Local and General.

Clutha Leader, Volume XX, Issue 1026, 23 March 1894, Page 6

Local and General.

The ' New Australia '• settlement in Paraguay does not want liquor men ; none can join it but pledged total abstainers, in this respect labor is rapidly falling into line all over the world.

At the Supreme Court, Sydney, on Friday, Key, late secretary, to the Hunter River Building Society, was sentenced to two years' imprisonment for misappropiatiou of the funds of the institution.

As threshing proceeds the deplorable consequences of the unseasonable weather through the critical periods of the growth of the grain plants become more and more manifest. We learn that all over the low country the yields are extremely disappointing. Heavy crops which looked like giving 20bush. and 50bush. have yeield 15bush. and 16bush. One of the best yields of the season is 20 bushels. We hear of one person who has a rent of 15s an acre to pay out of 16 bushels of oats, that looked like being a profitable one. Timaru Herald.

A man named Considinr, who was alleged to have been creating a disturbance at Broken Hill on Monday assulted with a crowbar two policemen who interfered, One was badly injured and then the constables fired upon Considine and shot him dead, The constables have been arrested on a charge of manslaughter, yjt has recently been asserted that certain bakers in Christchurch were charging 6d cash and 7d booked for the bread — large loaf. In order to get at the truth or otherwise of the statements we, this morning, interviewed a well-known baker in Colombo strept. He flatly contradicted the story and assured us that at the present moment Christchurch bakers were only getting 4d cash and 5d booked for large bread, and 2d to 2|d for small. Our informant stated that if it were possible to charge 6d and 7d, any baker could make a fortune in a very short time considering the average price of flour per ton. Besides, he added, the public would never put up with men who charged them Id and 2d oyor the quotations of retailers like himself. — Truth.

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