LOCAL & GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2466, 18 February 1893, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL.

Dkatk of a Maori Ci uni'. Wire mu King! Tematakatea, a noted Maori chief. diedTou Tuesday at Opuha. near Opunake.

Fatal Accident. — William Mitchell, a settler of Kerbertville, near Napier, was thrown from his horse and killed on Tuesday. Sir it. Stout. —ft is rumoured, says an exchange, that at the general elections Sir llobert Stout will stand for an Otago constituency, probably Mataura. Peusonal. —We learn on good authority that Dr Hayes, who is at present in the Old Country, has got married there, to a Miss Desmond Durke. He is not expected home for a few months longer. Tun Taranaki Land Prosecutions.— It is said that these prosecutions are leading to unexpected disclosures, and that further inquiry into the alleged frauds suggest a wide development of the system. i’ku Catholic Tunis. —The prospectus of a company to take, over the Catholic Times, now owned by Archbishop Redwood, is issued ; capital .CSIKX), i x 111 snares, The paper will be conducted on the same lines.

Congratulatory. —• Congratulations were cabled Home on Wednesday from the Tablet office to Mr Gladstone on .the occasion of the introduction of the Home Rule Dill. The Irish National Federation, Auckland, cabled to Mr Gladstone *■ Accept our united warmest congratulations. All sections of Irishmen should accept the Bill. - ’

Wesleyan Church. —Wo would call attention to the announcement that the collection at the evening service at the Wesleyan church to-morrow is in aid ox the sufferers by the Queensland floods. Instrumental and vocal music will be rendered in the church before the commencement of the service. A Hint to Btackeiis. A farmer correspondent points out that a simple metaod of preventing stack tops being blow off is to place a hoop of wire round the roof of the stack, between the top and the eaves, and to this attach four drooping wires, to which may ha attached weights of any sort that are handy —cither large stones, old iron, or rough boxes, or old sacks lilied with, shingle. fjL’Jie suggestion appears to be a practical one.—Press.

Ouuucit OF Ext;!. AMD, TliMUKi.—The Church of England Services for to-morrow are announced in this issue. The Rev. Mr Grillam preaches at Temukain the morning, Raugitira -Valley in the afternoon, and Winchester at night. The Rev. Mr Butterfield preaches at Winchester in the morning and Xemuka at night. Tne otfertories at°ali the services will be given to tne fund for the relief of the sufferers by the floods at Brisbane.

Queensland Floods.— The Manawatu Company have also agreed to carry produce for Queensland free. Tne floods meeting at Dunedin was largely attended. The principal speecn was by Mr Luxin, formerly ouitor of the Brisbane Courier, who gave a '■raphie account of the devastation. The mayor acknowledged receipt of subscriptions amounting to £llO, exclusive of ASO sent direct to Brisbane by Reid & Grey. At the meeting £l2O was raised. Personal. —"We are pleased to notice the Rev. W. 0. Wood is in the district. The reverend gentleman is having a month's holiday, and showed his good taste by taking rest and change at the scene of his former labours. Mr Wood is not looking any, better after twelve months' of the buzz of Wellington, lie finds the charge of a large city church a groat tax on his time and strength, and is in need of his well-earned rest. We trust the change aad rest will do him a great amount of good. The Stoiui. —Monday's storm did not do very serious damage to corn in stack in and around Orari and Geraldine, in fact, comparatively few stacks were beheaded. The south side of the iron fence around the saddling paddock at the Racing Club's ground, Orari, was levelled to the ground, and the refreshment booth at the saddling paddock must have turned a somersault, for it is lying ou its back a goo 1 many yards from its original position and the roof of it is broken to pieces. About LiO won! I cover the whole of the damage. In the valleys, Pleasant Valley, Gapes' Valley, and Beautiful Valley, the storm appeared to rage as hard as anywhere and stacks sniferod a great deal. Serious Aci'ldent. — A serious accident happ aie 1 on Taut «lay at Rake Forsyth. As the .I.:!!) train was leaving after the regatta, a man named Abraham Bowley was crossing the rails in front of the train, nn l was caught by the engine and had his j.-i Bit foot almost cut oJf, the right knee sn. - !,ih,d- and a large flesh wound in the thigh. Tne aryi was pullel up. and the V.pj brought to 'Gbrisfichuroh and Liken to the hospital, where rue foot was amputated. No Game is attached to the .'ij-’ine driver, who as soon as lie the man cnVie lire blow the whistle and reversed Hie cngait, ‘Tin, ir r tWJ fc a school toucher and married.

Land for Bettleaient. — The Board of Laud BnrehuMs Commission rs under the Land lot fvduonmr-is Acts, will sit shortly in Canterbury and ulugp, to consider a large number of offers of private lands received by the Government. The board consists of the Surveyor-Gencral, the Commissioner of Taxes, ami the Commissioner ef Crown Lauds of the district and the Land Regime? of the district in which is situate;! any land pxupwrd to be acquired. The duty of the board is vo ascertain the value, and report as to the dem/ml for settlement ia tin* locality. For the pul pas.-, cf fee Ace too Colonial l.icasurei is empowered to borrow Lo i.OiJs) in any one year. After ihe investigation ia Canterbury the board meet iu Canterbury.

Temuka .Stock Sale. —The fortnightly sale of stock at Temuka takes place on Wednesday next.

Caveusiiam School. The Otago Charitable Aid Board declined to accept the Minister's proposal to constitute a board of advice for Caversham Industrial School.

Finn, Edwards's mercers’ shop on Lambtou Quay, Wellington, was gutted by lire on Thursday night. It was insured for £2OO in the imperial, but the loss is £ISOO more.

A Coveted Billet.— Out of 117 applications for the po>t of assistant librarian at .Cl 20 a year, the Wellington City Council .selected Mr G. X. Baggit, late Receiver of the Land Revenue there. The Weather. —Strong winds, mostly from the uor'-west and west have prevail,; j curing the past two days, and greatly hampered harvesting work. Cricket, — The following team will play for the Temuka Club against Timaru today Dignau, Cayley, Hay hurst, McLean, Cox, Low, Early, McCaskill, Fergussou, Danu. Gillespie.

Ajte il. The National Mortgage and Agency Company have given security for costs in an appeal to the Privy Council in the case Scott v. Ritchie. The amount of security is understood to be £SOOO.

Fire.— A twelve-roomed wooden house in Cargill street, Dunedin, was partially gutted on Wednesday morning. It was occupied by Mrs Dick as a boarding house. It is fully covered by insurance—house £IS(K) in tiie National, and furniture £l5O in the New Zealand.

Divorce. —ln the Wellington divorce case, Snelgrove v. Ewart, husband’s petition. a decree nisi was granted. Respondeat deserted her husband twenty-two years ago, and it was explained that until now the petitioner was unable to raise sufficient money to file his petition.

Geraldine Anglican Church. Members of this church, are reminded elsewhere that, owing to repairs at present being made to the church, Services will bo held to-morrow in toe old church building adjoining. Also, the Sunday School will not be held to-morrow. Land and Income Tax Returns. Tiie land and income tax paid to date on Wednesday is as follows ; Land tax £2514,(528, income tax £58,41)7, total £;{5;5.125. It is anticipated that the income tax will amount to £(51),000, the estimate made by the Commissioner of Taxes after allowing for deductions and concessions under the Land ami Income Assessment Amendment Act 181)2.

Qua Schools. —The last quarter, of 1803 was the first in the history of the colony that the average attendance reached 100,001), the figures being 100,1)02. The average for the whole year was 1)!),0G(). At the end,of the year there were 3L78 teachers and 151) sewing mistresses employed in the public schools of the colony; 1555 were males and 1823 females. Of these 258 boys and 787 girls were pupil teachers. The total salaries paid amounted to 11315,100.

Blood.— The Otaki river has been in great flood. Mr James’ house, above the railway bridge, was surrounded, and a party proceeeded with a boat to rescue the occupants. The floods were the worst experienced for she last 25 years. They are attributed to strong weesterly winds causing high tides, thus blocking the escape of flood water. Considerable damage was done to property, but no lives were lost. Several settlers lost a uumcer of sheep, pigs, etc. A house from which the residents were rescued was built on the bed of an old rivercourse, and had three feet of water in it. Dunedin Wool Sales. —The wool sales at Dunedin yesterday were largely attended. Tne qualities offering considered, the -prices were quite up to those ruling at any time since the opening. Local manufacturers operated largely. For medium half and crossbred greasy yd to !)d, heavy and coarse fid to 7-Jd, greasy merino medium Old to 7-id, earthy and heavy in grease ail to lid, greasy crossbred pieces 31.1 to (»:; 1, do merino pieces 3d to (ijd, scoured half bred 10$ J to is do crossbred LUd to Is do merino li)Jd to Is Ijd, do first pieces merino l()d to 1U:;-I, slips half bred and crossbred Dd. The Armstrong- Case. — An examination of the registers at the Kohimarama indusrial school, so far us they have been preserved, sho.vs that the lad Armstrong, who told the magistrate that ho had only attended school about once a month, attended 2135 times in 5£ years. This gives an average attendance of 21 1) days per year, fie is marked absent less tuau eight times per annum. One of the teachers under whose care he was accounts for his having passed the Ist standard only by saying that he was an extremely. dull boy, almost impossible to teach. It may be mentioned that the institution was inspected regularly by the Education Board’s officers.

Supreme Court. —At the Supreme Court, Invercargill Daniel, Popper was convicted of rape on a married women at Wray’s Bush, and sentenced to 12 years’ imprisonment. The crime was an aggravated one. Annie Byrne was tried for the murder of her child by jumping into the Invercargill harbour. Tne Crown prosecutor invited the jury to consider the question of the woman’s sanity at the time. The defence was that the cnild slipped over the side of the jetty and that the accused had leaped in to save her. The jury found her guilty of drowning her child while temporarily insane, and sentence was deferred.

Primitive Methodist Church.— We arc extremely sorry to hear that the Rev. AV. Harris, who was to preach the school sermou in the Temuka Primitive Methodist Church to-morrow, has been suddenly summoned to AVellington to see his sister, who is very seriously ill. Fresh arrangsmeuts had to be made at the last moment, the Rev. Mr Wood kindly consenting to conduct the afternoon service, and preach in the evening. Rev. AV. AA r oollass takes the morning service. We hope the school will not suffer in consequence of Mr Harris being unable to come, but with line weather all the services should be well attended. The children's service' in the afternoon is a special feature. A number of recitations and dialogues will be given by the'scholars. The annual soiree will be held on Monday evening.

Laugh. —The Trades Council, Wellington, have adoptel, subject to modification h.vthe Trades Council i onference, the rt-qiort of the special committee advising that a permanent electoral committee should be set up to settle any differences, if required, between members of any section of the Labor part}’, and to ascertain the names of acceptable candidates and obtain information about all candidates for Parliament; to raise funis for election expenses of Labor candidates, and to watch electoral rolls. The platform also drawn up includes, amongst other things, the establishment of a Stats bank, abolition of property qualifications iu ail elections, closing of public houses on election (lays, elective goveraors. repeal, of conspiracy laws relating to industrial pursuits, exemption of all improvements under the laud tax, and increase of the grad uated tax. I’ltKSMN’TA’rrox.—Tiio Geraldine Lolgo, No. 27, X.Z.C., held their regular monthly meeting ou Wednesday evening, when, after the ordinary lodge business. Bro. A. White. R.W.M.. on behalf of the members, presented Bro. J. M. Murray.past master of the lodge, with a past master's jewel. The jewel presented is a massive Ls-carat gold one iu case, and a valuable as well as a ■uuplsome present. The inscription it bears is .—" presented to Bro. 71. id. Murray by tiie members of the (fotai.Uuo Lodge, \fo. 27, X.Z.C, in recognition of bis work as Jirst master of the lo Ige." The K.W.M. made the presentation in a few feeling words, am] expressed the thanks of "the members for tue great services Brother Murray had rendered the lodge. Other brethren spoke in a similar strain, pointing out the good qualities of Brother Murray, after which the latter suitably responded and showed his satisfaction on receiving so handsome a gift from the brethren,

Teachers’ Examination. A Wellington telegram of Wednesday says : “ The result, of the teachers’ examination and Civil Service examination will be known next week. There are G7o teachers and 21 15 Civil Service candidates.

Hessian Fly. —The Advocate states that the Hessian fly appears to be increasing in the Taieri, and the Tuapeka Times announces that it has made Its appearance in the Tuapeka district, both at Evan’s Flat and Tuapeka West, having been discovered on four or live farms at the places named. Mr Michael Davitt. —Mr Michael Davitt is desirous (wrote the Argus correspondent of January (5) of starting on his long projected antipodean lecturing tour as soon as possible, but he fears that his political engagements in Ireland will not permit him to leave before April or May. It is his present intention to visit New Zealand first—New South Wales, Queenslan !. Victoria, and South Australia to follow.

Still Going Back. The quarterly report of the New South Wales Railway Commissioners, which was laid before Parliament this month, shows a decrease of £(51,278 in the earnings of the railways lor the quarter ended hist December last. Tiiis loss is attributed to the general depression in trade. The commissioners have to some extent met the reduced earnings by the saving in the working expenses of £40,228. Since the close of the quarter the earnings have not shown any improvement, the traffic for the first week of this quarter alone showing a drop as compared with the same period of last year of £12,000. Blind and Destitute.— A destitute blind man asked rations from the Wellington Benevolent Society to enable him to be with his sister, who is also destitute and an invalid. His father was th e first waterman and lighterman in Wellington, and he himself was waterman and lighterman in Wellington lor many years. He' was known to the members, one of whom said the man had saved money and became possessed of considerable property, but he married and made everything over to his wife, who eloped with another man, having turned all the property into money, which she of course took with her. The poor old fellow said that if he and hie sister had rations they might be able to have a few fowls, and keep themselves in that way, —O.D. Times.

Educational.— At the Education Board meeting- at Dunedin on Thursday, Mr Macgregor moved a series of resolutions with the object or stopping- the craze for percentages in examinations. He condemned the existing system as reprehensible. The resolutions were : That teachers he notified that the Board disapproves of the practice of keeping children in school for specially preparing them for the inspector's examinations ; that the inspectors be requested to discourage such special preparation in every possible way; that in future, in estimating the eifiency of schools the board will attach more importance to the Inspector’s reports on the tone order and discipline of the schools than to the percentage of individual pupils ; that as an undue proportion of the pupils’ time is now devoted to arithmetic and the technicalities of grammar, that inspectors be requested to make their examinations in these subjects as simple and elementary as is consistent with a fair interpretation of the standards; that to.enable the inspectors to devote more time to inspection, as distinguished from examination, the Board suggest to the Minister the advisability of amending the regulations, by abolishing all individual pass examinations except in the higher standards. The board adopted all the proposals except two, which were referred to their inspectors.

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LtTTLU’.S SHEER Dips. —lt is now a good many years since Little’s Plaid (nonpoisonous) Sheep Dip was first introduced into No v- Zealand. It was the only dip used to any extent of time when the scab was raging, and it was largely due to its efficacy that this pest was so soon got under. Since that time many other dips have been put upon the market, but in spite of them all Little’s Fluid has a much larger sale in the Colony to-day than when it had a virtual monopoly. It is stated that the sales have increased tenfold in the last five years, and that a sufficient quantity is now annually sold to dip more than 5,000,000 sheep in Hew Zealand alone, and many millions throughout the world, Little’s Fluid, as it well-kuown, is of the non-poisonous class of sheep dips. It seems now to be recognised that, valuable as non-poisonous dips are lor their safety, and for their oily and mutritious qualities, and efficacious as they are in a general way, they do not, alone, quite meet all require* ments. Three or lour years ago, therefore, Little’s firm introduced a poisonous Powder Dip, which can either be used separately or in combination with their fluid. The great secret of this new dip is that glycerine is combined with the Powder, in a dry state, by a patent process, and this prevents the minerals from setting together into hard musses, and renders the substances readily inixable with water, and avoids the harsh eifect ou the wool common to other poisonous dips. In these respects, the proprietors claim that “ Little's ” is superior to any other Powder Dip, and that it as good as the best in all respects. This would seem also to be the opinion of sheepowners, for we learn that the sales of Little's Powder Dip in the present season are already over 20 times in excess of last season’s sales, and the demand still continues.

SYNOPSIS OF ADVERTISEMENTS. P. \V . Hutton & Co.—List of new books ou sale. Crown Hotel, Tcmuka—Reward for lost 11 y book. Church of England—Services for tomorrow. Guinness ,v LeGrcn—Entries for Temuka Stock Sale. Blaekburne x Co.—Notice re Little’s Sheep Dips. Primitive MethoaLt ( hurch—Services for to-morrow. W esleyan Church, Tcmuka—Services for tu-morrow. J. i’.mgney—Particulars of clearing, sale of boots ami SilOi s. Aspiuall & S.dmoad—SiX-roomcd house ami aero of laud to lot. f N.Z.Lj. A: M.a. Co. — Sell stock, etc., at Temuka on Wednesday. Priest fc Holdgate, Thnaru—“Bind louhine ” on view to-day. X./j, Railways—Particulars of excursion fares to Dunedin for races, night train, etc. W. Harrison, Winchester Mills—Flour, sharps, bran, etc., ou sale ; special notice re gristing, etc. W. C. iloulstou —Stock must be reduced to make room for winter goods; particulars of bargains and discount. •J, Bed.—Draws attention to his large stock of 1 uruiturc, indue ing chests of drawers, tables, chairs, bedsteads, etc., funerals conducted at cheapest rates. C F.G. Association—Tcmuka Stock Sale wi'u ]>o held on Wednesday ; entries for Tcmuka Stood; Sale ; sell spring cart, harness ; household furniture, eic.,. 'at; Temuka on same date on acGQnni Mrs. McCann,