LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1522, 7 December 1886, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Board Meetings.—-The monthly meeting of the Temuka Road Board takes place today, and that of the Geraldine Town Board to-night. Bom at Temuka.—Yesterday morning a horse attached to a milk oart bolted and did Tina Street in very quick time. The animal was stopped before any damage was done, but it appeared very stiff after the unusual exercise. Concert at Temuka.— A concert in aid of the prize fund of the Temuka District High School will be held in the Volunteer Hall on Tuesday, December 14th. A first, rate programme is in course of preparation. R.M. Courthouse, Gebaldinb.—At the sitting of the Resident Magistrate’s Court, Geraldine, yesterday, Mr Baddeley intimated that there was a good prospect of .the next Bitting being held in the new courthouse, This chance will no doubt be welcomed by all who have business at the Court, as the present building is both small and inconvenient.; Volunteer Bazaar.—A meeting of the ladies interested in the bazaar in aid of the Temuka Rifl« Volunteers’ new dnllshed was held yesterday afternoon in the Volunteer Hall. About twenty ladies were present. It was decided to open the bazaar at 3 p.m. on the 27th instant, and to charge one shilling admission. The bazaar promises to be a great success. The Roxobua Railway. Great dissatisfaction is expressed in Auckland at the conduct of the Government toward the shareholders of the Rotorua railway. The payment of the purchase money has been delayed for many months and it was definitely promised to be made this week, but the Government demand a receipt in full, after deducting about £6OO. The Directors of the Company decline to consent to, this, and the payment of the money has been indefinitely postponed. The Reason Why.—A wine merchant, or rather manufacturer, was recently condemned to a heavy fine for adulteration. After the sentence ha asked the chemist how he could have been so positive that the wine was a fabrication. “ Because it did not contain an atom of bitartrate of potash, which is to be found in all natural wines,” replied the man of science. “Thanks for the informatien, returned the tradesman, “The next time you analyse ray wines you will find some 1” Athletic.—At Auckland on Saturday a match between Crossan and Shaw, for £IOO and the mile championship of New Zealand, resulted iu a splendid race, the latter winning by ten yards. Another contest between Connell and Horne for £2O was a capital iace. Connell Jwon. For the nine-mile bicycle race there were nine starters and it resulted as follows;—Marshall Ist, Gethell 2nd, Leokie 3rd, A. Stewart scratched. Marshall had a long start and did the distance in 51Jmin. Leckie’s is the shortest time, 44min. Cricketing Families. That cricket runs in families has often been proved in England. When there were “ three Graces” there used to be talk of pitting them against three only less famous brothercricketers in Australia. Then there are the brothers Steel; and it is quite a long time since there has been an inter-university cricket match in which at least one Studd did not play. But the brothers Christopherson beat the Gr&oes*and Steels and Lucases. The annals of cricket have probably no parrallel to this team of brothers. There are eleven of them, and they are all players. Once . a year they take the y field against another eleven, and the fixture, as may be supposed, is one of much local interest. Recently they played a Blackhsath team, and there was a large and fashionable gathering to see them. They were the favorites, of course, and after au exciting game came off victorious by 23 .runs, the scores being— Black heath, 105 j the Brothers, 128. An Unprecedented Accident.— One would have thought it impossible that there should be an unprecedented accident; but it is said that the catastrophe on Loch Fyne, by which seven persons lost their lives recently, has never occurred before. It has been the custom of the bailies of Glasgow to attend the annual “ monster blasts " in the great Orarae Quarries on that locb, and this year the custom was observed. Seven tons of powder were fired at once, dislodging, it is believed, some 80,000 tons of granite, and, after the stone had fallen, tbo visitors strolled into the quarries to see the result. Some 300 ladies and gentlemen were standing about talking, when one after another was observed to fall apparently dead, till nearly a hundred bodies were stretched on the stone. They were at once carried out by the quarrymeu, but it was' found that seven were dead, and that thirty more were more or less injured, a few severely. The visitors had been asphyxiated by the sulphurous vapor caused by the blast, the shortest among them feeling it first and most severely. Those who died, died instantly, and one witness, who fainted but recovered, testified that the sensation was “ rather pleasant than painful,” No blame attaches to anyone, the vapor having been retained longer than usual by the horseshoe shape of the quarry.

Football in Abowhbnba.— Last Saturday a part of this thriving little town presented a very animated appearance, la this township,, notwithstanding the great strides made in the way of settlement during the past two or three years, there is still a large area of land unenclosed, and on this the residents run any cattle and live stock they may possess. A few months ago a dockowner, whose feed was scarce, took it into his head to graze his sheep on the land, and, as cattle are averse to feeding where sheep have been, his action elicited much comment. One lady who was annoyed by the sheep at that time attempted to put a stop to the practice, and the affair ended in the Police Court. Far a

time sheep were seen on the township no more, but last week others made their appearance, and for a time everything went along quietly. On Saturday last, however, about 20 of the lady residents determined to hold a football match. Having mustered a number of children, variously estimated at from 35 to 70, and manufactured a ball out of an old hat, they fixed upon the locality, which happened to be just where the sheep were quietly feeding on the unenclosed land near Mr B. Brown’s new house. The shepherds were deputationised and told what was coming, and they remonstrated, but took no steps to remove the sheep, and the game commenced. All engaged in it—old and young—with vigor and spirit, and the game was played all over the field. The shepherds soon had a busy time of it, for sheep are not used to such sport, and at last entreated for a cessation of the game for half an hour. This was refused, and at last they made a virtue of necessity, and started for home with their charges, their departure being signalised with vociferous cheering by the players. The football match shortly afterwards terminated, the contestants, some of whom were dressed in holiday attire, declaring it was the finest game they bad had in all their lives. It was pleasing to note that the game was conducted with the utmost good nature, and that no accidents or unpleasantnesses occurred. (

Rangitata Races,—The nominations for the above races close to-morrow. Arrangements have been made for having a totalisator on the ground. The Civil Service, —lt is stated that the hours of the civil servants will shortly be extended, and that from January Ist clerks will be required to attend from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., with an hour for lunch. Eggs tor Horses.—The Journal of Agriculture say the value of fresh eggs for toning up a horse’s system is well understood by most managers of fine horses. Farmers having good horses and very cheap eggs would do well to break one in each horse’s feed occasionally during the spring of the year. Old “School Children.”—At the Napier Education Board recently, one of the members, Mr White, said some of the children attending the Waipawa School were married women. Mr Hill, the Inspector, capped this by saying that at an examination held by him in the country throe of those who passed standard one, and were very proud of the performance, were older than his grandfather! They were Maoris. Mb Gladstone.—George R. Sims,"in his weekly Sunday Journal pays respect to the G.0.M., and narrates that the Gladstone travelling parly arrived at Cologne at five a.m., and while the engine was taking in water they rushed off and did the Cathedral. The marvellous energy and unimpaired vitality of the aged statesman are never so much in evidence as when he travels for rest and recreation. He does as much in one day as would knock a fairly healthy person of thirty up for a Week. It is quite possible that ho will celebrate his hundredth birthday by ascending the Matterhorn, and carrying the guides down on his back. Cricket. The match at Wellington between the English eleven and a twenty-two ended in a draw. The Englishmen, who played one man short, scored 475 before ell were out. In their second innings the Wellington team had made 41 runs for the loss of 4 wickets when time was called, —A match between the Australians and a Hawkes Bay twenty-two came off on Saturday, the Australians winning by 22 runs. The Hawkes Bay team made 92 and the Australians 115.—Temuka cricketers are reminded that the match with Oamaru takes place next Saturday. Practice will be held in the park every afternoon. A Luoky Carpenter. —An unexpected fortune has befallen Rickard Wilkinson, of Stourbridge, a carpenter by trade. Some time ago he was at work at Newcastle, and one evening be was walking alongside the Tyneside when he saw a gentleman, who was seized with a fit, fall into the river. Wilkinson jumped in, and with some difficulty saved him and assisted him home afterwards. The gentleman gave him a few shillings at the time, and said he should never forget bis services in saving his life. It now appears that the gentleman is dead, and Wilkinson has been informed be has been left his property altogether of the value of over £26,000. His benefactor took down his name on the night of his rescue, but Wilkinson heard no more of him till the news , of the bequest reached him the other week. j Charges against Publicans. —At the Auckland Police Court on Saturday a number of charges were preferred against publicans for breaches of the Licensing Act. In that of Henry Albert Fisher, for deserting his premises, the Albion Hotel, after bearing evidence His Worship said with regard to two informations against Fisher it seemed there bad been a breach of the 120fcb section of the Act, but the whole thing had apparently arisen out of a misunderstanding. He did not think it called for the infliction of a fine. The two informations would be dismissed on the grounds mentioned. With regard to the charge of selling liquor without a license, preferred against Downing, a technical breach of the 150th section had been committed. Under these circumstances a nominal penalty would meet the ease, and defendant would be Sped Is and costs. Three other publicans, charged with Sunday trading, got off, the oases being dismissed. Young New Zealanders.—The head master of the Beresford street school, Auckland, writing to the City Schools Committee, statrs that the evil of truant playing is largely on the increase, and added to this there is an increase of other dangerous practice among the scholars, such as the forging of excuses for personal use or for sale'. He knew of several oases of this kind in which the sons of respectable parents had figured, and in which groups of absentees had been found in company that could not fail to hasten their moral ruin. The tricks resorted to by scholars to intercept the printed notices forwarded to parents inquiring for the reason of the absence of the children bad induced teachers to resort to the postoffice as a medium for seeming transmission of the notices. Even here again a difficulty was met, for the postman was watched, and one absentee obtained from him and burned the printed notice before it reached the hands of his parents, simply in order that the boy might continue to enjoy playing truant. The culprit in this instance was 11 years old. Another boy, six years old, had, by the aid of a skilfully worded note, accounted for his absence by alleging “ a necessity which existed for him to work in aid of bis family.” D. MoGuinness begs to inform his friends and the psblic that the Shilling Lunches hitherto served at the Ra’lway Refreshment Rooms will, on and after Saturday, the 20th Nov., be discontinued, and in future will (with the same liberal menu) be prodded in the large and elegant diningroom of the Club Hotel. In future lunch at Railway Refreshment Rooms, 2s fid; at Club Hotel, Is.— [Adtt.]

Hollowai’b OINTMBNT AND Pills. Travellers and Emigrants. Those who cross the seas change the climate, but they do not change the constitution. The altered conditions of life, the exigencies of travel and other causes render the traveller and emigrant peculiarly liable to diseases and accidents when far from efficient medical aid. With these associated remedies at hand they may be said to h*ve a physician always at their call, and they may be certain that siluationa will be constantly arising in which they will require a ready resource in time of need. The directions for use which accompany each box and pot of of Holloway’* Fills and Ointment are written in plain and simple language, and are applicable in all oases. SYNOPSIS OF ADVERTISEMENTS. Geraldine Road Board—lnvite tenders for several contracts. Funeral Notice-Be the late Mr James Marquiok Morley, Temuka, J. M. Meek—Will bo in Temuka to-day and take orders for his works. Gardener, Green Hayes, Temuka—Strawberries for sale in any quantity. Volunteer Fancy Fair—On Monday and Tuesday, December 27th and 28th. Siegert and Fauvel, Temuka—Close stores from 1 o’clock to 6 o’clock p.tn. to-day. Arowbenua Cemetery Board—lnvite tenders for erection of four-roomed cottage. Temuka District High School Grand concert on December 14th, in aid of priz e fund. 0. B. Sherratt, Geraldine—3ells two cows on December 10th under distress warrant, unless claim is previously settled.