THE Temuka Leader. SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 1892. LOCAL & GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2303, 9 January 1892, Page 2

THE Temuka Leader. SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 1892. LOCAL & GENERAL.

Coming Back. —The excess of arrivals ; in the colony over departures for December ! was 105(3. j Wesleyan Church, Temuka. The I seevires for to-morrow will be found in our advertising columns. Primitive Methodist Church. —The Rev. W. C. Wood will preach at Geraldine to-morrow morning, and at Temuka in the afternoon and evening. Accident. —The Rev. W. Harris, Primitvo Methodist clergyman, was thrown from his horse on Thursday at Wellington and sustained severe injuries. Accident. Win. Findlay, linker, of Archill, Auckland, was thrown from his horse while riding. Ho now lies in the hospital with dangerous injury to his head. Sudden Death. —A man named Charles Stewart, a baker, living on Mount Eden road, Auckland, died suddenly on Thursday. Death is believed to have been caused by heart disease. Geraldine Flower Show. —In another column will be found an advertisement, re the Geraldine Floral Horticultural and Industrial Association’s seventh annual show, which will be held in the Volunteer Hall, Geraldine, ou Thursday next. Public Tkustebshu*. During the month of December the estates of persons deceased placed under the charge of the Public Trustee numbered 37. This is the largest business yet transacted in one month, and double that of the corresponding month of last year. Found Dead. \V. H. Lockwood, a station cook, who is supposed to be related to the famous Sheffield cutlery firm of Lockwood Bros., was found dead in his room at Orr’s Hotel, Martinborough, Wellington, on Wednesday morning. He had been suffering from an aggravated attack of influenza during the past week. Trb AVood Binder —The exhibition trial of a Walter A. AVood Single-Apron Reaper and Binder, held pn Mr J. Guild’s farm at Trevenna was very successful. A crop of oats reckoned to thrash !)0 bushels to the acre was opened up and harvested in a manner that gave everyone present the greatest satisfaction. The farmers presort expressed surprise at seeing a machine open, up such a crop, as a great part of it was lying down and badly tangled. Dairying Industry. The Hon. J, McKenzie was on AVodnesday waited on by a deputation from the Dairy Association, fK/bn asked his assistance in securing the j propep branding and recognition of the nrodnee in‘the J[pm o markets, and also asked for a subsidy to push-|he sale of the produce. The minister’ pro mi sed to give due consideration to the first request, and as petards the second promised a subsidy of vilto fil UP tQ -C?00, as was done last year. A Doubtful A'erdict. —An interesting case has been heard at the Thames in connection with the administration of the Licensing Act. Sergeant Gillies, the local police officer, brought a charge against three men for disorderly conduct and refusing to leave a hotel at Christinas at 2 o'clock in the morning. The charge was lodged under clauses 152 and 153 of the Ij'-jiudn ;■ -Act, is-il bat was dismissed bv the justices (after consultation with the Resident Magistrate 1 on the ground that the allege 1 offence h • dug been committed out of licensed hou-c the hotel was for j the time being, a private dwelling. I.

The Pahiatua Poisoning Case.— The in' quest on. the victims of the Pah aitua poison' ing case, which was to be resumed yesterday, is further adjourned for a fortnight, as a number of the principal witnesses ore not sufficiently recovered to give evidence. Inspector Thomson and Detective Herbert are still in the district. The rumour that poison - was contained in the lamb eaten is generally discredited.

A Fever-Stricken Vessel. The barque Inverurie, from Santos arrived at Napier on Thursday night at 5 30. The health officer went off in a local steamer and laid ‘to windward, within speaking distance. The chief officer made a report to the following effect: —“ We left Santos on November sth, leaving the second mate sick ashore. The captain died on the 11th. Four seamen were ill with intermittent fever four days after leaving port. The last case was erysipelas in the leg six weeks ago. Was off Napier la it Tuesday night, when we lost the lower maintop sail yard Having no chart of the bay we laid off. The chief officer is the only certificated officer on board, and the services of a captain or a qualified mate are needed.” fn reply to questions the officer described the symptoms of the cases of sickness that had occurred, from which the medical officers are of opinion that it is not yellow fever but a sort of jungle fever. They nevertheless refused pratique, and ordered the vessel to the ballast ground to await instructions. The Health Officer reports to the Under Secretary that to admit the Inverurie to pratique would endanger the health of the town and recommends the vessel to go to Wellington, as this is an open roadstead and the ship requires fumigation, together with removal of the ballast which was put on board at Santos.

Native Meeting at Parakino. The assembling of natives at Parakino for a Maori meeting ceased on Wednesday. The visitors included representatives from Waikato, Waitotara, Otaki, and the coast, Wairarapa, Taupo, the Lake Country, the Waiwera Country, Whakataue, the East Coast, and upper an I lower Wanganui. A few also came from the Bay of Islands and the South Island. Their number was estimated at about 1 COO, besides children. Te Kooti was accompanied by 240 mounted followers. He kept himself very close all the time, barely showing himself out of his hut uutil after Europeans had left. The meeting partook more of the character of a feast, but on Thursday morning a discussion of the Government Native land policy took place. Every speaker was dead against it, and decided unanimity was shown in expressions of disapproval. Te Kooti did not speak. A private committee meeting was to be held on Thursday night to decide the course to be taken. The attitude of the meeting may be regarded as significant of passive resistance, which will result in the shutting up of native lands by refusal to sell. The business of the meeting is understood to be ended, and the tribes will be returning in the next few days.

Twa Hours at Hame. issue a mistake was made in the prices to he charged for admission to Mr R. Kennedy’s entertainment at Temuka next Wednesday evening : they should have been 2s and Is. Doubtless the following extract from the Otago Daily Times will be interesting ; —Mr Robert Kennedy repeated his admirable entertainment. “ Twa Hours at Hame,” in the Choral Hall last evening, and although the weather was very unfavorable, he had a good audience. We have previously noticed this performance at some length, and may safely affirm that not one word of commendation that has been bestowed upon it need be withdrawn or modified. It is remarkable that one man should do so much and do it as weU as Mr Kennedy doss. Song after song is given with bell-like clearness, and with a vigor and expressiveness rarely equalled, while the chatty anecdotes —the connective tissue, as it were, of the entertainment are as fresh and sparkling as ever. Each item was loudly applauded, and it would be difficult to say which was the best or the most popular, but ” Scots wha hae ” and Macgregors gathering ” were certainly magnificently sung.

I The Educational Institute, The I council of the E liuatiou.il Institute , resumed their sitting' at Christchurch on . Wednesday. The council adopted the report of the committee on standards, affirming that the reading hooks in use inculato a true moral teaching with which the teachers are in complete sympathy; that an urgent necesssity exists for freedom of classification, and that great ' harm has resulted from the individual pass ; system of examination ; that it believes the new syllabus is a great improvement on the old one, and that a year’s trial should be given it before making any recommendation thereon, though the requirements in drawing are more than can be reasonably expected to be done in one year; that the district institutes report next year on the working - of the syllabus. The council resolved to thank the Minister of Education for the recent beneficial amendments to the standards. The report recommending that the Minister take no steps rc the teacher’s pension fund was adopted. It was decided to urge the Minister to reinstate the vote for training colleges, and that it should be allocated so that every educational • district will participate in the benefit therefrom ; that it is desirable to remove the obsolete regulations under which the teachers of a certain standing were allowed to graduate : that it is desirable the appointment, removal, and payment of inspectors should be placed under the control of the Department; that a court of appeal for teachers, consisting 'of a Resident Magistrate, /Inspector-General, and a member of the executive of the institute is urgently needed; that a more uniform scale of salaries throughout the colony should be adopted; that the police should obtain lists of absentee scholars at stated intervals and prosecute parents; that the employment of any child under 111 who has not passed the 4th standard be made illegal; that the attention of the Minister be called to the fact that the calculation of the education grant on strict, instead of working average, causes a great disadvantage to country schools; On Thursday the committee ou uniformity of school books reported that as private enterprise in New Zealand aud England supplies the profession with cheap, varied, and excellent sets of school books, there is no necessity at present for a uniform set specially compiled by the Government. It would cost from TOO,OOO to .(1100,000 per year,' and it was not likely Parliament would vote that amount fop a new series. Mr Wilmot (Marlborough) said they had a lot of girls and boys growing up and they | should encourage local industry in providing books, aud he did not want to see thorn importing anything they could produce, The report was adopted. The Institute closed its session in the afternoon The next meeting is fixed to be held at Wellington ou January loth, J.BTS. Mr Clement Watson, 15. A., was elected president. At a meeting of the Co mcil of the Educational Institute, it was resolved “ That the Inspector-General be requested to consider the goo I that would result from i local inspectors meeting together once a j year

The Residential Qualification. — The National-Association at Auckland have passed a resolution expressing the opinion that in order that New Zealand residents only should exercise the franchise, the right to vote at Parliamentary elections should be restricted to persons who have been living for not less than twelve months in the colony. An amendment was moved by Mr R. Monk in favor of womanhood suffrage, but was withdrawn. Alleged Libel —lt is stated that Mr (I. Hutchison, M.H.R., is bringing an action against the Premier and Mr J. ,J. Boyle, manager of the Wanganui Herald Company, for an alleged libel. The libel is contained in a speech delivered by Mr Ballance on the question of the payment of members, stating that Mr Hutchison had signed a paper asking the Government to bring in a bill to increase the amount paid. The statement was also printed in the Wanganui Herald. It is alleged that it is contrary to fact, and therefore libellous, hence the cation. Damages are laid at 4()s. The Merger Binder— Says the Lytteltan Times of 4th January :—A trial of the Mercer non-canvas reaper and binder, for which Messrs Reid and Gray are the sole agents in New Zealand, was held in a fortyacre field of oats on Messrs Holmes Bros.’ Bangor Estate on Wednesday. There were abont eighty farmers present; to witness the trial. The oats stood fully six feet high, and the machine did such excellent work all day that the farmers present spoke most favorably of it, and Messrs Holmes Bros, endorsed these good opinions by retaining the machine and ordering another of the same kind. The binder opened the oats without making a halt or mistake, the special characteristic claimed for the Mercer being that, having no canvass to work, it is capable of dealing with heavy crops with perfect ease and without choking. The crop operated upon at this trial is estimated to yield between seventy and eighty bushels per acre.”

At the New Zealand Cycle Works .there, is a special plant for Nickel and Copper Plating of cycles. All bright parts receive a deposit of copper before being nickel plated.—Adams, Cdrties Sc Co., bO, Manchester street, Christchurch. Cycles from £5. —]()

SYNOPSIS OF ADVERTISEMENTS.

J. Crow—lnvites tenders for harvesting. S. Clinch—.Cl Reward for return of lost ring.

Primitive Methodist Church—Services to-morrow.

Wesleyan Church, Temuka—Services for to-morrow.

W. A. Sherratt &. Co.—Are cash buyers of green flax. J. Mundell Sc. Co.—Entries Temuka Live Stock Market.

John Grigg, Longbeach Large area of crop to be stacked by contract. T. Palmer Notice re intended ayplication for Slaughter House license. A. E. Cox—Sells sheep, cattle, etc., at Temuka on Tuesday. Has 1500 Merino sheep for private sale. Geraldine Floral and Horticultural Association Seventh annual show on Thursday January Mth. Professor Lichtwark, or his son Theo.lor Xotice re meetings at Temuka, Winchester, and Geraldine.