LOCAL & GENERAL

Temuka Leader, Issue 3813, 2 November 1901, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL

The aervic°B for Sunday in connection with the Wesleyan Church will be found in another column. According to a Wellington telegram the Minister of Lauds has been advised by the Solicitor General that there is no limit to the lime within which a perpetual leaseholder may acquire the freehold. In our advertising columns Colonel Bailey, commanding S.C. Sub.-distncc, publishes a D 0., directing attention of officers commanding corps, to paragraph 1-1-, General Order No. 33, dated October 21st last. There was a good attendance at the Geraldine Terminating Budding Society’s extraordinary general meeting of members in the Oddfollows’»"Hall on Thursday night, when an appropriation of ,£l5O was offered by tender, and brought as high as £25 6s. The Timaru High School Sports were held on Thursday, and were very successful. The Senior Championship, the trophy for which was given by the president (Mr W. B. Howell), was won by Gordon Gunn, with eight points. Gar. Crawford being a close runner up. The Junior Championship fell to H. Young, with M. Gudex runner up.

Mr A. D. Aloore, so well known in athletic circles as a prominent member of ot the Waihi Football Club, left Winchester yesterday morning to take up an apppintment in Christchurch. Air Moore will be very much missed in connection with several public bodies, and his many friends unite m wishing him a long and prosperous career.

Application has been received by Captain Linn, secretary to the Royal Humane Society ot New Zealand, for recognition of the bravery of John William Blackwood, who on June 25th, at Dunedin, at a risk to himself, stopped a pair of runaway horses attached to a carriage, in which were seated the Premier, AlrsSeddon, and two of their daughters. At the Magistrate’s Court, Timaru, on Friday, Daniel Stewart, a tailor, was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment for failing to comply with an order of the Court, made six years ago, ordering him to pay £1 a week towards the support of his wife and family. The arrears amounted to £lB5 15s. Accused said he had come to Timaru for a holiday, and he has got a long one. Timaru papers report the death of Mr John Hullen, until recently of Waitohi Flat, at the early age of 48 years. Deceased had followed farming pursuits for many years at Waitohi, and earned the respect of all who knew him. Until a comparatively short time ago he appeared a healthy, robust man, and it was only a mouth or six weeks ago that, finding his health broken, he went to live in Timaru. Airs Harris-Roberts, who is announced to hold a service in the Town Hall on Sunday evening after the ordinary church services, is self-styled a Universalist, holding no particular creed, but teaching spiritual science on its broadest lines, and self culture in particular. Her subject on Sunday will bo “ The Twentieth Century, its outlook and possibilities.” The service is to start at 8 o’clock, and Moody and Saukey’s hymns will be used. In our advertising columns the various auctioneers notify that the Pleasant Point Sale, 4th November; Temuka Sale, sth November ; Geraldine Farmers’ Sale, 6th November; Studholme Junction Sale, Bth November; and St. Andrews’ Sales, 15th November, will not he held. The sale at the upper Geraldine Yards will be held on Monday, 11th, instead of the following Wednesday, and the Washdyke Sale will be held on the 12th November. The next Sheep Skin Sale at Timaru will he held on the Gth.

A meeting of the committee of Winchester Alechanics’ Institute was held on Thursday evening. There were present —A. 11. Crosbie (chairman), J Opie, S. J. Hitchens, W. Harrison, j. Moore, and G. Steven. The chairman reported that the improvements authorised at last meeting had been carried out very satisfactorily by Messrs Haar and A. D. Aloore. The treasurer reported a credit balance of £6 11s 6d. The chairman'was requested to make enquiries as to the title deeds of the Institute the first time ho visits Timaru, A large parcel of new books was received from Christchurch, and 31 new books were chosen. Accounts amounting to £5 were passed for payment and the committee rose.

The services in connection with the Primitive Methodist Church for Sunday will be found in our advertising cnlntnns. Entries of sheep, cattle and pigs for the Titnaru Show close with the secretary, Mr G. P. Wood, today, and other entries on Tuesday next. Mr J. J. Meii.le, of 'Southland, will give a lecture in the Geraldine Oddfellows Hall on Wednesday evening, when he will describe “ How he, an t innocent man, was made a convict in New Zealand, and sentenced by Judge Ward to seven years’ penal servitude,” etc. An admission charge of Is will bo made to defray expenses, and to raise funds to enable Mr Meikle to proceed to England to lay his case before the Imperial authorities, A final performance of “ Pinafore ” was given on Thursday evening, when a crowded audience gave the performers hearty applause for individual and collective efforts. The opera went very freely from start to finish, all engaged appearing quite at their ease. Mr Jeffries took an opportunity at the entr’acte of thanking the children for their attendance, and expressed the pleasure he felt at the way in which they had gone through their marches. Those who witnessed their performance had, he was satisfed been well pleased also. We learn that the financial results will realise expectations, and Mr Jeffries and all associated with him are to be congratulated upon having in a comparatively short time being able to produce iu such a satisfactory manner, this pretty opera. Authentic Me»ical opinions Worth Knowing. —Dr Osborne says ; •* I use Sander & Sons’ Eucalypti Extract as a spray for nasal catarrh, low fever, asthma &c.. with great success. I find this preparation superior to all others.” Dr Stahl:

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