LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hastings Standard, Issue 92, 12 August 1896, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr F. Watty, of Pahiatua, announces himself as a candidate for the new electorate. It was pleasing to the many friends of Mr E. H. Williams to see him about town to-day, for the first time since his accident. The stone crossing opposite the Carlton Club Hotel is approaching completion, and a good j ob the workmen appear to be making of it. Mr W. Y. Dennett sells by auction, on the premises of Mr G. Hay, to-morrow, household goods and chattels, also lollies, oranges, &c.

The scoring in the cricket match England v. Australia is disappointing, and the collapse of the Colonials after the dismissal of Darling and Iredale is unexplainable. The local bowling-green has wintered well, and is now being got in order for the approaching season. The Hastings Club is a strong one, and promises to make its mark at the game. The Native Land Coairt was engaged with Poukawa this morning, when the case for the counter-claimants was closed. Messrs Loughnan, Blake, and Fox are appearing for the claimants, and on the application of Mr Fox the case has been adjourned until to-morrow. " lolanthe " was rehearsed last evening by the local amatuers. Messrs George and Ridgway, conductor and stagemanager respectively, deserve every credit for the manner in which they have brought the performers on during the past couple of weeks ; and, with a little more study on the part of the male division of the chorus, the opera should be well staged early next month. A speaker at the Debating Society last evening rather surprised some of his hearers by remarking in apparent good faith that the sum of "six millions" had been put through the totalisator in New Zealand last year. He was forced to admit that a" mathematical calculation had caused him to err, and that a very much lesser sum would be nearer the mark.

At a meeting of the Hawke's Bay Hunt Club at Waipawa on Monday it was stated that there was a profit of £Bl on the recent meeting. It was resolved to disqualify the horse Greenstone, the winner of the Hurry Scurry, and to award the stakes to Molly Riley, who finished second. The popular secretary, Mr Evans, said he was leaving for England in the course of a week, and asked to be relieved of his duties. A hearty vote of thanks was accorded Mr Evans, and Mr Groome was appointed to act in his stead. The programme for the Hack Race Meeting of the Marton Jockey Club, to be run on the 9th and 10th September, appears on our fourth page to-day. As Hastings is perhaps the very, best district in New Zealand to look for nominations in every department of horse-racing, no doubt the entries will be large. The programme is an attractive one, and consists of seven events on each day, the prizes for which are good. Under able management the Marton Club is very popular, and its meetings are always well patronised.

Some of the graves in the local cemetery are models of neatness, and bear strong evidence to the love and esteem in which those lying beneath axe held by their sorrowing relatives. It is therefore a pity that thoughtless children should be pesmitted by those in charge to wander amongst the tombstones, trampling upon the graves, and plucking the dowers which have been placed there at the expense of considerable time and trouble. Those responsible should put down with a. strong hand this juvenile vandalism. The Debating Society met in the Council Chambers last evening. There was a large attendance, including many ladies. Mr S. Pattison presided. debate, " Should the totalisator be abolished,'' was opened in the affirmative by Mr White, who must be complimented both for Ms introductory remarks and for his able " summing up." Mr W. M'Lean lead off in opposition, and was ably supported by several speakers. The debate was interesting, and at times amusing. On the vote being taken a tie was recorded, and th® chairman gave his casting vote in favor of the abolition, The nest meeting will be devoted to impromptu speaking. t The Post learns that penny collections taken in aid of the Roman Catholic Sunday Schools of Wellington in the last four years have realised the splendid total of JE7O6.

A Dundee man swallowed his artificial teeth. These having been located by means of the X rays, a successful operation was performed.

"Whitebait are reported to be coming up the Hawke's Bay rivers the last day or two. It appears that there are now 7232 blacks in New South Wales, and but 400 of these are within the range of missionary influence. An international testimonial is being subscribed in honor of the late Sir John Pender. New Zealand is expected to subscribe. Dr Williams, for the last ten years House Surgeon of the Thames Goldfields Hospital, and exceedingly popular in the district, died last week through the breaking of a blood vessel. It is reported that an exceedingly wealthy Adelaidean the other day called at a store and asked for his account. On getting it he asked for 2d, on the ground that they had saved that much by not having had to post the bill. He got it. In an Auckland den of vice, the chief occupiers of which were sent to gaol last week, eight children slept in one bed with nothing to cover them but a blanket and a sack; and on another bed a sack was the only covering. The old game in this district of robbing covers from horses left hi the paddocks at night is again rife. As the practice is becoming rather too common, it is to be hoped that when a culprit is caught he will be made an example of.

The Rev. L. M. Isitt advised the Nelson farmers to grow wheat instead of barley, but a Nelson paper retorts that anyone with the slightest pretension to even a superficial knowledge of agricultural matters knows very well that the greater portion of the land devoted to barley* in that district will not grow wheat. A telegram from Birmingham in Saturday's Feilding Star, says : —Julia Hunt, a young woman, the daughter of George Hunt, died suddenly last evening about half-past six o'clock. She has been ailing for about four weeks past, but was not thought to be seriously ill. Her death has been a great surprise to her friends and relatives. A number of Natives in the Danevirke district having stated that they wished to dispose of their lands to the Government, the Lands Purchase Department was communicated with, and two of its officers are now there negotiating with the Natives. If things go on as they have been going lately, the Maori will very soon become landless.

The startling announcement is made that there are over 150 lepers in Paris. One of these was picked tip in a fainting condition and taken to' the St. Louis Hospital, where there is a special leperward. The patients are attended to by an infirmariaii who suffers periodically from a mild form of leprosy. Dr Hallopeau, of the same hospital, does not consider the leprosy now in France as strongly contagious. Says the New York Observer : "An item is going the rounds of the Press to the effect that whisky is now manufactured out of old rags. We see nothing remarkable about this. Every one knows that nearly all the old rags now in the country are manufactured out of whisky, and there is no reason why the process of conversion may not work as well one way as another; from whisky to rags and from rags to whisky. What a beautiful business it is ?" Cyclists need no longer be harrassed with a dread of punctured tyres, if an invention patented by two Adelaide residents proves capable of performing what is claimed. It consists of two steel bands of exceedingly thin tempered steel, cut and interlaced in such a manner as to become one hollow band, which fits between the air-tube and the outer tyre, and presents the appearance of snake-skin, scale-like face possessing great mobility and durability. It can be readily attached to all existing forms of pneumatic tyres.

A station manager in New South Wales the other day engaged a blackfellow to rake up the yards about the place, and promised him 5s for the job, which he accepted. Passing by the scene of operations later on, the manager was astonished to see his employee seated on the ground surrounded by black gins, while three other blackfellows were doing his work. " What is the meaning of this ?" naturally asked the manager. " Oh," replied the aboriginal, with a grandiloquent wave of the hand, " me let 'im contract to these fellows for three bob." A man asked Mr Dickinson's advice at Thames police-court respecting his wife, who neglected three children, and only the previous day " jawed " at him for two and a half hours " without stopping." Mr Dickinson thought the latter performance must be of an exhausting character. Applcant further said he had been married 16 years, arid during the whole of that time had lived a miserable life. Mr Dickinson : Does she drink ? Applicant: No she eats. Its all eating with her. Why she weighs over seventeen stone (laughter). Mr Dickinson: Well, wait. I will see what I can do for you. A certain peasant and his wife in Germany were married the same day as the Emperor and Empress, the peasant's christian name being William. Their first child, a boy, was born the same day as the Crown Prince, after which they had five other sons, each one of whom was bora at the same time as the five youngest sons of the Emperor. The Royal couple were informed of this, and were exceedingly interested in a very strange coincidence, trat this interest was intensified when, on the last occasion of a Royal birth—viz., the little daughter of the Kaiser—it was learnt that the peasant's wife in question had also given birth to a daughter on the same" day. So astonished were the Emperor and Empress that they stood as godfather and godmother to the little girl, and have, we are informed, well provided for her future.—Home Chat.

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