LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hastings Standard, Issue 38, 10 June 1896, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The population of the Ilawke's Bay provincial district lias increased during tiic p ist five years by 5477. Over 90 breaches of the byelaws will come ;,i! i lyi - hearing at the hS.M. Court to-morrow morning. Mr "W". Y. Dennett holds an important sale of furniture and other goods without reserve at his Auction Bazaar to-morrow afternoon. A severe shock of earthquake was felt in Hastings ai 1.0:1 this morning. It was proceeded by a rumbling noise, and was sulliciently strong to awaken the lightest sleeper. A lew minutes later' another tremor was experienced. Isaac Ambrose will appear at the next, sitting of the Supreme Court at Napier to answer charges of obtaining money under false pretences at Danevirke. One of the charges is of obtaining X'lo from tiie young lady to whom he was engaged to be married.

In lii.s address at Wellington last evening. Mr Seddon said that a most deliberate, dastardly, and unmanly attempt had been Hindu to ruin the Hon Mr "Ward privately, and the way in which his colleague had been treated would stand for nil time to the discredit of liis detractors. In respect to the banking legislation, he said that Mr Ward's financial position had never entered into the matter at all.

The " cablcgrammer '' is at work again. Yesterday a wire from London told of the drowning of James Stanbury, the Australian sculler, while practising on the Thames. Later information is to the effect that while rowing lie lost an oar and the boat capsizing he dived off it. "While in the water, no doubt the man in charge of the cable news at the other end must have rushed off and wired to the Colonies the news of the death of the popular oarsman. The sensation it must have effected in Australia would be intense.

Numerous complaints have been made to us as to the manner in which the impounding bye-laws of the Council are carried into effect, and it is about, time our City Fathers bestired themself in making an alteration in the matter. Surely it was never intended that owners of cattle, who through no fault of their own were notified that their property had been impounded, were to appear at the S.M. Court to answer a charge for which they had already been punished. Unless it can be proved that the cattle were put upon the roads for the purpose of grazing or that wilful neglect had caused fences to become in such a state that they were not proof against out-breaking, the alleged breaches of the bye-laws should never be ventilated in the S.M. Court. The Wairarapa Daily Times states that Mr It. P. Greville intends to contest the Mastcrton seat against all comers. Dr Bevan, of Melbourne, has put forward a theory of his own for the proper treatment of criminals which has a deal to recommend it and a deal that tells against it also. His idea is that when one man wrongs another he should work for that man until the debt is repaid. This, the doctor argues, would do away with gaols and officials, and be more in accordance with justice than the present system.

Not all of us know that deep and forced respirations will keep the entire body in a glow in the coldest weather, no matter how thinly one may be clad. A physician declares this to be a fact worth remembering. He was himself half frozen to death one night, and began taking deep breaths and keeping the air in his lungs as longas possible. The result was that he was thoroughly comfortable in a few minutes. The deep respirations stimulate the blood current by direct muscular exertion, and cause the entire system to.become pervaded with the rapids -generated heat, j

Dr. Hi.slop (formerly Under-Secrctary for Education) and Mrs Hislop celebrated their golden wedding on Tuesday last.

Advance Pahiatua! Three consecutive pairs of twins were registered there during last month.

The cost of the illuminated address and album of signatures to be presented to the Premier on his approaching birthday is estimated at ,£2OO. The Standard says that from an authoritative source Dr. Martin is spoken of as a likely candidate for the Wairarapa seat at the next general election in opposition to Mr Buchanan.

"The unexpected,"' it lias been said, " always happens in polities," and an unexpected combination may yet astonish the public. Mr Seddon's power may not fall with the present Cabinet. As an important facto in New Zealand politics he has come to stay.—Dunedin Star. A Dunedin resident, who recently left the colony for Japan, has received a lucrative appointment as manager of a large produce distributing company, which lias been established for the purpose of opening up business relations between Japan and other countries. In the same company are four other New Zcalanders, all holding responsible positions.

Mr R. U. Harden sued Mrs Ilastie in the Feilding Court on Friday for .£25 2s Gel, value of a portmanteau and contents stolen from the hotel on Faster Monday. Judgment was given for the amount claimed with costs.

Professor Clampetti. alias Arthur Clampett (who in his time performed many parts), lias again turned up in Westralia, and is fulfilling numerous engagements as a vocalist. The press criticisms as to his performances are distinctly good.

Tlie Mart on Mercury records the death of Mr Arthur Anion, of Lower Rangitikei, on Saturday. Mr Anion went out duck shooting, and was found dead, the body in a sitting posture in the act of pulling on his sock. It in supposed that the cause of death was heart disease. A man named Robert Millar, aged 54 years, dropped dead some days ago while transacting business in the Nation.il Bank, Bendigo. The deceased was one of eight brothers, all bachelors, and well-to-do graziers and farmers living in the Durham Ox district.

111 the course of a lecture in Sydney on " The 'NS ater we Drink," Professor Anderson Stuart, President of the Hoard of Health, said that alcohol was sometimes introduced into water with the plea that it killed the germs. That was all nonsense, as alcohol only tickled the germs ; alcohol asj a germicide was of no value at all."

It's a fact, says a well-known Christchurch divine the other day, to a friend, that Cough Mixture, called Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, is the very best thing for throat Irritation and Cough I have ever taken ; I notice all the Grocers and Chemists keep it—a never failing remedy. Wholesale Agents, N.%. Drug Co. —Advt. Stop that Cor oh by taking Neil's Balm of Gilead, a positive cure for coughs, colds, chronic bronchitis, influenza, &c. In large bottles at 2s (3d, at Neil's Botanic Dispensary, Kmcivnn street, Napier, and all leading storekeepers.—Advt. Neil's Celebrated Liver Toxic, a pure botanic remedy for all affections of the liver, biliousness, jaundice, yellowness of the skin, indigestion, Arc. In bottles, 2s and 2s 6d, at Neil's Botanic Dispensary, Emerson street. Napiei, and all leading storekeepers. —Advt.

akil's Compound Sarsaparilla. A household medicine for purifying the blood and toning up the system. In large bottles at 2.s 6d at Neil's Dispensary, Emerson street, Napier, and all leading storekeepers.-—Advt.

Neil's Corn Cure 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.—Advt