GENERAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 5419, 26 July 1906, Page 3

GENERAL NEWS.

The overdraft of the Tinumi Borough Council now stands at £SOOO. Socialism wul ere long be the only living political issue throughout the civilised world—Labor Loader. The quantity of potatoes imported by this colony during 1905 was 27SG tons, valued at £16,371. The imports from America were valued at £6911. Mr L. F. Petrie, who is only 21 years of age, has just been elected as Mayor of Clarksville, Arkansas. lie claims that ho is the youngest mayor in the world. The Labor Department (says an exchange) has called upon Gisborne Conn oil to register their stonccrusher as a factory. 'Phis the Council, are reluctant to do. 'I he largest cargo of ’whisky ever imported into the colony arrived at Port Chalmers by the s.s. indragihiri a few days ago. Of that spirit she brought 980 tons. The St. Mary’s Church Completion Committee (Timaru) now have in hand, or promised, a sum of £SOOO, and it has been decided to call tenders for the completion of the church at once.

At a meeting of the Seddon Memorial Committee at Hokitika, it was de. cided to issue subscription lists at once, but the question of what shape the memorial should take was held over until the lists arc returned.

The constable at Opotiki has telegraphed (hat a Maori named Hauraki was accidentally killed on Tuesday afternoon through a dray which ho w a s driving being capsized on the Wuioka Gorge road, about nine miles from .Opotiki. Mr Arthur Mathieson, secretary to the Wavorloy-Waitotara Racing Chib, ami a well known commission agent at Wuvorley, was accidentally shot at Whenuakura on Tuesday morning, lie was getting through a fence, when his gun went off.

’I he price of butter has gone up to 1/3, and local consumers arc beginning to growl. The scarcity is due to over-exportation, a southern agent having come into the market and has bought up large supplies for shipment' at the close of the season.

A body in a decomposed state, supposed to bo that of Harry Skid, late fireman on the Mourn, who was drowned on the Bth of lust_ month, was found in the Duller river on Tuesday.

Tire body of Captain Stonersen, master of the scow Rangi, who lost. his life in tire accident that occurred last week while survey soundings were being taken, on the bar, was found two mile's north* of the Ivaramca on Tuesday.

The first practical illustration of the enormous demand for building matrrials occasioned by the San Francisco earthquake has just reached Wellington. The Marlborough Lime and Cement Company Ims sold 1000 tons of cement for immediate delivery in San Francisco. The cargo will be shipped by the Pondo. -

That outspoken "vet./’ Captain Young, hit out at Taranaki young men the other night when inviting questions. “Upon my word, they don’t, ns a rule, seem to take an interest in anything," said the Home bred officer. "The only thing some of them seem to be qualifying for is the old ago pension. (Laughter.) For some little time past the South Canterbury Chamber of Commerce has been endeavoring to secure a 'bimonthly direct steam service between Tiinaru and London, and word has now been received that the New Zealand Shipping Company and the Shaw Savill and Albion Company have decided to provide such a service, commencing this month with a Shaw, Savill boat.

The first case of a breach in the Act in bringing liquor into the No-license area of Oamam in excess of the quantity allowed by law without registration will shortly come before the Court. On' Monday the police caught a resident named Williams red-handed, lie alighted from the Timaru train with a gallon jar of beer, seven bottles of whishv, and a bottle of beer. He will be charged with bringing in this liquor unmarked. A fatal accident occurred alfout noon on Tuesday at Wakanui, near AshljurH,,n, A man named James Dwyer was working, in company with his_son, in a shingle pit War the Wakanui I’ost Ollic-e. They were filling to shingle, when suddenly the walls of the pit began to cave in. and before Dwyer could get dear, he was smothered in the debris. It was close upon a quarter of an hour before he was rescued, and then it was found that life "as extinct.

.Mr Uobert Fleming, of Port bevy, U,sl a Valuable bull the other day in a most peculiar way, states the Akarojv Mail. His son, Mr Wynn Fleming went into the paddock carrying a hammer intending to loose the wires and let the beast into an adjoining paddock, when the ball charged him. Mr Wynn, being un active and fearless voimg man, threw the hammer um slipped aside. The hammer strue.c the beast ’on the forehead mid he dropped. On examination, He was found to be quite dead.

Krnos't Sargent, Public Worll's Office clerk nt Haurimu, near Tatnuarunui, committed suicide on Tuesday J>y shoot ing himself with -a J«a rillc. A considerable number of properties ■have changed hands ai satisfactory (igures in Ekcta'hmia County recently. There is still a strong demand, and prices are steadily rising. Numbers of investors are visiting the distn'.cl.

A ten-roomed house owned by the estate of the late William Keith, at Winton, was destroyed by lire yesterday. The building was insured for £ISS and the furniture for £3OO .in the South British office.

Ai the Supreme Court, Christchurch, yesterday, Walter Lender and George Nottingham came up fur sentence on charges of burglary at Kangiora. On the plea of youth and previous good character, and the influence of Nottingham, Lander was admitted to probation, but Nottingham was sent to gaol for throe years.

Ulmt might almost 'be called ■‘boom” rates still prevail in the values of agricultural prop/crhica iin the Oanmru district, and more particularly of sections governed by the several cases in which very largo premiums were paid for such sections. On Saturday the Oamuru NuiT heard authoritatively of a cgso in which a leaseholder of GOO acres has been oll'cred jiltle short of £3OOO for his goodwill and improvements, the latter being liberally computed at £ISOO. Yet even so tempting a proposition ns ‘this did not lead to a sale. i

‘The Waimate Hospital Separation Bill, which is to come before the House next session, will be strongly opposed. At a 'meeting 'held on Monthly night, the Timartt Borough Council passed the following resolution concerning it :—‘‘That this Council approves of anti supports the South Canterbury Hospital anti Chari table Aid Board in opposing the Hill to form a separate district for Waimate, and considers that the ifor. mation of another district is ([trite unircctesury, and would lend to increase the expeaso of 'administering hospital and charitable aid in South Canterbury, without any lit ire lit even in that portion of the district which is attempting to'break away,” The motion was carried unanimously.

The London correspondent of the Otago Daily Times stales on the audio i;i ty of the late Premier himself That '3l r Scddon eoakl have had a baronetcy, at the least, -whenever he ■’chose to claim it. The King was deeply impressed with the vnlucof lire services which New -Zealand, at 51 r .Se Mon’s instance, had rendered to the Empire during the South African war, and was exceedingly anxious when -Mr Sedtklon was at Home- at the Coronation to include his name among those chosen for the 'bestowal of Coronation honors upon their owners. King Edward, in the course of an audience, personally pressed upon Mr Scddon, the acceptance of a baronetcy ;; hut Mr Scddon respectfully submitted to the King that such an honor, while it would bo most deeply valued by hhnself and his family', would nevertheJess 'ham pc r him in the work', whichhe still had to do, and to which he had “set his hand.” He explained that in Ids view any- honor that his sovereign might graciously confer would be better timed for Its bestowal when the recipient should be retiring for repose on tne completion of his active career than at a time when lie was still an active worker, when it might have the effect of compromising hi in in ap- [ learancc —at anyra-t e, with his particular party' in politics, the extreme democratic section. 11 is Majesty listened attentively, and at length remarked, with evident reluctance “I t may' bo so ; no doubt you arc right ; you should know best” —or words j,to that oli’cct —adding that at any future time, if Mr Scddon could see his way to accept the honor wh eh his Sovereign was eager to confer upon him, that honor would lie at Iris bestowal. Indeed, it was even hinted that a yet higher rank might be Iris' if he wished it.