LOCAL & GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2434, 6 December 1892, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL.

Timaeu Wool Sales.—The first of this season's wool sales at Timaru takes place to-morrow.

Timaru Harbor Board.—A meeting of the Timaru Harbor Roard will be held to-morrow, when among the business to be dealt with svill be the consideration of tenders for the proposed tug-dredge. DuAi'Bßy Sale at Temuka —We have been, requested to draw attention to the alteration of the date of Mr W. Frew's sale of men's drapery and clothing a ?'m' , from Thursday to Fridav next. at imuu ~ bmit the gooL j s to the Mr Mas-lm wlu "■«**" & hammer. Q anil™"* Dkatii of a HoHSJS.-MrH ■ horse Tirailleur, by Musket Floren McCarthy, which fell over Portsea in the Melbourne Cup, and was subsequently place! in slings in the V R.C. hospital box, owing to serious irijury to his shoulder, died on Saturday. Temuka F. and 11. Society. The Temuka Floral and Horticultural Society's prize schedule is now out of the printer's hands, and can be obtained from the Treasurer (Mr E C. Dana) or the Secretary (Mr H. M. Miles). This year it contains the entry form and a. declaration to be signed by each exhibitor. The clashes of exhibits'are larger and the prizes better. La Griiu'E.—La Grippe has been raging pretty badly at Geraldine for some time no ,v, and is still making itself, felt so that scarcely a family in the township has been free from it in some form or other. It is very difficult to say why it should come to Geraldine at this time of the year, and the only way the doctors can account for it is that it is in the air. Certainly the weather of late has been very changeable and peculiar. Perhaps this has something to do with it. Photography. —Mr J. J. McCaskey, Geraldine, has taken the shop lately occupied by Mr J. W. Tye and turned it into a photographic studio. Lcmg in a more central part of the town than heretofore and having now a draper's show window, Mr McCaskey will have every facility for exhibiting his work to advantage. We notice on view a number of enlargements of old residents of Geraldine and a quantity of other photographic works of art, all of which are oi high pyarit and make a good show.

Very SATiSFACTOKY.-While the Auck- i land Corporation rent roll, including' a year, the arrears are oaJ- about £2i>, Qmkumv Ssook. sLe. The Sortnightly sale of stock, eft., at Geraldine takes place to-morrow. A number of entries will be found in iur advertising columns. State Farms. - A Pr>.s9 Association telegram says .—The Miniser for Labor is hurrying on the preliminary of the State farm scheme, and will initiite the scheme immediately a suitable farn can be procured.

Board Meetings—The nonthly meeting of the Geraldine Town Board will be held this evening-, and that «f the Temuka Town Board to-morrow evening. The meeting- of the Temuka Road Board has been adjourned until next Tuesday. Found Dead.—Dr Robinson, who has been in Christchurch about ten years, and was formerly house surgeon of the Christchurc.i Hospital, was found dead in bed on Friday morning. At the inquest a verdict was found that death was caused by the bursting- of a blood-vessel on the brain.

Supreme Court. —ln the Supreme Court, Wellington, on Iriday, two young men named Henry Palmer and James Follas, cabmen, were arraigned on the charge of robbing and assaulting John Duling, a schoolmaster, from Marlborough. After a portion of the evidence had been taken, they pleaded "Guilty" to larceny from the person, and were remanded until Tuesday for the Probation Officer's report. —At Dunedin yesterday, Joshua Stannaway and Donald Douglas were found not guilty of aggravated assault. The Grand Jury threw out the bill in the case of David Simpson for robbing a drunken man. Timaru.—At a special meeting of the Timaru Borough Council on Friday evening a new by-law, regulating the proportion of the cost of constructing kerking and channelling and footpaths which shall be a charge on owners and occupiers of properties fronting on the street where the work is done, was confirmed. The by-law fixes this proportion at one-third, and it comes into force on the 12th December. Breach of the Licensing Act.— At the R. M. Court Timaru, on Saturday, E. Murphy.who was lined £2 and 4s costs only the previous day for being drunk in charge of a dray and team, and whose fine was paid by a gentleman who was called as a witness, was again brought up, on charges of refusing to leave a licensed house when requested to do so, and of resisting the police. After hearing the evidence, His worship said that it was evident that a fine made no impression upon him ; imprisonment was the only thing. He would treat the two charges together, and sentence accused to 28 days with hard labour. The Customs. The Wellington correspondent 'of the Press says : With reference to the fact that eight months' Customs exceed the proportionate estimate by £15,000, it must be borne in mind that the first quarter (Juue) of each financial year represents only two and a half mouths (inconsequence of the system of accounts), while the last quarter (March) represents three and a half months. This puts the revenue results in a still more favorable light, and indicates that a substantial surplus over the estimate may be expected in the item of Customs. Racing Conference.—At Dunedin on Friday the country racing delegates, after considerable discussion, adopted the resolutions agreed to at the preliminary meeting to the effect that the formation of a New Zealand Jockey Club be opposed ; that Rule 22 is injurious to country clubs, and that at a conference for the consideration of racing matters the voting should be regulated on the basis of the number of clubs affiliated to the metropolitan or on added money, failing which additional Metropolitan clubs should be established for Otago and Southland. Mr G. McLean explained that at the conference the Dunedin Jockey Club had endeavoured to limit the new rule, and not make it apply to clubs outside a radius of fifty miles of a metropolis, but they were unsuccessful. Mr Vaile's Railway Pmoposals.— Mr Yaile, in applying his stage system of railway charges to goods traffic, proposes to reduce the classification to four classes, with an extra one for dangerous goods, as follows : —Class A—Live stock, agricultural produce of all kinds and firewood, 4s per truck per stage. Class B Minerals, bricks, clay, sand, coal, manures, Is per ton pe-r stage. Class C—Timber, 3d per 100 ft. per stage. Class D—Merchandise of every other kind, 2s (id per ton per stage. Class E—Dangerous goods at per stage. He believes the charges could be made lower, but he has not the statistics to enable him to say. Parcels rates he proposes to make : —Under 141 b, Id per stage ; 141 bto 281 b, 2d; 281 bto 561 b, 3d; 561 bto 1121 b, 4d per stage. Passenger rates 6d to 4d per stage or any part of a stage. Stages near large towns he makes 7 or 8 miles long; further away 50 miles.

Otago A. and P. Association. The Agricultural and Pastoral Association were again unfortunate in the matter of weather on Friday. The day broke promising, but frequent showers of rain fell, some being almost tropical, and though the sun came out bright in the intervals the weather must have had an appreciable effect on the attendance. Notwithstanding this the attendance was good. The show of draught stock was an improvement all round. There was keen competition in nearly every class. Lord Lyon was first in his class and took the championship. Mr Blackie, of Southland, secured the championship for mares with Lady Salisbury. In blood stock the show was not so good. In the all-aged class Wolverine was placed firgt, Taiaroa and LMg'hy Grand coming next. In carriage entries Camel was placed before Betrayer. In the hack entries Wicklow was placed before Cock of the Walk, but the horses should not have been placed in the same class. There was a fair display of hunters. Miss Wirth won one of the leaping events and Mrs Wirth another, but the pi'izs f° r best lady ri ier went to Mrs Jobnson. In pigs Mr Janes Rowe took most of the prizes. The dairy produce class was a very fine one. and there was ver? keen competition in hams and bacon. Agricultural produce was not a strong; class, but Xew Zealand manufactures was a very interesting class. The Military Ru>"\ The Vienna correspondent of the London Standard thus *"»«cribes the condition of the horses after the milita"" v r i tle from Berlin to Vienna : "A more and revolting roectacle I hope never to see* I do not think that any of those that uid/7 ?uU through will eve* be of much service again. Most "of the horses were standing, but propping themselves up against the wall or a post; their trembling legs could hnrdly support them. Their eyes were dilated with fever, their leys swollen to the most enormous size, their feet inflamed and hoofs slouching off; some had inflammation of the lungs, others had their bones sticking out, and. the fie3h had quite fallen in; others again were lying down full length, completely exhausted. I remember noticing an English thoroughbred in that position, aad the halter, which was rather short, was nearly strangling him ; the poor beast had not the strength to move to make himself comfortable. I was shown a beautiful horse, which had been one of the Empress of Austria's hacks, with its hind legs as if it had elephantiasis. lam bound to°say that I went to i-ee these horses on the second day, when only those with the fastest records had como in—there misrht have been forty in the stables at most. The horse of the German officer who came in first Ml down at the winning-post, his back, I was told, covered with wounds from a pointed stick his rider had used. lam told that the Austrian horses arrived at Berlin in a better state, though their records are faster. This, I believe, is a good deal owing to their superior shoeiny, and also to the closer -sympathy which exists in this country between the animal and its rider."

Opium.—During November £2BB was j paid as duty on opium, imported into the . anion T! I fixiDDEN Beath. —Mrs Joshua McLean, f licensee oS t\ie\snion Hotel, "Princess street, \ Duneclin, died suddenly on Sunday night, it J is supposed from heart disease. ] Ojjituaky. Captain Mackenzie, who represented Tapanui in the Provincial Council, and contested more than one Parliamentary election, died yesterday. He was a large ruuholder, and one of the pioneers of the Tapanui^district. The Mariposa's Mails. —The Postal authorities have received a telegram from San Francisco, from the mail agent, denying that the Mariposa's mails were burned. There was no mention of anything of the kind in the San Francisco papers when the steamer left. Embezzlement. Frederick Charles Clark was committed for trial at Invercargill, yesterday, on two informations of embezzling moneys belonging to the Southland Times. Bail was increased to two sureties of £IOO each and self in £2OO on each information, as the full extent of his defalcations is not yet known. Attempted Robbery.—A sticking-up casa occurred on Saturday, on the road between Hunterville and Ohingaiti, near Marton, a carter named James McCauley being stopped by four men, who demanded a case of whiskey in the cart. On his refusing, they attempted to take it by force, but two travellers coming to McCauley's assistance the men were driven off. Hot Water Fountains.—The erection of hot water fountains throughout Paris is progressing slowly. Thus far there are two —one in the Boulevard St. Germain, near the Medical School, and the second has just been opened on the Place de la Bourse. For a couple of sous the people can bave a. large pitcherful of boilingr water—a boon that many of the poor of the city will appreciate. The 'Fiusco Mail.—A telegram to hand yesterday from Wellington says :— u The sourthern portion of the San Francisco mail is expected here about 10 o'clock night by the Takapuna. Arrangements to take on the South Island bags are not yet completed, but they will go either by the Pukaki immediately on arrival of the Takapuna to-night, or by the Takapuna to-morrow." Liberal Creditors. —News has been received at Oamaru from Home that the holders of the municipal bonds are willing to accept fresh bonds for a borough loan at 5 per cent, instead of 7 per cent. This means a saving of 2 per cent annually to the borough on £(1145,000 makinga saving to the taxpayers of £2900 annually. This will be a great relief to Oamaru, which has been weighed down by excessive taxation for sometime. Drowned. A married woman, Mrs Hessian, was found dead in a water-race at Riniu. West Coast, on Friday morning. She left her house at about 7 o'clock to feed the poultry, and apparently fell over the bank into the river, which was running full at the mme. The body was found jammed against a culvert.—On Saturday W. J. Roskruge and William Page were drowned in a dam on the property of the former, a well-known Hawera settler. Page went in for a swim, and cried for help. Roskruge went to his assistance, but Page pulled him under, and both were drowned. —Hugh Newth, aged seventeen, was drowned whilst bathing in the Manawatu river on Sunday. Timaru Hospital. The following is the return of patients in the Timaru Hospital for the month of November, 1892 :—Patients under treatment at date of last return: Males 11, females 5, total 16: admitted during month: Males 15, females 8, total 23 ; totals treated: Males 2(5, females 13, total 39. Discharged during month: —Cured : Male* 6, females 2, total 8 ; relieved: Males 1, females 1. total 2; dead: Males 1 (Charles Nicholson), females 2 (Maria Ineeon and Maria Batchelor).- totals discharged: Males 8, females 5, total 13. Remaining under treatment: Males 18, females 8, total 26. Out-patients treated during the month : Males 6, females 6, total 12. | Accident. —A nasty accident happened ! near the Temuka Dairy Factory on Saturday morning last. Mrs Parke, of Milford, was being driven in a spring trap to the factory, by one of her sons, followed very closely by another vehicle. The horse turned too sharply off the road, and struck one of the posts at the factory entrance, the consequence being that Mrs Parke and her son were thrown violently to the ground. The latter was stunned, but soon came round, but Mrs Parke was very severely bruised. She was taken into Mr Oldfield's, where Dr Cayley, who was sent for, attended to her. Later in the day she was able to be moved to her own home. The trap escaped with a broken splashboard. The Temuka Band.—The Temuka Brass Band, as it is now called, fully arrayed in their neat uniforms, paraded the main streets on Saturday evening, and played a number of selections in capital style. They took their stand for a time, whether by accident or design, in front of the premises of the secretary of the Caledonian Society, This may have been by way of an hint that the Boxing-Day sports are approaching, and that an engagement by the society would be appreciated. Serioasly speaking there ia no reason why the local band should not have the preference of playing at the sports. With an infinite amount of self-denial they have kept together, procured instruments and uniforms, and generally worked themselves up, and now that their playing is so creditable they deserve every encouragement. Refusing Intebest. —At the last meeting of the Wellington Hospital Trustees, the chairman (we learn from the New Zealand Times) stated that a Hindu native named Nab-ab-Dm, and a friend of the same nationality, both hailing from Calcutta, bad called on him stating that they had deposited some money in the Post Office Savings Bank. The interest due to them amounted to &2 53 91, but as their religion expressly forbade them taking interest to any, even the smallest, amount, they had decided to hand over the above amount to what they described as the "poor Wellington Hospital." Mr Fraser also stated that, armed with an order from these charitably disposed Bengalese, he had sisrned for the amount, and handed it over to the funds of the institution. liie Wellington Shooting Case.—At the Supreme Court, Wellington, on Satur* day, Finley was brought up for sentence. His counsel, Mr Jellico, attacked the local papers for the accounts of the affray published at the time, contending that they had inflamed the public mind ayrdnst the prisoner. He produced certificates of character from America. The Chief Justice said that no doubt Finley had received provocation, but not sufficient to justify his reckless shooting. He sentenced him to 10 years' penal servitude, Mr Jellico is gettine up a petition for mitigation of Finlay sentence. Captain Crutcbley, of the R.M.S. Kaikoura, in a letter commenting on Finlov's trial, complains that the police in Wellington do not look after rowdy sailors properly, and will not take them in custody unless an information is first laid. He gives instances from his own experience, and says that in consequence he gave orders to his officers to protect themselves in future. He pleads for mitigation o,f finley's sentence, on the ground that he had no intention of killing Greenrose, and was only defending himself from serious injury. Captain Crutcbley, however, overlooks the wilful shooting at Lynch and others after the affray, which no doubt influenced the jury in theij/ verdict. Seele was put on his trial yesterday morning for shooting at Lynch with intent to kill, the Crown Prosecutor explaining that, though he did not actually firo himself, inciting another in the eyes of the law was the same thing. Lynch and Campbell gave evidence as to Finley and Seele going on to the wharf after Greenrqse's death, and the former firing at Lynch"; whq had then taken refuge cm board tlte Waimate,

Co-operation.—The United Farmers' Alliance at Hawera have purchased F. R. r jards at Palmergfion, FeiM nrg> and Hisi mmgham. Shooting Accident.—A young man I named C. Lincoln, a cadet on the Mangahana farm, near Mercer, Waikato, ao I cidentally shot himself in the stomach on , Sunday while handling a breech-loading I gun. He has been removed to the Ancki land Hospital. ! Compassionate Vote.—Tie grant of £3OOO voted by Parliament last session to the widow of Sir Harry Atkinson was paid over to Lady Atkinson's trustees on Thursday. North Otago Crops.—The North Otago Times states that some of the very heavy crops in the district were laid by the rain but they will come up again with bright sunshine. Should the weather prove ' favourable till the harvest, the heaviest crops reaped in the district will reward the farmer. He will only require an improvement in prices to make everything, satisfactory. Angling.—lf the shade of Izaak Walton ever hovers over the Rangitata and was present on Friday night the venerable ghost must have received a decided shock at the ,turn his favorite pastime has taken, for he would have seen two of the fair Bex doing great execution amongst the finny inhabitants of that turbulent stream. Mrs Hayhurst landed 7 fish, scaling 601 b, amongst which was one weighing 15Hb and another 111 b. Mrs Ashwell caught 4, weighing 361 b, including an. 11 and 10pounder, and Mr Nicholas, their guide, took 6 that turned the scale at 41£lb. They were all caught in five hours fishing. The records are about as good as lady anglers have ever made, and some of our male "dons" must look to their laurels. Mr Hayhurst has erected a commodious house on wheels, which is now stationed at Rangitata, so that camping is robbed of most of its inconveniences. Death of Mr Badham. Last Saturday an advertisement appeared in the Timaru Herald announcing the death of Forster William Badham, at Hostage Farm, Colchester, Essex, England. The advertisement states that he died on the 10th of October, but the following appears in the Scotsman of October Bth last: —" William Badham, Hostage Farm, Sible, Heddingham, Essex, was found in Ms garden on Tuesday shot throngh the heart. A gun lay by his side, and it is supposed he committed suicide." We have been told, also, that a paper containing full particulars of the incident, as well as of the inquest, has reached Timaru, so there is scarcely any room to doubt that the William Badham above referred to is no other uhan Mr Badham, erstwhile of Buliner, Rangitata. Mr Peter Coira, who has just returned from a trip to the Old Country, says that Mr Badham was staying at Hostage farm. He was then engaged as a reaper and binder expert, and looked better than Mr Coira had seen him look before. He appeared in excellent health and spirits, but complained that he did not know what he would do when the season was over. Poor Badham ! His was a sad ending, after all. We sincerely regret his death, as with all his faults he had a great many excellent qualities, and was a man who, if he would only look at things seriously, would have occupied a good position in this district. He was thoroughly upright in his dealings, a good farmer, a good citizen, and a good neighbor. We are sure that our readers will regret to learn that he came by his death in such a way. He was 48 years of age at the time of his death.