LOCAL & GENERAL

Temuka Leader, Issue 5824, 1 June 1909, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL

~ ~ I The monthly meeting Q f the Tcnuika | Hoad Board will be held to-day. I , Tlle monthly meeting of the Geraldine Borough Council will be held to-• night. A social in aid of the school funds, will be held in the Milford Schoolroom on Friday evening. The monthly meeting of the Tcmuka Borough Council will be held to-mor-row (Wednesday) night. Holiday excursion tickets are now being issued at the railway stations available for return until June I‘Jlh. "The annual meeting of the Geraldine Racing Club will be held in the Geraldine Hotel to-morrow (Wednesday) evening at 8 o'clock. The fortnightly stock market at Geraldine will l)e held to-morrow (Wednesday). Numerous entries are advertised.

Hr -J. Mcllroy, Geralliae, will hold a sale to-morrow at ■ ' b 0.m., when lie will dispose of furniture, , fruit, poultry, and produce. There wasfian unusually severe frost on Sunday night, and yesterday the weather was dull and cold, but frost again set in last night. The Jaud is at present in splendid order for working.

While play nig on Fri lay e>-f.j irg a lad named Norman Dyer, son f Mr T. Dyer, clerk and overs*nr of the Geraldine Road Board, broKe a small bone in his leg, necessitating medical attention.

On Thursday evening Messrs Rodman and Campbell will be entertained in the Oddfellows’ Hall, Geraldine, by the managers of the Presbyterian Church. The members of the church and all friends are cordially invited to attend.

The annual mooting of members of tho Geraldine Branch of the British and Foreign Bible Society will beheld in the Presbyterian Church, Geraldine., to-morrow evening at S o’clock, when a full attendance is requested. Tho annual concert in aid of tho funds of the Presbyterian Sabbath School, Tenmka, will be held in the Parish Hall this evening. A very attractive programme lias been arranged, and refreshments will be handed round. The concert starts at 7.30. At a meeting of tho Gore Club held last Monday evening it was resolved to order (iU Imres from Mr E. Bull, the well-known hare-catcher of Peel konst, for delivery at the end of •June, so that the animals will become acclimatised by the dates of the next meeting on July 21 and 22, We , learn that it is the intention of the natives to entertain Dr Hayes in the hall at Arowheutuv pa on tho 15th June, Tho doctor has been their medical olliccr for many years, and they mean to mark their appi'cciation of his services now that ho has retired from practice. Dr Hayes loaves for Kakahu within the next few clays. This evening Good Hope Lodge, 1.0.G.T., Tenmka. will hold an “Open Lodge” in their hall. Denmark street, Tenmka, when a good programme of smigs, recitations, etc., will lie given, and refreshments will lie handl'd round. The admission is only (id, and there will no doubt be a large attendance. Tho body of William King, was found near tho railway lino about a mile south of Haywood’s, Wellington, on Snrnlav morning. At tho inquest it was stated that ho was unmarried and 2S years of age. Tho evidence pointed to the fact Hint tho deceased, who, one witness said, had on Saturday night been slightly under tho influence of liquor, had sat down on one of the sleepers and boon struck by the engine of a passing train. A verdict of accidental death was returned. Among the speakers at the dinner to Messrs Jones and Evans, the fanners' representatives before the harm Labour Commission, wore Messrs John Talbot and James Hay, of South Canterlmrv. Mr Hay said that as a

professional man he could appreciate the task accomplished by Messrs Jones

F.vans, and A eland, They had dealt .successful!v with ail egormous number of v, it nesses, and hud succeeded in bringing out in evidence the vital points at issue. They, had done their work evtreinwlv well. A very striking fact that emerged from the enquiry was the very (‘me and good relations existing between master and men in (he agricultural industry in Canterbury. .Mr Thos. Buxton, M.P. for tierghline lias received the following communication from the Hon, J. A. Alillnt* : With further reference to your letter of March 11 tli with respect to the running of the Timarn-Fairlie passenger service on Saturdays, I have the honour to inform you that as the return of the business indicates at the present time that the train is meeting ; public convenience, and that there is a reasonable amount of trallic forthcoming, it has been decided -to continue running on the existing lines in the meantime. The matter will again lie reviewed in two months’ time, and if it is found that the business falls off the question of continuing the running of the train will be further considered.'’ Mr Buxton say* ho has little doubt that tin; service will 1)0 permanent, as after the two months mentioned by Mr Millar the, worst of the winter will bo over, and the trallic will certainly incrcaao.

A short time ajjfo 31 r .I I ’, Smith, fruiterer ami confectioner. Icmiika. I hi<■' i J ' > ll l si< 1<• his place "I business a '' ] uMiiiy ia -1 lie-slot mnchi m l ,' w hereby Ihr \ until of the town could exchanee I heir su peril nous pennies (ami those (/I l-lmir parents for that matter) for ilaintv pot up packets of chocolates. The hoys ami 'juris look lu it at omv. Tim insertion of the coin in the slot ami the resultant packet, of sweets pro\ e,! most seductive, business was extremely eood. Hut the nm on coins soon proved more than e,pial to the .supply of some Volin;* hopefuls, ami thev then tried substitutes -with

smees-. On 31 1' Smith Joilli;' |o empty lim cash drawer ami replenish the stork of chocolates, he was astounded to liml, iimlead of pimniim coin of the realm, a heap of rubbish. There w.-iv I ><jniinii iii Day medals, lead discs cut run ddv to (he si/e of a penn\, iron oa his and so on. Annum (Imin too, v.eiv a f.-w halfpennies, ■mailer wadi I r■, and Imt lons, Iml tim-e could not have u , ml, ed the or, eh', or in other «"!■. i,. lii e v could not ha'-e I icon the mein of obtainmj sweet--. M r Smith had |n 'loree to ri'inon the machine ' o ,; pine mi his r. ninler. am I m>w 1 \ oil I !’f 111 ell - t olll'TS ha'-e to do t he! r I-, 11 ij11( 1 . ■ Under (he e\ e of the lels UI in elia r m It j - a pi i v that Ihe \ . line I'l OJ .1, ■ who Wi • I’k e 1 (he •v. ii>■ 11 ■ a’b. ii it iv.i a short In ed ■cm do no) put t lei r talent- to 1 iet ( ef I. nn I I i jo 1 e !I o | lei | I! m f I ImV \\ 1| | i- e 1 .-I’ Do -neli a (him,’ aja m .

Imr Children’s IDu'kiap Com.di a! nijlit. Woods' Great Peppermint (’tire, 1/fi and 2/6.—Advt,

lenders are invited for the purchase <<f the old Post Office, Geraldine. Mrs Curtis announces the opening of (lancing and deportment classes at Geraldine. The death is announced, in Christehureh, of Mrs I'css, wife of Mr Josivess, after a short but painful illness. The Timber Commission has been granted an extension of time to make its report, which it will probably submit about the end of Jun© 4 Roderick McKenzie, of the Excelsior Hotel, Dunedin, was fined f 5 for supplying liquor to an intoxicated man. His license we not endorsed.

The owners of the Five Rivers estate, in Southland,* are -ottering their property to the Government for T 3 an acrq, the money to lie at interest for a period at 3( per cent. The Assessment Court for Invercar* gill Borough sat yesterday. Three hundred objections were listed, but only fifty are to be considered by the Court. The others were cither settled or the objectors failed to put in an appearance.

Mr F. S. Frankish, well-known in cricketing circles in Canterbury, and at one time one of the finest cricketers in the dominion, died at Wanganui on Monday night. He has been ailing; for some y*xrs.

Two fatalities are reported from Ruakiluri Station. A man named ’Victor Berg was killed whilst) bushfelliug, a tree coming down on him, while a Maori boy was drowned in the Ruakitu»i River.

The Rev, S, Henderson, of Christchurch, (trcachod to large cot ei-ga-llons morning and evening in the Primitive Methodist Chorea, Ger •Vine, on Sunday last. Py a unanimous vote on Sunday, Hie congregation gave the Rev. G. H. Mann a call for another year at Geraldine.

The Rev. Gforge Blatlnvayt is at present spending a few days in Temuka renewing acquaintance with old friends. On Sundae morning he preached in St. Peterjs Church, and in the evening at St. John’s Church, Winchester. He is the guest of the Rev. J. M. Adcock, at the vicarage. Mr G. J. Roberts, Chief Commissioner of Crown Lands, Westland, who recently tendered his resignation, retired yesterday on three months’ leave of absence. Mr Roberts lias been a very old servant in Westland, where ho has done splendid work and established an enviable public record. He has declined any valedictory presentation from the staff or the citizens.

Mr A. S. Adams and Mr H, D. Bedford, of Dunedin, have been retained by tho Ashburton JS’o-liccuso Council to represent those who object to licon ses being renewed in tho Geraldine portion of the Ashburton liceoensing district. Applications for the granting of these licenses will bo heard at tho meeting of the Ashburton Licensing Committee to bo held on June 11th. Whoa Conrad Wilkinson, a Wellington contractor, applied fer an order of discharge from bankruptcy, Judge Cooper questioned the contention of bankrupt’s counsel that his trouble was due to misfortune, and pointed out that ho went into laud and building speculations with no capital, leaving his wife comfortably off. There was a deficiency of £3OOO. His Honor adjourned tho application till next sitting, Air W. Kus worthy, M.P., has received a reply from the Minister of Railways that arrangements arc now being made for tho dropping of elm mails from the morning express train at Orari.—Means for picking up and setting down the stuff signals at wayside railway stations, whore the mail train does not stop, are already in use on numy station platforms along the Main Trunk lino (says Hie Wellington Post). The train, however, slows somewhat to ensure the primer working of the apparatus. Now, the system prevailing in « thor countries of seizing mail bag's mochaa'cHly is being considered by Hie Pailway Department. In England the mail-bag, suspended from a bracket, is i aught by a reinforced net thrust cut from u window of the mail van at Hm right moment. The apparatus inspected by officials of the Postal a;nl «ho Railway Departments at Lambton station i<

somewhat differenef The mailbag is hung by an iron . : ng Irom i, hoop of a spring steel, which opens under a smart blow. The passing train has a lover arrangement which tiunsts a se 1 1 of arrow-head through the ring ci the bag, and sweeps it <!.;ar of its mnming spring. The experim mt tin rr.ceessfnl last week, and mvbably Uie ap[)aralns will come iron c.ennu n ns„ for the trains which include a mail van.

bast Friday there passed through this district a new style of motor-car, which, wo understand, is called a motor buggy. Wo may certainly that it looks more like a buggy than an ordinary motor ear, but at the sumo time it is propelled, by a petrol engine. To enter into details of Us mech mum is undesirable, as many would not understand. but we may say that it has four solid tyre wheels of a very substantial kind, which nro not l.ke'ty to give way for a long lime. Jt ins a good length of wheel base, ami the body is much longer than an ordinary double-seated buggy. The i-ont seat, where the driver sits, is like that of an ordinary motor car. It has the steering wheel and other gear, but the ornamental brass engine bunted is not there. The engine is underneath the seal, and is what is known as tin; double opposed. Thu ordinary motor engine is encased in a jacket, in which water js constantly circulating. In the more recent ear there is no water (‘ifeul ding. The engine is air-co ded by means o) fans, which create a draught. I( is well o[( the ground, ; nd ean go

over very roiij-h country, and thr-mpdi a pom) depth of wafer. If its carliurre( ter had been phiccd higher, as it could easily he, (Imre are not tnanv rners that would stick it. One of its mh a id. apes is that if is very easv to L r, 't at. as it is well off (hi> ground, iu I all its parts am very accessil,|e. and a. far as a enrsorv e.xaminal ion 'f d eoidd allow ns to imlje it. is i’"l proof, there i- so little ill it (o' io in- ni : .i, It j- pot a pleasure car, ml a- an every day business ear we lave , n i io ! hue, r e.pial to it. H js a •ar w 1 1 i■ h the 1 1 I era at innal Harvester 'o.ard e,f if Mr ( onimori. jeaeral man. 'per of the International Harvester i imp. ui v. Mr Roberts of (!m same, ilrs Colonel .lowsey and her jnindhil I, (lie elialTenr. ami a vomij Imly. iml also a live rabbit, besides a larje ,mint its- ~f bmpaje. I'wo losers with one self-same cold. Two eliests with hilt one. w hee/,e, I’v.o ro-e-rifl noses hlcndintr in On.- .jre.ml impassioned sms’/e. I'un souls will) 1 >lll one single thoiijhl One asoirntion pure - 'This i'(ii. 1 We've eaiie-ht we ll ret at naiijhf H v Woods' Great Peppermint Cure.”

A' grand social will be held in the South Orari Schoolroom on Friday evening next in aid of the prize run . Good music, etc., will be provided. A concert and dance will be held m the Waitohi Flat Schoolroom on Friday evening next. A good prolamine has been arranged for the concert, and good npidic for the dance, and a large attendance is expected, Messrs Dalgety and Co. will hold a clearing sale of sheep, horses, pigs, implements, furniture and effects, etc., on the farm of Mr W. Armitage, Winchester, on Thursday next. Mr Armitage is about to leave for the North Island, so everything must be cleared. The, Canterbury Farmers’ Co-opera-tive Association advertise a verjf important sale of furniture and effects, etc,, at "Ashficld,” Tcmuka, on Thursday, next, June 3rd. on account of the executors of the late Mis J. Brown. Details are given m Die advertisement. A number of quarteracre sections in the borough are to lie sold at the same time.

The Dunedin Star states that the existence of the Flourmillers’ Association will be decided on Tuesday (today).' It all depends on one large South- Canterbury milling firm, whoso agreement expires to-day. It declares that it will not continue the present arrangement. Should this course be persisted in, the Association will practically disbgnd to-day. A committee meeting of the ladies and gentlemen of the Tcmuka Hockey Club was held last evening, when final arrangementswere made for the euchre party and dance, to lx; held on Thursday evening next. They have everything well in hand, and the refreshments and music will be of the very best. Mrs Eoulston has kindly donate ed a handsome prize for the lady winner at the card match, and Mr Cuthbert has also Jtindly given a trophy for the winner of the gentleman's prize. All that is required now to make it a huge success is the public support. . On page 3 will be found particulars of a remarkable offer being made by A. Gabites. In it they, say they have decided to offer the whole of their lovely stack of ladies’ and children’s coats at’ a .discount of 4/- in thi; pound. They argue that the first loss ds the best, and though much cold weather is prophesied, they prefer to reduce their stocks now'. We are informed that tlicse coats arc the very newest, and include all the latest styles, at prices that commend themselves to the thrifty. We confidently recommend our readers to inspect these goods. (Advt.)

SYNOPSIS OF NEW ADVERTISE-

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I). Gregan—Lost dog. Dr Harokl Rugg—Public notice. Mrs Orford, Winchester—Wants a cook. Guinness ani LeCrcu —Entries Geraldine sale. Cadbury’s Bournvillo Coooa —Good, pure, healthful. Mrs Curtis— Dancing and deportment classes at Geraldine. South Orari Schoolroom—Grand social on Friday evening. E. Fronting—Funeral of late son of Mr G. Mnistor. on Thursday. Waitohi Flat School —Grand concert and dance on Friday evening. John McMroy—Sale of furniture, produce, poultry, etc,., to-morrow. Temuka Hockey Club —Euchre party and dance on Thursday evening. T. and J. Thomson, Tiiuuru —Twenty five cases new goods ; description and prices. ■ C. Ballantyno and Go., Timaru Headwear and handwear for winter wear. Dalgety and Co.—Details of clearing sale on account Mr W. Armituge on Thursday next. C.F.C. Association —Sale of farm in late R. Cartwright’s estate at Timaru on Saturday next. J, H. Denton, Clerk in Charge Puljlic Works Office, Christchurch—lnvites tenders for the purchase for removal of the old post office building at Geraldine. Canterbury Farmers’ Co-operative Association, Geraldine —Head Cuttec, Mr Herald, will be in attendance at C.P.C.A.. Geraldine, to-morrow, to measure for suits. Canterbury Farmers’ Co-operative Association —Entries Geraldine Live Stock Market : important clearing sale 6t sections, furniture and effects, at Temuka on Thursday next, on account of executors of the Into Mrs Job Brown.