LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hastings Standard, Issue 46, 19 June 1896, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The railway time-table for the coming Hastings races is announced elsewhere. At Wunganui on Tuesday a man was fined £5 and costs for obtaining drink-for a prohibited person. P. A. Herman and Co. sell at their rooms to-morrow afternoon furniture, &c., also a piano by a well-know firm. Mr W. .T. "White, of Hastings, was yesterday admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of New Zealand. J. P. Thompson, draper of Napier and Hastings, announce to-day a clearing sale of drapery, &e. As the stock is a firstclass one bargains will be picked up. A. Jones and Son, the well-known implement, makers and repairers, of Hastings, have in our first page a replace advertisement. which is worthy of perusal. Mr Hone Heko has a Bill before the House for the creation of a Maori Parliament to make laws " to exclusively deal with the personal rights, lands, and all other property of the Natives of New Zealand." The Hastings Brass Band will play the following programme in the main street to-morrow night:—Quick march, Great Inter Ocean ; selection, Gems of Columbia; waltz, Fond Memories; Lancers, Excelenza ; schottische, Eglantine ; galop, On the Bond. The social in aid of the funds of the Fire Brigade held in the Town Band Hall last evening was not as well attended as it would have been had the weather been even fairly fine. As is was, with the rain pouring down in torrents and the roads a mass of mud, about 35 couples braved the elements and enjoyed themselves thoroughly until an early hour this morning. Miss Caulton (piano) and Mr Marbrook (violin) provided the music to the satisfaction of everyone. At an interval in the dance supper was handed round by the committee, and the good things supplied were down ample justice to by those present. Mr Henry discharged the duties of M.C. and Mesdames Livsey and Brousch presided at the supper table. The Waihi Goldmining Company up to date has paid about .£'200,000 in dividends, which is .£50.000 more than the paid-up capital of the company. The Dunedin Star states that Mr E. A. Louglman, editor of the N.Z. Times, is a possible Ministerialist candidate for the Hawke's Bay seat. The other day Chong Young Sing committed suicide at the Hay Chinese camp because he had had bad luck and owed another Chinaman £5. It is reported that a meat famine is threatened in Western Australia, owing to the insurance companies refusing to underwrite shipments of live stock from the colonies. A**Falmerstoman who returned from a visit to Sydney the other day, says that affairs there are not in anything like the prosperous state generally represented—in ftict quite the reverse. A woman named Eyton claimed a man whom she saw in the street at Sydney as her husband, who deserted her twelve years ago, and had him arrested. The accused, however, satisfactorily proved that she had been mistaken. A well-known publican of Dunedin has peen convicted for defrauding the Gas Company. It appears he attached a branch pipe to the main gas supply, and so cut it off from the meter. He got a sentence of two months, but has appealed to the higher Court. In applying for a divorce a few days ago, a woman of Kokomo, Ind., stated that her husband was so jealous he always slept with a razor, a revolver, a hatchet, and a packet of poison under his pillow, and a shot-gun and corn knife beside the. bed. Here is interesting news for smokers, from the Standard correspondent at Moscow. The Bishop of Kursh has ordered his clergy to refrain from the " disgustingly bad habit of smoking tobacco, which is quite unbefitting to those who serve at the altar." The Bishop finds the habit " injurious to the health, as well as opposed to all common sense, and it is, besides, a great temptation to the laity." 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.Z. Drug Co. —Advt. 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 Chemist 3

In Great Britain there are nearly a million more women than men. A whale which recently came ashore at Allday Bay, near Oamaru. yielded 300 gallons of oil and a quantity of whalebone. The people of Great Britain consume less tobacco per head than those of any other civilised country—only 230z to each inhabitant per annum. So great was the glut of potatoes in parts of England, that in Lincoln, at the end of March last, the tubers were selling at 9d per cwt., just a trifle over one penny per stone. At a meeting of pastoralists at Fairlie, North Canterbury, during the week it was decided to endeavour to obtain a grant of ,£IO,OOO from the Government for the erection of a rabbit fence in the district. At Rugby on 28th April, Lionel Ellis, theatrical manager, Leeds, was fined £ll 17s 6d for smoking in a non-smoking compartment of a train on the L. and N. W. Railway, and with using obscene language and assaulting Canon Burton, of Penrith. Two young girls Lave been committed for trial at Wangunui, on a charge of wholesale thieving from a draper's shop. One of the girls (who are sisters) was a servant at the draper's house, which adjoins the shop, and it is stated that about £6O worth of goods in all were stolen, and passed from one to the other for disposal in different directions. A Patea catt e-dealer is reported to have escaped paying tolls on the countrg road near Inglewood by renting a paddock with a long road-frontage, which enables him to put his cattle in at one end and remove them, after they have rested, at the other. The toll-keeper sued the dealer in respect of a mob of 160 cattle which escaped payment of toll in this way, but the Magistrate dismissed the case, holding that the cattle were put into the paddock for accommodation, not to evade the toll. Edward Bilston, a middle aged man, who was charged at the Sydney Water Police Court recently with deserting his wife, who the most passionate appeals to be taken back to the bosom of his family. " I swear I'll stick to you, Blanche, if you take me back, and I will never deceive you again." His "Worship (addressing his wife) —" What do you say to that'?" " I can't trust him your Worship. He deceived me for seven years, deserted me for seven months, and left me with seven children." The bench, after this unique record, made an order against the accused for 20s a week. A successful trial of a diving machine, to be used in the pearl fisheries, has been made in Sydney harbor. It consists of a boiler plate compartment, in which the men work, controlling a rake or dredge by which they can scrape any object on the bottom of the sea. They can also propel the submarine house along the oceau bed. These is nothing to prevent the divers remaining below all day if necessary. The compartment is telephonicallv connected with the surface. The electric search light can also be installed. Stop that Cough by taking Neil's Balm of Gilead, a positive cure for coughs, colds, chronic bronchitis, influenza, &c. In large bottles at 2s 6d, at Neil's Botanic Dispensary, Emerson street, Napier, and all leading storekeepers.—Advt. Neil's Celebrated Livbk Tonic, a pure 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.—Advt . Neil's Compound Sarsaparilla. 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.—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