LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1876, 9 April 1889, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Temcka School Committee —A apodal mooting of the Temuka School Committee will take place this evening, when the applications for the position of infant mistress will be considered.

Football.— A special general meeting of tho members of the Temuka Football Club take? place this evening at the Wallingford Hotel, when the trophies will be awarded. The meeting is un important one, and all members of the club should endeavor to be present. Election o* School Committees.—The annual meeting of householders in every school district throughout South Canterbury for the purpose of electing the various School Committees takes plane on the 23rd April. Full particulars will be found in our advertising columns.

Cleabih» Sale at Kaiahu.—Attention is directed to the extensive clearing salo of live and dead farming stock advertised by Messrs J. Mundell and Co. to take place at the homestead of Mr D. Findlay, at K3kahu, to-morrow. Mr Findlay having let his farm the sale is to be an unreserved one. Luncheon will be provided. Athletics.—The autumn meeting of the Canterbury Amateur Athletio Club was held on Saturday. The 120 Yards Handicap and the Quarter-mile Handicap were both won by H. M. Reeves, from scratch, who reduced the record for those distances to 12seo. and 52 2-sth seo. respectively. The other events were well contested, and the meeting was a success.

Parish Gathering at Q-ebaldine.—The annual pariah gathering in connection with St. Mary's Church, Geraldine, take* place to-morrow. Tea will be on the tables at 5.30, and this will be followed by a, lecture by Mr T. Crooks, of Ohnstohurch, on " A Trip from London to Rome." A number of charming views will be shown with the aid of the limelight, and we are sure that all who attend will be well repaid for their trouble and expense. KAKAHtf Minerals. —Mr Rhodes took good care to give his own, paper the Christchurch Press, Professor TJhlrich's report on Kakahu before giving it to the looal papers. In all fairness he ought to have given it to the local papers first of all. Very few people see the Press in this district, and fewer will seo it, after the soandalous Way in whioh it tried to delude peopla with regard to tho price of grain this year. Mr Rhodeß promised to forward us a copy of tha report as soon as he got it, but this is tho way he has kept the promise.

A Pointed Appeal.—An exchange makes the following appeal to its supporters : —We direct the attention of advertisers and subscribers to an advertisement in another column with refereuce to the Pahiafcua Star accounts. The truth may as well be told—we have lived on the smell of an oil rug lons, enough, and should now like to try something raoro substantial ; therefore we make «n earnest appeal to those who are very far behiud wilh their accounts to pay off a porlion if tboy cannot pay all. It is diettsteful to us to be compelled to taake.tbese appeals, but u newspaper proprietor has engagements to meet like other people. EM. Court, Tbmuka.—At the Resident Magistrate's Court, Teruuka, yesterday, bcforo 0. A. Wray, Esq., R.M., Eli Mitchell, of Wairohi, was charged wilh having an un.agistered sheep doj{ in his possesion on April 2nd. Defendant pleaded i;uil(y, but 8* id the doe; was registered on the 3rd. In raply to the Bench he said the only reasons ha could give for not having registered the dog were that he did not often come to town and want of thought. A fine of 10s without coßts was imposed. Judgment wont by default in the following cases:— Dr Hayes v. P. Faull, claim £2, and Tetheridge v. Looker, claim £2, for horse hire and cash lent. Mr Aspinall appeared for the plaintiff in both cases. Th 6 court then rose.

111-paid Services.—ln a recent article ou the poverty of our public men, in the Pall Mall Gazette, it is stated that Mr Gladstone is not 88 well off as he might have been had he devoted his energies to other than public nffiirs. He resisted a motion for increase of salary. He has taken no pension, though he is entitled to one. When ho left office says one of his biographers, " the numerous claims upon him are understood to have compelled the sale of his very remarkable collection of valuable china and articles of vertu. There was something dramatically suggestive in MrAeoew'e bid of £35,000 in a lump sum for the Marlborotsgh gems." " Here for the present," said The Times of June 29,1875, •• ends one of the most remarkable sales of an art property which has ever occurred in the annals of auctions in this country." Mr Gladstone sold not only his house but his library. Sir Arthur Guinness bought th« former ; Lord "Wolverton purchased the latter, to return it to Mr Gladstone as a gift.

Temoka Weslbxan Cbuboh.—The annual harvest thanksgiving seryioes in connection with the Wesleyan Ohurch, Temuka, ware held in the Volunteer Hall, Temuka, on Sunday, the new church not yet being eorapleted. The hall was most tastefully decoratad for the occasion by Mesdamos bunn and Barrett. Quite a profusion of seasonable fruits, flowere, and evergreens were arranged in choice groups about the building, and the stage displayed sheaves of corn, clusters of vegetable?, etc., in all the beauty of autumnal tints. The large congregation that assembled were unanimous in the opinion that such tasteful decorations had never before been witnessed. In the morning the Eev. R. S« Bunn delivered a very impressive discourse the subject being " An Agricultural Truth.'' The address was listened to most attentively' In tho evening to a still larger congregation, be preached upon " The Mystery of Growth," handling his subject with skill and eloquence. Appropriate hymns were sung for the occasion. In the morning Mr Harrison presided at the harmonium, and in the evening Mr J. Holwoli. In addition to the choir Hie newly organizsd band of six performers rendered efficient services, their accompaniments to the hymns being much appreciated, A G-ibl Want.bd.—Early in February last a girl namad Ada Robinson, about 13 years of age, oommitted a petty larceny from bee employer ia Timaru, and suddenly left the house. She took the ro/.d for Waimute, ind tramped as far as Simmons', at Makifeihi, giving out that her name was Smith. Sim had not been losg there, however, when it was discovered that she had givon a fube name, and was also found out in othsr untruths. She was told to leave the place, and she went to M'floverin and Hardie's. Here a lad named Lane happened to know her, and said she was a Wairu;>t<? girl, and that, her mother livod at I\unstown. Lane was ordered to get a buggy and drive her to town. When they got us far as NoaJces's she asked to be let down, as she wanted to walk tlu> remainder of the distance. This occurred two months ago, and she has not benu seen since, though the police and detectives have been looking for her ever since. Her mother eays she has never seen her, nor has any of her brother or sisters, of whom she has several. It is no'o intended to pioa?cuto ihe girl far the larceny, but the police are desirous of learning of har whereabouts, and anyouo knowing should communicate with them at once.—Waimute Times.

Gebaldinb Stock Baler.—These slies will tiilto phco fortnightly in future, instead of monthly, and Messrs Webster and Macdonald and Messrs J. Mundell and 00. are now booking entries for the next sale, which takes place on the 17th instant. Personal.— -At a meeting of the Orari Bridge School Committee, held on Saturday evening last, Mr Schmedos, of Lower Harbor, Dunedin, was unanimously selected to fill the position of headmaster in the room of Mr G. Steven, who has taken charge of the Hilton School. There were sixteen applicants for the post. StJDBBsr Dbath.—A woman named Alice Gann, wife of Alfred Gunn, an itinerant t patent medicine vendor, died suddenly at the Palace Hotel, Christchurch, on Sunday morning. Mr Gunn staffs that they went to bed shortly after 1 a.m. on Sunday. They bad some words, but were both quite sober. Mrs Gunn lay on the floor with a pillow under her head. At 9.30 a.m. he went downstairs to get a cup of tea, but be returned twenty minutes afterwards and spoke to her, but got no answer, and noticing something peculiar about her appearance he examined her and found that she was dead. He found that a box which had contained opium pills was quite empty. He made the pi'ls for his own use. He raised an alarm and Dr J. H. Deamer was called in, and he said the woman had been dead for some time. Mr Gann stated that his wife had always enjoepd good health. They had been married ten years, and she was thirty years of age.—Press. The Other Side.— A Waimato resident has received a letter from Sydney giving an idea of the keen competition for employment there and in Melbourne, The following is an extract“ The Victorian Government are opening up a number of new lines, and advertised for ten architectural, eleven engineering, and two mechanical draughtsmen ; also enginedrivers, stokers, cleaners, platelayers, guards, &c.—in all 628 vacancies. The first three are the best paid, the minimum being 12s 6d a day, the other positions for laborers not being so well paid, receiving from 7s 6d to 10s a day. In to-day’s Morning Herald (March 23rd) the Melbourne news includes the following inspiring item of intelligence, which serves somewhat to gauge the state of the labor market in Victoria: ‘For the 628 vacancies in the Railway Department advertised for, the Railway Commissioners have received 5468 applications.’ Dividing the applicants into the vacancies there are 8.707 or nearly 8| men for each position advertised for.” The above letter is from a civil engineer who recently left the New Zealand Civil Service.—Waimato Times. SYNOPSIS OF ADVERTISEMENTS. South Canterbury Board of Education— Notice ro annual election of School Committees., J. Mundell and Co., ml Webster and Macdonald— Notify that in future Geraldine stock sales will lake place fortnightly ; next sale on April 17th. Drummond and Glasson, Drapers and Clothiers, Commerce House, Tiaiaru —Notify that they are now showing a splendid assortment of new goods suitable for the winter season, and invite inspection. Among the lines mentioned are new overcoats, blankets, tweeds, sails, hats, shirts, winter beiges, tweeds for tailor made costumes and jackets, winter plushes, straws, underclothing, etc., etc.