LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1950, 1 October 1889, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Sale o® Furniture. -—Mr W. S. Mashn holds a sale of household furniture, etc., at Geraldine ta-morrow.

Draughts. —The last match at draughts for the season takes place in “ The Hall, Temuka, at half-past seven o’clock tonight. .. The Irish Delegates,—A public meeting to arrange for the reception of the Irish delspates will be iheld in the. Volunteer Hall; Temuka, on Wednesday evening, Oot. 9. Timaru Horse Parade. Owners of stud horses who intend to parade them at Timaru on Saturday next must enter the same with Mr F. W; Stubbs, Timaru, before noon on Thursday np?;t. Board Meetings.— The monthly, meeting of the Temuka Road Board takes place to-day, that of the Geraldine Town Board this evening, and that of the Temuka Town Board to-morrow evening. A Fortunate Hospital.-— Tho Napier Hospital receives £3OO a year by the bequest of the late Stokes Brothers,! formerly old settlers in Wellington, and owners of the valuable, estate of Milburn, Hawke’s Bay. Geraldine Stock Sale.— Messrs Mundell and Co: and Messrs Webster and Macdonald advertise entries for the Qeral-; dine fjtock Sale, which: takes place to-: morrow. Both firms receive; entries to hour pf, sale. ; i

The Mails; —The Zealandia, with‘the English mails ef Septornber , 7th, left ’Frisco for Auckland on the 22nd, one'day late. The Alameda, with the colonial; mails iof the9tby. arrived at .’Frisco from Auckland on the 28tb, contract date. t j

Damage to Bridges.—ln our advertis-i inz columns the Geraldine Road Board! offer, a reward of £5 for information thatj will secure the conviction of the persons who have wilfully chopped and damaged the Road Board bridges near Hilton and Kakabu. ;

More Coal.— The Minister of Mines has received a box of coal from a resident at Onehunga, taken from a seam discovered; on native land in the King Country. • The! soßm is 6 feet thick, and was found in a landslip. The coal will be analysed by Dr Hector. I Gebaldink Litebabv Society. Tombrrew evening, in the Litararyilnstitnte, the; Eev. Mr Archibald will read a paper on “ The' Mind,” under the- auspices ,of the Geraldine Literary and. Debating Society, .a discussion on the paper following: The paper will doubtless be most interesting, and wo hope to see a large attendance. ,:, ;Thb Tailorbsses Union. The log' 1 which was drawn up bv the committee iol the Tailoressea* Union for stocking-knitters of Dunedin has been accepted by the factories. There are four stocking factories in the town, employing about 100 hands. The membership of the Tailoresses’ Union now numbers 870. Wesibtan Uhiech Social Tea.—A social tea and public meeting in connection with the Wesleyan Church will be held at Temuka to-morrow evening. Tea will be on the tables at 6.30, and the meeting will commence at 8. A number of friends from Timarn will give selections of music during the evening. The i gathering should be a very enjoyable ope. A Clothes -Luna Robber, At the R.M. Court, Christchurch, on Friday, a man named Isaac Burt was sentenced to six months* imprisonment for stealing a ; quantity 6f linen, underclothing, etc., from; the clothes-line of a resident of St. Albans, i His wife was found to be wearing a quantity of the stolen goods, and she. wga • arrested, but the police afterwards witlx- ! drew the ease against her. ; Lecture.—An advertisement elsewhere- • notifies that a leeture will be delivered in; the South Orari schoolroom on Friday; evening next by Mr J. Aitkea, 8.A., in; , aid of the prize fund of the school. ;The , subject of the lecture is “ Domestic i lighting and ventilation,” and will be! illustrated by experiments. The well-! known ability of Mr Aitken as si lecturer; should ensure a crowded house. i Rifle Shooting.—A rifle 1 match - ba- : tween ten men atside from the Geraldine' 1 Rifles and Timarn Navals takes,. place at Tiroaru on Thursday next., The following, will represent the Rifles Lieiits. Ward! and McKenzie, 001.-Sergt*' Sfooehouse,' Sergts. Millard, Fleming, and Brown 1 ,: Privates Scott,' Irvine, Marshall, and Stringer. . Emergency, Private Fleming.; A drag leaves Geraldine at 9 a.m. ' Accident to a Bullock . Team. ~ A remarkable accident to, a bullock team ,is .reported from Gough’s Bay,: Banks,’ Peninsula, WMle a heavy log of timber' was, being dragged down a stebp place by a team »f eight bullocks, the log'twisted round and rolled right oveir tho'team, completely mangling six out’of the eight. An eye-witness who was some distance off says the roars of the poor brutes were .terrible. r >, ,■; ..■ , v Mr Goad’s Visit.— Amee ting of the I members of the New Zealand Alliance was held in 'the .vestry of the Wesleyan Church, presided over by the Rev. Mr Dickson, to make arrangements for Mr, Goad’s meeting in the Volunteer Hall, Temuka, on Thursday, October 17tb; Mr Goad will bo accompanied by Mr T. W. Glover (AJliapcs lecturer) and a young man .who .assists in the musical part of the - ' .J.‘ ’’ ' 1 • ' ‘ .

proceedings. The Extreme Penalty. —Makaore was executed at Napier on Saturdky morning. He took a final farewell of his three children at 6 a.m. He made no confession, but from his refusal to partake of. the sacrament on Friday M he should have to say something' before he died, it was inferred he contemplated confessing. On Saturday morning the sacrament was administered, and when asked' whether he would like to confess; He aaid he had confessed to his God. There was a very small attendance at the execution. Compensation —Guineas and Kitchingham, solicitors, Greymouth, have received from the Government £1125 as compensation and costa in a Supreme Court action brought against the Railway l Department for causing the death of 1 George Stevenson, of Wanganui, by a ■ truck running over him oh the Greymouth i wharf. This settles the action brought f by the representatives of deceased to < recover £3OOO on behalf of the nine * children, The Government also decided < to pay' the amount of the verdict in c Vincent’s case, £BOO damages and costs, < for injury in a similar way. it

Fatal Accident. A man named Dffarda was killed yesterday morning at s Pahialua, near Woodville, by a tree falling J an him while bush felling. Ho'leaves a I wife and six children. Lucky Legatee b.—lt is said that Dr. , Honey man and Mr John Hay, two well- ’ known Auckland resident?, u- Q the chief ' legatees of an estate valued at £3,000,000,1eft 1 by a relative, Mr Berry, who died in Sydney recently. i Dentistry.— -In our advertising columns Mr T. G. Rowley, surgeon dentist, announces that 1 he will be at Taylor’s Hotel, Geraldine on Thursday next, from 10 a.m till 5 p.m. Anyone requiring skilful treatment'should pay Mr Bowley a visit. The Primacy,—The ground on which tho election of Bishop ...Hadfield, to the. Primacy of the colony has been challenged is the technical one that no vacancy had; actually occurred when the election took place, the present Primate having then 1 merely intimated his intention of ing. The matter awaits the decision of the standing bommission as to whether or ; not the objection is well grounded;' Ta Kooti.—Te Kooti persists in going on with his action against the Government. more immediate followers number 20®, and be is desirous oi getting them located on the East Coast, on a block which should be given by. Government. If the East Coast natives express any willingness in that direction, it understood he would be willing to contest the East Coast Maori electorate with James Carroll at next election; Supposed ~ Leprosy. The Whangarei correspondent of , the Auckland Herald , says, there is a very bad ease of leprosy with al Maori at Horekino. He says “ About,four or five months ago a person called at’ my place for stores; He was on horseback, but did not. dismount. I attended to his order, and made some remark about his disease,: but never seeing to my knowledge a case of leprosy| I did not seriously entertain the matter. Hiej •feet and hands were bound up in cloths, and the jsores . seemed to be discharging.; Prom, what I have ascertained since, and through the' public press, I believe that it must be a case, of leprosy. I have bad some conversation with a chief’s wife upon the oasis in question, andi she informs me that he has been to a .Maori doctor and .been declared incurable, and I have also been informed that ~,a Maori girl died of the same disease at not long since.” it ' ; A Million Bushels op Wheat.—, Although people talk glibly about 1,000,000 bushels of wheat, but very few of them (saysl Iron) realise, what a vast amount, that ropre-i sents. If 1,000,000 bushels were loaded on* American freight care, 500 bushels to a oar, it Would fill a train over fifteen miles long; if transported by waggon, 44 bushels per waggon,! it would make a line of teams 142 miles long.: If made into bread, reckoning a bushel to 601 bi of flour it would give each man, woman, and child in the United States a 21b loaf of bread.; With the above in mind the reader can better: appreciate the following brief statement.; There are used anrually in the United States, about 15,000,000 bushels of wheat in various; manufactures such as starch, food preparation,; sizing for Cloth and*paper; 50,003,000 bushels are required for seeding and 285,000,000 for, food , consumption, which leaves about, 50;000i,060 bushels for export. , Three Miles a Minute.—A Baltimore, telegram of August 7th says:—"On a twomile circular track the startling speed of two miles a minute was this afternoon maintained for about ten miles by a three-ton motor of the Electric Automatic Transit Company of Baltimore. This speed equals three miles per minute on a straight track. David G. Weems the inventor, conducted' the experiments. The Company will build at once a fiye-mila circular track on Long Island to demonstrate the practicability of the electric passenger system, and also the automatic system which was tried to-day, and’is intended only for light express package, mail and newspaper*. Edison was present and pronounced it the greatest conception since the telegraph. The road will bo fenced in with barbed wire, to: keep off cattle, and, being insulated the wires will be used fpr.itelephoning and signaling! .along the line. (! , - . ‘ Talmage on .Newspapers, Dr Talmage, the noted preacher, has a very! exalted opinion of the Press. Ho says! “ I have been betrayed by about class.of men ini.the world; but never by a' newspaper man, and,l believe: there is a spirit of fairness abroad in the newspapers 1 .that.is hardly i; to be found anywhere else.' 'jt'ihere is no man, however poor, if he has! been done an injustice; that cannot gat himself set 1 right 'by the newspaper. A. good newspaper is the grandest temporal! blessing that God has given the people of this country. All the. people read thje .newspapers,, and the newspapers furnish the greater proportion of the reading to the people. They don’t read books. The old people look for the deaths} the young look for the marriages, the businessman 1 reads the business and financial columns,' and those who : are; unemployad read the want "ads.”,. Great libraries make 'few 1 intelligent men and. women, but newspapers lift tho nations into sunlight. A vast'improvement''will be nude in the newspapers when’ the 1 uhiversities have departments where young men are prepared for editorial and reporforial work. The universities have schools of law and of medicine, and why not of journalism ? ” 'Because other professions require training, biit the newspaper profession requires what a university can’t give, viz., brains.

S.O. Educational Institute. The annual meeting of this- institute?was held on Saturday last in Timaru. There was a good, attendance, Mr J. Aitken presiding. The treasurer rend the annual report and balance-sheet, which showed a balance in hand oflls Id, Two new members were elected—Mr Marshall, i Of Pareora, arid Rev. W.. White, M.A., of Pleasant Point. Correspondence was read from the New Zealand Institute’s secretary, ■. asking for a return of members, and for. the names of delegates to the Institute. The following officers were elected :-rMr J. Ad ims, 8.A., president; Mr J. Aitken, 8.A,, vice-president; Mr It. W. Wake, 8.A., secretary and treasurer. A committee of management was appointed, consisting of Mrs Grahame, Messrs Steven, Wood; Woolstein, Vernon, and Thompson, |with the officers os esc officio members. Mr F. W. Wake was elected as delegate, to the Nkw Zealand Institute, which meets in Dunedin, January 1890. The following resolutions were passed for discusion at ho Central Institute: “That district icholars who are obliged to,remove from me Educational District to another, be illowed (o hold their scholarships, subject o the conditions of the district to which hey remove.” “That a colonial scale of alaries be adopted.” The committee .ppointed to revise the pupil teachers’ yllabus brought up their report, and with , few amendments their syllabus was dopfed, and the secretary was instructed o forward same to the board with a rauest that it would sanction the proposed iterations. A vote of thanks to the stiring officers terminated the meeting, I ■

, A Bxa Estate. —The Hon. W. Robinsen's estate has been sworn under £350,000. It la left to his daughters for life, and afterwards to their chijdi'ea. Wesleyan Church, Temuxa. —On Sunday eveniog Ia e t ihe Rev. R. S. Bunn delivered at the above church a funeral sermon for (he laie Mrs Maslin. The text, from which he delivered an uilusnally stirring address, was taken from Revelation iii., 5, “He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white ,rairaent; and I will nbt blot out his name out of ( the book of life, but I will coofes* his hamd before My Father and before His angels,” Hymns appropriate_to the occasion were sung, and the choir, under the leadership of Mr. Harrison, sang..very effectively the anthem “How they so softly rest.” Death of a Member of Parliament, Daring the voyage of the Rotorua from Wellington to Manukau Major Jackson* M.H.R. for Waipa, disappeared in a most mysterious manner, and there seems to be little doubt that the unfortunate gentleman fell overboard between the hours of 10 o’clock on Saturday night and Sunday morning. Major Jackson was returning from the parliamentary session as a ■ passenger by the Rotorua. At 10 o’clock he was seen by the steward asleep in his cabin, and next morning when that officer went to arouse him for breakfast he found the cabin empty. There was nothing peculiar in his manner, and as his clothing and boots are gone there is little doubt but that he dressed during the night,, went on deck, and fell overboard.

Thb Sahara Desbbt.--M, Tarry, one of the engineers on the Sahara railroad, now being constructed by France reports a curious diioovery of great archaeological value. Coming upon a mound of sand he had it dug aod found a dome which proved to be the top of a tower ; and digging deeper, the tower proved to belong to a mosque embedded in the sand. Continuing his -researches he has already uncovered nine houses ahd a water* course. The watercourse is of great value, and will be used for irrigation. This discovery confirms the impression that Sahara was once a populous land and by no means a waste or desert. The restoration of the vast tract will be pushed with renewed courage, The verdict of all who have used thb “ Jumbo ” brand Baking Powder, is that it makes light, nutritious, 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.— [Advt. 11. ;

SYNOPSIS OF ADVERTISEMENTS.

W. Ellery, Balfield—Chaff in any quantity. 7d per bag. Whitau Kahaka—lnvitee fresh tenders for lease of 20 acres land. Lecture at South Orari—On October 4th, by Mr J. Aitken, B.A. F. Ferriman* Ashburton—lsa cash buyer of bones in any qaantity. T. G. Rowley, Surgeon Dentist—Will be at Geraldine on Thursday next. ' 0. Connolly, Pouadkeeper, Temuka—Notice ra impounded cow, springing. Comer and Larcombe, Undertakers, Temuka —Funeral notice re late son of Mr E. Lee. N,Z. Alliance —Mr Goad will address a meeting in Tdmuka on the 17th October. W. S. Masha—Sells furniture to-morrow ; new sheep yards now open—no yardage fees. Timaru: Agricultural and Pastoral Associa-tion—Twenty-fourth annual show on October 29th and 80th.

Social Tea and Public Meeting—At Temuka to-morrow eyening in connection with Wesleyan Church.,, Geraldine Road, Board—Offer £5 reward for information re persons damaging bridges near Hilton and Kakahu.

Geraldine Literary and Debating Society— The Rev. Mr Archibald will read a paper on “ The Mind ” to-morrow evening., , M. Quinn, Temuka—Notifies that public meeting to arrange for reception of Irish delegates will be bold on October 9th. T. Palmer—-Notifies that any person found fishing, shooting,;or hunting,in water: or on land occupied by him will be prosecuted.' : South Canterbury, Book Company—Will open ia the Bon Marche, Temuka (opposite Bank of New Zealand) on Thursday < next, with a large selection of books, fancy goods, and music ; prices muck lower than usually charged. N. Clothing Factory, Timaru ,Branch— Have opened out extensivo stock for Summer season, and call attention to a few special lines in boys’ and men’s clothing, hats, shirts, ties, scarves, underclothing,' etc.; give' a. few. quotations. : .•«T; and J. Thomson, Drapers and Silk Mercers, Timarn—Notify the arrival of second, important shipments for the season, ex lonic, 1 and are now showing clearing lines in haber-| dashery, gloves, hosiery, fancy dresses, wash-! ing dresses,. Manchester, silks, mantles,; millinery, underclothing, etc.