LOCAL & GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2546, 24 August 1893, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL.

Burglary. The tobacconist shop of 1 G. Colgan, Newton, Auckland, was entered • by burglars last Monday night and £25 worth of tobacco stolen. [ Objected to be Photographed.—Two i Australians, committed for trial at Auckland for robberies, have been sentenced to five days’ bread and water for refusing to , be photographed in gaol. Damage by Flood. The damage to the permanent way of the Waikato railway by the floods has been repaired at a cost of , £3OO. The loss by the temporary stoppage of traffic was about £IOOO. 1 Pickpockets at Work.—A number i of occupants of the dress circle • at the i Wellington Oyera House ou Monday night had their trousers’ pockets cut while . leaving and the contents rifled. , Forgery.—A man named John Frederick ; Reece was committed for trial at Christchurch on Tuesday, for forging the signa- ' ture of H. Barnett to receipts for £7 and ' £lO, and receiving those amounts from a firm of grain merchanas in Christchurch. Successful Dairy Company. The 1 Dalefield Dairy Company at Carterton, Wellington, declares a dividend of 10 per 1 cent, for the year. The milk suppliers i receive 3£d per gallon. 112 tons of cheese were turned out in the season, which is less than the previous year. The Australian Cricketers. The London Observer says that the Australian cricketers will scarcely succeed in convincing experts that they are better than an ordinary second-class county eleven. Australian cricket must be at a very low ebb if such a team is representative. Geraldine School Committee.—A special meeting of the Geraldine School Committee was held on Tuesday evening to consider applications received for the position of a second year pupil teacher. Three applications were received and consideration of them was adjourned to a future meeting. Professor Alois’s Case.—At a meeting of the Auckland University Council, Miss Edgar’s motion for rescinding the resolution of the 15th June, terminating the engagement of Professor Aldis, was negatived by the casting vote of the chairman, (Sir Maurice O’Rourke. The effect of this is (jijfj-t the resolution dispensing with Professor Aldis’ services holds good. GA,UTiON.-=-ia our advertising columns will be a caution setting forth that any person damaging the gates in the boundary fence betw£?h the properties of the late W. K. and Angus Macdonald will be prosecuted. The gates, which have been erected with the permission of the Temuka Road Board, have been wantonly damaged on several occasions, and it feus been determined to make an example of any future offender. Mutual Improvement Class. The Mutual Improvement and Bible Class connected with the Primitive Methodist Church, Temuka, held their weekly meeting on Tuesday evening. The attendance was large, and great interest was evinced in a paper read by the Vice-President, Mr Epps, on ‘‘How to read the Scriptures.” The popularity of the class may be gathered from the fact that fifteen new members have joined during the week. Coffee Supper.—A coffe supper and enjoyable social entertainment was held at the Primitive Methodist Church, Geraldine, on Tuesday evening. The Rev. W. 0. Woodward was ip. jbh,e chair, afid a programme of songs, recitations, readings, etc., was gone through, similar in detail, with the exception of two or three minor alterations, to the programme at the previous coffee supper held at this church. The chapel ladies attended to the refreshments, and on the whole a very pleasant evening was spent. Tea, &c., at Geraldine,—We would again remind our readers of the Direct Veto tea, &c., at Geraldine tp-morrow night, when the Rev. F. W. Isitt, of Ghristphjirch, will be one of the speakers. There will also be a torchlight procession, with colored fire en route, starting from the Volunteer Hall at 7.15. The Salvation Army band will head the procession, and the Salvation Army and Good Templars (in regalia) and other temperance workers are requested to take a part. The public meeting ■ will commence at 8 o’clock. Mr T. Dalton will act as marshal. Direct Veto Meetings.—Meetings have been held at St, Andrews on Monday evening, at Winchester on Tuesday, and at Pleasant Point on Wednesday. Houses in every instance have not been overflowing, especially in the case of Winchester, where a full house was not expected, and where want of information on the great question of the hour seems greatly needed, but up to the present the meetings have been highly encouraging, and the attendances in some - cases large and enthusiastic. At Winchester a gentleman attempted to disturb the meeting, but Mr Munro, who seems full of fight, and has the question at his ; fingcrends. spoiled his little game.. On Friday a meeting will be held at Waitoh 1 ' i school at 7 p.m., another on Saturday Hilton school at 7.30 p.m. Mr Munro’ 9 i addresses are brimful of humor, as well a 9 bristling with startling facts, and those who have an opportunity of hearing him will : eejoy a treat. ;

Sale at Geraldine. —Mr W. S. Maslin holds a sale of drapery, clothing, boots and shoes, etc., at Geraldine to-day, and tomorrow.

General Workers’ Union.—A meeting of the General Workers’ Union will be held in the Temuka Oddfellows’ Hall, on Saturday evening, to deal with important business.

To Correspondents. —We take no notice of communications which come to us unautheuicated by the name of some person we know. Wo have received an obituary notice of a mare which died after a long and useful career, and which was worth £2O a long time ago, but as the writer neglected to enclose his name we cannot give it insertion. Punishment foe Escaping.—George Harper, the prisoner who escaped from the local hard labour gang at Wanganui, some two months ago, and who was captured at Palmerston on Friday, was sentenced to nine months’ imprionment in Wanganui gaol; the sentences to run concurrently. The prisoner made a statement to the effect that his escape was the result of bad treatment in gaol ; but the Bench held that it was not borne out by the facts. The Nelson Fires, A man named Henry Millar, who had been until recently employed by the insurance companies and property owners at Nelson as night watchman against fires, has been committed to an asylum as a lunatic. At a recent inquest he told a rambling story in which he claimed to have a foreknowledge of fires. He thought that the frequency of fires would perhaps increase his earnings, as more people might employ him as watchman. The whole evidence tended to the inference that Millar had caused the fires, which have been very frequent in Nelson, and on his being examined by Drs Leggatt and Mackie he was pronounced insane.

A Windfall.— The cities of Liverpoo. and Manchester have come into a windfall to no less an extent than £350,000. A 1 successful Jewish merchant named David Lewis bequeathed the whole of his fortune to two relatives in Sydney, Messrs B. W. Levy and George J. CJohen, absolutely, but sent these gentlemen a sealed letter, to be opened after his death, in which the testator stated he put no legal obligation on them but expressed his wish that the money should go for the benefit of the working classes of the two cities in which he made it. Messrs Levy and Cohen have surrendered the whole amount in equal parts to the above two cities, makinga joint trust for the administration of the funds to unsectarian purposes of philanthropy. A noble gift nobly carried out. The Sydenham Licenses. —Mrßeetham, R.M., Christchurch, gave judgment on Tuesday morning in Armstrong v. Hadfield, which was a case brought to test the validity of the licenses in Sydenham held by Messrs Hadfield, Money, and Trajnor. Mr Hadfield had been charged with supplying a flask of brandy to the informant, not being at the time a person licensed to sell spirits. After dealing with the argument adduced at the hearing Mr Beetham said: — “ If this Court holds on the facta before it that the certificate and license were illegally issued, then I ought to convict —I see no possibility of arriving at any ot her conclusion, aided as I have been in thematter by the judgment of Mr Justice Dennistoun. If it is contended that the conviction is bad on technical grounds, it is open to defendant to have ttte decision reviewed. As this is a test case there is no necessity to inflict a heavy fine. Defendant is convicted, and fined £5, with costs.” Mr Harper gave notice of appeal.

Death of a Maoei Lady. —An old Maori lady named Hira Mauhara, wife of Henare Mauaara, died last Friday morning at Moeraki I’a at the age of 75. Hira (says the Oamaru Mail) was one of the tribe who came to reside at Moeraki about 50 years ago, and was the last survivor of the tribe that came there at the time. Her husband came to reside there some years afterwards, and, after his marriage with Hira, he became one of the rulers of the race. Henare Mauhara and his wife have been recognised as chiefs of the race from which they sprang for the last 12 years by all the tribes between Waikouaiti and Kaiapoi. Hira Mauhara is descended from Te Kahea, Paike, Te Kauapu, Raukawa, Te Anu, and Tuahuriri, and was recognised by all the tribes which sprang from the same ancestors. On her father’s side her ancestors were Ihi Koata, Katihuirihia, Kaiterakiamoa, and Matega. Representatives of the tribes from Waikouaiti, Waihao, Temuka, Kaiapoi, and Little River are at the present time holding a tangi at Moeraki. On Thursday afternoon the body will be buried in the Moeraki Native Cemetery.

A Salvation Aemy Case.—Mr R. S, Hawkins, R.M., on Satuaday gave judgment at Milton (says the Bruce Herald) in the case in which Charles Kert, a captain of the Salvation Army, was charged under the by-laws of the borough of Milton with playing a musical instrument in the streets of the borough. In concluding a lengthy judgment his Worship said: “ I hold that the by-law is valid and the offence proved. The defendant has wilfully and determinedly broken what I thus hold to be the law. If he had desired to test the validity of the law he might have given notice of appeal, and prosecuted the appeal in any one o| the cases I decided in July last. He did not do so, but wept the same night with the band and defied the law 1 , collecting a crowd of 200 people. He is not a poor, ignorant youth, the victim of vicious surroundings, whom it would be my first anxiety to save from the fatal brand of prison, he is a captain or offiser in authority in apt an organisation making a strong profession of religion—a man of capacity and understanding sufficient to enable him to weigh well the result of his actions. I fine him £l. I have no reason to doubt that he can readily get the money to pay this fine if he chooses, and in default of payment or of sufficient distress I order him to be imprisoned in Dunedin gaol for one calendar month with hard labour.” At the request of Mr Solomon, his Worship agreed to state a case for appeal. At the same sitting William Burns pleaded guilty to disturbing a meeting of the Salvation Army, using obscene language, and assaulting a constable, and was fined £2, or 14 days’ imprisonment. Bisuop Julius. There was a largely attended meeejjingpublic meting at Christchurch oh Monday jiig-hjb to welcome Bishop Julius on his return from England, In his speech Bishop Julius paid ;n regard to social matters in England, they were certainly in a very bad state. Land was unoccupied, rents were unobtainable, and the landed gentry of England was fast disappearing. Abject poverty, he was glad to be able to say, was not so very marked in the great city as it used to be. The poor were not so‘poop, apd mppey mope equally divided, and squalor was distinctly being removed. He had noticed a marked change in the slums of London for the better. The London of to-day was far better than the London of 10 years ago, and this was largely due to the efforts of the county council to provide suitable sleepinghouses fpp the poor, gnd making open spaces apd givihg 'the people ipom 'for recreation, England was getting more like the oologies, and was deriving a good deal of instruction from the cplonies, as the colonies previously derived instruction from the mother country. He had found it difficult to gauge the religious tone of the country, the attendance at the churches being useless as an estimate, _ He had noticed, however, a deeper seriousness in old England than of yore; men seemed to be more errne-t about religious matters—especially the working classes. Ho believed there was a reaction from the unbelief and agnosticism of the last 20 years, which was leading men slowly but surely from a destructive to a constructive style of thought. There was among a great number of church people a general and strong tendency against the old favorite and undogmatic religion. This was healthy, for religious teaching would fall to utter conf usUm unless it bad ft dogmatic basis, i

Footdall.—Tiie following is the Waihl team picked to play against Ashburton on Saturday, 26th, on the Winchester grounds:—Moore (2), Opie (2). Henderson (2), Stewart (2), Hart (2), Shallard (2), Fish, Roberts, and South; emergency, Campbell. Play will commence at 2.30, Gas Explosion,—A gas explosion occurred on Tuesday evening at a house in Bridge street, Nelson. A plumber was examining the gas fittings, having a light in another room, when an explosion took place, which wrecked the interior and blew the glass across the street. The plumber’s clothing was set on fire, but he was not seriously hurt, and no one else was injured. The Pork Industry. —Says the Wellingcorrespondent of the Press; —Mr Vecht accompanied by Mr Boyden, architect to Intra-Marine Supply Company, proceeds to Christchurch next week in connection with the erection of the Christchurch branch of the pork-packing factory, for which the machiaery is on board the Kaikoura, The Christchurch factory will probably be erected at Islington or Belfast. Mr Boyden is now making investigations with a view to the speedy erection of the Wellington factory, the machinery for which has arrived in the Ruahine. Mr Stockvis, general manager for New Zealand, is to leave Sydney in the Wakatipu on the 26th, and bring with him skilled workmen necessary to inaugurate the industry. Mr Yecht expects to kill the first pig at either Christchurch or Wellington on October Ist. Cycling.—A Victoria (B.O.) paper received by the last mail gives an account of the Twelfth of July annual festival. Among the amusements of the day were various sports, including bicycle races, in which James La wrenson,formerly of Timaru, won the chief contest, a five-mile face, in 16min 68 l/ssecs, and the three-mile in 9min 6secs, beating a favorite named Clabon each time. The paper says Lawrenson never looked or rode so well. No race like it was ever seen in Vancouver, Clabon making Lawrensen “ ride the race of his life,” beating the track record by nearly half a minute. Clabon led for two miles, and the rest of the race was hub-and-hub till the last two rounds. The paper adds “ Clabon is a plucky rider, but not fast enough for Vancouver’s reliable old stand-by, James Lawrenson.” The three-mile race was even more exciting ; Lawrenson beat Clabon, both from scratch, by half a wheel in the fast time of 9min ssec.—An adjourned meeting of those interested in forming an Amateur Cycling Club for Geraldine and surrounding districts was held on Tuesday evening, when there was a fairly good attendance. Mr James Meredith, the convenor of the meeting, was voted to the chair, and explained the objects of the meeting, after which it was unanimously decided to form a club at Geraldine, The following officers were elected ; —Patron, Mr A. B. G. Rhodes, M.H.R.; President, Mr R. H. Pearpoint; Vicepresidents, Messrs N. Dunlop, Keane, Farrell, Reseigh, Hawkins, Winstone, B. R. Macdonald, J. W. Pye, Dr Fish, and the Rev. A. B. Todd; captain, Mr James Meredith; deputy captain, Mr G. Bethune; secretary, Mr W. E, Bryant; treasurer, Mr W. Turner ; committee, Messrs W, Campbell, Morrison, and Erskine (Geraldine), D. Macdonald and J. Pearce (Woodbury) James Hay (Temuka), and W. Philp (Winchester). The secretary was instructed to write to Mr Rhodes asking him to suggest a name for the club; also to write to the secretary of the New Zealand Cycling Alliance, Christchurch, for all necessary information re the forming of a club. The subscription fee, colors of club, and other matters were left over to be dealt with at a future meeting, A vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the meeting.

I The New Licensing Bill. —At a me§fc,3 ing of the representatives of the Sydenham, t St. Albans, Woolston, and Rangiora pro? f hibition leagues, held on Monday night to c consider the Government Licensing Bill, 3 resolutions were passed as follows: —(1 j x Protesting against the proposed electoral } districts for licensing districts. (2) Thau , the proposal as to the three-fifths majority [ before local prohibition can be obtained is 7 a violation of the democratic principles 1 upon which the Government of this colony t is established. (3) Condemning the clause as to polling half the votes on the roll, as [ all licensing questions should be settled by 3 a majority of the votes polled. (4) That r club, wholesale, and all forms of license, ’ should come under the direct popular vote, ; and no appeal from the decision of the . people be permitted (5) Obje ting to the , provision extending the period of new t licenses for three years. (6) Regretting r that checks and safeguards embodied in the . Government’s proposals should be framed in the interests of public-house property, and in opposition to the interests of the ! people. (7) That Sir Robert Stout’s Bill is L best calculated to effect a reform in the l traffic, and that it is in harmony with the democratic spirit of the age; uging the Government to adopt the Bill, or give Sir ; Robert Snout every facility to pass it.—The • Auckland licensed victuallers think the majority required to close hotels, should at least.be two-thirds.—Meetings of licensed victuallers and others interested in the , trade at Wellington and Christchurch passed resolutions condemnatory of the Licensing Bill now before the House.—A deputation from the Wellington meeting waited on the Premier on Tuesday and urged that the Bill should be delayed for a time. One member of the deputation, Mr Plimmer, said he had £20,000 invested in houses, and he might as well throw the money into the sea if the Bill passed. What they feared were of peoplo who had no interest in thematter at all, and of those who w<re preached to by people who knew nothing of what they were talking about. Mr Casterdyke, a wine and spirit merchant, said he would have to close his business if the Bill became law. Mr Kennedy suggested that instead of requiring at least one-half of the total number of votes on r the poll, three-fourths should be necessary for total prohibition. Ho also suggested two-thirds instead of a bare majority in the reduction of licenses, and two-thirds instead of three-fifths majority in favor of the proposal that no licenses be granted, and that sub-section 4 of the same clause (15) should be struck out. The Premier replied that the subject had been before the House all the session, and if the Bill were delayed a week it would be impossible to get through with the business. The present Bill was much mpfp- moderate than any yet introduced, The question must fle fftcpd, and the sopgqf the better. ” 4" representation had open made to him that single women now in the trade should not be deprived of their licenses, and he was inclined to say that the clause should only prohibit any licenses being given to single women in future. He had also received objections to the clause ordering the windows to be left unscreened at night. He topk a note of all the objecting aflvftncpfl, The best medicine known Is Sandbe & Sons' Eucalypti Extbact. Test its eminent powerful effects in coughs, colds, influenza; the relief is instantaneous. In serious cases, and accidents of all kinds, be they wounds, burns, scalding, braises, sprains, it is the safest remedy—no swelling —riip inflammation- hike surprising effectg produced in crpup, diphtheria, bronchitis, inflammation pf lungs, swelling &c., diarrhoea, dysentery, diseases pf the kidneys and prinary organs. In use at hospital and mpdjcgl cjinics all over the globe ; patron, ised by His Majesty the King or Italyj crowned with medals and diplomas at International Exhibition, Amsterdam. Trust in this approved article and reject all others. SYNOPSIS OF ADVERTISEMENTS. Caution—To any person damaging gate in boundary fence. Direct Veto Anniversary Celebration at Geraldine—Notice to Good Templars and members of League. G. McMillan —Has 20 acres potato land to let; invites tenders for purchase of large quantity of uprooted