LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1770, 31 July 1888, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Sale at TemukA.— To-morrow MrK. F. Gray will continue the clearing sale of drapery, grocery, ironmongery, etc., on account of Mr Jas. Winning, who is giving up business. He will also sell one of Colville’s patent winnowers.

Bates, —It is notified in our advertising columns lhat at the next meeting of the Arowhenu i J own Board a rale of o m halfpenny in the £ wdl be struck.. The Geraldine J'owo Board will st-ika a rat) of 6d in 'he £ ut its next meeting. The Late Storm. Reports from Burke’s Pass show that the fall cf snow in the Mackonz e Country was not so heavy os ut the east of the ranges. At Tckapo bridge there were 20 inches, and less on the west and south. The Midland Railway. - Ministers cabled Home ihsir ultimatum on Saturday regarding the Midland Railway difficulty. The matter at issue deals with the running powers. Difficulty has been experienced in conducting negotiations by cable. Female Franchise.— Sir J. Hdl, on the Order of the Day for going in o Committee on the Electoral Bill, has given tv tiee to move —“ That it bo an instruction to the Committee to make provision for the extension of the electoral franch se to women.” His Last Prohkoy.— The last words that the late Matthew Arnold wrote for pub.ioition were: —“As I have repeatedly prophesied, and now ptophesy for the last lime, the Liberals will win if.the Conservatives think it enough to put firmly in force the Crimes Act,, an I do not touch the morel grievance,” i.e., I he bad landlords EINKiNG. The,, Zealandta Rink eti'l ontinues to be well, pitronised at- Genii line. Rinking in the new ,rihk"in Ternuka commenced last night. There was a Urge attendance, several spUnded skaters from Tiinaru being present. Temukii has now one nf the finest rinks in New Zealand. | Another rinkwas also opened in.! the Oddfellows’ Hall, Geraldine, last nig,]it. Bales at Geraldine,— The monthly stock s.la at Geraldine lakes place to-morrow. Messrs J. Mundell and Co. advertise entries of fat and store sheep, fat and s ore cattle, pigs, etc, —Messrs Web.-ter and Macdonald sell two choice farms at their rooms lomorrow. They also sell fat and store sheep, cattle, pigs, oic; at the Geraldine monthly Sale. Particulars will be found in our advertising columns, Libbuty in Ireland. — A mother, who lives in IrtUnd, has written ts her son, who is in New Zealand, and who figured as a candidate at the recent elections, warning him ta be very careful of what he sajs, for fear he would to sent to gaol. Of course it is a common thing to send Irish members of Parliament to gaol, and also Irish candidates for elections, and. the old lady b liovea the same class are equally liable to be imprisoned in this colony. Liberty is a thing unknown in Ireland. Railway. Returns,— T ie following ar • •the railway returns for the four weeks ended June 23; North Island—Receipts, £21,67i I2s 4d ; Middle IslandReceipts, £49,707 16s 7d ; total, £71,382 8s lid. The railway traffic for the June quarter shows a large decrease on every main item excepting grain, in which there is an increase of 24,000 tons. The receipts for the' quarter are £IO,OOO less titan last year, but the expenditure shows a decrease of nearly £17,000. Sporting. —The Hunt Club’s Steeplechases were held at Riocarton on Saturday last. The weather was wet, and the attendance very small. Mr T. Kearney’s Reuben won the Hunters’ Hurdles of 30 sovs.; Mr A. Holmes’s Mexico the Hunt Club’s Cup, of 50 sovs.; Mr Leopold’s Kangaroo the Open Handicap, of 75 sovs—Mr A. L. Barker’s Daddy Longlegs ran third in this race; Mr J. Shaw’s Piooaninni won the Tally-ho Plata of 30 sovs,; and Miss Palmer’s Pancake the Lady’s Bracelet, of 25 sovs. . Lieu Insurance.— There are few things in which a man can invest his money to better advantage than in life insurance, and there is no office so safe and the Australian Mutual Provident Society. As an instance of the benefit of insuring iu this Society, we may give the experience of one of its members Let year. He paid last year into it £lB 5s 8J on a £SOO policy, and the value of his bonus is £ll 4s. Thus of the sum he paid in he got £ll 4s of it added to the value of his policy, so lhat in reality all he paid to secure £3OO at his death was £7 Is Bd. These facts speak for thems-. Ives. Football. —The football match between the Natives and an Olago Fifteen took place on Saturday a ternoon. The ground, was very heavy, and the ball greasy. The Otago men were the favorites, and won by eight points to nil. The Natives were scarcely ever dangerous, and were forced down seven or eight times, pl-iy being only once or twice in anything like dangerous proximity to the Otago goal. The .Natives showed excellent foi in in collaring and stopping rushes, but the passing of the local team was excellent. Their pliy in the line out, wuh scientific play in the scrums, was also far superior.—The m tch between the English team and Kyneton, Yict iri«, was won by the former by 2 goals to 1. Crown Lands Board. —At a meeting of the Canterbury Crown Lands Board on Thursday, sections 31 and 33, reserve 1381, 80a, Rmgitata, were granted to P. Lonnie for cash ; section 23, reserve 1381, 139 1, section 43, reserve 1371, 181 a, and section 45, reserve 1371, 209 1, o the same purchaser on perpetu.il lease. Section 33, reserve 1381, 40i, was gran f ed to Albert Priddle, also on perpofu.il lease, at Rangitata ; section 28, reserve 349, 50 1, Orari, was sold on deferred payment to Adam llae. Tenders were opened for the perpetual leasing of section 2030, 81a, near Geraldine, and that of Lewis Grant' accepted at £25 per annum-irenl.

Yankee Business iw Kteeything.—They are certainly more' entirprising in Church ma tera on the other side of the Atlantic thm in the Old Country. The pews at «Biooklyn Tabernacle, where Dr De Witt Talm ge preaches, have just been put up to auction, and many fetched large premiums over their yeaily rent. Another still more remarkable manner of raising money is as follows. Entertainments are given, known as " sociables,” in aid of the Church funds, and, at the conclusion, the privdega of walking home with the prettiest giil in the room is put up by auction. The bidding among rival admirers is frequently very brisk indeed, and largo sums are paid for the honor of escorting an unusunLy attractive damsel. Entitled to Pensions. —A report has been made to the Government of the pensions to which Civil servants who might retire during the current year would be entitled. The prinoipd ones are:—Major Campbell (Clerk of Parlia ment), £4G6 ; Mr Friend (Oleik of Commit teis), £333; Mr L. Shawe (Clerk of Legislative Council), £214; Mr G. S. Cooper (Undersecretary lor the Colony), £533 ; Mr C, T, Batkin (Assistant-Comp-troller General), £533 ; Mr J, Olliviur, £250; Mr 11, M'Cullock fit,M,, Invercargill), £225 ; Mr 11, C. S. M‘Kellar (Secretary to the Custom’), £433; Sir J. Hector. £3GI; Mr H. J. Eliot, £292; Mr J. Blackett (Engineer-in-Uhiel), £482,

Town Improvements.— The yard of the Geraldine Town Board presented a very busy appearance yesterday, some half dozen men being hard at work, under the direction of Mr Sherratt, mixing asphalt for the purpose of carrying out the improvements, in the Way of channelling, etc., recently determined upon by the Board,

Jonathan Roberts, The prison clothes which wore discovered near the Port Levy road were on Thursday taken possession of by Constable McCormick, who had them conveyed to the gaol at Lyttelton, where Warder Russell identified them as those worn by Jonathan Roberts during his time on Ripa Island. The clothes were found at a spot within ten chains of the Poit Lsvy road, and about a mile from Mr Gardener’s station, Pnrau, The trousers, wet and mildewed, were under.a rock, on the top of which was Roberts’s waistcoat, perfectly dry. This rock is out of sight of Ripa Island, and xloberts could have safely changed liimstrlf behind it.

An Unequal Marriioe, — i cable message from London dated the 28th states that the Duchess of Montrose has married Mr Marcus Henry Milner, brother to Lady Durham, aged twenty-four. The Duchess of Montrose is the lady so well known on the turf under the mime of “ Mr Mantoo,” as owning racdioises. She is seventy years of age, and has already been twice married. She was born iu 1818, married in 1836 to fourth Duke of Montrose, who died in 1874, and secondly, in 1876, to Mr William Stewart Sterling-Ciawford, who died in 1883. Mr Milner is a sou of the late Mr Henry Bedby Wi liam Milner, a relative of Sir Preierick Qa.irge Milner, who again is related by marriage to the Right Hon. E. Stanhope. The Countess of Durham is Mr Milner’s youngest sister.. . Hot Copies. —The Rev. R. Coffey, incumbent of S r . Mark’s, Wellington, made (says the Post) two rather bold and sweeping asseitior.s in the course of his- sermon last Sunday, First, that some of the wives of aitisans in New Zealand were the veriest domestic drudges lie knew of —even worse than some of the poorest and most miserable people he had known in Ireland—the special drudgery in question being that tyranny on the part of their husbands which kept them at household duties and prevented their attendance at church. The second .statement was that there was a sad and serious deterioration in morals amongst the young people in Wellington, on ao-ount of whioh he had been obliged to suspend the parish juveni'e temperance society rather thin bring the children out at night to attend its meetings. Mr Coffey suggested the advtsahlenesa of forming in the parish a mothers’ union for the promotion of the better training of the young people. Another Stout.— Tin .latement made by James Walsh, nt ihe inquest held at Soulhbridge recently on the body of his brother, who died from acute bronchitis, to the effect that application had been made at the Chns*churoh Hospital to have the deceased admitted is denied by the hospital authorities. They say that James Walsh camr to the hospital a short time ago, and naked for a su’t of clothes, he having received one some two years previously. He wv» told that his request could not be complied with, and he thereupon “ became bouiiceable.’' Ha then asked that he might have a nml, and he was taken into the kitchen and given a dinner. During the time he was eating it, Walih mentioned to one of the female serv-mts that he had a brother lying very ill at the Bush Inn, Riocarton, This, it is said, is all that, was known at the hospilal of the case of William Walsh until the reports of his death and the inquest appeared in the papers.— Press,

New Zealand Apples in England. - Some months ago Mr John Davis, farmer, Eyreton, who went to England on a visit to his friends, took a quantity of appl-.e grown at Kaiapoi, which included Cambridtre and Sturmer pippin*, Beauty of Kent, Kentucky redstroak, and a seedling raised in the garden with other kinds. These reiched the Old Country, per the s.s. Coptic, in very fine condition, and were much praised in the Oovent Garden market. Mr Davis was informed that a handsome return coaid be obtained upon such fruit if delivered in London about the months of May and June, as the sample was fur beyond the npp’es to be procured in the market from English growers at that season. By the same means Mr Kennight sent a few Chauraontelle pears, averaging nearly lib weight each, which also reiched England in sound, condition, and were very highly appreciated.

BooKNa THE Wron» Maw. —A correspondent writes: A rather amusing incident in connection with the football match, Invercargill v. Orepuki (which I think much too good to bo lost) happened (at a well-known hotel on Saturday, a few hours before the match took p'aoe. Four rather athietio-lookiug young fellows accosted an Orepukiite, inviting him to have a dnok. He, thinking they were doing ‘he hospitable, accepted the inI vitation, and had a drink with each'of r them, and finally they had a drink with him. Shoitly afterwards, the Orepukiite heard several young fellows, evidently footballers, remonstrating with one of the hospitable four for taking too many drinks, saying he would not be able to play. “Oh," he replied, “I heard that a fellow named —-• was one of the best forwards in the Orepuki team, and 1 wanted to ra .ke h'm 1 tight ’ before the match, but I have just found out that i went for the wrong man. It was the brother of the footballer I have been boozing up—worse luck,” Making Fpn of the Rabbit Conference.—Evidently (he meeting of the Jommissioners to the Rabbit Conference at Sydney provoked the humorous propensities of some practical jokers. Mr Bell, the New Zealand Commissioner, s-iys “One man suggested that as the Chinese and the rabbirs were p*sts in equal proportion, the former should be set to catch the latter, and pointed out that it would be of great benefit to the country to first infect the rabbits with some noxious disease thU would be communicated to the Chinamen. This most original scheme was e'aboruted in a let er of inordinate length. One nppl cant wrote from the far distant Punjaub, m India, suggesting that certain of llie shou d be caught and operaled upon iu such a way that they would become sorely distressed and ultimately mad. These would bite other rabbits, (be other rabbits would also go mad, and the operation, he predicted, would end in general lunacy and extermination. The ingenious suggesiion of another gentleman was that we bhmil 1 kill all the does, and then do something or other—l really forget whai with the bucks. The feasbility of killing the bucks at the same time never seemed to strike him.”

The Fivers. —Since the cessation of heavy rains experienced last week the rivers in the district have subsided with remarkable quickness. The Waihi, Orarl, and Hae-hae-te-moana are now well within their own beds. The fords at most of these rivers have been greatly disturbed, and the Geraldine Road Board have had gangs of men employed putting them to rights. The ford on the coach road from Geraldine to the Orari railway station is vary much scoured out, a bank of about six feet being left, Messrs Mundell and Co. e coach has still to travel by the back road, but the ford is expected to b» put right to-day As Good as Hops.— A bush grows in f,® interior of Austra'ia, says the Eureka k' in es, called by the colonists “native “ops,” which some day must come into Prominent notice, owing to its medical v btues, as well as the fact that the blossoms have all the qualities of common hops in an intensified degree. The habitat of this valuable plant is between the Darling and Lachlan rivers, and it spreads over an area of about 250,000 square miles. Each bush yields on an average about five pounds of hops, which hang in clusters all around the outside of the bush for about four months in the year, and are fit for plucking all that period. The shepherds use them for fermenting bread ; the brewers also use them in the fermentation ef beer; and as a tonic bitters they are unequalled by any known vegetable production. They thrive best upon a sandy soil; are not liab'e to any disease ; very little care is ropnired in their cultivation, as the bush is very hardy, is graceful and evergreen. The yield per acre is more than that of common hops ; no poles are required, and the picking is a comparatively easy and speedy proceeding. Live in Ireland. —A contemporary says that affairs are getting on pleasantly and comfortably in Ireland. Mr Gilhoolev, M.P., has been sentenced to 14 days’ imprisonment for having been struck by a constable, and when be comes out. he will probably be sued for the rent of the gaol. Gilhooley was wanted by the authorities for another offence—as far as we can remember there was a scrimmage somewhere, and a policeman fell over him, and he wrs summoned for being in the way—and on the day of his trial he appeared at the door of the Court in a waggonette. According to the evidence of ten spec atora, the Inspector of Police abused him for arriving in such a vehicle, and declared ihe waggone'te to be intende'l as a means of provoking a breach of the peico; and then lie rushed Gilho iley, and ordered him to get out of that. When the two men were hauled apart the Irish member got 14 days' for b-ing foun 1 in a state of concussion with an rfficer; and about the same time Mr Ryan, of Lisycasey received a similar sentence for making a curious sound in Ida inside as a policeman passed him. He said he was only clearing his throat, but the officer alleged that lie groaned at him, and the authorities reckoned that two weeW confinement would teach Mr Ryan to abstain from peculiar noises when a constable was about. Ireland is a bad place now for any man who desires to howl or blow his nose within ten miles of a policeman, and any Irishman with a chronic cough had better take to the woods.