LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hastings Standard, Issue 57, 2 July 1896, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

> The Borough Council meets this evening at 7.30. The Prohibition League in Hastings promises to become a strong body. Mr D. O'Reilly has resumed possession of the Hastings Hotel. It is understood that Mr W. Douglas has purchased the hurdler Bavatone. The main roll for the Waipawa electoral district has been compiled and contains 3801 names. Hev. A. S. Morrison left for Dunodin this morning for a short respite from his arduous duties. The villa residence to be built in Hastings from the plans of Mr K. J. Roberts, the well known architect, will prove an ornament to the town. At the Wellington S.M. Court on Monday a man was sentenced to eight days' imprisonment for stealing a packet of cigarettes. Mr Audley Mereweather, an Australian dental surgeon of some renown, has decided to settle permanently in Hastings, and has taken rooms at the corner of Heretaunga Eoad and Railway street. His hours of attendance are from 9.80 a.m. to 5 p.m. A man who had lost a three years ago was struck by a brand mentioned in an impounding notice of Mr C. A. W. Hunt, and yesterday called at the Stortford Lodge pound -and identified an old servant. He was delighted to pay the fees and again enter into possession of the horse. The Council is taking more active steps to light the borough than lias heretofore been the case. The darkness which envelopes the township after sundown renders walking after nightfall extremely disagreeable, indeed positively dangerous to pedestrians whose business calls them out. It is well that our citizens are well disposed, for the inky blackness which crouches on several portions of the borough serves as a cloak to hide every possible rascality. We are pleased to notice that two more lamps are in procoss of erection —one at the junction of King and Queen Streets, and another at the corner of Eastbourne and King Streets. These will prove a great boon, but the cry is still for more. There were 85 fever patients in the Coolgardie Hospital a fortnight age. The stud owned by the late Colonel North has been sold for £340,000. . Lambing has already commenced in the Manawatu and Itangitikei districts. An old man named Gibson has died_ at Geelong (Vic.) from neglect and starvation though he had over ,61000 in the bank, At Jericho, Gippsland, (Vic.), a publican has been threatened with prosecution for not keeping his hotel open late enough. Mr -John Plimmer, the " Father of Wellington," celebrated his 84th birthday on Sunday. The brilliant mare La Fleche, the property of the late Baron Hirsch, has been sold for 12,600 guineas. The heart of the racehorse Silver E, which dropped dead the other day, was found to weigh 131b, The usual weight is about 61b. A correspondent writing from Hyde to the Dune din Star says theft about fifty hands were, discharged from the Otago Central, railway works last pay day. Eoughlv speaking, says a Southland paper, the J. G. Ward Company, during the three and a half years of its existence, lost money at the rate of «£IOO a day. Professor Black has refused a position at a very high salary as an expert to the gold-mining syndicate of whose advisoryboard the Hon. Mr Seddon is a member. TheTuapeka Times adds that another syndicate also applied to Professor Black, with a like result. Mr H. B. Hazel, the football referee who defended himself with a revolver at Homebush, reported 12 members of the Oriental Club to the Union for misbehavior, and the Union undertook to indemnify him as to his expenses if he would prosecute the rioters. A lady has been chosen manager of the Mataura Dairy Factory. There were 11 applicants, and the choice of the directors was unanimously in favor of Miss Lizzie Dumbleton, a member of a well-known family of cheese-makers. Miss Dumbleton has the unique distinction of being the first woman in this colony who has been appointed to the responsible position of the managership of a co-operative cheese iacloiy.

I Georgf. Henry Williams, aged 21, was arrested at Pukititiri tins morning by Constable Routledge on a charge of passing a valueless cheque upon Mrs Scullion, of Meanee. It is stated that the Chinese in Victoria have dwindled from 30,000 to 8000. The police force throughout the colony are raising a fund for putting a memorial stone over the grave of the late Inspector Thomson, of New Plymouth. An inquiry has been opened at Melbourne into life assurance societies, and more particularly the Mutual Benefit Society of Australia. A Supreme Court jury recently awarded Eliza Clark, a domestic servant, £SO damages for an assualt upon her by George W. Eaton, the mayor of Enfield N.S.W. At Feilding, on Wednesday, Frederick Clifford on a charge of leaving open letters containing obscene literature and figures in a storeroom at Iliwitea with intent to insult a young woman, was committed for trial at the sittings of the District Court at Wanganui on the 6th July. Accused was granted bail. * 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 Tonic, a pure botanic remedy for all affections of •the liver, biliousness, jaundice, yellowness of the skin, indigestion, &e. 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 6d 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