Waitohi Flat.

Temuka Leader, Issue 3470, 25 July 1899, Page 3

Waitohi Flat.

On Friday evening a very successful concert was held at Waitohi Fiat, under the auspices of the Good Hope Lodge, 1.0.G.T., Temuka. No charge was made for admission, and there was a good attendance. The chair was taken by Bro. Barr, who in a few words stated the object of the visit of the lodge, which was to assist the cause of temperance, and he hoped they would vote “ No License ” at the coming election. He then introduced the various performers. Songs were given by Sisters Fawdray, Mcßratney, Walker, and Richardson, and Bros. Jessep, Barr, and Lyons, a duet by Bx*o. and Sister Richardson, recitations by Sisters Greaves, Robinson, Elder, and Mcßratney, and Bros. Fyfe, Every, and Cain, and a reading by Bro. Barr. The accompaniments were played by Miss 11. Richardson iu her well - known artistic manner. The entertainment concluded with the dialogue, “ A Bit of a Tiff,” which was well rendered by Sisters Greaves, Mcßratney, and Richardson, and Bros. Lloyd and Barr. At the invitation of Bro. Barr the pledge was taken by some of those present.

A London cable message says the Jockey Club suspended Ted Sloan, the American jockey, for disobedience, at the post at the Sandown Park meetiiiir.

A young man named Charles Oawkwo'l lias been killed while felling a tree at T: r.Mi-ni", Auckland. A veidict of acci denial death was returiu d. A Gisborne telegram says no further trace has been found of Mrs Cojpin, who has been missing rince the early part of the week, and there is every reason to b-lieve that she bus been diowned in the Wnipao river. As an indication of the grasp some ladies have of matters political, since the advent of the extended franchise, a lady at a public meeting held in Timaru last week, asked, on some questions relative to the land problemn cropping up.: “ Would you be in favour of tbo freehold tenure, in connection with the lease in perpetuity ! ” This is truly marvellous. At Wanganui, Leon Simon, a brewer committed ruieidc by shooting himself with a revolver in an outhouse at the rear of bis residence, Wilson street, 'three wounds were inflicted, two in the throat and one in the mouth. Deceased was an old West Coaster and highly respected. '1 ho recent death of a brother and business worries are the supposed cause lending to the perpetration of the act. Deceased leaves a widow and daughter.

A series of petty burglaries were committed at Stratford eaily on Sunday morning. Three places were entered. Mercers, tobacconist's, window was broken and £ls worth of goods are nusairg. The window of a temporary building n ed as the Club Hotel (lately burned down) was rpered and f.ome liquor stolen. Hitchcrck, Stevens and Co.’s steam furniture factory was also entered. Nothing is missing, but the till was rat . sacked.

A lad eight years old, Patrick Joseph Hogan, fell off a ladder in a building in course of construction, at Christchurch, and died of concussion of the brain. The girl Agnes Reynish, who was kicked by a horse at Pigeon Bay last Tuesday, died at the hospital, Christchurch, from the injuries she received. A boy aged five years, Prank Joseph Trigance, was run over by a cab in Oxford Terraco, Christchurch, on Saturday and killed. xAddrcssing a meeting in St. James Church, Auckland, the Rev. W. Gillies, organising agent of the Presbyterian Church, New Century Fund stated that since he had commenced his mission five weeks ago he had got on his books .£2OOO. He hoped to get ,£IUOO in Auck'aud and as a good begining he had received in cash or promised donations the sum of £250. The object of the fund is to assist struggling congregations and to promote church extension in thinly-populated districts. Mr Gillies stated that the debts on Presbyterian Churches amounted iu all to about £23,000, but the congregations wore strong enough to carry that burden, and wipe it out by degrees, without interfering with this new century fund, which was for the good of Now Zealand Presbyterian Church as a whole. During the whole of his mission he had only received throe refusals —they wore, he was bound to say, from gentlemen, but were courteous refusals —and not one single growl. As for the ladies, they never refused. Ho gave some illustrative instances of liberality, said that “ the liberal soul was made fat,” while there was ho who withhold what was meet, and it tended to poverty.