LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hastings Standard, Issue 50, 24 June 1896, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Native Appellate Court did not sit to-<lay, but will resume business on Friday next. The Native Land Court, sitting at the Council Chambers, was to-day occupied with succession cases. The rachorses Drury Lane, Rainbow, and Prairie Grass arrived this morning by the Waipukurau train. It has been decided to hold the Hastings A. and I'. show on Thursday and Friday, Bth and 9th October. '• Cncle Tom's Cabin" was the Pollard's hi?; success in "Wellington, where it ran to phenomenal business for ten nights. G. 11. Vickers & Co. announce a sale of .£OOO worth of goods for Saturday next. As there will be absolutely no reserve, bargains may be looked for. More wedding bells. Mr Alexander Hutchison was this morning married to Mrs Thaxter at the resilience of Mr Watson, Hastings, liev. A. S. Morrison, M.A., was the ofliciating clergyman. Sleeping accommodation in Hastings was taxed to its utmost last night, and dozens had to be content with anything under cover. Even the passages of the hotels were crowded. The weather continuing boisterous, a committee meeting of the Hawke's ]say •Jockev Club was held early this morning, when it was decided to postpone the races until Saturday and Monday. Considering the state of the street crossings in wet weather the members of the Borough Council should not lose sight of Cr. Tyerman's proposal re wood-paving. The cost would not be great, and the work would be permanent. The Brunner inquest has been postponed until -July 12. Kalgoorlie (W.A.) has contributed a further sum of £350 10s to the Brunner Fund. The Municipal Conference at present sitting in Wellington does not favor the Local Government Bill. Stables for standing bicycles in, where they will be cleaned and oiled for a fixed fee per week have been opened in "Wellington. The Mayor of Pahiatua was summoned as a witness in a cattle stealing case on Friday last. As he did not answer to his name a warrant was issued for his arrest. The New Zealand Refrigerating Company is importing an ammonia machine of the Hercules pattern for its works at Oamaru, and expects to freeze 1200 sheep of 601b per day, and stow 2-5,000. A medical play by a doctor, called " Hypnotic Suggestion ; or, A Woman's Revenge," was recently performed at an Odessa theatre, the actors and the orchestra being all doctors, and the audience convalescent patients let out of the hospital for the occasion. A young Dunedin lady, who is now on a visit to England, lost her purse at a London theatre. She concluded her pocket had been picked and never expected to again see her purse, which contained money and other articles of value. A recent mail, however, brought the purse to lier New Zealand home, the iinder having posted it to the address which fortunately chanced to be in the purse. Reports in circulation that Baron Hirseh had left the Prince of Wales one million pounds lias been denied "on authority." The denial is technically correct, but there is reason to believe, says a despatch to the New York Sun of the 3rd, that the rumor is true in substance. The so called bequest is said to consist of instructions to destroy the Prince's 1.0.U.'5. which it is believed amount to about £1,000,000. Victorian enterprise sets an example in dealing with and preserving rabbits. Last February twelve months, the Hamilton Preserving Company started with £2578 10s capital, and during the year its output realised £20,008 leaving a profit of £624 12s, in addition to placing £240 to a reserve fund. This successful enterprise merits recognition. There is a trade to be done, for one London firm intimates that it is prepared to take five million frozen or tinned rabbits per annum. An item by the 'Frisco mail : —There is a story current in the London clubs, which, if true, may explain the previous cautious, self-contained Cape dictator Rhodes' amazing recklessness in his recent proceedings. When in London last year (the report goes) he fell in love with the widow Georgiana, Dowager Countess of Dudley, still one of the most admired of English beauties, although she has now been a grandmother for two years. This lady is said to have declined immediately and finally his oiler of marriage, declaring that she is resolved never to marry again. Ever since this rebuff, Rhodes is said by his friends to have been a changed man, to have grown tenfold more arrogant and reserved than before, rejecting off-hand the restraining counsel of his former advisers. He had never before been known to show the slightest fancy for any woman. He had always made it a point to have about him no married man. The effect of such a disappoiutment on a man of his self-will and pride may well have been what his friends now assert.

The two prisoners, Kirby and Bassett, arrive in Napier by the W'aihora to-morrow morning on their way to Wellington. Mrs Devanter, wife of a settler at Mid hurst was thrown off a trap on Thursday last, falling beneath the wheels. She received such injuries that she died in two hours. There died at Arrow a few days since one who was practically connected with the opening of the interior of Otago—MiThomas Murray. He was a pioneer waggoner, and at this occupation made a fortune. He was possessed of considerable wealth when he died—£'so.ooo some state. A peculiar affiliation case came before the Magistrate's Court at Kaiapoi the other day. A European named Drabble was ordered fourteen months ago to pay the costs of maintenance of a child of a lady named Cassidy on the ground of paternity, but it had since been discovered that the child was a half-caste. The case was adjourned for medical evidence. In a football match at Home Bush, New South Wales, the referee had to order two men oft the field, which led their comrades to proceed to deal out punishment to the referee, kicking and striking him and pelting him with mud. The referee evidently gauged the men he had to deal with, and had come to the match armed with a revolver, with which he cowed his assailants. 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 bv taking Neil's Balm of Gilead, a positive cure for coughs, colds, chronic bronchitis, influenza, Ac. In large bottles at 2s 6d,"at Neil's Botanic Dispensary, Emerson street, Napier, and all leading storekeepers.—Advt. Neil's Celebrated Liver Tonic, a pure botanic remedy for all affections of the liver, biliousness, jaundice, yellowness of the skin, indigestion, Ac. In bottles, 2s and 2s 6d, at Neil's Botanic Dispensary, Emerson street, Napier, and all leading storekeepers.—Advt. Neil's Compound Saesaparilla. 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 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