LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume 26, Issue 1328, 6 June 1895, Page 3

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Iv another column Mr D. Kerr inviUs tenders for poisoning runs 219 c and 306, part of Ewehurn Station. A mbbtino of the members of the Naseby Pastoral Compauy will take place in the Victoria Hall, on Tuesday evening, IBth June. Mr Kexle, the local postmaster, is at present away on a month's holiday, his place being filled in the meantime by Mr White, of the Dunedin officeNo better instance of the evil days on which bank officials have fallen in Australia could be given than a statement in the "Argus," that out of hundreds of applications for the position, of debt collectors at £1 10s a week the four finally selected had all beeu bank managers. Underground London contains 2000 miles of sewers. 34,000 miles ot telegraph wires, 4500 miles of water mains, 3200 miles of gaspipes, all definitely fixed. Yet not even these compare with the vast cellarage area beneath the feet of the pedestrian. In Oxford and Regent-streets alone the capacity is said to exceed 140 acres.

The fortuightly meeting of the Mount Ida Social and Debating Club will take place in the Council Chambers, 011 Tuesday next, at 7.30 p.m. The subject ot the evening will be an essay on " Prospecting," by Mr Angus M'Neill. Messrs Leonard and Reed have been appointed to criticise the paper. J>uring the evening musical selections will also be given. A gentleman from the district who is at present in Dunedin telegraphs that the Otago A. and P. Society's Winter Show is an immense success. Maniototo again upheld its reputation, prizes being awarded to ex hibiters from this district as follows :—Mrs Campbell first for farmers' dressed ryegrass, Mr Harris first for machine dressed ryegrass, and Mr Pearson second, aud Mr Logan second for Aberdeen turnips. The first lecture under the auspices of the local branch of St. John's Ambulance Association was given in the schoolhonse on Tuesday evening by l)r Church. There was a large attendance, nearly the whole of the members being present, and great attention was paid to the lecture throughout. The doctor, in a very clearand lucid manner, gave a full description of the human frame, explaining in. a way that all were able to understand the functions of each part of the body. All present enjoyed the lecture immensely, and it is safe to say that they all left the knowing more about their own composition than ihey ever did before. At the annual meeting of the City Licens' ing Committee on Monday all the publicans' license", with one exception, were renewed for another 12 months, the exception being in the case of Mrs Braun, to whose application in respect of the Groat Northern Hotel objection was taken by the committee on the grouud that she hud been during the past year convicted of selling liquor without a license at the racecourse. That case wus adjourned till :he 11th inst. to enable the objection to be met. The applications of the licensees for an extension of hours until 11 p.m were refused, aud Mr Wardrop, on behalf of the committee, intimated that the policy ot refusing conditional licenses would be adhered to.—Daily Times.

Thb adjo irned inquest into the cause of the death of Eva Hornsby, aged about five weeks, was resumed at Invercargill on Tuesday. After lengthy eviden. e had been takea, the case was adjourned till the follow ing day, vhen the jury returned the following verdict:—" The jury are of opinion that the child Eva Hornsby wis wilfully murdered in the colony of New Zealand on or about the 3rd of May, 1895." The adjourned inquest on the body of Dorothy Edith Carter was then resumed, the jury finding at follows : That Dorothy Edith CarfipE met her death on the 2nd of May, hrf, tvjf-tu Winton ami Lumsdeii, through ! poiwuadiniiiisteri'd by Minnie Dean." Napieb residents (says the News) will doubtless be horrified to learn that a man has actually bartered away his wife to a local cabman for three drinks. The lady in question figured in in the Police Court a short time ago iu a maintenance case against ner husband. Another very strange thing in connection with this scandalous affair is the disposal of a child, the fruit of the matriage. To get rid of such an encumbrance it was deemed expedient to entrust him to somo Natives, «rho will he free to use their own discretion m to the sort of education he is to receive. This reads like a soventeenth century romance, butisnevertheless perfectly true. A parchment embodying the surrender of the wife and child was drawn up, and the th ee drinks stipulated upou having been drunk, the agreement #as duly signed. The woman it it said ha» no disinclination to ftbldo by the arrangement.