LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hastings Standard, Issue 74, 22 July 1896, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

— The Ivinetoseope continues to attract the crowds, and is likely to do so until Saturday, on which date the show closes. Ten new records for the phonograph have just been received from America, one item, a Negro quartette, "Hail! Jerusalem, Hail!" being a perfect gem. The provisional committee of the Hastings Debating Society met last evening and transacted a deal of preliminary business to be submitted to the first general meeting. Given energetic officers the society should be a huge success. At the Native Land Court this morning Poukawa was again adjourned to allow of information from Wellington being received. The decision with regard to Piripiri was reserved. A case dealing with the successor to Horiana is now being heard. It is understood that Rev. Dr. Hosking has been snbpoened as a witness in the case of Coker v. Taylor, to be heard in Christcliurch next week. The defendant is editor of the Prohibitionist, and the charge arose out of certain remarks made on the management of the plaintiff's hotel. The local Volunteers have sustained a serious loss by the washing away of their range at Te Mata, and it will take some pounds to repair the damage. It is thought that a waterspout must have struck the locality, as no ordinary rainfall could have caused the targets to be swept down the gullv. When the winter is over steps will be taken to effect repairs. The company intend holding a " social " at an early date. Gilbert and Sullivan's opera lolanthe will be staged in Hastings by the locai Amateur Operatic Society about the middle of next September. The opera, like all the efforts of these gifted collaborateurs, is abounding in absurd and paradoxical situations supported by a brilliant and witty libretto. The music, though not ambitious, is of the bright, sparkling and snappy school which is so popular with the public. There is wide scope for the vocal and histrionic powers of the performers, but the caste, being a strong one, they are quite equal to the demands made upon their powers. The management propose to issue books containing eight tickets for the reserved seats at a guinea each book. For family parties and others this will be an economical investment, and one that will be largely availed of. The management is to be congratulated on the verve and go it has succeeded in infusing into the rehearsals. The Arawhenua and Albury estates in the Canterbury district, containing 4600 acres and 19,000 acres respectively, have been purchased by the Government from the Assets Realisation Board. The dairymen of Christchureh are up in arms at the proposals made in the City Council relative to the inspection of dairies and dairy cattle, on the grounds that they are calculated to unnecessarily harass and annoy owners. It is said by people in Dunedin who ought to know, remarks the Bruce Herald, that quite a new version of the famous oats warrants of the J. G. Ward Association will shortly be disclosed to the public, and will come as an eye-opener to many people. An exchange says :—" An Anglican clergyman in the North Island refused to read the prayer provided ' for Parliament assembled,'giving as his reason that, from recent disclosures made anent a number of our legislators, prayers were more needed for the country." A man named F. Tuer was leading a horse at Eketahuna on Friday, when he was kicked on the head, and received a fracture of the skull. He lingered in a comatose state until Sunday evening, when he passed away. The deceased had insured his life for £l5O only a day or two before the accident occurred. A member of an Australian Municipal Council some time ago sold material to j and performed work for his Council to J the amount of £'29. After waiting some j time, an informer sued him for £'3500, being j £SO per day for each d«y the Councillor j sat after supplying the goods, and the Melbourne Full Court awarded him £3400 I for 68 days, during which it was held the j Councillor's seal had been forfeited by faia j act. ■

Tenders are invited for the erection of an iron fence on the State School grounds. The new Government steamer now being built in England is to be called The Tutaenekei. This was the name of the lover of Hinemoa, according to the beautiful legend associated with the Island of Mokoia, on Lake Rotorua, and there is a peculiar appropriateness in its being chosen for the new steamer. Encouraged by the fact that the New Zealand Government has proposed a system of State pensions for the aged poor, Mr Kirton placed a motion on the Order Paper of the Legislative Assembly in favor of a similar system for "Victoria, but when the subject came up for discussion the motion was withdrawn. The man who died suddenly on the road near Blairlogie, Wairarapa, was an old soldier. He had seen active service | in Burmah and in other parts. And still, remarks the Star, he was buried in Masterton as a pauper ! It is the same old story. " Battle his bones over the stones —he's only a pauper whom nobody owns." A man from one of the Prohibition State of America was recently asked to address a temperance meeting in another part, so 'tis said. He did. *' This," said he, " is the Bible which I hold in my hand. I have read it through, chapter and verse. I could find in it only one man who asked for water, and he was in hell." The Advocate states that a man in the employment of Mr Johnson, Cheltenham, was arrested on Saturday evening 011 a charge of committing a criminal offence on his daughter, who is but 11 years of age. The case will be heard at Fielding on Monday next; in the meantime the accused has been sent to Wanganui gaol. Victorian enterprise sets an example in dealing with and preserving rabbits. Last February twelve months, the Hamilton Preserving Company started with .£2578 18s capital, and during the year its output realised .£20,000, leaving a profit of £624 12s, in addition to placing .£"240 as a reserve fund. This successful enterprise merits recognition. There is a trade to be done, for one London firm intimates that it is prepared to take five million frozen or tinned rabbits per annum. Sir Frederick Carrington was first out in Cape Colony during the Kaffir war in 1875. He afterwards commanded Carrington'a Horse in the Zulu war, was in the Kimberley riots, was with Sir Charles Warren's expedition in Bechunaland, and after that raised and commanded the Beclmanaland Border Police. He is an excellent officer, has great experience of Native warfare, and knows the country thoroughly. The young lad J. Linden, who was a passenger on board the ship Scottish Dales, which was wrecked at Fiji recently, died in the Suva Hospital on the 6th instant. He was suffering from consumption, and was taking a sea voyage for the benefit of bis health when the wreck occurred. The exposure in the open boat from the wreck to Suva to some extent hastened his death, though he was in a very low state at the time. He was only 15 years of age. 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. 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, &c. In bottles, 2s and 2s 6d, at Neil's Botanic 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. " Drunkenness is not a sin—simply an excess of conviviality," says a thirsty philosopher. " Nothing like a good skinful of whisky for a bad cold.'* Don't you belive it, my friends, take that unfailing remedy, Woods' Great Peppermint Cure for one shilling and sixpence.—Advt.