HASTINGS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 7599, 19 February 1896, Page 3

HASTINGS.

a> [OWN COEEESPONDBOT.] Mr J. A Ssaith informs me that since tho Christmas vaoation the school attendance has been above the average. The hints conveyed in this column have evidently had a good effect. Mr Goddard, of Havelock, is well known . aa a grower of superior fruit, and aa such ; has a right to a fair rewaid for this labors. Last night, soma people, who were evidently of opinion that they had a right to share all property without the trouble of . assisting in its production, stripped fivo of his valuable plum trees of the fruit just ready for market. It is to be hoped that the depredator will be caught. JSIr H. K. Thomson is the winner of the handsome gold medal, presented by Mr A. M'Corkindale, with a suitable inscription. This is the first priza in the Hastings Bowling Club tournament, recently concluded, which extended over a period of four months. The second prize, a pair of bowls, presented by Mr Maddieon, was tied for by Messrs Cottle and Carter, and won after an interesting competition by Mr Cottle by one point only. At the Magistrate's Court this morning, before Messrs Beilby and Hughes, J.P.s, the following oases were dealt with : —William fiiggine, alias O'Brieu, alias JPrico, pleaded guilty to being un idle and disorderly person, and with ueing obscene language. For the first offence he got six months' hard labor, and for the second three months' hard labor, both concurrent. The Sergeant said that accused was a notorious thief, and had bean convioted forty times.—William Smith, pleaded guilty to being an idle and disorderly person, and was sentenced to one mouth's imprisonment. 'Ihe Sergeant said that accused was an assooiate of the laat defondant. William Baker, a lad of eighteen years, was charged with stealing 1* pocket-book containing £3 in notes. Defendant had spent all the money except £1 13s. Sergt. Mitchell asked that lenienoy might be extended to acoused, and wonld suggeet to tho Bench that on aooount of his youth, and it being his first ottience, he should be ordered to oome up for sentence when oalled upon, if this was done, the Salvation Army would admit him to their home in Auckland. The Bench consonted to this, and told accused he ought to be thankful to the Sergeant for hia kind recommendation.