LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1564, 5 April 1887, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wesibtan Chuhoh, Tbmoka.—On Sunday next, the Rev. David MoNicholl (of Ashburton) will preach the anniversary service* in connection with the Tetnuka Wesleyan Church, in the Volunteer Hall. Abowhbnua.- Wo learn that Mr Peter Golding is engaged in organising a fife and drum band for Arowbenua. He has already some lads under bis tuition, and expect* to turn them out. creditably in the course of a short time. Ar.owhenua is, taken altogether, exhibiting a good deal of independence. Bank Changes.— Mr L. B. Haines, who, for the last few years has been employed as a clerk in the Temuka branch of the Bank of New Zealand, hai been transferred to Palmerston, and left for his destination yesterday. Mr Haines, during the time he has been in Temuka, hae made many friends, who will regret his departure, R.M. Coukt, Tehdka.—At the above Court yesterday, before K. F. Gray, Esq., J.P„ three first offenders were fined 5s for having been drunk and disorderly. James Brown, charged wPh having conducted himself in a manner calculated to provoke a breach of the peace, was sentenced to 48 Lours' imprisonment.

Gbbaldtkb Pof*D.—The Gsraldine Road invite application! in another column for the post of poundkeeper at Geraldine.

Scbatohbd. Messrs 0. Hammond’s Bezique and Mr J. Mason’s Brunette bars been scratched for the Woodbury Cup. Boabd Mbhtikgs.—The monthly meeting of the Temuka Road Board will take place to-day, and the monthly meeting of the Temuka Town Board to-morrow night. Gbbaldimb Monthly Salk. At the monthly sale at Geraldine to-morrow Messrs Mundell and Co. will offer some large entries of cattle, sheep, and pigs. The eals is to start at 1 o’clock. Habd Lin hi. —The Pall Mall Gasette states that the legacy of £150,000 which has been left to Sir Charles Dilke is burdened with the condition that he should adopt the name of Snooke,

Fubbbal.—The funeral of the late Mr W. C. Andrew* took place on Saturday lait, there being a considerable number of the friend* of deceased present. The burial service was conducted by the Rev. J. W. Dean, who spoke a few solemn and impressive worde at the grave, those present also joining in singing hymn No. 2 in the Primitive Methodist hymn book. Tbial oi Gimir’a Sulky PiorraH.— Farmers and others resident in the Geraldine district are reminded that a trial of one of Gilpin’s Sulky Ploughs will take place in Mr Postlethwaite’s rape paddock, opposite Maopherson’e cottage, to-morrow. The trial was to have taken place to-day, but had to be postponed. Mr H. B. Webster is the agent for these machines.

THK RaBGITATA WATTB-SUPPLT.—Wr notice that the Lyttelton Times published yesterday a statement of the sums applied for by local bodies under the Local Bodies Loan Act of last session. Amongst the loan* grantsd is a sum of £2500 for the Geraldine County Council. This is the loan which has been applied for to make the Rangitata-Orari water-race.

Ebtbbtainmbst at Temuka.—Robson’s grand mechanical panorama of the Soudan War will be exhibited nt tho Temuka Volunteer Hull to-night, and in addition some scenes in England, Ireland, and Scotland will be shown. There will also be a distribution of prizes. The exhibition has been highly spoken of by a number of our exchanges, and no doubt it will be well patronised to-night.

T*AIN ABBANOEMBNTa lOE THB HOLI-DAYS.—-In our advertising columns will be found the train arrangements for the Easter Holidays. From to-day till the Ilth instant “ Saturday return tickets ” from any station to any station (available for return till the 26th instant) can be obtained. Specially low fares are quoted for the journey to Christchurch or Dunedin. At Christohurob the Autumn Baoes take place on the 11th and 12ih April. Customs and Bbbb Duty.—The Customs revenue for the yea'- is £1,289,152, showing a.defioienoy of £120,848 on the estimate for the year, which was £1,410,000, The returns for March were £115,462, as against £115,497 fer the same month last year. The principal sourc-s of revenue were—Auckland, £26,488} Wellington, £20,753; Christchurch, £21,221; Dunedin, £26,011. 't he beer duty for the year was £53,481, the estimate'being £65,000 For March the amount was £6313, against £5106 for the same month of 1886. Shillings and pence are omitted in the above figures. iNTBBKSTINfIt Disootbet. A telegram from Greymoubh says:—ln Hungerford and Mackey's quarry, on the north bank of the river at Cobden, a blast disclosed a large portion of a skeleton, apparently of the Saurian family. There are seven joints of vertebrae, and a number of ribs. Another portion of the same stone was thrown over the tiphead before being noticed, but this will be recovered. The stone is several hundred-weight, about 4ft by 2ft. It has been given to thp School of Mines, The skeleton underlies a mountain of hydraulic limestone, and appears to be that of some kind of reptile. Guabantbxd Sbbd.— The Besident Magistrate at Invercargill on Friday gave judgment for defendants in the action to recover damages for selling a farmer Yorkshire fog for cocksfoot seed, on the ground that no contract or agreement was made between the parties to supply cocksfoot. From the plaintiff’s case it must have been a sale by description, without warranty. In Chambers at Dunedin on the same- day a motion was obtained to slay the proceedings in tke case in which Mackenzie obtained damages for breach of warranty in regard to turnip seed, some of which tunred out to be rapeseed. Acoidbkts, —A very painful accident occurred on Saturday lest at the Bangitaia railway station. A man named John Brown was assisting to back a loaded dray up to the shed door, and for this purpose took hold of the spokes of the wheel. By some means his bands became jammed between the sides of the dray and the wheel, and the skin and flesh were stripped off the back of the hind and laid over the fingers. It was replaced immediately the band could bo released, and Mr Brown was conveyed to Geraldine, where Dr Fish dressed' the wound. A young fellow named Miohael MoAuliffe was thrown from a horse at Temuka on Friday night, and got his left, wrist rather severely wrenched. He was attended by Dr Hayvs.—On Sunday morning last a young man named William Webber was thrown from a horse (Loiter) he was exercising on the old course of the North Canterbury Bacing Club at Kangioi a» and was killed. He fell on his head and bis skull was fractured.

I B.M. Court, Timaru. —Afc the Resident Magistrate Court, Timaru, yesterday, before J. a. Beswtok, Esq,, R.M., two first offenders were fined Ss for drunkenness. A. man named Cox for being drunk and resisting the police was fined a similar sum. T. Pigeon was charged with using obscene language, but the case was adjourned till to-day. Thos. Bout was fined 10s for leaving a vehicle unattended, and McKnight was fl ed 10s •lowing cows to wander. Hobt. Johnstone, against whom an order was granted some time ago for the payment of 5s per week for the support of bis son, now at Burnham, was ordered to pay the arrears, £B, at the rate of £1 per mouih ; in default to be imprisoned for 14 days. D;vid and Edwin Waddell were charged with assaulting Wm. Frew at the Washdykti on 24th March. Mr White appeared for complainant and Mr Wood for defendants. In bis ev denoe the complainant ■tated that on March 24th he mot defendants at the Washdyke saleyards, when David asked him if he was “ Frew, the wife-beater.” He was then called names by both defendants, and David threatened to lynch him and also •pat in bis face. He gave no provocation previous to the assault. While Edwin had hold of his beard he oalled them “ paupers and thieves.” In cross-examination the witness said he called the defendants “ cowards ” before they touched bim. James Adams said he saw Edwin Waddell hold Frew by the beard. He saw no blows struck. For the defence David Waddell stated that Frew oalled him a coward and thief. There were no blows struck. The witness refuted the evidence of complainant in every particular. Edwin Waddell .corroborated the evidence of bis brother. Affine of £1 and costs was inflicted in the case"of Edwin Waddell, and the charge against David was dismissed. - ■

Gebaidinb Footbam OltJB. -The annual meeting of the membere of this Club take* place this evening, when a full muster ii requested. It ii to be hoped that mamban will roll up in force, and that a number of now member* will be induced to join. The Club have tome funds in hand from last year and are looking forward to a luccetafal foot* ball season.

Fib* at Waitohi.—At about fi o’clock on 'not 'n turd ay evening a firs broke out in some sucks of grain belonging to Mr Crocksr, of Waitohi, and resulted in completely demolishing about £3OO worth of wheat and oats. Mr 'Andrews was on horseback within a few hundred yards of the place at ths time, and rode up at once, to the fire. He was soon joined by Mr Moore and son, Mr Thomas Currie, and soma others, but all efforts to put out the fire proved unavailing. Tbs stacks continued to burn all night and ths following Sunday, and it had not completely gone out until about midday yesterday. The origin of the fire is unknown, but ths general belief is that the grain was stacked in an unfit state, and it was a case of spontaneous combustion. Mr Andrews was looking on when it broko outhe noticed that it oommsnosd at the bottom of one of ths stacks, and there w.is no one in the vicinity at the time. Ths fire destroyed five stacks, which were estimated to thrash out about 2000 bushels, 400 bushels of which were wheat. The grain was insured for £2OO.

Jubilib Oblbbbation. Following tho example of other towns, tho people of Geraldine are desirous of taking some steps for celebrating ths Qneen’s Jubilee in a befitting manner. With ihieend in view a petition is now inoonne of circulation, asking the Chairman of the Town Board to ball a pub'lie meeting to diseuse the best means to adopt to celebrate the jubilee. Among other things mentioned is appropriate for' such an occasion is the establishment of an institute for the improvement of young men—a sort of Toung Men’s Christian Association—where there would be games, class and Isotnre rooms, etc. At present there are no places of amusement open to the yonng men of Geraldine with the exception of (ho hotels. There are a large nnmber of yonng men growing np to who-a such an assoeiatlon would be a boon. The first requisite is the necessary funds tor building or otherwise obtaining a suitable suite of rooms. There are living in close proximity to the townehip quite a nnmber of wealthy men who could well afford to subscribe enough to defray the preliminary expenses, and these gentlemen by doing so would thereby earn the gratitude - of the townspeople, and eonfer alaating benefit upon the young people of the place. Thera, are also a nnmber of persona in and around Geraldine, who would be quite able to deliver courses of lectures on various subjects, or give tuition in various branches of knowledge, and tbns make the institntton both profitable and attractive. A branch of St. John's* Ambulance Associati m might aleo be formed, which would bs of the greatest benefit to the volunteer corps, and in many other ways the Association might become an institution of the utmost benefit to the community at large. Such an Assoeiatlon in Geraldine would have an advantage over those in a Isrger town, inasmuch as it wonld not have to contend with a rival institution in the town. Obtaining the undivided support of the town and district the chances are that such an institution would beoomo a permanent and signal Success.

Meeting of Creditors.— -A meeting of the creditors of Patrick Madden wae, held yesterday in the R.M, Court, Temuka. Mr W. 0. Keswick, Deputy Assignee, occupied the chair,, and about six or seven creditors were present, Mr Asp. nail appeared for the backrujft, Mr Smithson (White, Smithson and Rayi tnond) tor Messrs Harman and Stevens (the landlords), and Mr Lynch for the plaintiffs wife. The bankrupt wae examined at considerable length. He attributed his failure to having taken possession of the land late in the aeasoi), in consequence of which, and of the wet weather, he w«s unable to put in hie crop in proper time. After haying put* in a part of the wheat, he had to remain eight weeks before he could pat in the balance. As a r suit the crop was in* ferior, and he could not pay hia debts. Together with this the landlords (Messrs Harman md Stevens) sued him, and he bad confessed judgment. It appeared that since he had confessed judgment in Christchurch for a sum amounting to

about £IOO he got from Mr Bly h timber to the value of about £4O, ami employed Mr John Molnness to build a home for him, fle also got about £26 worth of grain bags from Mr Brown, fin questioned »t great length by th*) ere* ditors as to whether he knew he was inspk vent at the time of contracting the latter debts, but he said he did not kno?v that he was insolvent until be found his crop had turned out so bad. Mr Lynch, on behalf of defendant’s wife, put in a deed of assignment, under which she claimed certain horsas, etc. The creditors agreed to give un the goods and chattels men* tinned in the deed. Mr Brown thought the bags supplied by him to put the grain in ought to be returned to him, but the other creditors would not hear of it. Mr Brown next directed attention to the fact that instead of destraining for rent the landlords had sued Madden and got judgment. Under this judgment they put in a distress warrant, and he considered that by taking this course they had forfeited their preferential claim to ■ix months’.rent. He moved a resolution to the effect that Mr Higgitt’a (Dunedin) opinion on the point be obtained. .The motion was seconded by Mr McfnnesS;,,and carried unanimously. On the motion of Mr Brown, seconded by Mr Mcloness, Mr G. Bolton was appointed supervisor 7 of the Estate. It was decided to sell by aucthn about 3000 bushels of grain, and the meeting adjourned. Cubed ob Dhihkino,— “A young friend of mine was cured of an insatiable thirst For liquor, that had so prostrated his lystem that ha wai unable to do any baiineee. He was entirely oared by the use of Am. Oo a Hop Bitters. It allayed all that burning ;hir«t, took away the appetite for liquor, * undo bii nerve* eteady, and he has remained t sober and eteady man for more than two rear*, and has no deeire to return to hit cope.’* -From a leading 8.8. Official. Railway Refreshment Rooms, Timabu. —D. McGuinness begs to inform his numer-

ous friends, and the travelling public in particular, that having taken; the above rooms for a fresh term he has decided to reduce the charges hitherto made, and in future they will be as follow Breakfast in readiness for early trains, Is fid; Hot Lunch or Dinner, served up in the hitherto well-known profuse style, on arrival of North and South Express trains, Is fid. Tea and Coffee always in readiness, and choice confectionery, Ac. The lessee would especially draw attention to the Ladies’ Private Dining-room, which hss been specially arranged and furnished for their convenience, A waitress is always ia attendance. The’ usual. Is Lunches an still continued •tthe<Glub Hotel.—Advt,

SYNOPSIS OF APVEft'L’ISKMhINrS. *Vj' _

W. .Ellery—'Want* an engine. N,Z. Railways—Pares for Easter Holidays. Chairman, Geraldine Town Board—Be■niiition an reply- _ ~ , Geraldine Football Club—Hold annual meeting this evening. Geraldine Road Board—lnvite applications for the office of poundkeeper. H. B. Webeter—Notice re trial of Gilpin e Bulky Plough at Geraldine to-morrow. ItoT. David MoNicholl—Will preach in tbs Temuka Volunteer Hail on Easter Sunday. F, Archer, Temuka—lnvites applications for position ot caretaker of the Oddfellows’ Hall. „ , Bobion’e Panorama of the Soudan War — Will be exhibited at the Temuka Volunteer Hall to-night. A. Maxwell, Saddler, Timaru—Has juit. opened a fresh shipment of horse clothing, saddlery, etc., and invite inspection. Geraldine Road Board.—lnvites tenders for repairing road, shingling, cutting and drains, supply of fesd oats, lease of reserve* at Orai, etc. _ _ booth Canterbury D.T.C., Timaru (J. D. Slater, Manager).—Have just opened a large •took of w trrproof coats of all sues and qualities, si rite inspection.