LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1705, 1 March 1888, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Vitai STATHTIOS.—The vital statistics for February in Temuka ars : Births, 13; deaths, 3; marriages, 3. Kattatj.—Sir George Grey's Island of Kuwau has beeD sold to a Victorian capitalist, the price paid being £12,000. The purohaier intends to make the island his home, and it is said that Sir George Grey will vieifrEngland. CEIOKET.—The Canterbury Cricket Association on Tuesday night decided to play 18 against Lillywhite's team on March 22nd and 24th at Lancaster Park. It was resolved to play the return match in Hagley Park on March 29th and 31st.

Pabtiali Successes.—An official report just to hand contains the names of Messrs Charles Glynn Roskruge and John MoLsod as having secured a partial success in Class E at the recent teachers' examination. Mr MoLeod is also mentioned as boing first in drawing. Temuka Licensing Committee. Messrs Jaa. Blyth, John Talbot, Andrew Grant, John Meyer, and A. W. Eosor, were on Tuesday elected a Committee for the Temuka Licensing district. The official declaration of the result of the poll will bo found in our advertising columns.

CONCHRT AND DaNCK AT WINOHESTEB. To-morrow night a concert and dance will be held in the newly-erected Bchoolhouse at Winchester. Some of the leading amateurs in the district have promised their assistance at the conoert, and the Geraldine Christy Minstrels will also appehr during the evening. There should be a large attendance if the weather is fine.

Impobta»x Olkaring Sale.—Messrs J. Mundell and Co. advertise in another column that they submit the whole of Mr B. Darlow's stock of boots, shoes, drapery, etc., to auction to-day. Mr Darlow's stock includes a large proportion of boots and shoes of hit own make, and the competition should be keen. His horse and covered van will also be disposed »F. The sale commences at one e'clock sharp. Destbuction op Wheat Stacks.—Mr C. Hill, of Wakanui, (says the Ashburton Guardian) had four stacks of wheat totally destroyed by fire at an early hour yesterday morning. The stacks contained in all about a thousand bushels of grain, and were not covered by insurance. There is no definite due to the origin of the fire, but it is suspected that some swagger who had made his bed amon* the' straw is at the bottom of the affair. Football. —The annual meeting of the Q-eraldine Football Club takes place in the orderly room of the Volunteer Hall this «vening. We understand quite a large number of persons intend to join the Club, and various matter* of interest, inoludmg the proposal to form a Bugby TJnioo for South Canterbury, will be discussed. Intending members are invited to bs present.—A special meeting of the Tern uka Club will be held at the Temuka Hotel on Saturday evening, R.M. Cousr, Temtjka.—There was no Court held in Temuka yesterday, owiog to the summoned Justices of the Peace Bot attending. Mr Gray waß the only justice in attendance and adjourned the Court for a week. Several persons were summoned by the Inspector of Weights and Metres, and tbo cases had to be Adjourned as one justice could not deil with them. Men who accept the honor ef being Justices of the Peace, ought to put themselyes to the trouble of attending the Court occasionally. It is very hard on persons to be brought from their business severul days to have their cases heard in this busy season.

Escaped.—A patient named Edward Clark escaped from the Sunnyside Lunatic Asylum ou Tuesday afternoon. Ha is supposed to have made for Lyttelton, where he formerly resided.

Fishing in thb Eangitata. The Rangifcuta has not been in good condition for fishing this Beason, but last week it began to gel clear. On Saturday last Mr J. D. Acland oaujbt six fish scaling 131bs, and on Monday he got a fine basket of 16 fish, scaling 33lbs, the two finest, 51bs and 4flba respectively, being in very good condition.

Ebratdm.—ln the list of names telegraphed from Wellington on Saturday last of the South Canterbury candidates who haye passed Class IS in the teacher's examination appears the name of Mr John Armidale Fitzgerald, master of the Geraldino Flat School. This is an error, as Mr Fitagerald sat for and has successfully passed Class D.

Capitation Allowance. -The MiDistor for Defence has issued a circular fixing eapitation for the year ending December, 1888. This will be subject to a vote of Parliament as follows ;—Adult corps, 30s ; Cadet corps, ss. With reference to the capitation for cadets, it will not be continued after the expiration of this year. Regulations regarding the minimum strength of corps are to be strictly enforced, and no exception to this rule will, under any circumstances, be allowed.

&UDDBN Death. A Maori woman—the wife of Albert Wesley—has just died under peculiar circumstances. She had been ailing for some time, and was taken into Timarn to consult the specialists, who have visited that town. No sooner had she been taken inside the hotel where they were staying than she dropped down, and died in a few minutes. The doctors saw her but they at once pronounced her to be beyond all hops. Incidentals.—At the last meeting of the Pleasant Point School Committee it was resolved—" That the Chairman be requested to write to the Board of Education drawing its attention to the amount allowed last year for incidental purposes, Btatiog that the Committee is Dot awars that it oan do with any less, and usking if it is the intention of the Board to reduce that amount; if so, to enquire how the school is to be maintained in working order."

Narrow Escape.—The seven-year-old daughter of Mr Crow, of Makarewa, Southland, had an almost miraouloua escape on Thursday. Her mother had sent her and another child to the wall to draw a bucket of water, and while they were engaged in doing so the coyer of the well gave way and the girl fell in. She supported herself in the water until her mother and father arrived, and a rescue was effected by means of the bucket. In the act of falling the girl must have come in contact with the lid, as it was found that one of her legs was broken above the knee. Thi Rabk*. —■ The Cbristchurch Chamber of Commerce passed the following resolution an Tuesday :—'• That the Government be requested tJ cause experiments to be made with various rabbit diseases on some of the islands on the New Zealand coast, so that by next spring the most effectual may be ascertained : also whether it ia safe and desirable to introduce disease in any form." Government has refused the Awntere Road Board leave to import and experiment with Pastern's microbes on the ground that the matter is one for the Government to take up, and a* the Australian Governments are now conducting experiments, New Zealand can await the result, anil derive any benefit without incurring any risk?. A consignment of 200 ferrets has just bean sent to the Amuri district, and over 200 cats have beea sent to Culverdeo.

Ran«itata Station School,— The monthly meeting of the Rangitata Station School Committee was held on Saturday evening last. Present Messrs A. McNiven (Chairman), T. Clayton, G. Barney, and J. Stengar. Mr J. Stengar was chosen visitor for the ensuing raontb 4 The report of Mr J. G. Go w, school inspactor, was read and considered favorable. The report showed that the percentage of passes had been 51.2 ; percentage of failures 8.7. Standard T.—Presented 2, failed 2. Standard lll.—Presented 9, absent 2, excepted 1, passed 6. Standard II. —Presented ft, excepted 1, passed 8. Standard I.—Presented 7, passed 7. Percentage of class subjects, 64; additional marks, 59. The preparatory pupils are excellent in spelling, good in reading and writing, and fair in counting. The school has passed a good examination. The order and manners are quite satisfactory. The Committee decided to vote for the following candidates.for the vacant seats on toe Board of Education? —Messrs C. K. Meredith, Kaye (Otipua), R. H. Poarpoint (Geraldine), J. Talbot (Teruuku).

MaOHINBBT ImfeotbmbntS.—Great improvements are being effected yearly in all kinds of machinery, but in no department has greater skill been displayed than in agricultural implements. Amongst the latest improvements must be noted Wilder'a Patent Self-Feeder, which does the work of a man—and does it much better, too—in feeding threshing machines. At the invitation of Mr M. Scannell, who has one of them attached to hit mill, we had ah opportunity of seeing one of theie self-feeders at work yesterday, and must Bay that it appears to be a great iuccoss. It is, of course, fixed on the top of the oombine, and at first glance it presents fie appearance of the ordinary shakers exposed to view. On these Bhakers the .corn is thrown by the cutter, and it is rolled along on them until it meets the long spikes of an automatic separator, which is in motion about a foot above them. Theie spikes regulate the quantity that passes through, so that it is impossible for more than the desired quantity to pais into the dram. It if alleged that the regularity of the feeding hai the effect of cleaning the grain much better than it could otherwise have been done, while at the same time it mitigates the difficulty always felt in shaking the straw, and doei much cleaner work. The separator is fixed in a way that it oan easily be regulated so as to suit different conditions. For instance, it can bead, justed for puttingthrougheitherdry or wet corn in whatever quantity that is thought desirable. This is the first of the kind that has been worked in this district, and we have no doubt but that they will soon become very popular, and be regarded as one of the necessary adjuncts of a threshing machine. We must compliment Mr Scannell on his enterprise in thus leading the fashion, and wish him success with it. With a new and improved Hornsby combine, which was built in 1887, and a sew Fowler high-prissure traction engine, he ought to have a good run. The threshing mill was working yesterday for Mr William Oldfield, Kerrytown, in a paddock of wheat which has yielded 46 busheli to jthe acre. The grain was a grand sample and as hard as it could be if stacked for six months.

Duel in Australia. —An Australian paper reports that; a regular duel was recently fought at Oaulfield between a Civil servant and a iooal barrister. The quarrel, it is stated, arose out of a bail-room dispute. The belligerents used pistols, and fired at each other at twelve pace?, the result of the shots being thai the barrister was wounded in the arm. All the time-honored observances in such mattors were strictly adhered to. Seconds and a doctor were on the ground. Mb Baddblby'b Sentences.—Mr Baddeley, assistant Resident Magistrate at Auckland (says a correspondent of the Timaru Mail) has corns in for some censure from the newspapers for the harsh manner in which he hug been dealing with prisoners brought before him. At the Polioe Court on Tuesday he sentenoed a habitual drunkard to 12 months, and fined a poo? foreigner £lO, with costs, which brought the sum up to £l2 14i for alleged cruelty to a dog; and ordered an old man to go Co gaol for a year because he had no means of support. Twelve months' imprisonment, with bard libor, is beoomingthe standing penalty for offences which us»d to be considered sufficiently punished by a week or so in gaol. "There is," says the Herald, " something very dreadful in the thought of the terrorism that might by exeroised by the capricious use of power of rounding up to Court those who may be singled out fram their fellows as having no lawful means of support. Mr Baddeley's sentences nrs unnecessarily severe, and it is time the Minister of Justice interfered."

Baxter's Lvm Pbeberyer has gained great popularity in this district as a speedy and effectual remedy in the treatment ot Coughs, Colds, Bronchitis, and othei chest and throat complaints. Bead advt. and try it.

Wells* Hair Balsam.—lf gray, restores to original color. An elegant dressing, Hoftens ani beautifies. No oil nor grease. A Tonic Restorative. Stops hair ooming out, strengthens, cleanses, heals scalp. Kempthorne, Prosser, and Co., Agents, Christchurch. 2

SYNOPSIS OF ADVERTISEMENTS.

J. Beri—Funeral notioe re the late William Dunford.

Temuka Football Club—Speoial meeting on Saturday ovening. Conoert and Dance—At Wincester tomorrow evening.

Manager Four Peaks, Woodbdry—Wants a Rood station cook. In Bankruptcy—Be John Henry Jackson, of lemuka, bootmaker. Jas. Blyth—lnTites tenders for painting Temuka Hotel and stables.

W. Wills, Deputy Returning Oflioer— Result of poll for election of Temuka Licensing Committee.

J. Mundell and Co.—Publish particulars of sale of Mr R. Darlow'a stock-in-trade at Greraldine to-day. R. H. Pearpoint, Greraldine—Notifies that he is offering great has bargains in dress stuffs, flannels, clothing, etc.; suite to measure for 60s.

Alexandrovna Lodge, 1.0.0. F., Temuka— Members to meet at Lodge room at S p.m. to-day for tke purpose of attending tha funeral of Bro. Dunford's late son.

Toomer Bros, and Co., Manufacturers, Christohuroh —Invite the public, when purchasing beots and shoes to ask for their Gold Medal or Excelsior brand, sold by bootmakers and storekeepers throughout the colony, and unequalled fur wear and durability ; publish list of honors awarded to their manufactures.