LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hastings Standard, Issue 55, 30 June 1896, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Kcefton mining strike has been settled, the men accepting 9s per day. The sum of £'Bols was passed through the totalisator for the two days of the Hastings Steeplechase meeting. Judge Mail', in the Native Land Court, was to-day engaged in hearing a number of succession cases. Chief Judge Davy and Judge Scannel left bv the express "this morning, the Native Appellate Court having concluded its sittings. There was a general egress by the north and south trains to-day. The members of Tollard's Opera Company were passengers to Napier by the 11.30 a.m. train. A solitary drunk has been the only arrest during the holiday season, a record which speaks much for the temperance of Hastings. The gentleman in question will interview a Justice of the Peace as soon as he is fit to do so. One of the attractions at the Pollard Opera season was the beautiful music bj the orchestra. There can be no doubt as to the ability of this department of the eompanv. The playing of the flautist, Mr 13. Bussell, was especially noticeable, and added very materially to many of the choicest solos during the season. .

Rev. J. Hobbs reckons that the totalisator is the poison of Hawke's Bay and of New Zealand. On the return of the Pollard Company in October a new lot of plays are promised, including Gwynne, Black Cloaks, Rip Van Winkle, and an original comedy. Our Napier " special " wired this afternoon that two youths named Frank Higg;ns and Chas. Win. McGee, the latter a jockey, were arrested in Napier to-day on a charge of stealing a silver-mounted pipe and some silver coin from the restaurant of Mr Wawn, Hastings. The new proprietor of the Princess Theatre, Mr George Ellis is making preparations for a thorough renovation of the hall. Seats for the front portion have been ordered from Australia, and will be on a similar plan to the Sydney Lyceum. A gallery will probably be erected above the present pit, and although the theatre will be worthy of the town. Mr Elhs is to be complimented on his enterprise, which should certainly bj'ing its own reward. The friends of Prohibition will hold a meeting in the Wesleyan Church to-mor-row evening in connection with forming a league in view of the general election. Addresses on temperance work in general will be delivered by several well-known advocates. The coursing meeting at Pluinpton ftoday had to be postponed after the first rounds had been run. Lucy Glitters, Password, Harvester, Grace Darling, Ua, and Okal'iti remain in the W aipawa Stakes, and Fleetwing, Ronda, Monte Christo and White Star in the Hastings Stakes. Captain Drew of the Salvador Anuy has arrived from Feilding, and has taken up tlie good work of the local corps. He has had a very large experience in England, Victoria, and Ceylon, and lias everywhere been very popular. Mrs Drew has also been an officur in the Army for some time. Their stay in Hastings should prove a pleasant and beneficial one. At Tattersall's sale-yard this morning Mr Alex. Lean disposed of backs, draughthorses, thoroughbreds, ponies, and buggies. The bidding was not by any means spirited, owing 110 doubt to the scarcity of feed in the district. Hacks reached £7 ; draughts, .fI I; ponies up to £'2 10s; saddles, .£'2; buggies. =£l4. The thoroughbred horse Sailor was passed in at 18 guineas, and liiUTOsn. was passed in at '2O guineas. The usual weekly sale will be held on Saturday next. It is stated that the National Associatiqn will run Mr It. P. Grevllle for the Masterton seat at the general election. In the wrestling match at Auckland last Saturday, between Donald Dinnie and Sutherland, the former won. The Longburn Freezing Works have passim into the hands of rthe mortgagees and arc not likely to be dismantled, According to the West-port Times, a rush of mining speculators from all parts of the colony has just set in on the V* est Coast. The next London dinner of the Eighty Clubs is to be held on Friday of this week and a recent number of the Home News states that the Hon W. I'. Reeves, AgentGeneral for New Zealand, is to be the guest of the evening. A guessing high tea is proving a great success in America. Each lady is requested to add to her costume some triiie that would suggest the name or work of some well-known author, and the others guess what the meaning is. Mr Max Pemberton, in the Winsor Magazine, tells of a Kaffir who had been watching some English colonists at golf. The next day he was discovered he-labor-ing a huge boulder with a pole as long as a mast, and vigorously shouting " godain " ; "Welly good," he exclaimed, "white man's game, welly good." The influence of civilisation has clearly a great deal to answer for. 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 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, &c. In bottles, 2s and 2s 6d, at Neil's Botanic Dispensary, Emerson street, Napier, and all leading storekeepers.—Advt. Neil's Compound Sahsapakilla. A household medicine for purifying the blood and toiling up the system. In large bottles at 2s (3d at Neil's Dispensary, Emerson street, Napier, and all leading storekeepers.—Advt. Neil'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