LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1866, 16 March 1889, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

EISE IN Floub.—The price of flour in Timaru has been raised £1 a ton. Fuenituek Sale.—Messrs Mundell and Co hold a sale of furniture, etc., at, Geraldine to-day. Social. A Social in connection with Lodge Bouthern Star, Geraldine, will be hald on the 25th April. Football. —The annual meeting of the Waihi Football Olub takes place at Geraldine on Monday evening. Sale oe Pledges.—-Mr W. S. Maslin holds a clearing sale of unredeemed pledges at Geraldine on Monday next.

Wbsleyan Ohuech, Temuka.—The Eev. K. S. Bunn will conduct the servioes at this Church to-morrow. Ho will alao preach at Waitohi in the afternoon.

Social Gathering.—A social gathering under the auspices of the Geraldine Rifle Yolunteess will be held in the Volunteer Hall, Geraldine, on Monday evening. Gobsb OK Roads.—Owners and occupiers of land in the Geraldine Eoad district are in our advertising columns notified to grub and clear all gorse and broom off their road frontages within one month. FIBKING Competition.—Anglers are reminded that entries for the second and final fishing competition of the season under the auspices of the G«r»ldino County Acclimatisation Society close to-night at 8 o'clock.

Kobbsbx.—ifiarly on Thursday morning the office of Mr Bird, ot Christchurch, was entered and a cheque for £3O and £9 cash stolen, Payment -of the cheque has been stopped, but the thief has not yet beea discovered.

008 Voluntkebs.—ln the recant volley and independent firing the Temuka Riflea made an average of 28.49 points, end the amount accruing to the corps is £5. Dunedin City Guards head tho list with 36.31 points and receive £45. Abybetisino- on Stamps.—A Victorian firm have offered Government £4OOO, £SOOO, »nd £6OOO for the right of advertising on the back of our postage Ftnmps for throe successive vears. A similar offer has been made to other colonial Governments.

The Stamp Act.—A prosecution commenced at Timuru yesterday against the South Canterbury Refrigerating Company for breach of the Stamp Aet in connection with a policy of marine insurance, tho premium on which was £66. Tho case was adjourned till the 25th.

Gebaidink Rifles. —A parade of tlm corps was bold in the Volunteer Hall on Thursday evening lap!:, Captain E. H. Pearpoint being in command. There were 32 men on parade. After being inspected and put through various company movements the men were dismissed.

Rifle Shooting.—The following team have been picked from the Geraldino Rifles to firo against the team from the C Battery in Timaru on Thursday next :—Lieut. Ward, Col.-Sergt. Stonehouse, Sergeants Millard, Flaming, and Brown, Corporals Stonehouse and Heatley, and Privates Baughen, South, and Irvine.

Entebtaihmbnt at Temuka.—Oa Friday eveniag next a musical and dramatic entertainment in oid of the prize fund of the Temuka school will take place in the Volunteer Hall. The programme, which appears in our advertising columns, is a first-rate one, and should draw a full house.

A Uastabdly Cbimk. —A telegram from Auckland says a man, whose name is unknown, advertised last week for a lady help for the country. He inveigled a girl do a lonely spot near the riverbed, on Saturday night, and attempted a criminal assault. He kept hor all night in an old hut, and next morning allowed her to go. The police have been searching for the man sines, but no traces ■have been found of him. The Taiebi Crojs.—The most important of the Otogo agricultural statistics published are those for the Taieri county, where there is a decrease in the area under wheat. The estimated yield is set down at 35| bushels per acre, but even with this the total yield is estimated to be below last year's by 26,771 bushels. There is an increase in the area under oats, and the yield is estimated at 333,383 bushels,, or 69,148 bushels more than last year. Distbict Coubt. —At the Distriot Court, Tim'iru, on Thursday lifrt, before His Honour Judge Ward, orders of disobarge were granted as follows:—Benjamin Mack (Mr C. T. H. Perry for Mr Hay) ; W. Fowler Christie, (Messrs Smithson and Baymond); Henry Saunders (Mr Hamilton, of Waimate) ; W. Denoou (Messrs Smithson, Eaymond and Smith) ; Michael McAteer (Mr Perry for Mr Hay). Ee Bruce's Patent Oatmeal and Milling Company. Mr Knubley as agent for Messrs Stewart and Holmes, made application to His Honour on the part of the official liquidators of the company known as Bruae'a Patent Oatmeal and Milling Company for directions as to the pioceediogs to bo tiken [ for ascertaining the debts due by the said company ; for bringing in the list of contributor's ; as to what advertisements shall be issuod fo>* such purpose ; as to the proceedings thereon, and whether the official liquidators should not bava leave to appoint a solicitor or solicitors to assist them in the performance of their duties. After hearing Mr Knubley His Honor directed that oil olaims should be sent in by April 15lh; that adjudication of claims be made on May 15th ; that advartisef mßiits be issued at Titnaru and Dunediu ; that the list of contributories be certified to on April 15tli, and that leave be granted to the oflicul liquidators to appoint a solicitor. On tho application of Mr Raynaond for Messrs Smithson and Raymond, His Honour sanctioned an application to compromise with certain contributories named. On the application of Mr Raymond His Honour ordered letters of administration to issue to W. McKibbin in re Mary Taylor deceased, and granted probate to Elizabeth and Joseph Burborough in re Joseph Burborongh, deceased. Mr Hamilton applied for letters of administration to be issued to Thomas Chamberlain in the matter of Clara Chamberlain, deceased, and His Honor granted the order as prayed if an affidavit is filed Bhowing that no dobla are due by the deceased.

Good Tempurx. The usual weekly meeting of the Welcoms Retreat j.'fo. 44, Geraldine, was !nld on.the lllh inet. Bro. K. McKsnzie, W.C.T., occupied l.he ehuir. One candidate was initiated o. member of fcho order, and one proposed for membership. The nomination for L.D., D.D., and G.L. representative resulted in Bro. W. Brothers, Bro. Win. John3tone, and Bro. W. E. Barker being elected to the reepectivo positions. .Routine business haying been transacted the lodge was closed by the W.O.T. AliLkssd Embezzlement.—At the R.¥. Court, Timaru, yesterday, Peter Birrell was charged with taking and carrying away £52 10a on 28th August, 1888, the money of W. C. Beswick, Deputy Assignee. Mr Perry appeared for accused and Mr Smithaon for prosecutor. Mr Smithson applied fer an adjournment. The inspecting auditor was now going through the books, and he would like the ca3B to stand over until this was oompleted. The case was adjourned to Friday, bail being allowed in two sureties of £SO each.

Baxtkb's Lttng Phbseevee has gained great popularity in this district as a speedy and effectual remedy in the treatment of Coughs, Ootids, Bbonchitis, and othei cheat and throat complaints. .Read advt. Holloway's Pills.—Enfeebled Existence. —This medicine embrace* every attribute required in a general and domestic remedy; it overturns the foundations of disease laid by defective food and impure air. In ob> struotions or congestions of tho liver, lungs, bowels, or any other organs, theau Pills are especially serviceable and eminently successful. They should be kept in in every family, bb thoy are a medicine with, oat a fault for young persons and those of feeble constitutions. They never oause pain, or irritate the most Benßitivo nerves, or most tender bowels. Holloway's Pills are the best known purifiers of the blood, and the best promoters of absorption and secretion, and remove all poisonous and noxious partiolee from both solids and fluids.

SYNOPSIS OF ADYERTISEMENT3. Geraldine Riflss—Hold social gathering on Monday evening next. Musical and Dramatic Entertainment—At Temuka on Friday next. Lodge Southern Star, Geraldine Hold sooial on April 25th next. Good Templars, Geraldine—Hold baziar in August or September noxt. Geraldine Road Board—Notice re gorße. Want to purchase draught gelding. Wesley an Church, Temuka—Rev. R. S. Bunn will conduct services to-morrow. J. Murray, Manager Orari Estate —Invites tenders for driying iron piles in Orari riverbed. J: Mundell and Co,—Hold clearing sale of furniture, on ascount of Rev. W. J. Dean, at Geraldine to-day ; publish entries for ram and ewe sale ; sell valuable sections at Orari on April 6th. P. W. Hutton and Co., Booksellers and Stationers, Cosmocopoleon, Timaru—Notify that their great clearing sale of books, scraps, stationery, etc., will be continued until the end of the month ; great cash bargains in every department.