LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2121, 6 November 1890, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Political Address, Mr S. Buxton addresses the electors in the Geraidioe Volunteer Hull :o-monow night, and at Temuka on Seturtay evening. The meetings will commence ut 8 o'clock. Geraldine County Council Election. —Ratepayers are red) mod that puniiiJatHs for seats on the Geruldino County Council must be nominated by noon to-day, or as soon thereafter as possible. The Rimutaka. The R.M.S. Rtmutaka, from Loudon, arrived in Wellington harbor at 7 o’clock on Monday even-.- g. She repons an uneventful parage. Sne b'ougbt 133 passengers foi Now Zealand. Land Settlement.—During the rao:.th of October 94 selectors in tbe colony to-ik up 15,200 acres of lane;. The monthly average fer the past j’ear has been 140 ant| the area laken ap 27,43)' acre 0 . j

Archbishop Redwood. Archbishop Redwood arrived at Auckland from Tututusa and Fiji by tbe steamer Omapere . 0 Tue«day afternoon. Tkmdka Town Board. —The regular ,'iouthly meeting of ihe above board which should have been held last night was adjourned for a week. Aeohdbaoon Harper.—The Venerable Archdeacon Harper, who has been! on a lengthy visit to tbe Old Country, returned ■ o the colony in the Rimutaka. He is expected to reseme his duties in Titnaru on Tuesday next.

National Insurance Comtany.-The directors of this company recommend the payment of a dividend of 10 per cent per annum. During the year the profi s amounted to £16,019 3s sd. £5215 8a 5 i will be earned forward. Retired on a Pension.—Mr Edward Fell, Dt puiy-Registi *r of Patents, has retired from the Government service on compensation, and M' Frank Waldgrave, chief clerk in the Justhe Department, will act as deputy in the absence of the Patent Office’. Art Exhibition. The tenth annual exhibition of the Society of Ar s was opened at Christchurch on Tuesday evening in their sew building by Mr Richmond Bsetham, ih« president of the society. There are 243 original works on exhibition, besides a loan co lection. Good Yields. News comes from Whangarei that of twe indspend -nt assays of Puhipnbi ore, made by Mr Lee le Macarthur, the first, from Pc. 2 Prospectors’, gave at the rate of 1143 ouncvN of silver to the T on. The cber, from rhe Tupona, gave 163 ounces of silver. H« is very pleased with the ore. Chbistohhrch Show and Races.—Tomorrow a ir .in w 1 st irt from Tiuaaru for Ohristcbnrch at 7.10 0.m., le-ving Washdyke at 7 22, Tamuk* at 7.47, Winchester ar 7-59, and o;ari at 8.11, reaching Christohmoh at 12.15. A return train will leave Christcl arch at 9.15 p.m. Tire ordinary morning train to Christchurch w’dl not 'un.

Political —M> Meredith, a Noith Cnnteibary Candida's is a pood mixture. He is 8D ex-schoolmaster, i preiohor of ■he gospel, a good templar, nd an OraogeuitD. In Ashbiutm oind'darea mw thickening tast. Mr W. C. Walker, the ex-member is one, Mr Purnell ts another, Mr E. G. Wnght is another, Mr Brown is the fourth, and a Mr Sawle makes th*fifth, while a Mr Leggett is talked of as the sixth. In all there Is only one real ‘ snuine Liberal—Mr W Iker. He h*s bean six years in the Liberal ranks uo -, i.nd ought to be traced. Proposed Union Settlement — : Mr S-ymour, Secretary to the Wharf Laborer’s Union, interviewed the Mi'St>r of L-nde yesterday morning renewing the application for land for a u< ion speoia! settlement, The conditions of the apple -

tion are somewhat mod-fiod, the r quest now being for 5000 acres in the vioinny of Pabiaiua, in the Forty Mile Bu»h, mid ii 'a understood that it is made on biha f ot 50 m n requiring 100 acres each. The fhe Minister Wse doubtful whether the b‘< ck asked for is available, bat promised to look into the mattei, «nd at the same time advised Mr Seymour that h» thought it would be advisable for the men to take open lands, thereby saving the survey f-isg. A Peculiar Case. — A peculiar cise is ■eported from Feathnratone, Well n. John Granger, a ganger on the Rimutika

Summit-, states that he quarrelled with i.is wife, and that sha cut his throat with a knife. On the other hand, Mrs Granger states her husband came home drunk, and attempted to use a penknife on her. She left the house, and returned in fifieen m:nntea. when she found her husband ■ V'ng in bed bleeding, but did not thnn know his throat was cut. The wound is in ihe front of the throat, and is an inch and a quarter in length. Medical assistance was obtained, but the wound is not dangerous. Granger was arrested on * cba'ge of attempted suicide, and remanded. Bible in Schools.—Mr Hutchison, at the meeting of the Presbyterian Srnod at Dunedin, said with regard to the Bible in

schools ; Lot the people who its introluc ion meet together, raise eufficie t funds, and pay a man to (e-.ch toe B b!e in schools. They would not get it on any oih«r 'erras 'bn these, so far as he knew, and that would be h oat to some extent of tho smoority of 'hose wl o declare * in favor of the principle. He submitted that if this wore dune they would gat n measure p-»ssrd through P*r iaroo it, and they could get moo who loved the Bible to to.uch and expound it in the schools. In that way they would not on y secure the introduction of t e Bib e, but do an immense good to the colo y.

I 0.G.T., Temstka —Tnin lodge met on Monday evening, at, 7.50 o’clock, for the usual routine business, -ftei which a welcome was given to Br*>. W. E. Bnker, District Deputy. Three new members were initiated. The following officers were duly ioet died by Bro. W. E. Bnk ri r, assisted by Bio. and Sister Gunnell, ol Tnn..ru : P.C.T., B-o. T. Barr; 0.T.,‘ Bio. J. Gant; Y.T., Sis'er E. Storey; Secretary, Bro. Cooper ; Assistant Secretary, Bro. J. Cooper; financial Sec-

reiary, joro. juoboh ; i reasumr, Jiro. Deputy Marshall, Sis'erE. Bow man; Guard, Bru. Golden ; Sentinel, Bro. Philp, The installation concluded, the lodge was opened for pi ace and harmony, and refreshment# were dispensed. The evening vus moat' enjoyable. Sir Robert Stout’s Decision. Sir

Robert Stout, in Declining a largely, signed requisition to stand for a Dunedin seat says ;—"I regret to say, for many reasons which it is unnecessary to specify, X cannot comply with the request. 1 hope, however X may be of some service to the Liberal c -use though net a pj-mber of Parliament, and I may, perhaps, avoid the aspersions oast upon me when in

by some of the leading newspapers, apparently with the approval of a section of

the Dunedin electorate, that ray object in public life was personal gain, I m.y add, the convictions I held in 1887 hare been strengthened by what has transpired since, and 1 am convinced that a policy based on

rhe lines ]L ijfjdipateii at the last general election will have to be adopted {before we o«n see genuine progress in our land, I 1 ‘Io noi suppose the colony is ripe for such a policy, and Parliament cannot go far in advance pf public opinion. So far, howe"er, as I am concst ngi, I will continue to act in the future as I have done in the past, doing what I can to help forward the best internals of the colony by an adherence to those principles which the Liberal party laid down as their political plitform, aud which alone can in rny opinion bring ua peace and prosperity.”

The Writs.—The writs were issued yesterday moroing for the election oa the o'h December ; tbs wrior are returnable by December 15th. No more names can now be put on the rolls.

Mining —The Government have granted £509 to open up the Koaoiunu goldfields. The Goverament are declia ng applications for new coal-mining leases at Whungarei, pending a full inquuy, with a view to prevent monopoly Work foe Nothing.-• Recently we received from the secret«ry of a car! air* sporting society a three-abi ling advertisement, with instructions to insest it provided we also insured a paragr ph of about a quarter of \ column. The paragraph contained details of the programme of tke society, ai.d was really an advertisement from banning to end. We replied that if he authorised us to make Ihe advertisement as long as the paragraph we would insert both, bat that we did not see our w v to give about £l-worth of advertising i'or 3s. We also pointed out to him that if he went into * grocer’s shop he would not expect £l- - of groceries for 3 , and with reg rrd to advertising it was < xactly the satim thing. Id rep : y we received the following letter ;—“ Sir, —As you were not limited to space re advertisement seat you, 1 have to thank you for your refusal to insert same, now knowing the small oiren'atiou of your paper, and the Society will gu»rd against sending advertisements in the future to papers conducted on the sarinlimited business princiolos as yours.— Yours truly" ■, Secretary. P S.—Enclosed please find stamps to cover expenses you have been already put to.” We have suppressed the names of the secretary and society, but we may say it is no society in this district, and tbe same society never advertised with user put oue penny in our way before. The stamps referred to are two peony stamps, and the expenses, no deubfc, are the stamps on tbe tetter we sent him. We could have dved without these stamps, for, indeed, the musement tbe gentleman’s letters hnv<* afforded us more than compensates ns for r he expense. It is really amusing to see anyone getting angry because another refuses to work for him far nothing. We are expected to pay wages, and Onr creditors think we ought to give them 20i in tbe £, bir here is a mm who w»ntn us to do 20*-worth of work for him for 3s ! We wont doit. It w*b ■* most impudent thing Tor a total stranger o ua to m«ke the '-quest in the first nlace, and it was ao exceedingly foolish thi'>g for him to get angry because we efased to work for no hiog. Very frequently we meet with i malar people. Wo are wall used to them. They really tbmk it costs nothing to get up a paper, and chat if is very churlish on the part i f the proprietor to refuse ■ give publicity to anything.

SYNOPSIS OF ADY --IRXISBMBjSTTa. W. G. Aspinall—l, dtes applicatiooa fo r gr’ Xtng. John Murray, Man-irer Orari Station— W.nts a lad.