LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hastings Standard, Issue 87, 6 August 1896, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Magistrates' Court will sit to-mor-morrow. The attendance at the Skating Ilink last evening was large, and great interest was manifested in the orange race, which came off at nine o'clock, and resulted in Sir Victor I'eddie carrying off the honors from seven competitors. Poukawa is still engaging the attention of the Native Land Court. MrLoughnan will address the Court 011 behalf of the claimants, and he is likely to take some considerable time. Counter claimants are represented by various counsel, and it will probably be some days before judgment can be arrived at. Mr. Sam Charlton, at the Railway Hotel, is as well known and as popular as any boniface anywhere. His trade is a •large and steady one, which is accounted for by the fact that only the very best of everything is kept in liand. Newbigin's famous " four x" is always on tap, and all who enjoy a glass of beer can testify to its quality. The Native Land Court has awarded to the Crown the following further areas in the Awarua Block In subdivision No. Id, 22,807 acres; No. 2c, 10,905 acres; No. 2a, No. 2, 84 acres ; No. 3a, No. 2, 5888 acres ; No. 3b, No. 2, 862 acres ; No. 3d, 2172 acras; No. 4c, 6801 acres; No. 4a, No. 3, 3041 acres: total, 52,060 acres. At about 9 o'clock this morning Mr E, H. "Williams, the well-known barrister, met with a nasty accident. "Whilst riding to business the horse he was on swerved suddenly at some object on the side of the _road, throwing Mr Williams heavily to the ground.. The sufferer was at once removed to Dr Linney's residence, where he was placed under chloroform, and his injuries examined. It was discovered that he had sustained a fracture of one of the small bones of the wrist, besides several bruises about the face. Dr Linne.y having attended to the requirements of the case, Mr Williams was taken home in a cab, but he expects to be right again in three or four weeks. Last year the Government Life Insurance Department held policies amounting to £9,345,000. Mr. D. Macquarie, a well-known settler of Alfredton, has just returned from a trip to Coolgardie. He describes things there as financially bad.—Express. At the inquest 011 the body of the Maori girl Te Urn Ngahuia, who died from the effects of burns received by her clothes catching fire in Wellington iast week, the jury returned a verdict of accidental death, adding a rider complimenting Captain Eussell on his promptitude in putting out the flames. Mr Krull says that the Echo (a German publication) of June 11 records the fact that it has been accidentally discovered that milk will at onee extinguish any fire—such as that occasioned by the upsetting of a lamp, &c.—and that experiments have been made by scientific men, who confirm the correctness thereof. Water, as everyone knows, will not extinguish ignited kerosene. A terribly sudden death occurred at the Boyal Hotel, Orange, where a meeting was being held to arrange for a testimonial to Mr J. T. Lang, the retiring Police Magistrate. Mr Fred Treweek, a well-known pastoralist and Justice of the Peace, was moving the first resolution, when ho said, " The chair is slipping away from me," and fell to the floor. He was reiqpved to an adjoining room, where he died within a few minutes. The British drink bill for last year shows an increase of expenditure, compared with 1894, of no less than £'3,676,984. England, Scotland, % and Ireland share in tiie responsibility for this heavy outlay. Beer, according to the figures published, still holds supreme sway over English taste, while Sandy has become more enamored than ever of whisky. Strange to say, the Irish people are beginning to betray a decided partiality for beer. A man of resource is the driver of the Condobolin (N.S.W.) mail coach. Tw coach, which travels through in the night, met with an accident. The two front wheels being smashed, the driver took the hind wheels off the coach, and put them on the front axle. He then detached the forecarriage from the coach, strapped the mail bags 011 to the axle, and drove the three horses on to Forbes with only the asle and two wheels.

A shop in the Central Buildings is advertised to be let. Mr Charles Hughes, butcher, who kills nothing but the very best cattle, sheep, and pigs, has a replace advertisement in this issue. Judge Edwards is the first New Zealander promoted to the Supreme Court Bench. There were close on five million gallons of New Zealand brewed beer consumed in the colony last year. Sixty-five and a-half million pounds of sugar was eaten last year by the inhabitants of this colony. A staircase at the Theatre Royal, Marton, callapsed 011 Monday evening. A number of people were on the structure at the time, but fortunately no serious casualties occurred. The average attendance at the Biblereading classes in the Dunedin schools is on the increase, and it is considered that the classes are becoming more .popular with parents. The Woodville Hunt Club have decided to hold their Steeplechase meeting either on the 30th September or the 7th October. They intend offering £l5O in prize money, divided over seven events, and the totalisator will not be present. The editor of the Marton Mercury who is an accomplished French scholar, wrote about certain ladies putting on a soupscon of paint, but the comp. thought he knew best, and set up " soup can." At a meeting of the Kongahu (West Coast) School Committee, one member called another a liar. The latter jumped up and proceeded to inflict chastisement, but the combatants were separated before any damage was done. A famous Melbourne medico, Dr Youl, says:—" A great many wives poison their husbands—there is not the least doubt of that." Yet people ask : " Why don't the men propose ? " The unmarried man, George Young, who committed suicide at Tauranga last week by hanging himself to a tree in his garden, was comfortably off, but had become despondent through losing his situation as a night watchman. Up to date cycle proverbs: " Stolen bikes run fast, a stone goes before a fall, took many bicycles spoil a walk, where there's a way there's a wheel, a novice and his bike are soon parted." "While a country youth was attempting to break a cocoanut by throwing it 011 the asphalt pavement in Dee-street, Invercargill, the cocoanut rebounded and broke a plate-glass window valued at .£2O. Smoking cigarettes made of tea is said to be the last craze among some of the women of America. One is about equal to two cups of fairly strong tea. Ten a day will equal twenty cups of tea. "What will be the result to the nervous system'? A young man who appeared in the Magistrate's Court at Masterton stated that he put up a record in drinking at Greytown last Saturday. Altogether, he said, he had between sixty and seventy drinks. A Dunedin resident complains that he has been subscribing to support a free soup kitchen, and now discovers that there were very few poor customers for free soup, a large proportion being sold and carried in billies to the homes of the residents in the neighborhood, .who are thereby saved the process of cooking. A woman named Kate Whelan, who was arrested on a charge of drunkenness at Auckland on Saturday night, complained at the lock-up on Sunday morning of a pain in her shoulder. On being examined it was found that her collarbone was broken, and she was sent to the Hospital for treatment. The Grey Star understands that efforts are being made to get the Australian cricketers to play a match at Greymouth if they can be induced to come over the ranges. The sum of <£lso is the amount named for each match and this money would be guaranteed, so that all that stands in the way is the doubt as to whether the Australians can spare the time to visit the Coast. The following story comes from London slums. A woman and two children were trying«to sleep in a room destitute of every comfort. Their only bed was a heap of straw and they had no covering. As a means of keeping off the draught and confining their own natural warmth to a small area, the woman placed the straw in a corner of the room, and taking the door off its hinges, placed it slanting against the wall. All three then crept under, huddled together, and the poor mother's trouble was. well repaired when she heard one child say : " Mother, what must those poor children do who have no nice door to cover them ? " 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 onlynecessary. Is per bottle at Neil's Dispensary, Emerson street, Napier, and all leading storekeepers.—Advt. * - Mr. L., a broad-minded pressman, met Mr. C., a Prohibitionist, the other day. " That's a nasty cough you've got," said ; L. " Come and have a rum hot; it'll do you good." "No, thanks; Woods' Great Pepperment Cure for me; it beats all your rum hots for coughs and colds, it's sold everywhere."—Advt.