The Temuka Leader SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1885. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1434, 28 November 1885, Page 2

The Temuka Leader SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1885. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Book Depot. —The N.Z. Bible, Tract, and Book Society open in Temuka on Monday next for a few days. Geraldine Monthly Stock Salk. —ln another column wo publish the entries receiver! by the auctioneers, Messrs J. Mundell and Co., for this rale. Additional entries can bo made up to hour of sale. Meeting at Peel Forest. —Residents of Peel Forest, are reminded that a meeting of those interested in the formation of an Oddfellows’ Lodge takes place this evening at half-past seven o’clock in Air Joseph Deans’ house. Sale of Butcher’s Plant.— Mr E, F. Gray, instructed by Mr Andrew Grant, will sell a butcher’s complete plant on the premises lately occupied by Mr E. Smith, butcher, Temuka, to-day ; also goodwill of lease. Entertainment. —An entertainment, in aid of the prize fund ot St. Saviour’s Sunday School, Temuka, will be given in the Volunteer Hall, Temuka, on Friday evening next, by the teachers and scholars of the school. Match. A match for £2O aside will be run off on the Geraldine racecourse this morning, between Air Connolly’s b g Hard Times and Mr T. Oorkery’s Trenton, owners up. The distance will be a mile and a-half over eight flights of hurdles. Address. —The Rev. T. A. Hamilton will deliver an address to men only on “ True Manliness, or the Work of the White Cross Army,” in the Volunteer Hall, Temuka, on Thursday evening next. The Rev. W. G. Thomas and other gentlemen will also address the meeting. Land Board Meetings.— lt is announced that the ordinary meetings of the Land Board of the District of Canterbury take place every alternate Thursday in each month at 11 a.m. The alteration dates from the sth November, before which date the meetings took place at noon. The Emu Minstrels.— This clever little company appear in the Oddfellows’ Hall, Geraldine, this evening. All patronising them may depend on being well entertained for a couple of hours. Owing to the Volunteer Hall being engaged on Monday evening the Company will not appear in Temnka. Water Supply District.— lt is notified in our advertising columns that in compliance with a petition presented to the Geraldine County Council, that portion of the County laying between the Orari and Rangitata Rivers described m the petition has been constituted a Water Supply District for irrigation purposes. Geabldine Town Board Rate.— The Property Tax Commissioner, Mr Sperrey, having neglected to make and supply the Board with a rate roll, the question of striking a rate will have to be postponed until the roll is received, ’ When the Town District was severed from the Road District, separate rolls bad to be prepared for each Board. The Road Board received theirs some time ago, but the Town Board has evidently been forgotten. Cruelty to Horses,— At the B.M. Court Ashburton, yesterday (we learn from the Guardian), John Charles Maidens was)charged with cruelly to horses, by working them while suffering from sore shoulders. The accused admitted the offence, and the Magistrate having examined the horses, a fine of £7 with costs was inflicted. In inflicting the fine the Magistrate said the owner of the horses was more culpable than the accused, and that the penalty might fall upon the right person, he ordered that in default the horses be sold to realise the amount. R.M. Court, Temuka,— At the above Court, yesterday, before S. D. Barker, J. Talbot, and K. F. Gray, Eaq. ? J.P.’s, Charles Wells was charged with having stolen from the wreck of the Hudson one bottle of Hollands of the value of ss. The accused pleaded guilty to the offence, but said another man gave him the bottle. He said he pleaded guilty to save time as be wanted to go to his work, and hoped the Bench would deal leniently with him. Detective Kirby gave evidence to the effect that he arrested the accused and found the bottle in a locker of the boat. He was sentenced to seven days’ imprisonment with hard labor. Outrage by Natives in the New Hebrides.-H.M. Swinger has arrived, the Sydney correspondent of the Argus writes, from the New Hebrides. While at Erromanga, it was reported to Captain Marx that a man belonging to the labor schooner Flora was killed and another wounded, while recruiting on the west side of Tanna. Two boats had left the schooner and gone ashore to recruit. The natives were at first apparently friendly. One man had just been recruited, and was getting into one of the boats when the chief came on board and objected to his going away. The men in the boats noticed that simultaneously the native women were fast disappearing into the bush. As this is invariably an indication of approaching hostilities, they immediately shoved the natives away from the boat, and started to pull as fast as they could back to the ship. Before they had gone far the natives opened fire upon them with rifles, and the result was that a Solomon Island boy was shot dead and one white man wounded. Sporting. —the Australasian thus describes the contest between the two famous sons of Musket—Trenton and Nordenfeldt—in the Canterbury Plate, at weight for age, on the fourth day of the V.R.O. Spring meeting : " A great deal of interest was manifested in the meeting of Nordenfeldt and Trenton in the Canterbury Plate. Neither looked any the worse for his previous efforts, in fact Trenton was considered nearly 71bs a better horse than when he ran for the Cup. The three-year-old, however, had the strongest body of followers, and they laid 7 to 4 on their pet, while the friends of Trenton accepted 2 to 1 against. Nordenfeldt made the running for the short distance, though the pace was very slow, and Ringmaster rushing to the front it was slightly improved, bub it was never really sound until they passed the stand, when the favorite joined Ringmaster, and at the riverside he assumed command. From this point Ellis kept him moving, and when fairly in the home stretch Trenton joined him. Then commenced one of the most exciting races of the meeting, the pair clearing out from the others. Inch by inch Trenton improved his position, and, after a ding-dong struggle, he beat Nordenfeldt by a neck, the result being received with enthusiastic cheering, which was repeated again and again as Robertson rode the New Zealander back to scale.” —Sir Modred, the well known New Zealand thoroughbred, who was lately in Melbourne, bus been purchased by Air Huggins, a Californian breeder, for £IBOO, and shipped to San Francisco by the City of Sydney,

Sale of Crown Lands at Geraldine.—A sule .of town unci suburban sections take* place in the Courthouse, Geraldine, on Wednesday the 9th December, at 12 noon. Pull particulars will be found in our advertising columns. Meeting of Justices.— An adjourned meeting of the Justices of the Peace for the Temuka Court District was held in the Courthouse, yesterday. Present—Messrs S. D. Barker, A. M. Clarke, W. Rolleston, J. Talbot, P. 11. Barker, and K. P. Gray. On the motion of Mr Talbot, seconded by Mr Gray, Mr Barker was voted to the chair. It was resolved—“ That two justices attend the R.M. Court eyery Wednesday in the following order, viz. : Ist, P. H. Barker and D, Ihwood ; 2nd, S. D. Barker and J. Talbot; 3rd, A. M. Clarke and K. P. Gray—the Clerk of the Court to give them due notice of their respective attendances.” Mr Clarke proposed, and it was unanimously resolved—- “ That to give effect to the Act the justices present have arranged a rota, but at the same time wish to place on record their opinion that the Act as now formed is unnecessarily stringent, and is likely to cause great inconvenience”’ The meeting then adjourned. Geraldine Rifles.— On Tuesday afternoon next this.corps will fire for the district prizes. The prizes to be competed for by the rifle corps in the South Canterbury Volunteer district, are twelve in number, from £5 downwards, amounting in the aggregate to £26 12s. The ranges will be 200 yards (standing), and 500 and 600 yards (any military position), five shots at each range. The men will fall in (in uniform) at the drill shed at one o’clock punctually and march to (he range, the firing commencing at 2 o’clock. On Tuesday evening an inspection parade will be held at half-past seven, for which the men must fall in at 7 o’clock sharp. It is highly necessary that all members of the corps should attend this parade, in order to qualify for capitation. On Wednesday morning at 6 o’clock there will be judging distance practice for those who have not gone through it. Valedictory. —Last Wednesday evening a number of the friends of Mr H. Seager, the late-stationmaster .at South Rangitata, met at the Star of the South Hotel, to bid him farewell prior to his departure for Christchurch, where he has been promoted to a better position. Mr McNevin in a neat little speech proposed “The Health and Prosperity of Mr Seager,” which was carried with enthusiasm. Mr Seager expressed the regret he experienced at leaving so many good friends. He spoke highly of the good feeling exhibited by all those whom he had become acquainted with in the district, and expressed his good wishes tor his numerous friends. He hoped that they would be suited in their new stationmaster, who he thought was the right man in the right place, Mr J, Lewis, the new stationmaster, in response to. a toast drunk in his honor, said that it was too early for him to make up a speech from local materials, but, perhaps, in the future event ot his departure from Rangitati, he might have much to say that was good. He hoped that he would imitate the example of his predecessor in office, who through strict attention to his duty, had merited a well-earned promotion. After “ Auld Lang Syne,” had been sung the Company separated. Phenomenal Rifle Shooting.— Can local marksmen cap the followingtruthful story of an English Volunteer?:—“ It may interest your readers to hear that while I was shooting at the -butts, a friend of mine, who was looking on, observed a, fine owl flying across the range at the moment when I fired. The creature fell dead, and the incident surprised us so much that we went to pick it up. We found that the bullet had passed completely through its body, killing it, of course, on the spot. When we were about to return to the firing point, my eye fell on some light object lying on the grass 100yds further on. It occurred to me to go on and see what it was, and, to my amazement, I found a second owl, which had obviously been accompanying the first on a parellel line of flight, and had shared its melancholy fate. At this moment loud yells ef pain attracted our attention, and we observed a magnificent Alderney cow prancing about in front of the target. On going up to it we were amazed to find its tail cleanly cutoff at the base. But we were not long in doubt as to how this injury had been inflicted. Six feet from the target lay the amputated member, and right in the centre of the bull’s eye was the orifice through which this lethal bullet had passed to its last resting place. This astounding series of coincidences is unmatched in all my experience.” Good Wobds—From Good Authority. * # * We confess that we are perfectly amazed at the run of your American Oo.’a Hop Bitters. We never had anything like it, and never heard of the like. The writer (Bentou) has boon selling drugs here for nearly thirty years, and has seen the rise of Hostettere’a, Vinegar and all other bitters and patent medicines, but never did any of them, in their beet days, begin to have the run that American Hop Bitters have, * * We can’t get enough of them We are out of them half the time, * * Extract from letter to Hop Bitters 00,, U.8.A., August 22, '7B, from Benton, Mynas & 00., Wholesale Druggists, Cleveland, O Bo sure and see Advt.