LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1889, 9 May 1889, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pabliambnt. It has been decided to coll Parliament together for the despatch of business on June 20tb, at 2 o’clock. Nbw Tbaxn Abbanshmbnts. —ln our advertising columns will be found the new train arrangements to come into force on Monday next. A Bid Seduction.—The Kapanga Board of Eaviewers hayo reduced the valuation of the Kapanga Company’s mining property at Coromandel from £102,000 to £18,500. Good Yim- I The Press states that on fourteen acres near Kangiora, Messrs D’Auvergao Bros, have just thrashed out eighty-two bushels of barley to the acre. Pm Sale at Temukl— Fanners and others are reminded that Messrs Gray and Montgomery hold their special annual sale of piga to-morrow. Anyone wishing to buy or sell pigs should attend. Aebival op thb Come.—The Coptic, from Plymouth via Capetown and Hobart, arrived at Port Chalmers on Tuesday. She brings 1734 tons of cargo aud 61 passengers, 7 bags of mails, and 20 oases of parcel post. Missing Fmipkd.—Among the list of missing friends advertised iu Lloyds’ Weekly recently appears the name of “ Alice King (nee Eyan), who was at Temuka, New Zealand, in 1884, when her brother and sister last hoard.”

The Premier. —The Premier has bee n absent from fho Treasury buildings the last two days auffering from a cold, Temcka Licensing Committee, —The annual meeting of the Terauka Licensing Committee will be bald on Friday, the 7lli June. Fatal Accident.— A sad fatality occurred at Methvea on M uasday morning, when a litt [o girl named Elizabeth Beathe, the only child of her psrenta, fell down a well, and before ahe wan discovered wan drowned.—Ashburton Guardian. Police Regulations. — The new Polios Regulations, which are shortly to be issued provide that constables who are desirous of receiving promotion must have a knowledge of the police code, evidence, and convictions, and those who wish to beoom# non-oommis-sioned officers will require to know criminal statute law. The Exhibition. —Up to the present only £12,250 has been subscribed towards the Exhibition at Dunedin, nearly all of which has been raised in Dunedin, and as the Government insist on £15,000 being raised it has been deeided to take promissory notes for the balance. These will not be collected until the whole of the other capital has been expended. A Novel Objection. —At the Hokitika Supreme Const sittings one of the jurors objected todake the oath on the ground of the incorrect translation of the Bible from the original. His Honor said that this was a novel objection, and as there was no provision made in the Jurors Act for like, objections, Mr Cain would be excused from attendance. Imports and Exports. — A mistake occurred in the telegraphic summary of the exporta' and imports of the colony published in the Gazette on Friday night. Following are the correct figurea Imports for tha quarter ended 31st March, £1,721,988 as against £1,755,662 for the corresponding quarter of 1888. Th» total exports for the colony were £3,417,734 as against £2,983,650 laat year. Concert and Dance at Rangitata Island.— To-morrow evening a concert and dance in aid of the prize fund will take place in the Rangitata Island School. For tfj® concert, «t which lbs Bov. G. Barclay will preside, a long and varied programme has bean prepurad, performers from all fparts of the district having promised their assistance. Good mas o will be provided for the dance. Suspected Incendiarism. —Mr D. Leddy, a farmer at Wakanni, had an eight stalled stable, five sets of draught horse harness, and two stacks of oats (one about seventy-five tons and the •Iberfifteen tons) destroyed by fire late on Tuesday evening. Mr Leddy (says the Press) eetirastes his loss at £4OO, and is strongly of opinion that the fire was the work of an .incendiary. There was no insurance on either the building or stacks of oats. Good Tillage Pats.— A fsrm°r in the Bmniwiok district list seas .in put Iwo pad docks down in wheat. One of these he had time to plough twice, tha other only reoeiyed the usual amount of attention. Both were sown with wheat of the same sample, but he has marked the result, and so may our readers: 71 bushels on the twice ploughed land, 25 on the other! The wheat is red tuscan, and is described by a milling expert as about the best he has ever seen.— Wangnmui Yeoman. The Governor's Lkves. —The Governor hold his first levee at Wellington on Monday morning. There was a largo attendance. Abaut twenty Maori chiefs waited on the Governor at one o’clock and presented an address of welcome. A deputation of Wesleyan Ministers also attended at Government house and presented His Excellency with an address from the Wesleyan Conference; Lord Onslow briefly replied t» both addresses. About one hundred and seventy gentlemen (in addition to those having a right of private entree) attended the Governor’s levee in the morning. On Friday a deputotion of Congregational ministers were received by His Excellency.

Gebaldinh Postal Abbanoimbnts.— Owinp to the new train arrangements, the mails will close at the Geraldine Poit-ofiee as follows The morning mail close about the usual time, viz., 7.20. The mail to catch the north express will close at 12.40, or two hours later than at present, while the mail to catch the south express will close at 4.30, or an hoar and a quarter later than at present. By this arrangement it will be seen that the mail which now closes at Geraldine for Timaru and Temuka daily at 5 p.m. will in future close half-an-hour earlier. According to the train arrangements as decided on, this mail will only go to Timara on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. On the other throe , evenings the travelling public can make them- ' eelyes contented at Geraldine, unless some enterprising firm should see fit to run a coach through. m _ Wesleyan Chwrch, Twoka.—Tomorrow afternoon a bazaar in aid of the building fund of the new Wesleyan Church, Pamuka, will be opened in the Volunteer Hall, Temuka, at 3 o’clock. It is expected that the members for the Gladstone and Rangitata districts will perform the opening ceremony. There are an unusually large number of handsome gifts to be disposed of, with many useful articles, ih# supply of produce being exceptionally varied and extensive, occupying one very large stall. The centre of attraction will be the splendid autograph quilt, which Is a most creditable piece of work. Everything will be for bona sale, either privat«ly or at auction, and there will bo no reflaa. The bazaar will be continued throughout Saturday. Clearing Sales.— To-morrow Messrs JT. Mundell and Co. sell the Woodbury Hotel and furniture ; also 170 acres of bush land. On the same date Messrs Grade, Maclean and Co. hold a sale of live and dead farming plant at Waitohi J?l»t. Thomas Kingstone has died at Auckland from injuries caused by a beam falling on him at the sugar works. The verdict of all who have used the "Jumbo” brand Baking Powder,’is that it makes light, nutrition*, ani digestive bread, cakes, pastry, etc. As the ingredients are of the finest qualities, and no injurious elements being used in the preparation, bread, etc., made with this powder will keep fresh and moist longer than with any other powder. Ask for Anderson’s “ Jumbo ’’ brand Baking Powder.—[Adtt. 11.

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