THE Temuka Leader. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1892. LOCAL & GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2318, 13 February 1892, Page 2

THE Temuka Leader. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1892. LOCAL & GENERAL.

To Correspondents. — letters are unavordably held over. Cinnabar. — A valuable discovery o'. 1 cinnabar in Bruce County, Otago, lias been reported. Salvation Army. — The Salvation Army at Timaru are inviting tenders for the erection of a fortress. Wesleyan Church, Temuka. — ine services for to-morrow will be found in our advertising columns. Arrivals and Departures.— The departures from the colony during January were 1)1)2 and the arrivals 1708. Ths Sew Governor.—The Premier has received a cable confirming the appointment of Lord Glasgow as Governor of the colony. ! Primitive Methodist The services for to-morrow in coiinsiij oll with this Church will lie found in our advertising columns. Scarcity oe Labour. —One contractor under the Hawke's Bay County Council threw up his contract, forfeiting his deposit, and another had to ask for an extension of time, Giving to the difficulty of obtaining labour. Geraldine Shearers and Labourers Union. —At the Oddfellows’ Hall, Geraldine, next Saturday evening, Mr J. 11. ‘ McDonald, delegate of the Australian Shearers Union, will give an explanation of the state of affairs between the Australian Union and the Pastoralists. R.M. Court, Te.muka. — At the above Court yesterday, before J. M. Twomey, Esq., J P., a first offender was brought up charge 1 with having been drunk and disorderly on the previous day on a public street. Constable Egan proved the arrest, and the accused having pleaded guilty he was dismissed with a caution. Property Tax. The amount of property tax collected up to February (ith this year was C21>1!,500, as against xe;!<!,obo to the same day last year. The Treasurer's estimate is £3;>3,080 and the Department fully expect it to be exceeded. The last day of payment to escape the penalty is the 18th inst., and the Department proceed against defaulters at the end of the month. Imports and Exports. — The import < during the quarter ended hist December were .C 1,678,080, being an increase of about £IOO,OOO, on the corresponding quarter last year. The exports were C1,8(i5.-i 18, being a decrease of •C-lfil),00(). The totals for the

year were: —-Imports 189!, ,C(i,S-15>,-Sil); I*9o £6,200,525. Exports — 189 J, £9.500, Jt>7 ; 1890, £9,811,720. Pkksbytjsriax Assembly. At the Presbyterian Assembly, Auckland.there was a prolonged debate on the report respecting the training of students, strong objection bciiiLT taken to the reeommedafcion from the Christchurch Presbytery that great prominence be given to the employment of lay missionaries. l\o decision could be arrived at, and the report v/as eventually shelved by the motion that it be received. Dissatisfaction was expressed that a larger nn i Liber of ministers <i id n<>t take a leant:: go of the v.'ido'vs and orphans and aged an ; infirm ministers’ funds. A resolution was p isso i instructing the • •nnmittec to coa- | r i n; d .arubility of t.i-j incorporation of j both funds.

Good Work.—At Ashburton on Satur•l,‘ty night the Rev. Mr Mayers, lecturer on Dr, liarnar.lo’s Homos, realised £SO clear of all expenses. Found Out. Herbert Cecil St. John .ilMs Charles Lyndon, alias Herbert Cyril .Uaklin Judd, was sentenced to six months at Ash hurt: nr yesterday. Tor larceny of music from a boarding house, and the coutent- of tec mission boxes from the Baptist Church. Prisoner pretended to be traveilin'.;' ais a theatrical agent. Axuuuan B'T.xod.— The representatives o' the diocese of Dunedin held a meeting in Wellington roster.lay afternoon, at which they resolved to talcu steps to vindicate in some way the Rev. E. S. Howell (one of their number), and that the explanation the. Rev. Eitcuott desired to make at the Synod on Thursday night, when a “ breeze ” occurred (reported elsewhere), was in reference to this matter. The meeting was held to consider the fact of the Primate having issued au inhibition against Mr Hovel I being allowed to preach in any church iu the diocese. Fhhareks' and Labourers’ Union. — Members of the Shearers’ and Laborers’ Union and others interested are reminded that a meeting takes place in the Social Hall, Temuka, tills evening, for the purpose of forming a branch or district committee in connection with the Amalgamated Shearers’ and Laborers’ Union of Hew Zealand. Mr J. R. McDonald, a delegate from the Australian Shearers’ Union, will be prescut. Supposed Incendiacism. —An enquiry into the lire on the ship Everest, on the morning of January iiOth, was opened at Lyttelton yesterday. The evidence of Captain Hibbert, master, the first and second, officers, the watchman on board the vessel, some of the crew, and a member of the fire brigade, points to the ship having been wilfully set ou fire by some of the crew. A good sum was due to the crew as wages, and if t.ie ship was burnt or condemned tiiis would be paid. A tin of kerosene was missed on tae night of the fire, partly full, au 1 this was found after the fire, where the lire broke out, the tin cut open. Tim captain noticed a strong smell oI: kerosene when he went on board at 11.15, but thought that it was from the cabin lamp. Tae fii:e started at 12.10.

Hun on a Bank. A sensation was cause! in. Sydney on Tixursday owing to a run on the Savings Bank of New South Wales. Close on XSO,(M) was withdrawn an 1 the bank is still (3 p.m.) open, paying all claims in gold. The position of the bank at the end of the year was as follows: —Deposit ;, XU, 183,300 ; total assets, A;; !;!:>,UUO. These include £1,158,000, lent on mortgage; £05,000. invested in debentures; XhDO.OOO lent to the Government ; aud X 1,500,000, deposited in Other banks. Nothing is known as to the cause of the ran. Tne bank is besieged by an excited crowd. The associated banks have issued a notice thot they arc prepared to receive savings’ bank deposit receipts as cash or for deposit. The Premier announced in the iiouse this afternoon, in order to allay alarm, that the bank was one of the strongest in the world. A Mild Exerxi-iMKXT. - About seven o’clock yesterday evening the passage of Mr W. Oldflel l.’s Fowler compound traction engine through Terauka, caused a mild excitement among all the unemployed men anil boys about the street. The engine travelled at a rate, but the chief feature of interest was to be the crossing of the river, and thither a good crowd of spectators went. An examination of the crossing, however,was not encouraging, and the owner decided to try. the bridge. It was a generally expressed opinion that the proceeding was a risky one but the engine was taken over steadily and although the brige vibrated somewhat, no damage was done not even a plank cracking. Owners of traction engines, however, will require just now to exercise great care, not only in crossing the bridges,but in attempting the fords which are now somewhat on the soft side. Appointments of the New M.L.C.S.— The Wellington Trades and Labour Council have drawn up a manifesto to the trade unionists with regard to the action of the Council in passing a resolution claiming the right to be consulted in regard to the election and appointment of labour representatives to the Logdslative Council. The manifesto status that the resolution upheld tl ie fiiudamental principle of Liberalism y i/ l( , £ho right of the people to choose their representatives in Parliament, and the Council contended that as the capitalists had always been in the majority in the Legislative Council, the unionists of Wellington, as a numerous section of the working men, as well as any other labour organisations, had a right to a voice in the selection of such representatives. The manifesto denies that in claiming that right they were dictating to the Government. In what they had done they had acted earnestly in the interest of labour, and according to their intelligence, and there-

„ ■' thcv feared not the censure of their iOlx,

opponents. Accidents, I^ A TA: FTn: - s^ K TO— Michael Fallon, hotelkeeper, died ames sllc *“ deuly on Wednesday. Death was <yW seci by delirium tremens. —Thos. Springs, IS, a native of Christchurch, was drowned in tiro Tiraunroa, a river in the Eketahuna district, Wellington. His body was recovered on Uuirsday morning.—A young man named Albert Alberton Jordan, 20 years old, called at the Christchurch hospital on Wednesday night, and stated that ho was in great pain from eating greep appl os. He was treated for irritant poisouing, but died at 0 o’clock on Friday morning. An imprest was held in the afternoon and adjourned till Monday next for the purpose of allowing the stomach to lie analysed. —A young man named John Rose, 23, a Blenheim resident, committed suicide in the Matai river, Nelson. He tied his legs together and a stone to Iris neck with liax. He was at one time in a lunatic asylum.—-Mr S. Clayden, member of the Nelson Education Board, while crossing a plank over a creek near to his house, fell into the water. He struggled to the bank and there died. Heart disease was the cause of death. Tins L August and most Complete C VO!.!; W( >UKS in the Australian Colonies s at 7!>. Manchester Street, Christchurch. — Adams, Curties & Co. Safeties from £lO, Bicycles from £o. —1

SYNOPSIS OF ADVERTISEMENTS, T. Powell—Has spring dray, harness, etc., lor sale. Primitive Methodist Church—Services to-morrow. Wesleyan Church, Tomuka—Services for to-morrow. Dr John Craig—Has commenced practice in Geraldine. N. Dunlop & Co.—Are selling goods at ridiculous prices for cash. J. Muiidell a Go.—Geraldine Live Stock me rk'.it entries. H. D. W;-.V tar and Co —Advertise entries W.Tadsi', To silks Rrn.very—-Important not; :e rs iniu.r Isa, in iris paddock. Siic.'uvrs' s' ; i,; Ccral-.lme —Mr J. R. McDonald at Geraldine, on Saturday next