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Timaru Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 3587, 30 March 1886, Page 2

On tho fourth pago will be found " Colonial Defence," " The "Value of Colonieß," "lloro Soldiers Wanted," "Tho Prince of Walos," "Affairs m Samoa," "The New Houso of Commons," " World's Day of B«st,' and " Miscellaneous." The Board of Reviewers for tho Borough of Timaru will sit this morning. A meeting of the Timaru High School Board will bo held at tho Secretary's office at 11 o'clock this morning. The annual meeting of tho South Canterbury Football Club will be held at 5 o'clock this evening m the Timaru Assembly Booms. Tho place of Mr Stewart (recently deceased) on the Levels Licensing Committee, has been filled by tho appointment of Mr E. G-. Ken 1 . Some 32 trucks of grain came into town by the last train from tho North yesterday. That from tho South was also a hoavy one. More wool came m last week than was anticipated, 95 bales arriving by rail, and 21? by road. So far 23,680 bales have come into town, 18,065 by rail, and 6615 by road. Mr W. Bolleston, the Member for G-eral-dine, will meet his constituents m the Volunteer Hall, Temuka, at half -past 7 o'clock this evening. Tho nowly-elecled Board of Trustees of Waimate Hospital have resolved to advertise for a surgeon to take tho duties connected with the institution. At a meeting of the Waimate Borough Licensing Committee, held at the Court-house, Waimate, yesterday, Mr Frank Slee was appointed Chairman of tho Committee for the ensuing year. The official opening of the new traffic bridge over the Ashburton River will take place at 2 o'clock to-day. After the ceremony, tho company will meet at the Council Chambers, when toasta appropriate to the occasion will bo drunk.

Sir George Grey has completed his tour of the Middle Island, and has returned to the north by the Hawea. The election of :i l.ijensing Committee for Deep Creek will 1. • ' eld m the CourthoußO, Waimate, to-day. There was one drunk located at Her Majesty's gaol, Timaru, yesterday. This individual will be brought up this morning to answer for his misfortuno. At the Waimate Police Court yesterday, before His Worship the Mayor and Dr Stacpoole, J.P., William Griffiths was fined 5s or 48 hours m default tot being drunk on Sunday morning. The sitting of tho Besident Magistrate's Court for civil business thi3 morning will be adjourned till Tuesday next, through the Board of Reviewers under the Property Assessment Aot using the Courthouse. Andrew . Hart and James Turnbull had to appear before the Besident Magistrate yesterday morning on charges of allowing horsea to wander at large on Wai-iti Road, and were each fined 5s and coats. A man namod Parker was brought m from Fairlie ' Creok yeßterday morning by train, suffering from a broken leg caused by a kick from a horse. He was conveyed to the Hospital. In another column this morning will be found an article on the Temuka Linseed, Oil, Cake and Fibre Company, which should prove interesting and instructive to all wellwishers of the important industries carried out by the company. A lecture and concert will be held m tho schoolroom at Fairlio Creek this evening m aid of the school building fund. The lecture will be delivered by tho Eev. G. Barclay, who will take for his subject " Some points m the Progress of Liberty, Civil and Religious." Messrs W. Postlethwaite, E. Elworthy, and E. G. Stericker, who compose the Board of Reviewers for the Levels District undor the Property Assessment Act, sat at tho Courthouse, Titnaru, yeßterday from 11 a.m. till nearly 4 p.m. The proceedings were private. Tho Manager for tho Boyal Flouring Mills Company notifies m our advertising columns (his morning that cheques for dividend and bonus for year ended 31st December, 1885, can bo obtained o.k fcbo Company's offlc© on and after Thursday, Ist April. It is notified m another column that *a billiard match is to bo played at the Grosvenor billiard-rooms on Friday next. The players are very good ones, are well known m billiard circles here, and the match should, thcreforo, prove a highly interesting one. A fine specimen of the Mammoth Purple Top turnip was on show at Mr R. Wood's store, Geraldine, yesterday. Its girth was 3ft 3in, and weight 261 b. It was m every way a handsome, well-shaped root, and was grown by Mr Lott Wilcox, on land occupied by him somewhere near the Geraldine racecourse. A very heavy thunderstorm accompanied by a torrent of rain and hail, passed over Waimato early yesterday morning. The lightning was exceptionally beautiful, varying m hue from deepest purple to palest blue, and was very vivid. A gale of wind from the south-west was blowing at the time. No damage has yet been reported. Tho firing by the 0 Battery, N.Z.A., for the challenge cup presented by Mr A. Sinclair, and tho battery prize, is fixed for tomorrow morning. Tho various detachments will assemblo m drill order ut tho battery's headquarters at half-post five, and tho competition is to commence at Bix o'clock. Three detachments have for same time been drilling hard m preparation for the event, and a close competition is expected. Tho Now Zealand Shipping Company's Royal mail steamer Rimutaka has just made tho fastest passage on record between Plymouth and New Zealand, beating the late magnificent run of the R.M.S. Aorangi by one hour twenty-five minutes, and the last passage of the s.b. Arawa by four hours forty-five minutes. Tho Rimutaka's time from Plymouth to Port Chalmers was 39 days 12 hours 57 minutes, including all stoppages. The amount of intoxicating liquor necessary to mako a man drunk enough to fall within the clutches of the law, depends largely upon the strength of tho drinker's head. A man charged with drunkenness at Waimato yesterday pleaded that he "had only had three drinks, and that ain't enough to make a man drunk, your Worship." Thoir Worships, however, could not agreo to accept three drinks as tho limit bibulists might attain with due respect to public morals, and tho thirsty individual was convicted and fined. Probably ho will stop short at " two long boors and a medium" next time he comes to town. The Waimato Hospital at present only contains two patients, ono male and ono female. An improvement, and a necessary ono, has recently been carried out m conneotion with tho institution, a neat and commodious smoking-room having been erected for the use of tho indoor patients. No ono but a smoker can appreciate tho misery of being deprived of all opportunity of using the •weed to a smoking patient, and yet m many hospitals the provision for votaries of the fair nymph Nicotiana is very inadequate, if not altogether wanting. Waimate has set a good example which should be generally followed. From an advertisement m our columns of to-day it will be seen that the Rev. Mr Macfarlane, who has for many years been residont m Now Guinea, is to address a public meeting m Trinity Presbyterian Church on Wednesday evening. Mr Macfarlane, besides tho advantago of intimate personal knowledge of that interesting country, has the reputation of being an excellent speaker. His lectures m Dunedin have beon largely attended, and the Press speaks highly of the interesting and instructive manner of his address. This is an opportunity for gaining information about New Guinea not likely to occur again for a long time, as Mr Macfarlane is now on bin way to the Home country. We hope to sco a large attendance. There appears to be a general misconception on the part of the public as to the functions of a reporter for the Press. Hardly a day passes but that the unfortunate reporter is bailed up by the friends of some gentleman who has misconducted himself m such a way as to render his interviewing tho Bench of Magistrates indispensible, with a request that the said gentleman's name may bo kept out of the public prints. Tho ground for the request usually is that the friends of tho unfortunate gentleman would be deeply grieved, but it does not seem to occur to the mindß of the petitioners that if the culprit has not sufficient consideration for the finer feelings of his own relations and friends, it can hardly bo expected that a complete stranger, such as the reporter usually is, should exhibit such, nor that the reporter is paid to perform certain work and must do his duty m carrying out that work as fully as any one else. I

The grain is coming m to town a little more briskly. During th» last weelc there -were received by rail 19,200 sacks, making a grand total of 59,216. There wore received by road 1?,625, making a total to date of 23,023, the amount to hand by rail and road up to date being 82,239 sacks. Tho outrageous behaviour of the Waimate larrikin has long been a source of great annoyance to respectable peoplo attending tho various public amusoments and entertainments from time to time given m the town, and indeed, their conduct of late has been co bad that many peoplo have preferred to remain away from the public hall on the occasion of performances there of late, rather than undergo tho infliction of the larrikins' society for an hour. A severe le3son was given to one of 'the ringleaders of the gang yesterday, which it is hoped will have a deterent effeofc upon hia associates. Daniel Swan, giving his age as nineteen, was charged yesterday before His Worship the Mayor, and 8. Stacpoole, Esq., J.P., with creating a disturbance m tho Oddfellows' Hall during a performance given there on Saturday evening, by " The Colorado Beetles." He pleaded not guilty. Sergeant Morice proved tho case, and was corroborated by the hall-keeper, both witnesses alleging gross misconduct on the. part of the accused. The Sergeant said that when he arrested him, accused bogan to cry, and pleaded for mercy on account of his old mother. Constable Fitzpatrick gave the accused a very bad character as a larrikin, and proved a previous-conviction againEt him for fighting. Accused had no defence to give, but said that he was not the worst of the crowd. Dr Stacpoole, m lining Swan £2, or goren days, said that hs had himself known sccused as a larrikin of a very undesirable stamp for Borne time. If he, or any others, waß brought before him again on a similar charge, ho would send him to prison. The mouey was paid. Tho Hawea Star says that rain is very badly wanted on tho West Coast of the North Island. Tho tanks have given out, and the wells are very low. The Otago Daily Times Bays : — " Meetings have been held throughout Waihemo and Waikouaiti counties during last week to fix the date on which to begin rabbit-poisoning. The proper time for commencing operations was debated at each, but. opinions appear to vary very much. At Dunback the Ist of May was decided on, but at Waikouaiti the Ist of June was regarded as a favourable time. -At a meeting at Waihemo schoolhouße it was proposed to commence on the Ist of April, but the Ist of May wbs eventually decided on. Some diversion was caused at this meeting by the appearance of a rnbbit m the scboolhouse. The intrusion was resented, and his career was Boon put an end to. The Wellington correspondent of the Otago Daily Times telegraphs that somo important experiments have been made m connection with the electric lighting of the Houses of Parliament m preparation for the coming session. Tho Swan incandescent light is still used, but an improved form of lamp is substituted for that formerly m use, the pendent chandeliers being of much larger diameter. This increasoi diameter, coinbiued with the Buperior kind of lamp used, effects a wonderful improvement m the illumination of tho chamber. During the experiments a soft brilliant light was diffused everywhere. There were no dark corners, and no unpleasant glare was noticed. The expense will also be materially diminished, especially when a new motor, imported by Dr Lemon, is brought into use, by means of which the cost of electric lighting will, I understand, be brought down far below that of gas. The tests were deemed very satisfactory so far as they went, but some fresh experiments will be made shortly. The rations for out-door relief number 2500 per week m Napier (says the Daily Telegrapfy. The weeding out of the recipients that took place some timo ago was not before time. Lately it was stated that a man had sent several deputations to interview the Chairman of tho Charitable Aid Board because he had been knocked off the list. The man had been m receipt of fiverations daily, while at the same time he was earning eight shillings a day. Perhaps the best joke told at the meeting was of a woman whose husband was sentenced to a term of imprisonment. The "grass widow " was pensioned by the Government to within a few shillings .a week of the wages received by her husband when m work ; she received out-door relief, and the wants of herself and hor children were accordingly attended to, and m addition she was supplied with doctor's attendance and medicine at public cost. As a fitting conclusion to the tale, the passage of herself, children, and husband (who has recently been discharged from gaol) were paid by the Charitablo Aid Board for them to Melbourne. Altogether the family — leaving the husband out of the calculation — has cost tho country £300 during the last four years. Evidently the charitablo question was not settled permanently by the Act of last session. SYNOPSIS OP NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Jonas and Bourn — On the 14th prox., at Elizabeth street, at 2 p.m. — Parr's mill, &o. : Pleasant Point Salo — Entries will "bo received till 2nd prox. ; on tho 31st inst. at their Booms —Will sell skins. J. Mundell and Co. — On tho 14th prox., at Geraldino, at 2 p.m. — Land Bale, by order o£ the Registrar of tho Snpreme Court. N.Z.L. and M.A. Co.— On the 31st inst., at thoir Rooms — Will sell skins. Football Clnb — Annual meeting at 5 o'clook m tho Assembly Rooms. Royal Flouring Mills Co. — Notify that cheques for dividends, &c, can be had at their offioo. F. Slaughter— Dog strayed into hia paddook. Ross, Sims, and Co. — Tenders wanted. Georgo Shepherd — Trespass notice. C. N. Orboll— Rams for salo. Peacook and Geaney — Mutton at 2a Gd per side. J. G. Cowa.n — Business notioe. J. E. Beokinprham — Fnncral notice. W. Napier — Funeral notioe. N. W. Macfarlane— Tenders. Miles, Archer and Co. — Land to let by tender. Hall and Meason — Castle Rock Estate to let by tender. Rev. S. Macfarlano — Will deliver an address m the Presbyterian Church on Wednesday, at 7.30 p.m. Billiard Mateh — At tho Grosvouor Hotel on Friday evening.