LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1800, 9 October 1888, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Gbbalsijtb LiWtf TawKifl! Club."— The mnual meeting of Ihia club takes piano in the Mechanics' Institute, Geraldm?, to-morrow evening, at 8 o'clock. 'DBAWiir* fob Polled Ak«cißoll.—The drawing for the Polled Angus Bull, rafiVi by Mr A. Kelman and others taken place in th • Geraldine lohoolroom at 6 o'clock:: this evening. FaxaTj Fam.—An elderly mm named L. Stewart, a settler at Awahuri, was killed on Sunday afternoon on tb« Awahuri road, near Feilding, by falling from his horoe. Oohbeotion.—The d*te at the foot of lUs letter which appeared in our last issue on Si. Joseph's Church, Temuka, should'hare been October 4'.h, not September 4th. The rnistaka was made by our correspondent. Winchbbteb Faib.—Mr K. F. Gray will sell fat shi-ep and bullocks, store 'pigs, etc., at Wmohflitor 10-day. Messrs J. MundeL and 00. will sell steers and heifers,-fat ~aod si ore sheep and pigs, and three sections in the township of Winchester.

Rbmbdt TrjTO Poiboniksk—lt may be interesting le farmers (says an exchange) to know that kerosene is an excillent remedy for oa'tle poisoned by tutu or blown from clover. H*if a bottle poured down the animal's throat will give immediate relief.

Abeital o» t«b Tok«abihO.—The Tongariro, from Lond >n, via Plymouth, Teuoriffe, Oipetown, and Hobart, arrived at Wellington at 11.20 p.m. on Saturday. She brings 141 passengers of a 1 classes (37 of whom were landed at Hobart), 213 sacks of mails, und 2000 tons of cargo. The passage from Plymouth occupied -it days 21 hourß 16 minutes ; actual steaming time, 41 days 3 minutes.

LEOTtTRH AT RaNSITATA ISIiAND. —On Friday trailing next the Eev. T. A. Hamilton wU deliTer a locture in the Rangitata Island School, on " A Cruise in the. Mediterranean." The rev. gentleman delivered a si'milir lecture 1 at Winchester a short time ago, when those who heard him were greatly pleased. The chair will be taken by Mr W. Robertson. The charge for admission is Is, and the proceeds will be devoted to the funds of the sohool. Setiliicbnt o» Obown I/ands.— During the past six moaths the following areas of Crown linds haye been taken up for settlement :—For cash, 33,564 acres; on deferred payment, 22,262 acres j on perpetual lease, 71,714 acres. Including pastoral leases, the total amount taken up by 1106 selectors was 232,646 acres. During the previous six months 1144 selectors took up 241,148 acres, but this included 35,274 acres held by 346 settlers under special settlement associations, whereas during the li*t six months the area, eo occupied was only 9658 acres.

D*ArsHTS Match.—Considerable interes is being taken in the return match a draught,! between married and single players which is to take place in the Temuka Odd ftllows' Hull on Wednesday evening. The following players will represent the bachelors: Messrs AustiD, Flint, Wright, McCaskill, Plank, Millir, ?tor«y, Norton, Winter, Molnness, Hob»on, Lavarj, Dryadale, Pearae, Sim, anci Hobbs. The married men will be represented as follows: Messrs: ; Clyne, Hooper, D. Leach, Bennett,,. Bowman, McC lum, Reid, Allan, Chapman, Coif, N. 0. Nicholas, Ogilvie, and Mogridge. Players a.-e requested to bring boards with tbem.

Accidbnt. —A painful accident happened lo Mr W. tJ. Slack on Friday last;' Mr shck wu about to get. into bis buggy, and for that purpose put his foot on one of ther spokes of the wheel, when ths horse suddenly started on, and Mr Slack's foot slipping between ths spokea he was thrown violently to the ground and sustained a severe sinking. Fortuna'rly the lag, although considerably bruised, Was not broken, but how it esoaped being so. is a mystery. The accident will confine .the suf eror to the house for a ihort.. 'time, and prevented his attendance at the' mentbly meeting of the Q-eraliine Road Board hri.l yesterday. Dbath o» a Distincuishbd : MlN.—Mr W. G\ Palgrave, British Minister at 'Montevideo, whose death was reported, in our cabins yeiterday, says the OtagoJiE^'* , one of the' three disttnguHilidsontf oflhe Ute Sir Francis Palgmve. Oneof-hjp/, bothers Ji Professor of Poetry at Oxford, a J hd fhe'ither U cl.-rk to the House o{ ; , C/mimgr^r,.The deceased, who was born in 1826, graduated »• B.A. at Oxford. He servedmecondlieutennut in the Bth Bombay Native Infantry. Ho became connected with the Jesuits, and was admitted to the priesthood. While serving in Syria and Palestine, he acquired a complete mastery of the Arabio language. In his " Lectures on the Massacres of the Christians in Syria," delivered in IrelaruUu .1861, he describes himself as a "poor missionary for 15 years," and he remarks, " I have myself been a witness of horrors and devolutions tb»t chill the very blaod to read of. I saw them with my own eyes, heird thin with my own e*rs, and only escaped through the providence of Qyi from bein* among the number of the viotims." Mr Palgrave was lumnoned to Franca in the itinmti- of 1860 by Napoleon 111, to give ai account of the Ivrian disturbances and massacres, and he returned te Syria in 1861, charged with the task »f,exploring Central and Eastern Arabia in the servile'6f the Emperor. This as accomplished in the years 1162 and 18R3, having acquired such iufluenoa as to be regarded by the Arabs al one tf their ■balks. He published a narrative of his journey, whioh was reeoived with great interest. After kis return to England, he was sent out by the English Government on special service, for the relst.se of Consul Cameron and the other prisoners in Abyssinia in July 1865, and remained in Egypt by order tiil June 1886, when he returned to England. He then served is eontul in various places, including Bulgaria. He has published varions werks, iueluding a novo], " Herman Agka."

.Sehtenok Deduced.—At il;e Supreme Court, Wellington, yeaterday morning, Frank Mastara, who htd heoa sentenc- d on Saturday to two yare' hard labor for iadecent exposure, was again placod in tha dock by the. direction of the Olii*-f Juetice. His rfonor siid that on looking through thy Police Offeucea Act it appeared to him that tho intention of the Legislature was thai twelve motuhs should be thi maximum term for offonces of the naluro of t' at for which M»Btern was convicted. As Meters has b?en convicted on two charges he reduced the fentenoe to twelve mouths on each charge, to run concurrently.

Thb Late Empbbob's Diabt.—The following extract from the Paris letter of tin Sydney Morning Herald it of interest in connection with our cablegrams regarding the diary of Emperor Fredenok :—" Meantime niiitt'rs seem to have coma to a baiter snaps between the new Kaiier and hii admiraole mother, with whom ha dined an returning to Berlin. The Empress Victoria has had her husband's diary brought buck from to convince the Chancellor and ihn Emnoror, that this diary, consisting of eL-v.-n volumes, was written for her, and given to her by us writer, as is proved by its opening pages. Shims detached the portion t-online of State affairs, which she has had deposited in ibe archives of Berlin, and hfr exclusive right to tb'erestof the di*ry has been legally rcc ;;!.i;ed t>y the powers that be."

Awglin*.—The angling season bas just but 8) far nobody has done anything great in the fishing line. Mr »>. McCallum appears to have been the most successful so fir, having tak-n three fishes, weighing 91b, 101 b, and 111 b. It. will be interesting to anglers t 3 know that Messrs "Velyin and Taylor have a splendid supply of all the requirement* of a well .quipped angler, from a ffrat-class fishing rod '0 • bullv hook. Their stock of rods is firsf-.lws, and they haye baskets, 1 nes, minnows (of ■ vary description and the newest type), gaffs, flies, habyon spinners, and a great many other things, of which it is needless to make a record. Annlers will find it to their advantage to pay Messrs Velvin and Taylor a visit before buying .hewhere, as they are not liktly to do better anywhere elie. Baxtbb's ;Lttng Pkbsbbveb has gained great popularity {in this district as a speidy and effectual remedy in the <reitment or U9TJGHB, Colds, Bbonchitis and othei o'\est and thro»t. complaints. Read advt. and try it. SYNOPSJb 0* ADV.I-'HTIShMEKIS. Geraldine Liwn Tennis Club Annual meeting to-morrow evening. Lecture at Ransitala Island—ln the schoolroom, by ihe Rev. T. A. Hamilton on Friday evtrninif. Mrs McCallum, Midwife and Sick NurseNear Roman Catholio Church, Temuka ; 27 years' experience. James Winning, General Storekeeper, Temuka—Notifies great realisation still going on j fuither reductions, as ell must be cleared out within a brief time. Robert Hunt, Pleisant, Point—that the Clydesdale horse Peince Tic'or will travel Pleaaant Pom , Temuka, Waitolii, Totara Valley, Kakahu, ind Geraldine districts this season. A. R. Allan, General Storekeeper, Temuka —Has on sale, at lowest current rates, clovers, cowgrsss, alsike, cocksfoot, Nirnmo and Blair's garden and Aower seeds of every description,. potatoes (table and seed), etc., etc.