TOWN & COUNTRY

Timaru Herald, Volume LII, Issue 5169, 16 June 1891, Page 2

TOWN & COUNTRY

A concert and ball will be hold m the Winchester schoolroom on Monday evening iOXt. Tho annual genei-al mosting of members of ho South Canterbury JncVey Club will be leld on Friday evening next at the Grosvenor lotel. Fall particulars of a vocal and instrumental loneert, to be given m the Pleasant Point Ablembly Boom?, m aid of the school funds, are published m anothor column. The concert is ;o bo hold on the 25th inst,,and should provt » great success. A meeting of the Ximaru Harbour Boarr reill be held to-morrow to receive and con iid6r the report by Meßßrs Uapier Belt anc R. Wiloon on ths ohingle accumulation, anc tbo standing committee's report on tho board'] poßition respecting the foroehoro. This looks liiio business, — W. Penroso i offering eotne beautiful tweeds and wontec suitings which he is prepared to make up a 53s to order (W. A. Hobbs, tailor and cutter) Very great reductions on dressmaking an made during the clo.nring salo now on ; all thi dress stuffs are marvellous value. — W. Penroßo,\)&sh draper.— [Ady?.] Thore has bsen a tarring caao at Waipukurau. Certain offensive inscriptions wore paintod on the 6tation, and a man named Robert Bryant Thompson was charged with tho offenoe and acquitted. Recently fro?h inscriptions htivo appoarod on tho Masonic Hall and church (says the Napier News) and jtleesrs Gro»venor and Brunton, suspecting that Thompson was tho culprit, gave him a thorough coat of coal tar. Thompson ha 3 laid an information against the artists. A gift auction is to bo held to-day m connection with 9t Saviour's Church, Tomuka. The vestry have been exceptionally fortunate m their scheme for the erection of a new Sunday school. Mr S. Hewlings has given a site valued at £250 for the nominal price of £10, the latter amount being given by Mrs John Hayhurat, They have now the Bum of £200 lying at deposit, and cash -subscriptions m hand to the value of £61. Donations m kind are also promised, and will bo sold by Mr Mundell, who has kindly volunteored hia services this afternoon. Tho Dunodin Law Debating Socioty have discussed the question of abolishing tho grand jury, Tho leader contended that the grtind jury baa long been useless and unnecessary, and that m some cases it has been actu- i ally mischievous, while the requirement that all prisoners have to bo brought before the grand jury, before they can be tried by the common jury enormously increases the oxponse of criminal trials. It seemed to be (he unanimous opinion of the meeting that the grand jury should bo abolished. Tho grand jury ab Dunediu the other day expressed tho opinion that their office was useless, and ouriously enough, Mr Justice Williams could find nothing to cay m its favour except that the people of the United States still retain tho grand jury. The Hailway Commissioners, m tEeir report to Parliament, urge that the colony should rather make adequate provision for addition to those lines where traffic and business justify and require it, than extend railways which oannot pay interest. They say that' the completion of tho Otago Oontral to Middtetnarch, Blenheim and Awatero, Eotorua, Helensville, Nflrth Catlin'o Kiver, and GroymoulhHokitika line will add a million to capital acoount on which no interest is likely, to be oarnod at present, although they will benefit the districts served. They recommend the acquirement of the Manawatu line. They estimate the net profit for tho current year at £414,000, a3 there was no Easter traffic during the yoar and tho grain and the flaz traffio is amallor than usual, while there are extensive reductions m fares and freights. Tho aocidents during the yoar were — Killed, 11 j and injured, 147 pereons. The total number of employees is 4543, a decrease of 14 aa oomparod with the preceding year. On Saturday last a team journeyed from tho Waimataitai School to play a football match with tbo Waimale District High Sohool fifteen; The visitors arrived about 11 am. and the match started at half past cloven. From tho beginning tho local team had the best of tho game, and m tho first spell scoured two trios,one of which was, from a very difficult angle, converted into a goal. After half time tho Waimataitoi tonin began tJ bliow tip a little and got on two or three dribbling rushes, which were cleverly stopped by Prosland. In this spell Wainiato passed splendidly and got five more trioa, of which one Was oonvorted into a goal. After a little more loose play and hard kicking on both sides, the whiatlo went.leaving tho game m favour of Waimate by 11 points to nil. For tho visiting team Fox (2) and Hassell were the most prominent playors, while B. Presland, Olarko and Cooper (forwards) , and Manohoster and H. Prfsland (backf) , played up splendidly for Waimale. After the snatch tho boya wore taken to Mrs Kott'a Criterion Hotol, whore they wero kindly lookod after. Fof Wuimate Mr Poison umpired, and Mr Ooloman fov tho vuiting toaui, Mr Marshall acting as roforoo. Somo ono who eoema to know what he ia writing about, gives m tho Dunedin Star, " tho faots of the oaao," respecting tho enoroaohment of tho sea ot St Glair. He says : " Iho sandhills at tho Oecsn Beach are evidently the work of tho sea. They ought, m all common ssnsd, to liavo been regarded as lying within tho tide level, for tho soa which piled th<"m up might at any time sweep them away. But what was done? Some very sharp land-g.-abbors lovollod those sandhills, oovorod them with a fow inohos of clay, find oalled them building allotments ? Then ! greedy Bpoculatora bought them for building purposes. And thon now-oomors, ignorant. lOf tho facts and thoughtless of the risk of ' building upon tho Band,' orected their houses within tho tide lovcl. For some yoavs, with varying amount of chango m tho boast yoar by yoar, ail Boomed sooure ; but now suddenly tho soa currents sot into tho bay with unusual and unexpected severity, and tho eamo foroo whioh piled up tho sandhills is now swooping thorn away. It io vory un* fortunate for tho speculators who have built upon tho sand. But clearly, no ono had a right to build upon thoso enndhills. Tho tows ohould have boon behind thorn. It its so at Sumnor, tho watering- plaoo of Christchurch. It is so at many anothor similar plaoe. We may bo sorry for thoao who have speculated m tho sandhill frontages and lost thoir money, but thoy must Btaud their own risk." Tho writer's conclusion is that noithor tho boroughs nor tho Government should givo a, penny to defend the olayod sandhills, j

Last week Groymouth and Westport to-' gethcr shipped 5752 tons of conl. The Timaru Trotting Olub bold their annual gonernl meeting on Thursday nosfc at tho Slwmrock Hotel, A local notoriety named Howlelt, has, it ia ropavted.obtained a Keons3 fur anaccoinni.)datiou house m tho bu;h, north of Wellington, which he himself described a3 consisting of a sUb hut and Boinc touts. ! Tho English mail by the Tongariro, which i arrived at Wellington on Saturday night, was ' brought down by a special train last nighti and the postal officers put m some overtime and sorted the mail for the convenience of . business man, who wero able to get their ) letters last night. i Connor and Co, jam manufacturers of Dun- ) edin, writs to tho Star :- " Your paragraph m iasuo of 11th stating that we keep girls ] working after hours, and pay them the hand- . tome sum of l^d per hour, is not true. No } girl has fiver worked m our factory paid at j the rate of Hd per hour." Tho Stay replied 9 with tho " lie indirect " — " We have every reseon for believing our statement to bo well 8 founded." 1 It is stated that m view of fcho licansing t olectiou struggle which takes place m Oamavu . to-day ths municipal ratea— payment of c which gives the right to vote— have been laid as they cover wero paid boforo m that atc-lsdeu borough. lisbS year the Dumber j m tho roll was 733, now there are 863 elecora. Measrß Allan, Barr, Konnedy, Meek, ,nd Captain Turpio have been nominated as Moderate candidatoß, Messrs Billing, Dunn, lilliker, Oliver, an-J Eviine ara tho Prohibiion candidates. An Akaroa man bewails the '"fashion" rhieh has set m among tha baya folk to go lorlh. Ho enjs "Eo often have wo hoard ho prophecy that the Peninsula would lUimatoly become entirely a sheep producing :ountry, that wo have almoat begun to beiovo it truo. Stimulated of late years by the ligh price o? sheop and wool, and tho low >rioa of oheoso and butter, tho facts certainly iave m somo measure justified the prophecy 3n evory side have we seen small holders lolling out to their larger neighbours and itattiag for a now career m the North Island." Sinco leaving Timaru Mr B. Tennyson 3mith has been conducting aeeriea of lectures m Temuka and G-eraldine. As m other places large audiences have been drawn, and once m both towns one-fourth of his audience signed the pledge. The celebrated lecturer visits Pleasant Point tonight and will deliver two of Gough's famous orations. It is not often that tho people m conntry districts are favoured with such a visit, and we advise our readers m the neighbourhood to take advantage of thia opportunity to hear the orator who nightly drew such crowds m Timaru. Tho Dunedin Harbour Board has been discussing beer for aome months past almost as vehemently as if tha board were prohibitionist candidates for a licensing election. Hitherto a " harbour improvement rate " oi 3a per ton has been collected on beer oxportec and the brewing interest found or fancied that thi3 rate was too high, and have beet trying for some time to got it reduced. The total collected last year on beer, at the 3b rat< was £405. On Friday. a new scale of rate! waa adopted — it was necessary to iocreaaf eomo othora on redueiog tho charge on baer— and now tho boar export ra'e is 2a per tor for foreign and 9d per ton for coastal ship' ments. The apier Daily Telegraph says :— lt reference to the dispute amongst tho jMaorii at Omahu it appears that tho land . whicl " Broughton's natives " are ploughing is ai muoh theirs as anybody else's. Some aighteei months ago a rehearing was applied for, thi decision of the l?alive Lands Court respecting claims of ownership not having given aatisfac tion. In the meantime tho land m disputi presumably bslongs equally to all thi claimants, and it seems a great hardship i somo of these people are to bo regarded a trespassers when ■ using the ground fo purposes of cultivation. There has been i growing disposition on the part of some o the big Maori ohiefs to drive tho natives of their old tribal lands, and hence it is that thi Governainnt have actually m contomplatioi tha settlement of these disposaceeed Maori on lands to bo bought for that purpose. Thi: is an extraordinary state of things, but wi cannot Bbut our oyes to the fact that man] old M:\ori settlements have disappeared com plotoly ia this district for tho apparent on richment of a few chiefs. Where is n Pako whai, tho model native village, and half-a dozen other places that were once flourishing settlements ? And whore now is Waimiirama ; Thoy have mostly gono to make room for the pakoha'a sheep, and to enrich a few greodj ohiefs. Still to the ront.— Tho Jumbo Branc Baking Powder tnkaa precedence for making digestive seonea, cakos, bread, etc. Sold bj all merchants and grocers. — [Adtx.] BTNOPSIS OP NEW ADVERTIsjEMEOTS Timaru Borough Council— Call for tenders for treo planting, and for horao feed. M. J. Godby — Notico to accounts owing bj him. Pleasant Point— Mr. B, Tonnyson Smitl ijivea recitals thi9 and to-morroiv night. Vocal and Instrumental Concert — At Pica sant Point on Thursdtiy, 22nd mat. Gracio, Maclean and Co — Hold clearing sal< on 19th inst. P. Maohon — Notioo to trespassers. T. and J. Thomson — Aro showing new goods ox Doric. Sims and MoLay, Fairlio Creek — Havo dia solved partnership. " N.Z. Shipping Co— Have ohartarod stcamei Morayshiro to loud hero m July. Timaru Trotting Club— Annual meeting or 18 th inst. Gornldino County Council— Notico of inton tion to striko a rate. Wanteds — Ono notico.