LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume 26, Issue 1328, 7 June 1895, Page 3

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

O Ik another column Mr D. Kerr invit«s tenders for poisoning runs2l9c and 306, part of Eweburn Station. A MEETING of the members of the Naseby Pastoral Company will take place in the Victoria Hall, on Tuusday evening, 18th June. ... * Mb Kexle, the local postmaster, is a" present taking a mon.h's holiday, h's place being filled in the meantime by Mr Wince, of the Dunediu office. No 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 alt been bank managers. Underground London contains 3000 miles ot 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 Begeub-streets alone the capacity is said to exceed 140 acres. . The fortnightly meeting of the Mount Ida Social and Debating Club will take place in the Council Chambers, on Tuesday next, at 7.30 p.m. The subject ot the evening will be an essay on " Prospecting," by Mr Aiigus M'Neill. Messrs Leonurrt and Reed have beeu appointed to criticise the paper. Paring the evening musical selections will also be given. A gentleman from the district who is at present in Uunedin telegraphs . that th«> Otago A. add P. Society's Winter Show is an immense success. Maniototo again upheld its reputation, prizes being awarded to ex hibiters from ibis district as foilows :—Mrs Ctnipbell first for farmer. l -' dressed ryegrass, Mr Harris first for machine dressed ryegrass, and Mr I'earson second, aiid Mr Logan second for Aberdeen turnips. The first lecture under the auspices of the local branch of St. John's Ambulance Association w,:s given in the schoolliouse on Tuesday evening by Ur 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 function" of each part of the body. All present enjoyed the lecture immensely, and it is safe to say that iliey all left the ro'.in kuowing more about their own composition than they, ever did before At the annual meeting of the City Licensing Committee on Monday all the publicans' license, with one exception, were renewed for another 12 mouths, the exception being in ihe case of Mis Braiin, to whose application in respect of the <j!reat Northern Hotel objection was taken by the committee on the ground that she had been during the past year convicted of selling liquor without a license at the racecourse. That c.tse was adjourned till .he 11th iust. to enable the objection to be mot. The applications of the licensees for an extension of hours uoiil 11 p.m. were n-fused, and Mr Wardrop, en behalf of the committee, Ultima!ed that the policy ot refusing conditional licenses would be adhered to.—Daily Times.

Thtj adjo'irti'id inquest into the cause of the death of Eva Hornsby, aged about five weeks, was resumed at luvercargiil on Tuesday. Af-er lengthy evidence had been taken, the case was adjourned till the follow iug day. .viien the jury returned the following verdict:—" The jury are of opinion that tt-e child Eva Hornsby was wilfully miutle'rad.in the colouy of New Zealand on or about the 3ru of May, 1895." The adjourned inqus»t on the b..dy of Dorothy' >. E'lioh Curler was then resumed, the jury finding a-* follows: -"That Dorothy Eilith Carter met her death on the 2nd of May. between Winion and Lumsilen, thiough poison administered by Minnie Dean."

Napier residents (says the News) will doubtless be horrified to learn tlmta. man has actuully burteied away his wife to a local cabman for three drinks. Tho lady in question figured in in the Police Court u short time ago in a maintenance case against iter husband. Another very strange thing in connection with this scandalous affair is the disposal of a child, the fruit of the tnairiage. To get rid of such an encumbrance it was deemed expedient to entrust him to some Natives, *ho will he free to uso their own discretion as to tho sort of education he is ■'to receive. This reads like a seventeenth .•c«nsury romance, butis nevertheless perfectly ~ true. A parchment embodying the surrender of the wife and child was drawn up, and the '•'th eel drinks stipulated upon having been drtftlV, the agreement *as duly signed. The woman it ia said hu.- no disinclination to »bidt by the arrangement.