LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1718, 31 March 1888, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

HABTBST THANKSGIVINGS. Harvest thanksgiving services will b 9 held in St. Saviour's Church, Temuka, to-morrow. Baohelobs' Ball.—A bachelor*'b*U will be held in tho Volunteer Hall, Temuka, on Monday evening. A "Tailor's" Bill.—The son of a rich Australian squatter, at. present at Cambridae University, managed to run up a tailor's bill—not fir from the banks of the Cam—which took £6OOO to cover. Of course the money-l«nder traded under the cloak of a tailor. Woodbitbt Eaoeß, The annual race meeting at Woedbury takes place on Monday next (Easter Monday), and, should the weather prove favorable, a good day's sport will deub'hsg be enjoyed by those who attend. Entries for the Maiden Pl*te close with the Secretary to-day. The annual raoo ball under the patronage of the stewards will be held on Monday evening.

DESWUTCTION OT THE WELLINGTON Ojbra House.—The Opera Heuse was destroyed by fire at 6 o'clock on Thursday morning. It was insured for £SOOO. The loss is £IO,OOO. It was built on the site of the opera house burned down in 1887, and was admitted ok all hands to be one of handsomest and most commodious theatres in the colony. It waß owned by a public company, which, getting into financial difficulties some time ago, was reorganised. It wns opened by Messrs M'Mahon and Leitch's company about 18 months ago with some considerable ceremony, and was insured for only about one-half its value,;

The Mabriid Woman's Pbopbbtt Aot. —Tn Banco at Dunedin on Thursday, Judge Williams decided a case of an application for a publiaan'a license by a married woman. He holds that the operation of the Married Women's Property Act is not so extensive as on a hasty perusal might bs snpposed, and was v«ry far from placing married women in the same position for all purposes as a femme sole. If before the Act was passed there was legislative provision, express or implied, prohibiting a license involving serious liability to the public and the State being granted to a married woman, there is oertiinly nothing in the Act removing such prohibition. The Oommittee had ne power to grant the license. The application for mandamus was refused with costs. The Mblbouenb Exhibition.—Sir James Hector proceeds to Melbourne two months prior to the opening of the Centennial Exhibition, in order to make full preparations for the due representation of the Colony there. All applications for space in the New Zealand Court, executed in accordance with the regulations, were passed by the Commissioners today, with the proviso that upon opening out the exhibits in Melbaurne, should any inferior speoimenß be found among the shipments, the sime will be returned to the owners forthwith, and shippers will render themselves liable for payment of all expenses incurred in the despatch and in the cost of returning speci* mens. Mr Seed returns to New Zealand at an early date having accomplished his mission to Melbourne. Ma Labnach at jI)ONEDIN—Mr Larnach received a vote of confidence from his epnstituents at Dunedin on Wednesday night. He was willing that Governmsnt should receive fair support, but was annoyed that they had only dealt with the one question of retranchtnent, while overlooking matters of policy. He approved of the reduction of members and the Land Bill, but opposed the reduction of the honorarium. Tho paltry reductions effected could not cure the depression. It would have been better to have spent £IOO,OOO in order to retain the departing population. He thought tho railways should have been placed under a board for raoh island. He declared strongly for Protection, and said if Government did not bring down a Protective polioy they would find themselves in an unpopular position. The people desired Protection, and would have it. If the country were polled to-morrow the banner of victory would wave over Protectionist principles. Unaccountable Amis.—A most extraordinary case has just been investigated by iho East London coroner. It seems that a commercial traveller named Mosea Raphael, of 100 S'. Paul's road, Bow, was taksn ill, and was removed to the London Hospital. His death took place oh the next day, and at the inquest Dr Doyle, who had (he man under his care, said that on opening tba head he found a penholder and nib nbout 3in long attached to the right orbital pla'e. It must have been there for a considerable time, as the bone had partially grown over it. Th 9 only way that it was possible fot the pen and holder to get to the brain wa3 by passing through the eye or up the nostrils. Deceased's widow stated that her husband had never complained of any accident, but that lately he had suffered from pains in the head. Dr Doyle said it was a mystery how a pen and holder of such a size could get into the brain without the man's knowledge. It was the most singular case he ever heard of. An open verdict was returned.

Horse Trade With India. The Wanganui Herald aayn ;—"it has been intimated, wa understand, that tho lonian Government cnuld take from New Zealand alone 2000 horses a year for ten years, which, at £2O a horse, would mean a nice little sum of £40,000 a year coming into the colony, af which the West Coast portion ought to be considerable. If the Government of India could gaarantee to take 2000 horses a year of the right stamp at an average, siy, of £2O, the number required would be forthcoming. Of course, the fact that there is a demand for a certain class of horse will tend to stimulate the production. Mr Monro, the Sheep Inspector, has called and informed us that, wi>h (he advice and at the instigation of several settlers who are interested in horse-breeding, he was induced to suggest to the Government to recommend to the Government of India that if they wish to look t* this colony as a country from which they can draw supplies of suitable horse* for remounts for their army they must offer, say, £2O per head for four-year-old colts, sound and suitable for artillery or cavalry work, with a further cffer of from £5 to £lO increase for a few very superior horses, suitably for office's' chargers; that this offer hold good for ten years, to date from first supply, which would be five years hence, and that 2000 horses be taken annually. The reasons Mr Monro gave the Government for such a recommendation being made are • That at present the New Zealand farmers, as a rule, are quite ignorant of the requirements of the Jndian I Government <>r this duratipn of anything like a payable market. The farmers also tny that without a. certajnty of obtaining ■tnmetlnng like £BO for their colt's they woiild not be justified in investing their •apital in Ihe purchase of brood mares and stud horses. To breed a large number of such horses without a market would cause i uin and loss.

Road Board Election. —Candidates for the vacant seats on tbe Greraldine Road Board must be nominated with the Returning Officer, Mr 0. Jffi. Shcrratt, before noon on tfemday. Thb Fkbhch Presibknt's Salary.— The President of the French republic receives a salary of £24,000 a year, and has the same amount: allowed him for household and other expenses connected with his position. The Sho iTins Season. —Yesterday was the first day of the shooting season, and sportsman were very early nstiriitbe reports of guns being frequent sltortTy nfier 12 o'clock on Thursday. A fair amount of game w»e secured, Re«benohmekt PolioT.—lt is stated in the Wellington papers that in connection with the retrenchment policy, and in order to do away with as nuich Sunday work as possible, mails arriving on Sunday will not be sorted in future.

Good Fridat.—Yesterday being Good Friday was observed as a slo'se holiday, all the shops in town being shut. Services were held four ytimes in St. Saviour's Church, Temuka, and at 10 a.m. service was held in St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church, at which there was a good congregation. Dvmmtism.—The Tuapeka Times Rays that the followingextraordinary occurrence took place at the last meeting of the Otago Land Board:—There were seven applicants for a certain piece of land, the applications to be decided on by lot. Now, five of these applicants represented'one person, and bad either of them b*en successful they would have handed over their interest to tbe party for wnoni they were acting the part of obliging friends, bo th' re were only two bona fide applications. The person who had five friends reckoned that be had an excellent chance,; for his own and his friends'applications gave him six chances to tha other applicant's one. The lots were drawn, and, atringe to say, six blanks were drawn first, and the person who only had one chance drew the last and fortunate ticket.

The Deceased Wife's Sister Question. —The S-rcretary of the Marriage Law ftuform Association writes : " Tlie General Assembly of fbe Presbyterian Church in the United State*", a church which in America has a high reputition for orthodoxy, in 1886 sent to the v»riouß Presbyter 68 the following overture : ' Shall chap, xxiv., sectioD 4, of the Confession of JFaith be amended by striking out the last period thereof, namely, the man may not marry any of his wife's kindred nearer in blood than he may of his own, nor the woman any of her husband's kindred nearer in blood thnn of her own}' To this inquiry 166 Presbyterias voted aye, and eleven no. The General Assembly that the said period be stricken out of the Confession, and by the declaration of the Moderator this section, which prohibitad marriage with a deceased wife's sistT, ceases to be a part of the standard of the church." Bwrned to Death.—The Otago Dai'y Times says:—" Another sad fatality took place at Clyde on Sunday last. B»lwer?n 1 aud 2 o'c'ock in the afternoon a smill cottage, which was occupied by Mrs Hannon, was observed to bo on fire. A man named Thompson, who was first on the •cene, not observing Vlra Hanoon about, made n plucky attempt to rescue her. Entering the house he found the unfortunate woman, with her clothes in flames, leaning against the parlor table. Ho endeavored to extinguish the fl imea, bat he had arrived too lata, and oil her clothing was completely destroyed, nothing being left but her c iraet. Before he was able to carry her outside life was extinct. Thompson whs very severely burned '■bout the handn, and h-id to go into tno Clyde Hospital. It is supposed that the dress of the deceased, who was about 60 years of age, anight firo while she was working about the stove. This is the third fatality on three consecutivo Sundays J the others being the death of Mrs \datns, who is supposed to hura been smothered by the dust of the road, on winch she fell in a fit, and the death of James Strarham by foul air in a coalpit." CricKET. The weather cleared at Ohristchurch early on Thursday morning, and the cricket match, English Eleven v. Canterbury Eighteen, wan resumed at noon, the wicket being very dead. Read and Ulyett faced the bowling of Wilding and Dunlop. Ulyetfc wis caught by W. P. Reeveß off Wilding after inoroasing his former scor.i by 3. Newham joined Read, but after making 3 was clwan bowled by Dunlop. Bnggs, who followed, was caught by Wilding off his own bowling without scoring. Smith went in, but Wilding bowled him bcforo he could score, Preston succeeded him, bat after making a single, was bowled by Wilding. Braun followed but was soon given out leg-bafore. Lohmann was caught by Garrard off Wilding without sooriag. Pougher now joined Raid, and m*de 5 before he fell u victim to Wilding. He was succeeded by Charleson (sub.), who was dean bowled by Wilding without scoring' The inn'ngs oloied for 75, tfl. Rend carrying out his b»t, havine made 43 by steady and careful play. Wilding got eujht wickets for 21 runs. Canterbury went in for thai' 1 second innings at 1.15, Dunlop and Caff facing the bowling of Briggs and Lohmano. Cuff had made 8 before the luncheon adj<iuraiiant at 1.30. At 4 o'clock nine wickets had fallen for 30 run*.

A Career o» Crime.—Americans (s'ys a How* p»per) are famed for big things', and • ven in the matter of crime they would, to us« one of their own colloquialisms, take ihe cake. A Yankee named Cooper, long known on both sides of; the Atlantic as the "the king of forgers," was arrested in February last at Fontainebleau. The man's career has been one of proloogad and gigantic swindling. In the Civil War he distinguished himself ss a sailor, an<i at its close secured a good positioa in the Navy Department at Washington. He was very skilful in imitating handwriting, and took advantage of his position to forge orders from paymasters for 176,000d01, On this sum he married, and wan arrested on the day of h;» honeymoqq, After a five years' ißparcera£ion, be was liberated, to find that his ramiage had been annulled. Ha th«n took to loqal preaching in New Orleans, and married a well-to-do widow. He has iince secured large sums from yarious quarters, by \ngenioua devices. He had 38,000 iola from, the Bank of Mobile, 'defrauded bis eiu : ployer, into whose service he got by means of forged introduction , of §?,QQQdoI, caipe Jib England and nn/ongafc other obtained £4OOO from Giyn, Mills, and 00., and last year £3OOO from the London and WestmiuNter Bank. It is on aocotint of the last tint he has bean captured.

Alleged Arson.—At the Lawrence R.M. Court on Thursday, Thomas Scott, David Scott, and Mary Jane Scott were committed for trial oo a charge of having at German Fat, unlawfully, maliciously, and feloniously set fire to a five-roomod dwelling-house^there situate, in the posses, sion of tha said ThonsHß Scott, with (he inteot thereby to defraud the Equitable Insurance Association of New Zealand, Tbe evidence showsd that after the fire a constable found a couple of boxes full of various articles, a violin, single-barrelled gun, ammunition, etc., concealed in • stack of straw.

Thb Gals.—During the gale which prevailed on Tuesday and Wednesday last a considerable amount of damage was done throughout the colony. In Timaru on Wednesday f encsi, roofs, etc., suffered, snd in one instance a obimney ffll, breaking through the roof |of a house occupied by Mrs jßd wards and others, and greatly frightening, though not injuring, the occupants. In the harbor a tremendous sea was running, and the breakwater was washed from end to end. No damage was done to the shipping in the port. The saltwater baths werecsnsiderably damaged At Ghristoharch on Wednesday fences and verandahs, chimneys, windmills, sheds, and trees were blown down in all directions, and muoh damage was done to shop windows, •to. A four-roomed house in Salisbury street, belonging to Mr Bowker, was literally cut in two by a large tree which was blown down upon it. Fortunately it was unoccupied, the hat tenants having left on Tuesday. About. 11 a.m. aohimaey at the works of Mr William Lucas, engineer, Kilmore street, was blown down and fell upon the smithy, which was crushed in. The men who had bean working in the shop had gone out only % few minutes before the chimney fell. At fire minutes to twelve a chimney at the Eeathcote Bridge Hotel was blown down. It broke through the roof, and about a couple of tons of bricks and mortar were precipitated into the bellroom close *j Mr Ranger, landlord of the hotel. The room and its furniture were utterly wrecked. At Lyifcelton some damage was done to the shipping, but not of a very serious nature. Iho telegraph line suffered to a considerable extent, and for some time traffic was interrupted. The sea roee very high on the Milford beaoh. It was the highest the oldest inhabitant remembers, and some of the waves came up to the road near Mr ParkesV. The lagoon was on a level with the sea, and the waves rolled in over it as if it had been a part of the ocean. At Akaroa, aecording to the Chnstchurch Frees, the sea did much damage. At four o'clock the wind oarae up in terrific squalls, and the waves dashed into i tbe bay, flooding the streets of the town. The new jetty was sometimes covered with water, and the approach to it was washed partly away. 8om» of t e piles for iho j.4ty hare been washed miles away. Several hosts drifted and were The street by tbe oil jetty presented a curious appearasce, with floating boats and l)gs J washing about. The borough school fence was washed away, and the shops all along the street were invaded by water. The breastwork is much and tha road through Duvauchell s Bay nearly washed away. Several telegraph posts are down, and there are great gaps in the road to Green's Point. In parts of the harbor the sea was ■imply tremendous, unti nb<olutoly washed logs weighing tons high up the etreet. At Wellington a heuvy southerly galo caused a high sea to run in the harbor, which washed away a portion of Iho Wellington and Hum, railway permanent way. IVaffio wes suspended, but commeniciiio!) was ?eoured by Oobb and Co.'s 'buise% which ran as fir as the break. Several of the yashts went ashore, and it was reported on Thursday night that the freeaing hulk Jubilee had gone ashore at Petone. Around the town windows were blown out, and here and there sheets of iron were blown «ff.

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SYNOPSIS OK ADVERTISEMENTS. Francis Franks, Temuka—Trespass notice. T. PeJmer, Cade'by, and Swaney Broi.,The Downs—Notify that trespassers will ba prosecuted. J. Mundell and Co , Geraldine—Publish entries to date for monthly sale on April4th ; are ftill booking entries.