LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1470, 20 February 1886, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Quarterly Licensing Meeting.— Tlie quarterly meeting of the Temuka Licensing Committee takes place on Monday, the Bth March next. Cricket. — The match Temuka C.C. v. Timaru C.C. comes off on the ground of the latter to-day. The names of those comprising the Temuka team were given in our last issue. An express will leave the Bank of New Zealand at 11 o’clock sharp. Property Assessment. — Statements of values of properties under the Property Assessment Act 1885, and the Rating Aet 1882, Section 3, are now lying at the various Town and Road Board offices for inspection, and objectors to such valuations are reminded that to-day is the last day for sending in objections. Licensing Elections.— Our renders are reminded that the poll for the election of Committees for the Raukapoka and Temuka Licensing districts takes place on Monday next, the polling hours being from 9 n.m, to 6 p.m. Names of candidates and polling places wiU be found in our advertising columns.

Thb Lost Watch. The watch lately reported as having been stolen from Mr T. Taylor, jun,, at Pleasant Valley, which he had left in his clothes in Mr Grcgan’s paddock, was found smashed up and lying in a water-hole in Mr Lyeaght’s paddock, adjoining the one from which the watcli was taken. It has evidently been the work of some mischievous children. The watch was a valuable one, but it is now completely useless.

Rifle Match. —On Tuesday nest a match will be fired between the Geraldine and Timaru Rifle corps, each corps firing on its own range. The conditions are ten men a side, distances 200, 300, and 500 yards, any position, Wimbledon targets and scoring. The members of the Geraldine corps who wish to compete are requested to give their names in to the officers on or before noon on Monday, when the team will be finally selected. The match should be a good one. A Colonist in Ireland. —The Rev. H. Yere-White, Anglican Minister at Kaiapoi for some years, now on a visit to the Old Country, writes to the Rangiora Strndard concerning Irish affairs as under;—“l suppose Reuter’s telegrams are as usual representing this country as in a state of veiled or open rebellion. Don’t believe them. Times have been very bad, and farmers have made nothing or next to nothing this year, and there will no doubt be great difficulty in the collection of rents. But the country is as free from crime as can he expected of any country containing between five and six millions of people. Every offence is magnified in the most absurd fashion,” Me Mattsew Burnett.-—Mr Matthew Burnett, who has just returned from Tasmania, opened his second Temperance Mission in the Colony on Thursday evening last in Christchurch. Proceedings were began by a great temperance procession which was got into order in Cathedral Square and then paraded the principal streets. The Addington and Blue Ribbon Brass Bands took part in the procession.. At 8 o’clock all adjourned to the Theatre Royal where a meeting was held, over which the Mayor presided. Addresses of welcome were tendered to Mr Burnett on behalf all the temperance organisa.feions existing in Christchurch. Mr Burnett was most enthusiastically received. He spoke in glowing language of the excellent work done by Messrs T. W, Glover, R, T. Booth, Sir W, Fox, and Mrs L°avitt, and referred to the victory the temperance party bad that day achieved in the S', Albans Ward, The gathering was a most suooessful i and enjoyable one, j

Bam a d Ewe Fair.—The annual ram and ewe fair under the auspices of (he Canterbury Agricultural end Pastoral Association takes place at Christchurch on the 25th March. Intending exhibitors ore reminded that entries close with the Secretary, Mr M. Murphy, on the 19th March. The Te Aroha Strings.- The Tauranga News says some idea of the number of tourists and invalids visiting the Te Aroha springs may be gathered from the fact that the revenue of the Domain Board from the bath foes are now at the rate of over £GOO per annum. Linseed Company.— The tender of Mr Alexander Frew for the erection of a shed over the rope walk for the above Company has been accepted, the amount being £207. The 18-horse power engine and the Cornish boiler have arrived and were taken to the Factory yesterday. It is expected they will be set up in a fortnight, when all will be in working order.

Cheap Fares to Dunedin.—The attention of those contemplating a trip to Dunedin during the next few days is drawn to an announcement in our advertising columns to the effect that from the 22nd to the 26th February excursion tickets to Dunedin available for return up to the Bth March, will be issued at the Temuka railway station : firs', class fares being 23s 6d, and second class 17s 6d. Protection t. Free Trade. —Mr J. B. Bradshaw, M.H.R. for Dunedin Central, addressed his constituents on Wednesday night. He announced himself as a freetrader, and elated that, though he would admire the Government, greatly if they put forward a protection policy and stood or fell by it, he would oppose them. Ho favored a redaction in the Civil Service. A vote of confidence was carried by a large majority, as against one of thanks.

Public Meaning ax Orari Bridge.—A public meeting will be held at Orari Bridge on Saturday evening next, the 27th February, at 8 o’clock, to take steps to petition the Geraldine County Council to pioclaira the country lying between the Orari and Waihi Rivers a Water race District. Th© object of the meeting is most important, and wo hope to see a large attendanee of those interested, and the pros and cons well discussed.

Rifle Match.—A rifle match between English, Scotch, and Colonial teams selected from the several Timarn Volunteer Companies, came off on Thursday last. The ranges wore 200, 300, and 500 yards, five shots at each. The scores made'were on the whole very good, the Colonials proving the victors wir.h 472 points, the English coming next with 411, and (he Scotch third with 309, The highest scorer was Q. M. S. King, C. Battery, with 68, Sergt. Hughes of the C. Battery and Private Henderson of the Timaru Rifles, coining next with 53, The lowest scorer was Private J. Davidson, of the Timaru Rifles, with 30 points.

Me W. C. Walker at Ashburton. —Mr Walker addressed his constituents last Wednesday night, and declared himself in favor of modified Protection and a radical change in the management of the railways. He said he was m favor of the Government acquiring 1000 acre blocks along the railway line and cutting them up into blocks suitable for settlement. He thought a dissolution before the meeting of Parliament unlikely, but expected it would follow soon after. Me eulogised Mr Ballance’s Native and Land administration ; but said Mr Richardson was inconsistent in now representing the reduction of the Estimates as prejudicial to the working men. Ho intimated that bo would bo a candidate for Ashburton at the nextgeneral election. The Coburg Teagedy. —The Melbourne correspondent of a contemporary says :—The family of the Hamptons, of Coburg, who created so great a sensation about a fortnight ago, are still the objects of much interest. The three girls who cut themselves so seriously are slowly getting strong again. The mother, who murdered her youngest daughter, is kept in Melbourne Gaol, where she is stated to have become rational enough to be able to talk sensibly about the affair and wonder how she cime to do it. The eldest son, who was driven into insanity by the terrible occurrence, is also in Melbourne Gaol, where he is throwing off his delusion that people were plotting to poison him. The mother has been before the Police Court on a charge of murder, but was of course remanded.

Caeibnal Moran at Wellington . Cardinal Moran arrived at Wellington at 10,95 a.m. yesterday. A launch went out to meet the Rotomahana, with the Hen, P. A. Buckley and the Reception Committee on board. A large number of clergy were awaiting on the wharf and a fair collection of the public. Some time was spent allowing those who wished to pay their devoirs to His Eminence before he landed, and the procession was then formed of the H. A.C.8.5., carriages, and two bands, and proceeded to St. Patrick’s College. There the students received Cardinal Moran, and an address was presented. The college will be formally opened on Sunday with High Pontifical Mass. B.M, Court, Timabu. —At the District Court, Timaru, on Wednesday last, before His Honor Judge Ward and a jury of four, the case of West and Barber v. B, Bayley was heard. The claim was for drawing plans of a house for the defendant, who, being dissatisfied with them, did not use them, and got fresh ones prepared at Christchurch. The evidence was rather lengthy, and in some respects contradictory, and a verdict for the full amount was obtained by the plaintiffs, who were also allowed costs. The case of James Lochore v. Jabez Lukey, a claim of £SO for false imprisonment, was also heard. The plaintiff was nonsuited with costs. On Thursday the public examination of J, W. Stonyer, a bankrupt, was continued and again adjourned. William Moorebead, James Pepprill Radford, and George Arthur Smith, were granted orders of discharge, A Robinson Chusob Statue.— ln circumstances somewhat remarkable (writes the St. James’s Gazette) a bronze statue bus been unveiled of Robinson Crusoe in the Scotch village of Largo, which, as everyone does not know, gave birth to Alexander Selkirk. The memorable features of the day wore—first, the fact that a statue has at, lost been unveiled in Scotland without the assistance of Lord Rosebery; and second, that the Earl ®f Aberdeen, who presided, made the surprising confession that until he was invited to be present at the oeremony he had not read Defoe’s immortal work. Feature I is, however, more astounding after all than feature 2; for it subsequently appeared that the Earl of Aberdeen had not read Robinson Crusoe when a boy merely because it had been so frequently read and recited to him. Largo is a quiet fishing village ; but in honor of its illustrious townsman it went demented on this occasion.

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