LOCAL & GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2392, 30 August 1892, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL.

Thu Southland Murder. —John Mcßae has been committed for trial for the Lora Gorge murder. His Worship stating that there was a jirinm facie case, and one beyond simple suspicion.

Omission. —ln our report of the Temuka Caledonian Society’s ball the name of Mr W. McCallum, who acted as M.C., did not receive mention. It is needless to say that Mr McCallum filled the place admirably. Temuka Rifles. —A special Government parade of the Temuka Rifles takes place to-morrow evening, at 7.3o,when a chaplain will be elected and the new overcoats distributed. A full muster is requested. New Bank for Geraldine. —There is some talk of a branch office of the Colonial Bank being opened in Geraldine, but whether the matter has been finallv decided upon we are not in a position to say.

Geraldine Literary and Derating Society. —At the last committee meeting of this society it was decided that their next 'debate be held on the question of whether 'Chinese immigration should be prohibited. The Catholic Church Clock. Yesterday a cheque for ;C2 was received from Mr A. E. G. Rhodes, as a donation from himself and Mrs Rhodes, towards the expense of repairing the clock in the Catholic Church, Temuka. Such a liberal donation will be very welcome, as we believe several pounds are yet needed to make a thoroughly good job of the repairs aud renovation necessary. New Buildings at Geraldine. Building is going on apace at Geraldine just now. Messrs Dunlop & Co. are adding a new show room to their already extensive building ; the Salvation Army new barracks is well in hand, and will be finished in the course of a few months ; Mr J. W. Bye’s new shop is now on the way to completion, and, when finished, should give him ample room for carrying on his business. Shocking Affair. —Jane Wheater, a single woman, who had been an inmate of the Narracoote Hospital for twelve months suffering from hydatids, and was recently discharged as incurable, was subsequently lost in the bush, A search was made, when the unfortunate woman was found down a well containing eight feet of water clinging to the slabs with which it was lined. She confessesed that her intention was to commit suicide, preferring drowning to cutting her throat. She had also swallowed a bottle of chilbain liniment, hoping it was poison. She was ordered to be sent to the Adelaide Lunatic Asylum. A Strange Accident. —On Saturday afternoon a somewhat singular accident occurred on the Temuka bridge. A mob of bullocks which was being driven over got jammed at the north end, and two of them in attempting to extricate themselves from the crush rushed the rail of the bridge, which gave way, letting them fall amongst the willows. The poor brutes must have dropped over ten feet, but they were apparently only shaken, as they were readily enough joined to the mob later on. Possibly the willows broke their fall. Footrall. —The following will represent the Temuka first fifteen in the flag match with the Union second which takes place in Timaru on Thursday next: —Full-back, W, Russell; three-quarter-backs, Anderson, McLeod, and Brosnahan ; half-backs, Findlay and McCallum ; forwards, Rogers, Robiuson, Barrett, Brosnahan. Dimond, Erwood, and McLean. A drag will leave at 1.30 p.m. The following will represent Temuka 2nd against Waihi 3rd on Thursday next; —Fenton, Greaves, Morton, Low, Hooper, Johnstone, Harding, Anderson, Carr, Thomas. Glen, Collins, Lee, Grant, Marshall. Emergency, Sheen,

Industrial Settlement.—Mr Horace F. Bashings has set forth in the Otago Daily Times a scheme for the solution of the charitable aid and unemployed questions. Mr Bastings’ proposal is based on the system in vogue both in Germany and Holland. He suggests that two or more large areas of land should be set apart in the North and South Islands of the colony for the purpose of establishing industrial settlements for the poor. On these could be carried on agricultural pursuits, fruit culture, gardening, and the raising of cattle and sheep, the profits going to support the old and infirm or helpless, the surplus to be distributed on co-operative lines among the workers. If the scheme were properly carried out, he thinks it would become self supporting in the course of a few years, and charitable aid would bo entirely abolished.

The Barnardo Entertainment. —On, Friday evening next the annual entertainment in aid ol! lt Barnardo’s Homes for Destitute Children takes place in the Volunteer Drillshcd, Geraldine. The programme this year is an exceptionally good one, the first part consisting of a varied selection of vocal and instrumental selections, including some choice solos, ducts, glees, and trios, by well-known local amateurs. The second part consists of tableaux typifying “ The Little Pilgrim,” “ You Dirty Boy,” etc., and the whole will conclude with a comedietta “ The Little Sentinel,” the parts in which will be sustained by Messrs R. H. Pearpoint, W. M. Moore, and S. Willoughby, and Misses Wilson Smith and A. Fish. The comedietta has been rehearsed until the performers are said to be perfect, and it should prove a treat. The object of the entertainment is a noble one, and if the evening proves favorable, and it is to be hoped it will, no doubt tho hall will be crowded. Oeituauy.— The death of the Venerable Archdeacon Dudley, of Rangiora is announce! I in the Lyttelton Times of yesterday. Archdeacon Dudley was 87 years of ago, and has been living in retirement for

tho past five years, but used to officiate every (Sunday in churches iu his neighborhood. He got up last Sunday morning in apparently good health, but felt a weakness of the heart and died during the afternoon. The Archdeacon was born at Dudley, in Staffordshire, and educated for the ministry of the church. He came to New Zealand as chaplain of one of the first four ships, and lauded in Lyttelton on the 27th of December 1850. He was incumbent of Lyttelton for a time, then spent 12 months iu fhe dipccse of Auckland, and finally got charge of the church of Rangiora in 1800. where he resided up to the jime of his death, The archdeacon was a most benevolent and kindbearted man, and took g;:eat interest in everything for the adyagc.empn|; qf religion and temperhnee. A Lex+'Eß i.iipif Al} erica.— The Auck land Herald states'that Major Dane, who is t -eut in the United States, "in a letter to a friend say?.-"We are having very exciting times betweeii capitalists and working men. Capitalists call on pO w uer and lead for protection, and out they have gone fo assist the powers which have brought abouf the. piesept :t : 9 increase the causes and multiply the evils. You will observe that the parties iu cauJliot at Homestead, Pennsylvania, are not Americans, but foreigners —all of them. The Carnegics are —well, Scotchmen —their laborers, Irish and Bohemian. The whole drama is a farce to mo. "What a burlesque on (lOyeramcnfc, justice, equity, and Christianity! Afo wo processing.’ Is humanity, particularly, ah honor to the Creator ? . . . I have said all round the world that Now Zealand is a matchless country —better blessed than any other land, and that it lias a future of wonderful developments. To survive the injuries which have been inflicted upon it, and to spring into vigor of life, proves fhat its vitality is unequalled. lam lecturing on Xew Zealand now, and have given the lecture many times ju this country. Politics are mixed with us this year. We have four regular candidates for the Presidency, and the two old parties arc in a bilious condition, and are threatened with fever. The umifi fight will be over Protection (robbery) and Pti-efr,■),<]» (delusion), ami no one can tell what the result will bo. If will make little difference to the people how matters end. The Chicago Show will be a big affair."

Geraldine Stock Sale.—The fortnightly sale of stock at Geraldine takes place to-morrow. Attention is directed to the entries advertised in another column. Labor Bureau.—Nearly 200 men have been sent to country districts or provided with la bor in the vicinity of Auckland since the escablishraent of the local Labor Bureau.

Fatal Accident.—A telegram from White’s Bay states that Thomas Petersen, a Norwegian, owner of the fishing cutter Wave, was drowned in Pelorous Sound on Thursday.

Canterbury Chamber of Commerce. —At the annual meeting of the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce it was stated that the overdraft had been reduced from £361 to £264. Mr E. M. Harley was elected president. Resolutions were unanimously passed in favor of the present non-political management of the railways being continued. False Pretences. —At the R.M. Court, Timaru, on Friday, Thomas Broomhall Steele, with half-a-dozen aliases, was sentenced to a month’s imprisonment with hard labor for obtaining board and lodging and refreshments from Charles Green, of the Queen’s Hotel. From the evidence given he appears to have made a practice of victimising hotel-keepers. Women’s Work. —A widowed lady of some considerable education and refinement took up a bush farm near Levin some years ago. With the assistance of her unmarried daughters (says the Manawatu Standard) she has now carved out a splendid home in the bush. Most of the work on the farm is done by the ladies referred to, and they are, as a matter of course, rather proud of their achievements. Attempted Arson. a dastardly attempt was made at an early hour on Fridas' morning to burn down the Toi Toi Valley Girls’ School, Nelson. When the fire was discovered, two holes, the largest being about IS inches in diameter, were found burnt in the flooring boards. Fortunately the boards were damp, otherwise the building, which is a very handsome one, would have been burnt down. As it is no great damage has been done. It is only a few weeks since the Hampden-Street school was burnt down.

Social. —It will he seen by an advertisement in another column that a grand fancy dress or plain dress social will be held in aid of the prize fund of the South Rangitata School (lower) on Friday, September 9th. We learn that the services of a good musician, and a competent M.C., have been secured, and as the social is of a somewhat novel character, and the district has always borne a good name on previous occasions, we have no doubt that a good sum will be realised for the object in view. It is hope I that Temuka friends will assist.

Reasons for Suicide. The man Frederick Wilson, killed on the railway on Wednesday night, wrote a letter that day to the coroner stating that owing to infirmity of body and defective eyesight he was unable to earn a livelihood, and rather than become a burden on the community he intended to destroy himself. He mentioned that his body would be found on the railway line. At the inquest a verdict of “ temporary insanity ” was returned. Wilson is supposed to be an assumed name, as deceased often declared his father was a Canon of St. Paul’s, London.

The Midland Railway. The conference convened by the West Coast Railway League took place at Christchurch on Friday night. The following resolution was passed for submission to a general meeting of the league next Wednesday:—“ That as there appears no probability of the company ever completing the Nelson line under the present contract, and as it is not expedient to ask the Government to guarantee the large amount required to complete the Nelson line, the Government be requested to endeavor to arrange a contract under which the company might be induced to construct the line between Canterbury and the West Coast.”

Extra Bars. —In the Magistrate’s Court, Wellington, on Friday, five publicans were charged with a breach of the Licensing Act in having an extra bar without the payment of fees. The Post Office Hotel was the first case taken, and the fact of a bar being attached to the billiard room room upstairs was admitted. The Magistrate said that he was not sitting to put an interpretation in the Licensing Act passed by the Legislature, and that by no force of argument could the bar mentioned be taken as an extra bar within the meaning of the Act, and he had no hesitation in dismissing the case. The other cases were withdrawn or dismissed.

A Good J okb. —In giving the recipes for making liquors at Temuka last evening, Mr Knott scored heavily with as good a joks as we have heard. He was told, he said, that it was terrible hard to move a Scotchman, but once brought to accept anything he was a terror to stick. He could explain how this was, and then he read the recipe for making Scotch whiskey, from which it appeared that onethird of it was made up of starch. That explained how they were so good at sticking—one third of their whisky was starch.

San Francisco Mail Service.— The Mariposa was a day late in leaving San Francisco, and will probably not arrive tiil Saturday, September 10th.—The English postal authorities have cabled their reply to the proposals of the New Zealand Government for the renewal of the San Francisco mail service, to the effect that the English Government will renew the subsidy, but only on strictly Postal Union terms. Under the old subsidy letters were paid for at the rate of 12s per lb, and nothing for books and news matter, The Postal Union terms mean that the despatching office holds itself responsible for the conveyance of its mails from the time shipped until the arrival at port of debarkation. This has practically been done since last year, as the New Zealand Government have paid the contractors for the transpacific carriage, the American territorial transit, and the trans-Atlantic carriage of the out-going mails. The new proposal would mean that instead of 12s for letters, the English Government would contribute :>s Sd per lb for letters and fid per lb for books and news matter, which, have hitherto been free, and the change would mean a loss to the contractors on the basis of last year’s figures of £2OOO per annum.

Thu Industrial School Scandal.— At the Caversham inquiry at Dqnedjn on Friday, a : n irpnatje gjiye eyldauoe of iuv properties by Hugh Titohener, but the latter’s mother, who is matron, said the girl is wholly unreliable and bore the family g grudge because she had been often punished. She further said that if any of these things had taken place she must have hpard of them through other inmates, but she never did." She admitted that one of her children lived at the institution at the Government expense. A sister of the girl whose mother made the charge said that generally her sister was not a truthful girl, and when she told her that ohe had been insulted shf> did not believe her. Mr Solomon, for Titohener, said that the evidence he would call would go. to show that this was an attempt at blackmail. On Saturday a sister of tho young wpmau who alleged that she had been assaulted, gave evidence that she believed her sister was actuated by motives of revenge in making the charge, because she had not been allowed access to her baby, which was committed to tho school. Elijah Tifchcner, the manager, gaye evidence at length, to show that the charges had been first made and then withdrawn, an apology tendered in the case of one girl, while the other had paid that she hgd been bothered into making the charge by her mother. Two of the inmates of the institution, of whom the girls making the charges said that they had made confidants, denied that the girls had ever told them they had been insulted. Tho evidence of inmates of the institution yesterday went to shpw that the improprieties alleged could not have taken place,

A Loss.—Mr Taggart of Dunedin, has lost his well-known stallion Le Loup. Supreme Court. —At the Supreme Court, Wellington, yesterday, the Grand Jury threw out the bills against T. Luff, charged with rape, and William Smith, receipt of stolen goods. At Dunedin Thomas Hassell, a probationer, whose term had expired, had his probabtion extended for six months, owing to his failure to pay a balance of the sum ordered to be paid to the prosecutor. Henry Conn was convicted of larceny as a bailee, and sentenced to two years’ hard labor. Gee Tin, convicted of house-breaking, was sentenced to four years’ penal servitude. The Grand Jury submitted the following presentment:—“ In view of the work done by the gentlemen to-day, and the evidence they had to weigh, they submit that they view with regret the movement on foot to abolish the Grand Jury system—an institution which they think is of the greatest utility.” Judge Williams promised to forward the recommendation to the proper authorities. Criminal Prosecution. —At the District Court to-day, D. M. Ross will be criminally charged before Judge Ward, in connection with his bankruptcy. There are altogether seven charges against him. The three first charges are for carrying on business by means of fictitious capital, for having ; eloniously concealed the state of his affairs, and for not having kept proper books. The fourth charge accuses him of having obtained by means of false pretences £3400 from Mrs Bower, £714 from Mr Durand, £4BO from Mr Morrison, and about a dozen other similar charges, which moneys he is accused of having misappropriated. He is further charged with intent to defraud his creditors by having concealed some of his property, and not setting out his liabilities in full; also with having made false entries in his books. Messrs Kinnerney and Perry prosecute, and Mr Hay defends. The case will very likely occupy some days. In San Francisco nearly 300 retail dealers in tobacco have pledged themselves not to sell cigarettes to small boys.

Special Offer of “ Star ” Cycles.— No. 7 Star with one-inch solid tyres £l6 10s ; No. 8 Star solid tyres,£l6los. Send for catalogue. Star Cycles on Hire Purchase from 5s per week. Adams, Curties, & Co., 70 Manchester Street, Christchurch, —A dvt.

SYNOPSIS OP ADVERTISEMENTS,

John Mcllroy, Watchmaker Business notice. J. Mundell & Co. Additional entries Geraldine sale. Charles Groves—Found horse cover and oilskin jacket. Temuka Road Board—lnvites tenders for road works. Geraldine and Raukapuka Prohibition League—Annual meeting. Temuka Rifles Special Government parade to-morrow evening. W. S. Maslin —Particulars of sale of furniture, etc., at Geraldine on Thursday next. Volunteer Hall, Geraldine Entertainment in aid of Dr Barnardo’s Home for Destitute Children on Friday evening.