LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hastings Standard, Issue 49, 23 June 1896, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Native Land Court is again engaged to-day with a number of succession cases. The weather does not look promi.-iing for the races to-morrow. The heavy rain lias soddened the course, and the going is certain to be heavy. Miss Cissy Samuels, a great favorite in the Opera Company on their last tour, left Mr Pollard in Wellington, preparatory to her marriage with an Auckland gentleman next mouth. At the Native Appellate Court to-day the appeal from the partition order I'avangahau No. 2 was dismissed with costs ,£lO. The succession case of Nekouira Te Whara in Manawaingrangi was dismissed with £ii costs. Mr Ct. H. Vickers has purchased Messrs P. A. Herman and Co's auctioneering business, and will hold his first sale on Saturday next. As Mr Vickers is well and favorably known in Hastings, all will wish him success in his venture. At the Princess Theatre this afternoon that property and the half-acre section upon which it is situated was put up for auction by Mr Alex. Lean. The attendance was fair. As the furniture and scenery were put up separately, the auctioneer announced that the purchaser would not receive delivery of these until the termination of the Pollard s present engagement. The bidding for the building and section, the original cost of which was £IOOO, commenced by Mr Ellis offering £SOO, and it was ultimately knocked down to the next bidder, Mr Begg, for £6OO. The seats, scenery and furniture which are valued at £3OO, were bought in on behalf of the company. The latest Prohibitionist handbill circulated, states that £2,081,470 was spent in intoxicating liquors in New Zealand in 1894, and of this amount £100,050 was spent in Wellington alone ! There are 51 hotels in the Empire City. The writer estimates that had the sum mentioned been distributed amongst the unemployed of Wellington thev would have received £l5O each. A lady correspondent of the Age is the author of a novel and daring proposal for gett ing rid of the deficit which is causing such trouble to the treasurer, anxiety to recipients of incomes over £l5O. She suggests a tax of 10s each on every bicycle and machine of that sort, every buggy, gig, coach, and phaeton, sixpence on every room in all houses, and 2s on every piano, bv which she calculates to obtain £400,000. To show that she is patrotic and not merely taking the other fellow, she signed herself ' Victorian Native, and ' One who owns a buggy and fiVe -roomed house."

A little girl, Jane Pierce, and her brother Arthur were killed by a falling tree in Beech Forest, Victoria. The girl made a fruitless effort to save her brother. English papers contain an advertisement for a Commander of the Forces for New Zealand, at a salary of ,£7OO a for house, and £2OO for travelling allowance. It is stipulated that the officer is to be of the rank of a Major in the Imperial service. The mystery of the killing of Mrs Johanna M'Cartliy, at Canadian, Ballarat, on St. Patrick's day, has net been cleared up. She was chopped to death, when at home by herself. Her husband and sons were away for the day. The police suspected an old woman named Mrs Trait, who lived in a hut near by, and sometimes quarreled with Mrs M'Carthy. The trial took place at Ballarat on June 3, when Mrs Trait was acquitted, as there was no evidence to connect her with the crime. A horrible crime or series of crimes came to light in Salt Lake on May 25. On searching the busement of a Scandinavian Church, portions of the partially cremated body of Henrietta Clausen, a Swedish giri, said to have been murdered by the pastor, the li-ev. Mr Herman, were found. The whole cellar was then dug up, and bones by the dozen—some human and some those of quadrupeds—were discovered. Some were so much burned that their classification could not be made. 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. Stop that Cough by talcing 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.—Advt. Neil's Celhiskatkd Liver Toxic, a pure botanic remedy for all affections of the liver, biliousness, jaundice, yellowness of the skin, indigestion, i!tc. In bottles, 2s and 2s Gd, at Neil's Botanic Dispensary, Emerson street, Napier, and all leading storekeepers.—Advt. Neil's Compound Sausapakilla. A household medicine for purifying the blood and toning up the system. In large bottles at 2s (id at Neil's Dispensary, Emerson street, Napier, and all leading storekeepers.—Advt. Neil's Coisn Cuhk 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