Local and General Intelligence.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XX, Issue 1414, 21 December 1887, Page 2

Local and General Intelligence.

j Thi: Tuapeka Tim us c<*teud*r for 1888 is issued with to-.J..y'« P , M er. The prorogation of Pail lament Is expeotod to take place to-morrow. Mb BaIiIiANGG is lying seriously ill at Weliagton with erys'peUa to the head. The installation of Mayor fir the ensuing year takes place at tbe Council Chambers today, when Mr Taylor will be installed for a second term. A press cable from Sydney states that Mr William Morgan, formerly a well-koown resident of Blue Spar, aud whose family still reside there, was killed while working in the Burwood coll"cry on Monday, The Railway Department is offering fac'lkies for a cheap trip to live ca «ill and tb« Likes during the holidays. The farea are very renor.. awe and should induce a large number of people to aval themselves of such a welcome opportunity. Cabrieks should take a lesaon from the proceedings of the R.M. Conrt on Monday, when F ederick Bentley was fined a shilling aud costs for having a flip to his waggna cover, which blew about in the wind and frightened ho sea. The Police Offences Act. noder which this off 3 nee comes, provides for a peoal&y of £10, We have to acknowledge the receipt of the Ofcago Provincial Almaaac and Directory for the year 1888, from the publishers, Mews Mills, Diet, and 00. Is is a compendium of nsefal information, and shoald have a dUes in every household. Ooe of ifc» most serviceable features is a well ompi'ed treatise on farming and gardening. M r J Sity ia th 9 loaA agent. Mb Shbeht, M P, for S >nth Galwuy, who was charged with uaine seditious language at a pnblic meeting, had been sentenced to three months' imprisonment, but h»s been admitted to bail pending the result; of h<s appeal to the higher eon t. Mr Sheehy haa heeo re- trre«te<l for making me <>t inciting language to % Nationalist meeting hel i at Cloamel, to which place he had baen conveyed in custody. Constable Greene, f romerly of Waipori. has been difltingainhio* himself in Danedin. On Sunday hot M>« E R and Mi«« Cargill wars driving through Pi'tacaßS'itw, when tbefr horse took fright and boiled. Constable G-eene BDcceaded io gtopotns? it when in fall gallop, and at considerable personal risk to himself ; and the ladies, who were considerably frightened, were ahle to proceed home in a tramcar. THE Dtinadin Labone Bare&a h*s ttken op the saggeafc'oa with regard Go the placing of a> portion of tbe unemployed on the auriferous beaches at the naouhs of the Clutha and Mataura rivers, ami elsewhere on the goldfi aids near the coast, where pm ill wages can be earned. The "D*ily Time* " thinks that before winter comes on there will be more unemployed in tbe provincial district than ever was before, and among them a considerable number of first class mechanics. An accident occurred list Friday to Mr Langmuir and his two assistants when driving in a single baggy between Waitabnna and Lkwrence, Ou reaching the top of Nichol'i nul, they catne alongside a covered-iu pedlar's caravan. Sndden'y » portion of the covering commenced fl ippiag about in the wind, and Mr L*ngmair'a haras taking fright, bolted off the Mad and ran into a wire fecoe a 1 *' j lining. The •ccapants of the baggy got off with a slight shaking ; but the horse was considerably knocked about, and one of the shafts was broken. The wife of Mr Sydney Taiwhanga. M.H.R. (formerly Mrs Srah Moran). ii now in tawa (aays the Auckland " Herald ") and is very angry at her tuuband f.»r having mtligned b,et in his SDeech on the Divorce 8 11. She fa destitute, and is about to take proceedings against her husband. She also contemplates petitioning the House to le~. Hon. members koow how badly her husband ha* b3h*ved to her. and to reply to the statements mtde by him ia his place. She ia willi'ig to appear at the bar of the Home, if the Speaker and hon. raambers consider it desirable that she should do to. The examination for the O'ago Education Board scholarships is now proceeding at the Lawrence Dijtric High School, under the conduct of Mr Melville. Thsre are five senio-s in for the senior scholarship examination — four from Lawrence and one from E"»ds Pl»fc, There are six for the jnnior scholarships— four from Lawrence. Blue Spur, and Wethers'ooes, and one f<-om Wai^ahuna Gaily. For the pupil teachers' examination, which is also being conducted by Mr Mclv lie, there are five from Lawrence, one from Roxburgh, and two f<-om Blue Spar. Tbe examination will be finished to day. Two grand ball id concerts will be given io the Town Hill on to-morrow and Friday evenings by a company of well-known Danedin vocalists. The co icert to-morrow evening will consist of popular Scotch ballad*, which shonld attract a large and emhuuastio house ; and on Friday evening the conce-t will consist of selected Eoglish ballads. Suoh. a treat is seldom afforded the Lawrence public, and this opportunity shoalo! be taken every adrantago of. Among tha Hat of artists we no'ica tha names of Miss NLary Hame, tha New ZaiJand prima donna; Mr Fraser, the popular tenor; Mr Jago, the wel -known baritone ; and Mr A, J. Barth. the eminent pianist. The Tapanui show on Thursday was a great success. The weither was splendid, aud the attendance was larger than on any previous occasion. The show ia itself is ssid to have been the best on record. The exhibition of stock was a good one; but a faling off was noticeable in dairy produce, Ia all classes competition was fairly keen, Messrs Wataoa Sheaaaa and D. Murray seenred the most of tbe awards in sheen, and Messrs J. Scott, A, Masoo, Raid and Fleming, and W. Cooper in cattle. Prince of Windsor took fi st for the best entire. Messrs D'ckiaon, Anderson, and R 'id and Fl -ming got the nmjortty for horses* The dairy produce was a splendid exhibition, M s E tear tilting the champion priz9 for tha largest exhibition in butter and cheese, and Mr J-itnes Miir for the largest exhibitor at the show. The Bay J. M, Fraser has tendered hie resignation as pastor of the Lawrence Presbyterian Cha'ch, the announcement having been made from the polp't on Sunday last, to the great surprise of the congregation. Mr F'*ser has been in this dfotrlcft f r 'he last five yean, and daring hii comparatively brief stay in our midst has proved himself a zealous and ener« getic clergyman. Tj him is largely due the credit of the new church which represents tbe Presbyterian body ia Lawrence ; and as a preacher, Mr fVaser's forcible style and able discourses attractel to bis church large congre gations. With sunh mixed congregations at are met wi'h in the colonies, it ia impossible for a clergyman to please everybody. He is either too broad or too narrow, too high or too low, too secular or too clerical ; and though Me Feoßer'a term amongst as has not been alto gather fre« from tti^se minor <J fferencoe which beset all clergymen, still he has been remarkably successful on the whole. He retires on account of ill- health, and so far as we know has no other charge ia view. His resignation has caused a feeling of sincere regret in Lawrence and in the outside district!, where be ie well known, -

TUB sab a! tha privils^M of th« Toaoeka Caledonian Sociey w«« hold at Mr Jihn Thompson's salerooms on Monday afternoon. The publican's booth was knocked down to M J. J "bason at £7; Mr A. tfacdooald got th= refreshment booth at £2 151 ; sod th-j privilege of selling frnit was secured by Mr M. E Mann?! for £1.

MIBSBB Blot AND -Tdokkb announce that their ar»ou»l Christmas display of meat will take plaoe on Friday evening, when *hey wil exhibit two prize ihorthorn oxen, locally raited, togatbtjr with a variety of prime pints and small good*. Messrs M'Keich and Robertson will also make their annual display the same evening ; and we would advise householders in Marob of material for a Gbrintmas dinner to inspect the*o exhibitions which are alwayo worth seeing.

Ambhtuh in the New 3<uth Wate« Assembly.— Mr Hawaii lo Mr H*ynea : " I would not be good for you to be shown up in your right colour*." Mr Haynes replied by •ayfog that if he had to give a photograph of Mr Matsatl h« would have so gat a forged representation of a label of a eeitain brand of mustard. Mr Haasall : "I will photograph yoa if yoa com* outside." Mr Hayoes : "I decliM to have a fight with the hon. member, bflcaoM the next day I should be taken up for ndaghtering a calf within the city."

OtJB Roxburgh correspondent sends tn the following items :— The sale of Messrs Batter and party's mining property, occasioned by a dissolution of partnership, took place here on Saturday last. The purchasers were Messrs Grover and Carlow, whose bid was £750.— The ■chool breaks op for the Cnristmas holidays on Friday first. Prizes will be given to all the children who passed tba recent examinabioa conducted by Inspector Goyen.— Athletic spoit* a» araal are to be held here on Boxing Diy. Amongst the novelties is a Chinaman's race, John, I'm afraid, will hardly think the prizemoney worth competing for. —A public meeting will be held to»morrow (Tuesday) evening- to considar the report of Mr Noalr.es. C.E.. re the propoud tramway from Lawrence to Roxburgh. Mrß. ML Smith, M.0.0.. is the moving spi.ifc in this matter. Ha is hopafal that tha County Goanoil will give the project favourable con* ■{deration.- The weather of late has been very hot. The fruit crops are ripening splendidly.

Tai apathy of the itockownera (says the "Canterbury Times ") still oontfnae*. Month aftee month they snbmifc to between 3d and i I in London, showing well that the meat goes into consumption at an average very mach higher all round. When it was said that " Britons never shall be slaves " the bard who invented tha idea did not know of the existence of the Colonial mutton grower, or else he won! 3 have made an exception. Ia Aagasfc a gleam of what many people took to be enashino was thrown over the nrotpeot by the announcement that Mr J. C. Brown had actaaly fl >ated a oompaay to take up the retail trada by carting oat the middlemen with their unprincipled profit*. We suspected that the light was not sunshine at all, bat only a ray from that, •mall bolls-eye lamp whioh Mr B own keeps in his brilliant imagination, a kind of wilt-o-the-trltp ia fact ; whioh is precisely what it has tamed oat to bo, as oar L mdoa correspondent informs as in a neat little paragraph in one of hit lass le'ter*.

Imteluoencs of several terrible disasters and great loss of human life his come to hand from Chios. The steamer Wah Kahuosr. which sails under the British fltg, e&aghbfi'e when lying within 220 yards of the ■hore. Upwards of 100 pertoos from the burning vessel maoaged to effeot a landing, bat about 400 perished by drowoiog, among whom was 200 -imdl-footed Chinese womeo, who wereaccotam idaeed bel >w deck.— By the explosion of a powder magazine, a Chineas general and fifty soldiers were bl jwn Co atoms. Four hundred house* in the vicinity cams down with a crash, bn-yinsf ihe innate*. A concomitant fire broke oat among the debrit destroying 300 o her buildings.— Typhoid f tv « has broken out at Port A-thar. and over 2000 deaths have already occurred.— Tha H jnangaho (Yellow river) broke ita bank) in the vicinity of Chiogohow, inoadating an enorm ms area of country, Thirteen cities are submerged, and the loss of Ufa and property is tea fnl, ihe distress of the survivors being indescribable.