LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hastings Standard, Issue 56, 1 July 1896, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A special meeting of the Star of Hope Lodge will be held in the Oddfellows' Hall at 7.15 this evening. Mr Leask, dentist, will not visit Hastings until further notices. Orders may be left with Mr H. H. Hunt. The Victorian Railway Commissioners have made an annual saving of £945,000 in the working costs of the railways. Mrs Seymour George, who has been attending Sir George Grey in London, is expected back in Auckland this week. The roll of the sea at Napier was exceptionally heavy this morning. Nothing like it has been experienced for some years. A southern paper quotes the Hastings Standard article on the resignation of J. G. Ward under the heading of " Opinions of Prominent Journals." Thanks. The editor of the Waipawa Mail has filed a petition in bankruptcy. The editor of the Kelson Star was in the same position a few days ago. Hard lines ! A number of racehorses left Hastings for the south by the first train this morning. The train was a regular string of horse-boxes, occupied chiefly by unsuccessful candidates at the recent meeting. A lamp-post has been erected at the corner of Ivanunu Fioad and Lyndon Koad. We will bo pleased to announce lights in various other parts of the town at as early dates as the Council can make it convenient. It is understood that the Borough Council will be petitioned to consider the advisability of altering the impounding bye-laws, in the direction of doing away with public prosecution after the impounding fees have been paid. The shopkeepers who opened on Monday night after the race holiday, to-day received notice t-liat if they did not close this afternoon they would render themselves liable to prosecution. Judging by appearances there will be no prosecutions. A man named John Lmclerwood was called upon at the S.M. Court this morning to answer a charge of drunkenness, but failing to put in an appearance his bail ( £1) was estreated. Mr G. Ellis, -J.P., presided. Two notorious characters who have kept the police on the alert during the past few days received a timely hint this morning that if they did not immediately quit the town they would be placed under arrest. They quitted, moving on to Napier by the 11.30 train. As the Borough Council meets tomorrow evening perhaps Cr. Tyerman will press his motion for the block-paving of the street-crossings. Considering the disgraceful state the streets are in to-day he should have no difficulty in carrying a motion giving effect to his proposal. A rumor is afloat that Colonel Hume intends to shortly resign the Commissionership of Police and retire upon a pension. If this is true, it is hoped that his successor, whoever be may be, will consider the advisableness of granting more police protection for Hastings. The present Commissioner is evidently blind to the requirements of this district. For the Pluiupton Coursing Meeting, the following local dogs still remain in for the second round of the Waipawa Stakes : Password and Ua. A Supplementary Stakes will be run with the other events. The popular secretary, Mr W. Gray, deserves credit for the manner in which he carried out his duties under adverse circumstances yesterday. The judging and slipping also gave general satisfaction. The next run promises to be a successful one. In keeping with the " go-aheadedness " of Hastings we have arranged with our special correspondent- in Napier to get town news right up to the time of going to press every afternoon. As our eoirespondant resembles the Grand Inquisitor of Spain, inasmuch as he is always up-to-date, his contributions will no doubt be appreciated by our subscribers, the list of whom is expanding at a rapid rate. With " specials " in every town of importance in the colony we are" now in a position to get later news than any journal hitherto circulating in the district. We have also arranged for the very latest Parliamentary news available, and we ask that the Sta-momc to judged oa its merits,

Mr H. C. Caulton, son of our popular bonifaoc Mr H. O. Caulton, was married in Napier yesterday to Miss Madge Slattery, daughter of Sergeant Slattery, of Hawera. The happy couple are deservedly popular, and carry the good wishes of numerous friends for future happiness and prosperity. After the collapse of the Australian cricketers in the Maryleboue match, tho following wire was sent to the manager of the team from Kalgoorlie, Western Australia : —" Musgrove, London.—For the honor of Australia knock off and bring them home. (Signed) Australia." In Wellington a movement:was afoot to purchase some marbles and ask the Australians to give up cricket and try another game. At the S.M. Court this morning, before Mr J. Arnott, J.P., two respectably dressed young men named Frank Higgins and Charles William McGee were charged with having, on the 30th of June, stolen a silver-mounted pipe valued at 9s and the snm of 15s 3d in cash, the property of R. C. Cobb. Mr Dinwiddie represented Higgins. Sergeant Mitchell stated Higgins had neither money nor pipe in his possession when arrested and as there was no evidence to implicate him he asked permission to withdraw the charge as far as Higgins was concerned. Higgins was then formally discharged. In consequence of the unavoidable absence of Mr Cresswell, who appears for McGee, his case was adjourned until "2.30 p.m. On tho Court resuming, Messrs G. Ellis and John Arnott, J.'P., occupied the bench. The adjourned case against Charles Magee was resumed. The accused pleaded not guilty. The evidence went to show that accused with Cobb and some others lived in a room at the back of an unoccupied shop belonging to Mr Hatton, butcher. He was without money and was permitted to stay on condition he kept the place clean. Cobb gave him a pipe to get repaired at Mr King's, the tobacconist, and although McGee made several statements to the contrary the pipe was never left there. On June 30th Cobb arose at 5.30 a.m. and proceeded to work. Some time after he returned and found accused alone and the door locked on the inside, for which the accused gave an explanation later on receiving a hint from Mr J. Wawn. He again went to the. room, which he found empty, and on searching his trousers missed 15s 3d. On being arrested in Napier the pipe in question and 13s 8d were found in his possession. Before giving judgment their Worships decided to hear a second charge against the prisoner of stealing 10s, the property of Mr Wawn. Mr Wawn gave evidence, and McGee was fined £5 and costs on each charge or 14 days in Napier gaol. Sentences to run concurrently. 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, &c. In large bottles at 2s 6d, at Neil's Botanic Dispensary, Emerson street, Napier, and all leading storekeepers.—Advt. Neil's Celebrated Liver Tsnic, 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 st or eke epers.—Advt . Neil's Compound Saesaparilla. 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 Cube 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