The Temuka Leader TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1889. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1852, 12 February 1889, Page 2

The Temuka Leader TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1889. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Magisterial. —All the cases set down for hearing yesterday at the Resident Magistrate’s Court, Temuka, were settled out of Court.

Business Announcement. —By an advertisement appearing elsewhere it will be seen that Mr Thomas Sellars has started business in Geraldine as a watchmaker and jewellers. Mr 8.-llars has hud considerable experience in the watch-making trade.

Ashburton Woollen Factory, The Ashburton Woollen Faciory Company, which has been in operation for the last three years, has resolved to go into liquidation. The assets twill more than coyer their liabilities. Want of capital is the cause of the trouble.

ILM. War Vessels. —There is a possibility that one of H.M.’s war vessels, now at Dunedin, may pay Timaru a visit during the course of the week. The Mayor of Timsni, yesterday, at the request of a number of citizens, sent an invitation to Rear-Admiral Fairfax.

Appointment. The Wellington Post states that Mr C. Y. JO’Connor has been appointed Engineer-in-Chief.—A telegram to hand from Wellington states thac members of the Cabinet do not seem to know anything about it, and state that no appointment had yet been decided on. Railway Construction. The tender of Knight and Honoybone, of Christchurch, has been accepted for the construction of the Ashurst section of the Napier-Pulmerston Railway, the contract price being £14,484. Among the tenderers were Messrs Jones and Peters, of Timfuu, the amount of whose tender was £18,726, Jubilee Testaments —The South Canterbury branch of the British and Foreign Bible Society have just received from England a parcel of 4500 of the Jubilee Penny Testament issued by the Society, with the Queen’s autograph lithographed on thefly leaf, and are now ranking arrangements to distribute thorn to the children attending the public schools. Some mi'lions of these teste, ments have been distributed in various parts of the world. A Bold Proposal. —At a meeting of the Farmers’ Co-operative Association at Christchurch, on Saturday, it was suggested that in view of the action taken by the the woollen factories in declining to supply their products to the os’ocialion for manufaoture, they should confer with Timaru respecting the advisability of both associations combining to purchase and work the Ashburton Woollen Factory, now in liquidation. The same meeting condemned the action of buyers at the wool sales, and suggested that the whole matter be fully considered during the recess. Giant Radishes. —Bays the Ashburton Guardian : —“Mr H. Zander has brought to our office specimens of radishes grown by him, which are of Brobdignagiar dimensions, as will be perceived when we state that one of the roots is no less than six inches in diameter and weighs 21bs They are of the Spanish variety, and though of such enormous size are excellent eating. They are cut in slices and sprinkled with salt for table use, and being somewhat pungent are first-rate with cold meet,” SOCIAL Rbeorm. —The committee of the Soci»l Reform Association at Dunedin submitted the following objects as suitable for inscribing on the card of membership : be provided by the State ; the nationalisation of the land ; that the Stale or comniunily provide employment at adequate remuneration for all who are sble to wo> k ; that a system of national or’ municipal co-operation supersede the present system of competition, with the view of ultimate commercial ownership of machinery and control of distribution.” The objects will be discussed at next meetiog. Mr A. Bathgate is president of the Association. Resident Magistrate’s Court, Geraldine. —At this Court on Saturday last, before Messrs H. W. Moore and R. H. Pearpoint, J.P.’s, Donald McKay, storekeeper, Peel Forest, applied to have John Bull bound over to keep the peace, Mr F. Wilson Smith appeared for applicant. D, McKay, and J. G. Roskruge gave evidence as to tha assault committed on the former by Bull and his eon about a month ago, lor which they had been sentenced to a month’s imprisonment each. Defendant asked for the case to be adjourned to allow of his finding ' securities. The adjournment was not granted, defendant being bound over to keep the peace for six monlhs, in two sureties of £25 each and himself in £SO, in default six months’ imprisonment. The justices stated that they would allow defendant a dav or two to find the requisite securities before issuing a warrant for his arrest. This being all the buaiaeas the Court adjourned, J

Ministerial.—'The Hon. the Premier has gone to the Thames, and the Hon. B. Mitchelson to Waikato. Sworn In.—Mr Justice Dennistouu was sworn in at Wellington yesterday morning, and left for the South in the afternoon. Chinese in the Colony.—A return just published gives the number of Chinese in the colony who are married to European women at 51, of whom 28 are in Otago and 4 in Canterbury. The total number of Chinese half-caste children is put at 101, Otago claiming 53, Canterbury 11.

Electrical Storm.—An electrical storm broke over the New Plymouth district about three o’clock yesterday morning. The lightning and thunder were continuous, and the storm lasted over an hour, terminating in a heavy downpour of rain. The lightning was very vivid, and for an hour the sky woa kept illuminated by flashes which followed each other without intermission.

Imports and Exports.—The imports into New Zealand for the quarter ended 31st December were valued at £1.493,957, as against £1,579,266 for the corresponding quarter ot 1887. The exports were £2,055,328, as against £1,686,736 for 1887- The total of the imports for 1887 was £6,245,515 and for 1888 £5,941,900. The exports f‘>r 1887 were £6,876,169, and for 1888 £7,767,825. N.Z. Railways.—Excursion tickets to Dunedin, available for return up to and including the 4th March, will be issued at Temuka from the 15ih*to 22nd February, on account of the Dunedin Autumn Race Meeting which commences on the 20th. A special train will leave Temuka at 12.20 a.m. on the 20th, and a special return will leave Dunedin on the 23rd at 8 40 p.m. First class tickets will be 27a 6d, and second class 20a.

District Court, Timaru.—At this Court yesterday, His Honor Judge Broad granted probate in the estate of Benjamin Bailey, deceased, to D. M. Rosa; leave reserved another executor (Mr Hay), In re Johiy Craig, deceased, letters of administration were granted to James Ora’g (Mr Aspinall). In re George Edgar, deceased, letters of administration, with will annexed, wore granted to Robert and Adam Edgar, on finding two sureties in the sum of £4OO each (Mr Aspinall). In re Clara Chamberlain, deceased, letters of administration were granted to Thomas Chamberlain, sureties dispensed with (Mr W. M. Hamilton).

N.Z. and South Seas Exhibition.—At a meeting of the commissioners of the N.Z, and South Seas Exhibition at Dunedin on Saturday, it was stated that shares had been taken up to date as fellows: Paid for, £10,813 ; promised. £400; advertising, £375; total, £11,588. A small sub-committee was appointed to canvass the town and country for shares, in order to get the £15,000 taken up. The draft programme of the Exhibition has been prepared. The Exhib tion will open on the 28th November, and close the week after Easter, 1890. Foreign and British exhibitors will be charged doubla rates for space. Duly articles manufactured in the building will be allowed to be sold. The judges will be appointed mainly on the recommendation of exhibitors. First, second, and third class certificates of merit will be awarded, and first silver and second bronze medals will, be giyen.—Her Majesty the Queen has promised to lend her own collection of Clarkson JStansfiold’s pictures of the opening of new London Bridge. The Princess and the Prince of Wales have also lent portraits of themselves. The owners of all stipulate that the collection must be fuily insured. N.Z. Railways.— The total gross receipts of the Nev Zealand railways from the Ist April .1888 to the sth January 1889, that is to say, for nine months and five days, amounted to £745,068, and the working expenses to £488,289. In the corresponding period of lust year the receipts wore £754,741, and the expenses £529,037- Thera ie, therefore, a decrease of £IO,OOO in the receipts, and of no less than £40,000 in the working expenses, though 25 more miles of line have been worked (round numbers are employed in both cases), thus the net profit for the period amounted to £257,000. This is at the rate of £342,000 per annum, or only £BOOO short of the Treasurer’s estimate ; a shortcoming which has every prospect of being pulled off before the 31st March. The details of traffic show a decrease of 280,000 in the number (2,366,336) of passengers carried, and of 343,000 in (he number of live stock, but an increase of 126,973 tons in the goods conveyed. The increase is in grain and minerals. The working expenses absorbed only 65 per cent, of the receipts as against 71 per cent, last year ; thus, though the gross receipts are below the nominal estimate at the rate of about £50,000 for the year, the net revenue comes very close to the estimate, R.M. CoUET, TimabU.—At the Resident Magistrate's Court, Timaru, on Saturday, before C. A. Wray, Esq., Michael John Rooney was charged, with breaking into the house of Patrick Hoare, at Kerry town, between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. on Friday, Bth. Richard Hoare, farmer, Kerrytown, stated that prisoner was m the vicinity of the house referred to on Friday. He was on witness’ farm, and behaved there in a remarkable way, flourishing a gun, and sometimes pointing it at witness. The latter was working on a stack, and prisoner, in talking of his prowess as a sportsman, said he could shoot the stack or anything. As he was standing close to it, and seemed inclined to try a shot at it, witness got down and picked up a fork, when prisoner cleared. If ho had fired at the stack so close to it ho would have set it oa fire. Patrick Hoare decosed to going into Timaru onlheSlh. Before going they looked the door, and hid the key. When thov got back in the evening they found the door opened and everything in the house tossed about and disturbed, and matches strewn about the floor. They did not miss anything except a hammer, matches, some food and some apples. Prisoner was always about Kerrytown—“ a pack of hounds would not keep him out of it ” Had told him a score of times to keep away from the place. Mot prisoner on the road about half-past four, and he told witness to hurry home—some people were stealing the apples. Prisoner said he met a man on the road who told him there were three young follows in old Hoard’s garden getting apples, and told him to go up and he would get some. He (prisoner) replied that he didn’t care for apples, and he told Hoare when he met him that there were fellows in the garden. Constable Stanley corroborated the evidence of the previous witnesses. An application was then made for a remand, but His Worship said they could easily get the accused if further evidence was obtained, and the charge was dismissed. The accused was then charged with vagrancy. Constable Stanley and Sergeant Livingstone deposed that accused bad no means, had not worked since December, and went about making a nuisance of himself by challenging people to wrestle and in other ways. Sergeant-Major Mason thought the man was not right in his mind. JElis Worship remanded the accused till Wednesday for examination and further enquiries, ,

Winchester Faib.—Winchester fair takes place to-day, A Good Bbbth.—A telegram from Dunedin states Mr Maxwell has been appointed manager of the Equitable Insurance Company at a salary of £IOOO.

Oheistohuboh Wool Sales. —At the wool sales yesterday morning several foreign buyers attended but refused to buy if oneeighth bids were taken. The brokers refused to give way and the sale proceeded, the buyers being only local men. Suicide.—A man named Kennedy, a book salesman at the Napier Railway Station, blew his brains out yesterday. It is not known what was the cause for suicide. Social Tea at Temuka.—A social tea, followed by a public meeting, in connection with the Wesleyan Church, will take place to-morrow evening. Tea will be on tho tables at half-past six o’clock. Cheap Accommodation. A stranger, who had miscalculated the strength of the ala supplied by the local hotelkeepers, was accommodated by Constable Morton with a night’s lodging at Temuka last night. He will be brought before the justices this morning.

Social Evening at Winchester.—A social evening in connection with St, John the Evangelist’s Church will be held in tho Winchester schoolroom on Fridoy evening, the proceeds from which will be devoted to a benevolent object. A number of songs, glees, etc., will be given by performers from Temuka, The admission fixed is only Is, and refreshments will be provided free.

Arrival op the Doric. The Doric arrived at Wellington from London, via Hobart and the Cape, at 4.30 on Sunday afternoon, after a fine weather passage. She left London on Deo. 27th, She brings 17 saloon, 21 second saloon, and 43 steerage passengers for New Zaaland. One death occurred during the voyage, that of a firstclass passenger, Mr F. Foster Bateman, who /died on Feb. Jtb, as the Doric was entering 'Hobart. The body was taken ashore. The '“cause of death was cardiac disease. Trotting Club.—A movement is on foot to establish a Trotting Club in Temuka, and a preliminary meeting of persons interested is to bo held at tho Star Hotel, Temuka, on Friday next. We understand that there is every prospect of tho club being successfully established. Several influential sportsmen have taken the matter up, and a suitable course adjacent to the township has been promised. In Christchurch and its neighborhood similar clubs have been an unqualified success, and considering that there is at present no representative meeting in South Canterbury ihere is no reason why Temuka should not have the first say in the matter. Presentation. —A very pleasing incident took place at the Wesleyan Sunday School, Timaru, on Sunday afternoon last, being a presentation lo Miss Musker on the occasion of her res’gning her position as teacher in the school, she being about to leave tho district. Mr C. H. Jones, superintendent of the school, made tho presentation. Ho remarked that it was both a pleasing and painful duty ho was called on to perform. They were about to lose one who had worked among them for over eleven years, but he was glad to know that, although leaving Timaru, she was only being transferred to another sphere of labor, as he understood she and her future husband fully intended to taka up the Sabbath School work in their new home. He had very great pleasure in asking Miss Musker to accept a small souvenir of tho regard and esteem in which she was held by her fellow-teaohers, and, on their behalf, to wish her every success and happiness in her new sphere in lifs. She had worked hard among them as a teacher, and would, he trusted, continue to labor in Sabbath School work, and to strive for that eternal home wflero they all hoped to meet at last. Miss Musker briefly and suitably replied. The present given consisted of a butter knife, with a butter cooler and pair of salt cellars of ruby-colored glass, set in silver.

Baxter’s Lung Preserver has gained great popularity in this district as a speedy and effectual remedy m the treatment ot Coughs, Colds, Bronchitis, and othei chest and throat complaints. Bead advt.

SYNOPSIS OF ADVERTISEMENTS.

Trotting Club—Meeting re trotting club at Star Hotel, on Friday evening. Wesleyan Church, Temuka—Social tea and public meeting to-morrow evening. N. Railways—Excursion fares to Dunedin on account of Dunedin Autumn Races. O. 0. Tripp, Orari Gorge, Woodbury Notifies that shearing will commence on the 19tb. Thomas Sellars—Notifies that he has commenced business as watchmaker, etc., at Geraldine. Si. John’s Church, Winchester Social evening in connection with this church in Winchester schoolroom on Friday evening, W. S. Maslin, Auctioneer Advertises particulars of great clearing sale of groceries, drapery, ironmongery, boots, shoes, glassware, etc., commencing at 12 o’clock on Thursday next at Mr Winning’s store, Temuka ; good g to be cleared regardless of cost. Drummond & Glasson, Commerce House, Timaru—Notify that Commerce House aince commencement of sale has been daily thronged, and advises customers to call early; enumerate lines that have come to hand during the week and been put into the sale.