LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hastings Standard, Issue 59, 4 July 1896, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

On our fourth page appears New Zealand telegrams and sporting items. The Town Band plays in the main street this evening. Tenders are invited-elsewhere for forming and metalling 13 chains of roading at Riverslea. To-day is the " glorious " fourth of July, honored by all true Americans as the anniversary of the day they gained their independence. The Salvation Army holds services at 11 a.m., 3 p.m.. and 7 p.m. to-morrow. The subject for the evening services is " The Wanderer," by Mrs Adjutant Drew. The Alameda .with mails from England and Europe up to June 13 left San Francisco on June 22, her duo date. The Mariposa, with the colonial mails to June 13, arrived at the same port on July 2, which is also her due date. The Good and Kind Society held their weekly meeting last night. There was a fair attendance, and two new members were elected. The Club intends to hold their next social on the 17tli. The first Euchre tournament was played off last night, Mr C. Olsen winning by two points. Messrs A. Jack, G. A. Fowler, and A. List acted as referees. A wrestling match for £2O a-side has been arranged to take place at Hastings about the end of the mouth between A. Bright-well and J. Hall. Both men are well-known wrestlers, and an interesting contest should eventuate. A deposit has been made, and the winner of five out of nine (Cumberland style) falls will be , awarded the stakes. Last night's practice of lolanthe was by far the best work put in by the Amateur Operatic Society. The attendance was good, and the concerted music was gone through in a very creditable manner. Mr Tom Pollard last week gave the management a few valuable hints, and the staging of this opera will be thoroughly up to date. Mr A. A. George conducted, butreserved the announcement of the caste until next practice. A sacred concert in aid of the funds of the Sabbath School was held last evening in the Presbyterian Church. The building was packed with a large and interested audience,,who testified their appreciation of the rendering of the several" items by rounds of applause. The choruses by the Sabbath School children were well balanced and carefully modulated, and there was an entire absence of that bane of chorus singing, individual competition. Each seemed to feel that his personal identity was for the moment lost in the ensemble, and the effect was grateful and a credit to the choir master, Mr Reynolds. Some of the recitations were very effective, particularly one, " Millie's Mother,"' by Miss Home. This young lady possesses a'splendid presence and a very clear sympathetic voice. At the end of the first part a collection was taken up, which realized a sum of ,£o Os 4d. The following contributed to the success of the entertainment: —Mesdames Johnson, Price, and Faulknor; Misses Home (2), Clarke, Smith, Collinge, and K. Hamilton; and Messrs Johnson, Haymes, King, Barrett, Bowie, Ryan, Cook, and Home. Mr Campbell, superintendent of the Sunday School, presided, and Miss Collinge accompanied the various songs. The fatality to Mr J. I Lawson, who lost his life by being knocked off the train by a projecting girder on the Pohangina bridge, near Ashurst, on Thursday last, removes a gentleman who promised to make his mark in the railway service of the colony. In early manhood—he was but 38 years of age—he has been cut off from what promised a brilliant career. He was resident railway engineer at Wanganui, and was widely respected. Mr Lawson was engaged with Chief Engineer Lowe in inspecting the lines damaged by the recent floods. The Manawatu Standard says that some idea of the terrible . force of the impact may be gathered from tlie fact that the girder which deceased struck was thickly covered with flesh off his face, blood and whiskers. The body was seen just at the junction of the Pohangina and Manawatu rivers, but disappeared almost immediately, no doubt being drawn under by the numerous eddies and whirlpools at this point. The accident caused a profound sensation on the train. The men, who were engaged in repairing the bridge, saw the body falling, and two of their number, with commendable pluck, jumped into the still swollen river and endeavored to find the body b\ traces of blood which discolored the water, but without avail, although they and several others continued in the water until darkness set ill. An Eltham farmer, who says he is getting only per lb for his butter at a time when it retails freely at lOd per lb, writes:—"lf co-operation cannot give better results than this, then co-operative dairying is doomed." The ex-Mayor of Dunedin, Mr Fish, who loaned some water-pipes nearly 12 months ago to the firm of which Councillor Morrison was the head, and which has since gone into liquidation, is to be sued for the value (some .£45) when he comes back from Home, so a resolution of the City Council says. Nothing came of Mr Ziman's offer to contribute £IOOO towards presenting the British Government with a war vessel if others in the colony would subscribe the balance. A Sydney paper says the New Zealanders received the news in dead silence, and went on freezing carcasses and digging gum just the same. The professions of the New Zealand Government that they are desirous to encouraging reciprocal trade with other colonies are regarded with some amusement by Australian papers, which point to the inconsistency of such proposals from a Government which has imposed a poll tax of £SO on commercial representatives from other colonies seeking to do business j with their people.

The train usually leaving Napier on Saturday at 10 p.m. will be delayed for an hour to-night, to allow country visitors to attend Pollard's Opera Company's performance. With his usual business enterprise, Mr J. Annett, ironmonger, is having a large iron building at the rear of his premises in Heretaunga road removed on blocks to the main street frontage, and when complete a commodious shop will prove an ornament to the neighborhood. Mr G. H. Yickers is not letting the grass grow under his feet. At 8 o'clock this evening he is selling books by auction. It is a long time since a sale was held at night, and there should be a big attendance this evening. A man named Atkins was brought up this morning before J. Beilby, Esq., J.P., charged with vagrancy. Upon his representing to the Bench that he had a good billet to go to in Wanstead, his Worship decided to give him a chance, and the accused left for the south by the express. It's a fact, says a well-known Christchurch divine the other day, to a friend, that Cough Mixture, calWd 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 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. Much consternation was caused last winter, amongst the medical men in Wellington, by the introduction of Woods' Great Peppermint Cure for Coughs and Colds ; that a very bad cough could be cured by a 1/6 bottle, and a whole family, with a 2/6 bottle, was a serious loss to them. It is sold by all Grocers and Chemists.—Advt.