LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hastings Standard, Issue 53, 27 June 1896, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pressure of space crouds out Napier notes, correspondence, &c. At the Hiiwkes' Bay Gun Club meeting at Farndon I'ark yesterday, the first prize fell to Mr 1). T. Murfitt the second to Mr J. G. Parker and the third to Mr A. C. M'Gregor. It is rumoured in Auckland that the police authorities intend to take action in regard to the betting shops, and that evidence lias already been obtained to warrant legal proceedings. The Olivette assembly will resume again in the Oddfellow's Hall on Tuesday evening next. This assembly has been well patronised since its inauguration and many a pleasuant hour lias been spent during the winter. The music supplied is all that can be desired, and the floor is in excellent order. A gang of men were lowering the wall of a building, which was recently gutted by fire in Wanganui. when the wall slipped and fell. One of the men jumped into an opening left by a window and the side of building fell around him. Another slipped along the wet floor, and out of reach of the wall, which just grazed his head. The others had a marvellous escape from serious injury. The weekly meeting of the Mutual Improvement Society was held last evenin the WesJeyan Church. The lie v. Dr. Hosking presided and Mr R. J. Roberts delivered a most interesting and instructive address on " Gambling and its attendant evils" to about 50 of the members. At the conclusion the following resoution was adopted by • the meeting: —"That this meeting regards gambling as a pernicious evil which ought to be suppressed by law as it is antagonistic to honest labor, home life, and peace of mind, and would urge our young people to keep themselves free from the meshes of the gambling mania so prevalent in our land." A hearty vote of thanks was extended to Mr Roberts. Upon the suggeston of Miss Parsons, the subject for debate at the next meeting will be " Should women have equal rights with men in all the functions of the State." The subject is a most interesting one and affords a considerable field for thought arid argumenv. from both sides, consequently a most successful meeting is looked forward to. It's a fact, says a well-known Christchurch divine the other day, to" a friend, that Ceugh 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 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, Emierson street, Napier, and all leading storekeepers.—Advt.

Owing to the races being held to-day, the sale advertised by Vickers and Co. has been postponed to nest week. The usual practice of the local Amateur Operatic Society, which was to be held last evening, had to be postponed, as the majority of the members were attending the performance of the Pollard Opera Company. _ The trains from Napier to-day brought a large number of visitors, but owing to Saturday being an exceptionally busy day a considerable section of the Napier people were unable to leave. The exodus from there on Monday is expected to beat all previous records. News from all directions report the subsidence of the waters, and the damage with the exception of that to the railway line, is not so large as was anticipated. Communication with Napier was resumed last evening, and the ordinary trains are running to-day. Communication with Wellington is however cut off owing to slips and the approaches to the bridges at Takapan and the Gorge being washed away. Gangs of men are at work, and it is though that the express will be able to run through about Wednesday next. The telephone as a means of communication ranks foremost amongst the resources of modern civilization. Nevertheless anyone acquainted with the freaks of the instrument will know that it is erratic and unreliable in transmitting or receiving important messages, where very often the misunderstanding of a single word alters the en tiro meaning of a sentence and is liable to cause inconvenience and infinite trouble In 110 department of the public service is strict accuracy of detail in the receiving and execution of orders so necessary as in the railway service, where the public convenience,and more important still, the public life is at stake. Yet notwithstanding this obvious fact our local railway station has to transact all its business with the head office in Napier by means of a telephone with the most unsatisfactory results- This should not lie. Every station, but more especially an important depot like Hastings, should be in telegraphic communication with the neighboring stations, thus securing the public safety and the accuracy and despatch of public business. Neil's Celkiskatkd Livkr Toxic, 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 liotanic Dispensary, Emerson street, Napier, and all leading storekeepers. —Advt. Nkil'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. Nkil'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. —Advt