LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hastings Standard, Issue 68, 15 July 1896, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

■ —-—• The annual meeting of the Hastings Athenaeum will be held this evening. We again remind our readers of the social to be held in connection with the Fire Brigade this evening. Mr Thomas M'Kenzie, says]:— " There's no one knows more about the cultivation of the land than those who have never had anything to do with it." The Kenetoscope has caught on in Hastings, and the premises in Heretaunga Road were thronged all yesterday and again to-day. Mo one should miss seeing this wonder of the age. The phonograph is also an advanced one, and some splendid records may be heard. Yesterday a couple of Maori records were taken, and these promise to be in great demand. A Native is now busily engaged in learning something funny to talk into the instrument, and when'he is perfect Mr Whitehouse will hold an amusing remkiiscence from Hastings.

A rather lengthy letter on Prohibition by John Hoskingis crowded out this issue, also other correspondence. Mr John Simpson, an old and respected settler in Rangitikei, was gored to death by a bull on Sunday last. At Stratford a boy named Garry while playing with a can of gunpowder struck a match, and he was severely injured about the face by the explosion which followed. Owing to a difference between the purchaser of the theatre and the purchaser of the seats, &c., therein, Mr J. C. Lyon, the proprietor of the Columbia skating rink is compelled to postpone the opening of the rink this evening. It is understood that the young lady whose name is connected with yesterday's suicide in Woodville, was to have been married in the Catholic Church this morning, but the function has been postponed until she has recovered from the severe shock she has sustained. An old man named Cavanagh, who says he went through the Maori war, and was beside Von Tempsky when he was shot, walked into the Palmerston station on Saturday night and asked to be locked up, as he was starving. He had walked from Woodville to Feilding the previous day. A ltttle girl named Agnes Ethel Neary was kicked on the head and body by a horse tied on the footpath outside the Clarendon Hotel at Palmerston North on Saturday afternoon. The injuries were of a serious nature, and medical aid had to bo summoned. Mr H. A. Walker, representing H. HWarner, of Safe Cure notoriety, is to-day in Hastings superintending the distribution of tracts —or pamphlets—telling of the renowned cure for kidney or liver complaints and many other diseases that flesh is heir to. He is also engaged in a commission of enquiry into the best method of advertising the remedy, and in a run through the colony has visited almost every town of any importance. Mr Walker has been well received wherever he has gone, especially in the Empire city, where a Customs officer, who reads the laws of the country through his own specs, demanded £SO as commercial traveller s tax, and got it—under protest. The genial representative of the firm is an old Carlton and West Melbourne footballer, and has made many marks in that line, besides which lie once put up a few runs at cricket. With these and other gentlemanly qualifications Mr Walker is especially well suited for the work in which he is engaged. Over 50 recruits for the new rifle corps at Woodville were sworn in by Lieut.-Col. Newall the other evening. A ballet from a pea rifle which was embedded in a boy's arm, was located at the Sydney University recently by means of the " X " rays. A lad had his jawbone cracked while playing football in Featherston on Saturday. A correspondent of the Dunedin Star urges that to secure the happiness and comfort of our people, we must not only shut out the "undesirable immigrant," but also limit the number of the " superfluous baby." It is intimated that the recent floods in the Waipawa County will cost the County Council about £'l2oo. 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 1/0 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. The New Woman, the new fashion, the latest erase, have some particular virtues to commend them ; so it is with the new cough mixture, Woods' Great Peppermint Cure—instantaneous relief for man, woman, or child is the feature of this unfailing remedy. All Grocers, and Chemsts keep it. The price is reasonable, 1/6 and 2/6. —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 Celhbrated 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 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 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.