Hastings.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5890, 23 July 1890, Page 3

Hastings.

[OWN COBBKSI'ONDKNT.]

At thu R.M. Court on Monday, before Mi G. ElHs , ! Mayor, Henry Mitchell wan charged with being drunk. Defendant did not appear, and his bail of £1 was forfeited. Last evening (Tuesday) there was a ''muss" under the verandahs which made the shopkeepers anxious about their ■windows. So far as can at present be learnt a party went into tho Chinaman's shop and purchased two packets of cocoa or tea, aud is supposed to have retired from tho premises without tho formalities usual iv commercial transactions. Unfortunately for Mm, Constable Wilson was somewhere Sbout, and invited him to npend the iujjht »t Sergt. Pickering's place, whereupon I'sue was joined. The party hud down on the pavement, Etrugsrled, and imido it a bit lively for five minutes. At length, maKing a virtue of necessity, ho went with tho couatable, mentioning some of the words J)r. Johnson kit out of the dietionerv, and denouncing soma person as au adjectivei informer. 1 suppose that the wholo thing will be explained at the Court to-day. Notwithstanding tho copious downfall ot rain we have had lately, the principal streets are remarkably free from water, owing no doubt to tho water tables doing their work

well. The recent weather will cause a great lots to the contractor for tho drainage in Hastings street, on account of the flow of of the storm water in the excavations.

You published last week iv this column a report of the formation of an athletic club, concerning which the following was overheard. Said one: "I hear that they are going to have a gvmnasiutn in St. Matthew's Church. " " Second party: "Gymnasium! What is that? Is it a new religion ?'!