony were Grown property, and could ba leased j but he must remind his hearers that the Grown lands in Canterbury were very few. With regard to the resumption of private lands, it should be remembered that if the Government did purchase them; ft high price would pro*

bably be given, and, as a consequence, the rents charged for such lands would be high too.

1.0.G.T.—-The usual weekly meeting of the Welcome Retreat Lodge, 1.0.G.T., Geraldine, was held on Monday evening, Bro. W. Willoughby, W.C.T., in the chair, Die Lodge having been opened in due form, the minutes of last meeting were read and confirmed, Bro. J. Rennie, W.0.G., on account of sickness, resigned liis office, which was accepted with regret. One candidate was initiated into the Lodge. The reports of the Sick and other Committees were approved. It was decided to postpone consideration of the By-laws until the next ordinary meeting. In consideration of the valuable services rendered to the Order by the Rev. Mr Clark, who is leaving the district, it was unanimously decided to invite him to the next ordinary meeting to ' give a farewell address, the W.C.T. and W.S. to alter the night of meeting should it be necessary, and that there be an open air meeting of the Lodge afterwards. The Secretary was instructed to give due notice of the night ef meeting if altered. The W.S. suggested that the Visiting Committee wait upon those brethren whe have absented themselves from the Lodge for three consecutive meetings, and that the proposers and seconders of candidates for membership be reqnei-t u d to urge upon candidates the necessity of initiation as soon as possible after their proposal has been accepted by tlie Lodge, The W.C.T. read sections 1 to 17 of the by-laws without comment, and the Lodge closed. An Alabastbs Box —Young girls finding their (v>mpiezion growing sallow, and their *kin becoming rouffh or freckly, roeort to perfumed ointments for a rest iration of their bloom. All each should use Amerietn Oo’a Hop Bitters, which will restore bloom to cheeks, whiteness and beaatv to their compVxion, met ng rich blood, good health, and happy smile*. Read Advt.

SYNOPSIS OF ADVERTISEMENT.

Thomas Loch—ls requested to communicate with M. IT. Rohde, Corn Exchange, Christchurch, N.Z. J. A. Young, Winchester —Invites tenders for painting the Winchester Hotel* Tenders close on the lltb.

R. Tarbotton, Rangitafa—Notifies that all pigs found on his freehold or leasehold property will be destroyed. J. M undell and Co.—Sell 25 carcases crossbred mutton at Mr W. R, D. Lawson’s shop, Geraldine, at 3 o’clock on Saturday afternoon.

Pimitive Methodist Church, Temuka — Rev, H. Clark will preach farewell sermon on Sunday afternoon; farewell tea and public meeting on Monday.

W. Heney, Shoer and General Blacksmith, Geraldine—Notifies that on and after this date bis prices for shoeing will be 6s, 7>, and 8s per set ; steeled shoes 6d extra. T. and J. Thomson, Drapers and Silk Mercers, Timaru —Announce that they will make a special display of new season's goods, received by the Tongariro, Arawa, Dunedin, and Trevelyan, on Monday next. The goods bar** opened up in splendid order, and the show will doubtless be some thing out of the common, and well worth inspecting.