LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2167, 24 February 1891, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

San Franciso Mail. —The mail steamer Monowai left ’Frisco for Auckland on Friday last.

Temuka Stock Sale.—The fortnightly stock sale at Temnka takes place to-day. Messrs A. E, Cox and E. R. Guinness advertise entries.

Congregationalism. —At the Congregational Union meeting at Ne'son on Thursday an able paper by the Rev. E. D. Cecil on Sunday Schools in relation to the maintenance of Congregationalism waa read.

Temuka Rifles. —A special parade of the Temuka Rifles will take place tomorrow evecing, at 7.30, for the purpose of electing a captain. The matter being of great importance to the corps, it is uecesscary that there should be a full, attendance of members. Athletic. —The committee of the Dunedin Athletic Club is averse to sending a team of representative athletes Home at the present time, as they regard the time inopportune and on account of; the expense. A promise of support was given, however, if the affiliated clubs were unanimous on the matter. Fighting. —At the R.M. Court, Timaru, yesterday, Peter Jackson and Charles .Hansen were.fined 10s each and costs for fighting at St. Andrews., The fight was the result of what the R.M, termed a “drunken brawl,” and it w»s aPeged one of the combatants had a knife in his hand, but this was not proved.

i Train Arrangements for Dunedin Sages. —ln our advertising columns will be found particulars in reference to the -xcursion fares to Dunedin on account of the races on 25th, 26tb, and 28th, special night trains to , and from Dunedin, etc. A special train will pass Temnka to-night at 12,30 for Dunedin, stopping to take up passengers. A Caution.—At Timaru on Saturday J. Gibson was fined.4os and costs for being drunk and disorderly while iu charge of a horse and vehicle. He pleaded in excuse that “ the present is a very busy time for farmers,” on which His Worship, Mr Wray, remarked that that Was only on additional reason why they should keep sober, and look after their own interests. Disxsnguished Visitors, —Archbishop Carr, of Victoria, Bishop Moore, of Ballarat, and Bishop. Higgins, of Sydney, visited the Catholic Churches at Christchurcn on Thursday morning, and:received addresses from the Marist Brothers and the Convent Schoo's. They afterwards visit id Mount Magdala, and left in the Tarawera for Wellington, where they will stay three days before going to Auckland.

Military Tournament.— ln reply to a deputation which waited on them from the Wellington military tournament committee. the Government stated that a military tournament for the whole colony would be held at Wellington in November next, and at the other chief centres annually in rotation. The Government would subsidise it to the extern of £IOO per annum, and give every facility to the transport of competitors from ope district to another

. Smoke Concert. —Mr Alex. Allan, an old resident in the district, and who until recently carried on business as a storekeeper in Temnka, being about to leave for the North island, a smoke concert in his honor has been arranged to take place on Friday evening in the Star Hotel, under ihe auspices of the Temuka Caledonian Society. We may mention that the gathering will be open to all Mr Allan’s friends, whether members of the Caledonian Society or not, and no doubt many will take advantage of the occasion and attend to bid Mr Allan good-bye and him success in the future.

Hiding It.— A lady in Wellington ihe >ther day tried to h'de her delinquincies cleverly. She appeared to be suffering intense pain at the railway station, and represented to another lady that she was about to become a mother. The station, master communicated with the polio", who at once procured a cab and had her conveyed to the hospital. Os arriving there the' doctor discovered she was suffedeg from the influence of drink, and in no way likely (q become a mother, and so she was taken to the logk-up, and fined 6s next morning.

Presbyterian Church.—We notice that at the close of the Presbyterian Gene r al Assembly at Christchurch a commission was given to the Rev. John Dickson, Temuka, to carry the greetings of dha New Zealand Presbyterian Church to the Irish Presbyterian Church, the Established, Free, and United Presbyterian Churches of Scotland, and the Presbyterian Church of England. We understand that Mr D ckson intends to be present; at the assemblies of at least the first three, and to praye for the New Zealand Church continued, and, if possib'e, increased, sympathy, in men aqd meaqs,

Disease Amongst Horses. —Mr N. Marquis, V.S., writes to the Press as follows :—To farmers it moy be of interest to know that for some distance south of Pareora River an epidemic exists among horses of a dropsical nature. There was such an outbreak about ’74, when many valuable horses died, principally through neglect, in (he United Kingdom. The surest means of detecting the disease is by using tfie The temperature, normal, ip about Qfiieg s iu this ' - h varies from lOOdeg to lol|-ieg, attectiou takes place, which A swelling of the i.-- occasionally, disappears and reappears ' *■ it Alterative medicine is indicated, bu.

must be in proportion to the requiremenle of the case.

Export of Coal —The export of coal products from Greymouth for the week I was 5501 tons. The coal export from Westport, for the week ended Saturday was 4986 tons. Wrestling, '— Saya the Lyttelton Tunes; George Robinson states that be has been examined by a doctor, who found that one of his ribs was broken in his recent wrestling match. In consequence of this be will be unable to meet Duncan Rosa in a fortnight, but will be happy to do so as soon after as possible. Cycling. —At the Dunedin Cycling Sports on Saturday, Kingston (Timaru) won the Mile Maiden, and McCarthy (Timarn) the Mile Handicap. Kingston was second in' the Mile Roadster and McCarthy third. The Five-Mile Championship of Otago was won by Steadman (Taieri), and the Ten-Mile Handicap by Steadman, with Born second. Teachers’ Examinations. —A telegram from Wellington gives the following results of the teachers' examinations : Class D., South Canterbury ; Alice Balfour, Charles Goldstone, Mary King, Hugh Wake. Partial passes for D., South Canterbury : James Gillespie, Theophilus Strong, and Donella Sutherland. The following Canterbury candidates passed the junior civil service examinations: — Marjory Williamson, Ashburton; R. Dixon, E. E. Dixon, and Gertrude Cooper, Timaru. Football at Geraldine.—lt will be seen by ao advertisement appealing elsewhere that a meeting will be held in the Mechanics’ Institute, Geraldine, on Friday evening next for the purpose of forming a football club at Geraldine. Owing to a number of causes this popular winter pastime has been greatly neglected at Geraldine for some two or three seasons, but a strong effort will be made this winter to revive it. A number of good footballers have lately come to live in the district, and there is every prospect of o good club i being formed. Clamfett. Arthur Clampett, alias, 1 Snllivan, is again to the front lecturing; 1 under the anspices of the Temperance 1 Alliance in Tasmania. At Hobart recently i he made'a telling address on the. subject, id the course of which he said there ware many thousands in prison cells—many thousands had died—through dnnk, and had had bitter experience of its evil effects. 1 But he had .turned aside and made a 1 resolution that,God helping him, he would never touch another drop. At the toon--1 elusion he sang “ Rocked in the Cradle * of the Deep,’’ and was compelled to repeat the last verse. It U said he intends lecturing through New Zealand shortly. , Electric Light Proposals,— Mr De [ Castro, of the Qnlcher Company has a proI ject for introducing the electric light into all the cities of the colony. Steam will be | used where water power is not available, and Mr De Castro says they can do it as cheap as gas. The necessary bills will be , introduced next session. De Castro’s , scheme has taken the form of a company, [ in which there are a number of Now Zsa- , land shareholders. It is practically . a syndicate which wilt take over the . Gnlcber Company’s contract for lighting , Wellington, and establish the Gnloher , light in other cities. The capital at present is £30,000, but it will be increased ns , operations are extended. Steam power will : probab’y be used instead of water both in Wellington and in other towns. Cricket. —A match was played on ’ Saturday between the Temuka C.C. and 1 Winchester Woo sorters C.C. Owing to the afternoon being wet, only fire mem- ■ bars of the local club turned up, three substitutes playing in the first innings and 1 live in the second innings; the visitors played a full team in each innings, and won by 12 runs. Scores—Temuka ; First innings, 35 (Mendelson 16, nob out); Second innings, 34 (Mendelson 22, not 1 out); grand total, 69. Winchester: First innings, 36 (G. V elvin 13,. not out); second inning", 43 (G. Velvin TO) ; grand total, 79- Mendelfon, for the losers, played a sterling, game, and carried his 1 bat through each innings. For the winners, D. McCaskill and G. Yelvin got into doable figures, the splendid bowling and batting of Velvin being a feature of the game. Heavy showers fell at intervals during the match. Evans’ Milling Company. —The second annual meeting of Evans’ Milling Company was held in Timaru on Saturday. The annual . report end balance-sheet ware read. The profit and loss account for the past year showed a balance to credit of £7896 15s, to which was to be added the balance carried forward from last year, viz., £2973 19s 4d, total £10,870 14s 4d, which the directors proposed to distribute as follows ;—Dividend at the rate of 10 per cent., £2160 ; 10 per cent, depreciation off all plant, £1159; 5 per cent, depreciation off all buildings, £535 ; 10 percent, depreciation, off office furni* dice, £l6 10s; balance of preliminary expenses to write off, £433 8s 9d ; reserve fund, £5000; equalisation of dividend account, £ISOO ; leaving a balance, to be spent as the directors may determine, of £66 6s 7d. The report and balance-sheet were adopted amidst applause. Messrs Taylor, Priest, Grant, and Kerr were elected directors. Mr W. R. Quinn was appointed auditor. Other matters connected with the extension of the business wars dealt with, and the meeting terminated. N Z Unionist in Australia. Mr Newton, who was dismissed by the Rail-, way Commissioners during the labor trouble, has found work in Newcastle, New South Wales, at an advance in wages of 2s per day on what be received in New Zealand. He saya with regard to the labor question ; covering from the recent defea', labor is quietly but surely preparing for another struggle, Tfiay think 9 lot of labor in New returning candidates to Parliament, and seem bent on doing the same this year, and already the hope has been expressed at a society meeting and outside that I will take up the running here, and give my assistance towards doing that am} other union work. I replied that a unionist j should ever bp, but until [ had been here long enough to know the run of the ropes I must abstain from taking prominent parts. My thoughts are always on New Zealand. 1 must admit it is a better climate by far i than this. But what use is climate i without work f —and work is plentiful here. ,i I have seep qdyertigementg fop turners, fitters, smiths, and pattern-makers a'moat I every other day. Elaoksmi'hs are wanted I now in Sydney and Newcastle, and cmnofc I ' bo gdfi k ut u non-society man stands a ' < poor show here,’’ , i

Pictures of the Geraldine District. —There are just now on view at the store af Meßsra N. Dunlop and Go., Gereldine, three oil paintings which rill repay a visit at inspection. One is a painting of the bark whare opposite the post-office, while the two others are views of different parts of the pretty glen near the Kafeahu Baßh Bchool. The p etnrea are the work of Mr M. W. Woodfield, Cbtistchurcb, who visited Geraldine on a sketching tour; some two or three years ago. The Ltttelton Mystery.—Relative to the mysterious occurrence at one of the Lyttelloa wharves the other day, when n child was supposed to be drowning, the West Coast Times asks :—"ls it possible that the sound did not really come from under'the wharf but from some considerable distance ? Instances of this frequently occurred at Westport in a house fronting the Orawaiti tramway line and the Bea, and about half way between . the town and Orawaiti. When in the kitchen at the back of the house sounds would frequently be heard as of footsteps on the verandah in front when i.i one of the front rooms there would be a sound as if someone was wa kiog on the tramway line below. Eventually careful investigations Were made, and it was found that the Bounds originated on the tramway line.at a place nhere the rails were somewhat raised, ing to pa?a over a low piece of sand'which was gecerally wet or had water running over it. Ever afterwards the residents of that house could tell with exactitude when anyone was appproachiog from Orawaiti and when they would be passiog the house.' I Mr Edisowos Flying Machimes.—Mi Edison, in a recent conversation with an interviewer/' expressed his views wit! regard to iho possibility of inventing t flying machine aeifollows :—•" I have;" h( said, M made some experiments and givei gome thought to the question. The humble bee offers a good model to copj from, bu when you come to move highly organisec crettures the matter becomes much more complicated. The bee is propelled; en tirel'y by the strength of its wings, wbicl are small in proportion to its body, arid i not assisted by feathers or by wind o birds are. But it cmnot carry a greate weight than its own body, and a flyiog machiße made on the same" principle would only carry one person. Perhap such a machine might be invented,' bu even that would need great propelling force.. The wings of a flying machine, t admit of quick movement, would have h be small. Birds' wings, of course, an arranged,on a different principle. Loo! at the sea-gull, for instance. It has ver; large wings, which possess comparative! little propelling power • its spreads then out and allows itself to be borne alone: b; the wind,. seldom moving them. Thai certainly, could never be attained in thi generation, because so many natural law are Btill tinkaown to us." ' A Nasty Accident—A ten-year-oli daughter of Mr J. BoughtOD, Geraldine had an exceedingly narrow escape fron being burnt to death on Sunday last. I aeema that the child was in the house b; itself, and put some gorse in the fireplac for the purpose of lighting the fire. Ther must have been some live embers in th fireplace, as while Ibe little thing turnei round to strike a match the gorse mus have Aired up and set fire to her dress, a a few minutes afterwards the b*ck of he dress was in flames. The child ran oat o the front door into the street, and dowi towards the house of Mr Stooehouae, whi lives about a chain away. Miss Stone house saw her coming with the dree burning, and called to ber to lie down ii the water-race, at the same time runnin; towards her. Mr Stonebouse snatched a| a rug,, and running to tbe child put ou the flames. They went Immediately fo Dr Fish, and pending bis arrival nndressec the child, dressed the burns, which wen considerable, and put her to bed. Oh Di Fisb'B arrival be found tba child-had beet severely burnt about tho back and arms He commended Mr Sfcouehouse and uii daughter for their prompt action, th< steps they had taken being very effective dressed the wounds, and tbe little suilerni ia now progressing favorab'y. Had tb< front of her drees taken fire there is littl* doubt the injuries would have proved fatal. SYNOPSIS OF ADVERTISEMENTS. Temuka Rifles Special parade tr■ morrow evening, to elect captain. I Football—Meeting of persons interested in forming club on Friday evening. A. E. Cox and F. R. Guinness—Advertise special eotriee for Temuka Stoch Salejto-day. Temuka Carriage and Implement Worke —Reopens to-day, under Mr Henry Williams' management. Smoke Concert—Friends of Mr A. It. Allan are invited to smoke conoart in Star Hotel on Friday evening. J. Mundell & Co.—Has spring-cart horse for sale, and want to purchase six upstanding carriage horses. D. M. JROBB, Deputy Assignee —Has sold book debts and stock-in-trade in Williams and Colville's estate to .Mr J. Brown.