HASTINGS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 9834, 6 August 1900, Page 8

HASTINGS.

[own correspondent.]

Mr Bert Cassin, of Hastings, son of Mr John Cassin, has been admitted to the Permanent Artillery, and proceeded to Wellington by the express this morning to join that force. He will be much missed in Hastings, especially in the Liedertafel and the Catholic choir. The latter gave him a cordial send-off yesterday, both Father Smyth and the members of the choir wishing him every success in his new vocation. The Hastings School Committee will meet to-night, at the usual time and place. There will be an interesting entertainment to-morrow evening at St. Matthew's schoolroom, the proceeds to be devoted to the Sunday school. It will consist of a pantomime, and Mrs Jarley's waxworks are to be thrown in. The fifty figures are said to be more lifelike than anything at Madarte Tussaud's. About 8.30 on Saturday night a glare sprang up suddenly and brightly in the south-eastern part of the town in spite of the pouring rain. On investigation it proved to be a loose stack of hay enclosed in a wooden shed, the end of which was open. It was, of course, burned to the ground. It is supposed that some children playing with matches caused the fire. The stack was the property of Mr Sam. Tongj and was uninsured. His total loss is about £30. The Hawke's Bay Rabbit Board will meet on Thursday. At the Catholic " Church yesterday, Father Smyth, in compliance with the wish of Archbishop Redwood, strongly animadverted upon the growing evil caused by parents in not taking steps to provide their sons with trades. He said it was a common practice to allow youths to take unskilled labor, whereby the lads earned for the time perhaps more than they would get as apprentices, but with the result that when they grew up they could only earn laborers' wages. He said very truly that a man with a trade at his fingers' ends could always earn a living. This morning's train from Waipukurau had to be twice stopped on the journey to Napier through stock getting on the line. Between Waipukurau and Waipawa there was a herd of eight cattle on the permanent way, and the enginedriver had to get down and drive them off. The train also had to be stopped at the end of the White road, in order to get a horse off the line.