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Temuka Leader, Issue 2822, 30 May 1895, Page 3

Quoits. — The third match between the Geraldine aud Temuka teams will be played at Geraldine this afternoon. Geraldine teamSherratt, Twigg, Fronting, J. Dean, Baughen, Stringer, Kennington, Ward. Emergencies: Hughes, T. Banghen. Temuka team: —McCaskill (3), Brosnahan, Dana, A. Russell, Nelson, R. Lavery. Flay will begin at 2.30 p.m. sharp. From Greymouth last week 3505 tons of coal aud 164,000 feet of timber were exported. A proposal to raise a loan of £250,000 to subsidise English schools in the Transvaal is being advocated at Capetown. The steamer Arawa is to leave Sydney for Loudon, by way of the Cape of Good Hope, on the 26th inst. She is to fill up with 30,000 caroares of mutton and beef and general cargo. A curious tale of forged notes comes faom Russia. For some time past a considerable number of spurious rouble notes had been noticed in circulation. Although it was believed that they came from abroad, their exact mode of introduction baffled detection. One day a case of lead pencils, described as hailing from England, passed through the Russian Customshouse. One of the pencils dropped out during the examination, and was promptly appropriated by one of the officials. B e used it for a day or two, but on sharpening it a second time he failed to discover any more lead. This struck him as being most remarkable—ln an English pencil—and incited him to proapeutp tue researches still fqrther. Qn splitting the pencil, he, of course, found a forged rouble note carefully rolled up in the cavity, and so the destination of the consignment was discovered.

Mr John Wilcox, an acco<y utat a arrived in B x Hill from Melbourne by train, had, walked down the line tqwards his home, when a train to Melbourne blocked his way at a crossing. While waiting ' ill it passed ho noticed his wife standing on the verandah of his house looking out for him. Ho waved his hand to her and smilingly receiving her answering signal wh(?n the train passed. Without stopping to assqre himself that tho line was clear he started to cross. J uat as he did so there was a rush tpid a shrill whistle, aud he sprang in tho air. But ho was too lato. The Lilydalo express dashed upon him, aud ho wa? knocked down aud borne towards tho station on tho cowcatcher dead. The shock to the wife, who witnessed the fatality and shrieked a warning a moment too late, was terrible, and its effects are aggravated by her delicate health and condition. Mr Wilcox leaves three children.

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