LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1989, 2 January 1890, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Acknowledgement.—The steward of the Timaru Hospital desires to acknowledge, with thanks, the receipt of a donation of two guineas from Mr P. Coira, of Temuka.

Henry George.—Authentic informatiosi states that Mr Henry George will arrive in Auckland about Maroh Ist, on his way to Australia, He will afterwards return to New Zealand, and give his first lecture in DuDedin.

A Doo in China Shop.—A greyhound got into Mr Shepherd's crockery shop in Timaru on Tuesday, and, being unable to find its way out, sprang through oae of the large plate-glassi how windows. Damage to the extent of about £l6 was done.

N.Z. Iron Sand.—The Hamilton correspondent of the New Zealand Herald states th.it a process of. amalgamating the New Zealand iron sand has been discovered by Messrs Dinnett and Jones, of Hamilton, and has been tried with complete success. The process is kept secret by the inventors. The Macquarrie Islands.—lt has been discovered that for the present nothing cm be doue wilh regard to annexing tha Mncquarris Islands, as it is found they are in Tasmanian watere. The object of the Government in secusiog these islands is to apply to them the close season for seals, as it is believed that while vessels, arriving in New Zea'and with sealskins on board allege them lo have been taken at the Macqnarries, they have really been obtained at the Auckland Islands. Poisoned Honey. News has been received from the chief Mita To Tai, on the Island.of Rawhiti, of the poisoning of a number of natives from eating homey. T.vo men and two women are dead, and several others are in a dangerous condition. Mita's wife and family are among those suffering from the effects. Mita is at present attending a wedding at Otaki. His father, lhaka Hakaene, i(s will be remembered died at Parnell from tinned meat'poisoning some months ago. At the inquest a verdict was returned that the victims died through the effects of eating poisoned honey, and that the Government have the honey analysed. Akrital of the Aoransi. The Aorangi arrived at Wellington on Monday. She left Plymouth, after having been detained by fog, on the 16th November, with 300 bags of mails, 16 boxes of parcel post, 232 passengers, and 56 boxes specie. Sydney J. Perrin, a second class passenger, died of phthisis on the 13th December. Fine weather was experienced throughout the voyage. Among the pas3engers "*are Mrs A. M. CJark and Mr Moore, The scarlet fever victim was a child, As soon as (he disease showed itself every precaution was taken to prevent its spreading to other passengers, I lie mother and child being taken to the hospital, and put ashore when Hobart was reached. The vessel received a clean bill of health from Hobart, ajid jthe health officer at Wellington passed her "without .de.inur,,

The Fifj?el Tower.— Ttie Times' Paris correspondent asks, What is to become of the Eiffel Tower ? Will it ba left in ila present ■stale ? Will it' be altered 1 It is said that a large hotel is to be established on the first platform, with concert nod ball rooms, and n restaurant open to the public. What has be done is to make it attractive when the curiosity of everybody has been satisfied. Big Bridge.—A writer in the Detroit Free Press soys that Eiffsl's toy would make a very neat and «ell-prop9rtioned flagstaff for the centre of the Fourth Bridge. Chicago is going to beat it with a steel arch connecting the norfh and south divisions of the city. The length of the span has not been decided upon, bit the centre of it is to be 2000 ft high, and electric cars will ran over it, Irish Evictions Fund.—On last Tuesday the sum of £227 was forwarded from Temuka to Dr J. E. Kenny, treasurer of the Irish Tenants Eviction Fund, Dublin, as the united contribution of Temuka, Geraldine, and Pleasant Point towards the above fund. The thanks of the subscribers are due to Mr J. L. Flint, local manager of the Bank of New South Wales,, who kindly forwarded the money free of all charges. The exchange on the amount would have been close on £4, and Mr Flint's action in forwarding the money free of charge is equal to a contribution to that amount.

Rifle Association's Meeting.— Oapt>\in Sornerville lus secured a range near Wingntni, capable of accommodating any number of target?. The mei'ting therefore can be got over within a week. *The competitors are to be railed cut by special train each morning at seven, returning to Dunedin at*six, but as there is a good water eupply close to the raDge it is expected than a large number will go into c»mp. The range is as level as a bowling green, with a natural buckground. Captain Sornerville is of opinion it is unequalled in the coloDy, having th<» additional advantags of never having been fired over.

Professor Walla.ce on New Zealand. —Professor Wallace, Professor of Agriculture and Rural Economy at Edinburgh University, who visited the colonies soma four months ago, has delivered an Introductory Lecture, to the Agricultural Class at the University, on some features of Australian agriculture, and the report of the lecture has been received by the Minister of Lauds. Professor Wallace says the most prominent fact which is likely to foccur to a stranger on arrival in the colonies is the extraordinary ignorance prevailing at Home regarding the wonderful growth and prosperity which they have achieved within comparatively recent years, and their enormous weaMi and resources, 1 and the influence they will exert upon certain of our...own industries when sufficient time is allowed for their further development. Though he was btruck with admiration and wonder at the advance which has been made, and monuments to

popular industry and enterprise to be seen in the chief cities and in the public yorks of the colonies, yet in the special branch which we, asfarmers, are interested, there is as regards the past nothing to boast of. Fire Brigade Demonstration.—The

following letter was received by the Temuka Fire Brigade on Tuesday: "Sir,—l am desired by His Excellency the Governor to invite the members of your brigade to' take part in a special parade of the firemen of Otago, Canterbury, and Southland, to be held in Dunedin on Saturday, the 11th of January, und to a supper at Government House afterwards. The hour for the parade and other details will be settled by the Superintendent of the Dunedin City Fire Brigade, from whom you will receive a communication on the subject. Passes over the Government railways, available for one week from Wednesday, the Bth of January, will be issued to those who notify their intention of accepting His Excellency's invitation. Yours faithfully, R. Stewart Savile; A.D.C." A special meeting to consider the invitation was held the same evening, whea it was reHoUed to accept it, iod members to go, It was also decided that ten ex-msmbers should act as substitutes of those going, so that in case of fire the brjgade will still be in an efficient state. A Fijian's Advents-res.— News comes from Tai Levu, says the Fiji Times, that a native teacher or missionary, who late on Saturday "evening was writing his sermons for the following Sunday, fell backwards with his pen in his hand, apparently dead. The body was kept until Monday, when, just as his x friends were about making arrangements for its iuterment, the apparently deceased revived. He said that he had been to Heaven, outside of which he observed a erreat number of likut, pinafores, etc He found St. Peter at the gate, who told him to go back to earth. He, however, asked permission to have a peep inside, which was graDted. He saw a great number of Fijians —chiefs and commoners also Europeans whom he had known it> life, but no women. On ioquiring where the females were whose garments he had seen, he was informed by St. Peter that there were no women in Heaven ; that after death they each ro-enter the body of a man, becoming one of h ; s ribs, He could get no information about the lower regions, as the saint did not know such a place, "Begone Dull Care."—On Tuesday evening next Mr Fred. Maccabe, assisted by Mdlle. Minnia, will appear in the Temuka Volunteer Hall in " Begone Dull

Care" and "The Magic Statue." The entertainment provided is one of the cleverest and most entertaining conceivable. The Sydney Times says :

"No man has been more imitated. No one is better worth imitating, and no one, to my mind, is more inimitable. The words of his songs are easily learned, and some idea of his method of singing them may be imparted by the imitator, but there the whole business stops. Maccabe's specialty, a3l take it, is that his characters are really separate entities—all creations, neither like each other or like himself—and the result is, that when you have first seen the imitation, you are still delighted with the original. Maccabe is a 3 fresh nnd free and happy in his style as ever. He retains the beat of his old characters, but gives us a new comedietta, in which Mdl!t\ appears as a magic statue, as La Madrilena, a Spanish dancer, and as a Highland lad lie. Mr Maccabe himseJE pliys Paul Qooiman, a college student, and Robert, a waiter. The little pi9ce wis entirely successful, thanks to the skilful changes an'l capital character acting of Mr Maccabe, and to the beauty and grace of the young lady to whom he introduces us."

High Pkice for Snails.—A short time since a settler at Manaia offered bis youngsters a paany each for all snails captured by them, unoUr the impression that there wore possibly a dozen or so marauding his pat flowers. He was somewhat surprised on being presented bill for 7« 6d as the result of the wsek's "sn-iiUog," tho operations having been confined to a space some six yards square. The bargain is off, and the price of snails has dropped considerably. Hap Enough of it.— k good cricket story is told by A. N.'Hornby, who yearly takes a Lancashire 11 to play 18 of Nantwich and district, and on one occasion at the tail of the local team, came in a veritable yokel. He shaped anyhow. The first ball he received, one of Crossland's twisters," —hit him on the knee. " How's that 1" shouted both Pilling and Orossland. " Not out," said the umpire. The batsman, however, shouldered his bat, and was to be seen painfully limping to the pavilion. " You're not o it, my man," said 'the umpire. "No," replied the player, " but I'm going."

Intebesiing to Publicans.—At the I Police Court, Invercargiil, on Tuesday, a test case was brought by the police to.I settle the point whether a licensing : cnm-;' mittea have power to grant special permits to publicans to k-op opeo after hoars on: holidays, which has been a customary' thing for years. Mr McCul'ooh ruled that the committee had acted illegally, and fioei Ann Maria McLaughlin, bcensae of, the Farmers' Arms Hotel, a mitigated;; penary of ss, and endorsed the licenai,' for keeping open on Boxiog,Night, on tho; etreDgth of holding a permit from two members of the committee.

"Love's Labob, Lost." —A lady _ in; Lake County spent six months in nuking' an altar cloth. Ifc was sent to tho Exhibition, and shown in the county bay " bung up by one corner like an old clout." Lore's labor lost. But what a waste of time. For a few* shillings a cloth could be purchased that would look as wall, answer the purpose of covering the table as well, and s represent only a reasonable amount of time spent on its manufacture. There are heaps of elaborately pretty things made, tho only purpose of which is to bring about the glorification of. their makers' patience.—Bruce Herald. The London Scandal. Writing on November 15th, our London correspondent says : — A. terrible scandal, which was thought to have been hushed up, is likely to see the light after all. Ihe story is too shocking to tell, and for obvious reasons the names of the principal people concerned must not be mentioned at.presenti It is sufficient to say that it involves some of the most prominent families in the country, including" one man«who has been long, known as a notorious black sheep. Warrants are out for the arrest of 19 people, "but it is believed that most of them have already left the country, and if the affair becomes public, it is. likely that any of them will be able to return. The scene of the abominations was a house in a West End square.—Otago Daily Times.

Fall of an Aerolite.— r 9n tha passage of the ship G-laucus from Newcistle she had a narrow escape from being struck by one of the stray missiles occasionally shot from the firmament. The unwelcome visitant made its descent at twenty minutes past one p.m. on the 10th inst. off

Orocodile Head. There was a very heavy thunderstornvat the time, end during an interval a sudden and sharp report like that of a well-shotted gun of a large calibre was heard. At the lime of the report a very loud whizzing noise was heard, and simultaneously with this the aerolite was observed to drop into the sea in dangerous proximity te the vessel. Thespl»sh of the descending substance —whatever it was—sent the water flying to a height of 30ft or more.—Melbourne Argus. A Man Buried Alive.—An authentic case of a young man hav'ng been buried alive comss from the Commune of Rousillion in the department of the Vaucluse. The apparently deceased person' was only twenty years of age, and had succumbed —according to the doctor who had delivered the burial certificate—after a short illness. The parish grave-digger who also acted aa undertaker told his wife confidentially that after he had nailed down the coffin lid he heard the supposed dead man moan, and then knock violently against the boards of his narrow prison. Instead of opening the coffin at once the gravedigger went on with his lugubrious work, being afraid, as he said, to see the supposed dead man rise up out of his shroud. This terrible affair is now being investigated by the Juge d'lnstruction of Apt. A Determined Boy.— A young boy employed at the Theatre das Celestins at Lyons, took it into his head to see the Paris Exhibition. He had plenty of energy, but very little money. He set out on foot from Lyon 3 on the 10th of July at 10 o'clock in the morning, and arrived nine days afterwards at Pari3(32o miles). He had lis in" his pocket on leaving home, but he had to economise his funds and by sleepina in barns and living on bread, milk, and lard he managed to reduce his expenses to about 3s. He spent a month and ten days at Paris, three day 3 in the week he gave up to work and the four to see the Exhibition and the town. On the 26th of August, at five in the morning, he set out an the return journey. Ee kept up the distance of 55 kilometres a day and arrived at home on the 4th of Sept. He spent on the return journey about 3s 6i, and brought back 5s 9d. The verdict of all who have med the "Jumbo" brand Baking Powder, is that it makes light, nutritious, ani digestive bread oakes, 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.—[Aett. I]. SYNOPSIS OF ADVERTISEMENTS. Temuka Koud Board—lnvite tenders for shingling. a. ' Entortainmsnts at Temuka—By Maccabe assisted by Mdlle. Minnia, on Tuesday evening. Arowhenua Town Board—Has fixed dog rngistrat'on fee at 10a ; all ratas unpaid on January 31st will be Bued for. Reid and Grey, Agricultural Implement Manufacturers —Draw attention to their new and improved Light Draught Lowdown Elevator Binder, Manilla Binding Twine, New Positive-Feed Broadsast Sead Sower, etc ; wire and fencing standards ; Clayton and Shuttleworth'a Threshing Mills ; secondhand portable engine and thresher for sale,