LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1498, 27 April 1886, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

More Lamps. —At a recent meeting of the Temuka town Hoard it was decided to place additional lamps in several p-'ila of the town. Tenders are now invited for the lamps, posts, and erecting the same. The lamps will prove a great convenience during the coming winter. Easxke Monday.— Ye.-lerduy being Buster Monday w s observed as a general holiday. The weather was gloomy, a> d considerably marred tiie pleasure of many who had been anticipating a day’s outing. The only amusement of any note in the district was the Woodbury Race meeting, an account of which will be found elsewhere. Auction Sale at Temuka.— On Thursday next Mr K. F. Gray holds his monthly sale of stock, after which he will sell household furniture and effects, a quantity of old bridge timber, and a section situate at the corner of Denmark and Wilkin streets, with five-roomed brick cottage, etc., thereon. The section and house are to be sold without reserve. The Band Contest at Oamaeu, —The following Bands took part in the Band contest on Saturday night Christchurch Garrison, Invercargill Garrison, Oamaru Garrison, Titnaru Qarriion, Addington workshops, Kaikorai, Stanmore, and Tima>-u City. Herr Benno Soherek was judge, and the following decision was given : Garrison Band, 1 j Oamaru Garrison Band, 2 ; Stanmore Brass Band,S. Ihe prizes were £25, £ls, and £lO, Small Allotment*. From the new edition of Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates we learn that the project of leasing small allotments to the peasantry wns put imo practice more than 60 yeais ago in one of the English counties, and the experiment was successful. Lord Bray brook was the au'hor of it. He allotted small portions of laud in Essex to poor families, to assist them and rel eve tho parish poor rates. The little colony tnug formed was, says the Dictionary, firr called Pauper Garden*, but afterwards New Village; and it was calculated that by the experim. nt £2OO per annum wag saved to the parish. The Late Accident.—Wo learn that James Gallic, who some time ago had his leg amputated through having met with an accident at Temuka, is progtessiiig favorably, and that there are hopes of his ultimate recovery. A correspondent signing himself “Whittington” writes to us from Winchester, calling attention o the necessity of vetting up a subscript’ll ' for the benefit of G dlie’fl family and offer to head tiie list with £1 Is. Being • laboring man he says lie canuot do more. He expresses a hope that some feeling people will take the matter in hand and do something in it. Cottage Farms.—An account of Lord Tolletnache’s cottage fai ms is given in Chambers’ Journal “ Each eons sts of three acres, and each tenant has u cow glazing in his own pasture. The cottages contain SIX rooms, with a yard at the rear for coaL, a , large oven, a piggery, and cowshed, and the rent for bouse and land is £lO per annum. As a general rule the laborer pays t his out of the profits on his farm, besid.s providing hia 1 family with an ample supply of dairy produce and bacon. All that he earns in wages is therefore available for other items of expenditure ; and it is the proud boast of the neighborhood that the laborers on the Tollemache estates are unexcelled in England, Each tenant receives a 21-years’ lease, and he is thus perfectly secured of his farm.” Chaeitt. —The London Charity Record gives the following summary of the more important charitable bequests of 1885 : Sir Moses Mdntefiore left upwards of £30,000 to congregational and charitable institutions in Jerusalem and the Holy Land, and about £16,000 to charities in London and Ramsgate. James Alexander, of Harap-.tead, left £20,000 to charitable and educational objects in London. To the Durham Infirmary, John Eden, of Belgrave Square, bequeathed £IO,OOO ; oho £IO,OOO upon trust for the almshouses erected by him at Beamish, Durham, and the alms people therein. William Saddlier Bruere, of Tioehursq Sussex, left on trust, £ll,lOO for Roman Catholic charitable works and £2OOO to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. Mrs Charles Leigh Clare, of Higher Broughton, left £IO,OOO to the Strangeways Boys’ and Girls’ Refuges. Murder by a Fijian.—The Fiji Times contains the following account of a murdei at Vuna “News is to hand from Vuiu of a terrible tragedy which was enacted at Holmhurst, about a fortnight ago, among the coolie laborers. ‘ One of the man, in a fit of jealousy, attacked his wife with a heavy, sharp axe, and completely severed her head from her body. This occurred during the dinner hour,-, and was witnessed by two Indians, who, instead of interfering to pro’ect the woman, ran away to tell the white men. These rushed to the scene of the murder, and the whole of the laborers on the estate were organised into search parties to sc k for and arrest the murderer, who had taken to flight after the commission of his horrible crime. These were despatched in every direction, and in the course of a couple of hours tiie man was discovered, captured, and brought back to the plantation. He has since been fully committed to take his tdal on a charge of wilful murder.”

Panama Canal. —The London correspondent of the Australian Register makes the following statement VI. do Lessepshas just left Snuthampton for Panama. The opportunity has been taken for odiaining an expression of opinion how far the o enini? of the new canal will in the figure aff ot the takings of the Nuez Canal, Its pr-'j-c' r believes that the Ptiiima Canal will ohirilderive i's income from the American tra-tc, and that the Engl s:i trade to India, Chiiia, Japan, and Australasia will not be deviated from its present course. Why this will be so is evident from s one calculation* bv Vl* Sutherland, of the P. and 0. Company, which, summarised, are as follow : ‘ ! livoyage from Plymouth to Sydney will be 515 miles longer by Panama than by *u*-z, t-> Tokobams 1239 miles longer, to Shangh-i 3310 miles longer, apd <0 Hongkong 474-8 miles. It stands to reasinfrom this that if the Panama Canal proprietors are io grow fat and merry over their dividends it must t>e entirely from an American source, from profits derived in Eastera Asia.’ *'

Annual Pauish Gathkbing. Great preparations a e '-eing nude for the annual par gh gathering in connection with St, Saviour’* Church, Temuka, which will be hold nest Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Some new tnudc and songs are being re-bea-sed, arid, as some of the best local talent hi.* been secured, we may ex eot a musical treat,

Sohoolj Committee Elections. —'I'he annual meeting of hous.-hoMeis in the various school disricts throughout South Cantrbuiy, and election of School Committee*, takes place this evening. Li every m-•t-mce, except the fUngitata Station—where the meeting will ho held at. the Star of the s oU'h Hotel—the meetings wi;l bo held at the echoolh us*, a' 7 o’.-lock. Kadi Oonirnittee will bold a meeting immediately after their oli’ctioo and appoint a chainnin, who mint report to the Board his election to that office as soon hb possibly and the tdiairma i of each public meting must, mim di.felr after the election, make a return to the Board of the person* clec'ed as a C rnmitteo. AI/Ll»atorß in Queensland. —The pr*smee of alligators in the rive s of Queens* land renders the task of cross ng thorn often a very petrous one. A packer named Roderick Hogan, while crossing the Barron River recently after some of his horses, had not proceeded many yards from too bank when the horse lie wa< riding sank under him. He applied the spur, and managed to bring ils head again above water, but on glancing round discovered to his horror that the animal had been attacked by an alligator which he just caught sight of amid the bloodstained water. Freeing himself from the dying horse, Hogan struck out for the side of the river for which he w«s making, and managed to gain the shore m safety. By the aid of some Chinamen who came along just ihen in a bout, the carcase of the dead horse wag overtaken ab' U' 200vds down the stream and the saddle and bridle recovered from it, when it was found the ravenous reptile had completely disembowelled the poor creature. Thefts. — An epidemic of crime seems to be sweeping over the hitherto law-abiding districts of Tetnuka and Geraldine, Onlylast week we had to chronicle several daring petty thefts; now, however, it is crime of a more serious character that is reported. On Friday fast Mr W. Upton Slack gave notice to the police that he had a mob of 200 long-woolled ewes stolen from one of his paddocks some time between Monday and i huts Uiy. Mr Lysight, of Pleas*nt Valley, als > reported that he had seventeen bags of oats stolen from one of his paddocks, where they been lately threshed. Constable Willoughby immediately on the receipt of the information proceeded to vlr S aek’s for the purpose of investigating the affair, and while doing so ha w>is i formed that Mr Greenfell, of Pleasant Vailey. had also lost eighteen bags of oats from a stuck on his proper! y. It was too late then, however, to do much, as the wh el-t rucks were nearly o'ditera ed, and darkness was setting in. Witn regard to the oats, it will be difficult to bring the culprit to the ju-tioe he so well deserv s, as neither the bags nor he oats can be identified, and, whatever idea the police may hare as to the person who committed the robbery, very little can be done in the e bp, seeing the man wm not actually caught in the act. ' KILL IN THE WOBIBHOP.—To do good work the mechanic must, have good health. If long hour* of confinement in close rooms haye enhebled his a-id nr cli«m-d hie right, let him at O' ce, a' d bemre some organic troub e appears take plenty of Dr (Soule's Hop Bitters. His system will be rejuvenated, h s nerves strengthened, his sight become clear, and the whole ooii"f itiuion bo buil up to a higher worki g conditio . Read advt. SYNOPSIS OF aL)V Eit iIoFMENTS. Mrs Twomey, Ternuka—Wants a girl to assist in hous- work. Ternuka Town Board—lnvito tenders for lamps, posts and erecting. J, Mundrll and Co.—. Sells sheep, cattle, pigs, etc., at rerauka on I'hitrs lay next, W. U. Slack, Woodside, Geraldine —Offers a reward for information that will lead to the recovery of 200 longwoolled ewes. K. Gray—Holds monthly sale of stock on Thursday next, et 1 o’clock ; sells household furniture, bridge limber, and 5-roomed dwelling house with corner section at Arowhenua, on same date.