LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2011, 22 February 1890, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Temuka Presbyterian Church. —The llev. Robert Thornton will conduct the services in this church to-morrow.

Wesleyan Church, Temuka.—The Rev. R. 8. Runn will conduct the morning and evening services in the above ehurcb tomorrow. Tim ray. gentlomm will also preach at Waitohi in the afternoon.

Attempted Suicide.—At the R.M, Conn, '(imam, yesterday, an old man named John Parker wag brought up' on rein asd dinged with attempted suicide by taking “ rough on rats,” and dischargod. Ho was taken to tiie old barracks, where ho will be looked after.

St. Saviour’s Church, Temuka.—We are informed that an interesting ceremony will take pi mo in St. Saviour’s Church or, Sunday evening next, viz., the induction of an additional lay-earier, who will act ns a supernumerary help, assisting from time to time; us occasion requires. We understand that the lay-reader" wdl assist Mr Pinckney by reading the sermon at the evening service on the Following Sunday,

( 1-HE Sweating Commission. The Sweating Commission at Dunedin yesterday examined D. Haynes, of Herbert Haynes, and Go., whose evidence was to the effect that the firm employed US factory hands and 4o shop assistants ; all wages and no piece work, no overtims worked, nor did he allow to take home work. Me expressed an opinion that an act should be passed compelling the closing o, scops at six, with the exception of tobacconists and fruit shoos. The Bairnsfathek Family.—On Wednesday evening the Bairnsfather Family of Scottish Vocalists give an entertainment in the Temuka Volunteer Hall, and anyone

desirous of hearing some really good music should attend. The Auckland Star, commenting on an entertainment bv the family in Auckland, says •« Those who ventured out last night after two days’ storm to spend ‘ twn oors wi’ you Burnfather folk ’ in the City Hall, Auckland, were amply rewarded for leaving their faieside by the_ feast of Scottish melody

and humor with which they were provided. 1 here was a very good attandance, and the audience was most

enthusiastic in their appreciation of the vaiious numbers of the programme.” Libel.—ln the Supreme Court. Dunedin, last Thursday,' Henry Birch sued **• Sparrow, claiming £2OO d amagas for aUeged libel The statement of claim set forth that the plaintiff was a millwright and pattern maker, and the defendant an ircy founder, carrying on business in Dunedin,, and that in carrying out a contract

i he had to supply a number of cast-iron for the Almira bridge on the Midland Railway. The inspec'ion of Ihcs > was tnk n over by the Public Works Department, who emp'oyed Mr Birch to do the work. Oa November 19th defendant wrote a letter to Mr Usher, in which he said that plaintiff was a workman whom

defendant had discharged for incompotency ; that plaintiff had caused defendant loss by his unbusinesslike conduct, ami had hammered at the cylinders with a bagging hammer to crude them ; that ho was incompetent to act as inspector, ana was acting maliciously towards them 1 taint,iff had in consequence of the letter suffered unnoyaijc > and lost his employment, and therefore claimed damages to

tho extent of £2OO. The statement of the defence was that defendant ad railed writing the letter, but denied any improper inference, and added that tho statements ooh!ained in the lettar were true in fact and in substance, and lastly that the letter

was privileged, and was written in good fuiui uud without malice. After hearing evidence at considerable length a verdict «'>xs given lor defendant, with costs as per

scum.

Liberal. —The New Zealand and Australian Land Company has given all its employdi one week’s holiday, on full pay, to visit the exhibition.

A Curiosity. — A curiosity in bankruptcy is a first and final diyiden d of 0,65 of a penny, which has bsen announced to the creditors of Hogp’a Honey Company in London. Final; dividend of fractional amounts have been frequently known, but a first and final amount equal only to £2 14s 2d iu £IOOO is decidedly unique. A Correction.—ln our report of the shearing case heard in this R.M, Oonrt, Geraldine, .on Wednesday .last, . ,it.,w,as. made to appear that nine men shore 931 sheep in nine days with the Wolseley machine, whereas that number were shorn

in one"day by the nine men, or atrawerage of about 103£ sheep per man for the day’s works, Mr Raymond appeared for the defendant, not the, plaintiff.

Committed For Trial. —ln Christ-

church last Wednesday, a man named John Kennedy was committed for trial on s charge of stealing £2 iu silver from the

bar of Wallace’s liiccarton : Hotel. A young woman named Catherine • Hossack was also committed for trial : on a charge of obtaining £6 10s from Elizabeth Alexander, with whom she lived, by false pretehices, representing that she had money in the bank. ; ;

Pugilistic. glove contest, said to be for £IOO, took place on Wednesday evening at Dunedin between J. Pettengell, Wellington,, .'and George Allen, San Francisco, " Martin Taylor acted .as refers, There! was some hard fighting for four rounds. In the fifth the referee awarded the match to Pottenge l, on the ground that, Allen: fc;truck him when he was down. There is talk of a match with bare knuckles between the pair.

Temperance.— The fifth annual convention of the .Women's Christian: Temperance Union of New Zealand hasi been opened in Dunedin, the president’ (Mrs Packb, Christchurch) presiding. In, the course of her address she referred to’ the success of MisS Ackferrmin, and aaicl it would be the duty of the convention to make arrangements for the visit of another lady. , The treasurers report showed, a credit balance of £l9 12s 61. , The' number of members on the roll of branches is ’599. ™

A T rusty Messenger —T hec ap t atn o f Uid ship Janet Court reports that on •February 9th, in lab 48 S,, long. 164.30., 111., an albatross was caught. The followlowing message was p ! aced in a quill: All well ; posted by albatross ; ship Janet Court, Glasgow,” and tied to the ; bird, which was set free. The bird was caught again, and the message taken from it when aboaVlbO miles off 1 the Snares by the barque Jasper, which was in Dunediu on : Saturday last.

Foolish Action. — Mrs Eley, - who was reported to have jumped from the train at MJastartoi),-on Wednesday, lives opposite where she jumped off, and as the train always slows down on crossing the bridge at Waingawa she thought she would risk it to save a lung walk. The result was that she wag bruised, and her chi d received a contujsd wound. Neither is seriously hurt. She will be charged under the railway by-laws with leaving a train while in motion. -

Ghttin® Down a Salary.— The Canterbury Acclimatisation Society, at Clirisicburcli, Inst Thursday had a rather warm discussion upon the proposal of a committee to reduce the secretary’s (Mr S. C. Farr) salary from £75 to £25 a year. Mr Tarr’a services to the cause ©f acclimatisation wore warmly eulogised by some of the members, and the proposal was rejected. The recMpts for 1890 are estimated at £440, and the disbursements at £362.

Robbing a Till. —Two men, named respectively Welsh and Groves, were charged at the Timaru Court last Wednesday with having robbed the till of the Commercial Hotel. They were both sailors belonging to the ship Scottish Hero, and were drunk. Welsh was caught,, with bis boots off, behind the bar robbing the. till. Groves was outside the bu. Ihe c£ae against Groves was dismissed, and Welsh was sent to gaol until the ship, sailed from the port.

Boycotting. —At a meeting of the trades and Labor Council the dispute between the Petone Woollen Factory and ; the operatives was discussed. It was resolved by the council to call upon all members belonging to the affiliated unions to refrain from purchasing goods manufactured by the Wellington Woollen Company. It was further decided that the secretary should be instructed to write to members of Trade Councils throughout the colony, asking their cooperation in boycotting the goods of the company. This action was taken by the council as' they considered that the directors of the company had by their action locked out their employes. Mineral Prospects.—At a suggestion ot a large number of petitions the Bay of i*!?-? 8 Coua 'y Council heye resolved to ask Government to at once open a road from Taumarere: railway station near Kawakawa to Puhipulii silver mines. A quantity of rich stone has been brought to Whangarei fromPuhipdhi by Mr Simpson, the surveyer, who has just completed the survey of the prospectors' 60 acres mining lease. A telegram stats that since the stone was brought in, shares in the prospectors claim have considerably increased,in prica. A seller quitted a number at £6, and' the few now in the market stand at £lO each, though so far there are no buyers. A trial parcel of 28 urns of quarz. f rom the Otama Mine Ruotokui, returned 6 z to the tos. This news has had a sensible effect on the value of shares.

m T f K°oTiT £ re M m ANT ._ Atl appea i waß made by Te Kooti at the Supreme Court Auckland last Wednesday, from an ord«r made in March last at Opotiki by MV Bush, R.M., ordering h.m to find sureties fo? the Peace The grounds of the appeal wore that the order was vltm vires ■ P fhat the Resident Magistrate had no authority ° th?f sucl ‘ u . a or L der - which did not show on the face of it that To Kooti had mittted an offence ; that the facts 'did not warrant the issue of such an order H ‘ T * Kooli ' a * r ” 3 ‘ on th„ ay to Gisborne no doubt was a wise mea r( [' bu t the question was, o was i, law? u U' j K tJh Mdiititdijßo any offensive act nd therefore justices should be of opimon t such net was likely to be repeal f <>fore an order for sureties could be mule Uis Honour held that the order was b d and not justified by Act, and the appeal vas therefore upheld. Whatever had Rmii 0 t n V V1TeKooti . however wise law ° ht V ° beon ' wa 3 not justified by

Fire, — Repot t has reached town to the that on last Tuesday evening Mr Coles’ forge at (Jrari wis burned down. The origin of the fire is unknown. Mr Coles’ loss is estimated at £IOO,

Columbus an Irishman.—Attempts have recently been made to show that Christopher Columbus was of Hebrew origin. The claim of Ireland is overlooked. Colombo was a groat Irish saint and abbot. Columbanus was a great Irish missionaiy, .who .labored not only in Ireland baton the continent, and founded the monastery at Bobbio. That a fellowcountryman "should -have settled -in northern Italy and adopted the name of their national saint is Very probable. This would account for the Colombo family, which existed at Genoa, Oogoletta, and elsewhere. The Irish inclinations of the' great navigator appear in the fact that liei had an Trishmm, from GCway, with him: on his first voyage, and the first Yica-- ; Apostolic whom he took over to the New; World bpra the suspiciously Irish name of Boil (Boyle). .1

The March op Progress.—A great; success has been scored at Berlin wit hi new perambulating post-offices, which: have been lately supplementing the 47| post-offices and 750 letter-boxes. The 1 new mail carts drive about in 11 different directions through the 840 streets and deliver local letters at their destination, and sort the letters for the! country and abroad while they are being taken to the next post-ofiic v The sorting has to ba done very rapidly, and a good letter 1 sorter finds no 1500 letters pur hour, while the best sorters can even manage as many as 2000,’ The average number of letters posted pur day at Berlin is 150,000 and the peratnbu-: lating post-ASioes collect, sort, and despatch at least 70,000. Of these 47,00(1' have! arrived at their destination an hour sooner t.ian before the new- “ Strapsenpost ” was: instituted ; 15,000 arrived two hours, and! 8000 even 12 hours sooner. The additional expense of the new post-office is estimated at £2500 per annum. ,

Vice-Regal Frolic —fn “A Society: Clown,” by George Grossmith, at page 179 j the following passages are to be found : “ At a party at Sir Arthur Sullivan's; .one evening I was asked to sing the ’ Lord ohancellor’s enormous patter song. I could not remember it, so Lord Hopetoun,' himself a most excellent humorous singer, volunteered to prompt me. The effect was most ludicrous, for Lord Hopetoun had really to sing one bar ahead of mei After this Sir Arthur sat at the pianoj and Lord Hopetoun and myself arrayed ourselves in antimacassars and performed a graceful ballet— that is to say, as graceful as the circumstances would permit.’.’ Some years ago a court martial, or something of the sort, was held in Melbourne to try a gallant captain of volunteers, who was said to have-engaged . in ■ a . Highland fling in a house in Spring street, clad in a tablecloth, while a gentle Annie was masquerading in Bourke street in his cip, sword, and belt. Annie fell into the hands of the police, and the captain into the clutches of the military authorities. Non, if it could have been proved at the time that ,-Hia Excellency the Governor was known to have danced a ballet in antimacassars, what a precious precedent the soldier could have cited for his having done a Highland fling in a damask tablecloth ! —Melbourne pap^r.

A Terrible Wron©.—A despatch from Kansas City to the New York World says :—“ A case which some' may urge resembles that of Mrs Maybrick was ended on Tuesday week by the full and unconditional pardon of Mrs Henrietta Cook, of Osborne County, Kansas, by Governor Humphrey. bhe had been confined in the State penitentiary for over thirteen years, with a death sentence constantly hanging over her. The woman had married in Illinois in 1866, and she and her husband did not live happily together. One day he was taken very ill in the field, and was carried home and nursed by his wife until she was worn out, when she was taken to a neighbor s house to rest. During her absence her husband died, and, as she had shortly before obtained strychnine from a neighbor, the dead man s stomach was examined, strychnine was found in it, and she was arrested, tried, convicted, and sentenced to be confined in the penitentiary until the Governor should order her execution. Three years ago two hunters appeared before the State Board of Bardons, and swore that Cook, who had been with them oq hunts, had used strychnine for heart troubles. This bore out Mrs Cook’s statements, and the board investigated further and found that the woman had suffered wrongfully, and recommended her pardon to the Governor Martin, who did not act, but Governor Humphrey has pardoned her.

Trafficking in Religion.—Few things lira more marvellous in this sublunary world than the extraordinary developments of religious enthusiasm. Among the freaks played by this element io human nffdrs there has seldom been anything more biz ure than that which sent Colonel Olcott, a shrewd Now Yorker who has coma of a New England Puritan ' Stock, and has been reared in the Christian tradition, to traverse Japan and Ceylon as thelJemissary of the Buddhist faith which he bad learned in India at the feet of the Russian Mdnae. Blavatsky. Oo'o.iel Olcott’s tour in Japan seems to have been a great and entire success. The Land of the Rising Sun is at the present moment m a changing state. When Colonel Olcott was moved in the spirit to accept the invition to proceed cbither, be found the Japaneseßaddhustsdivided into eight sects one of which possessed 23,000 temples’ 20 0 000 pr ,T d > anotb «r, which had e h u° remaining six tl „ (1 33.000 between them. Colonel O.'cotl’s arrival in Japan was the signal for an extraordinary reunion of nil the seds SummoumgaH the chief priests of ,ho Buddhis Churches, be informed them that nnlesa they agreed to work together in forwarding his mission 1m would incontinently shake the dust eff his feet anrl reluro to Madras They listened alientively to his words, admitted that he had come to preach the essence of the faith in which they all believed in common. an d wiT. / heo f orraed a joint committee winch undertook to superintend Colonel O cotU mission in Japan. In 107 davs Odonol Olcott addressed no fewer than meetings, each ulloadod by no fawor than 2500 persons. He travel from north to south, and from east to west, speaking m 33 towns and travelling, as the crow flies, a distance of no fewer than 800 miles. Every whore ho was received with enthusiasm, I

Strange Disappearance.—lt was reported at Wellington late on Wednesday, on the arrival of the Rotorua from Lyttelton, that one of the saloon passengers was missing, and the supposition was that he had jumped or faben overboard. It appears that a tall man, nearly six feet in height, slight build, aged about 35, with light coloured moustache, who subsequently gave his name as Wright, joined the vessel at Lyttelton. His manner seemed to be strange, and he spoke incoherently to one of the passengers, who happened to ba sleeping on deck. This passenger informed the chief officer of the occurrence and.he sent Hie look-out mau to see what was wrong with Wright. The former spoke to him, but could get no reply Shortly afterwards, about 3 a.m., the look-out man again went to where Wright had been sitting but found the seat vacant A careful search was made of the vessel' but no trace was found of the missing man. Except a.pair of boots that were found iu his cabin no baggage was found on board belonging to him, A telegram to hand yesterday says:—“The mau Wright, missing from the Rotorua, is believed to be Edward, son of Richard Wright, of Makikihi, About two years ago he had a sunstroke, and since has been wandering in his mind.” Scepticism.—The Rev. Robert Scott M.A., moderator of the Synod of Angus and Mearns, published an ouispoken sermon, which he preached at the opening of the local Synod. In the c ur-.e of it he said ; “ With some show or truth it may be said that no inconsiderable part of what is robust in intellecc and manly in piety is found altogether nuts de the church’s pale. For good or ill, Tie keenly intellectual and spiritual have come under the influence of the doublings, difficulties and perplexities wherewith society’s - atmosphere is at present charger*. And the explanations that aforetime satisfied' are only mentioned to induce a smile, provoke ridicule, perchance excite disgust. Toe churches seemingly have nothing wherewith to drive back or dissipate this wave of scepticism that is dashing up so strongly, and breaking, oftentimes mpst rudely, over the spirits of men. Either thay can or will do little or nothing. At any rate, this doing little or nothing ia: a policy that is being most effictive y pursued. Pass by (his sceptical tendency with eaotempt, our churches would doubtless like, but it is doubtless far too widespread and influential to admit of this. It stands in thoroughgoing contrast to the flippant and coarse ribald, and oftentimes blasphemous, scepticism of last century, manifested alike by the French and English schools of thought.” Racial Troubles, The situation in our Southern States, so far as it relates to the white and colored peoples, is becoming quite serious. It seems as though the war is not as nearly over as we had"imagined. Industrially the South has prospered since the war, but the race prob'em grows more aud more complicated. The colored people are the laborers of the south, and as the country gains in wealih they gain in wealth, in intelligence, aud in social culture. But tlio poor white men of the South cannot bear to see a negro get or own more property or have more influence in affairs than he does. The old owners and non-employers do not want to pay the wages, since they did not do it when slavery existed, _ and the politicians and better-ta-do whites do not want to see the negroes vote. They propose to send the colored people out of the country, and 4| then find that they cannot spare their work, and so they become bitter. la Mississippi the Democratic party leaders have served notices on ihe negroes that if they “ attempt to vote at the elections they will be shot.” In Louisiana whole parishes are in a state of terror, so tln'r many young white people of the, North who had gone to the South with a view to make homes in, it aud to live ai:d die there are returning home because of these race troubles. In many districts the pegroes are largely in the majority, and it is only a question of time when patient forbearance will 'exhaust itself and they will defend themselves.—American paper.

l( J^ 0 . v 6rdiot of all who have used the Jumbo brand Baking Powder is that it makes light, nutritious?, ani digestive bread, cates, pastry, etc. As the ingredients are of tbe finest qualities, and no injurious element being used in the preparation, bread, etc. made wifca this powder will l- ec -p fresh and moist longer than with any other powder, ask for Anderson’s “ Jumbo ” brand BaMn» Powder.—TAdvt, 11. “

SYNOPSIS OF ADVERTISEMENTS. Milford School—Re-opens on 3rd March. Australian Mutual Provident Society Caution. J - Wesleyan Church, Temuka —Services for to-morrow. Temuka Presbyterian Church—Notice re services to-morrow. Bos 23, Temuka—Second-hand Raid and Cray tilter wanted. Bannsfafcher PamiJy of Scottish Yocalistsln iemuka on Wednesday evening. T-‘ S ! o ubb , 9 ’ Officer—Notice re elect.on Raukapuka Licensing Commitiee. B. C, Dann, Chemist, Temuka—Received fresh supplies of myrrh tooth paste, quinine wine, frmt syrup, etc.; is prepared to insure stacks or grain.