TOWN & COUNTRY.

Timaru Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 6069, 1 October 1894, Page 2

TOWN & COUNTRY.

There were registered at Timaru offioe last month 30 births and 9 deaths, and 2 marriage notices were issued. In the list of nominations published on Saturday of the Timaru Trotting Club, the ntvme of Our Maid was omitted in the Maiden Trot and 2 mile District Trot. On Friday teams of ten men repreeentiug the Temuka Football and Orioket Oluba played a cribbage match in the Mechanics' Institute, the score when play ended being Cricket Club 21 garnet, Football Club 18 games* Mrs Foster's concert is postponed till next week on account of the unavoidable absence from town of Mr Ellis Wood. A full pro. gramme will be given in next Saturday's ieaue. A deposit of moa bones was struck in sinking a well at Kapui settlement, Waimate Gorge, last week. A compact mass was cut into 10 feet below the surface, and as the looality is an old swamp it is supposed there are large quantities of bones in the layer. At & special meeting of the Levels Road Board on Saturday, all the members being present, a resolution was oarried unanimously " That a letter be written to Mr Hall-Jones, thanking him for the very able manner in whioh he has carried the Levels County Bill through the House of Representatives, and tbat this resolution bo recorded in the minutes." We have to thank Mr K. G. Bterieker for the weather note for September. The fall of rain for the month, 9 days wet, was 1.92 inch ; below the average of seven years by 0.61 inch. For tha corresponding month last year the fall was 4.06 inches. With so many frosts pretly well to the end of the month the spring is quite twelve days backward, so far as the grass is compared with othor years. There was a large attendance at Messrs Guinness and LeCren's auction rooms on Saturday afternoon, when several valuable properties were submitted to auotion, Mr R Foster's large house and land at Waimataitai were passed at £600, and his smaller property in North street at £200. For Mr Graneet'« sections there was to competition. The auctioneers expect to place Mr Foster's property privatel/. At the Magisterial inquiry at Weimate on Friday Mrs Henry Knight was acquitted of the charge of receiving stolen goods from her husband— who was committed for trial on three charges of burglary. She gave evidence that the artioles found in her possession were given her by her husband, and she had no idea they were stolen. One item was a pair of boots that had been made to order for her* It was seeing her wearing these boots that gave a due to the burglar himself. Quite an excitement was occasioned at the Moody wharf on Saturday by F Olarkson who was down among the timbers picking mussels, slipping off into the water. The piles were too slimy for him to climb up, and the walings too bigh for him to reach, He became wearied with his efforts to olamber ont, and sang out for help. Fortunately for him Messrs Stuart and Keith happened to be on the wharf, aud they lowered a bight of a rope to him to sit in, and held him up till a boat was brought over. Olarkson desires ns to express bis sincere thanks to Mesirs Stuart and Keith for their timely and skilful ssiistance, as he was about " done " when they gave him the rope. The usual monthly committee meeting of the Timaru branch of Ihe Workers' Union was held in the Oddfellows' Hall on Saturday evening, Mr W L Gordon presiding. A large amount of correspondence in answer to enquiries made was received from the Minister of Education, Mr W Hall Jones, M.H.B.> the editor of the Victorian Worker, and Mr O'Brieo, general secretary of the Union. The answers on the whole were considered highly satisfactory. Especially eo was the news from the other eide stating that the ohearers of New South W»IeB and Victoria were gaining the day. Resolution* were adopted endorsing those passed by the Workers' Political Committee, Dunedio, expressing sympathy with the workers in Quaenaland ind the labour members suspended from Parliament. Several other matters being lisposed of the meeting wsb brought to a dote. The Southland Times of Thursday contains ;be following paragraph :— •« Matanra paper. —The entire issue of this number of this ournal is printed upon paper made at the Ifataura Falls paper mil). In a courteous tote adviting us of the despatch of the sample — a considerable package — the managing )artner, Mr Culliog, Bays-' I forward you o>day a few reamß of our white paper, so that r ou abould be tho very first— as promised ome time ago— to print an issue on New Zealand made paper. It i9 sot quite bo nice n colour, or so free from spooks, as one could risb, but these defects will begot rid of when pplianoes in progress are complete. 11 Notwithstanding Mr Calling's modest estimate f the quality of his paper our readers will ee for themselves that it is, even in its present oiperfect state, a very excellent material for i newspaper. With the improved finish nticipated the Mataura Falls produot will asily hold its own with the imported article s regards quality, and, we understand, the trice will also be snob, as to give it a 000 sanding position in the market,. We, heartily oknowledge Mr Calling's courtesy and wish lim and the important industry under his ontrol a long career of unbroken prosperity.' 'he paper in onr exchange copy is a good ough paper, not so white as it may be made, ut a very satisfactory sample for a start; and re have much pleasure in recording the fact hat a newspaper bas at length been printed 0 locally made paper-

We loam that Mr Mosb Jonas has been twice waited on of late, and asked to allow himeelf to be onco more nominated as Mayor of Timaru. Mr Jonas reoogouittg that the year would likely be a most important one, reluotantly declined the honour. In another column will be found details of the Canton Insurance Office, limited (Marine), which was established in 1836. The Cantonw as the first office to introduoetbe boom system in this colony, the advantages c inferred being similar to those of a mutual office, and bas annually returned a bonus to the contributors of bueinetß whioh, taken over, such a long period as seven yean, haa aver&ged over 20 per cent. The Canton bas agents at all prinoipal ports, and as thi wool season is at hand, shippers would do well to oil on the local agents, Messrs Guinness Bnd LeCren, The Volunteer Gazette says that the Waimate Bifleß bare proven themselves to be many points in advance of older oorps in several reapeota, and in shooting they more than hold their own. During the season matches were fired with five corps in other partßof the colony, in all of wbioh contests the Waimate Rifles proved Ibe viotore. Ihs total of their aoores in the fire matobes wai 3716, that of their opponents 3400. A piotorial advertisement in this issue wilj attract attention. It is the preliminary i notice of a balloon ascent and parachute leap, to be made by Miss Leila Adair at Timaru on Thursday afternoon. Full particulars of this highly intereitiog and sensational perform* ance will be given to-morrow. Onr paragraph of Saturday that ihe made two failures fit Oamnru wa», We are assuroc', incorrect. She made a good ascent with the balloon. The parachute leap was not made because to many people assembled to bsb it without making a contribution. A special gsneral meeting of members of the Agricultural and Pastoral Association will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday, to pass ' the new rules. A committes meeting follows. The association also publishes an extended notioe of the annual show, whioh will be held on the 30th and 31st intt. Entries for ebeep, oattle and pigs close on 20th inst. ; all other claaseß on 23rd inst. About sixty Maoris have assembled at Arowhenua pah to take part in the tangi and funeral of William Tuna Fohio, particulars of whose death were given in Saturday's issue. A very large number of Europeans have visited the pah, and have been hospitably enteitained by the natives, epaaking well of the treatment they received. Mr Parata, the southern Maori representative in the House of Representatives, sent a telegram of deep sympathy, on behalf of rmny members of the House and himself. The tangi will most ! likely be held tomorrow. Staff -Sergeant Richardson, 8.A., is ex> pected to arrivo in Timaru on the Bth imt. to give the members of the 0 Battery ft course of instruction. On this account the battery's Government parade ordered for tomorrow evening has been poitponed for a week. The usual weekly parade will be held I to-morrow evening when a full attendance ii particularly desired. Men who have not oompleted their aiming and poiition drills especially should make a point of attending. After an absence of nearly two years Mr Eaott, the well known temperance lecturer, again visited Glen-iti on Friday evening, and delighted bis audience by his admirable i rendering of " Ten Nights in a Bar Boom," and his interesting sketches of New Zaa* land, both suitably illustrated with pioturea shown by the aid of a splendid lantern. Since Mr Kaott's previcus vi*it he has taken up the study of photography, and the many really good views whioh ha has seonred during his wanderings from Nelson to the Bluff, are sufficient evidence of his skill in the use of the camera. He has made lantern slides of these views and as the description which Mr Eaott gives as he exhibits each piotnre is the result of personal observation, the whole entertainment is very interesting and well worth the patronage of both young and old. Mr Knott gives one of his two-fold entertainments in the Barnard street Hall this evening. He bas shown us some of the elide views be has taken and prepared, of industrial eoenes and publio buildings in different parta of the colony, and we should say they are very well done, and will enlarge well. Mr Knott has now travelled the length and breadth of New Zealand several timeß, and has neoes< sarily picked up a store of knowledge that very few, if any other, in the oolony c»n boast of, respecting what is to be seen by the traveller, and his remarks on the scenes he shows oust therefore be the moro instructive 83 Mr Knott bas had opportunities for. com* paring one place with another, thereby obtaining a greater estimate of the relative importance of each.