LOCAL & GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2391, 27 August 1892, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL.

Ball.—A grand ball under the auspices of the Temuka Quadrille Assembly will be held on September 15th.

Wesleyan Church, Temuka. —The services for to-morrow will be found in our advertising columns. A Big Contract.—The Union Company have secured the contract for the supply of coal at Suva to British warships. Primitive Methodist Church.— The services for to-morrow in connection with this Church will be found in our advertising columns. Temperance Lecture.—Mr J. Knott, who comes with a first-class reputation as a lecturer, delivers the first of a series of temperance lectures in the Temuka Voluuteer Hall next Monday evening.

Suicide. —A man named Fred. Wilson committed suicide on the Wellington-Hutt railway line on Wednesday night. He laid himself on the line just before the 11.15 p.m. train from Hutt to Wellington passed, and his head was almost severed from his body. He was a canvasser for the Sydney Bulletin, and is supposed to be wrong with his accounts.

The Zenana Missions.—At ""a meeting at Dunediu of those interested in the Zenana missions it was reported that £SO had been subscribed for the work, and that £SO had been received from a Scottish Society to defray the cost of sending Miss McGregor to India. It was decided to form a Women's Missionary Society of New Zealand. Infanticide. —Eva Simpson, the alleged mother of the infant whose body was found in the Avon recently, was charged with murder at the Christchurch Police Court on Thursday. The evidence showed that the child had breathed, but there was nothing to show how it had come to its death. It had evidently not been drowned. The girl was committed for trial on a charge of concealment of birth. Football.—A match was played on Thursday afternoon in the Victoria Park, between teams representing the Teinuka 2nd and Star Ist. After afclosely contested game the result was a win for Temuka by the narrow margin of 2 points to nil. Morton scored for Temuka but Grant failed with the place. Union 2nd v. Colonial 1st — This match took place on the A. A. Club's grounds on Thursday last and resulted in a win lor the Colonials by 7 points to 2. A Local Painting.—At the Caledonian Society's ball on Thursday last, amidst the decorations of the ball room, wasnoticeable a large oil painting of a waterfall in Victoria. This is the work of Mr Powlesland, of Temuka, and in it he displays considerable artistic ability. The subject is an ambitious one, but he has carried it out in a manner that reflects much credit upon him as an amateur, and those who have leisure and a taste for painting might do worse than have a look at the picture, which isjnow to be seen at Mr Powlcsland's shop in the Main street, Temuka. Killed by a Pinched Finger.—At the inquest on the Hon. John Robson, late Premier of Columbia, the evidence showed that the deceased left the Hotel Metropole in order to see Mr Goschenat the treasury. The hansom cab in which he was being driven swerved slightly, and Mr Robson, being unused to such vehicles, put out his hand with the result that the little finger of his right hand was crushed in the door of the cab. The wound was dressed at the Hotel Metropole, but later on amputation of the finger became necessary. Blood poisoning supervened. A verdict of accidental death was returned. Destructive Fire.—About 8 o'clock on Wednesday night at Christchurch, a fire broke out near the office in the main wing of Kempthorne and Prosser's wooden premises in High Street, which was gutted. No stock was got out. The fire had a good hold before it was discovered. Insurances —On the building .- £SOO in the Commercial Union. Stock £OOOO in the Alliance, £2OOO in the National (both considerably reinsured), £750 in the London and Liverpool and Globe, £SOO in the Australian Alliance. The damage is estimated at £12,000. The cause of the fire is not known. The premises were left apparently safe at 5.550.

Industrial School Scandal.—The enquiry conducted by the Rev. W. J. Ha bens into the charge of misconduct preferred against Hugh Titohener, son of the manager of the Industrial School, and a teacher at the institution, was commenced on Thursday. In deference to the wish of counsel on both sides, Mr Habens allowed reporters to attend. Three witnesses were examined, the bulk of the evidence being unfit for publication. A married woman, a former inmate, who admitted that her moral reputation was bad, charged Hugh Titchener with having committed an offence. The child whose mother made the complaint gave a very circumstantial account of the offence, and stated iha£ she had informed three other girls of what occui'i - c4. Legislative Council. ~-Iu his speech Mr W. P, Reeves said it was alleged by Opposition speakers that the sole cause of the quarrel between the Government and the Council last year was owing to the psrpotual lease chmsc in the Land Bill, but he pointed out that the C.ouucil made no less than nineteen amendments to the Land Bill alone, and also rejected the Workmen's Lien Bill, the Shop Hours Bill, the Female Franchise .pill, the Land for Settlement Bill, an 1 it had so mutilated the Electoral Bill and the Land Bill that the government had to drop them, whilst the Factories liill was ?r> mutilated that it was almost useless and required an amending Bill this year. This session a'go the Council had rejected two useful Bills,' ihjj. Testamentary Restriction Bill and the Eight' liour;? Bill.

Tim Southland Mukdeu.—At Vinson on Thursday Mr Rawson resumed the enquiry touching the murder of 11. Bell, at Lora Gorge, on the 25th of July, but iunuediafcely adjourned to Lora, to take evideuw of Anr;.'j« Taylor, the employer of P. Walsh, on \vaim i\\i iri.oiier, MoEae, sought to throw suspicion ty that he had seen Walsh with the gun with which the murder was committed ill his possession last year. Taylor, who is an invalid, deposed that Walsh never had a gun while in las service. When he wanted to go shooting he got hia .(Taylor's) gun, which was a weapon of an altogether different class to that found at the scene 6f iho murder. No one could mistake one for the other. He also deposed that Walsh had no jnin v lth on the date assigned by Meßae; that Walsh was at home all the night of the murder ; and thai Wsh told him when returning from the inquest, that "William, the son of McEae, asked him to say that he (Walsh) had the gun with him on the 2S,th' May, IHp 1, so as to get his father off. Mrs Walsh coiToborated the statement that her husband was at home during ali the night on which Bell wag killed? The inquest was adjourn,^,

ViiiiY Like a Hoax.—The following message from the sea was found on Manukau beach: New Zealand, August 13th, Captain Streamer, stranded. Come to rescue." It is believed to be a hoax. Fatal Accident.—A man named Albert Goodchild, aged 40, single, was killed by a fall of sand in a sand pit at Caversham, Dunedin. He is supposed to have been loading- his dray there when the slip | occurred. No one actually saw the occurrence.

Railway Returns. The railway returns for the four weeks ended July 23rd show the receipts to have been £78,208, and expenditure £58,591. The returns are about equal to the same period last year. Up to date both the passenger and goods traffic this year show an increase in almost every section. Customs Duties.—According to a return presented to the Legislative Council the amount of customs duties collected on " necessaries of life" during the last financial year was £311,-116, The largest items were sugar, £116,663; tea, £103,971; dried fruits, £36,218. During the past year £661,668 was collected in customs duties on wines, beer, spirits, and tobacco, anil £60,632 in excise on the same articles, and £403,285 in ad valorem, duties. In the last financial year £75,017 was collected by way of customs duty on necessaries of industry. The heaviest items are:— Corrugated iron, £12,361; fencing wire, £10,24!); vegetable oil, £7435 ; cement, £6125 Nonsense. —Clever men sometimes talk great nonsense. For instance, Mr Scobie Mackenzie was very indignant because Mr W. P. Reeves said the Governor was the nominee of the Secretary for the colonies, asserbing that he was appointed by the Queen. So he is, but who nominates him to the Queen ? On whose recommendation does the Queen appoint? On the recommendation of her responsible advisers, so is he the nominee of the British Secretary for the Colonies. The Governor appoints Justices of the Peace in New Zealand, but who recommends them 1 The Minister of Justice, and it is exactly the same as regards the Governor.

The Legislative Council and Labor. —The Trades and Labor Council at Wellington passed a resolution stating that they viewed with astonishment the determined hostility shown by the Legislative Council to the labour measures, as shown by the rejection of the Eight Hours Bill, and calling imperatively for the appointment of labor members to the Council. A committee was appointed to wait on Messrs Sandford, Pinkerton, and Kelly, members of the House, who represent the Trades Councils of Canterbury, and Southland, to concert action in the event of he other labor measures being rejected by the Upper House. Open VERpicT.—George Durham, 'engaged as elerk to the Port Chalmers Salvage Company, who are floating the Elginshire, was found hanging by the neck and quite dead, by a rope in one of the holds of that vessel on Wednesday night. He was missed about noon, but, as it was thought he had gone ashore, a search was not made for him until ttie evening, when he was foundas described. He was apparently in good health and spirits when last seen alive, and no motive was known for suicide. An inquest was held on Thursday, when it was shown that the mark of the rope did not run round the n?ck, but from under the chin behind the ears upwards. Deceased was found hanging in a simple bight of a ropa tied over a beam. The principal witness, Alex. Moir, master mariuer, said he believed that deceased, who had not much to do on board, had been amusing himself on the rope, which was about eight feet from the deck. He thought deceased had raised himself on the rope with his hands and put his chin over the bight. Witness had often done it when a youngster. It appeared to him to have been an accident. The roller underneath the rope was always there; it was an unshipped ventilator. He had not noticed the rope on the beam, but there were lots of pieces of rope about there. Deceased was a very steady man, and was in very good spirits all day. He had known deceased from boyhood, and had never seen anything eccentric in him—nothing at all in his conduct that would lead him to think deceased would commit suicide. The jury returned the following verdict: —" That deceased came to his death by strangulation, but whether by accident or design there is not sufficient evidence to prove." Deceased was about thirty years of age, and leaves a wife and two children.

Special Offer of " Star " Cycles.— No. 7 Star with one-inch solid tyres £l6 10s; No. 8 Star solid tyres,£lslos. Send for catalogue. Star Cycles on Hire Purchase from 5s per week. Adams, Curties, & Co., 70 Manchester Street, Christchurch.—Advt.

SYNOPSIS OF ADVERTISEMENTS.

A. Baker, Geraldine—Notice re accounts, Primitive Methodist Church—Services to-morrow.

Wesleyan Church, Temuka—Services for to-morrow. H. B. Webeter & Co.—Geraldine Stock Sale entries. J. Mundell & Co.—Entries Geraldine Live Stock Sale.

Temuka Quadrille Assembly—Grand ball on September 15th. Mr J. Knott—Lectures in Temuka on Monday evening. J. Harrison, Temuka Enumerates list of articles that he is selling very low. W. S. Maslin Sells furniture, carts, implements, etc., on account of Mr G. Taylor, at Geraldine on Thursday next. \ Reece & Sons, Christchurch—Have just received new stock |of lawn mowers, garden rollers, etc., etc., and selling same at wholesale prices.