LOCAL & GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 3559, 13 March 1900, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL.

Candidates to serve on the Geraldine Licensing Committee must be nominated with the Returning officer, Mr F. W. Stubbs, before 5 p.m. on Thursday next. The second prize in the Junior division of the Outlook’s literary competition was won by Miss Lucy B. Bishop, of Pleasant Point, with a story entitled “ A Few New Zealanders.” The train arrangements for the Sports at Timaru on Thursday next will be found in our advertising columns. The evening train for Orari on the 15th will leave Timaru at 6 p.m; The Principal and No 1 Supplementary Rolls for the Electoral District of Geraldine, prepared for the forthcoming election of a Lincendng Committee, have now been issued. They contain 3875 names. The election of five members to form the Timaru Licensing Committee takes place on March 29th. Candidates must be nominated with Mr T. Howley, Returning Officer, before 5 p.m. on March 22nd. At the Supreme Court, Auckland, Daley pleaded guilty to three charges of offences against the Bankruptcy Act, and was sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment, with hard labour, on each charge, a total of 4* years. Mr. D. Thomas will hold a large sale of unbroken colts and fillies, draught mares and geldings, saddle and harness horses, etc., at the Ashburton Arcade Horse Pair on Thursday next. The present entry is 00. The sale will start at 11.30 a.m. Mr Chas. Story, of the Crown Stables, and Abney farm, Temuka, left on Saturday en voute for the Old Country. Mr Story’s many friends in the district will wish him a pleasant trip and safe return. He will have as a fellow passenger Mr Alex. Humphreys, late of Seadown. At Timaru on Saturday a man named William Thompson was sentenced to a month’s imprisonment for collecting subscriptions amounting to 12s Gd by means of false pretences. He led the subscribers to suppose that he was collecting money to enable a man who was sick on some station to get home, while in reality he was appropriating it himself. We are now opening up some nice ranges of boys’ and youths’ ready-made clothing. The chief feature about these goods, and the fact wo would lay most stress upon, is that in the first place we complete large purchases of colonial tweed in bulk, which is then manufactured into specified garments to our own order. By this means we can produce the best wearing suits at the lowest possible prices. Try our boys’ knioker suits at 10s 6d, 12s, 14s Gd. Try our 3-garment youths’ suits at 18s Gd, 20s, 22s 6d. Just opened 50 pairs men’s beaver trousers at 6s lid ; this is under cost price. Penrose’s Drapery Establishment, Timaru. -[Adyt.]

The fortnightly sale of stock at the new saleyards at Geraldine will be held tomorrow. A large number of entries will be found in our advertising columns. The ratepayers of Temuka and Arowheuua should note that to-day is the last day on which they can pay their rates at Temuka to Mr F. W. Stubbs. After to-day all rates will be sued for. A copy of the proposed By-Laws is now open for inspection at the Temuka Borough Council office. Burgesses should make it their business to acquaint themselves with the By-laws. In our advertising columns the Temuka Road Board notifies that all unpaid rates, with 10 per cent penalty, will be sued for after the 31st March. Ratepayers who have not yet paid should settle up and avoid further expense. At the Court-house, Temuka, yesterday morning, labouring man, a stranger, was charged with drunkenness. In consideration of his having been looked up since Saturday night he was cautioned and discharged. On Saturday last Messrs J. King and J. P Newman (manager of the Canterbury Farmers Co-operative Association) were elected members of the Timaru Harbour Board as representatives of the Timaru Borough. Ihe Bank of Australasia has declared a dividend of 8 per cent, equal to £1 12s per share ; _il3ooo is added to the reserve fund, which now stands at £835,000; while £20,000 is transferred to the bank premises account, and .611,150 carried forward. Messrs Maling and Shallcrass hold a clearing sale of live and dead farm stock on account of Mr R. Bisset at Orari on March 22nd. The sale includes a number of draught mares and geldings, light horses, a splendid lot of implements, and from 2000 to 3000 sheep. Full particulars will be found in our advertising column. A railway fireman named Johnstone met with a painful accident at the Fairlie rail- • way station, on Friday morning. While turning the engine it appears Johnstone got . his foot between the turntable and the rails, resulting in his big toe being torn off. The foot was promptly dressed by Dr Hornibrook, and the sufferer was taken in i to the hospital by the afternoon train., The entries for the Geraldine St. Pati rick’s Day Sports this year are a record, 1 being 30 more than last year’s. Tho bicycle j entries are exceptionally good, includingas they do a number of champion riders, such > as G. Sutherland, Joe Barker, A. Ralston, 1 Ken Lewis, and others. The domain is 1 being put in ship-shape order for the sports i next Saturday, and given fine weather ■ there should be a record attendance. ! A hoy was arrested at Timaru on Satur- , day evening charged with stealing a purse > containing £S belonging to an employee at ■ the freezing works. The boy with others ; had been seen hanging about the works, ■ and after his arrest he admitted the theft, ■ and gave information which led to the • money being recovered. Six pounds were i still in the purse, and the balance he had distributed among his companions. He - subsequently admitted the theft of a ring : and £3 from a house in Latter Street. , Anglers still continue to make good 5 baskets in the Opihi. Mr Duncan, fishing ■ on Friday night, some little distance above - the clay hole, landed six fish weighing 311 b, i the largest weighing 121 b. Mr Elder, - fishing within a short distance of Mr DanJ can, also landed eight fish, weighing 251 b. r Mr Duncan on a previous occasion this 3 season, landed, at the same spot, six fish i weighing 3111 b, the largest scaling 121 b. > These fish were all taken ou the fly. 3 At a meeting of New Zealand millers ac . Dunedin on Thursday, an Association bearI ing the name of the “New Zealand Flour i Millers Union of Employers” was formed, 3 with the object of conserving the interests i of the trade. Applications for the positions : of secretary aud travellers are now being ; called. It may bo mentioned that the Bakers’ Union has passed a resolution in ■ favour of the new movement, which it is i expected will place both trades upon a , sounder basis. i In his descriptive notes of the war Major • Kennedy writes in the Otago Daily Times : s —Following the news of the presence of ' large bodies of rebels in the vicinity of I Carnarvon and other places in the western : districts of Cape Colony, comes the pleasi ing intelligence that the second contingent i of New Zealanders has been ordered to r join a flying column to proceed against : them. This will give Major Oradoek and , his men a chance to see service in a part of ! the country that will be found difficult in many respects, but, at the same time, one of the really healthy districts of South ' Africa. Under a clear sky, in a dry, brac- , ing atmosphere, the New Zealanders will prove to be more than a match for the Febel Dutch of the western province. At a meeting of the Society for the Promotion of Kindness to Animals, held in London a few weeks ago, the following resolution was adopted:—“ That the Great Powers who have given their adhesion to the Geneva Convention be most respectfully approached and asked to 1 consider the desirability of an international agreement extending to those on the battlefield engaged in mitigating or terminating the sufferings of wounded animals the same protection as is now accorded by the Geneva Convention to those who succour wounded men.” The Society also decided to send out a competent man to South Africa to examine into the condition of the horses on the battlefield. An assault case occupied the Magistaates Court at Timaru for some time on Friday. Shortly, the facts were as follows :—A man named White went home on Saturday, 3rd inst., and saw that a neighbour’s boy had displayed a red, white, and blue 'flag, with tho blue strip next the staff. White jumped to the conclusion that the flag was meant to represent the tri-colour of France, and was done to annoy him, and he took out an unloaded gun to knock it down with. His neighbour (the complainant) defended the flag with a clothes prop, after he was struck by the defendant. White received a few hard knocks, while his neighbour was cut in the cheek, and lost two teeth. The Bench fined White £2 and £2 15s costs, and ordered him to find £SO surety that he would keep the peace. A man named John Kernohan, in the employ of Mr Robert Smith, of Winchester, was riding from Temuka on Sunday night when he met with an accident near Mr Bees Thomas’ farm. It is presumed that his horse over reached and stumbled, throwing its rider. Passers-by found him in an unconscious condition and carried him into Mr Thomas’, where as quickly as possible he was attended by Dr Hayes and Sir Wm. Blunden, who were called by Constable Andrew, to whom the accident was reported. The doctors’ examination revealed that although there was only a slight abrasion concussion of the brain had supervened, and the man’s case was deemed very critical. On Monday morning we learned that there were signs of improvement and that the serious symptoms had abated somewhat. On Monday he was removed to Nurse Linton’s hospital, where he now lies. Messrs Fitzgerald Brothers had the misfortune to lose a couple of their performing dogs on Friday night. The dogs were brought up from Ashburton ahead of the circus, aud the man in charge tied them up at his lodgings, but during the night they made their escape, and went away with their collars and chains on. Early in the morning the ranger of Hagley Park noticed that some sheep had been worried, and seeing three dogs in the enclosure, shot them all. One of them was the boarhound which Messrs Fitzgerald Brothers had imported from Paris with the lions, and which had been trained to go through a performance in the lions’ cage. It was a very valuable dog, and there willbe difficulty in replacing it. Another of the dogs that were shot was a Russian bloodhound, which had also been trained, and the third was a collie, for which the owner has not yet been found.

The usual fortnightly sale of stock take place at Temuka to-day. The train arrangements | for the crick match “ Melbourne v. New Zealand,” a“ Christchurch, and sports at Ashburton will be found in our advertising columns. A child of about 3 years of age, belonging to Mr Alfred Colville, met with a painful accident last week. The little fellow pulled a jug of boiling water over himself, badly scalding his face and chest. His mother at once toot him to Dr Hayes,' who attended to his injuries, and he is now in a fair way to recovery. A cricket match was played on Saturday last between the Temuka and Pleasant Point schools on the grounds of the latter, when the visitors won somewhat easily by 35 runs. The scores were—Temuka, first innings 36 runs, second innings 49 runs (E. Twomey 12, G. Gapper 11 being the highest scorers); Pleasant Point, first innings 16 runs, second innings 34 Laurenson 11 being the highest scorer). ' Twomey and Williams were the most successful bowlers for Temuka, and Bayner and Mclntyre for the Point. Messrs McLeod and Dalglish acted as umpires. Dr Thomas gave the highest scorer on each side a small present. After the match the visitors were entertained at tea. A return match will be played on Saturday, the 24th instant, at Temuka.

Mr Julius Siegert, who has disposed his storekeeping business to Messrs Ker* nohan and McCahon, and is leaving Fairlie to reside on his farm, near Cricklewood, was entertained by his friends on Saturday evening at Mr Fuchs’ hotel. About 40 persons were present, Mr J. L. Hamilton acting as chairman. Mr Gilmour proposed the health of their guest, and in doing so referred to Mr Siegert’s many good qualities both in and out of business, he wished him every success in his new role of a farmer. Mr Siegert suitably responded, and expressed his regret at leaving the township of Fairlie. The chairman, on behalf of the company, then presented Mr Siegert with a handsome companion case of pipes, as a small token of the esteem in which Mr Siegert was held by the people of the district. During the evening several other toasts were duly honoured, and a number of songs were suug, and altogether a very pleasant time was spent. SYNOPSIS OP ADVERTISEMENTS. W. Brogden—Wants a ploughman T. Herlighy—lmpounded red bullock. “ Guardian” Office—Pound Lady’s cape. Guinness Sc LeCren -j- Entries Temuka sale. F. Beri—Funeral of late Mrs Burton tomorrow. National Mortgage Sc Ageao Company— Entries Geraldine sale. Geraldine County Council—Notice re rates to be sued for. Temuka Road Board—Rates and 10 ptjp cent, penalty to be sued for. New Zealand Loan Sc Mercantile Agency Company—Entries Geraldine sale. J. W. Pye—Geraldine half-holiday oh St. Patrick’s Day instead of Thursday. Morrison Bros.—Particulars re clothing, several lines of which they are clearing at gift prices. Mr Arthur B. White, Teacher of Organ, Pianoforte, Singing, etc.—Notice re visits to Temuka. S.C. Board of Education—Wants tenders for painting and repairs at Burke’s Pass, Orari Bridge, and Makikihi. New Zealand Railways—Fares and train arrangements for Sports at Timaru on March 15th; fares and train arrangements for Ashburton Sports ; excursion tares for cricket match at Christchurch. Canterbury Farmers’ Co-operative Association—Entries for sale at lower Geraldine saleyards to morrow; sale of furniture on account Mr A. H. Postlethwaite; important sale of freehold farm and live and dead farming plant, on account of Mr John Robinson, at Rangitata, on a date to be advertised. .