TOWN & COUNTRY.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 4526, 29 April 1889, Page 2

TOWN & COUNTRY.

♦ On Fridoy evening a lad named Wella was thrown from o horse in Queen etreet, Waimate, and sustained slight concussion of the brain and a rather sevore cut in the lip. The lad waa conveyed to tho residence of Dr Niccol, who sewed up the wound and the patient was then taken to his own home. Mr W. Upton Slack writes to soy that after the salo of his Woodside property he was twitted by many for having asserted during tho sole that tho average yiold of oats on the farm was 80 bushels per aero. He explains thot what he said was that tho crop on No. 5 allotment, 91 acres, averaged 80 bushels per acre, ond that tbo statement was confirmed by Mr Guthrie, the tenant. Tbo Hon. Minister for Lands apparently does not value very highly the idea of the exhibition odvertiaing the colony. Talking about exhibitions reminded him, ho said, that opart from the Duuodin ono, the colony was advertising itsolf in a much better way than any exhibition could do for it. This lost season little New Zealand, without any warning or preparation and without running itself short, supplied the wonts of Australia. Tho colonißls were also satisfactorily and steadily advertising themselves at Home by a constant stream of first claas mutton, and also by tho largo development of tho dairying industry. It was ono of tho most liopof til signs to find that thoir fame had been such ob to oltract buyers to tho colony who endosvound to obtain its uroduio to sond to tbo Old Country Wo understand thot a serious difficulty is boing found in carrying out tho Employment of Fomales Act ia Timaru. Tho Act provides tbat female employeos in fnctorioa shall have a bnlf -holiday ovory weok, aud that tin's ahall, if no other provision ia mado, be on Saturday afternoon ; but if tho municipal authority bos declared any othor half day a public holiday, thot half doy ahall bo tho holiday undor the Act. As ovory body knows, Thursday afternoon has been declared tho half holiday in Timaru undor tho Act. Now the Munogerof the Woollen Factory doclarcs thot if the Act is enforcod, and oil the " females " and " young persons " employed in tho factory are to ceaßO work on Thursday of tornoons it will be ruinous to thorn, as tho whole courso of tho wcok's work will bo broken ; not only labour, but what should bo continuous processes, must bo interrupted, and two " cleanings up" required each week. Wo ngdorstnnd that Sergeant Livingstone, the inspector under the Act, bus made somo representations to tho Resident Magistrate beforo taking legal proceedings, which it ie bis duty to take, againet the managers of tho factory ; and that tho Borough Council will bo approached on the subject, probably ot thoir next meeting. Thore docß not Bccm to bo any provision in the Act to permit of any exceptions being mode, and tho law cannot niako lloili of one and fowl of another. Neithor is there any provision for appointing oltoruative half days. Tho boot fnctorioa and tho tuilore, or some of thorn, aro claiming a right to alter the half holiday of thoir employees if the fuctory is allowed to do so, aud the question hoi now assumed a shape when it will havo lo bo dealt with iu Bomo

A meeting of tho committee of the Boutb Canterbury Jockey Club was held at the Großvenor Hotel on Saturday evening to receive acceptances for the first day's handicaps and entries for two races at the meeting next week, and to settle some routine mattera for the meeting. The lint of acceptances and entries will be found in another column. Tho former were considered extremely satiafactory, a good proportion of the horses paying the second call, thereby paying a compliment to the handicappcr, Mr George Dowse, and promising good fiolda, and a livelier day for the spectators and tho club. In point of numbers the acceptors are about doublo those for last year's autumn meeting, and tho competition is not limited to distrist horses, Christchurch, Ashburton, Oamaru and Dunedin owners being represented in the acceptance list. We again draw attention lo the prospectus of the Mercantile Fioance and Agency Compauy (Limited), of Christchurch, as in coneoquence of the share list closing to-morrow, no timo should be loat by intending applicants for shares in putting in their applications to Mr J. W. White, tbe company's solicitor in South Canterbury, from whom prospectus forms, information, and forms of application can be obtained. Tho operations of the company [hitherto have resulted in a dividend beiug paid to shareholders of twenty per cent, and tho names of the provisional directors should bo sufficient to inspire confidence in tho stability and success of the company. Farmers ondotbera who may require to obtain advances will find the company's terms liberal ; oe although a large dividend ho» resulted to shareholders in the past, it has been mainly due to economic and careful management. A topic of conversation among visitors to tho wharves yestorday was tho disappearance of Mr Robinson, second mate of the Kincluno. It appears he came ashore on Saturday night and ought to havo gone aboard again before morning at all events, as tbo barque was to have gone to sea 'yesterday. Ho did not howover, report himself aboard, and on enquiries beiog made ashore in the morning it was gathered that he had left one of tbe hotels at a late hour with the intention of going aboard. Tho question was, what had become of him ? At daylight yesterday morning the night watchman discovered ofloat neor tho wharf one of the Rowing Club's skiffs, and when this and that were put together, the natural conclusion Beemed to be that Robinson had taken the boat — (tho (hod must hove been left opon by some membor) —in order to reach his ship at the buoys, and by some mischance or carelessness had fallen overboard. As nothing more , could be learned of the mate through i enquiries in town, the police were communicated with, but their help availed nothing, , beyond proving that the missing man, was not at certain likely places ashore, and there ; seemed to be no escape from tbe conclusion that the man was drowned. However, be turned up towards evening, ond no doubt his i superiors gavo him a good wigging for keeping tho ship in port, and tho tug with steam up i woiting to tow thom out, conßuming coala and the tuginaster'a patience that will havo to bo 1 paid for. A mooting of the committee of the Mechanics' Institute was held last Friday evening at which were preiont — Mr G. F. , Clulee (president), Major Bamfield, and Messrs M. White, P. P. White, Rutland, Raymond, Gilmon, Wilson, Harney, West and Virtue. M. Knubley wrote apologising for his absence. A letter wos received from hie Worship the Mayor resigning the positions of Patron and member of tho committee. After some discussion it was reßolved on the motion of Major Bamfield — " That tho committee aro very unwilling to accept the rcaignotion of hia Worship, and truat that ho will reconsider his determination and consent to sit on the . committee whenever his other municipal duties permit him to do so." The librarian's i roport woe reod and considered, and the various lnattora mentioned therein received i attention. '1 ho librarian reported a demand for books suitablo for boys, and the book selection committee were empowered to send { Homo a supplementary order for such books if tho funds would permit. Several members epoke very feelingly of the long and faithful eervices of tho late Mr McDonald, tho good work ho had done as librarian to the institute, and of tho loss the institution had sustained by hia death, and the following resolution was unanimously carried — " That this committee dooply sympathises with Mrs McDonald and her family in their losa, and desiro to place on record their high appreciation of Mr McDonald's long and faithful lervices." A letter wob received from Misß McDonald applying for, and she was unanimously appointed to, the position of librarian, ot tbo present salary. Tho president informod the members of tho book selection committee that a meeting would be held noxt Friday evening. Sundry small accounts were passed for payment, and tho meeting closod. A standing joko against newspapers is " the big goosoborry season." Paragraphs describing big gooaoberrios, big pumpkins, and what not of excossivo productiona of Hold and garden, are, tho jest auggests, not worth reading. Only thoso who do not understand tho subject could say so. Nineteen out of twenty people, perhaps, do not understand, at once, what thero ia in, a two-pound opplo soy, that it should bo worth particular mention, but thoso who grow apples, and take tho trouble to weigh their best will picturo to thomsclvcj something quite out of tho common, and those who buy apples by tho pound, and got from ton to two dozen for thoir cightponce or shilling, would bo not a little astonished if they wero givon a single apple in tho papor bag. Tho " big goosobcrry season " still continues, but tho big gooscborry has givon place to tho big apple, ond now tho big potato, the oarth-applo ns many languages havo it, is coming to tho front. Thoro were to be seen on Saturday in Mr Smith's winrlow a sample of eix potatoes that must havo surprisod everyone who saw them. They turned tho Bcnlo at llilbs. They wero almost disgustingly large, No paring macbino could opon its jows wide enough to tako them in. One was a kidney, that weighed 2 Jibs, tho other iivo wero American Rose, the biggest from two stalks that produced many othera not very much lcaa. Mr Julius Gall brought them down with him from Fairlio Creok. Thoy wore grown by Mr Rowe at Silveratream, and as ho had only tried a fow roots, thoro moy bo many bigger onoß in his crop. Tho soil, we understand, contains a good deal of lime, his section being on tho west sido of tho Burko's Pass Road, and drift from tbo liuicßtoiio in tho hills is mixed with drift down the river. Tho aaiuplo of potatoos shown is a sploudid advertisement of tbo qualities of tho soil, and ought to add some shillings an acre to the Belling prices of the Throo Springs country, to bo put iu tho market nest .veal. |

Tho hospital Bteward on behalf of the! patients deßires to thank Mrs Luxmore for a largo supply of buna delivered on Good Fridoy morning. Mr George Watts, boarding-bouso keeper, was seriously assaulted on Satutdoy night by one or more of a company of half a dozon men, believed to belong to tho crew of the Annie Bow. He was Btonding at his front door on the main street, waiting for a lodger to come in, some time after 11 p.m., when tho party referred to came along. They stopped and said something to Mr Watts, who advised tbem to go along quietly, when one of them struck him in the face so violently as to knock him down and cut hia cheek, as if his assailant wore a ring. The men then made off, and Mr Watta reported tho assault to the police. A meeting of tbe South Canterbury Educational Institute was held at tho Timaru Main School on Saturday. Thero wsbo large attendance, and Mr Aitken, of Geraldine, presided. The principal business was the reading of a paper by the Rev. G. Barclay, on the relations of primary and secondary education. A well sustained sustained discussion fallowed the reading of the paper. The question of the odvisobleness of preventing the publication of inspectors' reports on standard examinations, mooted by Sir Robert Stout, was alao diecusaed, and will be resumed at some future meeting. We ahall give Mr Barclay's paper in full, probably to-morrrow. It waa announced in the variouß ohurehos laat night that Miss Ackerman, an accredited agent of the Women's Christian Temperance Union of America, who ia now in Dunedin, will vhiit Timaru tbia week and deliver lectures on Wednesdoy and Thursday evenings. Miss Ackerman hoB been eent round by the W.C.T.U. on a five years' mission to establish branchea of that organisation. Mrs Leavitt paeeed through New Zealand a year or two ago with a similar object, ond Mies Ackermom, not exactly following in her footsteps, is forming branches at smaller centres, not included in Mrs Leavitt's programme. A committee of the Good Templars, the only organised temperance body now represented here, will moke the necessary business arrangements for Miea Ackerman. A men named Richard Rayner, a labourer about 84 years of age, who BBys he baa been many years in the Pleasant Point district and was lately working with Mr Ogilvie's threshiog machine, met with a serious accident whilst in liquor on Saturday night. He came into town on Saturday from tho Point and stayed ot the Clarendon Hotel. During the eveniDg ho was drinking in the Shamrock with on acquaintance, and left by the beckwoy much the worse for liquor ot a late hour. He remembers wandoring about o little, and comiDg to o wire fence, ho got through this and fell Bomesrhere. When ho recovered consciouancßS, for he was Btunned by tho fall, ho, waa in great poin and unable to move. He lay there till about sevon o'clock yeatcrday morning when a man, described as middleaged, carno along, had a at him ond tbon passed on, though Rayner begged and implored him to stay and help him. After that he crawled on his hande and knees, being unable to Btond, round the railwoy station into Strothollon street, where he was seen by a mon named Adams, who oasis 1 ed him to the Clarendon Hotel. There ho was Been by Dr Lovegrove, who advised his removal to tho Hospital. On arriving thero, the resident Burgeon found that several of the man's ribs were broken, ond that he waa aeriously hurt interuolly was evidenced by hie cxpresaioua of pain ond spitting of blood. Dr Lawaon ia understood to have very little hope of his recovery. Rayner is reticent regarding himself, but Boys he has been in this district about 18 years, ond that be has a brother at Carterton in the Wairarapo. Ho could not describo the place where he fell, but tho probability is that he wondered down to culde sac opposite Doviea and Murphy's ond fell down tbo steep cutting thero. Tho fencing there iB not so complete os it might be. D. McGuinness begs to inform the public that he has sold out his interest in the Club Hotel, but still corries on the business of the Railway Refreshment Rooms. First-class luncheons supplied daily from 12 noon till 3 p.m. Price, ono shilling. Eorly broakfaets in timo for first trains, Is 6d each.— [Advt.] Tho verdict of all who have used tbe " Jumbo " brand Baking Powder, is that it makes light, nutritous end digestive bread, cakes, pastry, etc. As tbe ingredients aro of tho finest qualities, ond no injurious elements oro used in tho preparation, bread, etc , mode with this powder will keep fresh and moist longer than with any other powder. Ask for Anderson's " Jumbo " brand Baking Powder. — LAott-] SYNOPSIS OF NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Woolworks Co — Short noto for iutending shareholders. Gray and Montgomery — Hold thoir monthly stock sale on 3rd instead of 7th May. Mundell and Co— Linos of EtocUfor sale on May Ist ; alter dato of sale of Woodbury Hotel from May Ist to 10th. S.C.J.C. — Note ro raco uicotinjr this week. Lovels Road Board — Ratepayers' annual meeting on Saturday next. C. N. Orboll— Altors dato for receipt of tonders for plonßhins to May 3rd. Wonted — Tailors and tailoresses ; good drossmakor in family.