LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1861, 5 March 1889, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

E.M. COUET. —On last Saturday m Temuka a first offender was fined 5s and costs by J. Talbot, Esq., J.P. Boaed Meetings. —The monthly meeting of tbe Temuka Road Board will take place to-day, that of the Geraldine Town Board this evening, and that of the Temuka Town Board to-morrow evening.

The GotEbnob. His Excellency Sir William Jervois will leave Wellington for Melbourne vifi Southern ports by the Wairarapa on the 18th mat., and ho expects lo meet Lord Onslow in Adelaide,

Wellington Bankrupts.—Twelve petitions in bankruptcy were filed in Wellington last month, the largest number recorded in any one month since the existence of the Official Assignee’s office. Tbmuka Monthly Sale.—Messrs Gray and Montgomery advertise entries for the Temuka monthly sale, which takes place today. Besides the usual entries of cattle, sheep, and pigs, a dog cart, set harness, and pony will be offered. Accident. —We regret ta learn that Mr Henry Blkis met with a rather serious accident last Saturday. He was working a chaff-cutting machine, and his foot in some way got caught in it, and he was very severely cut. Dr Hayes attended and dressed up his wound, and it is anticipated it will take several weeks before he can go about again. Geraldine Monthly Sale. —The monthly sale of stock at Geraldine tabes place tomorrow. Messrs J. Mundell and Co. and Messrs Webster and Macdonald advertise entries of cuttle, sheep, and pigs to be submi: ted. The entries include some grand lines, and farmers and others in want of stock should make a point of attending. The English Language.—An American says the inconsistencies of our language, as far as orthography goes, are fearful. T-o-n-g-u-e spells ‘ tongue,’ and the man who first spelt it ought to be hongue. A-c-h-e spells ‘ ache,’ and that’s all you can macho out of it. E-i-g-h-t spells ‘ eight,’ no matter how you deprecieigbt the idea. A-i-s-l-e spells * aisle,’ and f-e-i-g-u ‘ feign/ is enough to make anybody smaisle if the effort is not too peignful. The Dunedin Exhibition.—At a well attended meeting of volunteer officers at Dunedin it was resolved that it was desirable to hold an intercolonial rifle meeting in Dunedin during the exhibition. Arrangements arc likely to be made between the Union Company and the railway department to issue return tickets from Melbourne and Sydney, winch will cover railway and steamer fare. The Mararoa will probably be run between Melbourne and the Bluff direct. By this means it is believed that a large influx of visitors will be secured. Sale op South Canterbury Huns. —The Eun Classification Oomnaission.ers, Messrs J. H. Baker, D. McMillan, and R. Foster submitted their report to the Canterbury Land Board on Thursday on the land south of the Eangitata River. The board fixed the upset amount of rent the Government should be recommended to offer them at, and it was proposed to hold the auction sale of these runs in Timaru early in April. ■ Plans showing the new subdivisions of the runs, with particulars as to area, upset price, Ac., have been sent to Wellington to bo lithographed, and copies will be available as early as possible. Timaru Hospital.—Th# following is a return of patients in the Timaru Hospital for the month of February, 1889: —Patients under treatment at date of last return—males, 18 ; females, 13 ; total, 31; admitted during the month —males, 8; females, 4; total, 12 j totals treated —males 26; females, 17 ; total, 43. Discharged daring month :—cured : males, 3 ; females, 10 ; total, 13 j relieved ; males, 1 ; total, 1; incurable—females, 1; total 1; totals discharged—males, 4 ; females, 11; total, 15. Remaining under treatment —males, 22} females, 6; total, 28. Out patients treated during month —mules, 26 ; females 23 } total, 49. Mixed Amusements, —la a Yiotorian news paper a story is told to this effect; —In a certainsmall township it chanced that there was on the same day a funeral and a trotting match. It was a mistake to arrange so in a place where amusements are few and far between, but the arrangements were made and could not be altered. The people were determined that nothing should bo missed, bo the funeral was fixed for a rather early hour and the trotting match later. After attending the funeral the mourners rode off to the race, followed by the undertaker with the hearse, which accommodated besides the driver a number of sporting people, who thus went literally from grave to gay. The Hew Primate. Tho Primateelect (Dr Hadfield) is a remarkable illustration of the truth of the adage that ‘ threatened men live long.’ ' The Life of Bishop Selwyn’ contains frequent allusions to the frail tenure of life apparently held by Mr Hadfield, as ho was in those days. On one occasion Bishop Selwyn and others assembled round what they believed to be his death-bed, and bade him farewell. In one of his letters Selwyn actually remarks that h« must get back iu time for ‘ poor Hadfiold’s funeral.’ That was about forty years ago, 1 Poor Hadfield’ has outlived Bishop Solwyn r and has actually succeeded to the Primacy of Hew Zealand.

Yital Statistics. —During the month of February 8 births, I marriage, and 4 deaths were registered at Geraldine, LKOiraE at Geraldine.—Mr 0. E. Hugo will deliver one of his popular lectures on “Physiognomy” in the Oddfellows’, Hall, Geraldine, this evening. Mr Hugo’s lectures are both instructive and amusing, and well worth hearing. Smoke-Consuming Aptabatus.—A. trial of Carman’s smoke-consuming apparatus, made at "Wellington before the principal engineers in the Government and other services, including that of the Doric, was a remarkable success, The trial, extending over four months, shows it saves fuel to the extent of 10 per cent., and in some instances more. Experts, who watched it, say it is the most thorough apparatus of the kind they have seen.

Customs and Beke Dutt.— The Customs revenue collected througout the colony during the month of February amounts to £127,212. The total for eleven months of the financial year now completed is £1,331,929, ra against an estimate of £1,382,500, the deficiency being thus £47,571. Last month the amount eolleoted was £112,636, and for February, 1888, £105,973. The revenue in beer duty for the month is £4380. The total for eleven months is £46,171, a deficiency of £578 upon the estimate.

Submarine Boat.— A new submarine vessel has been invented by a Lieut. Feral, of tbe Spanish navy, who undertook to make in January, at San Fernando, the first trials of his vessel before he attempts to navigate it under water for 48 hours in the rough seas near the Straits of Gibraltar. He asserts that he can keep the boat in a horizontal position, and steer and use it as a torpedo yesscl under water with a crew of eight men. Tbe Government has promised its moral and pecuniary support to the invention, which is exciting great interest in Spain, especially among naval officers. Anglican Gbnkeal Ssnod.— The Anglican Synod concluded its session atDnnodinon Friday. .Resolutions were passed that it was desirable some special organisation should be established in each parish or district for securing systematic support of the Church. It was decided to embody the resolution passed re religious education in a petition to the Legislature. The Primate, in replying to a vote of thanks, said, referring ;to the Incumbents’ Removal Bill, that ir, will bs of great service, and, as he had no doubt it would be carried out with great consideration and judgment, it will be found beneficial to the interests of the Church.

Found ih a Creek,—On Sunday a boy was searching for birds nests along the banka of the old Peuri creek, near Invercargill, when h« observed a bundle floating in the water. He examined it and found that it contained the body of a male child. Part of one of the local papers of 25th January last was wound round the body, which was also wrapped in a towel. The body is that of a fully developed male child, newly horn, and appears to have been put iu the water iramediulely after birth. Ho marks of violence era visible, and a medical examinalioo only can determine whether the infant was born alive.

Bungling Officials, —A somewhat amusing imbroglio connected with forged bank notes is making the Hungarians marry (says a correspondent of the Times.) A short time ego a gang of men, supposed to be forgers of bank notes, were arrested at Stuhlweissenburg, and the tribunal of that town sent a bundle of their false notes to the Court of Justice at Buda-Pesth, before which the prisoners were to be tried. By a blunder the notes were sent on to the tax office as genuine, and the tax office put them in circulation. As a consequence the prisoners had to be acquitted on their trial for want of proof. They now intend, it is said, to sue the Hungarian Government for their money, arguing that the genuineness of the notes has been sufficiently established by their circulation through the tax office.

Spoetihg.—The Victorian Racing Club’s Autumn Meeting commenced on Saturday last, and it is estimated that fully 30,000 persons were on the ground. The principal erent of the day was the Newmarket Handicap, for which twenty-one horses started. The start was a splendid one.'all moring off in a Una. The race fell to Sedition, with two New Zealand horses, Loohiel and Carbine, second and third. The race was won by three quarters of a length. The following are the results: Bssendon Stakes: Hon. J. White’s Aberoorn I, Mr S. G. Cook’s Cyclops 2 • Ascot Yale Stakes : Hon. J. White’s Spice 1 Mr G. G. Stead’s Rose Argent 2 ; St. Leger Stakes: Hon. J. White’s Volley 1, Mr J. Wilson, junr.’s, Lonsdale 2; Newmarket Handicap : Mr M. Jacobs’ oh m Sedition 1, Mr G. G. Stead’s Lochiel 2; Hopeful Stakes: Mr J. Wilson’s Chintz 1, Mr R. Phillips’ Irish Whisper 2; Brunswick Stakes: Mr S. Gardiner’s Loyalist 1, Mr S. Fielder’s Steel Arrow 2, Mr G. G. Stead’s Russley 3.

Kakahu Minerals. —Professor Chinch, accompanied by Mr James Allen, M.H.R. for Dunedin E*st, Mr A. B. G. Rhodes, M.E.R., and Mr B. T, Rhodes, arrived in Temuka by the express yesterday. The object of the professor's visit is to make a mineralogioal examination of the Kakahu district. He will leave Temuka at 9 o’clock Ibis morning, and spend the day in the Kakahu district. In the evening ha will go to Geraldine, and on the following day visit Mr Tripp’s estate, on which it is said specimens of minerals are to be seen. After inspecting whatever Mr Tripp has to show him, he will return again to Kakahu, aod on next Thursday he expects to be back in Temuka. He will be accompanied, throughout by Mr Alien, who is himself en expert mineralogist, and also Messrs A. B. G, and E. T. Rhodes. The report of Dr Hector, published in this paper in 1885, was submitted to Professor Chinch. The report states that a sample of quartz taken below the marble cliff yielded at the rate of loz. Sdwts. per ton when tasted at the colonial laboratory. Professor Chlrioh said this would pay handsomely if there was much of it. Dress Adtice. —Helen Mathers, writing ou ‘ Dross ’ in the Christmas number of The Queen, says ; —Dress an average woman in a close-fitting serge, or quite neutral-tinted tweed ; give her a spotless linen collar and cuffs to match ; take away all chains and gew-gaws, and tell me if she ever looked batter, unless, indeed, it were in a pink cotton cambric, on a summer’s morning, with a rose at her throat instead of a brooch. Simplicity, simplicity—a costly simplicity if you will—but let every dress be one-ideaed, and let no unnecessary or extraneous triles bo introduced into it. And after simplicity, or rather as a consequence of it, comes ‘ Freshness,’ that most desirable quality which to a woman’s clothes is much the same as a fair, healthy skin to her face ; so that to say of a woman ‘ She always looks so fresh ’ is to pay the highest of all compliments to her and her milliner. To bo simple, then (as richly as you please), to be fresh at every point, these are two long steps towards good dressing, but the third is a little longer, and infinitely harder to take—it is to dress suitably, not only to your station and age, but to your appearance, your charaeter, and youc bouse.

Personal.— Vlr -Albert Erskine, who was formally a pupil, pupil fca«cher, anfl assistant respectively, in the Qeralims Public School, and for soma lime past Assistant Master in the Masterton (North Island) District Hijjh School, has recently been promoted to the position of Second Master in the Clyde Quay School, a school that has just been opened in a suburb of Wellington, at a salary of £l5O per annum. Mr Erskina’s many friends in this district will be pleased to Inrn of bis success in his profession. Yaledictobt.— The Rev. W. J. Oeao, who for the past two years has offic atod at the Primitive Methodist Church, Geraldine, preached his farewell sermon in that church on Sunday evening last. There was a crowded congregation. Mr Doan chose for his text Acts, xxvi., 22 and 2S», Ue reviewed the circumstances under which the words of the text were used by the Apostle Paul. He drew attention to the 1 marvellous manner in which the aposile had been preserved by <iod at times when his death seemed almost a certainty. Mr Dean said that the same power which had preserved St. Paul had enabled him (the speaker) to fulfil the duties of his ministry from the day ho was called to it till (hat evening, wbea it would, as far as active ministration was concerned, close. Ho heartily subscribed to St. Paul’s words, and could say that whatever strength of body or mind he (the rev. gentleman) had they had been vouchsafed to him by God, He pointed out that bo long as God had a work to ' accomplish He would keep and support the instrument He had chosen for that work. The preservation of his life and health under the most trying circumstances he attributed to God’s sustaining grace. Without this grace the labors of any minister would be of little avail. He (the speaker) had now bae.« in the ministry over 46 years, and he thanked God that during the whole of that time he had been enabled by His grace to faithfully preach Christ and Him crucified. This ho considered was the one grand subject that should ever be tbe theme of the Christian minister. In conclusion Mr Dean thanked those of his own and other churches who by their kindly sympathy and practical help had assisted him in his labors daring his stay in Geraidine. He trusted that bis successor would have their hearty support, by their prayers and in other ways, and that the, affairs of the circuit would be far more prosperous than they had been in the past. The rev. gentleman preached a moat impressive discourse, which was listened to with rapt attention by the largo congregation present. Mr Dean leaves Geraldine, for Wellington next week. With the,dose of his term at Geraldine his active connection with the ministry ceases, he having now, been placed on the superannuated list of tbe Primitive Methodist connection. During his two years residence in the district Mr Dean has, by his hearty and genial dis-

position, secured a large circle of friends and well wishers, and lie will bo greatly missed in the township. Coughs, Corns, Bronchitis, Ac., are

quickly cured by using Baxter’s “ Lung Preserver.” This old-established and favorite medicine is pleasant to the palate, and highly 1 extolled by members of the medical, legal and clerical professions. For testimonials see advfc. Sold by all patert medicine vendors. SYNOPSIS OF ADVERTISEMENTS. Donald McLeod, Raukupuka— Has found stray dogs. H. Williams, Undertaker—-Funeral notice ro late Wm. Bryant. Webster and Macdonald, Auctioneers — Additional entries for sale to-morrow. J. Mundall and Co.—Publishes additional entries for sale at Geraldine to-morrow. Geraldine Road Board—lnvite leaders for formation aad shingle, gathering and stacking boulders, etc. J. H. Baker, Commissioner Crown Lands, Christchurch lands in Arowbenua and Oraii Town District?, at Temuka, on Thursday, 4th April. , W. 8. Maslin, Auctioneer —On March 11th sells at Temuka household furniture and effects (including magnificent trichord piano and valuable steel engraving, “Pursuit of Pleasure ”), horse, harness, spring cart, etc., on account of Mr James Winning, who is leaving the district.