LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1911, 2 July 1889, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Temuka Stock Sale,— Messrs Gray and Montgomery hold their monthly sale of sheep, cattle, horses, etc., at Temuka to-day. Geraldine Fortniahtly Sale. — This sals takes place to-naorraw. Messrs J. Mundeli and Co. and Messrs Webster and Macdonald advertise entries of some prime lines. Meeting ob Ratepayers.—A meeting of ratepayers in the Geraldine Road District to consider the advisability of closing certain roads and to receive audited balance-sheet will lake place on Monday next at 8 p.tu. BoardJMbetings.— The monthly meeting of the Temuka Road Board takes place to-day, that of the Geraldine Town Board this evening, and that of the Temuka Town Board to-morrow evening. The Dunedin Exhibition. —Petitions with over 3000 signatures were forwarded to the House against granting a license to the exhibition,—The application re Exhibition license has been adjourned for a month, despite counsel’s objection that the Act is being contravened thereby.— Local committees have applied for space at the Exhibition as follows :—lnvercargill, 14 bays ; Oamaru, 6 ; Westport, 3 ; Greymouth, 3; Vincent County, 2; Hokitika, 3 ; Maniototo, 2 ; Tuapaka, 2 ; Milton, 4 or 5 ; (Jlutha, I; Queenstown, 1. Local applications are coming in fairly well. Spoktino: The following are the weights for the Grand National, of 400 aovs ; 4 miles Chemist 12st 71b, Irish King 124 11b, Kangaroo list 121 b, Oddfellow list 101 b, Orient list 81b, Torrent and Ahua list 51b, ShilleLgh list lib, Chance 104 121 b, Laudsborongh lOst 111 b, Moana 104 lOib, Orangeman iO4, Ooeoia, Guy Faux, (Edipus, and Secretary 10st 51b, Presto, Monteagle, Daddy Longlegs, and Glencoe 94 121 b, Orlando, Gunpowder, and Premium 94 101 b, Ariel 94 91b, Waterfall, 94 7lb, Sookburn, Louis, Waitangi, Maywood,, and Panic 9at 51b, Hurricane 94. Coursing. —The Waterloo Oup meeting at Dunedin concluded on Saturday. The N.Z. Waterloo Cup was won by Mr.J. Irving’s Impostor, with MrK. Blackhara’s Black Pine runner up, Emin Bey third. The first prize was £IOO, the second £4O, and third £2O. There were eighteen other prizes varying in value from £8 to £2 10a. The Waterloo Pqrse was won by Mr J. Scmlaa’a Mariner, with Mr K'dds Kiwi second, and Aorangi third. The first prize was £25, second £lO, and third £5. The Waterloo Plate was won by Mr D. Mahoney's Zara, Mr Gardiners Flora second, and Snowball third. Prizes, £2O, £7, and £4. The All-Aged Stakes fell to Luna 11., Boomerang being second. Prizes, £25 and £lO. Temuka Tonic Sol-ra Society. — The first practice of the above society will take place to-night in the old Wesleyan Church. Considerable interest is felt in the movement, which is designed to encourage part singing, and diffuse au intelligent appreciation of music generally. Mr W. Bryars, B.A. is president, and Mr Jas. Dmok secretary and treasurer. Messrs Cooperand I. Smith, with the officers ex officio act as a committee and Mr J. G. Proudlock will officiate as conductor. The low charge of fis per term, with reduction for three or more of a family, should indues lover:! of music or anyone desirous of cultivating a natural gift for same to join. The system to be adapted is daily growing in favour and bids fair to become the most popular of the day. I

Tub Fifeshxre.— The Fifeshire,Captain Millir, sailed from Port Chalmers for London on Sunday, with 6 passengers, 4186 bales of wool, skins, and flax, 296 sacks of wheat, 60 do grass seed, 100 do barley, 2281 cases meat, 200 drums of glycerine, 302 cases of cheese, 417 casks of tallow, 10 quarter-casks of brandy, 18 cases of sundries, 25,040 carcases of mutton, 846 quarters of beef, and 100 cases of kidneys. Chbistiak BWCKLAHI). —What is called thn " Sweating Committee ” of the House of Lords has been for some tiona investigating the status of labourers iu and about Landed. Recently the female chainmakers attracted their attention, and an inquiry followed, showing a terrible *tate of affairs. Women wore found who were obliged to blow two pairs of bellows twelve and fourteen hours at a stretch without cessation. No time was allowed for roat. Some of the women were mothers, and even they could not take time to nurse their babes, but were obliged to attend to them and keep the bellows going at the same time. A shilling a day was the wage paid, and for this twelve chains must be made. These chains, by the way, sail for eleyen shillings each. No remedy except co-operation is suggested for this state of affairs. This is Christian England. “Britons never shall be slaves.” Britons spend million* in freeing slaves and »upplying them with Bibles in other countries, while their own flesh and blood is being eaten into by the eankerworm of starvation. Football. The match between the Probables and Possibles look place in Timaru on Saturday. The attendance of players was not so largo as w.is expected, there being only 12 Probables and 16 Possibles. Matheson captained the Probables, and Q-. Yelvin the Possibles. Two spalls were played, and some grand play was displayed by both sides, but the Possibles had not not the combination of their opponents. The game resulted in a win for the Probables by 7 points to 2. Another trial match will be played in Temuka on Saturday next.—A mateh between the Winchester Juniors and the Timaru High School, in Timaru on Saturday, was won by Winchester by one point.—An endeavour is to be made to amalgamate the two clubs now existing in Temuka, The Temuka Club proper «nd Darktown. This is a stop in the right direction, and is imperatively necessary if Temuka is to maintain the prestige it has already acquired in the popular gams' Individually the elnbs are good, and united teams highly creditable to the district could be picked.—The New Zealand Native team played a representative New South Wales team an association gams on Saturday. A capital game ended in a draw, each side scoring 4 goals. Co-Operative Farming.—A meeting was held in Dunedin last Saturday evening, under the chairmanship of Sir Kobt. Stout, to consider a proposal to form a company with a capital of £20,000 in £1 shuron to establish co-operative farming. Mr Stokes read a prospectus, from which it appeared that the proposal was to acquire land either from private individuals or the Government for the purpose of placing settlers thereon. The conditions of settlement were that the settler or his substitute should live on the land ; that Iho company should lend money to the ssttler to buy steci*, &c. Until the land becomes the absolute property of the settlers the whole of the produce would have to bo disposed of through the agency of the company, and the money arising from such sales, less expenses, to he placed to the credit of the settlers. The company also would have to provide a store to supply the settlers with the necessaries of life. Sir Robert Stout spoke at some length on the land policy of the Government, and expressed regret at the fact that nearly all the land had been sold. After some discussion a metion approving of the proposal was carried, and it was agreed to take steps to form the company. The following gentlemen expressed their willingness to take shares in the company -Sir Robert Stout, 100; W. Thompson, 800 for hirmelf and 100 for a friend ; W. M. Bolt, 100 ; D. Wisbart, 100 ; Mantz, 100 ; Stokes, 100 ; Birch, 200; Johnston, 200 ; H. K. Wilkinson, 100 ; Wright Brothers, 200; Pole, 50; Milne, 50; Oddie, 50; H. Watt, 60 ; and others, 80—total, 1980. On the motion of Mr Hutchison, it was resolved to petition Parliament to have the special conditions of the Land Act 1885 given effect to. These ore the conditions under which Mr Ballance established special settlements, and which the present Government has discarded. Strong representations from Auckland have also been made to Parliament to the same effect, but (he present Minister of Lands has resisted them all. Delagoa Bat.— Delagoa Bay, to which reference is made in our cablagrams, is situated on the east coast of South Africa, and forms the southern extremity of the Portuguese territory of Mozambique. The Transvaal territory begins fifty miles inland, and the proposed railway to Pretoria is ot great importance, as opening up an outlet to the Transvaal without the necessity of going through either Natal or Gape Colony. Some authorities have predicted that Delagoa Bay must eventually become the great port and emporium for all South Africa. The railway concessions were originally granted by the King of Portugal in 1676, and various unsuccessful attempts have b«en made to carry out the undertaking. First the Boer Government tried to raise a loan in Holland for the work, then an English syndicate obtained concessions, but was only partially successful in floating a Company in London. The Portnguese Government announced the completion of the Delagoa Bay and Goldfields Railway on Nov. 1, 1887. It was to be extended to Pretoria by a Company working with a subsidy from the Transvaal Government, the required capital being subscribed in Amsterdam and Berlin. On Feb. 20, 1880, it was formally stated that a Company had been formed to construct the extension over the frontier to Pretoria. Oa Feb. 27, in the Dense of Lords, Lord Onslow gave assurance that existing and probable treaties would prevent the possession of the railway by foreigners becoming a source of danger. The position was that one portion of the line was in the hands of an Auglo-Amerioan-Portoguese Company, and the other in those of a German-Dutch syndicate. There were various negotiations, and on May 14, in the House of Commons, Sir J. Fergussou stated that the Transvaal Goyerment had granted to a Dutah-German syndicate $ concession for a railway from the Portuguese border to Pretoria, and that the British Government was in correspondence with the South African Republic on the question. Subsequently, at Amsterdam, it was announced that an application by the Portuguese Consul—for a concession to extend the line to Pretoria—had declined.

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