LOCAL & GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2266, 13 October 1891, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL.

Geraldine Stock Sale. The fortnightly stock sale at Geraldine takes place to-mono wi The G^n t ):ual.—General Booth arrives in Auckland direct from Sydney on the 20th inst. The Choral Hall has been taken for his services. The Premier —The Premier leaves Wellington for the south on Wednesday. He will attend a banquet to Mr McKenzie at Palmerston South. - The Synod.—The Rev. T. A. Hamilton left by express last evening for Christchurch to attend the Synod, which opens to-day. He will be absent eleven or twelve days. Gold Export. The outward San Francisco mail steamer, which left Auckland last Saturday afternoon, took'specie to the value of £235,000, most of ■ which is

from Sydney. Irish. Tenants Fund. The sum of £sl 14s,"the profits fsom Mr Cox's lecture in Auckland on behalf of the Irish evicted tenants, was on Saturday sent by the committee to Mr John Dillon. Sudden Death.—Mrs Shaw, wife of Mr F: Shaw, a highly-respected dairy farmer in the Masterton district,- died suddenly in a train last Saturday. She had been suffering for some time from a nervous malady. ><,.''• Profitable Industry.—At the annual, meeting of the directors of the Kaiapoi Woollen Company a dividend of 8 per cent was declared. The wages paid by the company during the year amounted to £33,350. The Price of Wheat. A line of 22,000 bushels of wheat, two-thirds pearl, the remainder hunters white, was sold on Friday at 4s (5d per bushol, ex store at Chertsey. This looks well for the coming harvest. The New Agent-General. —At a meeting of Christchurch citizens on Saturday night it was decided to entertain Mr Perceval, the new Agent-General, at a banquet next Thursday. The Governor has promised to attend. Fire.—The kitchen, store room, and dining room of the Native College, Wellington, accidentally caught fire, it is supposed from the wash house fire, and were burnt down. The insurance is £4OO on all the buildings in the Northern Office. The damage is estimated at £IOO. The Telephone.—Since the introduction of the reduced telephone charges the following is the approximate number of applications for connections: —Wellington 29, Christchurch 27, Dunedin 20, Auckland 18, Invercargil 6, Napier 4, Oamaru 3, Timaru 1; total, 106. The Christchurch Election. The polling for the. Christchurch election took place on Friday. There was no excitement. Result: —Sandford, 1851; Smith, 1109; George, 639: A crowd surrounded the newspaper offices to ascertain the result but the proceedings were orderly. Seventh DA y Advenists, —There has arrived at Auckland, the schooner Pitcairn, owned by the General Conference of Seventh Day Adyentists, whose head-quarters are at Battle Creek, Michigan. It was constructed specially for mission purposes in the Pacific on their behalf. She brings Mr and Mrs Jetts, missionaries. Obituary.—The funeral of the late Mr Thomas O'Driscoll, which took took place last Sunday, was probably the largest ever seen in Timaru. The funeral service was conducted by His Lordship Bishop Grimes at the church, where he delivered a most feeling address in reference to the merits of the deceased. Concert and Dance at Milfoed. — A concert and dance in aid of the prize fund of the Milford School will take place on Friday evening next, and as a first-rate pro?rimme for the concert has been arranged, and there will be good music, etc., for the dance, taosa who attend should enjoy themselves. . Mining Incidents. —A miner named Walter Webb, at Rimu, Hokitika. attempted to cut his throat on Friday night. He was taken to tbVhdspital, and it is believed that he will, recover. A miner named Robert Bell, living at Humphrey's Gully, near Stafford, on Saturday nightfell into a deep tail race and broke his neok. The, Waikato Election. The result of the Waikato election was declared at Hamilton by the Returning Officer, when a somewhat excited scene took place. Mr Murray, the defeated candidate, accused the Waikato Times, a local paper, of t partialitv. To this the proprietor- of the paper. Mr Edgecombe, retorted by calling Mr Murray a liar. However, the excitement soon subsided. Supreme Court. —At the Supreme Cour.t Wangahui, Gray, charged with stabbing and wounding, got eight months hard labour. —The Supreme Court at New Plymouth, re-opened yesterday morning when the Crown Prosecutor entered a nolle prosequi in the case of John Hunter, charged with rape, in which the jury dis T agreed on Saturday. This completed the criminal business, Promotion.—Sergt.-Major Mason, who lias been in charge of the police district of South Canterbury for some time under Inspectors Thompson and Pender, has received notice of his transference to Christchurch, and his place will be filled bv Sergt.-Major McDonnell. Sergt.-Major Mason is highly respected in the district as an efficient and painstaking officer, and steps are;being taken in Tima.ru to get the ' transfer ganceUod if -possible,

Burglary.—At the Dunedin Police court yesterday, George Bowden was committed for trial for breaking into the dwelling of Henry Essex. Edward Martin was also committed for breaking into a railway shed. Illicit Still.—At Wanganui on Saturday a man named Underhill was found guilty of having an illicit still at Poroti, and was fined £IOO, with the option of twelve months' imprisonment, and the plant was confiscated.

Catholic Education.—The Right Rev. Dr Grimes, Roman Catholic Bishop of Christchurch laid the foundation of a residence for the Marist Brothers in Tiinaru laßt Sunday. The weather was beautiful, and the attendance was very large, amongst thosepresent being the Mayor (Mr D. M. Ross), Mr M. Jonas, and the Rev. Mr E. Zachariah, the Jewish rabbi of Christchurch. The Garrison band was present and played some musical selections - His Lordship delivered an elequent address - The collection, including promises,amounted to £166.

Bureau of Industries. The Bureau of Industries has received applications from 320 persons for employment on the Otago Central Railway work. This number may be assumed to be in excess of the unemployed, as applications have been received from the settlers about Middlemarch and also from those at present in employment temporarily, who are desirous of ezchanging it for work of longer duration. Step-mother.—At the City Court, Dunedin, Mary Brown was charged with illtreating her step-daughter, aged nine years. Medical evidence was given that the child was . covered with bruises. Evidence of the family showed that there had been no unnecessary chastisement, and that a wet dress in which the child went to school she put on of her own accord. The case was dismissed, the Bench cautioning accused to treat the child with more care owing to her weakly constitution.

The Seal Stealing Case. The sealing case, in which Andrew Newton was charged with stealing £IOOO worth of skins belonging to Joseph Hatch, occupied the Invercargill court allFridayand up to luncheon on Saturday, and has been adjourned till October the 22nd. The defence is that Hatch did not carry out the agreement to give the men 15s per skin, and further that all' skins of "regulation " size to which he is entitled under the agreement were handed *to'hiin. Mr J..M. Fraser appears for the defence, and great interest is shown in the proceedings. Death of a Noted Burglar.—Dunn, the celebrated burglar, died on Sunday at Mount Eden gaol, Auckland. He was sent up from Wellington to Auckland gaol and was discharged there, and was subsequently arrested by. Detective Herbert for attempted burglary at the Oxford Hotel, after a sharp encounter between the two men, in which the officer used his hand cuffs and Dunn a butcher's cleaver. The late Mr Justice Gillies sentenced him to 14 years' penal servitude, half of which had been served.

Danger of Hynoptism.—ln defending a client named David, accused of petty larceny, before the Tribunal Correctional in Paris, M. Reynaud, his advocate, demonstrated to the court that the man was a hynoptic subject, and that, under certain conditions, he was irresponsible for his actions. As an instance of this Dr Ballet, who was examined; made the following curious statement: One day David found himself in the city of Troyes, GO miles from the capital, without knowing how he got there, and minus his overcoat and his purse containing five pounds in money. Some months afterwards he became an inmate of the hospital, Hotel Dieu, where he mentioned the incident. Dr Ballet threw him into a mesmeric sleep, and the patient, being then in a clairvoyant condition, gave an exact description of the hotel in Troyes where he had put up, and the number and furniture of the room in which he had slept. The landlord was written to, and he returned the overcoat and the purse and its contents, of which he had taken care since the departure of his guest, who is liable, it seems, to fall into a condition of what is called " amulatory automatism."

Professor Mason.—Professor Mason had a very large attendance at his private lecture to men only on Friday evening last, at Geraldine Lectures such as that given by the Professor on Friday evening cannot but be beneficial to young men. The pity is, there is not more of such plain talk to young men. On Friday evening 15 turned up to join the class in electropathy and a start has been made. On Saturday evening one of the members submitted himself to an examination for the benefit of the class. The person in question is suffering from a sore back. The spot where the soreness is, was instantly found when the machine was brought to play on him. On the sore spot he could not feel the full strength of the machine while only a few inches around the spot he could not bear it at half-strength. A red spot also made its appearance on the skin, another indication of where the soreness lay. There is every probability of a society being formed on similar lines to the one recently formed at Temuka.

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