TOWN & COUNTRY.

Timaru Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 1831, 5 August 1895, Page 2

TOWN & COUNTRY.

A ball will be held m the Pareora school on Friday evening next, when the dancing class will be finished for the season.

A resident of Claremont district asks us to draw the attention of the Levels County Council to the number of horses and cattle depastured on the public roads m that neighbourhood. He has noticed one particular horse that has been on the roads for at least three weeks continuously.

A special train of 14 double-decked trucks, containing 2337 fat sheep, left Albury on Friday. The sheep were from the Albury estate and were for Belfast. Fourteen truck-loads left a week or two ago, and another lot of 2500 sheep will be ready to go m three weeks. This is good news as showing that m spite of the snow, turnips or chafl will fatten sheep. A committee meeting of the Temuka Floral and Horticultural Society was held on Friday evening last, Messrs Holwell (president), S. Wright, E. King, J. Bennett, A. Smith, and W. Scott being present. The subcommittee reported having gone through the preliminary schedule, which with a few alterations was passed. It was resolved to print 500 for circulation. A vote of thanks to the chairman terminated the meeting.

A good many enquiries are being made as to how Mr C. N. Orbell, manager of the Levels Estate, who met with what might have been a very serious accident a few days ago, is getting on. Mr Orbell was getting on to the back of a young horse, and was m the act of dropping into the saddle when the horse plunged and Mr Orbell was thrown, sustaining painful injury to the lower part of the body and back. On enquiry yesterday we learned that Mr Orbell was much better.

A correspondent of the Paraekaretu Express states that a perfect skeleton of a moa was discovered m a road cutting. The contractors had fired a shot which dislodged a large piece of rock, and when the smoke cleared away they discovered the skeleton of a moa about 14 feet high embedded m the papa. The bird was standing m a leaning position and the impression of the feathers could be seen on the papa, but many of them crumbled to pieces.

The shareholders meeting of the No. 2 Terminating Building Society of Timaru will be held this evening m the Assembly Rooms at 8 o'clock. As notified m the advertisement, shareholders will require to produce their application receipts for admittance; the provisional directors have been compelled to take this step to ensure admittance of shareholders only. The directors will be m attendance from 7 to 8 o'clock to receive applications from those who have not had an opportunity of applying for shares before. The share list is nearly full and should there be an excess of 1000 applications, the shares will be allotted according to priority.

A slight shook of earthquake was felt at Timaru about 6 o'clock last evening.

Our Waimate correspondent writes :— The stomach of one of Mrs Knight's horses was examined by Constable Parker, who found it crowded with the bot fly grubs. It is pretty certain that the horses died from this cause, and were not poisoned as was at first supposed. We are informed by Lieut. Colonel Bailey that news has been received by cablegram from London, that Lieut. A. C. Parker, of the C. Battery, N.Z.A., has passed his examination for a commission m the Imperial service, and has been appointed to the Royal Sussex Regiment, now quartered m Ireland, where he is to report himself forthwith. This is the sixth Imperial Commission awarded to New Zealanders, and it is creditable to our local youths, that three of the six hailed from South Canterbury, and two from North Canterbury.

The ordinary meeting of the Waimate Hospital Trustees was held on Thursday last. Mr J. Sinclair occupied the chair. A letter was read from the hospital surgeon asking for nine months' leave of absence to allow him to visit England, with the view to improve his knowledge at the centres of medical learning there, he to find a suitable locum tenens during his absence. After discussing the matter, it was unanimously resolved to grant the doctor's request. The surgeon's and matron's reports were read and adopted. Twelve patients had been admitted, and a total of 20 treated. Of these, 7 had been cured and.2 had died, leaving 11 still m the hospital. The question of appointing a clerk and treasurer was deferred until next meeting. Accounts amounting to £77 7s lOd were passed for payment, and the meeting terminated.