LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1849, 5 February 1889, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Sale at Temuka.— Messrs Gray and Mont gomery sell household furniture and effects, sheep dogs, etc., at Temuka to-day. Paeliament.— An extraordinary Gazette issued on Saturday morning further prorogues Parliament until Thursday, 11th April,

Dancing Contest.—A dancing contest for £IOO took place at Nelson on Friday night between T. McKay, of Christchurch, and D. Buchanan, a new arrival. The prize was awarded to McKay. Boabd Meetings. —The monthly meeting of the Temuka Boad Board takes place to-day, that of the Geraldine Town Board this evening, and that of the Temuka Town Board to-morrow evening. Geealdinb Monthly Sale.— This sale takes place to-morrow. In our advertising columns will be found the lines to be submitted by Messrs J. Mundell and Co. and Messrs Webster and Macdonald.

Vital Statistics, The following are the vital statistics for the Geraldine district for the month of January—Births 9, marriages 1, deaths I.—At Temuka 6 births, 1 marriage, and 4 deaths were registered. Geealdinb Racing Club.—A meeting of the Committee of this Club was held on Friday evening last, when it was decided to hold an Autumn race meeting early in April. A programme was drawn up and adopted. Sib Robkbt Stout. A rumor haying found circulation that Sir Robert Stout was likely to be a candidate for an Otago seat about to become vacant, be has authorised the Dunedin Star to say that he has no intention of entering politics at present. A Dying Convict.— Tha convict Crabtree, who has been an inmate of the Whau Lunatic Asylum since May last, is reported to be dying from softening of the brain, his condition having been very distressing ever since his transfer from Mount Eden Gaol. Cocksfoot. —The farmers on the Peninsula are all busy getting in their crops. The yield promises to be os good as in former years,' and, given suitable weather, should turn out well. We bear that some of the farmers have been offering Is 6d an hour and found, and have difficulty m obtaining men.— Akaroa Mail. Defence of the Colony.—lt is estimated by the Defence Department that there are 154,000 males in the colony between the ages of 15 and 55. Making ample allowance for invalids and youths, it is considered that there are more than 100,000 persons capable of bearing arms in case of necessity. The number of volunteers in the colony ii about 10,000. The Siltbssteeam Hotel, —At the Supreme Court, Timaru, on Saturday, His Honor Mr Justice Ward, in the case of P. Daly v. the Mackenzie Licensing Committee, granted a mandamus to compel the defendants to hear the application of plaintiff for renewal of license of the Silreretream Hotel. The case occupied two days, and each party was ordered to pay its own costs. B.M. Couet, Temuka.— On Monday last at the above Court, before Captain C. A. Wray, E.M., judgment for plaintiffs wiih costs was given in each of the following cases: —G. MoS. Gentlemun v. D. Leach, claim £5 2j ; Thos, Barr v. same, claim £29 3s 4d j A. R. Allan v. same, claim £3 2s lOd; J, Brown v. same, claim £6 lls 3d j J, W. Miles v. same, claim £8 5s Bd. Mr Aspinall appeared for the plaintiffs* This was all the business.

Timaeu Hospital.—The following is a 1 return of patients in the Tim am Hospital for , the month of January, 1889 s-Patients under treatment at date of last return —Males 22, females 6, total 28; admitted during the month—males 11, females 9, total 20; totals treated—males 33, females 15, total 48. Discharged during month—cured : males 15, females 2, total 17 ; totals discharged : males 15, females 2, total 17* Remaining under treatment—males 18, females 13, total 31. Out-patients treated during month—males 23, females 32, total 55. Revenue ErETUfINS,—The total amount of Customs revenue collected within the colony for the month of January was £112,612. At Timaru the amount collected was £1945 8s Hd. Ten months of the financial year are now completed, during which period the revenue has aggregated £1,207,691. The Treasurer’s estimate for the same time was £1,252,000, so that the deficit at the present date is £44,309. Last month’s receipts in beer duty came to £5139, making a total for the ten months of £41,791, or a deficiency of £709. A Bailie* Attacked.—Between one and two on Saturday afternoon an affray occurred in Colombo road, Sydenham, Christchurch, in which a man named Robert M'Lelland was seriously injured. He is a bailiff, and went into the house of a fish-hawker named Beardsley to distrain for rent. The door was locked, and M'Lelland burst it open. Beardsley, his wife, and a young boy fought with him, and he received four cuts on the head, one a bad gash on tho left temple. With the assistance of another man he managed to seize tho goods, got them on to an express, and took them away. A considerable crowd was attracted by the dieturhance. M’Lelland then went to the Hospital, where the wounds on his head were sewn up, —Lyttelton Times. Obaei Beidob School. The usual monthly meeting of the Orari Bridge School Committee was held in the schoolroom on the 26bh January. Present—Messrs B. P. Bartrum (chairman), Grant, McLean, W. Hewson, Ashby, and Wharton. The teacher’s monthly report showed the number of pupils on the roll to be 56, and the average attendance for December quarter 47,5. The results of the annual standard examination were submitted, and the following motion was carried unanimously“ That this committee desire to record their appreciation of the Inspector’s report now submitted, and their gratification at the results, and to convey to the teachers their thanks for the attention paid to the instruction of the scholars which has led to this favorable report.” It was decided to close the school on Friday, February Bth, for the harvest holidays. The meeting then adjourned. Feanob and The Vatican.—A secret, but none the less official, communication has been addressed by the French Government to the Vatican, advising the Pope to leave Italy in certain eventualities, and offering Leo XIII. any assistance of which he might be in need in the eyent of his deciding to go to France. The eventualities alluded to of course refer to the rupture of relations between France and Italy. As to the possibility of these offers being accented, Lao XIII. is said to have manifested no sign of on intention to leave Rome. The Tribunal bears from Vienna, on the authority of a high ecclesiastic, that the Pope has charged Monsignor Galimberti to proceed immediately to the palace of the reigning Duke of Lichtenstein, to thank him for his generous offer; but the Pope has at present no intention of leaving Rome. If, however, Italy should be engagged in war he would willingly take refuge in Vaduz, tho capital of the Principality of Lichtenstein. Loo Xlll.'also sends to the Prince the Order of St. Gregory the Great in brilliants. ,

Paeobls Post. —A parcels mail, per the Tamui, will close nt the Temuka Post Office at 11.50 a.tn. to-day. Dunedin Races.— The autumn race meeting at Dunedin takes place on the 20tb, 21st, and 23rd February. The Cup race will be run on the 20th.

Temuka Rifles.— The annual inspection of this corps by Lieut.-Oolonel Hume will take place to-morrow evening at 7 o’clock, This being the annual inspection it is most important that every member able to attend ehould be present. Ceiokbt. —Arrangements are in progress for a match between the Zealandia (Timaru) Club and a team of the Temuka Cricket Club. It will probably take place on Saturday next in the park, in view of which the local men will do well to attend practices. Alleged Remedy toe Lockjaw.— Here is the Scientific American’s remedy for lockjaw. It is certainly very simple, and easily tried " Let anyone who has an attack of lockjaw take a small quantity of turpentine, warm it and pour it on the wound, no matter where the wound is, and relief will follow in less than a minute. Nothing belter can be applied to a severe out or bruise than cold turpentine ; it will give relief instantly.”

Timaeu Haebob Boaed Elections.— On Saturday last Messrs D. M, Boss, B. Woollcombe, and J. H. Sutter were elected to represent the Timaru Borough on the Timaru Harbor Board, and on the same day Mr John Taltiot was re-elected to represent the Mount Peel Boad District. Yesterday Mr K. F. Gray was re-elected to represent the Temuka Boad District, and Mr F. B. Flatman for the Geraldine District.

Electric Light and Fishing. —A. writer in the Fishing Gazette says : "Experimants have been tried on the Welsh coast with the electric light in connection with fishing with nets in the sea. I am told that two nets were let down at night, one being furnished with an Edison-Swan glow lamp. That not when raised was full of fish; but the other, to which no lamp was attached, was almost empty. The light was then shifted to the other net, and afterwards .both nets were tried without lamps. The results in all cases went to show that the electric light attracted the fish in a must wonderful manner.”

BobiedTbbasube. —A portion of (he much fabled wealth buried by the famous Capt. Kidd and his followers has actually been brought to light. The discovery was made on the farm of Mr James Eddy, on Horse Neck, Rhode Island. Amass Eddy, his grandfather, it seems, was a follower of Oapt. Kidd’s, and when he died at an advanced age, left some directions written in a mysterious stylo as to a certain sum of money buried by him. His son, Mr James Eddy’s father, did not trouble his bead about the matter, but his grandson was of a different turn of mind. He accordingly undertook a search, with the result of bringing to light 1556 Spanish doubloons enclosed in un old kettle. New Yobk Society.— Mr Arthur Montefiore, in an account which he gives of his experiences in New York, writes aa follows Domestic grievances are freely ventilated in the public press. Husband and wife have a difference, and fight it out in public. More often they resort to the Divorce Courts of the different States. “ A short time ago, oyer a hundred cases of divorce were disposed of at Chicago in a single day; and almost an identical state of things exists at New York, The family life of the nation is being rapidly undermined ; reverence, fidelity, and stability becoming by-words in society. At Long Branch and Saratoga Springs women meet their two, three, and even four * late ’ husbands with perfect unconcern, and will sometimes mix with them on the moat friendly of footings. No hostess need be terrified should a divorced couple find themselves by any oversight on her part at a ‘ squash ’ in her house ; the chances are that they will greet each other with affability, and the last feeling they will experience will be surprise ! But people are beginning to see that this sort of thing is unworthy of a great nation, and is a hindrance to ics higher progress in reflhement and civilisation."

An Innocent Victim.—An extraordinary story was told to the Melbourne detectives by a Mrs Grafton, who signed a number of . cheques which a young commission agent named William George Fraser, a son of the Rev. W. G. Fraser, liberally distributed, Mrs Grafton arrived in Victoria 18 montns ago with £BSO to her credit, of whioh Fraser obtained £660 by various specious excuses. In August last, by which time they had become very intimate, Faaser admired some valuable diamond eairings whioh she wore, and asked that he might have the loan of them for a day or two in order to get a brooch made to match them as a birthday present for her. She gave him the earrings, ' and as be did not return them she asked for them several times, and was given different excuses. At last he informed her that he had deposited them at the bank as security for an overdraft, and with this assurance she was satisfied. The earrings, on Fraser being arrested for passing valueless cheques, were found in a pawnshop, where they had been pledged by Fraser for £4O. On other occasions, when in financial difficulties, Fraser borrowed her rings and braoelets, which had also found their way to the pawnshop. She states that she signed the cheques at his direction, and that he always filled in the body to suit himself. She knew that her account was exhausted, but ha told her it would be all right, as he would always pay in enough to cover the amount of any cheque he got cashed. A farmers’ agency company has been formed at Dunedin with a capital of £IO,OOO, and Mr John Grindley. as manager.

SYNOPSIS OF ADVERTISEMENTS.

Funeral Notice—Re late Mr Joseph Bat borough. Temuka Rifles Annual inspection to morrow evening.

Priest and Holdgate—Notice re the McCormick reaper and binder. Geraldine Road Board —Invites tenders for repairs to bridge near Southfield. Dunedin Autumn Races—On February 20th (Cup day), 21sb, and 23rd. Geraldine County Council —Invito applications for position of working ranger on Seadown water-race.

W. O. Beswick, Deputy Assignee—Notifies that second and final dividend in estate of Julius Siegert is now payable. Victoria Lodge, 1.0.0. F., Geraldine Members meet at 12.30 p.m. 10-day to attend funeral of lato Bro. Burborough.

Taylor & FJatman, Woodbury —Quote prices for twine for cash ; hava Engleburt’s celebrated oil and Bearing extras for sale. R. Irvine, Returning Officer—Notifies that Mr John Talbot has been elected a member of the Timaru Harbor Board for the Mount Peel Road District.

Mrs Marshall, Temuka—Notifies that she has taken over the bakery business lately carried on by her husband, and hopes to merit a share of public patronage. W. Wills, Returning Officer—Notifies that Mr K. F. Gray has been duly elected a member of the Timaru Harbor Board to represent the ratepayers of the Temuka district.