LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hastings Standard, Issue 94, 14 August 1896, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Practice of lolanthe at Princess Theatre to-night. The Mariposa with the Frisco mail arrived at Auckland to-day. G. H. Vickcrs and Co. sell at their rooms to-morrow, second-hand furniture, crockery, &c. Our Omahu correspondent reports the finding of the dead body of, a poor unfortunate well known in the Taradale district. A severe shock of earthquake was felt in Hastings at 1.20 this morning. The vibration which followed the shock lasted several seconds. The stone crossing put down opposite the Carlton Club Hotel is an experimental one, and it is said cost less than half what a wood-paving crossing would do. Donald M'Kinnon is reported to have been injured yesterday at Chvistchurch, and he is not amongst the acceptances for to-morrow's meeting. A young man named Elian, while buslifalling at Tokomaru received a severe fracture of the base of the skull, and is now lying in the Palmerston hospital in a very critical condition. At Bainsdale (Vic.), John Gray, aged 25, a miner, awoke, when his bed was in flames. He was much burnt, and died in a few hours. In the West Australian Assembly a select committee has been appointed to suggest means for reducing the high price of meat. At Coburg (N.S.W.) recentlv, a wild bullock tossed a man, overturned a buggy and horse, and upset a horse and his rider. A telegram from Pohangina to the ! Feilding Star states that John Sliadbolt, junr., was killed in the bush at Salisbury on Tuesday. The body was terribly crushed. A late special tramcar to St. Clair, Duncdin, narrowly escaped being run into by a train at the Kensington crossing last week. Owing to the flooded condition of the Bowral Cemetery (N.S.W.) a coffin had to be held down while the burial service was read. W. Craig, one of the forwards in the "Wanganui representative football team, received a fracture of the collar bone in the match with Taranaki. % Steel coffins for the bodies of those who die suddenly on shipboard are being carried in some of the Transatlantic liners. The remains are placed in them and hermetically sealed. Only twenty permits for the use of the totalisator at trotting meetings have been allowed for by the Colonial Secretary. The deputation that recently waited upon the Hon. Mr Carroll asked for thirty-three. A petition, which will be presented to Parliament at an early date, is being signed in Waipawa, praying that further expenditure on the Napier breakwater should be stopped—Mail.

The Coromandel Sun states that last. Friday's receipts beat all previous records, for the large sum of £1555 10s was deposited at the Coromandel Gold Revenue Office on applications for special claims, licensed holdings, water races, &c. A peculiar fatality is reported from Brisbane, where Miss Lillie Godsall, the eldest daughter of the late Mr Richard Godsall, formerly Mayor of Toowoomba, was suffocated in a bath. After lighting the gas bath-heater, she sat down reading to await the filling of the bath, and was overpowered by fumes arising from the heater, both the door and window being closed. The body was not discovered until some time after life was extinct. An Asliburton man who was fined £5 for taking his traction engine across a traffic bridge without a permit elected to " take out" the alternative of imprisonment. But three days' incarceration in Lyttelton Gaol satisfied him. He was not allowed to .smoke, and rather than deny himself this luxury he paid up the £5, and regained his liberty.

The member for Ashburton was very wrath the other (lay when Max O'Bell was quoted as an authority on the Chinese, and said that he could not be relied on because he had stated at Dunedin that Scotchmen did not wear trousers because their feet were too big to get through them. The House laughed consumediy, but Mr McLaclilan was not to be appeased. The principle has been laid down by Mr Justice Denniston that where a person in trade or business through unexpected misfortune becomes unable to pay debts contracted, and has given up all his property, his discharge from bankruptcy will be granted. But where a person not in trade, and with no assets, simply comes to the Court to sponge off his debts, the Court will declined to grant an order of discharge—this irrespective of the position occupied by the debtor. The Makaretu correspondent of the Waipawa Mail writes : —" A fatal accident occurred here on Tuesday. Two little girls of Mr J. C. Pedersen were sitting on a log in Mr Bergersen's paddock, clGse by some burning heaps of stumps and logs, when the clothes of the youngest, aged seven years, took fire. Her sister, aged nine, tried to put out the flames but without success. The accident was not noticed until the clothes was almost burned off her body. The poor child was carried to her home close by, and Dr Ross wired for, who arrived during the evening. The child died at 11 o'eloek. Much sympathy is felt in the district with Mr and Mrs Pedersen."

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