LOCAL & GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2687, 19 July 1894, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL.

Embezzlement. The Dunedin police have arrested Arthur P. Brewer, a young man wanted for a Sydney embezzlement. The Eltham Smallpox Scars.—lt is reported that the case of smallpox at Eltham turns out to be a severe form of la grippe. Fire Brigade Demonstration.— The Christchurch Fire Brigade have resolved to ask the Association to hold the next demonstration there. Single Tax. —At the instance of Mr O’Regan. M.H.R., a Single Tax Society has been formed at Wellington, beginning with a membership of about 26. Fire.— The dwelling and furniture of Mr William Jenkins, have been destroyed by fire. The loss is £4OO, partially insured in the Liverpool and London and New Zealand. A Fraudulent Beggar.—At the Dunedin Magistrate’s Court, Grieve, a tram conductor, was sentenced to 24 hoars’ imprisonment for obtaining moneys fraudulently from the Benevolent Trustees. It transpired that he had made restitution, which together with costs comes to £52. Wreckage. —An oar marked "Paku,” hatches of a cutter, and a bit of a boat were found near Mauukau Heads. A cutter’s dingy was picked up near the Ten Mile Gap, Waihihi. Little doubt is now felt about the cutter Paku being wrecked, as she is now 16 days out from New Plymouth to Manukau, in ballast. Mental Arithmetic. Mr George Steven, head master of the Winchester school has received' the following letter from the Education ’ Department, Wellington : —" Dear Sir,—ln.Standard IV. mental arithmetic is put in as a pass subject by a misprint, which is corrected in a new edition. There are' no percentages now, and the reason for ‘ exceptions ’ is therefore no longer of any force. Yours faithfully, W. J. Habbns.” Rowdy Sailors. —A number of firemen of the Mamari were before the court at Wellington on Tuesday for rowdyism. They were trying to take liquor on board the vessel when the officers prevented them and the men showed fight. The police were called in, and a regular scrimmage took place. Five constables at length overcame the resistance. Three of the offenders got six weeks, another was discharged, and a wharf labourer received 24 hours for encouraging them. Dunedin’s Indebtedness.— The scheme for the lelief of the city finance by the Mayor contemplates the conversion of loans to the amount of £178,000, having a currency of 4 to 12 years, and bearing 6 and 7 per cent, interest. Mr Fish will suggest issuing debentures with a currency of 30 years at 4J per cent, without sinking funds. This would mean an annual saving of £4897 in interest and sinking fund. The cost of conversion is estimated at £24,600, but on the other hand sinking fund woul bereleased to the amount of £59,000, so that the Council would have £34,000 to go on with works. Funeral. —The Christchurch Press says: —“ On Monday there was a large funeral to follow the remains of the late Mr Wm. Christmas, of Inglewood Flour Mills, from Ohoka to the Eyreton Cemetery. Included in the procession were about sixty vehicles and eighteen persons on horseback. The services at the church and grave were read by the Revs. Cruden, and In wood. The deceased gentlemen was respected by all who knew him at Winchester and also at Ohoka. He was noted for his business habits and probity, and owing to his rather sudden death from influenza, great sympathy is felt for his widow and family.” The late Mr Christmas formerly resided at Milford, and was a brother of Mr James Christmas, who still lives there. The Invercargill Licensing Case.— At the Police Court, before two Justices, the Rev. W. Woollass was charged with peijury in swearing that the insulting remarks for which Mr Wade, solicitor, was fined were made before the business of the Licensing Committee was concluded. The evidence given showed that Mr Woollass was wrong in his evidence that other business was transacted after Mr Wade’s remarks. Mr Shaw, one of the Justices who fined Mr Wade, stated the Bench were not influenced by Mr Woollass’s evidence, as counsel for the chairman of the committee stated at the bearing of the charge against Mr Wade that Mr Woollass had evidently been mistaken, in the face of the testimony given by the shorthand reporter, and withdrew his (Mr Woollass’s) evidence. Without calling for the defence the Bench said that they believed Mr Woollass thought he was speaking the truth, but he was mistaken. They dismissed the case. Robberies. —At Waimate on Sunday night Mrs Kett’s Hotel was entered and the cashbox containing £3O in notes and cheques was stolen. A number of other burglaries have taken place in Waimate of late, but nothing of value was taken.—A robbery is reported from Coady’s Aramoho Hotel, Wanganui. The sum taken was £6O, mostly in silver, gold, and notes. The money was placed in the cash box in the bedroom, both being locked, so that skeleton keys must have been used. —Maurice Savage was committed for trial at Christchurch on a charge of breaking and entering the Scotch Stores Hotel, and stealing a number of flasks of spirits.—At Rangiora Albert Otton was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment for breaking and entering the Gust railway station; six months for stealing from a dwelling at Rangiora; three months for false representation, and was committed for trial on a charge of fraudulently obtaining the possession of a letter from the post office. Divorce.— ln the Divorce Court. (Jurist church, the case EUmers v. EUmers, an application by the wife for a judicial separation on the ground of adultery, came up for hearing. The respondent is a farmer at Taitapu. He admitted the adultery, but pleaded that by a deed of separation concluded in 1886 the petitioner in consideration of the sum of £3OO compromised the proceecings then instituted for a judicial separation, and further agreed that resnondent might commit adultery with - ha pleased. It was submitted on u v, 0I M! Xf riio o he was not STSSS:- Of the provision bn which the respondent relied. After argument HU Honor said he was inclined to think that a contract conniving at adultery might be void,JHfi Pb»t if it were, the deed would probably not pe a bar to action. He thought, however, that under the it would not be for him to give a decision on the matter now. The question of the conduct of the parties was so mixed up with those contained in the deed that it would be best for him to adjourn the whole matter for hearing, s ■ ~ „ m Football. —4t a meeting of the New South Wales Rugby Union, a letter was received from the Otago Rugby Union asking for a match with the New South Wales team. It was decided to send a reply that all arrangements must be made through the New Zealand Union. A letter was also received from the New Zealand Union that it was not intended to send a team to New South Wales before 1896. Consideration of the latter question was held over for a week for further negotiation the meeting being generally of opinion that the New South Wales team was visiting New Zealand on condition that a return visit be made next year.—The trial match, Fifteen v. Twenty, to enable the selection committee to finally choose the team to go round the North Island, will be playedto-day at Timaru commencingat3.!)<) p.m. The teams are:—Fifteen; Simpson, Alf. Boys, Johnston, Shallard, Artie Boys, Healean, Stewart, Mclntosh, Hart. Hall, Thompson, Shallard, Ker, Gardner, Quinn ; Twenty : Russell, Shrimptou, Young, Tooher, Morton, Murdoch, Hobbs, Collins, Poison, Finlay, Rutherford, Moore, Bourn, McCullough, Henderson, Armitage, Orr, Chisholm, Opie. Fox, Goldstoue. To possess a “ Collard ” pianoforte is the aim of all lovers of refined musical tone.— [Advt.)

Social at Winchester. —A social will be held in the Winchester Public Hall tomorrow evening. An enjoyable programme has been arranged. Hares. One thousand hares were recently killed within a radius of four miles in the Alford Forest district. this hares are not so scarce as some people allege. Attempted Suicide.—Alfred Marshall, a young man living in South Dunedin, attempted suicide on Tuesday morning by taking a quantity of arsenic. He is now out ot danger. Temuka Caledonian Society. The last ingleside of the season in connection with the Temuka Caledonian Society will be held in the Temuka Volunteer Hall to-night. Coffee Supper and Entertainment, —To-night a coffee supper and entertainment will be held in the Primitive Methodist Church, Geraldine, commencing at half-past 7 o’clock. A good piogramme has been arranged. Masonic Ball and Social. —The annual ball and social under the auspices of the Geraldine Lodge, No. 27, will be held on Thursday, July 26th, at the Masonic Hall. Tickets for same can be had from members of the Lodge. Silos.— At Alford Forest, according to the correspondent of the Ashburton Guardian, silos are giving great satisfaction, stock fed with it looking really well. Mr Neil Ohlseu says he has green oats in one, and clover in another, and cannot yet tell which is best for sheep and cattle, as all are looking grand. A Telltale Stamp.— At Invercargill on Tuesday, the advertisement on postage stamps was again in evidence. A receipt, purporting to have been given for a transaction in 1890, was put in the S.M. Conrt; it bore a stamp with an advertisement on its back. As such stamps have been only about fifteen months in use, the receipt was impounded by the Court, and more will probably be heard of it. Challenge Football Match.— The Temuka Rifles have decided to challenge the Temuka Football Club to play a game of football on the 2nd of next month. The team will be picked from the following:—E. Carr, A, Shallard, F. Shallard, W. Russell, W. Coliins, H. Wakely, T. Spillane, T. Sheen, G. Collins, J. Austin, E. Franks, P. Franks, J. Rutland, F. Storey, H. F. Harte, J. Anderson, Webster, and A. Clinch. St. Saviour’s, Temuka.— An entertainment in connection with St. Saviour’s Church was held in the schoolroom yesterday evening, there being only a moderate attendance. Instrumental selections were given hy the Pearse family, and songs by Messrs MoGaskill and Lowe, Miss E. Pilbrow. Mesdames Harrison and Opie, and Mr Rutland. Miss Alice Comer contributed a recitation, and Master and Miss Mcßratney a dialogue. After the musical programme had been completed to everyone’s satisfaction, refreshments, provided by the ladies of the congregation, were dispensed, and those present engaged in ordinary parlor games, a very pleasant evening being spent. The Napier Harbour Works,—Sensational reports having appeared about the damage to the Napier breakwater in the last two great storms, the Napier Board had an examination made of the whole structure, block by block, by two divers. The result was embodied in a report by Mr Carr, C.E. to the board, on Tuesday. The work beneath the water line is practically undamaged, only one block being shifted. Above the water line the damage was rather extensive, and to put the work in the same condition as before would cost £3700. Mr Carr ascribed the damage partly to a slight settlement of the rabble foundation, but chiefly to the air being compressed under the monoliths by the action of the waves. He recommended that a modified method of constructon be adopted to avoid imprisoning any air, and that the exposed part of the breakwater be very materially strengthened at a cost of £12,600. He also advised that his plans should be submitted to an outside expert who should report on the whole work for the satisfaction of the ratepayers. The board agreed to consider the report at a •special meeting on Monday, but practically endorsed the recommendation to call in an outside engineer, leaving the selection of a man until Monday. Fatalities, etc. —At the inquest at Auckland on the body of Patrick Brougham, found dead in bed, a verdict was returned of “died of inflammation of the lungs, aggravated by intemperate habits.”—Mr D. P. Balfour, of Puketapu, Hawke’s Bay, was missed from home on Friday, and discovered on the following day drowned. Deceased, who had been suffering several days from influenza, had arranged to inspect a drain, and when found was lying dead in one foot of water. Near deceased was the body of a drowned sheep, and marks upon the banks of the ditch seemed to show the deceased had fallen in whilst endeavoring to assist the sheep out, and being weak from illness could not recover himself.—Three deaths were reported at Wanganui on Sunday, two of them settlers of 40 years in the colony—Daniel Wilkie of Waitotara, and John Malone of Wanganui. The other was Mrs Hugh Ramson, aged 82. Mr Healey, late manager of the Pier Hotel, Wellington, who was seized by a fit at the funeral of his late employer, died in the hospital on Sunday.—Mr Charles Brennan, cabinet-maker, died very suddenly at his residence, Mocnington, Dunedin, on Sunday. He was 75 years of age. He is supposed to have fallen forward while sitting in a chair with a rug over him. Pocket touched 1 temper gone ! How’s that? Why I’ve allowed a cheap - and - nasty piano (?) to be palmed off on me at a fancy price; when for less money I could have purchased a splendid “ Collard Sc Collard ” piano from Begg & Co., music sellers, next Theatre, Timaru, and their name is a sufficient guarantee of straight dealing and sterling value. —[Advt.] SYNOPSIS OF ADVERTISEMENTS. H. Robinson —Funeral notice re late Mr Wyatt. Temuka Caledonian Society—lngleside to-night. Geraldine Lodge No. 27—Annual Masonic ball and social. N.Z. Workers’ Union—Meeting at Geraldine on Saturday evening. J. Brown—Yates & Co.’s new season’s rouble garden seeds just to hand. Association —Entries for sale at Tatters!! I .!*', Timarq, qn Saturday. Primitive Methodist Church Coffee supper and entertainment at Geraldine to-night. Temuka Road Board —Caution to persons against ploughing up any of the roads in the district. P. W. Hatton & Co.—Agents for Dresden pianos; testimonial re same; terms for time payments.