LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1837, 5 January 1889, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wesleyan CRuech, Temuka.— The Rev. R. S. Bunn will oonduct ’the services at this Church to-morrow. The subjects of his addresses will be found in our advertising columns. Pleasant Yailby. School Committee. —The usual monthly meeting of this committee takes place this evening at 7.30 o’clock. Catholic Church, .Temuka. — The Very Rev. Father Cummings, S.AI., lately a missionary in Sydney, will preach in St. Joseph’s Church, Temuka, to-morrow, at 10.30 mass and at vespers. The rev. gentleman lias the reputation of being a great preacher. St. Saviour’s Church, Temuka,—A small windfalfoutside the ordinary source of revenue has accrued to the funds of St. Saviour’s Church in the shape of a 55note, received from Mr A, M. Clark. The particulars are withheld, but little surprises of this sort are cone the less acceptable. Sir Julius Yogel,— The Auckland Star correspondent, under date November 9th, writes :—“ In the course of the next fortnight Yogel will finally decide whether to resign his seat in your House of Representatives and remain in England, or to return to the colony and re-enter political life. Sir Julias himself favours remaining here, and has a notable scheme on hand for starting an agency for floating colonial mines and properties of all sorts ; but Lady Vogel wants to return to the colony, and women generally carry the day in these crises, I’ve noticed.” Secondary Schools Conference. The Secondary Schools Conference at Christchurch |luye resolved that it is desirable that Education Board scholarships be awarded on the result of one examination throughout the colony, and that holders of scholarships should bo required to attend secondary schools. A motion asking Goverument to appoint a Royal Commission on Education was negatived. Mr Harkness, Oainatu, was elected President of the Conference. It was decided to meet two years hence in Wellington, bat if urgent business arises to meet in Dunedin next year. The Bishop and the Boy, —A correspondent of the Christchurch Telegraph writes : “ A true friend never acted in more earnest manner than was wilnessed -recently. A small boy hud fished from the river a large willow branch on Park Terrace, and was trying to lift it to a small truck, but could not manage it. At this moment Hie Lordship Bishop Harper was passing by, who lifted one end of the branch while the boy took the other end. In quick time it was balanced on the truck, and away marched the boy with his load, That boy will never forget the help so freely given by such a friend in a time of need. „ The Supreme Court Judgeship.— The Wellington Post says: “[f Mr C. D, R. Ward is not appointed to the vacant Supreme Court Judgeship it is understood that he will retire from the public service altogether, and will not resume duty as District Judge, Manj years ago, in the early days of Parliamentary Government in this colony, Mr Ward took a somewhat prominent part in politics, and represented the Wellington country district in the Hauso of Representatives.” The same paper says “It is rumored that considerable pressure is being used to induce Mr H. D. Bell to accept the vacant seat on the Supreme Court Bench, but that bo is not inciinced to at present retire from the active practice of his profession. ’

Modern Novel Writing. —There is an editor in New York who understands exactly what a comprehensive occupation editing is. Ho conducts a periodical intended for the edification of youth, and naturally bo has to provide plenty of fiction. This is,how he does it; He takes one of Lord Lytton s novels, gives it a new title, alters the names of persons and places, - and cuts out every passage that does not commend itself to hia notion of what is good for youth. Then he adds fresh chapters of his own, and iuterpulatee appropriate paragraphs into such pints of Lord Lytton’s text as he has left standing. Having constructed areally good plot and infused a little'style into Lord Lytton’s writing, he signs his own name to the story, and the trick is done. This is ihs royal road to “novel-writing,” and that editor ought to patent his plan, end make a fortune. ,

Customs Revenue.— During the month i of December tbe Customs collected at Timara > amounted to £IO9B 17s lid. Fobgbd Notes. —A number of forged National Dank one pound notes are in cir- ■ dilation at Dunedin, ten having been . detected up to the present. The forgery has j been done by photographing the notes. r Accident. —A farmer at Clarkville, near Kaiapoi, named John Humphries, had the 5 first joint of his left thumb pulled off by o 1 horse ho was leading suddenly trying to gel , away. Amputation had to be performed at , the next joint. b Catholic Bazaab.— The auction sale of goods left over from the recent Catholic Bazaar at Temuka takes place this evening at > 7 o’clock. There is a great variety of useful ( and fancy articles left to dispose of. The j fittings will also be Bold; , Labok-Sating Machinery. Badlywrapped cigarettes have heretofore been torn ' open by hand. A machine now in use does 1 as much work as 100 girls used to do. It 3 cuts tbe wrapper and dumps the tobacco into j a receptacle without waste. One girl handles this labor-saver. ; Old and in Povebty.— John I. Porter, l who designed and constructed the Merrimao, i the first ironclad ever built, and who thus ( changed completely the system of naval , warfare, is (says an American paper) wielding a broadaxe in the Navy Yard at Norfolk. He ] 1 is an old man, almost 80, but is compelled to r toil from early until late. . ; 3 Eleotbio Light v. Gas;— lt is shown [ that the introduction of the electric light in j the Central Savings Bank in London has reduced the average amount of absence from J illness about two days a year for each person I on the staff. This saves that bank .about 1 £640 sterling a year. The electricity costs . more than gas, but the saving in clerk hire a more than- makes up for this, leaving £266 J per year “to the good.” * A Novelty.— An endless railway train, 1 consisting of 400 platform oars, is to be one fc of the attractions at the Paris Exhibition. The line will be sunk, so that the platforms ' will be on a level with the surface, and the train will run slowly enough to permit most " people to step on and off while ic is in T motion j but for the accommodation of elderly g people a slop of 15 seconds every minute will g be mode. The motive power will be elec--1 tricity. I * : AltbbeD His Mind.— The Christian 6 World makes the following statements—>f When the wealthy distiller who built the Presbyterian Church in Belfast, referred to by Canon Wilbcrforoe, lay dying, the ~ Moderator of the General Assembly then in session took occasion to speak against the liquor traffic. Tbe distiller on bearing this, ’. sent for his lawyer, and added a codicil to his a will revoking £50,000, which he had left to is the Irish Presbyterian Church.

a Rivalry. — A strong feeling of antagonism is getting up between the Chinese and Europeana at Round Hill diggings, Southland, s arising out of attempts of the former to secure 0 ground. A miner named Bell had his hand smashed while saving his bead from a e blow from a piece of sawn timber, wielded y by a Chinaman in a dispute as to some ground for a water-race. —A Chinaman has been brought from Round Hill and lodged in gaol Tw ot Invercargill on a charge of stabbing another ' Mongolian in a gambling dispute. Count Yon Moltke.— Count Yon Moltbe has serves! Germany so many years that most l 0 people have probably forgotten that the t great strategist is a Dane, and originally j’ served in the Danish army. It was not for long, however, for at the age of 21 he sent in his resignation, which was endorsed by the Minister of War, who wrote the following !S words; “ Your Majesty’s Government will lose nothing by releasing the undersigned.” r Schleswig-Holstein in after years was a bitter 1 contradiction to this, (hough. “The Old Man of the Sea.”—This is 0 the term applied to the N.Z. Press Asso- '• ciation by the Sydney Bulletin. It is run by 1 a few of the wealthy papers, and retails news 1 to the less important journals. In the cities - a newspaper is required to pay £SOO into the i maw of the monster before it can receive a 1 line of telegraphic news. The service is an t execrable one, but through the great cost of , cables, which precludes any single paper [1 receiving its own news, all the newspapers are required to support the monopoly. A Telephone Sxoby.—You, cannot be t too cautious through the telephone it seems, s A few days ago returned to Wellington an . old gentleman, after a long absence. ' He 0 called at an office in Lambton Quay and j was warmly welcomed and asked to dinner , by the master, who added ; “ I will just telephone to my wife ; she will be delighted 1 to see you—just come and listen to the answer yourself,” and this is it: “’What were J you thinking of to ask that old wretch j you 3 can have him and cold mutton to yourself, for t I am going out.” Tableau! Weekly 1 Herald. 3 Faie-Haieed Women.— Apropos of fairhaired women, it is said that the true auburn • shade so beloved by artists from time imi memorial is getting very rare in Europe and i also in America. A well-known doctor has [ been to the.trouble of compiling statistics by i which ho has proved, at all events to his own - satisfaction, that for every ruddy-haired man , and woman mot here to-day there were ten half . a century ago, and that if the change continues ' at the same rate in a few more years the last remaining red-haired Yeaus will be secured * by the Barnum or Earim of his day as a genuine natural curiosity. ’ Teeatmbnt of Lunatics. A violent maniac was placed in a blue room, and be--1 came quiet in an hour. Another patient, ' after spending a whole day in a violet-colored room, was completely oared. American and ■ English medical authorities seem to regard 1 these cures as effects rather than causes of the treatment, induced, they argue, not because the light was colored, but because it was a novel sensation, snaking the patients to forget their inclinations, as pebbles put in the ear of a balky horse will cause him to forget his pranks; a sudden bath or shock might have the same transitory effect.. Airing his Maohi.— Says a London correspondent of a Southern paper: A young gentleman of aristocratic bearing who had been to New Zealand was bent on displaying his knowledge of Maori before a crowd of admirers, at one of the matches played by the Maoris in England, Entering the pavilion, be called Karauria ; f ‘ Ehoa, Maori man ! Haere mai! Kapai to waipero.” “ No, thank you, Mr Whiteman, I do not drink,” replied Karauria in perfect English, and with 1 crushing effect. The crowd roared, and the 1 young swell looked as though he bad * swallowed half a pound of Cayenne pepper, * and it was coming out of him through hi» ’ skin. i N.Z. Cheese and Buttes.— lt is gratify- 1 in g to know (says a Horae paper) that Aus- c tralasia is now officially included iu our t sources for the United Kingdom’s supply of f butter and cheese. It is, no doubt, a new c trade, but it is certain that it is also one a capable of almost indefinite development. / Now Zealand at present takes the lead, and u during the past year I observed that the value of the butter imported wae £13,118, » against only £8693 from the rest of Aus- Ttralasia, making the respectable total of £22,000, Cheese is a larger item, and altogether a trade in the of oijr Now 0 Zealand friends, seeing that during the past year the value of that imported here from the 0 Britain of the South was £24,193, while a 1 Australia seat only to tjw value of £§os, J u

Vital Statistics,— The following are the vital statistics for the Geraldine district for the month ending December 31st, 1888 Births 4, marriages 1, deaths 3. South Obabi River Boabd.— Ratepayers having failed to nominate with Mr W. Wills, Returning Officer, any person to fill the vacancy on the South Orori River Board caused by the resignation of Mr Wm. Mason, it. will now devolve on His Excellency the Governor to appoint someone to the position. Sudden Death.-Oh Wednesday afternoon a man named Rosendale was found dead in a paddock near West Melton, North Canterbury. He had been burning gorse, and seemed to hare got slightly burned about the body, but was found some distance from where the fire was. It is surmised that he suffered from heart disease. Pupil Teachers. — Judging from the remarks of Mr Bevan-Brown, the headmaster of the Boys’ High School, at the Secondary School Conference, at Christchurch on Wednesday, the lot of the pupil teacher, like that of the policeman in the “ Pirates of Penzance,” is not a happy one. Mr Brown described the pupil teacher system as white slavery, and also stated that so far as his experience went, except, perhaps, the stewards of the direct steamers, the pupil teachers were the veriest drudges in the colony.-*Preßßr; Bazaine’s Ruin.— When a man who knew Marshal Bnaaiue well, was once asked what it was that in his opinion broughtabout that general’s ruin—whether ambition, incapacity, or cowardice—he replied at once, “ Women.” Women in Mexico, women in camp, women in Metz. When French soldiers were starving in the fortress, Bazdne’a women were feasting on champagne and truffles. But for Bazaine’s women the entire history of the war—and, perhaps, of Europe—would have been changed. Orange Trees. —At Cordova, that -farfamed seat of Mcorish splendour, there aie still remaining a number of monster orange trees known to bo 700 years old. Their trunks are partly hollow, their bark cracked and rough, yet each year these (dingy old giants yield their 7,000 to 110,000 luscious oranges, as if in the heyI dav of their youth. Even in Eogland, at Hampton Court, where the trees are raised only as a curiosity, and carefully sheltered by glass, there are several trees known to be over 300 years old. There is also an orange tree ia the convent of St, Sabine, at Rome, which is known to be over 680 years old. An Interesting Exhibition.— An Exhibition of Women’s Industries and a Centenary Fair has just concluded in Sydney, the net returns from which amounted to £6040. The Sydney Morning Herald states that the exhibition was 11 a success from more than a substantial standpoint. The people of New South Wales know now, as they never knew before, what handicraft women engage in here, and can understand what opportunities there am for development of trades which would suit women. Through the exhibition fresh stimulus wi.l no doubt be given to trades that were hitherto but comparatively little known, and, above all* it will promote that confidence among women themselves in their sphere of labor which was never so necessary as DOW.”

The Governor ax Auokland.-— A farewell address from the ci'izena of Auckland was presented to His Excellency the Governor, at the Art Gallery, by his Worship the Mayor on Thursday night. There was a large and representative attendance. Ttie address expressed a high sense of the manner in which Sir W. Jervois had discharged the duties of his office, and the important services he had rendered the Colony, and regretted the early departure of His Excellency and Lady Jervois. Sir W. Jervois, in reply, said that he and his family left New Zealand with most heartfelt regret, and that he might say not only because of the manner in which he had been so heartily received, but because he believed that, taking all circumstances into consideration, there was not a finer Colony on the face of the earth than this Colony of New Zealand. He also referred to hia successor as exactly the man they would like to have as Governor. Connecting th» Atlantic and the Mediterranean. The projected ship canal between Bourdeaux, on the Atlantic, and Narbonne, on the Mediterranean (France), seems still to occupy the French mind. It would be a vast undertaking, comprising, as it does, a length of 330 miles, to save a voyage round Spain of 700 miles, at an estimated cost of £26,000,000. It is said »lso that the plan contemplates the construction of a railway track along its margin ; so that by the use of locomotive towage a speed of seven miles an hour could be maintained by day, and also by night by the aid of electric lights. Thirty-eight locks would be required, and the depth of 27ft would allow of the passage of heavy ironclads. It is the opinion of maoy persons in political and financial circles that the undertaking will be began before long. That such a canal must be eventually constructed is beyond a doubt. Winchester Fruit Preserving and Export Oompamt.- -At a special meeting I of the Provisional Directors, held at Win-1 Chester on 31st December, and called for the purpose of considering the memorandum and articles of association prepared by Mr Asptnall, solicitor, it was resolved to adopt the draft submitted, subject to jertain notes and queries drawn up being jatisfactorily explained, A few shareholders, whose total number of shares amounted to 50, applied for a refund of ;heir deposit money on the mistaken lupposition that the title and scope of the Jompany had been altered, A draft etter having been drawn up and agreed o, (he secretary was instructed to forward • copy to each applicant, to whom it was minted out that the request for a return 1 the deposit money had been made ( mder a misapprehension, there being no } atontion on the part of the Directors to j hange the original design, which could nly be legally given effect to by the Jnanimous consent of all the applicants 1 or shares ; and that the Directors there- 1 )re intend to carry out the previous de- f ision of a general meeting of shareholders ) float th® Company under the name and b h the purposes originally determined d pou.' It was resolved that the Chairman £ id Mr R. A. Barker confer with Mr spinel! on the notes and queries drawn I ? re deraorandum and articles of associa- t 1 on, and to take action accordingly. t( otice of motion—the Hon. W, Rollestou it 1 move : “ That iq the event of the h Mnpany not being floated for its o igiual purposes it would be right 8] ai the Provisional Directors should b itaia and reoonvey the section purchased F a site for the Factory to the Governout.” loj

Reaper and Binder Trial. —A trial of the Walter A. Wood Single-Apron Reaper and Binder will take place afc Mr KcKibbin's farm, Pleasant Point, on Monday next. The Midland Railway. The Wellington correspondent of the New Zealand Herald says relative to the Midland Railway : —I have been permitted to read a private communication from London, in which the prospects of this undertaking are referred to. The following is the opinion of the writer ■“ Money in England is getting dearer every day. There is at present considerable stringency in the money market. Last year money, might be got for to 2 per now 4 and 4J can be obtained upotimort dated bills. Enterprises of all kinds are being floated, which makes money more scarce, and this is likely to continue so for some years. If the Midland Railway Company had a difficulty abeut capital ■when money was cheap, what must it be now 1 There is no prospect of getting the money at the price the company want it, for some time to come at all events." Coughs, Colds, Bronchitis, &0., are quickly cured by using Baxter’s “ Lung Preserver,” This old-established and iavorite 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 pater t medicine vendors.