LOCAL & GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2230, 21 July 1891, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL.

Gold. The Dunedin Dredging , Company obtained 129 ounces for six months work. During the yaer they paid £2BBO in dividends, equal te 46 per cent, on the paid-up capital. Geraldine Racing Club.— The Geraldine Racing Club’s spring meeting has been fixed for September 30th and October Ist, and a good programme is anticipated. Withdrawn. —Richard Butt, charged with embezzlement of moneys of the Cooperative Store and Bakery Company, Limited,Oamaru, appeared at the Resident Magistrate’s Court yesterday. Mr Harvey, counsel for the Company, applied to have the charges withdrawn. The police objected, but the application was entertained, and the case dismissed. Salvation Army. Colonel McKie, one of the most successful evangelists in the Salvation Army, who has seen, some 25,000 people converted in his meetings throughout the world, will shortly be making a tour through New Zealand. He will arrive from Australia, via the Bluff, at the end of the month, and will visit most of the principal towns in the colony. Domestic Troubles. —At the R.M. ■ Court, Timaru, yesterday, a man named Charles Stock was charged by his wife with assault. It appeared that the man was, or fancied he was, ill, and for some time he was in the asylum. The wife and his son gave evidence that he would not work and frequently gave way to fits of violent temper. He was remanded for a week so that he might be medically examined.

News of an Old Feiend. —We notice by the Paisley Gazette just to hand that Mr James Winning, erstwhile of Tomuka, was on the 15th of May last elected a member of the Education Board of that town. On the Board there were two English Church ministers, two Presbyterian ministers, and two Roman Catholic priests. The election is for three years, and there were 22 candidates for 11 vacancies. The polling was heavy, the highest scoring 8784 and the lowest 796. The Crime of Kissing, Much amusement and hot a little indignation have been occasioned at Boston, by the arrest of a prominent citizen and his wife for being guilty of violating the ordinance against kissing in the street. The couple have not long been married, and, happening to meet in the street after a few days’ separation, they could not help saluting each other with a kiss. By this act they brought themselves under one of the old Puritan Blue Laws, which has never been repealed, for the promotion of chaste .and becoming behaviour. There is a similar law in the Statute Book of Massachusetts against smoking in the streets ; but that law is, of course, never put in force. The Labor Bureaux. —The Salvation Army’s Central Labor Bureau at Christchurch has done satisfactory work in the first month of its existence. The names of over three hundred men have been registered as seeking employment, and work, mostly of a temporary character, has been found for about eighty of that number. —A Rescue Home will be opened in Auckland on the 22nd inst. by the Salvation Army. This makes four Rescue Homes that the Army has in the colony. During last year, of 250 cases passed through the various Homes, from 70 to 75 per cent proved satisfactory. The Army has now 43 Rescue Homes in varioas parts of the world, with a staff of 210 officers, dealing with 2000 cases per annum.

Agricultural Shows. —A deputation from various Agricultural and Pastoral Associations of the polony interviewed the Railway Commissioners and asked that the charges for conveyance of live stock to annual shows be reduced. The members of the deuptation Were Sir John Hall, Canterbury; Dr Newman, Wellington; Mr Rhodes, South Canterbury; Messrs Foster and Pratt, Manawatu; and Mr Bidwell, Wairarapa. It was pointed out that if a greater concession was made the shows would eventually benefit the Commissioners, as well as breeders. Mr McKerrow, while recognising the importance of agricultural shows, remarked that the fares for conveying stock to these gatherings were more liberal than in (Ireat Britain. The matter would be looked into very carefully, as a reduction of charges might lead breeders to send stock more for the purpose of selling it than for exhibition.

Presbyterian Church, Geraldine. — At the Presbyterian Church, Geroldine, on Sunday morning last the Rev, A. B. Todd inducted into the eldership of the Church the previously elected members—viz. : Messrs Thomas Morrison, Alexander McKenzie, David Shaw, and George Steven. The rev. gentleman preached on “ Presbyterianism,” choosing for his text I. Corinthians, xii., 28, and Titus, i., 5. He began by showing what the true idea of the Church ’was, viz., the company of all those who professed Christ and acknowledged Him as their Lord. Taking that theory of the Church as a correct one, no Church, he asserted, had a right to say that only members within her own pale belonged to the true Church. But at the same time the form of Church government was a necessary and helpful thing, and the leading principle of Presbyterianism, he believed, was founded on the Word of God. There were two X>rinciples to guide them in forming the theory of Church government. The first was the universal priesthood of believers, and the second distinction of office in the Church. He believed that Presbyterianism acknowledged both of these principles in due proportion. Its three distinctive principles were: the equality of the clergy, government by elders, and the unity of the Church. After preaching the rev. gentleman put the usual questions to the newly-elected elders, and they were satisfactorily answered. Then followed the ordination prayer, and they were received into the session as elders and the right hand of fellowship extended to them, <

Unionism. —With reference to the pro- I posal of the Union Steam Shipping J Oo.’s proposal to establish a benefit soeiety | for their employees, a meeting of the Protestant Alliance Society of Auckland passed the following resolution :—“ While believing in the principle of societies, yet we strongly protest against large firms being allowed to start benefit societies and coerce their employees to join, whether belonging to other societies or not; the compulsory clause in the rules we think most objectionable, and detrimental to the interests and extension of societies.”

The Unemployed. —One of the working party on the Government relief works at Makahuri, gives a doleful account of the condition of the men there. He says that his experience leads him to the conclusion that a man would be better dead than working on relief works. The hardships attending upon camping in the winter are not what he complains of, so much as the small price paid to the men by the Government for their work. One gang after working hard for seven weeks had only to draw 5d per man after, paying for tucker. Fatal Accident. —A man named James Poynterd was killed on Saturday afternoon at Makaran Bush, Kantakapa, Auckland, by a log rolling on him.—A shocking accident occurred at Danevirke, Wellington, on Sundays A man named Smith, a bush contractor, was out shooting with his two sons, and they were coming home to dinner when the father said he must get another bird. The youngest boy, Frederick Charles, rushed by, saying," I see apigecn.” Immediately the fathei’’s gun went off, the charge entering the head of the boy (who was eleven years old) behind the ear, killing him instantly. The lad was a few feet, <istant at the time. _ ( St. Saviour’s Church. A meeting of the vestry of St. Saviour’s Church was held last night. The incumbent was in the chair. A letter was read from the Diocesan Secretary re inspecting the parsonage. Mr Langridge kindly consented to act and send in a report. Tenders were then opened for the erection of the Sunday School and dealt with as follows :—W. H. -Tubb, £711; W. McR. Thomson, £681; Clinch and Lloyd, £677 19s; Thos. Henderson, £669; Comer and Larcombe, £607 (accepted). It was decided to hold monthly entertainments for raising funds towords the erection of the Sunday School, the first entertainment to take place on August 20th, the Rev, T. A. Hamilton, Messrs Pinckney, Dann, Whitehead, and Chapman to be a subcommittee to arrange the details.

SYNOPSIS OF ADVERTISEMENTS.

E. Prouting, Geraldine Funeral notice.

J. H. Dean, Woodbury Funeral notice.

Mrs Angus Macdonald—Wants house and table maid.

P. Kyne, Geraldine—Public notice re debt collecting. A. E. Cox —Additional entries Geraldine stock sale. Belfield School—Concert and dance on Friday evening. Mathews & Trezise—Offer reward for return of lost dog. J. Mundell & Co. —Additional entry Geraldine stock sale.

D. Macdonald —Has accepted Gregan and Mulvahill’s tender.

G. E. Warburton, “ The Pharmacy,” Timaru—Notice re “Can’t-be-beat Baking Powder;” at all storekeepers. Good Templars and Blue Ribboners — Great re-union social and public meeting at Geraldine on Thursday evening. R. H. Pearpoint, Timber, Iron, Coal, and General Merchant, Geraldine Notice re timber*, building materials, Yates’s reliable seeds, etc.; agent for various companies.