LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1865, 14 March 1889, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Physiognomy.—Mr 0. E. Hugo lectures on physiognomy at Woodbury this overling. JSasteb Encampment. ~ Colonel Bailey states that the Minister for Defence has authorised an expenditure of £SO on an encampment of South Canterbury Volunteers.

Clearing Sale at Geraldine.—Messrs Webster and Macdonald hold a clearing sale of household furniture and effects, on account of Mr A. H. Brisco, at 1 o'clock to-morrow.

Public Meeting at Ojuri Bridge. A public meeting takes plica in the Orari Bridge sohoolhouse this evening, to take iuto consideration the advisability of repairing the bridge. Waihi Football Club.— The annual moating of the members of the Waihi Football Club takes place at Geraldino on Monday evening, sit 7 o'clock. Any persona intending to join the club are invited to be present. Fishing Cqmpetimon.—The second and final fishing competition of tho season under the auspices of the Geraldine Counffy Anglers' .Society will be held on Monday next, tho 18th March. Entries close with Mr J. L. Flint, Hon, Sec, or Mr J. W. Velvin, at 8 p.m. on Saturday. Opening of the New Wesleyan Church, The opening of th» new Wesleyan , Ohurch at Temuka will be celebrated this evening by a tea meeting, followed by a cantata "Esther, the Beautiful Queen." There should be n large attendance at both, ond we are sure that all present will thoroughly enjoy themselves.

BIMiK CLUB3.—-The Minister of Defence is engaged in the preparation of regulations for the management of rifle clubs. It. is anticipated that members of country volunteers will apply to be disbanded and form rifle dabs, Government having expressed themselves favorable to tho establishment of such clubs, in districts whore ordinary volunteer corps cannot be properly maintained.

The Exhibition.—At a meetin? of the exhibition commissioners at Duncdin it was resolved to call for tenders for the building in all principal towns. The Canterbury committee are to be requested to nominate four additional commissioners. At a public-meet-in* in Wellington resolutions were passed in favor of the exhibition, and £SO was subscribed in the room towards the expenses of s local committee.

N.Z. ALLIiNOB.—The annual meeting of the New Zealand Alliance was held at Auckland on Tuesday. Sir William .For was reelected president. Resolutions were agreed to confirming the constitutional right of the people to suppress the liquor traffic, and urging that the exercise of a direct veto _ be absolutely unfettered, expressing the opinion that compensation to liquor sellers was contrary to political equity, social justice, and Bnsh law, and regretting the proposition for the establishment of Government distilleries. The Saltation Akmt.— It appears from the " field state" of the Salvation A rmy, which is made up to Christmas Day, that the A.rmy conducts operations in eighteen different countries, and that the total number of branches or corps is 2587, outposts 653, and officers 7107. This return.ahows an increase In the course of the year of 325 corps, and 100 office is. During the twelve months no fewer than 2,300,000 meetings have beoa held, mid 3,000,000 houses have been visited by the officers. Teu additional "slum posts" have been opened, and nearly thirteen and a half million copies of the War Cry, and botweon five and eix million copies of the Young Soldier, have been scld. In the coming year £60,000 ia demanded for the work of the Army.

A. Good Situation. —Miss Davenport, an I-ishwoman, who has passed moat of her life | id Spain, has been appointed governess to the j young King of Spain. The appointment is worth £7OO a year, and after five years' service Miss Davenport will be entitled to a life pension of £SOO a year. The Eaei or DKHBT.—There are whispers that no less a personage than the Karl of Derby is becoming a convert to the principle of Homo Rule. He begun life as a. Conservutive, was converted to Liberalism pure and simple, then when Lord Hariington broke with Mr Gladstone he followed the noble Marquis and became a Liberal Unionist. If he should now deeide to embrace Home I Rule principles ho will have had the satisfaction of having been a member of every one of the existing English political parties.

A Fsaud. —Ab showing the manner in which agricultural societies are som9timos imposed upon, the Sydney Town and Country Journal relates the following case, which occurred last year : A certain bag of very choice wheat won a priza at a show. It was bought by u sort of syndicate of exhibitors and hawked about to half the little shows in the country as tho property of different people, all members of the syndicate, who divided the prizes between them. The fact only came out when the partners quarrelled over their sharos of the prize-money won, and sued each other in the Small Debts Court.

ACKKOWIiBDasiBNT. —The Italian ConsulGeneral at Melbourne has forwarded to the Hon. G. Fisher, Consular Agent for Italy in this colony, the following communication : "Melbourne, 24th February, 1889.—Sir,-1 am in repeipt of a despatch from Signor Crispi, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, under date of 12th January, iu which he requests me to inform you that the action taken by you in the case of Gasparini has not only his entire approval, but should the same result in a reclamation being made upon you by the French Government, he will not fail to properly represent the matter to that Government and uphold the legality of the action taken by you on the premises-—O. A. Spencer, Consul."

Tb Kooti.—To Kooti is said to be a comparatively insignificant looking sative of medium height and build, abaut sixty years of age, with bent shoulders and a heavy cast of countenance. He bwars no tatoo marks, but boasts a soraggy grey beard. His dress is after the European style, and his head is covered by u large straw hut. In conversation he is rather reticent with strangers, and appears to have an insuperable objection to any marked attention being bestowed upon him by curious individuuls. When pleased Te Kooti smiles quite pleasantly; but when put out, he has the expression of a man not to be trifled with. Bishop ov I.O.U.—The following amusing story appears in the Otugo Daily Times ; In these dull times » good joke is acceptable. Here is oae that was got of! tlia rounds of London Society lately. At the conclusion of the recent Pan-A. rig lie in Conference, the Archbishop of Omifcerbu'V and his wife gave a garden party at Lambeth, to which, of course all the bishops were invited. Among them was an English bishop who had no See, and, moreover, was very notorious for getting into chronic debt. It happened that he reached the door of the reception room together witli two Amsrican bishops, those of Ohio and lowa. The footman who bad to announce the guests thought it a happy inspiration of the moment to bestow upon the bishop who had no See a title which would compensate for that deficiency while indicating that bishop's characteristic proclivity. Accordingly he announced the three bishops in this order :—The Bishop of Ohio! The Bishop of lowa ! 'Thn Bishop of LO.JJ. !

A Legislator Charged with Mubdeb. —ln the Assembly at Sydney oh Friday night papers were laid on Iho table in connection with the oase of Mr Thomas Walker, recently elected member for Northumberland, against whom o verdict of murder was recorded thirteen years igo by a coroner's jury at Toronto. In accordance with instructions from fcir Henry Parkes in 1887 the police inquired into the matter, and the papers show that Walker, who was a spiritualist, arranged with a friend named Saunders to have a private spiritualistic seajoe, and during tho investigation some phosphorous ignited and Saunders was burned, his injuries being so great that he died therefrom. Walker absconded, and a verdict of wilful murder was returned against him by a coroner's jury. Replying .to inquiries made by the police, the Canadian Government said that, owing to the lapse of time aad the death of witnesses and the coroner, thev did not feel justified in applying for Walker's extradition. Further, that it did not appear whether the facts proved at the inquest were sufficient to establish a case. Mr Walker states that the matter has been raked up for the purpose of endeavoring to ruin his political life. He explained that the death of Saunders was accidental, and was the result of experimenting with phosphorous. The verdict of the jury' was a disgrace. He had never evaded justice. On the contrary, he informed the Canadian police of his whereabouts.

N.Z. Butter.—The Lyttelton Times is informed by the New Zealand Farmers' Co-operative Association that they received by the San Francisco mail advices from their London office of sales of butter shipped per Aorangi, as follows:—On account of Mr P. O'Boyle, Leeaton, 106 a per cwt; Mr P. O'UallaghaD, Lincoln, 112 a; while Mr D. Mehrtene, of Rangiora, realised 116 s per cwt, or aa high as the entrant price for the best Dutch in Londoo. All the parcels referred to above were very favorably commented on, and it was remarked that if New Zealand shipments were maintained at a similar standard they would soon rank with the best imported kinds. The Australian Tradiag World (London), of the 25th January, contains the following, relative to Now Zealand buttur: —Some one has sent us by parcels post a tin of butler labelled " Taranaki Butter Packing Company." We thank the unknown soDder. It opens well and is good eating. The butter is perfectly freah, and only sufficiently snlted to make it palatable, but the main characteristics is its evident purity and freedom from adventitious aids. We can buy fresh butter in London or from country dairies, but the beat of it is wanting in the pure grass feeding flavour that this New Zealand commodity possesses. We are inclined to think that something of this consists in the make, not but what good English fresh butter is pure, so far as that it is all butter, but in the New Zealand article there is mora concentration ; in a word, we beliovo, that considerably more milk goes to make a pound of butter in Now Zaabind than in the beet of ordinary English dairies. The New Zealand butter has more of the oldfashioned firm satisfying ta6te, and we feel sure that if well distributed in this country it will take a first place, and oust much of the poor milky stuff, which, although essentially pure butter, has much ia it that should have been (in the interests of tho eater) worked out. We are inclined to think that if a noun can bo adjectived. there is butter, butterer, and buttere3t. Tho New Zealand article is tho last.

A Munificent Gift. An American philanthropist, Air Daniel Hnud, lias made a delation of £1,000,000 to the American Miesionary Association for tlit> education of (he colored people of thf Southern Statec. Mr Hand is the only ourviviog uioiiiber of an old Puritan family who have been connected with Con-ui-ctuut for the last 250 years. He \a now close on 90 years of age.

A Libera.! Chinaman. The Oamaru Mail ia informed by the secretary of the local hospital that he has been the recipient of throe guineas an a donation to th» funds frora a Chinaman residing at Livmgstoue. This handeome gift is the more reuiarkable as bdug a sum spared out of a weekly wage of 15s, and by a man who never had a benefit from the institution.

Laesb Tkout. —A trout weighing 28£lbs wa9 netted by Mr R. Steven 9 in Lake Wanaka last week. Hub (saya the Cromwell Argus) is the largest fish which has ever been caught in the district, We have previously heard of Si 271 b or 281 b fish being taken in one of the Otago Lakes, but believe that the heaviest trout ever taken in jtfew Zealand was one weighing 321bs and some ounces taken out of the Ashburton river some three or four years ago. Satisfaction Gitejt. The Wairarapa Star staff has introduced a new feature, judging from the following paragraph : " Panting for revenge, the young man who was so severely admonished by the Rov. J. McEenna for giggling in the Catholic Church on Sunday waited on our junior reporter, and, referring to the paragraph that appeared, demanded satisfaction. Nothing loth, our representative accepted the challenge, and, preliminaries having been duly arranged, in a quiet spot during the darkness of the night, and ia the presence of s.n assemblage of admirers, the pressman emphasised the priest's words on the counteaance of the muchoffended young masher in a way that he will not readily forget." The Empkror of Germany.— It is a singular fact that the present Emperor of Germany was not crowned with the old crown of Prussia which once adorned the head of the great Frederick. The >mperor William has a very stiall head, and as it was impossible that he should use the traditional crown, another had to be made for him. When this was finished, I ha was askod to try it on and seo if it fitted, but he stoutly refused. He objected ou tho ground that the crown ought first to touch his browa on the occasion of his coronation, and that it would b 9 unlucky to anticipate matters. Alleobd Cube joe Biabehoja.—The following alleged cure for diarrhea*, taken from the Launeeston Examiner, may prove

useful:—" Take a cupful of good rics ; put it into a frying pan quite froe from all grease, and well roost it through, as with coffae b°ans, stirring well to ayoid burnins;. When ground it should be a good brown. Take a dessertspoonful of the powder and pour half a cupful of boiling water on it. Let il stand until cool, and then drink without aDy addition. One doae is almost always sufficient, to cure the worst cases ; but, if not successful in the first instance, repeat in, say, three or four hours. I have never known it to fail after the senond dose, it is most important that it should be prepared exactly as to its being welt roasted. Longstanding caßes have yielded to this when medicine has utterly failed." The Bieoh.—The boys are now birched instead of being sent to gaol, with the result that juvenile crime is diminishing and that our prisons ore half empty. But why should bad girls not bo allowed tUo benefit of a smart oaning ? Prison is worse for girls even than for boys, and it is about time that some friend of the sex began an agitation for woman's right to be flogged. We are not joking in the least. The rod is, as Mrs Meredith aays, "an instrument of culture," winch girls need as much as boys, and, although we would limit the caning to the palms of the bands. Mrs Meredith is quite right when she cliims " the right to be whipped " as among " the blessings that it was our happy lot to have known in our own experience." " Spare the rod and spoil the child" is a maxim which has often been invoked to excuse horrible cruelty, but the truth that it expresses applies to children regardless of sex. Why should men monopolise all the useful things in this life, even down to the birch rod ?—Pall Mall Gaiette. SPOBTINS. —• The Yiotorian Eaoing Club's Autumn Meeting concluded • on Saturday, there being a large attendance, although the weather was unfavorable. Results : AllAged Stakes, of 10 sovs, with 400 sovs added, weight for age, 1 mile : Mr D. S. Wallace's Carbine (O'Brien) 1, Hon. J. White's Sinecure 2, Mr J. Wilton's Chintz 3; time, lmin. 42seo. Unplaced Two-Year-Old Stakes : Mr S. Miller's Elfie 1, Mr A. Davie's Dons 2, Place Handioap, of 5 8 ° V8 » wit t 300 soys added : Hfou. J. White's Aborcornl, Mr S. G. Cook's Charmer 2. The Steeplechase, of 10 soys each, with 750 soys added : Mr ,T. Cox's Pestal 1, Mr S. Miller's Eaglet 2. The Loch Plate, of 10 sovs each, with 500 sovs added, 2 miles: Mr D. S. Wallace's Carbine 1, Mr Q-. GK Stead's Lochiel 2, Hon. J. White's Carlyon 3- Time 3min. 35h>c At the fall of flag Clifford rushed the son of Prince Charlie to the front, and nothing was near until a mile had been traversed, but here O'Brien brought up Mr Wallace's throe-year-old colt and disputing every yard of the way home, he wore down Lochiel and won a ding-dong race by half a head j Carlyon was eight lengths away. Flying Handioap, of 5 sovs each, with 200 added. Mr W. 8. Hiokenbottom's Fishwife 1, Hon. J. White's Plutarch 2.

A Useful Intention.—We learn from the Post thut an inveotioa which may have no slight influence on the future settlement of the bush lands of New Zsaland is just being patented here and in all the colonies. J.t is a composition which, when trees aro inoculated with it, mingles itself with the sap and circulates through every branch and leaf, utterly destroying the life and rendering the standing tree in three months' time dead and rotten, and so highly inflammable that when fired it burns away literally root and branch ; for the fire creeps even down the roots into the ground, consuming them so thoroughly that the land can be ploughed afterwards. It is available also for old stumps, thus doing in a month what Nature takes years to kccompliali. The process of innoculation ie simplicity itself, requiriog little labor. It is simply the boring of a hole about six inches into the tree with an inch auger, filling with composition, and afterwards plugging with cork, tough clay, or other suitable substance. It has hud several trials, and has done effdctual work in all cases, in oue instance 700 acres having, been cleared with it, every tree baing successfully dealt with. This will bn welcome news for bush settlers, us not on'y saving much labor, but adding to the value of land by a much quicker and more thorough clearance, and by bringing it into an earlier condition for cropping, i It is also very inexpressive, not coating j more than a few pence oven for a largo tree. '

The Weatheu.—On Tuesday night last «; there was u preity heavy fall of rain i throughout the district, and yesterday one or two showers fell. The rain waH most welcome, the posture lands beiDg almost bare o*i'ig to the very dry weather experienced for home mouths past. Gjsraldine Races. —Io the list ot entries for the various liaodicaps to be run at the Gerald iie Autumn Meeting, which appears on our first there are one or two omissions. Pippin is entered for the two Handicap Hurdle Races, and Flying and Welter Handicaps, and iic'ipse for the two Novel Handicaps and Squatters,. District Handiop. Sy" Inebriety.—On last Monday evening, in Temuka, the police arrested three men, named Albert Ringltng, William Anderson, and William Bracken, on a charge of drunkenness. On Tuesday morning they were brought to the 11. M. Court, but no Justices of the Peace could be got to try them. They had to be taken back to the lock-up, and kept there until about 4 p.m., when Mr A. M. Clark, J.P.,arrived, and they were brought up and discharged. Statistical. —According to the British Medical Journal, half of all who live die before seventeen. Only ona person in 10,000 lives to lie a hundred years old, and but one in 100 roaches sixty. The married ltvs longer than the single, but out of every 1000 born only 190 are ever married. Of 1000 persons who have reached seventy, ihero are of clergyman, orators, and public tpjakera, 43 ; farmare, 40 ; workttieti, 33 ; soldiers, 32 ; lawyers, 29 ; professors, 27 ; doctors, 24. Pigott.—Tho Tuapeka Tines says : Searchers after historical parallels, will have little difficulty in tracing a pretty close one ; between Judas Iscariot and Pigott, both in •* their lives and in their deaths. Both were foul traitors, and both died by their own hands. Ko one will regret Pigott'a except in so far as it has saved him from human punishment for hia crimes. It would scarcely be surprising to hear that some of those he so terribly deceived and duped to their own undoing and enormous cost have adopted a similar method of escaping the remorseful pangs arising from their own folly. Gale at Ltttblton.—At 2 p.m. on Tuesday a strong noi'-west gale sprang up in Lyttolton. Seyeril fences were blown down, and a portion of the iron roof of the railway shod was blown off, some of the Bheets falling 300 yards away. The fore-topmaet of the barque Conference was broken off 20 feet from the head. The ketch Aparima was driven onto the rocks, but was towsd off without damage. The gale moderated about 3 o'clock, but rose again at 5 o'clock, when a fishing boat containing two men, named Watson and Twining, capsized between the moles. The accident was seen, and they were soon rescued: TJnseltibhness. —They were agreed (says the Hawke'a Bay Herald). A doctor was discussing sanitiry nmitars at. a patient's house not, a hundred miles from Napier. The head of the house pooh-poohed the doctor's opinion that defective drainage could have anything to do with the illness, and refueed to be convinced to the contrary. " All right," at "last said the medico, "we Bre agreed." " We are not, I «esure you, doctor," replied the other. "Yes, we are," was the retort, " I am arguing in your iaterests and against mine, and you are arguing against your own and in favor of mine, how can we disagree ?" Narrow Escape from Fire.—The schoolhouse at South Or«ri had a narrow escape from destruction by fire on Friday' afternoon last. The house is at preafS9[t occupied by Mr Bidder. On the day named Mrs Ridder had lit a fire oulside for the weekly washing, and when finished with it had thrown a bucket of water over the embers and believed she had put them out. It appears, bowover, that they were not estinguishe'i, as shortly after 12 o'clock the pile of firewood stacked near the wall of the house was fojmd to bo on fire. It is supposed the heavy nor'wester blowing drove the sparks into the wood. Mr E, Millard, of Geraldine, first noticed the fire, and gave the alarm, but it required a good half-bout's hard work to subdue the flames. As it was, the wa'l of the house was considerably scorched and blistered. Had it not been for the prompt action of Mr Millard and Mrs Ridder there is little doubt the bu'ldinw and its contents would have been destroyed. The Keeiex Hotob again.—l he friends of the inventor Keeley have suoceeded in obtaining hia release from the imprissnment to which he was sentenced in Paris on bis refusal to reveal the sreret of his famous motor to a committee of enginaer experts. He has engaged to finish the construction of I his motor, and his friends assert that its

being displayed at the Paris Exhibition will prove the reality of the invention, revolutionise the scientific, mechanical, and maaufacLur* ing worlds, and throw even the Eiffel Tower into the shade. Meantime the rapidly increasing party that is introducing Buddhism into Europe declares that Keeley's motive power is the fluid ak»94, one of the recondite natural forces—beyond electricity and all we yet know of the moving principles of nature —a fluid known to, and employed by, the initiates of Buddhism since the earliest times, but kept secret by them in droad of the evil uses to which it mijhfc be turned by the selfishness of the world in its greed of gold«( and power, and its poverty in matters of ' conscience. Koeley's invention was to revolutionise all our idea 9 of motive power. Ho asserted that he could drive an Atlantic steamer accross " the herring pond ' for the expenditure of a few pence. Patement Artists. A Home correspondent writing of the London " pavement artists" says:—They have aslonishfd me beyond measure by the beauty of some of their pictures. They are ho quick arid skilful m blinding colors. Thoir tools would astonish juvenile, or even matured, colonial school pupils. Spread out on a pocket handkerchier, or coarse piece of towelling, may be seen a dinner plateful i of dirty looking blta of colored chalk. ' With coat sleeve or bit of rag they clear a space oo the lags, draw the outline of a 1 frame, and then commence building up the picture, chattering all the time, and only looking up from their work on u copper being thrown down. Any color reqtiired is quickly found, s lino or two drawn, then another, and sometimes several. When a number of straight or crooked lines, as the case may require, have been chalked on the pavement, the forefinger or thumb for the finer lines, and the whole hand for the groundwork, sea, water, or sky, are made use of to blend those various colors, and tho growth of tiie picture is like magic. The cap from the head being the handiest cluster is oftenest used to clear off the surplus chalk dust. I have- eeen somo truely good sea and landscape arid portraits of notables so drawn, the only tools beiog the baud, 1 tlie chalks, and a duster. These are frequently minii3 an eye, an arm, a log, or are io some other way incapacitated from hard labor. They are the only street beggars who have fetched help from me. Many of courao only daub.

Delicate Sprgical Operation.— Phe Bruce Herald has the following :-" The friends of Mr .John Murray, of Southbridge, will bo pleased lo learn that bis son David, who has been euffeiiog from hydatids on the brain, induced, weunderatand, from over study, is on n fair way towards recovery. The Helicatw operntion of removing tbo hydatids from the brain was successfully performed by Drs Maunsell, Davis, Butehelor, and Colcohouii, assisted by two student? The patient though totally blind, deaf, and almost wholly paralysed before the operation, had so far recovered within two '.at three hours afterwards as to be able loth to see and hear, and is now able to ait up. This, we believe, is the first time this operation has be*n successfully per-

formed in the colony. Temuka Pkesbtterian Band ojt Hope. —The firrt meeting of the season in conwith the above was h.ld in the church on Tuesday evening last. Despite the threatening state of the weather, here was a very largo attendance, and, judging from the hearty manner in which ..he several performers were applauded, those present spent a most enjoyable evening The Rev J. Dickson presided, and opened the proceedings with aniuterest.og and approprisie address, in which he g*v* nnaccount of his recent travels.n Australia. Recitations ware given by Misses A Smith, Copestake, and Metsoo and , Masters McC.skill Fenton, Hid: Con.• stake, dialogues by Misses MoCasklll (2), Motion, R. Smith, and Storey, and Masters Storey and Copestake, and song, by Misses R. Smith ard Storey. At he conclusion, Mr By. Cross addressed tho meeting and dwelt shortly on the good influence education had exerted towards lessening the drinking habits of tne country, and the excellent work done by ' Bands of Hope. The proceedings were brought to a cloee by the rev. chairman

pronouncing the Benediction LBOTTMi-Tlie Rev. J. Paterson delivered a lecture in the Presbyterian Church, Geraldinc, last Tuesday night, and in the Presbyterian Ohnioh, lemuka, last night, to large audiences. Ihe lectures professed to deal with various conntr.es in which the lecturer travelled, but we must say the information ho gave con-

cerning these countries was very little. We had intended to report the lecture pretty fnllv, but really there was nothing to report, unless it was something abou the crimes committed in the South and West of Ireland by scoundrelly tenants

who would not pav their rents ; ridioala ot the Highlanders for being so attached to their native home, or an occasiona attack on tbo Catholic religion. We went to hear something about the strange countries with which the eotowr professed to deal, but for the life of us we could not see the force of jumping from India to Ireland, and Home, and Spain, and Portugal; or from Nineveh to the Highlands. We have never before bfion so disappointed as we were with Mr Paterson's lecture.

Baxtbb'B Lttng Fbesbbvbb baa gained ereat popularity in this district as a speedy and effectual remedy in the treatment ot Coughs, Corns, Bkonchitis, and ofchei chest and throat complaints. Head advt.

SYNOPSIS OF ADVERTISEMENTS. "* Waihi Football Club Annual meeting on Monday eveniDc;. at Q-flraldine. J. E, Hood—Hon started business m Geraldine aa'practical watchmaker and jeweller. Geraldine County Anel«re' Society-Notice re aecond fishing competition on Monday next. Geo. Gibbs-Notifias that all accounts in connection with Wuitoht store must be paid

W. Secular and Co., Dnnedm and Chriblchurch—Agents for cream of Scotch whißky, " Breadalbane." . T. G- Rowley, Surgeon Dentist, limaru Announce pe-inlets extraction under nitrous oxide gass; fees for now teeth same as in Dunedin or Christenurch. A. J. Cottrell—Notifies that a branch of the Litllo Duet Pan, from Timuru and Dunedin, will be opon at Geraldine, opposite Mr Eichbaum's, chemist, for three weeks only ; great sale of household requisites (including fancy glass and china ware, cutlery, albums, scraps, oleographs, etc., etc) at Dunedin prices.

|l Miiaijjni]M^Kl!lßirilTTTHT M '"'* 1 ' M ''* J U t Hf L JJ,n I RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT. Geraldine— Wednesday, March 13, 1889. [Before R. H. Pourpoint and R. H. j Postletbwaite, Esqs., «S.P.V|. j CITIL CASES. ! Mrs B, Chiverson v. Mrs G. Tayler— j Claim £1 19s, for repairs to a cottage j belooging to defendant, which plaintiff \ wan renting. The action arose oat of an action heard last Court day, when Mrs Taylor obtained judgment against Mrs Chiverson for the amount of rent duo. i Plaintiff, sworn, alleged that defendant \ agreed that the cost of the repairs should be deducted from the rent, and this had not been dona. The agreement was made verbally. . Harry Chiverson, son of the plaintiff, stated that he was present and heard his mother and Mre Tayler make the agreement that the coat of the repairs should be deduded from the rent. Defendant, Mrs Tayler, deposed that the house was let to plaintiff at so much per week, but that no agreement was made that the cost of repairs should be deduoted from the rent. H. Chiverson was not present at the time the agreement was made, nor at any subsequent time. Amos Sherratt, who acted as agent of the defendant, corroborated defendants evidence a 3 to no agreement being made. Mr S\ Wilson Smith, who appeared for defendant, stated that the defence relied upon the fact that no agreement had been made. . kfter considering for a time, their Worships said it was merely a case of oath against oatl). However, the preponderance of evidence was in favor of defendant, and they would give judgmen', accordingly, with Court cost 3. They also advised plaintiff to have her agreements in writing in future. This being all the business, the Court adjourned.

The Colonial Bank's not profits for the half year were £16,102. A 7 per cent dividend is recommended, absorbing £14,000, and £4419 (?) is carried forward. _ The A.ra>T» and the ftotomahana raced """ across firora Tasmania, and though rou{?h weather favoured the larger vessel, they ran a neck and neck race across, both steamers arriving off the Bluff pilot s'atior. together. Time", 2 days 17 hours,