LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hastings Standard, Issue 81, 30 July 1896, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mrs E. Faulknor has vacancies for a few music and singing pupils. The Native Land Court was to-day again engaged with Poukawa. New Zealand telegrams and ether reading matter will be found in the fourth page. The Hastings Volunteers hold a "social" at St. Matthew;s Hall this evening. These gatherings are always popular and well attended. Detective Neill returned to Wellington to-day. His visit to this district was connected with further serious charges against ex-Detective Kirby. The street crossings are again in a disgraceful state to-day, and anxious enquiries are being made as to when the promised wood-paving may be expected. Detective Chrystal is in town to-day assisting the local police in their investigations with reference to the reeent discovery of a dead infant under suspicious circumstances in the Makirildri creek. The Skating Rink at the Princess Theatre was well patronised last evening, numbers of both sexes indulging in the postime. The rink will be open every Saturday and Wednesday, both in the afternoon and evening. The Pahiatua Herald has greatly improved since Mr A. Baillie became proprietor of the journal, a couple of months ago. Its leading columns are brimful of interest, and many of the articles would do credit to a metropolitan daily. Most of the willows around the lake on the Hastings racecourse have been cut down, which in no way tends to improve its .appearance. Someone suggests that this adds another argument to the already' long list of reasons for the transfer of head quarters from Napier. To-night at the Princess Theatre Hall and Brightwell meet to decide the Cumberland wrestling championship. The prize will fall to the winner of the first five of nine falls, and promises to be a really good exhibition, as both men are able exponents of the art. The public can rely on receiving value for their money, as the affair is a genuine one, and not a gate-money " dodge," so often seen in this colony. Mr Joseph Palmer, herbalist, has fitted his new shop in Railway Station street with a full stock, and very neat everything looks. A large consignment of herbs and extracts have just arrived from America, and cures for almost every complaint under the sun may be had on application. Medical men affirm that all systems require a Spring tonic, and as that season is upon us, Mr Palmer has imported a number of blood purifiers, including the celebrated American sarsaparilla. A false idea exists in some quarters in town that the platelayers Sullivan and Musgrove when attracted by the parcel containing the remains of the child in the Makirikiri creek stopped their trolly and leaving it unattended went to examine the parcel, thus obstructing the line and rendering the traffic dangerous. To dispel this idea we may state that the men were working in the vicinity of the place when the discovery was made, and that the trolly was not in use at the time but lying in the usual plaee on the side of the line. The report that the trolly was on the line is false and without any foundation whatever. About 30 persons left here by the special train yesterday evening in order to witness the performance of . the Royal Comic Opera Company in Napier. The Theatre was about half filled with a most dissatisfied audience. It is difficult to understand how the press of the colony can betray the confidence which the public repose in them by giving favorable notices to the class of performance witnessed last evening. The dialogue is abounding in double meaning phrases, which should bring the blush of shame to the face" of any descent minded man, not to say his wife or daughter, and many of the situations are revolting to cultivated feelings. As long as the stage is occupied with productions similar to that of last night it must exercise a pernicious influence on the public morals, which are at a sufficiently low ebb already, and any critic who permits his judgment to be bought by a company of strolling players fails in his duty to society. The company at present occupying the boards in Napier is pandering to some of the lowest and most animal instincts of human nature, and the company is evidently travelling on its past reputation. A little girl aged four, named Olive Bennett, was going with a child companion across the railway line near Northcote, Victoria, when a .train approached. Her companion, named Condy, just escaped by a few inches, but the child Bennett was killed. A careful search has been made for Mr James Ewart's six-year-old daughter, who was lost on the afternoon of the 15th inst., at Cannibal Bay, Otago,but without result, and it must be impossible that the child can now be alive. No fewer than 42 persons were searching on the day following that on which the child was missed, 43 on the next day, 27 on the Saturday, and 62 on the Sunday. Particulars of an accident that, miraculously, was not fatal are supplied in the Tapanui Courier. A boy named William Potts, 11 years of age, was returning frem school, accompanied by a playmate, when the two trespassed into the Tapanui mill reserve, and got amongst the shafting. Young Potts had an overcoat on, and this was caught by some projecting wedges on a pulley attached to a spindle revolving at over 100 revolutions to the minute, and the boy was whirled round the shaft, smashing an arm and leg, besides bruising him terribly. In this position the unfortunate lad remained whilst his playmate rushed to the mill door, which was fastened in such a way that he could not gain admittance, and the first intimation of the mishap received by those at work in the mill was an apparent slowing down of the machinery and the thumping noise made as the boy was hurled round the shaft. When the machinery was stopped by those in charge, and investigations made, the boy was found in a frightful condition. Drs De Lautour and Trotter were soon in attendance, chloroform being administered, and it is hoped the boy will recover. Hie shaft being -only a slight distance from the ground broke the force of the swing, tlje body being, drawn beneath it, and forcing the earth Away to make a passage, whereas had it been bat a foot higher the lad's head must certainly 1 have been smashed to pulp through contact with the ground, ..... . . - . 1

The two £SO notes which were reported to have been stolen from the Kurow branch of the National Bank have been found—in the Bank safe. An elderly waif who recently had reason to spend some time in the New Plymouth Hospital described it as " the nearest place to Heaven that he had been in." 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 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. " 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.