TOWN & COUNTRY.

Timaru Herald, Volume L, Issue 4844, 15 May 1890, Page 2

TOWN & COUNTRY.

■ A Bpccial meeting of Iho Timaru Borough Council io to be held at 7.30 this evening, to sign Iho burgess roll, and consider tlio estimates for tho jear. At tho Harbour Board meeting noil Wednesday members wilt feceivo tlio standing commit tee's report on tho reductions recommended m the harbourmastar's and engineer's Staffs. ''Little Lord Fiiuntleroy " was repeated at tbo Thpatro Hojal last evening, when despite the threatening weather, thoro waß again a capital homo. Tho pieeo wont well throughout, and was greatly onjojed by tho audience. Tho company procood to Oamaru to-doy. Iho Uawora paper*d correspondent savß that m the Kaupokonui district tho peach treos seem to bo wholly recovered from Ibo disease which threatened tlmir wholesale extinction ootuo tinJO ogo, and next joar wo may expect crops of this luscious fruit as great m abundance as ever. It was Mr TurnbuU'B intention to address his constituents previous to tho next session of Parliament and he ia still willing to do so, but ho has boon advised by a number of his intimate friends to abstain from doing 37, as they consider him still m a very weak etute of health, and that he had better resorvo his strength for his Parliamentary dutios. Victoria is exporting wheat as woll as South Canterbury, and yet thoro is a wido difference between Melbourno and Timaru prices. Goldsbrongh Mort and Co. report on tho Ist inst " wheat has ruled very firm during tho month for all good milling and shipping parcels from 3j 6d to 35 Bd, with old realising up to 3a 10." Oats were dull at 2s 6d to 2a 8d and up to 2s lOd for best stout feed. Tho chairman of tho Woitalci branch of the Otago Educational Institute has given notice of thU motion, among others, to be considered at a special mooting: — "That immodiato stop! ought to be taken by the Legislature to abolish Iho present system of cumulative voting at school committee elections, and also to pravido for tho nomination of candidates a week previous to election." AJmeoting of tho TTppor Pareor* Library Committee was held m tho aohool-room on Monday lost. Present— Meoars Jolconlo (chairmsn), Osborno and Rapjey. Sovoral mombors were absent through inlluonza. &f r Jofcoato reported (hit the cupboard as authorised had been purchased, and produced rocoipt for payment of samp. Mr Osborno proposed, and Mr Rapacy sooinded, that Mr Goodovo bo nppointod an honorary member, and also librarian. Carried. Mr Goodcve said that ho had Croat ploasuro m acting m that capacity, and spoke of tho groat educational value of a library to the district. Tho secretary was requested to write to Mrs Saxon, informing lior that tho [committeo had docided to mako horan honomwry mombor for lifo m recognition of tho valuablo services rendered to tho Paroora • Library by bor lato husband. A vote of thanks to tho chairman ended tho business. A Chriatcburch fbrist complains, with ft Road deal of roason, that " we do not observu m young colonials any great desiro to study nature, or to onquiro for themselves (imidsl her works which branch (hoy would liko to undorsland," Ho was writing particularly about forns and thoir cultivation, and therefore goes on to say : " Hero, again, fashion might insist to form a beginning m many who havo not as yet perceived tho ploasuro m a ramble over hill and (lulo nnd amidst tho bush, with an oxpress objoet m viow, bucli for oxamplo as collecting tho fronds of ferns for tho Forn Album. A book eighteen by twolvo inohos, with a etrnp to bucklo around it to plnoo any forn frond m whon out collecting, is tho boßt plan to preserve tho fronds, &s thoy arc thon kopt from shrivelling An album of prossod ferns so obtained by various rambles may rcquiro many years before tho wholo of tho Now Zealand forna aro collected, ) but if only a part aro collected the album will bo a record of patient labour and the result of an ondoaTour to sucoeed. Ibo album will with caro last a lifotimo and will bo nlwnjs useful for reference. Thon tho interest that follows the collecting of them oflon leads to cultivating thorn." '

Tlie Timaru Football Club will lioU their weekly praclico on tho athletic club'a ground this afternoon, when, now tlmfc football weather has started, there ought to be a good muster. Tho match with Sydonham is drawing near, and tho match coinmitteo reqneat that players will got into form as soon as passible. Yesterday afternoon tha Telegraph office sent us the following : —"Saigon notifies that communication with Siam is interrupted. I Penang notiGes that both tho Madras and Bangoon section is temporarily interrupted for repairs. Bolinao notifies that the Manilla land lines are interrupted. Singapore notiGes that Hong Kong advised that tho Siberian land linos aro working slowly," Gco. Green and Charles Oummings, two of tho survivors of tho wreck of tha barque Ktnilia liavo co far recovered that they were able to proceed to tho Bluff on Monday last. They are however Bl ill a little tender on their feet. It ia Green's intention to return to tho Old Country, while Cummings will seek his fortune on our coasts again. Meok is still m the hospital, not having sufficiently recovered from the severe trial ho had undorgone. Tho Picturesque Atlaa Company, says the Melbourne correspondent of the Otago Daily Times, aro suing their subscribers and obtaining verdicts whera the only defence ia nondelivery of tho monthly partß each month. For instance, where a defendant pleaded that the agreement for monthly delivery had been broken by thirty-nine parts being ftindcd to him m onn lot, a verdict was given ngainßt him. In several of the country districts defensive leagues have boen formed nguinst the company. ..- Tho Press of yesterday says : — Tho unfortuhato man Richard Christie, an account of whose doath by burning m a house at Rußhworlh, Victoria, appeared m our isauo of yesterday, was lately m business as a linemith and lin-plato worker m Lee3ton, and was well and favourably known as a quiet and industrious tradesman. Competition was too keen m Leeaton for him to work up much of a business, co he decided to seek fresh fields m Australia. The deceased was once or twico known to be under tho influence of liquor. As a rule ho was a very temperate man, but two or three drinks reduced him to a holploje condition. Deceased left a number of friends behind him m Leeston, who aro grieved to hear of his Bad end. D. McGuinuess, Railway Refreshment Booms, Timaru. — Luncheon daily Is, special luncheon on Saturdays from 12 to S, Is. A room reserved for ladies, and waitress m attendance. — (Advt.) Tho "Purity" Cigarettes hive taken highest award at Exhibition.— [Adtt ] SYNOPSIS OF NEW ADVERTISEMENT*. Wnimato Oonnty Council— Notice o£ election of Mr E. Elworthy. J. Grangor — Wants to lcaso a farm. J. Sbaw — Has lost two horses ; reward. Moas Jonas— Sells sheep and cattle at Washdyke, this day. Wanteda— Two notices.