THE Temuka Leader TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 1909. LOCAL & GENERAL

Temuka Leader, Issue 5794, 23 March 1909, Page 2

THE Temuka Leader TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 1909. LOCAL & GENERAL

Entries for tho Tiuiaru Agricultural and Pastoral Association's annual Ram Fair closo on Thursday next. Tho fortnightly stock ma'Act at Geraldine takes place to-mjjrjw. Numerous entries arc advertised m uiothur column.

A splendid rain has fallen at Peol Forest, beginning on Thursday evening. Up to Saturday morning 173 points fell.

Twenty-live entries have been received for the youth Canterbury bicycle road race, from Timaru to Geraldiuo and back, on April Ist next. The annual meeting of the Temuka Golf Club will bo held in the Social Hall, Temuka, to-morrow ovjiij \y. We publish tho annual report in another oolumn. The first annual 'meetintr of the Dominion Hockey Club will bo Ik Id in Mr C. Brown's saloon, Temuka, this evening, at S o'clock. IntenJing members are invited to attend. Messrs Guinness and LeCren will sell a handy little farm of -11 acres I rood 30 perches at Geraldine to u.vorrf w, on account of the executors of the estate of the lato Fredk. Gulskoski. The farm is situated at the corner of Filield's road and Orari Gorge road The only land in Canterbury at present under offer to the Government, or likely to bo acquired under the Land for Settlements Act, is a portion of the Orari Gorge Estate, which is under offer by the trust?es of the Tripp Estate.

Amongst the published list of names of passengers for the cruise to the West Coast Sounds at Easter, as inaugurated by the Hon. T. Mackenzie, we notice the names of Messrs A. A. Readdie and G. F. Smith, of Geraldine. There are also several Timaru passengers.

The annual meeting of tho Temuka I>ootball Club will be held in the Fire Brigade Chambers this evening at S o'clock, when the annual report t-nd balance-sheet will bo read a.'d adopted, officers elected and general business dealt with. The annual report wiil be found in another column.

A match will bo played in Timaru on Thursday between the Temuka and Timaru Tennis Clubs. Tho following will represent Temuka :—Misses Pearse, Guild, Taylor, Capper, Aspinall, Paterson, Messrs W. Pearse, R. Pearse, •'. Pearse, Feilden, Guild, Elphinstone, 15, Aspinall, and M. Molxwl. A claim for £2OO compensation lias been filed 'by Frederick Powell, shepherd, against Mr Graham Holmes, of Pigeon Bay, Canterbury, sheel* fanner. The claimant alleged that he was thrown from a horse when mustering and dislocated his right knee, the r, • suit being a total incapacity for work as a shepherd.

The Temuka Bicycle Club's pro gramme is now issued, and besides the [ New Zealand Cycling Championships. there are handicap events, which art open to roadster tyres only. Amateur and professional runners nre well I catered for, and novelty events are also on the programme. Without doubt this is tho best, programme issued by the club for some considerable time. Programmes may be had on application to the secretary. At Oaniaru on Saturday morning, Thomas Met!rath, a youth, was charged before Mr Hutchison, S.M., witli destroying 1 gelding valued £35, 1 gelding value £25, 1 cow value £5, the property of Davis Bros., Malieno, and 1 bay inure valued £3O, the property of I'Yunk Young, also of .Maheno. The information was laid by Constable Woodley, of Hampden, who apprehended young MeGra'lh, after having established a substantial case against him. The bullets were the usual .2'_> used in the pourillc, and (hey appeared to have set up bloodpoisoning. The accused was remanded to Thursday next.

On the 10th proximo the annual meeting will be held of the National .Mortgage and Agency Company of New Zealand. The directors state that, after paying all Home anil colonial j expenses, also interest on debentures, ■and making full provision for bad and doubtful debts and depreciation on premises, plant, etc.. the net profits amount to £35,155, which, together with £77-10 brought forward, gives an available balance of £-13,21*2. From this an interim dividend of 1/0 per share has already been paid, and it is proposed now to pay a further dividend at the same rate, with a bonus of I/- per share, both free of income tax, making HI per cent, for the year ; to add £15,(H)() to the reserve fund, and to carry forward fs-JOg.

At a meeting of the I'alliie Technical Association, it was resolved to forward a claim to the Kdtiention Department for £25(1 fo;- a Technical School budding. It is proposed to divide tie- building Hito two depart-meats-one for cookery, dressmaking, etc., (he (dller for woodwork, wool-(•Ins.-dng. etc. The proposal ol the S.C. Kduoatioii Hoard to charge 5 per cent. ~,, a l| moneys passing through their hands (with the exception of building ~i,,n t -| :<nve ri-'e to considerable di-

ration. Some inemix-rs .-troiiglv objected to iinv charge, while all fjmreed that if a charge 1- made. it dioidd be made lower than that pr0p.,.,.,1. p.,.,.,1. Finally it wa-- decided (o hold ,|„, matter over until next meeting to ....,,. „|,..,( deei-iom; other Associations arrive nt.

Hartley and Riley got 2450 z 13dwt of gold for 150 hours last week. 1 The first meeting of the newly-elect-ed Board of Managers qf the Temuka Technical Classes will be held this evening at 7.30 p:m. The annual meeting of the Temuka Hockey Club will be held in Mr F. Smith's rooms, Temuka, on Thursday evening.at S o'clock. All members and intending members are invited to be present.

A' meeting of persons interested in hunting will be held to-morrow in the Geraldine Hotel at 2.30 o'clock, to consider terms proposed for hunting the Geraldine district for the ensuing season.

Through the medium of our 'advertising columns, Mr Ci H. T. Sterndale, local secretary, notifies that the final date for closing entries for examination in Art of Teaching, under. Trinity College, London, will be 31st March, 1909.

The Canterbury Farmers' Co-opera-tive Assoclatioo will liukl a clearing sale of dairy cows, pigs sheep, poultry, trap horse, harness, and implements, etc., on the farm of Mr \V. JJack, near Xcmuka, on Thursday next 'lire sale will be an unreserved one, an.d "will start at 2 o'clock. It will bo seen from our advertising columns that the Teniuka Technical Classes Association propose to establish classes in Geraldine this winter, and the Geraldine people will no doubt bo triad to have the opportunity of reaping some of the benefits connected with our system of technical education. It is a great boon to the residents of the Teniuka district, 'and if the classes at Geraldine 1111 up as they do in Teniuka, there is no doubt at all as to their success. The ladies of the Geraldine district will be holding a meeting in the Geraldine Parish Hall at 2.30 p.m. tomorrow, to consider the advisability of raising a monster petition from fenialo voters of New Zealand to present at next Parliament, lor the restoration, for a time, of free Government immigration of single women suited for domestic service. The convenors of the meeting are Mesdames Maling, Hamilton, Todd, Hawdon, JJennistoun, and Tripp. The South Canterbury Jockey Club's races take place to-morrow ami Thursday, March 21 and 25, the first race starting at 1 p.m. The acceptances arc large, and the races should afford those present some first-class sport. Excursion railway tickets will be issued to Timaru. The ordinary morning train, Ashburton to Timaru, will J start at 7.50 a.m., and arrive Timaru [

10.30 a.m. The afternoon train from Timaru to Ashburton will start at 5.20 p.m., and arrive Ashburton 3.20 p.m.

A meeting of the Temuka Volunteer Fire Brigade was held last evening when there was a good muster of members, Lieutenant Sheen presiding. Routine business was dealt with, and tho representative team gave an interesting account of the demonstration at Auckland. Members expressed their dissatisfaction with the water supply in the King street water channels at night. Last night and on Saturday night there was no water llowing down the channels, and in the ease of

a liro this would be a very serious

matter. The hope was expressed that the Council will see to it that there is always a good stream of water llowing down the channels, The recommendation of the coroners jury that some attempt should be made to locate the wrecked Penguin is not viewed with favour by the Marine Department, as in the absence of aiiy reliable guides as to the vicinity in which the vessel made her last dive, the possibility of finding the wreck' is very remote. No one appears to have any idea where the wreck lies, therefore so large a field may have to be dragged with grapnels that u month's work may prove futile. The cost of a vessel like the Tutanekai when in commission, amounts to something like £3o> the day, and the Department does not consider that the search should be undertaken unless more definite instructions concerning the vicinity of the vessel are furthcoming. Says the LyHelton Times :—Great dissatisfaction is expressed by the people of the districts of Winchester, Geraldine, Orari, and Rnngifata in consequence of the proposal of the Railway Department to run one express (rain north and one south, making no slop between Ashburton and Temuka. It is urged by those who complain

that it would have been far more reasonable to have made Oniri a stop-

ping place and to htwo excluded Temuka, as the former station would serve a district far larger than the latter would. A suggestion has been mad*, that the morning express from Chrislehiiroh should stop at Winchester and the evening express to Christchurch should stop at Orari, as this arrangement would suit the whole districts of Winchester. Orari, Kakahu, Geraldine, Woodbury, and Pool Forest.

Children_ure usually hard on boots. The. toes go first as a rule, but. not so if the boots are made, with an indestructible leather kicker toe. Solder's Boot Store have just opened a large shipment of children's boots and shoes lilt I'd with indestructible kicker toes. Try a pair for the next pair the ehildlon want. All our new season's boots and shoes for the children have arrived. We have a very fine collection of warm slippers for ' tho little ones. Sonler's Boot Store, Timaru

Often people wonder how it is*that owners qf Dnrraoi cars are so seldom troubled with mishaps, but on examining these cars thoroughly it will be found that they have ono third less parts than any other make of cars in existence. It is a recognised fact amongst all great authorities at Home that to anyone who wants a car for constant J »ard work and also for cheapness of up-keop und reliability, the Darrncq stands alone. Their ever repeated wins in Reliability Tests all over tho world testify to tho above points. Tho npw model, 11/1(3 h.p., which under tost is actually 1(5 brake h.p., although •only lande-d a f»w weeks ago, is already considered by experts to lie tho quietest and most flexible little family car in the colony. Anyqno interested in the purchase of

motor car should not decide entil they have had a run in one of these little cars, the total weight of which is 15cwt, and which travels at a speed of It) miles an hour, beside-? being a wonderful hill climber, and exceptionally economical in petrol. Dnrracqs are also making a small pattern -I cvlinder PJ/I-1 h.p.. which will be rotailed at £350. The new pattern Do Dions, or which we him also taking orders for indent, are the following :- 10/12 h.p. 1 cvlinder, P2/U h.p. 1 cylinder, and 18 h.p. Further information and trials, wib be given qn application to Messrs SKeaies and Bockaert's garage, Timaru, this firm being the sole New Zealand agents for oth Do Diqn and Darraoqi.

The National Mortgage and Agency Co., Ltd., will hold an important sale of horses at the Temuka Saleyards to-day. About 50 horses are to come under the hammer, including a special entry of buggy, carriage, and saddle horses from Ash wick station.

There was a jyery large attendance oi ' Uuyers fnorn all parts of the district at Mr W. K. Macdonald's clearing sale at Raukapuka yesterday, and good prices were obtained all round for household furniture and effects. Mr J. Mundell conducted the sale, and bidding was fairly spirited throughout. Anyone looking for really good value in boots couldn't do better than inspect A. Gabites' lovely stock. This linn has just landed a beautiful lot of Sunday boots that for style and value cannot be touched. In addition to selling goods at Timaru prices marked in plain figures, they give 1/discount in each pound. No exchange charged on Timaru cheques. New lot of Koslyn, tweods for tailor-made suits now on view. Order your suit early. C. Lashlie, manager.—Advt.

SYNOPSIS OF NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. McKay Bros., Wullingford Hotel — Want a waitress. McGruer,- Da vies, and Co., Timaru— Swell styles in millinery. Ballantyue's, Timaru Beautiful blouses ; best samples sent on approval.

Temuka Hockey Club—Annual meeting on Thursday evening, at Mr F. Smith's rooms.

Trinity College, London —Final date for closing entries Art of Teaching 31st March.

Hunting—Meeting of those interested in hunting will be held in Geraldine Hotel to-morrow afternoon. Geraldine Ladies' Hockey Club —Annual meeting in Pratt's Refreshment Rooms at 7.30 to-morrow evening. H. Hall, architect, Timaru —Time extended until noon on Tlmrsday for building two-storey brick premises in Temuka. Thomsons', Timaru—Saving to customers through special freight to Timaru ; particulars and prices of new goods ex Paparoa.

Temuka Technical Classes Association —Propose starting dressmaking and wool-sorting classes at Geraldiue ; notice to intending pupils.

P. Wareing. president Temuka and Geraldine Agricultural and Pastoral Association —Invites tenders for lease for 7 years of show ground reserve, at Winchester.

Canterbury Farmers' Co-operative Atsociation, Geraldine branch—Notice re farm implements' and manures ; highest prices secured for farm produce ; Algerian and Dun seed oats ; storage- for grain. _*

Canterbury Farmers' Co-opert\tivo Association —'Auction sale of residential property (of la 2r 25p) household furniture and effects, on account Mrs John Cooper, North Town Belt, Temuka, on 30th March.