District and General.

Bush Advocate, Volume VII, Issue 476, 2 June 1891, Page 2

District and General.

Mr Wells went to Woodville this morning.to meet the hounds, which arrive ;by the express. . Therask will be walked up to Danevirke this afternoon. Messrs.; Wright and Hickey hare secured the two bushfelling contracts advertised by Mr W. Bogle. , A tender for the fencing has. not yet been accepted. - " Tlie McKonzie Atrocities" is the heading of an article in the Evening * Press dealing with the Minister for Lands and the In vercargill affair. . A Hunt Club Ball is on the tapis. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. A meeting will be held at Waipawa this evening to consider the advisablQness of forming a hunt club. ■ - . The United Hunt are getting up a sporting carnival in Newtown Park. One of the attractions announced is that a Bangitikei horse will be made to jump over a horse and cartV '] On Saturday Cecil Popplewell, one of the sons of the Headmaster at the Danevirke School, sustained a cut on the head throu»lr getting in the way of an axe that his' elder brother 'was using upon some wood. t Dr Wilkinson sewed up the woundj which we are glad to learn is not serious.. Mr A. 3£cHardy has sold the whole of his fat wethers, to Messrs Nelson Bros, at 18s per head. ; 7Mr Walsh,. ,the Postmaster at Woodville, is removing to the Bay pf Islands. - A slip occurred in the Gorge yesterday, and the trains were unable to get through.^ ; ; The prohibitionists have gained! a victory at Masterton,. and it is expected that most of. the hotels will be closed. The Hon. J. Forrest, Premier of Western Australia, has been, created a K.C.M.G-. Captain Kane, of Calliope fame, has been made a Companion of the Bath. A very sudden death is reported from Christchurch. A young woman - ' named Jane Alice Pearson Parry, aged 23, came home as usual on Sunday evening, complained of illness, ancl died before a doctor could be obtained. Of foxhound packs there are no less than 154 in England and Wales, containing 6501 couples of hounds ; in Scotland, 9 packs, with 32G couples, and in Ireland, 16 packs, with 559 couples. #> Still they go. The Jubilee took 150 passengers from Wellington on' Saturday. It will bo seen by advertisement that Prof. Carl and Madam Hartz will appear at the Town Hall on Friday night next, in their original ' entertainment entitled Wonderland. The Press speak very highly of them wherever they have been showing. There will be a distribution of presents at the concluaion of the entertainment. A shocking tragedy occurred near Richmond, Launceston, Tasmania, on May 21. Mr and Mrs Ogil.vy left home together in the morning, the former for Richmond, and the latter to gather mushrooms. On Mr Ogilvy's return in the evening he found his wife still absent. Search parties were organised, and the body of Mrs Ogilvy was found on Friday morning with the top of her head blown away by a gunshot. The affair is a complete mystery. A writer in the Dunedin Star says : I have good authority for saying that no legislation will be introduced by the Government daring the coining session having for its object an amendmcut of the Gaming and Lotteries Act. At least on« member of the Ministry is strongly in favor of '< legalising consultations, but in consequence of the large amount of ' work in hand no aotion will bs takep J ! at present«

ft. Sullivan, the New 7 Zealari sculler, beat Bubear at Sydney oh Saturday. The race was the fastest en record. According to the last issue of the New Zealand Trade Review^ frozen beef and mutton equal to about 284,000 carcasses of mutton were snipped from New Zealand during the four weeks ending April 23rd. If anything /like tbisAawage is maintained, " tke£-.export|J£f Ifrozen meat from New Zealand tbisyear, will approaclv and .-may->exceed^J^?op*PoO carcasses. "*"" A-lad : riamed Thonias M?wi aged thirteen years, met with a peculiar accident at „Obeme, near Wagga Wagga(NewSbuth Wales). He was playing with an iron fainrod ofan Enfield rifle by throwing it up in the air and catching ii? 7i He.f ailed to catch on one occasion, and it fell perpendicularly, strikiuglum ou the back of the head, the thin 'end of the rod penetrating the skull to a depth of several inches. The lad was taken to the hospital, where the operation of trephining ,was successfully performed.- He is- in.A.lcHticaX state, but hopes are entertained of his recovery. „ .. Who can it be? Writing of dummyism reminds the Rangitiksi Advocate of a story told some time ago by a member of a land board. On a certain night in- the Ifouse of . Representatives .at Wellington , a njember for a southern constituency, made a slashing attack on dummyism? .and poured, out the vials ot his '< scorn sand indignation upon persons who could be so; corrupt as. to lend .themselves to such practices. Two 'br^three days after this pure patriot was bowled out at a land board , -meeting • , endeavouring to dummy for someone else for several thousand acres. An Invercargiil resident received a telegram the other day from Dunectiri, r as followsi:'^ At two turn" the butter. Letter to-morrow," which being interpreted,, meant that a relative, who was' very ill, had at two o'clock taken a turn for the better. 'While dossing- "Rattlesnake Trestle," near Lakeland, Florida, recently, two large, bears were overtaken by a traiil. The bridge was too high to jump from, and, finding escape impossible, the bears turned,, stood upright, and faced the train with forepaws up in prize-fighting style. The engine dashed one of them off the trestle, but the other was thrown up into theatr by {the cow-catcher, and in his fall clutched the brass rods in front of the locomotive. Desperate with pain, he growled savagely, and scrambled along towards the " cab," where, the stoker's face was visible. The stoker had just ' bien raking the fire, and made a lunge at his forecious- 'assailant with the great red-hot poker. With a terrific howl' the poor., beast tried ,t£> spring upon the stoker^ but losrhis^footing, and fell almost under the wheels. He lost part, of a . hind Itg, but in spite of all his wounds he picked himself up after rolling down the em-, bankraent (by this time the train was off the trestle) and bounded off into the, wopds. The bloodstained engine was visited by appreciative crowds as soon as it reached the next town.