LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2090, 26 August 1890, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Volcanic Wainui, which bas arrivad at Auckland, from her usuallsland trip, brings news that the of Tof ia; in the Tongan group, is again in a state of active eruption. .Temuka Brass Band. — i meeting of members to deal with the applications for the position.of bandmaster will be held in the Social Hall, Temuka, to-morrow eyaning at 7.30. The business being very important, it is to be hoped there will be a full attendance of members. Ominous.— We met the Peacemaker of Rangitata last Saturday making towards OamaruUoh W visit to his professional brother, Jack Ketch. The meeting of both these gentlemen is ominous. , It augurs\ that some people will be elavated to high positions. ; Accidental Death.--- A young man named Denis O’Oallaghan, who was employed on Mr Cartwright's farm, Pleasant Point, last Friday evening tvas kicked by a horse,* and instantly killed. He was picking 5 up 'k‘ cover,’when * the horse kicked him on the forehead, and he never moved afterwards.;. ;/ Homeward Bound.—r The s.s. Eldarslie,

: left p.ort Chalmers on Sunday evening, i Her cargo consists of 154 ba'es flax, 421 ; do wool, 251 do rabbit skins, T do sheep skins, 9 do leather, 2 do hair, 1239 sacks oats, 15 casks pelts, 25 bales skins, 13 oases lard, 1 do sundries, 29,786 carcases frozen mutton, 105 cases kidneys. Suicide of a Giro.— The jury at the inquest on the body of Emily Shane, found a verd<ct to the effect that death was caused by poison, self administered, while in a'depressed state of mind. . The girl had bad a sweetheart with whom she broke off communication, and she had promised to marry another shortly. Attempted Suicide. —An old man named Johnson, who, resides at Moeraki, and who had admitted to the police, after a search had been made' op his premises, that he had stolen several bags of bats, attempted to commit suicide.' He stood on the edge of a water hole, an singing out to attract attention jumped into the water after he saw he bad been noticed. He was dragged out, and then it was found that be had lied, a bag. of stones around his neck. - ;: Human Nature.— The Taiari advocate baa the following. 1 hear that some of our Taieri farmers are very indignant at the Maritime Council having the presumption to apply the ‘Boycott’ to Messrs Whitcombe and Tombs. Yet the same parties have been heard to express the opinion that the salesmen who having who have been selling some cattle at the Burnside market, which came down from , the North Island lately, ought to be boy- I, cotted for doing so. ' J,

A Claim for Damages, —W. H. Bannett whose wife was accidentally poisoned at Wellington a few weeks ago by strychnine being subatituted ror morphia in making up a prescription, h«s issued a writ against Fi'Zgerald, the chemist who supplied the medicine, claiming £I6OO damages; , The Elections. —Sir Harry A. Atkinson ia to be opposed by Mr F. McGuire for the Egmonl seat-ic the ! In the;- Waimate.Witness, (a Icjbfl paper) we find an ?idvertisement in which Mr McGuire calls- upon-the- electors- not-*-lo pledge their ?otes until he is enabled, by dissolution ; or expiry- of the present Parliament, to lay bis views before them. R.M. Court, Geraldine At, this Court bn, Saturday list, before Messrs R. il. Pearpoint and H..W. Moore, Esq*., 5 J.P.’s, a . man, who, gave his,name as James McAuley and who also rejoiced in ha'f a dozen alias «8, was charged with having obtained money from Mr P. Kyne,= of the Bush Hotel, Geraldine, under false pretences,' by means of a valueless cheque; Coostab'e VViHooghby applied for a re 4 msnd till Wednesday next, which was granted.-,.. . • y : : 1 : A Remarkable Etent. —The entrance of the eldest son of, the Prince of Wales into the House of Lords during the lifetime of his father is,’says * Atlaa’ in the World, an event unique in English history for the simple reason that the newly created Duke of Clarence and Avondale and Earl of Athlone is the only eldest eon of a Prince of Wales, since Princes of Wales were, who has attained, much less passed by saveral years his majority whilt his father; was still Heir Apparent to the Crown. Frederick, Duke of Edinburgh, afterwards Prince of Wales—the Fred who was ‘alive and is dead, ’ and after that fob. more to be. said’—came .close . to doing so.; But George 11. became king while hia son ' was a minor, j Art Union.r- The Ashburton Guardian) says :—The drawing injJMr>Heory Zander's Art Union took!p'aee pQ ( Thucßday,night at| the Central Hotel,. .It was conducted by a 1 committee :pf and ticket No. 735 was found to be the winner of the collection!of coins. The ownerpfthe ticket is: Senbr Elizondo, * New York, aj Spanish 7 gehtleman who stw -the'collection some six years ago, and being himself* collector lost no ; tiiaa - in’ seeming’ two; tickets. For his two tickets Don Elizondo sent in payment a five-dollar greenback —silver dollar issue—and to cash tbs bill Mr Zander will be under the necessity of sending it to England, The collection will be sent to New York by the first oufgoing mail. 5 j Hawkes Bat Prosperity.— At, the annual meeting of the Napier Chamber of Commerce Mr A. 0. Lang was elected president. The report of the committee showed .that there had been a large expansion in,the exports. A few yearsago Hawke’s Bay was a large importer of potatoes but ; in the la 4 5 months has exported 80,000 bags, and,the amount would have been greater if the shipping space could have been procured. The traffic on the several country; roads has been so great as to render them almoih impassible. A committee was appointed to draw up a letter to the Railway Commiaaionars protesting against the differential rating of agricultural produce in Hawke’s Bay. The excess charges for potatoes on this line is 12 to 15 shillings bn the produce of

an acre. ' Serious Charge.— On last Friday, in Timaru, a little girl named Cosgrove was brought up charged with having stolen £9 worth of clothes from the Railway, Hotel at Pleasant Point. The girl was* only 10 years old, and her mother, Ellen Cosgrove, was charged with being a receiver of stolen goods. After the who'e case was gone through the mother stated that the.little girl came to her and told her that Mrs Geaney would give her some clothes if she cared to have them. : She sent the child for the clothes, and was surprised at the value and quality of the tbiugs she brought back. She had not the slightest notion that the goods were stolen. This was borne out by inquiries made by the police and the evidence of witnesses, apd the 'woman was discharged. The girl, whom the mother said was getting beyond her control, was ordered to be sent to (he Industrial School. Manufacture of Precious Stones.— To make precious stones from gas refuse is indeed, says the St. James’Gazette, to squeeze out the romance which should; cling to “ pearls from the ocean and gems from the mine." Mr Greville Williams, of

the Gas Light and Coke Company, has ! made a perfect emerald from the refuse of a gas retort. That this was possible has been known to science for two generations. But although there is nothing new in this ingenious play with science—despite, too, that the coat.of making the gem was ten times its highest valued—the news has caused some alarm among possessors of fine emeralds. For the present, at a)] events, there is not much cause for uneasiness; but at some future and probably not very distant time it .will be possible to make artificial emeralds at a much lower. price-T-ind«ed,; is qnite to be expected. 1 Already artificial diamonds can be made, while sapphires and rubes have often been ! manufactured in the laboratory. The time! is coming, no doubt, when jewels will bp as plentiful as imitation* gold is now. But it is easy to distinguish i

real go’d from counterfeit; with stones it! is far more difficult. With; jewels the naked eye, even of the expert, counts for nothing. - Football. —A match between a mixed first and second of Waihi and a scratch team from Geraldine took place in the Geraldine Domain on Saturday afternoon last. The game, which was of a very uninteresting description, resulted in a win for the Waihi representatives by six points (two goals) to nil. For the winners W. Stewart, F. Shaltard, I. Blisssfct (captain), A. Hart, and W. Moore were the most conspicuous, while for the losers R. Morrison (captain), A. J, Moule, D. Clouston, A. McLean, and F. Colbert

played best. Messrs T. Wagstaff and H. W. Moors were the qmpires and W. Brinkman referee. —The following are the teams picked from the Temuka High School and the Crusaders (Timaru) to play in the Temnka park on Thursday afternoon ; —-Temoka : G. Morton, R, Lea, J. Morton, T. Brosnahan, M. McLeod, P. 3-affaney, P. MoOaskilJ, T. Spillano, M. Quinn, B. Horigan. A. Smith, G. Franks, T. Fenton, C. Walker, G. Bowman ; emergencies, W. Gore. A. Storey. Timara : J. Thomson (captain), J, Findlay, 0. Home, W. Home, J. Berry, A. Findlay, W. Straehan, J. Bright, A. Currie, H. Anderson, J. JBaghurat, B. Gilchrist, J, White, P. Pearce, Masker;

emergencies, G. Berry, L. Hall, G. Falgar, J, Home, and A. Berry. Play will commence at 3,45.

Temuka .literary Society. We would remind our readers that the debate on the Chinese question, between members of the Timaiu and Temuka Debating Societies, will take p'ace in the old Wesleyan Church this evening. Theda bate will be open to . the pub'ic, and a large attendance is hoped for. Dunedin Hospital. —The inquiry into this |banitaryY condition,', qf tjhe Dunedin ■hospital: was ir bo Friday afternoon, Dr Bachelor again giving ■evidence. - He--dealt** with* the -amounts collected for the gynecological ward and the 1 home. Hebetated that he believed the nurses and others engaged in the hospital where "abaoiic,' and thatr ; 'oDa house snrgeon was never *wt>lhwhen in the bospita’, while.he bad beeh in fi.st class health since be. had gone to Seacliffe, ' The'inquiry waa adjourned, till Tuesday. The Premier.— The correspondent'lf a Christchnroh contemporary says Pam aony to say that the Premier is again seriously ill; He was ablo .to taka a walk to-day;(22nd inst.) but iB not allowsd Jo . attend to any business. He insisted <qn attending a Cabinet meeting and‘at the dose his symptoms were so alarming that at one time, fears were.entertained that he would,; not leave the room ;alive. This evening someone foolishly mentiqapd;tbe discussion going ,on about random; and his interest being-aroused-ba was again seized with nervous excitement, follow edHby dangerous ezhanstbo, and bia condition creates much.uneasiness. Wealth in Scotland. —The Scotland of Burns has ceased to exist;lays a correspondent.' She is still “ the aiild 11 but no longer the “ pair mither.” In joint-stock companies : she- last invested ■68,844,604:, and ; during the - quarter of this. one: tshe,;hasjjnvested-In forty companies Nor is that all, lor' these. last figures show ponding increase on other .words, Scotland is coming but with surprising wealth in’ the stocking—wealth unknown, , and with wealtl^' still futth'br demonstrating. This quite modern fashion .of combining in order to produc'd ia ! Certain to lead to other results ~jn -.regard., tooths -relations between; em ployec and employed. Death,from. Hiding . a Tricycle.— Mrs Sarah Jones, residing- at" New Deaton, near Northampton," , recently died from tricycling. ; The deceased,' who was>29 years of age, went for a short ride on a tandem tricyle with a Mr -Jobeson, 1 ‘and directly;afterwards with 1 a MrAnkelt. Mr Ankett, finding’ that she waa fatigued, stopped the machine, and the lady got off, lay,oa ths grass by the, roadside, ( and expired without a,sound: in'two s or -tliree minutes. Her medical* attendant considered that death was caused by syncope, and the jiiiy at the inquest 1 retarded • verdict that death"was censed by syncope, Arising from over-exertion and-excitement caused by her riding a tricycle. ?!R Musinos inMaoriland.— BythsSaa Francisco mail there have..,arrived.« number of' advance ' sheets' of 1 ! Mf Thomas Bracken’s forthcoming volume, “Musing Jo- Maeriland.” The letterpre'aa MhdludaaCfStr George; and Sir Robert Stout's, articles, and the , style of the typographical work is of, the highast order.' Tha i I lustrations form, I however, the special feature bf the book, and. those to band reflaot the greatest

credit, not only on the New Zealand artists who sketched them,; bat also on the Ger* - • man lithographers who have, reproduced the originals, with graphic' fidelity.' - ; The author would hare preferred ' to,.have _ published the work in the Colony, bot the 1 Germans excel in the style of art necessary for the prod action of an edition ,de luxe each as Muaings in Maoriland ” promises to be. * Wa have seen a letter from' Leipzio • in , which Dr Chaim zee, Professor of Languages in the University of that town, ' speaks in eulogistic terms of some of Mr Bracken’s poems.—Lyttbltoii Times. Prick of Land in England.— lna, late number of the field, some, information la given as to.the present value of farming land in -England, from * which it would appear that wel'-improved farms'with good homesteads sell at about one-half what would be accepted for each proper* ties in Australia. The, writer citess-in-stances of farms, a'U with ihouses and steadings, and in good.positions, vafyingin in s : ze from 50 to 150 acr*-a,>that were sold 1888, realising prices ranging from £5 10s to £l3 per acre. Many old Australian

| reaiden's who have visited England during | the last'few years have spoken to me of the low price, that are accepted for ex cellent farms with good houses thereon in the old country. They all express the op n on that farming Imd in England has fallen below its true value, and that it is a safer speculation to buy country .land there than in Victoria. It is estimated that during the last tan or twelve years the value of farming land in England has fallen fully 50 per cent.

Labor ItbmS.—That combination of labor to force capital to recognise its necessities are not of recent date , there : are ample records to prove. So far back as 1823 the spinners of Scotland took , the ' following oath, which is certainly as extreme as any unioniatic measure ; of the ! ? present day “I, A. 8., do voluntarily

swear, in the presence of Almighty God, aqd before these witnesses, thatVt will execute with geal apd alacrity, as far as iq me lies, every task or injunction which the majority of my brethren shall, impose upon me in furtherance of our commas welfare, as the chastisement of knobs, the assassination of oppression and tyrannical masters, or ihe demolition of shops that : shall be deemed incorrigible; also that [ will cheerfully contribute to tho support ' of my brethren who shall lose their work in consequence of their exertions against ' tyranny, or renounce (in resistance to a

reduction- of wages.”-. A Mr -Watson, writing to an Australian paper, says “ The fear that labor, when thoroughly organised, will become arrogant and aggressive is groundless. Those days are gone when might was considered right, and in its place has arisen that spirit of

justice and equity to all which is throbbing in the hearts of true lovers of humanity, Jf freedom of contract were to be allowed unionism would be practically dead. The reason, in my opinion, is this : Suppose a man was wanted for a job; two inen apply—one has no one to keep but himself, the other is married and has a young family to keep. Could not the single man offer his services, say, at 25s a week and live on it, while for the other to accept such would be no better than starvation J The union does not say to the single man that he should not get as much as the married. It is their own private business. Freedom of contract, therefore, would practically make it a erime for a toiler to get married."

Congregational Dispute;— Archbishop Redwood states that he knows noth ng about the proceedings with regard (o tho Catholic cbarch at Palmers'on North of ! whioh the parishioners complain.

TEittncA Stock Salk.—The-fort nightly

; skle /of stock at theTemuko sale y irds takes .place fec-tnorro« , for which Messrs Jklundell & Co. advertise a loog list of ' entries.. For the convenience of country visitore to the town on sole days Mrs Perceval, of the Wallingford Ho'el, ond ‘Mr' H. Lee, of the Crown Hole', atfhounc'* s‘jtliwPthefß ! wi!! : be;;V shilling limth’eph nt f itheir’eßtibfishment's oq ’sale days 1 .. , Zi|aland’s Position.—M rS yd hey, "/Taiwhapga, M.H,R., in a speach delivered julyjl.hfh,.lays down as: __thp 3 baris ( for discussing New Zealand’s position the thtee following.conundruma : What are'.'iwe l jhow wei got there I and , bownafe -wo'lo'- ; get out of it I Sydney the twinkling of an eye, rtma our ndebtedneas up to abou’ £100,000,090, and this stats of affairs oomes_.under .the., heading ot Where,are 'sW.e If Hefjanftwere this by say ng we arein it 1 nrck and crop, ./and ; ..that not- a speech during the whole of the ho-oonfidence debate suggested aremedyfor, wepresomo, the condition he calls “Where are we?”

Next he deals with “ How we got there.” Sydney evidently has an eye on the Rank of New Zealand,. says., How ..we got there” /is attributable mainly to that institution, aaaiate'd by land monopolies, landftlngs,'and land sharks. 11 How are we to.get out of it” is to ba brought about by B/E?new election, at" which no: present membsr of PsHisniept is to be/reiurned, with the exesption*, we suppose, of Sydney himself,. Sydney spoke two and a quarter columns of Hansard.-; Itwaa in this speech that he'made,/the- proposal to retrench £-40,006M>y priltingiina Maori 1 Ministry, and appointing a Maori , Governor—'Taiwhaßga 1 hitPSelf, : "porhapß. He complains; that all. the T Press • came, down ’on hirn for t his r proposal, 'and that himself, his ||iofe/j|anjd- |Tawhai& w era put ‘i h : the 0 faserver for advocating it—he could showit ‘Td'theni if'lhey'doubted it." 1 '

SYNOPSIS OF ADVERTISEMENTS. Temuka Dispensary—-Boy wanted to clear op garden. Temuka Road Board—lnvite tenders for eeveral works.' J. Mundeji~& Go.—-Invites tenders for onttipg goiße:feacs. * Robr, Taylor—Haa accepted T. Maloney and Co.'a tender for draining. D. M. Boa*, Deputy Assigi.ee—Notice re dividend' in estate o£ George - Hobbs, now payable. - . » V Amalgamated Shearers and Laborers Union —Public m-eting at Geraldine on Friday evening io form a branch. • Temuka Caledonian. Society—Fancy dress ball on Thursday evening next ; grand march, with oolored light effects, at 9 o’clock. Temuka Brass BandU— Meeting of members; to-morrow evening to receive applications fur post of bandmaster. Salvation Army, Geraldine—Celebrate first anniversary on September 6th, 7th, and Btb ; tea on the Bth ; Colonel Taylor and Majors Yeal and Hammond present.