The Temuka Leader THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1890. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2055, 5 June 1890, Page 2

The Temuka Leader THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1890. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Masonic. —The Northern Masonic Lodge, S.C., baa unanimously passed a resolution to join ibe Grand Lodge of New Zealand.

Borough By-Laws. —On Monday Alex ander Bonnet was fined 5a per cow for driving cattle through the Borough of Timaru during prohibited hours.

Sooth Orari. —The Geraldine Primitive Methodist Choir give a service of song in the South Orari Schoolroom this evening. Mrs B. Logan will give the connective readings.

Fire. —By a fire at stables belonging to Mrs Gotten, Dunedin, and occupied by Mr Metcalfe, mail contractor, five horses were burnt. The insurances were £250 in the North German and £3OO in the New Zealand.

Accident; —ln Invercargill a boy named lleid, aged two years, was killed by an axe with which his uncle was prizing open a case, slipping and striking him on the forehead, causing concussion of the brain.

Temperance Meeting. —A meeting of the Temuka Band of Hope and Total Abstinence Society will be held in the Temuka Presbyterian Church this evening, and those attending should enjoy a very pleasant time.

Native Affairs.— The two judgeships of the Native Land Court have been offered to four gentlemen, but they have all declined to accept the appointments. One of those asked was Captain Preece, the Resident Magistrate at Napier. Fraudulent Bankruptcy.— Mr Justice Dennistoun granted an order to compel Mrs White, wife of Josiah White, sentenced to a term of imprisonment for fraudulent bankruptcy, to pay to the official assignee £2OO given to her by White before he attempted to abscond. Gapes's Valley. —A concert and dance in aid of the Pleasant Valley School will be given in the schoolroom to-morrow evening. A first-rate programme has been arranged for the concert, and good music and an efficient M.G. for the dance. Refreshments will be provided for the latter.

Embezzlement.— Charles Stewart Gordon Young, for four years confidential clerk to Mr Victor Harris, a Christchurch money-lender, was arrested last Tuesday on a charge of misappropriating his employer’s money. It is said that his defalcations, as ascertained so far, amount to £739. He received a salary of £2 5s per week.

Tailoresses’ Union,— At the twelfth monthly meeting of the Tailoresses’ Union, Dunedin, it was reported that the membership now totalled 1048, During the year the union had contributed about £IOO as assistance to other unions where difficulties had occurred. It was resolved to loyally support the early closing movement.

A RfLic or Crabtree.—ln effecting repairs to a house on Thorndon Qu«y, Wellington, a suit of convict’s clothes, bearing the New .Plymouth Gaol mark, was found stuffed into the stnds of a bow window. The clothes wars mouldy, and hail evidently been there for years. The convict clothes have been recognised by the gaolers as the suit worn by Crabtree when he escaped from Mount Cook gaol two or three years ago. Works of Art. —There have been on view for the past few days in Mr J. B°ri‘a shop window, in Temuka, three pictures, the work of children in the Kerrytown Convent school. The first is a painting in oils by Miss Lizz’e Hoare, and is a very creditable piece of work. It consists of the Sacred Heart and the Chalice, surrounded by bunches of grapes and a spray of Mies, all well painted. The other two pictures, one by Master Hugh Brosnahan, and the other by Miss M. Goughian, are crayons, and, considering that the artists are vary young, they are exceedingly well done. Geraldine Licensing Committee.— The annual meeting or this committee was held in the courthouse, Geraldine, yestardsy, at noon. Prerent—Messrs A, White (chairman), j| Biordan, F. Wofner, and D. Olonston. The police report on the licensed houses in the district was read. In the case of the Bush Hotel the committee decided to advise the licensee to use more discretion in the matter of supp'jing drink to those who on Sundays professed to be travellers. Renewal of license was granted to A. W. Post for the Geraldine Hotel, to John Farrell for the Crown Hotel, and to P. Kyne for the Bush Hotel, an extension to 11 o’clock bting granted in each instance. This being all the business the meeting terminated.

Trespass on the Railway.—ln Timaru last Monday John Young p eaded not guilty to charges of (1) trespassing on the railway line near Arowhenua, (2)obstructmg a railway servant in the execution of hia duty, and (3) using abusive language to a railway servant, ihe evidence showed that defendant and three other men were walking along a ~r ai !)Ta y roßßrve near Arowhenua on April 28th, to make a short cut, when they were stopped by Ganger Paice, who told them they had no right to walk along the line and warned them off. The other tfare o agreed to go off, but Young refused and argued tbp point with Paice. Fined 20s and costs for tha trespass. The other two charges were dismissed!

Further Postponed.—The Maori Ball arranged to lake place in the Volunteer Hall, Temuka, this evening, has again bad to be postponed. It is now arranged to cake piece on Tuesday evening next. Daring the evening there will bo singing by Maoris and Europeans.

Suicide op a touno gubl. —At Auckland on Tuesday a young girl named Amy Emily Hudson, 18 years of ege, committed suicide by hanging herself from a beam in the house where she was staying on a visit to her grandparents at Warkworth. From what is known of the circumstances it is concluded deceased was suffering from religious mania, BACOM-CDBINSi— We understand that there is a movement on foot to start a bacon-curing establishment in Temuka It is said the Farmers Co-operative Society have in contemplation the starting of one, but if they fail to do to the local farmers may possibly start ono of their own. The gre t trouble with farmers is that they cannot grt rid lbs pigs when they have fattened them, and they are thinking of adopting this plan in the,hope of improving their position.

Football.—The following is the team chosen to represent Temuka at Winchester on Saturday, in the Cup match with Waihi:— GK Telviii, F, Storey, R. Russell, W. McOalium, R. McLeod, E, Oarr, W. F tzgerald (Captain), H. Lavery, K. Pranks, J. Gillespie, J. Brosnahan, J. Anderson, J. Austin, and J. Pierce; emergencies; J. Qoldstone, Honre, and Kroon. Waihi will bo represented by W. Moore, A. Pballard, J. Kalaugher, W. Stewart, R, Morrison, M. McLeod, Stewart* (2), H. P, Harte, A. Hart, H. Wakeley, H. Belaon, W, Brinkman, F. Shallard, and A. Bell. New Plymouth Murder.—The inquest was resumed last Monday. The evidence was that in a bavidle of clothes found on the recreation ground, where the murder was committed, were a pair of slippers, identified as belonging to the prisoner. With the slippers were a pair of trousers, waistcoat, and two shirts, identified as belonging to deceased. This concluded the evidence, and the jury retired, returning with a verdict that the deceased was wilfully murdered, and that suspicion rested on the prisoner. This verdict the coroner refused to accept, and the jury again retired. The coroner’s jury at the inquest on the Recreation ground mnrder were locked up till 10 o’clock, when the coroner summoned them before him, and agu’ii the foreman said that they were unanimously agreed on a verdict that deceased was wilfully murdered, and that suspicion rested on the accused, but they were not likely to bring in an open verdict or one of wilful murder against Mahi Kai. They were locked up all night, and at 10 o’c'oek on Tuesday morning the foreman said that they were still unable to bring in any other verdict than the one ihat had alredy been read. The coroner said he must record that as an open verdict. The foeeman protested against the verdict b-ing taken as an open one, and asked the coroner if he would take a verdict of three. The coroner replied that he could not, as the act was quite explicit that four out of the six must agree. At 2 o’c'ock the jury, s ill disagreeing, were discharged without a verdict.

SYNOPSIS OB’ AOTERTISEMENTS

W. S. Maalin—Sells firm stock, etc., at Orari, on Monday nex^. Maori Bi'l at Temnka—Further postponed until Tuesday next, J. Munded and Cc.-Call tenders for the erection of p»le yards at 'lVmnki, J. Brown, B'ehive Stores, Temuka— Notifies that great sacrifices will be made in all departments for cash ; advises hafta to secure some of the ba r g»ins.