LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1783, 30 August 1888, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Zbalandia Rinks.—An egg and spoon race and ladies’ and gentlemen's pair race lake place at the Temuka rink to-night, and should attract a good attendance. To-morrow night a two mile race will be skated at Geraldine. Codlin Moth.—A Nevada man claims to have discovered a method of dealing with the codlin moth peat. He mixes a quantity of vinegar and molasses and places the mixture in pans under the trees. It is said that the insects are attracted by the odor, and perish in thousands. Diocesan Synod.—The Diocesan Synod opened at. Christchurch on Tuesday. The Primate sauted that he does not intend to resign till after the forthcoming session of the General Synod, as ho thought that the diocese should be represented thereat by its Bishop. The present Synod could do nothing towards the appointment of his successor, which wou'd have to be dealt with at a special session. Sad accident to a Picnic Pasty.— A sad accident happened to a picnic party at Bourke, New South Wales. Nearly every child in the town was being conveyed to the scene of the picnic in lorries, waggons, carts, eic,, and the wooden frame round one of the largest of the lorries broke, precipitating tmny of tfab occupants, a number of girls, out. Two girls (Annie McCarthy, 6 years, and Ada Lilian Wharton, 6 years) and a boy (Arthur 0. Paine, 3 years) were killed. The children were buried on the following day with public ceremony. Obickbt. The English Pres* generally condemn the'?drm shown by' the Australian cricket tarn in the match against South of England, the' Spathj -exhibited by the team being inexcusable. The Australians are ad- ' vised, for the sake of sheir reputation, to declire.all their engagements off unless they ■ are prepared,tp show more interest in their work. The match between the Australians and Past and Present of Oxford and Gambridge tTniretsilies Was commenced at Portsmouth od'iMonday. The latter went in first, and scored 241, The Saltation Abmy.—Qsneral Booth mads some remarkable statements the other evening in the City Temple. Among other things he said that when he sent his captains to New Zealand they had 20a when they landed, and began, operations immediately, and at the end of twelve months they had an income of .£IO,OOO a year, In one week he had 105 young men and women offer themselves to go as musionariss anywhere, with no guarantee of silary. Give him the use of tbs meanest building in London— he did not Oira how degraded the neighborhoed—and after a month he would have the meetings full and paying their own exptns’s. Remedy for Apple-Blight.—We have been requested to republish the following remedy for apple-blight, which was issued by the Hon. ;ihe Minister for Lands in 1885 Four pounds sublimed sulphur, in an iron pot, with enough water to conveniently stir while boiling for twenty minutes ; then add 11b caustic potash (Greenbank Company’s is the best), previously dissolved and whilst still ho f , an( j a 8 much colza or other vegetable nil as will make it like a thick paint. Then, whan warm, with a large paint-brush daujj it for about the space of a foot round the butt of the atem of the tree. Rain will wash it into the roots, J ami or J will fend to preserve its strength I for years, /

Export op Horses.— The s.«, Bucephalus sailed from Auckland yesterday For Calcutta with 300 horses. Captain Walmsloy, with Miesra G. McLean and Thorpe, is in charge of the consignment.

Foots ALL,' —The football match at Brishn** on Saturday, English team ag»in«t th* Queensland representatives, vis won by th s former by seres points (o nil. —A match between tV> second fifteens of the Timaru and Waihi Clubs takes place at Winchester to-day.

Photosed Boabd or Conservators.— A meeting of landowners interested in forming a Board of Conservators for the north bank of the Orari nrer will be held in the Orari schoolroom on Saturday next at 8 p.m. The matter is an important one, and persons interested should mike a point of attending. Tme Taimwi.— The Tainui arrived at Port Chalmers yesterday. She brings 1877 tons cargo, 53 passengers tnd 23 pickages mails; She left Plymouth on July 14'h, Capetown August 4'h, Hobart 25th ; passage, 44 diys 22 hours 11 minutes; steaming liin», 42 d iys 20 hours 20 minutes.

Wesleyan Church, TemuXa. A meeting of the congregation of (his Church was held last evening. There was a large attendance, and the TW. R. S. Bunn presided. The hon. secretary, Mr H. M. Mi es, read the ba'ance-sheet in connection with the recent Loan Art Exhibition. It showed the gross receipts to have been £BO, and t.he expenses £32 17s lid, leaving a credit balance of £47 2s Id. This was considered very satisfactory. Hearty votes, of thanks were passed to those who had kindly lent their valuables for the Exhibition, to the lion, secretary, and lo the workers, which brought the meeting to a close. Alleged Fob# set. Detect! res Kirby and O’Connor arrested, at Christchurch on Monday, a man named Henry Dixon Adams alias Bentliy, described as a draper, on a charge of passing two forged cheques Timaru.- One of the cheques purported to be signed by A. Macpherson, manager of ths Pa-eora es’at*. Tbs amount wj» £8 9s, and t was uttered to Davies and Murphy, drapers, Timaru. To another, for £4l3s, the name of Mr A. Ferry,* was forged, and it was passed to Mr F. Cullman, The accused purchased some goods at Davies aid Murphy's, but 'hey were sent to a wrong address, and the firm got them back again. The accused wss brought up at the Resident Magistrate*, Court, Timaru, yesterday, and remanded til to-morrow.

Los AksbliOS.— A gentlemm writin gfrom Los Angelos, California, to « friend in Auckland, says:—" Tilings are not looking quits so rosy in °outh California ai when you left ’Frisco. In fact, the boom has gone down t) a rery low ebb. In 8 m Diejo the bottom has gone out of it altogether. I just wish I could send you a file of Dun’s commercial reports. The contents are a ghastly string of failures and assignments, One failure alone —The Tram, Cable, and Perry Co.—-reached the respectable sum of £47,000, and as for the small fry, their name is legion. ILre things are not quite so bad, but still bad enough. One of our pipers, the Times, has the courage to tell its readers the truth wh°n it says that the laud sales now are not onefifth what they were twelve months ago.”

A Guru fob Currant Blight, will be interesting to growers of currant trees to know that thoee planted mmy years ago in Fry’s Hotel garden, not far from (be Hot Springs, Hanmer Plains, have withstood the pest that so serious'y -fleets the trees in this neighborhood. The presumption is that the sulphurous fumes from the b .ths, which in certain winds pass directly over the garden, keep them healthy and free from bligh*. It may be inferred from this that a liberal use of sulphur to these trees would have the effect of destroying the insect that is supposed to enter the branches at their tip->, and work its way through the pith, thus removing the sap of the tree and rendering it useless for fruit-beariog. Station Management. —A good story is going the rounds just now anent (he management of a station owned by a gentleman who seldom visits it in person. He began to have bis suspicions as to why the returns were gradually getting low, ao, allowing his beard to grow, and disguising himself as a shearer, he visited the station. From the first man he met he enquired if he could stay the night, and was met with a cheerful reply in the affirmative. On enquiring what sort of a place it was to work on, his informant replied : “Oh, a—wwfina place,” “ Wliatpart of the work have you to do “ Oh, nothing much ; just mess about, help the boss, and say ‘ Yen.”' “ What has he to do, then ?” “ Oh, nothing much.” There w*B a change of m magement before the week was out. A Bad Practice.-—The disgraceful custom of parading images of Judas Iscariot Mi rough the streets of Tangiers on the day following Good Friday was again carried out this year without any hindrance from the authorities. A number of roughs made several of these images, which were dressed in clothes worn by Jews. In one instance a mosta was placed in the hand. After being carried through the town the images were hung up in various places and shot at, to the immediate danger of residents in the neighbarhood. One was cut down by the order of the Spanish Consul. The Times of Morocco, commenting on these incidents, says“ Our Hebrew frien's, however, know we'l how to despise such shameful proceedings, and are well aware how disgusted every Chrstian in the place is. Nevertheless it is a proceeding which ought to be put a stop to once for all with a firm band. The . Foreign Ministers have the power—why do they not exercise it f Nome years ego they forbade it on the coast—why do thsy permit it under their own windows ? Do thsy enjoy the sight ?” Jewish Chro tide.

A WoKßßttFra WrAPON'.—According to all accounts the near “ Lebel rifle ” is a wondrous weapon, and is destined to do terrible things m the hands of French soldiers (writes the Paris correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph). The members of the Academy of Medicine, wishing to diagnose the physical consequences of wounds inflicted by the bullets of the gun, recently had experiments made on twenty corpses, probably those of pauper* whom nobody owned, or those of illfated waifs pinked up at the morgue. Toe bodies were placed at the ordinary firing distances from 200 yards up to a mile or so. The bullets wbizaed through the bones and pierced them without frao taring them, as is done by tbe bull, t* of th- “ liras nflj.” The wounds, if they may be called eo, which ware inflicted, were small in their punctures, and consequently yery dangerous and d.fiiculL to heal. Injuries inflicted at short distances were so considerable that, in the opinion of the su r geon*, they would be almost incurable. At the longest range—--200 metres—a poplar tree was hit, but tbe bullet, which impelled a certain quantity of air before it, did not go through the tree. At 1200 metres the tree was pierced through and through, The discharges of the rifles are unaccompanied by smoke, and the reports are comparatively feeble.

Caps Bablet.—A saltier writes to a northern paper as follows concerning (be advantages to be derived from the cultivation of Cape barley:—l believe thousands of young sheep have been saved this year by it. It stands constant cropping down, and springs up again after a spell of ten days; it can then be shut up late in spring, and a crop of seed tiken off it. I have 100 acres of it, and have saved, I am sure, 800 hoggets by it, and it has kept 1600 since last April mud fat, ’ Coughs, Golds, Bronchitis, &0., are quickly cured by using Baxter’s “ Lung Preserver.” This old-established and favorite medicine is pleasant to the palate, and highly extolled by members of the medical, legal, and clerical professions. For testimonials, see advt. Sold by all patert medicine vendors.

SYNOPSIS OF ADVERTISEMENTS. In Bankruptcy—Be Themis Rae, of Peel Foreit, laborer. Zealandia Skating Rinks—Notice re races at Temuka and Geraldine. Temuka Road Board—lnvite tenders for cleaning drain and building concrete culvert. D. West, Architect, Timaru— lavita tenlers for erecting a Wesleyan Church at Temuka. J. Mundell and Co., Auctioneers, Geraldine —Hold sale of skins at G raldine on Monday next. Temuka Town Board—lnvite tenders for carting 55 yards shingle, and for leasing part of reserve 820. Webster and Macdonald, Auctioneers, Geraldine —Hold monthly sale of skins on Monday next. Board «f Conservators—lmportant notice to landowners interested in forming Board for north bank of Orari river. P. W. Hutton and Co., Agents for Timaru of the Dresden Pianoforte Manufacturing Company—Publish important notioa to those in want of a piano or sheet music ; hare a very large stock on hand. Temuka Leader and Geraldine Guardian—Offer the best means of advertising notices re stud horses ; liberal terms. Cards of allr‘s*s printed neatly and expeditiously ; bfit selection of blocks in the district.