LOCAL AND GBNERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2190, 18 April 1891, Page 2

LOCAL AND GBNERAL.

Arrest.—Clark, the absconding secretary of the Prince of Wales’ Lodge of Oddfellows at Port Chalmers, has been arrested at Sydney. Bishop Selwyn. Bishop Selwyn is seriously ill at Norfolk Island, from malarial sciatica. The Orlando cal s there to take him to Sydney. Gold- —The total gold exported during the first quarter of the year was 36 827" Z., valued at £146,385. Of this £65 461 worth came from Auckland, and £83,362 worth from the West Coast.

Prohibition.—The licensing election in Wanganui resulted in the return of the candidates pul forward by the prohibitionist party, who pledge themselves to dose five of the nineteen hotels in the borough.' Emigration and Immigration. —The ardvtL iu the colony during March were 1172 and departures 1980 ; 583 came from New South Wales, and 1155 went there ; 136 from the United Kingdom, against 219, who went there. Ten Chinamen went away.

Prohibition. —ln Invercargill the ternj ranee candidates for three of the Invercargill Licensing Committees were defeated by large majorities on Wednesday. The candidates were not altogether popular. It is very seldom temperance advocates are.

The Unemployed. Requests have been received from Timaru, Oamaru and Dunedin to put the unemployed on day wages instead cf contract prices, but Mr Seddon has refused on the grounds that the colony has never had fair value out of the unemoloyed at day work, German Consol. — residents have signed a petition to the OousnlGeneral in Sydney, and to the Imperal authorities in Berlin, recommending the appointment of Mr B. Hallens'eio, as German Consul for Otago, to fill (be vacancy caused by the death of Mr H. Bought in. Inqubst.-— The body of a man named Half Howard has been found in the Mackenzie Country. He left the Pukaki Accommodation House some mouths ago, and bad not been heard of until Mr Thomson, Babbit Inspector, found bis clothes, and Constable Hilliard afterwards found (he body. Mr Wray has gone to hold an inquest. The Wanaka Inquiry. The Court delivered judgment in this inquiry to the effect that the captain erred in not slotrua down and heavg the lead when in hi. Z" weafher, but returned hia certifies!; , i-s neither be nor the first officer were guil'y of n gligenca. It promised to report the question of attraction on the coast, and also recommend the placing of a strong light at New Plvmmfch which could be distmguished from Waitotara.

Vi luntebhs. —Lieut.-Colonel Carr, who attended the volunteer encampment at pam iru for the purpose of reporting to the Government, says that the statements made as to the bid behaviour of the men are grossly exaggerated. The men were well behaved throughout, and their drill and discipline were most excellent, Hia report to the Government will be of a moat favorable character.

' Supreme Cbuitr. —at the Supreme Court, New Plymouth, James Salisbury was sentenced to three years for arson. The same prisoner was charged with carnally knowing his sister, a girl under 14 years of age, the evidence being of a revolting nature. The jury found a verdict of guilty, and the prisoner was sentenced on this charge to five years’ penal servitude, this sentence to begin at the expiration of the former sentence. Narrow Escape. — A man mined Burgess in Invercargill last Wednesday was driving across a railway when the train whistle frightened his horse, which stood still. The shunting engine came up, and cut through the obstiuotion, throwing the horse and shafts on one side, and Burgess on the body of the cart on the other, Bnrgess was not seriously hurt, the horse escaped with a cut fetlock, and the trap with being smashed up.

Defence. —A conference is to be held at Wellington next week of officers commanding the volunteers and permanent militia, at which Lieut.-Colonel Carr, of Auckland, and Colonel Bailey, of Timaru, have been asked to attend. The business is to consider tbe defence of the colony, and whether any amendment of the Act is necessary, also to the advisability of asking the Imperial Government to send out officers to take supreme charge of the military affairs of the colony for a term of years Personal. —The Wairarapa Standard of the 13th inst. says:—“The Rev. J, Dellow leaves Qreytown to-morrow for Temuka, and in parting with him, whatever differences of opinion there may be, all who know him will say without reserve that be is a straight-forward mm and a regular John Bluu', with rather too much of the blunt for some people. Ha has worked diligently in the cause ha came to assist, and outside that cause he has sought to advance the temperance movement, not only among the old bui among the young, for he has been the soul of the Band of Hope. In musical matters he has lent bis talent, vocal and instrumental, and the young people in the We-leyan Church have benefited by his efforts to teach them music and lead them in public entertainments. Mr Dellow during his public ministry here has dealt out soma vigorous blows at what he considered to bo the vices of society, and like others who have called a spade a sp<de, he received some Wows in return. We did not go with Mr Dellow in his statements, but we believe he was sincere in whit he said and did. la parting with him we can say that in all our intercourse we have found him honest of heart, sympathetic in every good work, and frank and candid in all his utterances, and we wish him God Spaed in this new field of labor,” The Kev. Mr Dellow has arrived in Temuka, and will conduct the morning and evening services at the Wesleyan Church to-morrow. He will aho conduct an afternoon service at Wailohi, ,

Fr/mitite Methodist Church, Ta MBKv. To-morrow anniversary and harvest services will bo held in this chinch, the Rev, W. C. Wood officiating. On tlia following Tuesday the nuuiveisary tea and public meeting will be held. Education. — ith regard to the correspondence forwarded to them by the Hoo. W. P. Reeves the O ago Board of Education passed a resolution expressing cordial appreciation of the ministers efforts in the ouse of education but decline to suggest changes. This is a come round. Common sense has evidently prevailed.

The Late Mt in.—The following elatemeni of the liabilities and assets in the estate of the late J. B. GressO'i, solicitor, who was killed on the railway has been fill'd :—Liabilities, creditors secured £l2 925 3a 7d ; creditors unsecured, £43,133 3s lOd. Assets—real property mortuges on land, £2670 ; overp 1 us from encumbered eetaie, £3319 ; book debts £16,641 esiimated to yield £BOSI ; shares and investment, £302; insolence policies, £8350 ; furniture, chattels, etc,, £400; cash iei band, £l3. Deficency, £20,027. Football. —A scratch match will take place in the Temuka Park this afternoon, when a large muster of players ie hoped for. A challenge has been received to play a Union team, therefore it is expedient that as much practice as possible should be indulged jo. The match has b'pn fixed for next Thursday in the ■TVmuka Park, and the ball will be available for practice every evening till that date.

Election of School Committees The annual election of school committees takes place on the 27th April. This year the mo>le of procedure is different to that prevailing liereiofore, candidates for seats on the various committees having to be nominated with (ha chairman of the present committee’s in the form prescribed oy the Act, noil later than Monday next, further particulars will be found in our report of a meeting of the Temuka School Commit ea.

The Kakanui. —The inquiry into the low of the Kakanui, the little steamer which was lost in coining from the Macquarria Islands, has concluded. Mrs Steward, wife of the engineer, stated that her husband told her that the vessel was so thin that when loading timber a piece went right through her. Dunoon Smith, who had been mate on the vessel, said she was as good a little boat as ever h» put his foot on during the 35 years be had been at sea, Mr Oarew promised to report ro the Government on Tuesday. Saltation Army, Geraldine —The three days' e»,mp«ign of the Salvation A'tay, to celebrate th- ingathering of the harvest, and to wind up with a sale of woib, commences to-oight, when there will be a “ Lancashire March.’' Tomorrow, according to ihe advertisement, there will be something of an u;i pronounce 'ble nature, and on the following Monday evening a tea and sale of work, AT the meotiiags ore expected to be largely at e-ided.

Robbery. William Nioholls and Goorge Berry were committed for trial at Dunadin for robbing a man in daylight. Nioholls fo lowed tha man into a right-of-way, and demanded his money for safe keeping. On his deo'i ing Nicholls knocked him down and nliad his pockets, teli ng a woman who remonstrated with h m to mind her own business. He took £1 15* from prosecutor. Some time later Burry, not knowing that Nioholls had gone through the man, rfl-d his pockets on finding him in a closet, but there was then no money to take. The affair took place in daylight, just off one of the main slr’ets.

Dumwltism. —From enquiries made, and a return prepared, the Minister of Lands has discovered that (he purhuaos of seventeen different auction sold on the the Ist July last in Oanteibury have transferred the whole of the section, comparising 4086 acres, ranging from 82 to 640 ceres per section, to a banking insiituuion ; and of the land sold in the same district on the 25 h Much, two se'entors have transferred 3466 acres to another banking institution. A Mortgage Agency Company has also had 1693 acres tran-farred to it by five se'ectoro, the total srea transferred sinca M rch last ye T behig 9242 acres.

Howard's Dmaxso Plough* — A triel of this]plough which is now coming very prominently before (he public was held at Mr S. Burke’s farm Pleasant Valley on Friday afternoon. A good many people visited the grounds during the day. The (rial was held in a paddock of wheat stubble. As may be imagined the ground was very dry and consequently Aery herd. It was therefore well qualified to test Ihe capabilities of the implement in bard ground. Mr Burkes ordinar plough team warp yoked up and the plough opened out in goad stylo. As it proceeded the implement was lowered until it was turnjug up an eleven inch fnrrow. The manner in which the fonr horses ripped the plough through the ground in the letters present baked condition, the implement turning two furrows of eleven inches each was a treat to witness. The stubble was also turned in and completely buried while the soil was pulverised almost as completely as by a spade in a garden. Even the most sceptical could but admire Ibe excellent style of the ground after the plough had dona its work. On Monday a trial of the plough will take place at Orari in a paddock in the Orari station and on Tuesday in Temuka.

Fires. —The boiling-down house at the W sbdyke was destroyed by fire last ' Thursday morning. One of the discovered the place on fire at 4 a.m, A messenger went to Tiimru for tbe fire brigade, but they did not turn up till 9 o’cock, when the fire was still raging. The place contained a great deal of tallow, and this added fuel to the dimes. The smell from the burning fat was terrible, and the heat was so great that the iron roof was crumpled like tissue paper. It was in this place the off.l from the freezing works was converted into tallow, and the burning of the pi me will throw 14 men oat of employment,. It belonged to Mr J . ML Watt, of Christchurch, and was insured for £2OOO. —At 7.30 p.m. on Thursday a fLe started in the offices of cho Marlborough Times, Blenheim, It spread to seyeral premises, and destroyed them. The insurances wore as follows ;

G. Beckett (Times), £2OO in the Royal, £2OO io the North German (estimated loss above this is £1.000). Howard—Stock, £350 in the L o:<i m and Lancashire (estimated loss £500). Hustwicke £2OO, stock, in the North German. Wlnstanley, fruiterer (not damaged) £lOO, stock, London and Lanin-hire. Small and flay —Stock, £SOO in the New Zetland office, £SOO in the Notional £SOO in tho Standard, £250 in the NorL ;:..i in, £250 in the t’horiix. As to the b . Lliwgs, they principally belong to the Bi ck estate, and are likely to be insured in the Phoenix os North Geitn^u,

StxRrLTJS or Labor. —For f y extra clerks were taken on by the Government for (he census. There were three hundred applications.

SYNOPSIS OF ADVERTISEMENTS. J, Lae son—lmpounding notice. Wesleyan Church, Temuka— Services for to-morrow. fm. A. Nalder, Woodside—List of accepted lenders. J. M. Sutherland, Geraldine—Wants to buy a good hack. N.Z. Railways— Train arrangements f >t Ashburton Rac^s. G. B-rbftr—Has 57 acres of turnips and tussock land to let. J. Beii, Undertaker —Funeral notice re the late son of Mr J. Yelvin. S.C. Board of Education —Notice re annual meeting of householders. Howfii ’ Plough -Trial at Orari on Monday and at Temuka on Tuesday,

A. F. Cos and E. 3. Guinness—Sell cattle, eiioep, nod pigs at Temnka on Tuesday next.

W. Wills, Returning Officer—Notice re annual election of three members of the Temuka Road Bond.

Geraldine Literary and Debating Socie'y —Ho'd. annual meeting of members on Monday next at 8 p.m. John Grant, Willowbank, Temuka— Invites tenders for taking one crop of wheat off 180 acres of SpriogOeld.

Amalgamated Shearers’ and Laborers’ Union—Half-yearly meeting of Geraldine brand) on Saturday evening, 25th. J. Mundell & Co.—Publish entries for Temuka stock sale ; h»ld large sale of drapery on 23rd inst. j also a sale of horses on Ibo same day. .British and Foreign Bible Society Public meeting in the Presbyterian Church, Geraldine, on Tuesday, 21st, for forming branch of society.

J. Taogney, Bootmaker, Temuka—la holding a great sale of boota and shoes to make room for winter shipments ; great reductions for soleing and heeling. ~y _________________