LOCAL & GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2674, 19 June 1894, Page 1

LOCAL & GENERAL.

Gbralding Stock Salk. The fortnightly sale of stock at Geraldine takes place to-morrow. A number of entries are advertised in another column. Hellers’ Bonanza Coterie. Next Friday evening this clever little company pay a return and final visit to Temuka. So short a time has elapsed since the company was here before that the entertainment given by it must be fresh in the minds of our readers, and we need only draw attention to it. On this occasion persons are requested to writeathome the questions they intend to put to Madame Heller. Popular prices are advertised. Concert at the Cave. —The annual concert in aid of the school funds came off at the Cave schoolhouse on Friday last. Mr Bain was in the chair, and congratulated the committee upon the splendid attendance. the room and porch being crowded. A long and varied, programme was gone through, and, as encores were numerous, the efforts of tho performers seemed to bo appreciated. Songs were contributed by Misses Irvine, Jones, and Evans, and Messrs Strack. Burn, Buckeridge, McCool, and Goodall, while Mr Smith gave a very enjoyable recitation. Misses Evans, Sutherland, and Stevenson played tho accompaniments for the vafious singers. The usual dance followed the concert, and despite the crush, was entered into with great spirit. Mr Cooper provided excellent music, and Mr Kent performed the duties of M.C. in his well-known style.

Suicide. A man named Hendeiso 11 committed suicide at Gatlin’s, near th e Co-operative works.

Found Dead. —An old man named Robert Fisher was found dead in a hut near Mosgiel. The body presented the appearance of having been dead some days. There are no suspicious circumstances. Obituary.—A Dunedin telegram says.Thomas King Weldon, formerly Inspector of Police and lately Inspector of Factories, is dead. He served in Victoria in the early days, and was present at the Ballarat riots. The Jessie Headman.—The purchasers of the wrecked ship Jessie Headman at the Chatham Islands do not intend to make any effort to float her. She will be dismantled, and the gear brought to Wellington for sale.

A Rehearing Refused.—Mr Ctrew, S.M., refused the rehearing of a case in which a man named Louis Spedding was charged with taking a £1 note from a girl on the plea that he would change it for her, although fresh evidence had been obtained. Temuka Caledonian Society, Next Thursday evening the members of the Temuka Caledonian Society hold a social in the Volunteer Hall, and the directors are exerting themselves to make it as enjoyable as possible. If the weather is fine there will no doubt be a large attendance.

Uncustomed Goods.—Nine members of the crew of the Tainui were fined in sums varying from £5 6s 3d to 17s 6d, and costs, £1 13s in each case, being mitigated penalties, with forfeiture of goods, for having in their possession, on board the ship at Lyttelton, cigars and tobacco valued in all at £137, on which duty had not been paid.

Agricultural Conference. A conference of delegates from the Agricultural Associations in Auckland Provincial District was held on Friday. A large amount of business was done, and several important resolutions affecting the agricultural interest were carried, concerning stock, noxious weeds, acclimatisation, sheep-stealiug, etc. Sale near Temuka.—To-day Messrs Guinness & LeCren will hold an important clearing sale on account of Mr £. Lee, on his farm, near Temuka. Milch cows, store cattle, horses, pigs, fat sheep, farm implements, oats, wheat, and potatoes, etc., are among the lines to be offered. Five acres of land, with complete bacon-curing house, etc., will also be sold. The sale starts at 12 o’clock.

Funeral Reform. —Archdeacon Towgood of Marton, writes a long letter to the Wanganui Chronicle in favour of funeral reform. He suggests the doing away with hat bands, the wearing of ordinary attire, instead of something mournful, and the substitution of inexpensive an) plain methods for the present expensive arrangements. The expense of funerals is a serious waste, and the “ cortege ” fashion both wasteful and ridiculous.

The Weather. —The long spell of fine weather broke about midnight on Friday. On Saturday and Sunday the rain fell at intervals, and on Monday it looked like clearing, but showers fell off and on all day. The hills are covered with a thick coating of snow, right down to within a few miles of the Point. The Kakahu, Totara, and Levels Downs are whitened over. The rivers have not risen to any great extent, on account of the snow falling in the back country. It should have the effect of bringing down hares, etc., from the bills. Fatal Accidents, — N. C. Jansen, a settler at Norsewood, while working on a ballast train, was caught underneath the cowcatcher of the engine. He received fearful injuries, causing his death shortly afterwards. —Two men named Cox were bnried by a slip in a gravel pit at Martinborough, Lower Wairarapa. One of them was got out much bruised, but the other, David William Cox, aged 21 years, was quite dead, his legs and body being crushed. James Scott, a miner, who had been working in the Waipori Deep Lead Mine, Otago, was killed by a fall of earth. Export oe 1 Sheep. The contribution of Wellington district to the stud sheep sales in Sydney were taken over by the Talune on Sunday. They number over 1000. Of these between 800 and 900 were sent under the auspices of the New Zealand Land Association. These are from the stations of the well-known breeders Messrs E. J. Riddiford, A. McKenzie, G. Wheeler, W. McKenzie, Donald Grant, and several others. The Land Company’s portion consists chiefiy of Lincoln and Romney Marsh rams, with a sprinkling of ewes. Messrs Laery & Co. send, 183 Romney Marsh ewes from Mr Burrows’ station in the Wairarapa. The Plague in China.—A telegram received by the Victorian health officers from Sydney states that the disease is the Bubonic or Oriental plague. This is the plague which prevailed so extensively in Europe in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Dr Cresswell states it has for some time been supposed by epidemiologists that there was a likelihood of this affection spreading extensively. It has prevailed in the south-east of China for the past 20 years or more, but has not appeared in Europe for the past 40 years, though there has been some prevalence of it at Baku on the Caspian Sea. It is a disease which differs widely in its effects, and it may have a fatality as much as 55 per cent. It occurs chiefly under conditions of overcrowding and uncleanliness, and among communities where the soil is allowed to become saturated with the organic waste from man and animal sand from the kitchen.

Work for the Session.— Says the Wellington correspondent of the Otago Daily Times :—“ Ministers are understood to have made good progress with policy work during the past week, and there is already enough o f Government business ready for the Order 'Paper feo occupy the first six weeks of the session. The fihhds fqr Settlement Bill has been finally revised, and the Native Lands Bill is well advanced. The last measure will aim at a comprehensive consolidation of existing Acts, and Its most important new departure will be the adoption of the same principles for resumption and settlement as are embodied in the Lands for Settlement Bill which I indicated last week. Drastic provisions will be introduced to prevent any traffic in Native lauds, the titles to whioh have not been individualised and absolutely ascertained without the sanction of Government. The Budget is prepared, and y/iH be brought down very early in the session. The Treasurer seems gratified with his work, and satisfied that it will prove very acceptable to the House and the country, but as to its cqn- . tents he is a perfect sphinx. It is to be an absolutely ssaled book until it is brought down to the House.”

Native Land Court. —At the Validation Opurt at Giiborne the decree for presentation to Parliament in the Paremata case was finally aprgnged with the exception of the appointment of receivers, which will bo settled in a few days. Judge Barton congratulated the bar, the natives, and the people of the district on the termination at. As soon as the decree was arranged the receivers would proceed to deal with the estate and make it of value to bring in money. The mortgage had years to run, and with skilful management tho natives would be able in that time to pay off the debt. Mr Carroll and Mr Wi Pure, who were to be the receivers for the Maoris, had appeared as if they were the owners in trust, but in reality they had been helpless to do anything. Now they were independent of everybody but the Court, and those two with another to bo appointed would manage the whole property through the Court. Their first duty was to pay off the mortgage. All inchaoto and incomplete transactions would probably be dealt with in a similar manner. This ease, the Judge said, showed the necessity for a Court, and that it should have proper officers, not lilio the court for a morning drunk, for that was the way the Qovernment wanted it carried on. He was hopeless of convincing the Government, but hoped tihat tho country would sec it.

Gorsb on Roads. —The Geraldine Road Board have determined to have the roads in the district cleared of gorse and broom, etc. After the 15th July legal proceedings will be taken against all owners and occupiers of land who have not complied with the law in this respect. Unpaid Rates.— The Geraldine County Council notify that unpaid rates will be sued for after the 20th June. Winchester. —A social in aid of the fund for the erection of a dressing shed on the football ground of the Waihi Club will be held in the Winchester Public Hall this evening. Clearing Sale at Belpield.— Next Thursday Messrs Glasson & Go. hold a clearing sale on account of Mr Hansen at Belfield. The sale will include 14| acres of rich land, house and sheds, etc. Illicit Still. —Four brothers, John, Hugh, Allan, and Charles Cameron, were charged at the Wellington Magistrate’s Court with keeping an illicit still in Gallau’s Valley, and were remanded till the Idth inst.

Gipsy Camp. —Next Friday evening the residents m and near Woodbury are promised an entertainment of a unique kind. On that evening a company of gipsies make merry round their camp fire from 8 until 10, after which they will dance till midnight. The “ merry life the gipsies lead ” is proverbial, and no doubt the school will be crowded by persons anxious to see them “ at home,” and desirous of making merry with them. A very small admission fee is to be charged.

Oamaru. —The Hon. J, G. Ward was waited while in Oamaru by a deputation from the harbor board, who discussed with him the present position of the board, and desired to know if any assistance could be obtained from the Government. The hon. gentleman thought the best way to assist the board would be by a reversal of the railway policy which had destroyed the trade of the port, with a view of restoring the trade and bringing back the revenue the board had lost. He said he held very decided opinions upon the subject of the policy pursued by the Railway Commissioners, and his opinions were well known to the Government. It was a monstrous thing that the State railways should be used to ruin communities or a harbor, as had been done here. It had never been contemplated that the railways should be so used as to rain communities which, under the sanction of Parliament, had incurred heavy responsibilities in order to provide shipping facilities. He had never scrupled to express his decided opinion, either on the floor of the House or elsewhere, that such a policy was utterly bad. Football. —At a meeting of the New Zealand Rugby Union Management Gom-

mit tee at Wellington charges made against a Wellington representative team by the Nelson Union was considered, and it was decided that there had been unnecessary rough play, and that much of the ill-feeling had been caused by a similarity of uniforms; also that the captain of the Wellington team failed to control his men. It was resolved that the Nelson Union was to blame for not providing an efficient referee, and that McKenzie, who was captain of the Wellington team, be not again allowed to act as a captain of a representative team during the pleasure of the New Zealand Union. The Wanganui, Wellington, Marlborough and Poverty Bay Unions wrote making liberal offers of assistance towards the South Canterbury tour.—The Point second and Colonial first met at the Point on Thursday last, and a closely-contested game ended in a win for the Colonials by a try to nil. The Point had the heavier team, but several of their men seemed to know practically nothing of the game. Mr Penrose (Timaru) was referee. —On Saturday the Timaru High School boys met the Point second on the Point ground, and were beaten by a goal to a try. The school made up for want of weight by superior knowledge of the science of football, and had the better of the game till nearly call of time, when the Point scored, and Driscoll kicked a goal, and won the game. Mr Truman, of Timaru, was

referee., —The following- will play for the Tenmka Rifle Volunteers in their match against the Tetnuha Football Club on Thursday, 21st inat.: W, Russell, H. Wakely, J. Anderson, A. Shallard, J. Shallard, K. Franks, P. Franks, A. S. Jenkins, T. Sheen, W. Collins, G-. Collins, T. Spillane, J. Watt, D. Carr, J. Rutland. The Collard & Collard pianos hold their supreme position as the leading piano of the world by a twofold title —(1) Through their unrivalled merits ; (2) by the verdict of public opinion, this maker having by far the largest sale of any piano in the world. —Begg k Co., Theatre Buildings, Timaru. —[Advt.] ' SYNOPSIS OP ADVERTISEMENTS. Geraldine County Council Notice re unpaid rates.

Heller’s Bonanza Coterie —At Temuka on Friday evening. J. O. Lane —Is a cash buyer of seconds and fowls’ wheat, potatoes, etc. The Gipsies—Entertainment in Woodbury schoolroom on Friday evening. G.R.Y.— Notice to late members of G.R.V. Corps: all Government property to be banded in at once. New Zealand Loan & Mercantile Agency Company, Limited Has re-commenced business in all its branches. Guinness & LeOren —Important clearing sale of live and dead farm stock, together with 5 acres with bacon-curing house, etc., at the farm of Mr E. Lee, near Temuka, today.