CENTRAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 5823, 29 May 1909, Page 1

CENTRAL NEWS.

One ( ,f the white owls imported by the Otago Acclimatisation for the destruction of snudl birds, has been seen as far north as Lincoln.

Wellington butchers have decided to reduce the price of meat by one penny per pound to persons buying over the eoiinter for cash.

The job printing and news departments of the WaiKato Times were destroyed by lire on Tuesday night. Th L . machines escaped, and the paper was published next day as uiiial. The iusuranceJamount to .ClllO. The tender of W. Jameson and Son, Christchurch, has been accepted for erecting the new post ollice at Auckland, the amount being ovet .f'J5;000.

At a meeting of the Taieri Licensing Committee it was decided not to issue anv conditional licenses for the present This means that next week's Winter Raee Meeting at Wingalui will, be held without the sale of Honor.

A llunediii telegram slates that it is understood that there is a possibility of an interesting development in regard to the recent local option poll in Bruce, and that acting on legal ad- \ ice ihe publicans- will proceed to lodge applications for a renewal of licenses in the usual way. A Press Association telegram from Diiticdin states that the Row J. Chislu.lm, moderator of the Presbyterian General Assembly, has received definite advice that i)r Wilber Chapman, who is conducting a mission hi Australia, cannot spare lime to visit New Zealand.

At tlu." Supremo Court, Chrisfchureh, Huston Curlett, a money-lender, sued tin; Lyttdton 'J'itiH'S Company for t'adl damages for an aliened libel contained in a leadine; article contained in the Cbrisfchurch -Star, relleetine; on liis methods of i loin if business. The Hnv returned a verdict for plaintiff for one farthing damages, and tlm juJ"-o allowed costs on the lowest, \ ni'w trial is ;o l)e applied for i liristehnreh in the libel ease, 'l'. W . Slrine'er. K.C., v. John Norton, proprietor ;uid conductor of New Zealand Truth. The ground for the application is that the damages .jiven by the nry were excessive. A London cable message states that Bnthursl is leading for the Daily Mail Kmpire, Day shootinu' trophy. The Xorth London team scored S(K, and tie- Boulder Bilk's, West Australia. Mlc>.

A middle-a.fed woman, who arrived in Cliristcliurch by the. north train on Wednesday niidit. died in a cab while bciir_i driven to a residence in the city. Iler name, aconl'm;' to a bank book found in her possession, was .V-nes Morton .Brown, a resident, of Christchurrli. At the ini|ii ( .rs|. it was shown that the cause of death was heart disease. Mis< Brown was eon ncied with the Youi.e "Women's Christian Association.

Siiinethin-' of a stir has been created in I osbiirne by tie' holding <»1 a l>o\ it;-.-- exhibition on Tuesday lii-hi. for w '.■ i■ ■11 a poiic j •.-rniit had in»l been o' lain d. No char-e vva - made for aduiCdoii, but a towel was laid_ in tin- , en: re of the riii'-r, upon which -,;-,-.-lalor- ' threw -otuc coin--. Inline li ;.';,-! v ihi-- took pin-'-' the police sei/ed • In- 'ntocy and took (he nam.-- of all who v ere Aa a sc-|iiel, about To p I'v.n- hav e re.-.iv I'd summons > to all-.-lld (he I'oliee Court.

11,,. hciriim- of the char-.- ajaiu-l l-"od,-!-[.■!., Carli-'k. laboivr. of attempt ~.| murder of Amos ChnUield ~n Ihe i,;--!,t of Kebruar. 'J'Jnd b.v throw in<_' hi '.. r the Lank of the llautapu ~,.-,,,, ..ceupi.'d the Taihap" -hi-k'''' '..,■ -v.,, days. Ae.msed and I'halheld had bee-, in Taihnl"'. and the affair happen.-I on the way home, both hn'inn been driukinv. \eeii-.-d p-eiwd 1,, ,!,.f -,. and un commill'd h"' 'link

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The will of the jate Mr G. G. Stead was lodged in the ProbateOliiee, Melbourne, on May 15. Mr Stead left estate in New Zealand of the value of £170,000, and personal estate in Victoria worth Ji.Sl'3.

[ _ A very suspicious lira occurred in a house occupied by Mr Huddle, a locomotive, driver, in Timaru on Wednesday night. Tho curtains in a room occupied by a boarder were discovered in /lames about a (| uartei- to 10 o clock. They wore prompllv torn down, and the flames were extinguished _bv smothering them with a bed duilt. the whole damage amounting to about .t'3 -.(/-. Tt is supposed that someone raised the window sash and threw a lighted match info the room. The house belongs to VI r B. Toner, who is at present absent from the country, and it is not insured. Why not use Chamberlain's Pain Balm when you hav o rheumatism ? We feel sure that the result would ~i. prompt ajid satisfactory. One appli. cation relieves the nain. and many have been permanently cured by it's use. Pain Balm is a liniment and is applied exterrally to the affected, parts For sale by all chemists and storekeepers, Temuka and Goraldine.— Advt. While working on the Mhniro, one of the Tyser Company's mutton Units, at Gisborne, a man named Bisselt, of the engineering staff, fell into the hold, and his leg and arm were fractured.

An old aire pensioner named Frederick Thomas Farr, sixty-six years old, a carpenter, disappeared oii Friday, nuil lias not been hoard of since. Suicide is suspected. Quoting Mr iluldane's remark that the 'Empire is not hold too-other hv the waving of flairs, the New Zealand Times savs : "J t L is Ju>l<l toe-ether by the industry, the public spirit, and the intelligent co-operation of each individual oitben. The Empire is held together hotter by the man v, ho does mi honest day's work than hv the individual who absents himself from dulv and ut lees or listens to rhodoniontado. Hie .Umpire was not built by flair wavers. It was built by workers—the pioneers and (lie men of brain, enterprise, and concentrated endeavour who followed the pioneers. There is a dancer of these tliintrs boimr forgotten. There is a fear that some of our writers. <■■ luealionisbs 'and public men. with Ike best but nn»t mistaken motives possible, are misleading;- the upsprinirino- generation as (o what patriotism niuans. Patriotism means stiekiii"- to the job in hand, and doinii "'ifli 'all thy mi-ht that uhieh the liand lindeth to do." .Mr T. I-'.. Taylor makes a \iir<>rous protest ae-ainst the proposals of the Crime Minister, and thinks (hat (he dillerenro in (he altitude of (he (!ovornment as been March '2l and May •21 would form irood material for a comic opera. ' "' Why Mr Hall Jones should 1-e ignored in conneetioii with the proposed conference will probahlv he eyplained by tin- Prime Minuter when the House meet-:." said the member for Christchurch North. " If the Iliyli Commissioner is worth the salary of r2;)!>0 a year whieh the dominion is payinir him, he oiiidit to have brains enough, and 1 believe he lias ample, to attend the .Naval Conferenee and discharge I iff duiv to the dominion as its represent at i\ e. The sue-eestioii .thai the Vrimo Alinisler •must ir<> is a straight-out impeach meat of Mr 11 all-Jones. I am inclined to think thai Mr I fall-Jones's wellknown caution would have (ended p> safeguard the dominion's iuleresis in connection with any proposal thai may come up for consideration in London. If the Prime Minister, with in a few hours' reach of his Parliament, saw his way io pledge the Dominion to an expenditure of from two to four millions slerHnir without eoesultine Parliament, heaven only knows to what he may commit us if we '!, I him loose in the atmosphere of London, where I'.ulfour ami company will lioni-e him to an ex'tonl thai is like.ly to al'i'eei the cool judgment of a much less impetuous man than (he Prime Minister has recently demonstral -. I himself to be. 1 hope that the affairs of the country will not be subservient to Imperial pieniekinir." Many persons find themselves affected with a persistent Couirh after an attack of influenza. As (h's eou..-h can 1 e promptly cured by the use () f Cham herhun's Cotmh 'Remedy, it slio'dd noi 1,0 allowed to run on until it becomes troublesome For sale by all chemists and storekeepers, Tomuka and flora!(linc Atlvt-