LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hastings Standard, Issue 30, 1 June 1896, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Lieut-Colonel Newall will inspect tlie Hastings ltillcs on Thursday next. The Wairarapa district boasts of a total of 41 Chinese, two of the number being ladies. Captain Russell lias left for a southern tour. lie will go as far south as Invereargill. A southern paper lias good authority for stating that Mr C. A. Lough nan will oppose Captain liussell at the next general election. Alt'. Lawton's variety company was detained on the coast, and consequently a large number of country visitors were disappointed on Saturday evening. If the gns mains cannot he extended in Hastings, would it not bo advisable for the Council to erect a few more lamp posts within the borough and to use kerosene"? The Premier received an unanimous vote of thanks and confidence after addressing a large meeting at Featherston on Friday evening. Mr Walter Symos has announced himself as a candidate for the Egmont seat at the general election. He stands in the Liberal interest. Rev. I'r llosking addressed a large open-air meeting on Saturday niglit. The subject was Prohibition, and it was dealt with in a broad-minded manner. Mustard growing is going 011 in the Matiaia district, says the AVanganui Herald, and one farmer has just finished ploughing a 00-aere field, which he has sown with mustard. The first competition for the company's badge was concluded by the Hastings Pities at the Te Mata range on Saturday, and resulted in a win for Sergeant Humphries with the splendid score of 08. At Meanee yesterday two buildings the property of Mr James Heron, and occupied respectively by Mr Mason and Mrs Suter, were destroyed by tire. An information has been laid against two young men for alleged unruly behaviour on the racecourse yesterday afternoon. The cases will be tried at the next ordinary sitting of the S.M. Court on the 11th June. The Xew Zealand Herald tabes Mr Seddon to task about bis biblical knowledge. Referring to the reference in his Napier speech to Baalam's donkey, it points ous that the Premier laid hold of the wrong ass. Our Wellington correspondent wires : James King, jeweller, formerly well known on the West Coast, South Island, died at his residence. Cuba-street, yesterday, aged 45). He leaves nine children. His wife died about three years ago. It is reported that a warrant is out for the arrest of a gay Lothario well known in Hastings who has been trilling with the affect-ions of one of the weaker sex. It is said that the warrant will need to be executed in Australia, as the culprit has left, for pastures new. Theatre-goers in this district will regre to learn of death of the popular comedian Mr J. J. Kennedy, which took place at Auckland on Friday last. He had a varied experience in New Zealand, but was popular wherever he appeared. Through his many tips and downs he was always himself. His O'Callaghan is looked upon as one of the finest character portrayals on the colonal stage. Hundreds of admirers will mourn the death of the clever comedian.

The Xew Zealand Clothing Factory cater perhaps for more people than any linn in the colony. In every town of any importance in tlie colony they have branches. Their stock is an especially large one, and their goods are of the very best quality. The local shop is bright and attractive, and is under the management of Mr E. S. Goldsmith, a gentleman whose courtesy and obliging manner have done much to promote a large business. The Hastings Steam Carriage and "Wheel Factory is capable of turning out work quite up to that from the largest factories in the colony. Mr \V. G. Symonds is a manufacturer of every description of vehicle, and his workmanship is very highly spoken of. By the last Home boat the firm received a iarge shipment of lamps, axles, springs, &e., and also bicycle fittings. A replace advertisement appears in our first page. Referring to that " religious " humbug, A. 1!. "Worthington, who was exposed in Christcliureh by lie v. Dr. Hosking, and who is now in Tasmania, the Hobart Clipper says : —" Exposure and fraud and heartlessness have failed to keep the ' craze ' votaries back, and in a small but increasing circle "Worthington is being lionised, and they are making life comfortable for him so far as £l5O per annum will go. This arch-priest has clothed himself as a martyr, and as such is gulling the gullible. A clever cartoon in the Auckland Observer of Hay 30th is of local interest. It has reference to the New Zealand Press Association monopoly. On one side of a style is Premier Seddon and a little pig—the Hastings Standard. On the other side is a large pig, representing the Napier Telegraph, attempting to prevent his opponent from entering the enclosure. At the rear there are numbers of other pigs all representing newspapers which have grown fat on the monoply. Mr Seddon is lecturing the monopolists and informing them that if they do not use their privileges in a legitimate manner he will see that they are withdrawn. The sketch is a clever one, and one of the faces is particularly striking, being that o| a Napier journalist who has gained uneviable notoriety over this affair.

Brisbane has decided to hold an International Exhibition during the cool season of 1897. Sir Maurice O'Eorke was a passenger by the Gothic, which arrived at "Wellington yesterday afternoon from London. Football.—The Napier Caledonians and Havelock Harriers met in a junior contest at Farndon on Saturday, the game ending in a draw, neither side scoring. Napier Juniors forfeited to the Clive C'lub. Napier Seniors beat Te Aute College by 13 points to 3. The Pirates beat Taradale by 7to nil. At Newmarket, Victoria, a boy named Henry Cuffe died from a blow with a hammer thrown by an athlete. Four children were recently injured by the collapse of a wall of a partially-dis-mantled house at South Melbourne. A Woodville publican was on Thursday fined £lO for allowing drunken men on his premises. It is said that a man who won't buy an evening paper because he can borrow one has invented a machine by which he can cook his dinner by the smoke of his neighbour's chimney. A man named "Walther has been committed for trial by a coroner's jury at Auburn, New South "Wales, on a charge of the manslaughter of his wife. He is alleged to have not secured for her proper treatment during her confinment. A subscription list has been opened by the Agent-General at Home on behalf of the sufferers of the Brunner colliery explosion. The following contribution had been received up to 18tli April : —J. A. Scrimgeour, £lO5 ; Hon, B. Oliver, £'so ; Hon. \V. Gisborne, £5 ; Mr S. S. Blackburn, -£' l Is; Mons. Lanseigne (Paris), £1 Is ; Mr F. Douglas Fox, 10s; Miss Greenstreet, ss. Much consternation was caused last winter, amongst the medical men in "Wellington, by the introduction of Woods' Great Peppermint Cure for Coughs and Colds ; that a very bad cough could be cured by a 1/6 bottle, and a whole family, with a 2/6 bottle, was a serious loss to them. It is sold by all Grocers and Chemists. —Aijvt. Stop that Covan by taking Neil's Balm of Gilead, a positive cure for coughs, colds, chronic bronchitis, influenza, &c. In large bottles at 2s Cd, at Neil's Botanic Dispensary. Emerson street, Napier, and all leading storekeepers.—Adyt. Neil's Celebrated Liver Tonic, a pine botanic remedy for all affections of the liver, biliousness, jaundice, yellowness of the skin, indigestion. &c. In bottles, 2s and 2s 6d, at Neil's Botanic Dispensary, Emerson street, Napier, and all leading storekeepers.—Ai>vt. Neil's Compotxd Sarkapaiiilla, A household medicine for purifying the blood and toning up the system. In large bottles at 2s 6d at Neil's Dispensary, Emerson street, Napier, and all leading storekeepers,—Adyt. Neil's Corn Cuke removes either hard or soft Corns. A few applications only necessary. Is per bottle at Neil's Dispensary, Emerson street, Napier, and all leading storekeepers.—Adyt.