LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hastings Standard, Issue 82, 31 July 1896, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

* A special train leaves for Napier to-night. Poukawa still engages the Native Land Court. Telegraphic and other matter appears on our fourth page. To-day a sudden change in the weather brings us back to midwinter. The compositors of the Nelson Star have struck for an increase in wages. The Trocadero, the new restaurant in Station street, opens to-morrow. If a Japanese farmer has as much as ten acres he is looked upon as a monopolist. Mr and Mrs G. P. Donnelly and Miss Donnelly left "Wellington for Sydney by the Mararoa yesterday. It is said that in a few days a Liberal candidate for the Hawke's Bay seat will announce himself. The sheep-worrying at Oinaliu and district still continues, though several of the mort£rel dogs have been slaughtered. Inspector Hill's examination of the Hastings State School concludes to-day, after which the holidays commence. A lady bicyclist was fined 10s and costs at Christchurch the other day for riding on a footpath. A Pangoroa settler grew sufficient tobacco last season for the use of himself and neighbors. The skating rink in the Princess Theatre will be open to-morrow afternoon and evening. The second performance of the Comic Opera Company, " In Town ' is said to be an improvement on " The Gaiety Girl." G. H. Vickers and Co. hold a sale of shrubs, &c., to-morrow morning, and in the afternoon furniture, pictures, watches, &c. The street crossings gave rise again to-day to uncomplimentary remarks concerning the members of the Borough Council. It is understood that nothing further has been discovered to lead to the solution of the mystery attached to the finding of the body of the infant in the Makirikiri creek. The Heretaunga football team played the Napier High School seconds on the Recreation ground. Owing to the heavy rainfall the ground was very soft. Napier won the match by 8 points to nil. Had the day been fine the score might have been otherwise. Tea-blending is an art in itself, and to it is due not a little of the enormous success that has attended the distribution of Nelson, Moate, and Go's teas. The firm is the largest importer in the colony, and in introducing nothing but a first-class item to the public it has made a name that is now almost world-renowned. With commendable promptitude the firm is introducing their blends into every town of importance in the Colony. Hastings has been included in that category, and an advertisement appears elsewhere. The Hall-Brightwell wrestling match in the Princess Theatre last night attracted a great crowd. The prize was for. JE2O aside, the winner to' take all the " gatemoney." Mr R. Jackson acted as referee, and gave every satisfaction. A good exhibition of Cumberland wrestling was given, but many were dissatisfied with the result. Hall won the first, second and sixth falls, and Brightwell was on top in the third, fourth, fifth, seventh and eighth tussles, the latter thus winning the match. Hall was suffering from a bad foot, which handicapped him considerably. The Volunteer social in St. Matthew's Hall last evening was a great success in every way. The hall was tastefully decorated, and about forty couples tripped the light fantastic till three o'clock this morning. Several of the Napier officers, including Lieutenants Thomson and Berry, werepresent. The music was contributed by Sergeant Shanley (piano) and Private Johnson (violin), and Miss Walsh and Lieut. Ware played several extras in their usual accomplished style. During the evening songs were contributed by Mrs Price, Lieut. Ridgway, and Sergeant Smith; Messrs Renouf and Cashion giving recitations. Lieuts. Ware and Ridgway acted as M.C.'s to the satisfaction of all, and Mr Roger Winslev. who had charge of the catering, provided a most recherche supper, which was done ample justice to. " We never know the worth of a thing until we have thrown it away " is a saying that most people are familiar with. It may be fittingly applied to the lives of great men and women, and more especially to those endowed with poetical genius. Not unlike the poets of old those of the present day for the most part are wrapt in obscurity, and their song is known only to a few who reside in the immediate neighbourhood of the author. This is to be regretted, inasmuch as they waste tlieir sweetness in the desert air. New Zealand, a land abounding in varied and beautiful .scenery, is comparatively devoid of poetic feeling, and, sad to note, her people are non-appreciative of many really wellcomposed pieces. We have just received copies of the Pahiatua Herald containing pieces from the pens of H. B. King and Miss G. Moore, both residents of the Forty-Mile Bush. Tha works of the former are of a highly-poetic order and his " Storm Echoes '* can be favorably compared with the productions of the Australian poets, Gordon and Lawsoa. Miss Moore's latest production points to the young lady's possession <5 a vast amount of i.,v.ifi it. ■ J . A. -

The people of New York drink 5,000,000 gallons of whiskey a year. Double marriages are becoming quite fashionable in Masterton. Hastings will be entitled to increased accommodation, that provided at present being far from adequate. In 1894 the flax industry in New Zealand employed 3204 men. Now it employs only 200 men. The Amateur Opera Company rehearse lolanthe in the Princess Theatre to-night. The dresses have arrived, and everything is pointing to a huge success. A farm of 100 acres," with homestead, near Winchester, South Caeterbury, was sold last week for £27 per acre. The amount realised by the stud sheep sales in Sydney was over .£29,000, and the largest total for several years' past. At the Palmerston North Court the other day a " habitual drunk," when sentenced, was removed from the Court exclaimed that if the Bench could see its way to take a three months' bill for the amount of the fine, he would be glad to give one. At a Manly (N.S.W.) church on a recent Sunday a member of the congregation, who makes it a habit to leave before the sermon, was requested from the pulpit te leave either earlier or later. The rebuked parishioner quietly informed the reverend gentleman that he would go out of church when it suited him. In the action brought by Edwin Faust, of the Faust Family, against the Taranaki News Company for £3OO damages for alleged libel contained in a paragraph in the News, it was agreed, reports the Hawera Post, that judgment be entered up for £ls and the 40s paid into court, and an apology be printed. Mr E. R. Brabazon, senior landing waiter of H.M. Customs at Wellington for the last two years, but who has been doing temporary duty at Napier for several weeks, has been permanently appointed to the Napier office. Before leaving Wellington Mr Brabazon was, through Mr. Jackman, presented by his fellow officers with a silver-mounted pipe suitably inscribed. It is pleasing to notice that the genial caterer, Mr Soger Winaley, has made extensive alterations and additions to his restaurant in order to meet the demands on his space made by the rapid increase in his business. It speaks well of Mr Winsley's popularity and enterprise that though he has only started in the Caf& some six months his business has already outgrown the premises, and he now finds it necessary to build large additions. Mr Winsley's abilities in the catering line are too well known to require comment, and it is a matter for congratulation that the time is past when Hastings had to send to Napier for its wedding cakes, and its catering generally. Mr Winsley certainly deserves the success his efforts have attained. In a recent discussion of the question, " Is Teetotalism Reasonable ?" Dr Mortimer Granville, the celebrated London physcian, said, " Alcohol is an integral, though subsidiary, article of diet, and within certain limits a food, and subserves useful purposes in the performance of the normal functions of our organism. It is a source and an embodiment of energy, and even the most advanced physiologists on the side of my opponents candidly acknowledge that I am right in this assertion." Speaking of the three plagues of influenza which visited that country, he said that in his experience not one case had terminated fatally in which a reliance on alcohol and good food had been rigorously maintained. There - was no stimulant that could take the place of alcohol. He was strongly of the opinion that the spread of fevers, cancers and other diseases was in a large measure due to the growing practice of taking less alcohol in the conditions of our social life. The Prince of Wales has nev§r appreciably lost the place in the heart of the people he gained when he passed through the Valley of the Shadow of Death, emerging on the joyous progress to St. Paul's Cathedral to return public thanks for his recovery. I think (writes Mr Lucy in the Sydney Morning Herald) no one realised how universally popular he is till on Wednesday when everybody went mad at the news that a colt running in his name at Epsom had won the Derby. Wherever two or three people were gathered together they shook hands in congratulation upon the event. Where they were gathered in tens of thousands, as on Epsom Downs ; in thousands as at the Military Tournament or Earl's Court; in hundreds, as on the Stock Exchange; in scores, as at the Middle Temple, they rose to their feet, cheered madly, and broke into singing " God Bless the Prince of Wales." Writes Dr Chappie in the Evening Post:—" If our Government wishes to prevent tuberculosis—and of course I believe it does—it must- begin at home. One milking cow with one tubercular teat will spread more tuberculosis in any town than all the immigrants of a decade. If charity should begin at home, cleanliness should begin at home, hygiene should begin at home ; and there is ample room for improvement at out own doors. But if the Government or any Governmenf in the world thinks it can carry out public health enactments without the aid of medical officers of health it is mistaken. Medical men discovered the facts and laid down the principles upon which the science of public health is built, and none but medical men have the knowledge, skill, and experience necessary to administer sanitary laws and initiate sanitary reform with any degree of efficiency or safety to the public. All expenditure of public money upon unskilled sanitary officers without the supervision and control of medical officers of health is worse than wasted, for besides the money loss, the public are lulled into a sense of false security and consequently inaction." 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. " JTothmg like a good skinful of whisky for a bad cold." Don't .you belive it, my friends, take that unfailing remedy, Woods' Great Peppermint Core foroae ahfliing »od sapeace.—Abyti,