LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1920, 23 July 1889, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Salk at Geraldine.-—Mr W. 8, Maslin holds a clearing sale of live and dead farm stock on account of Mr T. W. Corbett at Geraldine to-day.

Obabi-Waihi Water Race.— We understand Mr W. Fletcher, of Temuka, is the successful tenderer for contract No. 1 of the Orari-Waihi supply—the head race. St. Saviour's Church, Temuka. A meeting of the parishioners to consider tho advisability of building a new church is to be held in the Oddfellows’ Hall, Temuka, on Thursday evening next. The matter is of great importance to the parish, and there should be a large attendance of parishioners.

Geraldine Road Board.—The follov ing nominations were received on Satimln last by the reluming officer, Mr W.Sliion for the vacancy on the above board cause by the retirement of Mr Lewis Grant Alexander Kalman, Beauchamp JRona] Macdonald, Anthony Metcalf. A po for the election of ooe member takes plat on Tuesday next, 30th inst. R.M. Codrt, Temuka.—A sifting < this court took place yesterday, J; T. ft Hayhnrst and J. Guild, Bscjs., J.P.' being on the bench. Robert Fenton w charged with having ou the 15 h ins allowed one of the chimneys of tl Temuka Hotel to catch fire, contrary i the provisions of the Town Board by-law Constable Morton proved the offence, ar a fine of 20s and costs was inflicted, small debt case was adjourned until ne: sitting. Cheap Railway Fares to Chris 1 CHURCH. — The attention of those of oi readers who may becontemplating a visit Christchurch is directed to the advertis ment regarding the train arrangements fi the Grand National Steeplechases, etc which will be found in another columi On Thursday morning next a special trai leaving Temuka at 7.46., Windiest at 7.58., and Orsri at 8.10,, will take tl place of the ordinary train. Tbe san train will leave Christchurch on the retui ' journey at 4.45., and also take the plai of the evening train. Return tickets, I first class and 7s second, will be issued f( this train only. Fire in the Geraldine Bush.—Sim this bush has been fenced in and ke) free from wandering stock the patches i grass on the outskirts have grown luxur «ntiy, and being now dead they will, i summer comes on, be a source of grei danger to the bush. An instance of th was given last Friday, when seme perso set fire to the dead grass on the not’-nei side, and very aeon it had reached a dea tree and set that on fire also. Fortunate! Mr G. H. Patrick noticed the buroin tree, cut it down, and put oat the fin thus probably saving the bush from considerable amount of damage. With return of the dry hot weather of snmme it will need a deal of care to preserve th bush from destruction.-., Burklart.—Early on Friday mornin Mrs Brown, wife of the licensee of th Ship Hotel, Timaru, was awakened b I hearing a man in her bedroom. oh [awakened her husband, but in doing a scared the intruder, who made his escap from the hotel by an open window Search revealed the fact that £8 had beer taken from the trou ers pockets of tin landlord, and a silver watch and chain am gold ring from other rooms. Suspicio: fell on the members of the crew of th Ashleigh Brook, then in port, and during the day one of them named Pierce, suit to be a Sydney thief, was arrested will the missing watch in his possession.—Or Saturday Pierce was brought up at Ihr B.M. Court, charged with theft, anc committed for trial. Temuka Town Board. A specia meeting of the Temuka Town Board w«u held last evening. Present—Messrs K. F. Gray (chairman), S. Clinch, P, Cuba, J, Blyth, and G. Mason. Tho only business transacted was dealing with the tenders for clearing out the open drain running from tho discharge of pipe drain at the back of tho Star Hotel through Railway, Police, and Park Reserves, to its confluence or junction with open creak or river. The following tenders were received :—Edwin "•■i 3s 4J per chain ; Wm. Gregory, William., " 2s 3 J 5 J“S- Graw--2s 9 t ; John jsa.iw. , James Ford, Is 81 ; Geo. Latimer, i.,., Davis, £3 for the contrahtj It was dociuc.. ;o accept the tender of Jas. Davis. The meeting then terminated.

An Unpleasant Experience.- A. man named John B'.ako iik.l a novel experience c ir Ait;;h.’in'll l .' Hh« other - day. He was f walking pad a tobacconists shop in i Swauaton street, when lie was suddenly t rooted to the spot by electricity. The e shop window was lighted by an electric ( lamp, and the wires having been allowed i to get out of order the force of the current i was communicated to the flagstones, so ' that the man became transfixed. Clutch- ■ ing hold of the verandah post, matters ! became much worse, for the wires had ! been trained along it. Immediately afterwards the electricity suddenly gave out, and the man was forcibly precipitated to the ground, sustaining some severe injuries. He has commenced a suit for £IOOO damages, as it is stated that it was due to negligence on the part of the proprietor of the shop that the wires were out of order. The Villainy op It.—One little incident may be mentioned in connection with the cross-examination of Mr Parnell. He was being examined in portentous tones by the Attorney-General as'to a} cheque giyen to Byrne, a name owned by 1 one of those concerned in the Phoenix ' Park murders. There was a dead silence in court. Visions of Frank Byrne and the story of the knives in Palace Chamber floated, before the mind’s eye of the spectators. The rustle of paper was hoard as Mr Parnell, with all eyes on him, placidly turned over the blocks of chequebook. Then that calm voice sounded clear and cold in the bushed court, with,a touch of irony in its tones, " Yes,” he said, “ 1 have looked that cheque up. It is a cheque for £5 to Laurence Byrne, Esq., dated February 2, 1884. It was my subscription to the WicJdow Ilairiers.” Thereupon the court dissolved in laughter, Dairy Factories.— We have received from the Government printer a dozen copies of a pamphlet on dairy factories for distribution amongst such as desire to call for them. It will be remembered we received some in the same way last year, md that we gave a good dressing down to the people interested in these industries because not one of them called for them. We have last year’s supply yet. Only one man in all the district took the trouble of calling for one, and the parcel is still untouched. We have to tell the Government that the printing and circulating of these pamphlets is absolutely useless unless they smd round u man to deliver one at each farmer’s house, and then another man to read it for them. It is quite useless otherwise to spend money on them ; the farmer objects to be taught ; be knows enough, and does not want Government pamphlets to teach him. The blacksmith, the carpenter, the tailor, the shoemaker,, and the any-othor-callihg is always: ready to pick up a wrinkle ; Indeed, many trades support pub'icatioas of their ovvo, but the farmer will not be taught, nor will he make any effort to improve; Here we have a book on the compilation of which the Government have spent a lot of money for the benefit of the farmers; it contains reports of experts on the subject of: dairying, and yet no one would take the trouble of calling at this office for it. Our experience is that the farmer wanta a little more knowledge like other people, and especially on the subject of which this pamphlet treats, . The butter with which the farmer regales townspeople with is sometimes simply horrid. Wo have come across’ some which no human being could use, yet the makers of it would not take the trouble to read books that would give them hints that would enable them to make good butter. makers of bad butter cannot succeed with it. The person who get it once will not have it the second time. Would it not therefore be as well for those people to try to improve at once, and provide an article for which they could get a better price ? Zealandia. The editor of Zealandia has fallen into a very grevous error, in the .Catholic Times, of Wellington, there appeared a review of Zealandia, which anyone could see was illnatured, malevolent, and violently antagonistic. The editor of Zealandia made the great mistake of replying to this. It was very foolish of him to do so, as he ought to regard it beneath him to take notice of adverse criticism. This blunder led him into a still more serious one. He accused the Catholic Times of being influenced against Zealandia because two Protestant nnnisters, the Rev. Rutherford Waddell and the Rev. Mr Flavel, contributed articles to it. This introduced sectarianism into the discussion, and the editor of ZeJandia ought to have a soul above such Things. Now the fact of the matter is that the present editor of the Catholic Times is not a Catholic, and there are few papers with less Catholic news in than it. Sometimes there is a bit of u column headed ‘ Catholic News,’ and hidden away in a corner as if the editor were ashamed of it. If the editor of Zealandia had been a Catholic he would not have fallen into the errors referred to, as he certainly would not have taken the slightest notice of anything published in the Catholic Times as at present conducted. As regards the Rev. Mr Waddell, we do out believe that there is a Catholic who has heard or knows anything about him but has the highest respect for him. Even the New Zealand Tablet—the very focus of Catholic orthodoxy in this colony speaks in terms of the highest respect cf him, oven when differing from him. Though allied to a sect iho Rov. Mr Waddell has a heart whose sympathies extend 10 all mankind, a brain that thinks for the public good, and a hand that writes with the yiew of benefiting his species. No narrow limits confine his good nature, ho always strives to do good, and he would be a bigot indeed who would object to him because of his religion. It was unwise, if not worse, on the part of the editor of Zealandia to insinuate that because an arlic'e has been written bj a Protestant minister Catholics must of necessity oppose it. Such acts of folly make ns fear that, just as in the case of the Catholic Times, the right man is not editing this new publication. But probably Ze ilandia’s editor had in view the object of advertising it. Ho says that Zealandia has been improved in various ways, and increased iu size by the addition of about one-lhird the size of the first number. If i so, we must say that it would not be easy to get a cheaper sixpence worth of literature. If the editor of Zealandia takes care that it shall not be filled by rubbish ' contributed by friends, and keeps the quality of it up to the mark, then-he need ( not trouble himself a great deal about 1 adverse criticism. [ “Rough ok Rats.’ —Clears cat mice, rata, roaches, flies, ants, facd-bugo, booties, insect®, oltunks, jack-raobits, sparrow, gophers, < - ; -r« and Druggists. Sempthorne, J At Oheru...- ‘ Christchurch. 1 t

Fire at Mount Peel Station. —-A fire occurred at Mount Peel Station, the properly of i'iq Hon. J. B, A. Ac land, last wePlt, whereby the building occupied by the station hands was completely de-1 stroyod. The building was a two-storeyed one, and was fitted up very completely as a kitchen and dining-room for the men, and also with slseping accommodation. There is no clue to the origin of the fire, which seems to have originated in the kitchen. The men sleeping in the place lost nearly everything* and Messrs G. Rao and TurtoDj who were sleeping upstairs, had some difficulty in getting ©nt uninjured, Mr Acland ia away in Wellington, as is also his son, who manages the station. Mr Acland had just made arrangements for the erection of a new building to take the place of the one burnt, and the carpenters were fortunately on the spot, so that very little delay will be necessary.

New Cigaks. —Much excitement has been caused (says a London correspondent of the Birmingham Post) by the introduction ot a new kind of cigar into the high-class clubs of London. The ingredients of which it is composed remain a secret with the soi-disant inventors, but the effect produced upon the consumers is said to be magical. The softness of perfume, the aromatic/flavor, and, above all, the soothing qualities of this new cigar are unrivalled. The one thing certain is that there enters not an atom of tobacco into the composition. At present it is manufactured only in Scotland. It is supposed by more than “one who knows” that it was brought over by the PiuteTndians of Colonel Cody’s troupe, and that it is nothing more than the killikilliok smoked by that tribe—the secret of which has long been preserved among them. Dr Colmaobo, who hud dwelt among them for many years, fancied that it was made from the thin shavings of the willow. The medicine men alone are entrusted with it’s preparation. The doctor „ describes it in the memoir ho has left as the : panacea for all ills—calming the neryes and procuring the most placid sleep even in the midst of a raging fever. He never could ascertain whether any other ingredients saye the willow shavings were employed iu the manufacture of the killikilliok.

The verdict of all who have used the

“Jumbo" brand Baking Powder, is that it makes light, nutritious, ani digestive bread cakes, pastry, etc. As the ingredients are of the finest qualities, and no injurious elements being used in the preparation, bread, etc., made with this powder will keep fresh and moist longer than with any other powder. Ask for Anderson’s “ Jumbo ” brand Baking Powder.—[A dvt. I].

SYNOPSIS OF ADVERTISEMENTS.

J, Ballantyne and 00., Drapers, Clothiers, oto., Timam—Notify that their great clearing sale is now going on. Bt. Saviour’s Church, Temuka. —Meeting ou Thursday evening to consider advisability of building now church. W. Shiars, Returning Officer— Nominations received for vacancy on Geraldine Road Board ; poll on Tuesday.