LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1553, 15 February 1887, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

R.M. Court, Temuka,— A. first offender ; was brought before K. F. Gray, Esq., J.P.,.at the above Court yesterday, and fined 5s or the usual alternative. Seim Sai>e.—Messrs J. Mundell and Co. notify elsewhere that they will hold a sale of skins at their rooms, Geraldine, on Friday, February 25th. Entries will be received up to date of sale. Elbotiow or Licensing Committees.— The nomination of candidates for membership on the Temnka and Raukapuka Licensing Committees, must be made with the respective Returning Officers, Messrs W. Wills and C. E. ttherratt, before noon today. R.M. Court, Timabu.— At the Resident Magietrata’d Court, Timaru, yesterday, John Tunny, an old offender, was fined 30s for drunkenness. Patrick Broderick and John Scott, appnrently out of their minds through '• exceseive drinking, weie remanded for a week. Laboeny.—At the Eesider t Magistrotes’ Court, Geraldine, yesterday, before R. H, Pearpomt, Esq., J.P., Charles Lyford was charged with stealing a gun of the value of £3 from one George Clarke on February 11. Prisoner pleaded not guilty. Constable I Willoughby asked for a remand till to-day to allow of witnesses being present. The remand was granted. The Great Barrier Tragedy.- The gallows bare arrived at Auckland for the double execution next Monday. Prayers were offered for the condemned men in the churches in the city of Auckland on Sunday.—Mr Farrah, of To Kae, sent the following ncte to the Auckland Herald, under date 18th January:—As a relic from the * vasty deep,’ the enclosed came ashore on the Parengarenga beach to-day, and was picked up by a Maori. It was enclosed in a bottle tightly corked.” The following is the insoription on the piece of paper in the bottle : —“ If this should be found, the Sovereign of (be Seas is lost. Oaffrey, captain ; Penn, matej girl Graham, cook.”

Do* Bbcisxbation. —Mr 0. 0. Bradley has been appointed by the Geraldine County Oqunoil Registrar of dogs for Hilton. ; Gbealdinb Riilks.’—A meeting of 'the corps to electa Liemenant will take place in the drill shed, Geraldine, to-morrow evening, at;halt pait seven o’clock. Mbbtino at Woodbdey.—A meeting of residents in the Woodbury district will be held in the schoolroom on Saturday evening next for the purpose of electing a Cemetery Board, Dunbdih Races. — The Autumn Hasting under the auspices of the Dunedin Club, takes place on the 28rd, 24th, and 26th instants. The race for tbs “ Cup,” the principal race of the meeting, will be run on the 23rd. Bali ob Livbby Stable Plant, —Messrs J. Mundell and Co. held a successful sale of the livery stable plant connected with the Crown Hotel, Geraldine, yesterday. There was a considerable number of buyers present and the whole of the lots offered changed hands at satisfactory prices. WoNDBEBUL DISOOTBHT. —A wonderful discovery is said to have been made by exI perimente carried on with funds supplied by j the Prussian Government. It is of a glass which will increase the power of the microscope enormously. Ordinary glass contains six substances—the new glass contains fourteen. The most essential elements of which it is composed is phospoross and red boron, neither of whioh is used in common . glass. With the old glass the full power was the discernment of the 600th part of an inch, and with the new glass it is claimed that 1 the 204,700,000 th part of an inch can be perceived! Annual Parish Festival. —By an ' advertisement whioh appears in another i it will be aaen that the Annual Sunday , School Treat and Pariah Festival in con- , nectioii with St. Mary’s Church, Qeral* dine, takes place on Thursday next. This 1 festival has hitherto proved a most enjoy- ' able day’s outing, and is looked forward > to by young and old. The arrangements ! for its carrying out this year are in the i hands of an efficient Committee, who are , sparing no pains to make the affair a | success. There is no doubt their efforts will be as appreciated as they deserve:to ’ be, | Doo Poisoning.—Owners of dogs would ' do well to keep them chained up for a • few days as poison has been laid in the i streets of Tedauka, and some dogs have [ taken it. It is a great pity that the . miscreant who indulges in the pasttime ■ of laying poisan for dogs cannot be caught. . This is the fourth or fifth time during the past few years that poison has been laid in the streets of Temuka, with 9 the result that many valuable dogs have been poisoned, and if the poisoner were ; known he would find himself in very hot . water, independently altogether of his legal responsibilities. . t Personal.- -At the last meeting of the ! Committee of the Geraldine Flat School, Mr A, Penney (Head Master) tendered hie c resignation, which was accepted with re--9 gret at his loss. Mr .Penney has been at 1 the school for something oyer two years, ) during which time he has done excellent . work. Quite a number of his scholars have been sent up to compete for the | scholarships offered by the S.C. Board of Education, and have secured three of L then. At the last examination of the • Timaru High School, Master A. Bell, > one ef Mr Penney’s former pupils, secured 3 the gold medal as dux of tha school, and I Master J. Rose, another pupil, secured a t scholarship this year. Mr Penney has > been appointed Master of the Eketabuna , School, Wellington District, and his many 5 friends.will be pleased to congratulate r him upon his appointment. A Bis Dinnkb.—The greatest dinner ever ■ known in England was that given by Lord I Romney to the Kent Volunteers, on August ; I, 1799, when George 111. reviewed them I near Maidstone. The tables, amounting to . 91 in number, for the timber cost £ISOO. The entertainment, to whioh 6500 persons I sat down, consisted of 95 lambs in quarters, ; 200 dishes of roast beef, 700 fowls (three in \ a dish), 220 meat pies, 300 hams, 300 tongues, 220 fruit pies, 220 dishes of boiled beef, 280 joints of roast veal. Seven pipes of port were bottled off, and 11 butts of ale j and as • much smaller beer was also placed in large i vessels, to supply the company. Afterdinner His Majesty’s health was given in a bumper by the volunteers, all standing uncovered, with three times three, accompanied by the ! bands* [ Binder Twine.—One of the greatest demands on twine (says the Australasian ' and South American) comes from the farmers, who consume 35,000 tons ani nually upon the self-binding harvesters, r Allowing five pounds to the mile, this I would be equal to a string enough to go | more than six times round the earth. It takes a length of about 3ft of twine to 1 tie a bundle of straw. The farmer sits on his machine, drives alone through his • grain field, and, without any assistance, cuts, bundles, and ties 12 acres of wheat grain per day. To such perfection aa this.has the American inventor reduced mechanism for doing farm labor. The ’ twine used ou the self-binder is generally made eithe r of sisal or raanilla hemp. The sisal is the cheaper materia), bat it is : not so atrong or durable as the manilla. In some twines a mixture of the two is i employed. For binder purposes the twine should have 16 turns to the foot, and a length of 3 feet should bare a breaking strength of not less than 70 pounds. The average conaumpiion of twine on a binder harvester is 2 pounds per acre, About 1200 feet of twine pur acre are required. It costs the farmer about 25 cents an acre for this twine. Tivdka Butter and Cheese Company. A meeting of the Directors of the abeve 1 was held yesterday afternoon, at which Messrs Brown (Chairman), Hayes, Mason, and Austin were present. Several letters of a private nature were read and considered. The Secretary stated the January meeting had lapsed, as only the Chairman attended. Dr Hayes moved, Mr Mason seconded, and it was curried—“ That the meetings in future be held on the second Wednesday in each month at 4 p.m.” In reply tot question, it was stated by the Secretary that there were only two shareholders who had not paid up their calls, and it was decided to instruct the Company’a solicitor to proceed against them at once. The Secretary reported that during Ihe month of December 27,586 gallons of milk had been received, for which £402 4« lid bad been paid, and for the month of January 25,733 gallons of milk, for which £375 6i lid had been paid. Accounts to the amount of £l3O wire passed for payment. The Secretary slated that a shipment of cheese to the value of £450 had been sei’t by the , Wakutipo, which sails from Timaru this {i morning. The meeting after transacting I 1 some minor business adjourned. |i

Pabuambnt. —It is understood that Parliament will open during theflast week in April. The Representation Bill will be brought down the first day, and the Financial Statement will be made early in the! session. It is also understood that the Eepresentation Bill will be based on similar lines to that Introduced last year. Thb Norman Maolbod. The barque Norman Msoleod was docked at Lyttelton on Thursday morning for the purpose of repairing the damage she sustained at Timaru. Immediately the dock was pumped out a special surrey of the damage was'held, when some slapk rivets and butts were found under the waterline, which accounts for the vessel making water. Above the water line a number of platea are damaged, which the workmen, arenow putting out, the work progressing as expeditiously as possible. Messrs Scott Brothers are doing the repairs, under the supervision of Lloyd’s surveyor, Captain Tioehnrst. —Press. i ,

Revenue at ihh Amab.—Revenge is’a dish which it is well known can be eaten cold, but there is surely a limit of time for ite keeping. A gentleman who, in the presence of his bride at the altar, could No instead of " Yes, ” and then walk oht of the Church, with the words, " I have returned the compliment,” because the lady refused him exactly twelve months before, must be an ill-conditioned brute. Jet this very circumstance (says the London correspondent of the Argus) happened last week. To do men justice, such mean retaliations are not oommon with their sex. There is nothing in the poem of “ The Glove and the Lion,” that strikes one so forcibly as the fact that the man retaliates at all. The lady, to prove* his love, drops her glove into the arena—bids him fetch it out of the lion’s mouth, as it were. He does so, but - slaps her face with it, with this very just observation, “ Not love, but vanity, sets love a task like this." This was permissible ; but to resent a simple* negation with an insult at the very altar is one of,the most unmanly acts that ! ever heard of. ‘ v. ■ :

Caktbbßuht Land Boabd.— A meeting;' of the Oantsibury Land Board was keld on Thursday. Sales of interest to this district were made as follows, under the Tillage homestead special settlement regulations •.—Sections 301 to 309, 2a Ir 3p. Geraldine, to WV King, at annual rental of £2 5s 6di Section, 6,. sa, Block XI., Orari, to Edward Yerrall. Section 5,5 a Ir 38p, Block XL, Orari,: to; Wm. Blissett. Section 1, sa, Block ill., Orari, to Michael Buckley. Section 1,5 aOr 28p, Block XII., Orari, to Timothy Herlihy. Seotion2, sa'Or 28p, Block XII., Orari, .to, Edward O’Brien. Section 6, sa, Block 111,, Orari to Alfred Bates. Section 7, sa, Block IX., Orari, to J, Fiefield. Section,. ; 2< 'Ba, Block XL, to Alf. YerralK The Board decided that the applications for the sections in the Orari town belt, which were tp ;be open on the 4th February under fcotion 101 oLthe Land Act, should be deterred for the present. In the meantime it 'was agreed to recommend the Government to open the land under; seotion 143 of the Act, which sllowsir man to hold more thati 50 acres. The Board alio decided to treat the applications for section 35740, Geraldine in the same manner. Applications for deferred payment sections in the Orari Township were deferred pending the. increase in the size of the holdings. The Receiver of the Land Revenue reported the rents of several reserves unpaid and the Board ordered defaulters; toi pay arrears within a month or:the leases would be forfeited. The Board ordered that in the case of deferred payment settlers, who; had failed to comply with -the conditions, the sections should be forfeited. The Board resolved to consider at its next meeting February 24tb, the applications for sections, on reserve 198, Waitohi. Shocking Fatality on the Seine.—A correspondent telegraphs that a terrible boating accident took place on tbe Seine, just above the bridge of Clichy, a mile north-west of Paris, on December 18tb. A steam launch belonging to M. Alexandre Cirven, a former manager of Independence Rouraaioe, and M. Just Buisson, a writer in the Havas Agency, was steaming up the river with both its owners and a young boy on board. They were testing an improvement on a very old form of screw propeller, which they; intended to apply to directing balloons. The engine was simply a vessel containing fusing powder, the gas developed by the combustion of which escaped by a pipe directed abaft. The ambient air in this case acta as a plug, and the vessel moves forward on the same principle as that whereby a gun kicks on being fired, with this exception, that here there is a steady impulse. M. Buisson probably overloaded the apparatus, for it burst, and for a few moments tbs boat disappeared timid volumes of smoke. As it cleared up the boat was discovered lying on one side'and fast sinking. When, assistance was forthcoming, M. Buisson was picked up shockingly mutilated, with a leg shattered and his body farrowed by the splinters of the engine. He was taken to one of the vessels on the river where clothes are washed, and be died shortly after. M. Cirven had his face badly scalded, but i« not in a dangerous condition. The body of the youth, who was buried overboard by tbe explosion, has not been found! This event his created a painful feeling in Paris, as both victims were well known and popular. , American Railway Fibjs.— The “Vagabond,” in one of the latest of the series of delightful papers on his travels, which he is now contributing to the Australas ao, gives a very satisfactory explanation of tbe strange catastrophes which have lately b, en reported. Writiig of the very section on which tbe burning of the Montreal and Boston express train took place, he says Tbe great drawback is that the heat in the carnages is excessive. I have travelled many thousands of miles, although always against my will, in the North American continent during winter, and from Norfolk to Quebec never found a railway oar which was not overheated to an extent prejudicial to health. Half tbe citizens of tbe United States have their constitutions ruined by this, and tbe changes of temperature from the ears to the outside air. I give it as an impartial opinio* that after September no one should travel in America on any railway north of the Roanoke River. It is not only a question of health, but of life. The genius of the great American people has not yet envolved an efficient system warming the oars by itsampipes from the locomotive. Each oar is now heated by a stove in the corner, from whence tbe hot air is carried in pipes I around the seats. On soma railways there are special appliances for regulating the degree of heat, but as far as my experience goes the nigger porter always takes care to consult his own tastes and keep the oars at a minimum of SOdeg without ventilation. Then when there is a collision, or a car runs off the rails, the stove gets knocked to pieces, the live cools set fire to the varnished wood of the carriages, and one stands a chance of being burnt alive. This to me always seemed unfair to a railway passenger, It is an added discount on his ordinary chances, and another argument against the delights of j living in a cold country, It is one of the I few things in which Canadian railway travel ii behind Australian,

Thh Ranoitata Rivb*. —We are informed that the late fresh in the Bangitata river has completely destroyed the ford on Bad ham’s road, and that it is not now safe tocross without exercising groat caution'. • Several aorai of the land on the south side have been |washed' away, and there is left a steep bank, which; renders it impossible t« take a buggy over it. It is to be hoped it will be looked to at ones.

5 Cost ;o* ’ A Londo* . Fpo.— During the first two days of the recent fog in London the receipts of .one gasoompany-were increased by £IO,OOO, and it was shown that a fog of twenty-four" hours,, duration necessitated on increased supply of gas by the Gas Light and- Coke Company by-37 per jsant, or oyer 35,000,000 feet! It is estimated that twenty-four hours’ % fog in London t increases the consumption of coals by one gas company alone to the extent of 3500 tons.

AKri^KS.—As Mr George Leyens vra 1 • returning in the train’from Orari last evening, after having; officiated ee Deputy Returning Officer, one of the passengers asked lihat the ballot box which he had was, and he replied that it wae “ a poor box." The passenger at once put a hand in bis pocket and dropped a coin into the -bos, and when Mr Lsvena afterwards - opened the box inTemuka he found a threepenny bit .in it. The innocent passenger ho doubt believed Mr Levsns, and he will have his reward, v r

The Weather.—Tke heat waa ,Teyy oppressive yesterday, an d a t .15? o'clock the thermometer registered 112 in the nan at Temuka in a place where it was under the influence of a cooling breexe. At Geraldine it rose to 131 in the sun, and 85 in the shade. lutheafternoon a strong sou’-wester rose and cooled the heat considerably, and after nightfall it had all the appearance; of> rain, but it remained dry up to the time of our going to press. 1 ‘ ;■ _ r ' '

■•Monthit LBCTtaß.—The. Geo. Barclay delivered his jaiuaL’ monthly Sunday lecture i* the Good Templar Halt on Sunday owning last. The attendance was good f the -Hallbeingcoml'ortably filled. .Mr Barcfaj' stated that it was his intention *o deliver a course of lectures upon the, several Apostles. His .subject that serening would be the Apostle Andrew. .He. bad chosen him first as he came first ,in alphabetical order.: The rev. gentleman took for His text John i., 40..-He gave a very graphic'exjpoeition of. the .account of the conversion of Andrew as.contained in the Gospel by St. : John,»n interesting' account pi‘.(he works .pf-;tho ; ApoVtle i’lken from post-biblical documents, add an account ,6f.his ultimate death, and burial »lao taken from the same documents. Tiic rev. gentleman was attentively listened to, and the lecture was .much appreciated..

The Erasers of Freetrade in England,—Spoakinsr of the cultivation o! tobacco In Great Britain/the London Graphic recently remarked: For many little or not hinghaSbeert;don« by the Government on behalf Of tbejagricultural interest. The transfer tojbear of the tax which used to he levied on malt was supposed to be a boon to the farmer, but it proved a delusion and a snare, for ‘ beer ■ has distinctly - deteriorated in quality, while barley is lower priced than ever. As for the three acres and a eow, Hodge has ootyet got them, but if the Tories are wise enough next session to give him as near an approximation as possib'e to this aspiration, they may make him a firm friend for many years to come. Mean while let ns ask a small favor for the , farmer, on whose bosom the Freetrade bogey sits very heavily at the present time. The price of cereals is so'low that, unless a rise takes place, the home cultivator must before long cease to 5 grow them. This will be a queer look out in case of war, but, as it is the legitimate outcome of Freetrade,’ we ought to throw up our caps and shout ,f Hooray 1 ” But now for our small favor,..As the British farmer cun no longer grow, cprn crops profitably, why not let him try his hand at tobacco 1 The experiments of the P>*t summer conclusively show that tobacco of fair quality can be grown profitably in this country, provided that .the excise difficulty can be overcome. But the present regulations of the Inland Revenue officials are so stringent that it would be useless for any farmer to try tobacco - growing as a commercial venture. 1 Why not relax these regulations, and give the sorely burdened British farmer ohb'li'tle rag of Protection to cover hi.s Freetrade. nakedness!

The Toman Amin,— Admiral Tryon it his reply to the Premier’s telegram re sending a man-of-war toTonga,states.that as soon os the cyclone season is oVer he will despatch a vessel there. A representative of the New Zealand Herald interviewed Ad miral Tryon re Toogah affairs, On Friday. The Admiral said—“l ha*e really no further information About the state of 'Affairs at Tonga than has been made public. As to what steps are to be taken there - does not appear to be any urgent necessity tor abtion. When the schooner Mails deft things' were quieting down, and the only chief who couM be said, to be in-rebellion was in custody. The natives from Habaia and' Haran who had come to Tonga, who seemed inclined to be disorderly and to go about firing their guns, were returning. There seemed to.be no danger of any life being lost, so that there is no need of immediate action on that ac-

count. The Ooniul will be there by this time, and the Consul-General is fully informed of all that hat taken place. As a matter of oeurse, ul'iihately a man-of-war will hare to be sent down,, and the whole subject will bare to be investigated, with what bearing on the position of Tonga I do not know, bat there is no hurry, about that so far as I can see. I bare replied to Sir Robert Stout and infr-m J him of what I

think on the subject.”—The Janet Niooil, which arrived at Auckland oh Saturday left Tonga a fortnight before the attempted assassination of tbe Premier, but it is stated that when she was there it was well under-

stood that an attack was meditated, it being openly talked of by the natives that Baker was to be killed, but they appear to have > been ignored eren by Baker himself, who went about freely in his carriage even at night. Affairs at .Tonga were then in A very unsettled state, but it was not supposed that. the discontented ones would dare to carry their threats into execution; A gentleman intimately connected with commercial matters in the South Seas says that the political complications which exist in Tongs, together with the imposition of the Customs tariff, has completely paralysed trade. Duties are rigorously imposed, and all sorts of fines and

penalties are charged. For instance, a captain who went to the Custom-house five

minutes late was fined one guinea before his

clearance papers were handed to him. Traders believing that the present state of affairs cannot continue to exist, and that some foreign power will stop in, or, «t any rate, that the present tariff will be amended, refuse to import anything j nothing is bought and nothing is sold, people are ’ simply “ Alice wberising.’ - f

*TV McilO.—W« have received from ifesira I ( Nicholson and , Co., of. Sy ;n-.v, the Christmas number of * heir Music* 1 Magazine If contains 14 excellent songs, aod is well worth j QUO shilling, which is the price asked for it. j ' ■ We notice that it is one of twenty numbers j which the same firm offer at one shilling j each, so that tor £1 one may get about 250 j pieces ofmusio. i A Ghobt Poabb.—The Watrarapa Ob- 0 nner says that a '* ghost scare ” has been started in Carterton. It takes the form of n c . w>a* kangaroo, and hottnts Anderson’s line. • Various persons declare they have seen “ it,” * and compare it with the 11 ghost ” which ex- 1 cited so much interest in Wellington a short * time ago. This one m possessed of extrsor- " dinary jumping power*. £ Flap AX. Rabqitata.—A fire occurred at [ Bangitata Island last Saturday about 11 am v £ by which a hut and storeroom belonging to 0 Mr Buddenklau were entirely, destroyed. Q , The fire wss first discovered by a matt named f LogaDj Who, on going into the hut, found a , | fire smouldering in one of the. bunks, .fir removed the bedding and saturated it with c ; water, and, thinking all was safe, he told the j( ( housekeeper what had occurred, and then tl want to the nun in the harvest field. Sub- tl sequeutlytli ’ -isekeeper found the fire had broken ou' - u-sb, and despatched tweelonger, to the men in tbe field, but b< forr g they arrived the flames had got complete p possession of the building, and they were only able to safe a few mats of Sugar and p . some..articles .<of t clothings The men lost f, . everything in, tho shape of clothes, money, and watches, and a largo quantity of stores h ' 'fpr. the station were also destroyed. The a ‘ building >ss insured, but we have not ascertained tbe amount. w K ‘. ' Cook.—The Janet Nicoll arrived at Anok- h< land on Saturday from her. South Sea Islands n< trip, fihe brings word thatan American abscon- v< . dsr named 0. W. Banks, cashier of Messrs Wells, largo and Co., California, has been dissovsrsd at Baratonga, under lha alias of Board. Ho wa» said to hav* taken with him about 50,000dpi in gold of the firm’s money. Photographs and. a full description of the t{( defaulter were sent to the Australian colonies, and a detective employed in America, by the .j] firm was despatched to Tahiti in a lumber n( •hip. Banks reached Baratopga-from Tahiti M by the December trip of the Janet Nicoll. He w v atatsa that ;he has ; been got away to < save Wl ; f , others,#nd that he has, only l7Qodo|.. with him.% He has thoroughly ingratiated himself With. Queen Makea and her sub] eqts, both n ' r> black and white, and it is likely that as long g ( be remains at the.islands kingdom, he will. " ‘ be safe from arrest, unless a strong force is taken lo back up civil authority. It is .understood that the. American detective at tl Tahiti intended chartering a schooner and proceeding to Baratonga. The Baratongan „ Government have previously refused to j, surrender fugitive prisoners, and ..extradition is a thing (Unknown there. Scard has hired a house, and has asnt an order to Auckland > for furniture and other household requisites. . ■ , Finis Yorao AoAMr.—“ My mother was f > afflicted s long time with neuralgia and a « doll heavy, inaetive condition of the whole .** system, headache, nervous prostration, an ’ . was almoat helpless. No physioians or medi. cin#i did her any good. Three months ®po v •he began to use Dr. Sonle’a Hop Bi«,er*>, P< .i. with snob good affect that she seems and feole . young agsin, although over seventy yea-s V lild.V-~A Lady ih B. 1., .U.f.A. look up S Advt. BAIIWAT RCTBKaHM3KT ROOMS, TIMARU. —D. McGuinness begs to inform his numerous friends, and the travelling public in par- - tioulsr, that having taken the above rooms g( for a fresh term he has decided to reduce the g charges hitherto made, and in future they will be as follow -.—Breakfast in readiness ft| for ’ early trains, Is 6d; Hot Lunch or Dinner, served up in the hitherto well-known profuse style, on arrival of North and South p Express trains, Is fid. Tea and Coffee always in, readiness, and choice confectionery, &o. jj The lessee would especially draw attention 0 to the Ladies’ Private Dining-room, which 0 , hoe been specially arranged and furnished for n their convenience, A waitress is always in ( attendance. Tbe usual Is Lunches are still continued at the Club Hotel.—-Advt.

1 SYNOPSIS OF ADVERTISEMENTS. ■ Funeral Notice—Re the late Mrs B. Wills. ® Dunedin Races —Take place on 23rd, 24th, ■ j and 26th instants. * J. M. Twomey, Temuka—Has two sections * in Arowhenna township for sale. J. Mandell and Co.—Hold a shin sale at J Gerald ire on Friday, February 25th. * Geraldine County Council —O. G. Bradley a appointed Registrar of dogs at Hilton. * Meeting at Woodbury —On Saturday i //evening next, to elect Cemetery Board. £ Arowhenua Town Board—lnvite tenders f for repairs to bridge and cleaning creek. j W. Wills, Returning Officer—Result of poll , for election of Member of Harbor Board. , A. JK. Alhn, Storekeeper,Temuka—Warts to purchase fowls’ wheat in any quantity for ( cash. . St.: Mary’s Ghnrcb, Geraldine—Annual , treat and Parish Festival takes place in the ‘ < Geraldine Paik on Thursday next. _