LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1988, 31 December 1889, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

To Correspondents. —“ Courtesy’s ” lette will appear in our next. Train Arrangements.— Some important, particulars re the train arrangement- for the next few days, etc., will be found in our advertising columns. Geraldine Stock Sale —The fortnightly s*le of stock, etc, at Geraldine yards, takes place to-day. Messrs J. Mundell and Co. and Messrs Webster and Macdonald advertisa entries.

Picnic at Geraldine. — The annual picnic in connection with Welcome Retreat Lodje, Geraldine, takes place in the small park to-morrow, and if the weather is fine should be a great success, E.M. Court, Tbmoka. —At the above court Lst Saturday, before J. Talbot, Beq., J.P., Hugh Long and Thomas Simpson wore brought up charged wijh having been fight ng in a public place, arid fined Ss and 10s respectively. There was no court - held in Temuka yesterday.

Dog Bbgistbation. The fee for the registration of dogs within the Geraldine County has been fixed at 10s each dog, and the fallowing persona hare been appointed registrarsl. L. Morris, the Point; P. W. Stubbs, Timaru; S. H. Brewer, Temuka ; W. S, Maslin, Geraldine ; 0. G. Bradley, Hilton 5 P. Newman, Peel Forest ; and Julius Gall, Fairlie Creek. Mean Theft. — At the Roman Oatholio Church last Sunday the Bev. Father Faurel announced that some one had come into the Church and stolen a bouquet of flowers, which had been made by the Sisters of St. Joseph and placed at the feet of the statue of Our Saviour. • He would like to know who did it, for if he found it out he would give the person into the charge of the police. Ibisa. Delegates, —At the final meeting of the sub committee of the Irish Delegates Exception Committee, hold last evening, it was ascertained that the total receipts from all sources amounted to £240 Bs, the expenses being £l3 7s 6d, leaving a balance of g 227 Os fid. This sum is to be remitted to Dr. Kenny M.P, Secretary to the Irish Tenants Eviction Fund, at once. • Message from the Ska.—A bottle containing the following letter, written in pencil on a piece of stained paper, was picked up on the beach at the entrance to Awaroa:— ‘ Off Sydney, lOch November, 1889, fishing boat Kata sinking ; God help us,’ on one side, and on the reverse 1 Captain Harris, four men, and cook.’ The Australian Register contains a lugger of 16 tons named Kate. The Exhibition —Acting under pressure from the members of the Government now residing at Dunedin, the Railway Commissioners are making special provision few the conveyance to Dunedin of school children anxiom to visit the Exhibition. The Commieeiopere haye agreed to iesus to parties of net leas than twenty, secopd class Saturday return tickets for shor distances and excu sion tickets for longer distances, four children to count as one ticket and two bona fide teachers as one adult for any distance of over ten miles. Tljese special tickets will be available for one week from the date of issue. The Exhibition authorities will doubtless Commissioners’ action by seeing that parties of children who coma very long distances are able to jreadily obtain accommodation at reasonable prices.

Promotion. —Mr Arthur, stationmaster at Ashdurtou, has been appointed to Dunedin as the successor of the late Mr GK Ashcroft. Barristers and Solicitors.—A Now South Wales •judgo Hecided the other day that the Supreme Court hud no power to admit a barrister to praclico as a solicitor.

Duplicate Cable.— The Eastern Extern aion Cable Company have given orders for the manufacture of the New Zealand duplicate cable, and hope to lay it eftarly next year.

John Burns.— John Burns, the leader of the dock strikers, is related to Robert Burns, the deceased Scotch poet, and bears such a resemblance to the portraits of that gentleman as to cause general comment. The American Harvest. —Thd San Francisco correspondent of the Sydney Mail says ; —Authorities on the crop question in the United States estimate the yield of wheat for 1889 will not exceed 485,000,000 to 500,000.000 bushels, ibis being at least 70,000,000 buahds less than the harvest of 18S8. The Irish Delegates.— Mr J. Dillon (accompanied by Mr Buckley) visited. B enheitn on'Friday evening and gave a special address. He arrived late, but was enthusiastically removed. Some admirers twelve months ago had sent him a suit of coloniac tweed as a protest, against his incarceration as a felon in Kilraainhara gaol, and Mr Dillon had promised a visit in acknowledgement. Tarred Footpaths, —The method of tarring the footpaths at D'Wonport, says the Auckland Herald, is proving very satisfactory, and is, the Mayor ®{ Deyonport states, very cheap and vary effective. 12,000 yards of tarring have been done during the year, and it is found to be as good as asphalt. It costa about 8d a yard, whereas asphalt would cost about 2« a yard. Ibis subject is certainly well deserving the attention of our local bodies.

Maori Superstition.— At the Giaborue Police Court recently, a native woman, Taodo Maiti, asked for sureties of the peace from Kara Rarotonga, complaining that he used insulting language, whereby a broach of the peace might have been occasioned. The language complained of was a statement that she practised witchcraft, and she was frightened of being shot. The magistrate, in view of the murder over witchcraft, bound the man over to keen the peace for twelve months in £IOO. Trout Disease in the North Island. A curious thing has been noticed lately during the warm weather in connection with the trout in the Hull River. They appear to have become suddenly affected with diaeise, and are reported to be dying in hugs numbers. , The circumstance is not accounted for, but some persons attribute it to (he water having become stagnant and poisonous ow ! ng to the'want of Acclimatisation Society's breeding ponde at Maatortoo are similarly affected. Danger of Ferrets.— The Wuimapa Standard says : “ While Mrs Henry King, of Fapawai, near Greytewn, was hoeing potatoes recently, _ she placed her tw.o-monlhs-old baby in a sheltered spot. Hearing the child scream, she ran to it, and found a ferret (earing the flesh at the child’s forehead and sucking the blood. The child was trying to fight the animal off. The mother appearing, the ferret made off, and could not afterwards be found. Cricket. —The Interprovincial match, Canterbury v. Wellington, commenced at Christchurch on Friday last, and concluded on Saturday. Scores ; Canterbury : First innings, 138 ; second, 111; total, 249. Wellington : First innings, 71J second, 139 ; total, 210. Canterbury thus won by 29 runa. The match Auckland v, Otago took place on Friday, resulting in n win for Auckland. Scores : —Otago : First innings, 62; second, 68 ; total. 130. Auckland : Firsts innings, 48; second, with two wickets down, 83; total; 131 Volunteer Capitation. Capitation will be paid to the volunteer corps of the colony for 1889 at the rate of £2 per man for all trained men who have completed eighteen Government drills and recruits who have done thirty hoars’ drill as well as class and volley firing, the capitation to b« placed to the funds of the respective corps, Officers and men receive the same capitation. The capitation allowed in Great Britain is 355, with 2s extra to every man in possession of an overcoat; 65s is allowed for volunteer engineers skilled in submarine mining, and 50a for proficient officers and sergeants, with 30s for officers who are prcficient in signalling and tactics. —Press.

The Ptthiphhi Reefs. Tha Mines Department have received tha following telegram from the Inspector of Mines at Auckland, who was sent to Puhipuhl to report on the silver find “ I have visited the place where the discovery of gold and silver has been made in the prospectors’ ground, and brought back assays of ten different reefs. Tha assays have been completed by Mr Rhodes. Nine of the reefs, though nearly ail carrying the traces of gold and a little silver, are practically worthless. Tha tenth, named by the prospectors ‘ Silver Reef,’ may warrant further prospecting. It averages Idwt 18 grains of gold and 2oz 13dwts of silver, making a total value of £2 sterling per ton. I have no authentic information of any other discovery in the district about which reports appeared in the newspapers.” The CotJNTT of Carnarvon.—Mr Binagon, a well-known resident at Wanganui, found on the beach, two miles from the Heads, on Thursday, a corked bottle containing the following pencilled message:—“Ship County of Carnarvon, Sept. 3, 'B9—Anyone who should find this bottle will earn the dying blessing of three men who do not expect to live an hour, by letting our friends and relations know our fate. We fire sinking fast. All hands but us three were washed overboard last night, We were dismasted and binnacles and everything washed away by one sea. Every sea washes over the deck fore and aft. I don’t know where we are, but by tha skipper’s reckoning at raid-day yeterdav we were about 100 miles from New Zealand. We have been sinking fast ever since the squall struck us. May God help us, for we may sink at any minute.— George Wright. The other men with me are Vincent Wallace and James King,”

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