The Temuka Leader. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1881. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 606, 15 November 1881, Page 2

The Temuka Leader. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1881. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Fm.M'o Mail Siikviues, 1882. —We have to aoknowhidgu with timukis the receipt of a copy of the postal Time Table for the San Francisco 31 ai! Service for 1882. Irian the Postmaster. Temnka, ELECTORAL A !U>l! iSS. —Mr 1.! \!l lU'fit has nnnmuieed that he will address the elector'- of G raldinein the various schoolrooms on the followin'-- <!at -n W.-iHohi, to-uioirow ; Hilton, Thursday ; and Wioc;ho>ti r, on Friday next. To Tin-: Afflicted. —We won’cl remind our readers who an; nlihcted with ye or car dir eases teat Dr Wilkins, F. ILC.S, arrived at Timani yesterday, where he will remain tall the 21st instant, and can be consulted at the Grosvenov 11-del. The Electoral Poll. —For Pm purposes in connection with ilie forthcoming gem ral eh cikm the op f ( r the (Jeralditie district is now closed. The number re* gis’ored on the roll published amounts to 1045, a d on tire supplementary 340. 'Poo Pointed by Half.— Under the heading Bankruptcy,” an exchange yesterday inserted an election notice under the hand of a certain Returning Officer for one of the districts, in regard to the dates of nomination a*id election of one qualified per* m to serve as a member of the General Assembly. Evuc.ming Dead Chinamen. - The Riverton paper understands that a fund, annul! ting t*> .L3COO, ha*; been raised by the Chinese for the purpose of exhuming the bo'ip-s or hones of deceased Cliinamcn in New Zealand and conveying them to C’-.iaa, vvhttre they .are supposed to liml a more sacred [dace of scnnlture. A side is to In- chavtcia-d for ih 1 purpose. The Elections. —The writs for the chap lons for t e Gener >1 Assembly are now published. The Il< turning Officer for the c ocionil district o! Geraldine announces that the mm.iuation of candidates will dike place on the. 2nd December next and the election on the 9'h proximo. The list of polling places will be found in another column. Arrival of the ’Fris.o Mail.— The Australia arrived from thin Fomciscoat A nek la net on Saturday last with the New Zealand port ion of the European mails, after the smartest passage on recordj the time occupied from London being only llr.rty--.ix days. The Ti-mnka portion of the mail is expected to arrive here hy the express tra’n from Christchurch to-day. County Council Election —Tiie polling for two members to sit on the Geraldine Gcmmy Coined for the Temuka Riding will take place to-morrow, between the hours of 9 a.m. and Gp.rn. the polling places hoi tie, rim Resident. Magistrate's Ootu'lhouse. Temuka ; Sehoo’honse, Wait.,hi ; Mechanics’ Institnle, Winchester ; and the School ho use, Smith Rangitata. Resident Magistrate's Court.- At this Court yesterday, Mr Beetham. R.M., took his is- at. for the fh t lime on the Bench under the now reimhitiou. In the civil case J. Coope” v J Mclnnes, the pla’nt.ifl’did no* appear, and ibe defendant and a witimrs who had been subpoenaed on his behalf had their expenses alh.wed. The police applied for an order of payment regarding two children of Thomas Tin it, who were ordered to be sent to the Industrial School at Burnham by the 1 rnch of magistrates on the previous Monday. The father was ordered to pay 4s per w< ek each towards their maintenance. The Court then vote. A Narrow Railway. —A Bombay correspondent of a contemporary writes ; “ Wo h.-.ve had, if I am not mistaken, for a long time in this Presidency the narrowest railway in India, a little toy of the Gaekwar of Bamda’s on a 2ft Gin gunge, which, howe-er, I believe, has paid remarkably well. Now a 31. Ceauvide Ims arrived from France and laid down, at the Colaba end of the Esplanade bore, two that are narrower still, the g'mges being twenty and sixteen in. lies. Their small size is .'.pDfirn-liy <miy beaten by the ease and sin piieitv with which they are laid down in frames ((instructed for the purpose, whid; oily require baking together, and among other things they never get <-,ut of Himgn. 'This geu'b-im-n is only laying down 1200 feet of his railway, jum, m show us what he can do, hut. 1 shall not bo surprised to hoar of many miles being erected ns feeders to main line^-_

Antiquarian.— ln cutting away a bog at Pemoienty, comity Sligo, recently, at a depth of six feet from the surface a Dmidital edifice, fcwouty-one yards in circumference, and other interesting relies were discovered. Journalism in Germany. —Get many boasts of a considerable number of newspapers, there being no less than 4413 in circulation r.t the end of last year. Of these ninety-eight were started iu the present century. Crossing the Channel, —An attempt is now on foot to construct a conveyance for crossing the English Channel hy sending cars through a cylindrical steel tube submerged 40 feet below the surfi.ee of thi water. The tube would bo so ballasted as to make it weigh a ton and a quarter In the foot less than the water displaced, its buoyancy becoming counterbalanced by moorings at every 250 fed. At the end it would he laid in dredged or excavated channels. The cost of carrying out this scheme is estimated to be 40,000,000 dels. A Simple Remedy. —The Wanganui Herald is informed by a local gardener r,nd nurseryman that flower and vegetable seeds, simply dipped iu kerosene, will not be touched by either (the most destructive of all the feathered tribes), linnets, or sparrows, and as a proof of this’ he shows a tine bed of turnips which fas almost entirely escaped. The same remedy, however, will not do for tree seeds {pinus insignis and so forth), as they reman. so long in the ground that kerosene of coarse wears off, and the birds onlytake these seeds when they begin to sprout above the ground. Fur the private garden, however, kerosene will be found valuable. Action for Libel —A correspondent at Pa ea telegraphed to us on Saturday afternoon last Mr William Dale, junior, an auctioneer and active politician, has commenced criminal proceedings against the proprietor of the Mai’. Edward Houghton, for publishing an alleged malicious and defamatory li'xd by reporting a conversation be had with a ratepayer which damaged his chance of election for the Mayoralty. Mr Dale denied the conversation. The ratepayer was in Court to swear to it as substantially true. The investigation in the Resident Ma is!rate’s Court lasted two clays. After the prosecutor’s case was closed, the defendant, who conducted his own case, made an address, alleging reasonable grounds for I believing the alleged libel was true, that it related to an important public matter and was justified t y the occasion. There was no malice. The Magistrates tnen dismissed the case, without requiring evidence for the defence. Mrs G. Gibbs requires the services of a first-class dressmaker. Messrs Clinch and L'oyd invite tenders for painting and papering a cottage. The Temuka Leader has removed to new premises, opposite the Bank of New Zealand. Walker, Smith and Co., advertise that they will open in the old Leader office, on Saturday next with a large assortment of drapery.