LOCAL & GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2588, 30 November 1893, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL.

Firewood Sale.—A sale of firewood and household furniture will be held at Mrs Powell's yards, Temuka, at 2 o'clock to-day. Drapery Sale. —Messrs H. B. Webster & Co hold a sale of drapery and clothing at Geraldine, to-day, on account of Mr J. Robertson. Good Templar Social —A grand social under the auspices of the Temuka Good Templars will be held in Temuka Social Hall this evening. Fatal Train Accieent. —John Swaney, the Coromandel miner, who fell off th? Waikato train, died of his injuries on Tuesday at the Auckland hospital. Postponed.—The C.F.C. Association have postponed the sale of town property at Geraldine on account of Mrs Jones from to-morrow until Wednesday next. ! Serious Accident. —At Karori, Wellington, Ed war i Monaghan, a farmer, was thrown from his horse, and was so seriously in/ured that his life is despaired of, Salvation Army.—Captain and Mrs Lomas will farewell in the Temuka barracks j on Sunday evening, and a final farewell meeting will be held on Wednesday. j Farmers' Conference.—The Woodville Farmers' Club have resolved to invite a congress of rep r esentatives of different fanners' clubs in the colony, to consider matters affecting agricultural interests. Fire. —Atwelve-roomedhouseat Kaiapoi, owned and occupied by Mr Thos. Sutherland, was burned down early on morning. The damage is estimated at £975, and the insurances amount to £675. The Cycle Trade Sixty thousand bicycles and tricycles were sold in Puris in 1892. 130,000 machines are annually made in England. At Coventry alone 15,000 workmen are exclusively employed in their manufacture. Breach ov Promise. A breach of promise case, Gertrude Grace Winstone v. Sainsbury, in which £SOO damages was claimed, was heard at Christchurch on Monday. Plaintiff obtained a verdict for £SO and costs, as per scale. Sodden Deaths. Mrs Elizabeth Johnston, of Pukehoe, Auckland, dropped dead while walking, from heart disease. — Ex-Detective Shury fell dead from heart disease at Tuapeka Flat, Ofcaao, while returning from Mr Pyke's political meeting. Farmers' Co-operative Association. —A specal meeting of the shareholders in the Canterbury Farmer's Co-operative Association, to confirm the new articles passed at the annual general meeting, will be held in Timaru next Saturday morning. Soldiers' Graves.—Colonel Hume has inspected the Rangar;ri cemetery, Auckland. A decent monument is to be put up in memory of soldiers interred there who fell in the Waikato campaign. The sol Hers' graves in the district cemeteries are to be also looked after An Honest Man.—Twelve years ago a man in America, having no money, stole a ride on a cow-catcher of one of the Erie Railway Company's engines. He has now become a minuter, an \ although still " blessed with little money," sent the cost of his stolen ride, with interest, to the man-mer, with a request for forgiveness. A Parisian Widow's Love.—A widow in Paris fell in love with a neighbour. Her love wai not reciprocated, so she went outside the house were the inexorable man lived and poisoned herself with vitr ol Several love letters were in ber pocket, and her will, which she had thrown into his garden, with a case of notes tnd bonds, made him her sole heir. Maliciously Wounding. —Ac the Dunediu Police Court, on Monday, two young men named William Reid and John Dix, were charged with maliciously wounding Chnrlotte Cullou. The latter was found in her house in an unconscious condition on Sunday with wouurls about the head. As she was unable to appear a remand was granted. Hidden Money. The Nelson Mail reports that a couple of children while bird-nesting at Clinton made an unusual discovery last Saturday week. They found a roll of bank notes to the amount o': £IOO, in £]() and £5 notes, un.ler the bridge over the ICuriwao. The money, which was smeared over with mul and bundled up into a ball, was handed over to the constable at Clinton, who has not yet met anyone able to satisfactorily establish a claim to the property. Fatal Boat Accident.—Two members of the Torpedo Corps were drowned iu Lyttelton harbour on Tuesday afternoon. The launch had just left Ripa Island for Lyttelton, when Bbe gave a heavy lurch, and J. Mckenzie, who was in charge, and F. G. Hamilton, the engineer, were thrown overboard. Mckenzie sank immediately, aDd it is surmised that he was struck by the propellor, Gunner Blanchard epr.ng overboard, and supported Hamilton till assistance arrived, but life was then extinct. The Game of somewhat eccentric description of football was given by Frederick Gale, better known in the literature of sports as " The Old Buffer." The game, he said, 'appears to me very much like a mutton chop which A is about to devour with a keen appetite, * hich B snatches away from him, when A collars B, and B throws it to C, who is collared by D, and so on to E, till everyone ia collaring each other, and the mutton gets thrown out of the crowd, and a passing dog bolts with it and no one get 3 it at all.' 4 Brutal Husband. —In pronouncing a deof-fie nh'p at Sydney last week in the divorce case, iHIUj V- Bailey, which dismore than ua;ui|. brutality on the part of the" husband (the respondpnji), Mr Windeyer expressed his opinion pre4? fr<H.y about the conduct of the man, who had lwe« jn the habit of beating his wife and knockicg k<Z about in an inhum m manner. He used to toai£e ? her face with his fists until she was black and one day he hammered her on the hCP-d with an inkbottle. The judge said it was wonoerlul how women, when fchey bad been treated m the brutal way in which the respondent had treated the petitioner, wouU try to shield their husbands to the last. It was the nature of women and it was their glory. His experience in court had taught him that women woull often, after the most inhuman conduct towards them by men, ennes a tenderness of feeling that was "nally majrVeJioss. It was angelic. *n's correspondent of Ediso -hiuery " has'jrecejyed £be fol- " London Ma- naviculars from Mr lowing interpsting . - ->. m a <; WO j;k pn Thomas A. Edison '?—"jl -. • ■will bs an invention which I may now say a success, and which, while its commerci »1 value will be very limited, may recommend itself to my friends as something curious. It is not yet complete, but lam vain enough to believe it will surprise you. I hope to be able to com bine the phonograph and the camera, and not only reproduce the >-ound-i accompanying an event but the actions of those taking part as well. For instance, if Madame Adelina Patti should be singing, the invention will put her full length picture upon canvas, so that the expression of her face and the pose of her body can be seen while listening to the song she has sung. The eye will be please 1 as well as tbe ear. The invention has demonstrated its practicability at a prize fight. I reproduced the ring, the two principals, the crowd about them, the intensely interested expressions of all, the sound of Mowr, the cheers of encouragement, and the howls of disappointment. My idea is that a man sitting in his library at home may be able to see reproduced upon his wall the business of the stage as well as hen x the. liaea q£ the actor,

Fatal Accidknt.—James McLean, 18 years, was accidentally kided at Coultbard'a sawmill, at Hunua, Auckland. He was working a deal frame and was caught by one of the belts.

A Leprosy Case.—Consternation prevails at West MaitlandN.S. W. owingto a reported outbreak of leprosy. A girl, 1(5 years of ago,, daughter of Robert Robinson, has been unwell recently, and her complaint having further developed, several doctors diagnosed it as a case of leprosy. How the disease was contracted is unknown. Death From Starvation.—At Welling * ton, at the inquest on the infant Knuckey medical evidence showed that the child died practically from starvation, but whether from inability to assimilate food or from absence of food the doctors could not say. The jury returned a verdict that the child died from exhaustion, consequent on insufficient nourishment, but they made no imputation of neglect. A Woman as a Diver.—The first woman, so far as is known, to make a descent in a diviag dress among the pearl fisheries of the Indian Ocean is Miss Jessie Ackerman, the World's Women's Christian Temperance Uuion missionary. On her recent trip from Australia to Singapore, the vessel she was in stopped for two days among the pearling fleet, and here Miss Ackerman went down sixty feet in the ocean's depths and returned in safety. Obituary.—lt is with regret that we announce the death of another old colonist, Aun Grey Brown, who came to Port Lyttelton, Canterbury, in 1860, together with her husband and children. After residing a few years near Christchurch she came to Geraldine with her family. The journey was both tedious anl dangerous, being performed by bullock-drays, and, as it so happened, some of the rivers were very hign at the time, which caused some loss of personal effects. "Her husband, the Rev. L. L. Brown, was appointed curate in charge of Geraldine, where he resided from 1863 to 1879. The settlers at this time were few anl scattered but Mrs Brown was well-known and respected by all who came iu contact with her. After leaving Geraldine she resided some time at Waihi Bush, Washdyke, Timaru. Burke's Pass, Sumner, and HalsweJl, making many friends, for she had for all who needed assistance ready sympathy and comfort to bestow, and in many cuses more substantial relief for the distres&ed, She left New Zealand in 1889 with her husband and two children to visit the Old Country, where many of her relatives still survive her. She was the eldest daughter of Thomas Henry and Eleanor Faber, ( Stociton-on-Teea. Her great grandj father married Anne Traviss, who:e mother was granl daughter of Claude de Dibon, a French Protestant gentleman, whose estate lay in the Isle of France. He was exiled at the revocation of the EJict of Nantes and his property confiscated. The j identical French Bible he brought with ! him is still in the family. Her uncle was i the Father Faber of the Oratory, ! Bromptom, author of several prose ! and poetical works, chiefly theoI logical. Alter remaining in England a j few months she contracted a disease from j which she never recovered, but gradually I grew worse, and, feariag the end, dei termined to return to New Zealand in order Ito see her children again. She laaded back I again in New Zealand in November 1892, j and with her husband and ou« daughter j resiled at their place at Halswell until the ; t.me of her death, which took place about i 5 a,m., 22nd November, 18'J3, in the 66th : year of her age. She had before she died ; th« gratification of seeing all ber children. | She leaves her husband, two daughters, four : sons, and several grand-children to mourn j her loss. H«r body was conveyed to St. i Anne's churchyard, Pleasant Yalley, and | was borne to the grave by her four sons, ; who gently laid her in her last resting 1 place. Most of her old friends she had | intimately known in the district crowded j round the grave for one last look at the ! coffin, which was plain and unadorned by i flowers by her special request; ber habits I in life were simple, and in death no ! pompous show was desired. j Visitor at seaside—" And what sort of ! people do you get djwn here ?" Old I Salt—" Oh, all sorts—ioine of 'em very | stylish folk, and some not very much i better than yourself."

SYNOPSIS OP ADVERTISEMENTS. Salvation Army, Temuka Farewe 1 ! meetings. A. M. Clark, River.-Jea—Lost calves. Pareorti Election—Official declaration of poll to-day. 11. B. Webster & Co—Sale of drapery, etc., at Geraldine to-day. E. C. Dann —Notice re specialities on sale; splendid display of Christinas cards. T & J. Thomson, Timaru—Particulars of new goods opened yesterday, ex Coptic.