LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1682, 5 January 1888, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Sale of Fcbnitcbe. —Mr W. S. Maslin will hold a sale of furniture, etc., at Geraldine to-morrow afternoon.

EXCURSION Trains.— About 600 passenger* were carried in the excursion trains from Christchurch and Ashburton to Timara on Tuesday last. Registration of Doss.—Tn our advertising columns it is notified that the Geraldine County Council has fixed the dog registration fee within the County for the year at 10*, and a list of the registrars for the various ridings is gives. Town Board.— The usual monthly mealing of this Board, which should have been held on Tuesday evening last, lapsed for want of a quorum, only Messrs R. Taylor, Williams, and the Chairman putting in an appearance.

Customs and Bbbb Duty. —The customs revenue collected in the colony last month was £107.073, as against £109,325 for the corresponding month in 1886. The beer duty for December was £6235, the corresponding month in the previous year being £6313 Wrestling. A wrestling match took place at Dunedin on Monday night between Eyeton, of Melbourne, and James Dunn for the light-weight.Graeco-Roman championship. After each had secured a fall, Eyeton, who had been hurt, was unable to continue, and the match was awarded to Dunn.

Pbimititb Methodist Ohuboh, Temuka. Id our advertising columns it is announced that on Sunday next the “ Fiery Welshman ” will conduct the anniversary services in the Primitive Methodist Church, Temuka., On the following Tuesday the tea and public meeting will take place, among the speaker* at the latter being the Fiery Welshman, and the Bev. Mr Dean. Hobbiblb State of Affixes.—A cable message from London, dated January 2nd, says “ The unemployed distress is very scute, and numerous oases of persons suffering from starvation are mat with in the streets daily. Poor-house relief is refused, the men demanding work, and declining to be treated as paupers. Many families are subsisting on gutter refuse.” Voracious Eel. —As Mr J. P. Kalaugher and some friends were walking along the bank of the Waihi River lately they saw an eel of about slb weight chase and capture a well-grown trout of about 9in in length. The eel very soon killed its prey, and attempted to swallow it whole, but was unabla to do so, and was shortly afterwards caught. Wesleyan Church, Temuka.—At a largely attended congregational meeting in the above Church last evening final arrangements were made for the proposed sale of work and tea meeting. Much enthusiasm was displayed, and judging by it the sale and tea should be very successful. It was decided that the many friends who have kindly promised donations in produce, etc., should be requested to forward the same to Mr Brown’s store, Temuka, not later than Tuesday, the 10th iistint.

Dying in Gaol.— According to the Australian Star, Holt, the defaulting Bank of New Zealand manager at Sydney, is slowly dying in Darlin'ghurst gaol from Bright’s disease. He is receiving careful treatment at the hands of the visiting surgeon, Dr Maurice O’Connor. At the hands of the gaol officials be is treated precisely in the same way as other prisoners, and is allowed no extra privileges in any shape or form. Ho is acting in the capacity of clerk to the dispenser, which duties occupy almost all his time, and in addition has to assist in the ord : - oary work of the hospital.

Husband-Poisoning in Croatia. —■ In tho course of last year it was remarked (the Pesth correspondent of the Standard says) that many deaths took place amongst the young farmers belonging to the villages of Syrmia, the most eastern part of Croatia. In each case it was found that death occurred soon after marriage. An inquiry was accordingly ordered by the authorities, which has resulted in proving that the young men bad been poisoned by their wives, who thus inherited their houses and farms. In the course of one week seven young widows in the village of Bingula and an old woman who had prepared and sold poison to them have been arrested. Numerous other arrests are imminent. •

A Stormy Passage. —The ship Turakina, Captain Power, from London, has arrived at Dunedin. Her passage, which occupied only 84 days, wae a very stormy one, and she shows evident <dgns of the heavy weather she had to encounter. Qn November 19th a heavy S, VV, gale set in, and at 9 p.m. on that day, whilst the Chief Officer (Mr Fielder), the Third Officer (Mr Piljett) and a seaman named Pope were in the act of stowing the jib the vessel plunged heavily, washing all three men overboard. The next sea washed fire Third Officer aboard again. It was impossible to render any assistance, the night being pitch dark and a mountainous sea running. During the same gale one of her boats was washed clean out of tho davits, the forepart of the deckhouse got staved in, the flying jibboom carried away, and it was with difficulty the fore topgallant mast was saved. The gale lasted for four days, during which time the vessel’s decks were continually flooded.

Stock Sale.—Messrs J. Mundell and Co. held their usual monthly stock sale yesterday at Geraldine. After the quietude that has pervaded the town during the Christmas holidays, the large attendance of people at the sale made the place seem quite lively. The sale was a satisfactory one in every respect, the Urge quantity of stock offsred hading purchasers at remunerative prices. A Liberal Offer.—At the opening of the season Lord Tollemsohe wrote to each tenant on his estate, saying ho would present every cheese prize-winner wi'h £SO worth of bona manure, and every farmer receiving a highly commended card with £35 worth. At tha London Dairy Show his lordship's tenantry took five out of six prizes offered for Cheshire

cheese, and to each of the five winners will be presented £SO worth of manure. Cricket. Two scratch matches were

played in the Victoria Park, Temuka, on

Tuesday afternoon, sides being chosen by Messrs Mogridge and B. Brown. In tha first

game Mr Brawn’s team sustained an overwhelming defeat, Mr Mogridge’s team winning by one innings and 16 runs. In the second match (one innings) between the same teams the order ot thing* was reversed, as Mr Brown's taam won with 11 runs to spare. The cricketers heartily enjoyed themselves.—A match between Vernon’s English Eleven and a Combined Australian Eleven was concluded at Melbourne on Tuesday, the Englishmen winning by an innings and 78 runs.

A Good Record.—There is, remarks the Wanganui Herald, in the Gaversham School a bright-faced cbeery-looking damsel, who has made what we should think may be regarded as a champion record in respect to attendance. Jane Leal, that is her name, has never once been marked as an absentee during the eight years she hae been on the roll, and for about five years of this period she has had to walk three miles to the school and three miles home again. The teachers have subscribed for a medal to be presented to “Jenny ” as a token of their appreciation of her zeal and general good behaviour.

Proposed Industrial Banc. —Mr Mclntosh, of Invercargill, is urging the desirability of establishing a National Industrial Bank of New Zealand. He proposes to start a concern with a capital of twelve and a half millions in 600,000 shares of £25 each, the object being to obtain money in England at three and four per cent., and lend it out here at an advance of one per cent., to do the business of building and land societies on a largo scale, and assist the development of manufactures and local industries with cheap money. A Vouno Thief on the Spree.—FredManhood, an errand boy in the employment of Mr Thomas Murrell, Bur on Orescent, West Ham, was at the local Police Court, recently, sentenced to receive ten strokes of the birch rod for theft from his employer. On three different occasions he took money from the till, amounting to £l2. He bought a suit for himself with the money, and gave another boy a jacket. They went out in brakes and in boats, and he was so lavish with the money that ha threw some silver into the water.

Strange,Fight -with a Snake,—Judge Sloan of Qolconda, Illinois, was cutting weeds near his house the other evening and cut off the head of a big rattlesnake. The same blow threw the snake into the air and it fell upon, the judge's neck, about which it coiled with a convulsive grasp, at the same time keeping up the ominous rattle. A coloured man pulled the body off the frighted judge and assisted him to the house, where it was some time before he could convince himself that the blood which was smeared on his face from the body of the snake was not the result of % wound.

A Useful Contrivance. —We (Otago Daily Times) hare been shewn a very ingenious contrivance for branding sheep, woolpacks, etc., which is at present being introduced te the notice of Otago flock-ow-oers. It is known as “ Bowern’s Electric Sheep Brand” and it is claimed that it will brand 1000 sheep with one filling. The contrivance is remarkably simple. The brand has only to be filled with tar or paint and adjusted to the clip to make it ready for use. It was recently tried at Burnside, when a pen of 40 sheep was branded in two minutes. The brand is the invention of Mr Bowern, of the North Island. A Core for Scandal,— Hannah More had a good way of managing talebearers. It is said that whenever she was told anything derogatory of another, her invariable reply was, “ Come, we will go and ask if this be true.” The effict was sometimes ludicrously painful. The talebearer was taken aback, stammered out a qualification or begged that no notice might hi taken of the statement. But the good lady was inexorable; off she took the scandalmonger to the scandalised, to make inquiry and compare accounts. It la not likely that anybody ever a second time ventured to repaat a gossip story to Hannah More. One would think her method of treatment would be a sure cure for scandal. Sporting. —The Summer Meeting of the Canterbury Jockey Olub took place on Tues-

day, and was fairly successful. Eiaultg;—Midsummer Hurdle Race Handicap, 100 son.: Mr E. O’Eeefe’s Teddy, 1; Mr H. Luna's

Tras Sec, 2. Middlepark Stakes, 230 sots. : Mr D- O’Brien’s Carbine, 1 ; Middlepark Company’s Bavenswin, 2. Midsummer Handicap, 230 sors.; one mile and a-half: Mr W. 0. Webb’s Springston, Ij, Mr W, 0. Webb’s Buby, 2. Dividend—lnside, JSi7 17s 6d ; outside, £3B Bs. Selling Base, 50 eovs.; Mr W. 0. Rutherford’s Farihska, 1; Mr H, Hammond's Nelly, 2. Craven Stakes, ISO sovs.; Mr W. 0. Webb's Buby,T j Hon. Q-, McLean’s St, Ives, 2. Hornby Welter Handicap, 100 sot. ; Mr Q-. GK Chantilly, 1 • Mr B. Rutherford’s Btrenscraig, 2. Scurry Stakes, 30 sots. : Mr GKOiemenk'iNormanby, 1} MrE. S. Bell’s Forward 2. A Contrast. —At « recent meeting of an association in Christchurch the follow* ing letter from Mr Thos. Davies, of Melbourne (formerly a resident in Christchurch), to a gentleman in that city was read“ I most apologise for not answering your letter. To tell the truth lam too disgusted with New Zealand to write, or even think about the miserable state it is in. lam shre it is the fault of the people or their Government. It is not the colony. It is a finer country than this, and your climate ia worth ten of this, but a working man cannot liye on fiowers and fine climate,. Them '# a vast difference between the working mao here and in New Zealand. Here he has every facility to exercise bis energies, but in Now Zealand, oh 1 dear no. He must not make any progress, iam sure I tried to make headway, but it was no use. I arq very glad I lefo it whoo I did ; ( ought t.Q have turned my back on it t^(o,re A ’’

The Australian Centenary. The London Times on Monday published an Australian centenary supplement fully detailing the progress of the colonies sines the earliest settlement. In conclusion, the article refers in glowing terms to the Australian future, prophesying thst the country will be an im* portent facto; among nations before next bi-centenary.

The Bullock and the Graduates.— Describing in the Scotsman the Western district of Victoria between Oamperdown and Warrnambool, Dr Cameron Lees mentions that be was hospitably entertained at the large country mansion of a widow Udy whose two sons, graduates of Cambridge, carry on the business of the estate. “ Their university career,” he says, “ hae not unfitted them for Australian life. All day they are out riding among their cattle and overlooking their stockmen and shepherd», and are thoroughly conversant with the breeding of sheep and fattening of bullocks. Young men reared at Home unlversjtea seem to take well to this healthy open-air life, and are to be met with all over Australia. ' Here are we, three university man/ was the conversation heard in the neighborhood of a stock* yard, ‘ after one bullock.' ‘ Ay,* aaid a Highland stockman, ( and if ye dinna tak" care yel soon see one bollock after three university men!'” Aw Extraordinary Story.— The Welsh newspapers give currency to a story of extraordinary romance, which has caused much sensation throughout the extensive mining district of Bhoillaoerchrugog Buabon. It appears that soma years ago a oollisr from this neighborhood emigrated to> America, leaving his wife and three bobs behind him. He kept up a correspondence with his wife, and about 18 months ago paid a visit to his native country. He persuaded his eldest ssa to accompany him on his return, Iha wifo and sons decided to follow him, and in duo course arrived in America. The husband, it is stated, was taken somewhat abaek on the unexpected appearance of bis first wifo. Ho was, indeed, legally married to the lady ho lived with. Having entertained tha ntw comers, he took bis wife up the hills ostensibly to view the new country, eventually leading her to the edge of a stupendous precipice above the lake. Up to this time hia conduct was that of a gratified husband • but on tho ledge of the rook he suddenly changed front, and, presenting the revolver, gave her the choice of being shot or thrown over tha cliff. The woman preferred the latter alternative. She was then told to undress, which command she obeyed reluctantly. During the task she asked him to turn bis back to her. He did so; and she immediately made a rush, and pushed him over the precipice. She than retraced her steps and made the occurrence known. The body was fouud in a mangled condition on the margin of the lake. The lady is on her way homeward, the expense of the return -journey having bean defrayed by American sympathisers. Maxwell's Patent Spriikj Pads,—ln our advertising columns Mr Maxwell, saddler, of Timaru, draws attention to his patent spring pads for saddles and horse collars, which he claims obviates sore shoulders and backs. Although the patent spring pads have not long been in use, Mr Maxwell has already received a number of testimonials testifying to their sflcaoy. One among those we were shown stated that a horse which was looked upon as incurable with shore shoulders had been benefited after a very short trial, and another stated that there was no four of the breaking of the pads, and that they will last for years. The pads are certainly well worth the attention of nil who hats to work horses. >

All jour own fault if you. remain sick or out of health, when you can gel Drßoala’a Hod Bitten, made only by Ameriou 00. —Bead advt.

Baxtbb’s Lung Fbbsiktkb has grlned great popularity in this district as a speedy and effectual remedy in the treatment of Coughs, Golds, Bbonohitib, and other chest and throat complaints. Bead sdvt. and try it.

SYNOPSIS OF ADVERTISEMENT.

W. Holwell, Milford—Notice re pig strayed on to his farm, la Bankruptcy—Re Thomas Cready, of Milford, farmer. A, Maxwell, Saddler, Timaru—Notic# rs patent spring pads. Woilsyan Church, Temuka—Notice rS sale of work and tea on 12th January. Joaeph Buck, Bangitata Island —lnvites tenders for stooking wheat and oats. Primitive Methodist Church, Temuka— Notice re anniversary services and tea. Grade, Maclean, and Adam—Sell Valuable l freehold property in Birkett street, Temuka, on 10th January. J, Brown, Beehive Stores, Temuka—Notifies that he has started a tent, tarpaulin and horse-cloth manufactory, under the management of Mr T. B. Sheen, eo well known in the trade for the last 18 years. Alt work will be executed in a workmanlike manner. Reaper and binder cloths will be mach| to order, and a Urge assortment of ready-made ones will be kept in stook.