LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2004, 6 February 1890, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Sweating Commission.— Tue first meeting of the Commission will be held in Dunedin on Monday next. The inquiry will be open to ihe public, except in the cases of persons who express a desire to be examined privately. Personal.—Mr John Wood, head master of the Timaru Public School, aud for some time head master of the Temuka School, has just left for Home, having obtained six months’ leave of absence on account of ill-health.

Bank Changes —We understand that Mr J. L. It lint, of the Bank of Now South Wales, is about to ho removed to a pi ice c tiled Blacks, in Otago, where he will be in charge of the branch of the bank there. The name of hia successor has not yet transpired.

Temuka Road Board. —The monthly meeting of the Temuka Road Board, winch should have been held on Tuesday last, lapsed for want of a quorum. Mr J. Talbot (chairman) and Mr J. Fraser were the on'y members who attended, and they formally adjourned the meeting to Tuesday, March 4th, The Exhibition.— The attendance at the exhibition last week was 29,532, of which paid admissions represent 19,232. The exhibition has now been open ten weeks, the paid admissions being 205.533. The total receipts to date have been £14,212. Most of the awards have now been mad?.

Shaw Savill v. Timahh Harbor Board, —The London correspondent of the Dunedin Star states that the appeal case, Shaw S.vi I v. the Timaru Harbor Board, came to an end on Tuesday, after occupying the Judical Committee of the Privy Council for five days. Their Lordships reserve i judgment. The Rise in Wool. The Melbourne Leader of a recmt date contains a very interesting article on the rise in tho price of wool. Our contemporary calculates that the ndvance means a gain of five millions sterling to Australia and New Z-inland, the ou'put being set down at 1.400,000 bales and the increased vdue at £3 10s per bale. lae estimate is based on Melbourne values last year and the prices ruling this se iso„.

Journalism in China. Toe P^kin Gaz'tt-; has been reg darly published for a thousand years, and in a recent issue it gloried in the fact that 1900 of its editors have been beheaded. They were no doubt martyred because of their love for the sacred cnise of truth. Very few British and no American editors will ever win such a g'orious mutyi’d doom —cro.vn we hacl almost wrifen. but the celestial edhors lost their crowns and heads too.— Exchange.

England as a Potter. A German paper, referring t 0 the desirableness of England us an ally, remarks The Power which blind hatred designated as the ‘Champion of Birbariem and Reaction ’ his, in reality, everwhera been the pioneer of culture and clvil'sation. The English co'onies enjoy an independence greater than that of the various states of Germany, and the ocean-ruling Britannia protects the smallest of her colonies with her whole power. This is a power not to under-rated. Not only the inexhaustible resources of Eng'and’s wealth, but also the manly energy and the toughness of the national character of the English people raise it above most of its adversiries. The German Emperor yesterday reviewed the mighty war fliot of the -sland Empire. He will have recognised that England is a terrible adversary and ao excellent ally, The world of to-day has no idea yet of what England conld do ia the oven I of a struggle for existence.’’ 4 Comparison.— Between London and Edinburgh the greater part, of the journey I s doae a B P» ed exceeding 50 miles an ; IC Tlir- B . 105 miloM botvvefj n Grantham and King’s Cross average 54 miles tor the w io.e journey ; and somo time ago the 4.18 p.m, train from Grantham was timed to run 24 miles in 22 minutes, one mile being done in 46 seconds, or at the rate of miles an hour. Compare Ibis with the iQoe'rm'*^ 8 tbe blßt iteration. In 825 ihe Quarterly Review, in an appropriate article on the proposed Woolwich railway, deprecated wild estimate as to speed. ‘We will back old Father Thames,’ it said, ‘against the Woolwich rati way for any sum, We trust that Parliament will, in aM railways it may sanction, limit the rate of speed to e'ght or nine miles an hour, which is as great as can be ventured on with safely,’—Nineteenth Century. Depression in Melbourne.—Trade in Melbourne, writen a correspondent of the Tuapeka Times, affc w the closing of the last Exhibition held there, became gradually torpid, phlegimfcc, inactive j rents came down, property decreased in yalue, the railway returns fell five figures at a time, the receipts of the Tramway Company took a downward leap, shops and hoarding-houses, which before the opening day had been temporarily engaged at enormous rentals, presented a desolate and forsaken appearance, the overrsanguine tenants thereof having recently left ti seek fields and pastures new in another colony, much to the disgust and discomfiture of landlords, whoso last rent bills had not been liquidated. The reception rooms of palatial coffee palaces, whoso eapacity for accommodation had been taxed to the utmost for months past, now looked sombrous and melancholy, and boro no visible traces of those bright scenes and bygone festivities which but a month or so ago lent their walls and environs so gay an appearance. Thousands of persons of both sexes were thrown out of employment, and some wore disagreeably compelled to seek for work up country or 10 ot uir colonies. Many of tli.se wei o New' Zealanders, and ibsy left Victoria in disgust to return to their much despised little colony

I Present aiion to Mr Turnbull, M. H.K.— On Tuesday last a deputation, beaded by the .Vayor of Timaru, Mr D. M. Ross, waited on Mr TutnbuT and ptesentod him with a purse of sovereigns (subscribed by his constituents) iu °recoguitiou of his past services as member for the district. In replying to the deputation, thanking them for the gift, Mr Turnbull said his health was steadily improving, and he hoped shortly to be able to resume his public and private duties. An illuminated address to Mr Turnbull is in course of preparation. Russia and Germany. —General Ignatieff has arrived in Roms on a mission, not to the Italian Government, but to the Pope, to whom he bears an autograph letter from the Czar. His mission is said to be the result of an understanding at Berlin between the Russian and German Emperors lo accept the Pontiff as arbiter in the Balkan Question. His Holiness is to be left free to decide whether the Congress should be convoked, or whether he will adopt other measures to bring about a modus vivendi between Russia and Austria.

A Coveted Billet. — A correspondent of the Scotsman writes;—“Lately the office of beadle became vacant in one of the West End churches in Glasgow, aud the number of aspirants to the coveted post was almost unprecedented, no less than 700 opp'ying altogether, amongst the applicants being found policemen, coachman, and others of various callings: the most remarkable one being from a missionary engaged in ministerial work in the East End of the city, who mentioned, amongst his other qualifications for the post, that ha would bo wi ling in addition to the duties of the beadle to assist iu the pnlpit any time his services might be required.”

limartt Hospital.— The following is a return of patients in the Timaru Hospital for the month of January, 1890;—Patients under treatment at date of last return— Males 19, females 7 ; total, 26. Admitted during the month—Males 4, females 4; total, 8. Totals treated—Males 2§, females 11 ; total, 34. Discharged during the month—Cured : Males 6, females 1 " total, 7. Relieved ; Males 3, females 2 ; total, 5. Dead : Females 1 (baby Warne); total, 1. Totals discharged—Males 9,’ females 4 ; total, 13. Remaining under treatment—Males 14, females 7 ; total, 21. Outpatients treated during the month—Males 8, females 10 ; total? 18. St. Saviour's Church. - A special meeting of the parishioners will be held in the Oddfellows’ Hall, Temuka, on Monday next. It is confidently expected that there will be a full attendance of

members, owing to the fact that the vestry have received an entirely fresh offer from Mr Hayhurst, which will allow of the church being built on the old site, if the Church people are really anxious to

possess a new church, they ought now to embrace the opportunity unanimously, and set to work in good earnest, as, the obstacle of removing to another site being removed, there ought not to be the slightest difficulty in raising the required sura. The general pub'ic will only be too glad to assist Rev. Mr Hamilton in building if once the fund is started. “God helps those who help themselves,”

Land Sharks Tripped,—An amusing story of a number of land sharks being trapped through the rapacity of one of

their own number is told by a correspondent of the Canterbury Times. “A sale of a valuable section of Grown land near Woodville lias just taken place,” he s'ye, “ by which a considerable number of speculators have received a severe and

we'l-deserved rap over the knuckles by the Minister of Lands ordering the forfeiture of their deposits. One of these gentlemen, through his agent, objected to another of the same class having the section, on lire grounds that he was already an owner of land to ihe legal amount. This objection seems to have caused enquiry, the upshot being that the whole of the batch have lost their deposits, to the tune of something like £3OO iu the aggregate.”

South Orari School Committee. A special meeting of ihe South Orari School Committee was held iu the schoolroom on Monday, 3rd February. Present—Messrs J. McLeod (chairman), Collie, O’Neill, aud Ellis. A leitor was received from Mr Bates, apologising for his unavoidable absence from the meeting. The meeting

was held to consider the resignation of Mr J. A.. Fitzgerald, head master, which was

received with legret. The committee expressed'great regiet at losing such an efficient toucher as Mr Fitzgerald, he having conducted the school for a term of two years in a most successful manner, but m the same time congratulated him on his promotion to a higher position, and wished him every success. It was unani-

mously agreed that Mr Fitzgerald be given a testimonial. It was resolved to write to (ho Board to get the vacancy Ailed as soon as possible. Tin's being a'l the business the meeting terminated.

Bal-LWAIT vHAEGES. —Hie following incidents have been stated to the Oam-iru Mail as illustrating the anomalies prevailing under the present system of railway charges A householder who recently removed from Lyttelton to Christchurch had £4OO wonh of furniture which he

wished to transfer to his new home. He found that it would cost him £ls to tranafer it by rail, and exactly half that sum to , bang it over tin Zigzag, and through | bum per. Another party sent half-a-dozen small tables by rail from Christchurch to Lyttelton at a cost of 10s. Ha had a second half-doaen which he wished to send, and, fortunately for his pocket found out, so it is said, that owing to a different system of charging m vogue between Addington and Lyttelton, he could

g"t them through to Port for Is 91. Needless to say, they were sent from Addington. It is also stated that it pay a to drive stock all the way from VYaimate to the Addington Yards, rather than to sand them by rail, so heavy are the charges

Assault at a Cißcus.—At the P. M Court, Pimaru, on Tuesday, Qeome Anderson, the doorkeeper at Wirths’ ?r‘ r A US i , -« a 8 ® l,ramone d for assaulting T McAuliae. It appears that on the” last

night there some lads got in under the canvas. These were cleared out

roughly and a mob of boys outside made a disturbance. The doorkeeper got heln and rushed them all away, giving some of them severe blows with loaded whips, and note than one innocent person came i H for a share. The plaintiff said he was waning outside tlie teat for his son, who I

. a P a 'd for admission, when seven of the eircus empl Mai ctrae out. armed with s'mks ana whips, and rushed a number of i boys away. Anders-n struck liirn a \iolent blow on the fjaw, an d seat him I

reeling into the street. fie got a constable, and asked him to lake defendant in charge, but he declined to do so. One lad had his face badly cut with a stick or whip. Defendant was not present, aud the case was adjourned until Friday The way some of the lads were illlrented in the cucua was the subject of much comment. The verdict of oil who have used the “Jumbo” brand Baking Powder is that it makes light, nutritious, ant digestive broad, 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 powdtr. Ask for Anderson’s “ Jumbo ” brand Baking Powder.— FAdvi. 11.

SYNOPSIS OF ADVERTISEMENTS. Mr Sidney Wolf—Will visit Temuka on Wednesdays. Box 51, Post Office, Timaru—Good quiet cow wanted. Dunedm Race—On 19th, 20lh, and 22nd : Cup day, 9th. Joseph Whitehead, Temuka—Has old' established brickmaking business for sale. St. Saviour’s Church, Temuka—Special meeting of parishioners on Monday evening. Presbyterian Church, Geraldine Rev. A. B. Todd will preach morning and evening on Sunday next. 0. E. Sheri’att, Returning Officer, Geraldine—Notice re annual election of Geraldine Licensing Committee.