LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 255, 10 April 1880, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr Harrop has been appointed by Ids trustees to collect all out-standing accounts His temporary office is next the Royal Hotel. A Wellington telegram announces (hat Pa. Lament will probably be summoned for ilie desp itch of business on the 26th of May, We hear I hat Waitaki is likely to lose its member, Mr Hislop, in the House of Representatives. Mr Hislop finds ids increasing business demands all his time and attention. Some u ne ago a copy of (he Morning Herald Monthly Summary was fonva-d d to a gentleman residing at Launceston, N. T smania T!ie summary (says the Herald) reached its destination the other day after being sent to to England and back by (he officials'of the various Post Offices.

An ordinary meeting of the Woodbury School Committee Was held on April Bth. Prescmt— Messrs A. McDonald (Chairmim) F. Flatman,' J.'Webb, D. McDonald, I. Dean, and'.M, Cook. The minutes of lafct meeting w-.j>re road and confirmed. The teachers’ salaries'"were received from the Board ; also the sum of L 4 14s lid, which hod been previously pin'd by Cormnßte e from Incidental Fund. Mr Palmer wrote complaining of the very irregular attendance of the children during the past quarter ; and it was resol"ed (hat unless it improved very shortly ihe Compulsory Clause would be enforced. The Board also wrote allowing the travelling expenses of pupil teachers to Timaru during the examination. It was resolved to ask the Board for a grant of L2 stg., to remove the gymnasium from the old school. The following accounts were then passed for payment; A. C rmack, for firewood, L2 14s ; Q. Wood for well, L2 5s ,* J. Dean, for desks, 12s. The meeting then adjourned. I To-Day tenders for Mr Hmtop’a stock will be .opened by the trustees. As several tenders have been received, it is to be hoped that the store will be kept open. One after another of our 1 stores and pnhlichouses being shut up, is not a sign of prosperity amongst ns. We would far rather‘see it otherwise; wo would rather hear the talk about pulling down our barns to build greater, than to hear.of this one and that one leaving the place. A young lady was walking a’ong one of the streets ,of Waimate after dark last Monday, when si e wnsovortaken by a married gentleman with whom she was slightly acquainted. The gentleman escorted her to the house she was staying in, and in parting took a kiss for his trouble. A summohs fbr assault has been taken out by tiie insulted fair ono.

On the report of the Inspec'or of Nuisance’s being read at the meeting of the Temuka Road Board, held last Tuesday, it was resolved : “ That the luspeclm’ be authorised to -enforce the adoption of the pan system of closets at Winchester ; .that a copy of the clause in the Inspector’s report be forwarded to the Winchester School Committe’ with a request that the suggestion therein contained .be complied with ; that .all parties detected in committing ft nuisance about Fine street be prosecuted ; that, the Surveyor to the Road Board be instructed to have the open portion of the drain in Fine s'reet cleaned out ” Ordered, that a letter be written ~to the nightman, informing him that complaints had been , made with reference to his neglect, of duty, and to warn him that ho will lose his situation if Such cdifilplaints are continued. Mr K. F. Gray will sell by public auclion on Saturday, to-day, at his sale rooms Temuka, household furniture etc., in the assigned estate of Joseph Harrop ; hr will also sell wfncls, spirits, etc., ; also sale of license booth at ram fair, win h was held over until to-day at 2 p.m. The Wellington Times says : The "number of empty houses in the smaller streets, and the reduced rates asked for them by the owner?, might be taken as another indication of hard times. Tire population of the city has undoubtedly increased:, while buc "few new dwellinghouses have been put npj and the conclusion to be drawn is that want of means has forced many who formerly occupied comfortable and separate cottage? to give them up, and content themselves wish, one of two-rooms* in which families of five or six, and even more, have to shift as best tliey can.. An inspection of the poorer .quarters of the city will speak for itself. Mr Weddeeell gave hid annual dinner and ball, at’ his hotel"-Fairlia C’reeK, on Frid ylast, which was in every way a great success, 145 ladies and gentlemen attended. They were inspecting a group of statuary and she asked him who the female, figur; was. Ho’ said he wasn’t cortdn . abftttt. it,. but.he- thought _it must he the .bust of Sahara .yat least it. was a barren waist. Long and'profound silence- ■; • Alcohol was first’ invented and Used to stain the cheeks oflheladies'bf Arabia, 9.50 years ago. ,• As a cosmetic, the’use l of alcohol is now, confined to the huinun nose. . :. A man sentenced to the penitentary was told that he could select ‘ auy occupation, he’ choose. “ Very well, then,” he said, Ed prefer to be a.sailor.” . A. widow intending to succeed her husband iir the'management of an hotel, advertises that the “ hotel will be kept by the widow of the former landlord, Mr Brown, who died last summer on a new improved plan.” Sioux City has a grocer named Dan dam “ Where did you get this butter 1” “ From the grocer, D'amhhr,” responds the gentle wife, paid the husband looks as if he had been anticipated. . The Christchurch ’ Press says : Considerable amusement was caned at St. John’s parish meeting on Thursday night by Mr Thompson reading out the particulars of an .offertory in the Church in April last Mr Thompson had been urging the necessity of more 1 borality on the part of the congregation, and us a proof that they did not contribute, any too largely, gave the following analysis of an offertory lor a congregation of 450 persons’. Halfcrowns, 2 ; florins, 2 ; shillings. 64, sixpences, 81 ; fonrpenny pieces, 12 ; thr • per ny do, 71pennies, 8 ; half pennies. ; and to cro.vu all, one button. The question of how to' provide for ' ; unemployed is exercising the minds - Ministers, its importance being fully re Qg uised. Not a day passes without nunu ou ■ applications for employment being received by Ministers. Six of tlie French Communists who arrived ai Auckland lately are .at the gum d'ggings. The “New Zealand Poet ” has obtained fourth place in the compelion re an inaugural can (at 1 for the Melbourne Exhibition. His non de plume was Lyre Bird.” Mr Meadeu, a draper at Collingwood, won the first prize.

Judge Bathgate is acting at Home as an unpaid lecturer. Holms been addressing audiences in Scotch towns on the advantages of New ZcmUuid, and his opinions and experiences are exciting so much attention ths[ lie has/hud to answer no less than 900 letters between August and December. His .Correspondents vary from at y who has only himself to d . pend ou to a gentleman witli L‘20,000. Many of these are. so determined about trying their fortune ip this colony that they tra\el long distances to have a, talk .witli Judge - B litigate. We do hope he will make it clear to his workingclass hearers that this colony offers no inducements,at present to poor persons"who can being no capital to start with. On ono,of,the Victorian railway lines recently a train twice, on different dayi, but at the same spot, came upon a mass of grasshoppers. The contact completely destroyed all friction betwe n the rails and the wheels, and the' result was that the, trains came to a standstill. The difficulty was only got over by the driver getting down and shovelling a quantity of sand from the embankment on to the rails and thus enabling the ettgine to creep over the impediment i-which had so curiously interfered jVjith the traffic. There are n 0 daily newspapers published in the United Kingdom : viz., 18 in London,'94 in the provinces, 3in Wales, 21 inf Scotland, 16 in Ireland, and linJerseyw Iris stated that Mr Halcombs, of Wellington, is taking with him to England 50,000 feet of New Zealand ornamental timber, for the purpose of introducing it to the notice of the Home market.! There is no rea'eon why New Zealand wood should not take a leading place for cabinet-making purposes, and if Mr Halcombe can induce a demand for it in the English market be will be a ; benefactor to the colony.