LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hastings Standard, Issue 96, 17 August 1896, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The State school reassembled this morniug after the winter vacation. The Skating Rink had a record attendance on Saturday night. The Athenaeum ball on Thursday next promises to be one of the most successful affairs ever held in Hastings.

Captain Russell arrived in Hastings by the express on Saturday evening, and will return to his Parliamentary duties tomorrow.

Correspondence from " John Hoaking " will appear to-morrow. A rush of late telegraphic news crowded it out of today's issue. On Friday morning next the Revs. Hobbs, Morrison, and Hosking commence religious instruction to the scholars of the State School. It is proposed to give one lesson per week. A special meeting of the local Assembly of tlie Knights of Labor is called for tomorrow night, when, besides the ordinary business, arrangements will be made for tlie annual social.

Mrs Caulton to conclude the Olivette Assembly with a fancy-dress ball to be held in St Matthew's Hall on the 31st inst. The season has been a most successful one, and no doubt the forthcoming ball w T ill be thoroughly enjoyed by members and their friends.

This morning at the S.M. Court, before C. A. Fitzßoy, Esq., J.P., Prior Home, against whom a prohibition order was in force, stood charged with being drunk in Heretaunga road. Accused pleaded guilty. In reply to to a remark from the Bench Sergeant Mitchell stated that in justice to the hotelkeepers of Hastings he would inform the Court that Home found it almost impossible to obtain liquor from the local hotels, and he had tried all sorts of ruses. He got his drink up from Napier. The accused was fined 10s and costs 7s, or 24 hours' imprisonment. The same defendant pleaded guilty to a further charge of using abusive language and being guilty of violent behaviour on the 13th inst. m Heretaunga road. Messrs Hodd, Nicholl, Naranan, and Sergeant Mitchell gave evidence as to the language and the violence complained of. On these charges he was fined £5, including costs, fourteen days being allowed to pay it.

A quantity of reading matter appears oil our fourth page. Friday morning's earthquake was felt as far north as Gisborne.

For a picture in effective window-dress ing a glimpse at the establishment of D D. Hyde is really worth while.

The Examiner states that for the fifth time in succession the Borough of Woodville has been in a different electorate.

The roof of the Waipukurau hospital was set on fire by a spark from a chimney on Wednesday. The fire was quickly extinguished, but it made a hole three or four feet wide.

The Maori residents at Kaiapoi are systematically improving the streets through their property, and are taking steps to form a Road Roard for the purpose of continuing the work. Since Adjutant and Mrs Drew arrived in Hastings the work of the Salvation Army lias fairly boomed, and many families have cause to rejoice at the residence here of two such earnest workers. Yesterday afternoon the barracks were crowded to the door, when the Adjutant delivered an interesting address, " From the blacking box to the platform." A young man named Barrar, employed on Richmond Station, Mackenzie Country, was badly frost-bitten in the hands daring a snowstorm on Saturday. He lost his way in the storm, and did not reach the hut till 1 a.m., when lie was a mass of snow and ice, and both his hands were frozen hard, and his feet also were touched. His mate rubbed him with snow for about an hour, until the hands were blistered, and next day took him to Timaru for further treatment.

The sum of £122 was taken at the gates at the Queensland-Wellington football match.

Totaranui, the name of a new settlement north of Eketahuna, is to be called in future Nireha, after a Native chief, the original name being similar to the name of a place in the South Island. Mr K. S. Ranjitsinhji, the Indian Prince who lias lately won such popularity in the cricketing world, was a prominentindividuality at Trinity College, Cambridge. Although it was some time before he got his " blue," yet he was always looked on as a very fair bat, an average bowlei, and a remarkably smart field. He is passionately devoted to cricket, and there is no doubt among those who have seen him play tennis that he might have outshone all others had he devoted himself to that game as he has to cricket. He is a good chess player, excels at billiards, is an en thusiastic lover of the drama, and a very clever and brilliant conversationalist withal. Generous, open, as he is, he has ever been immensely popular with all who have had the advantage of his acquaintance.

Since the cmeltv of pigeon shooting caused that form of sport to fall into disrepute with a civilized community various plans have been devised for substituting inanimate objects to be shot at, and as a result pigeons were modelled in terra cotta and flung into the air by a machine. This substitution for the original live pigeons caught 011 wonderfully, but the models being expensive restricted the sport to a certain class. A further development saw the introduction of glass balls in place of the terra cotta models, and they being much less expensive rendered the amusement extremely popular. There has been a local club started, which meets every Wednesday for glass ball firing at Stortford Lodge, and no doubt, though the present membership is small, the club will eventually become very popular in Hastings. A. writer in the Sydney Sunday Times says :—The fine inflicted by the New Zealand Legislature on a banker should stimulate our Legislature to go and do likewise when they feel that an extra effort to raise revenue is required. By hauling in a reluctant banker occasionally or perhaps an unattached millionaire, it might be possible to avoid even the suspicion of a deficit, and one cause of difference which at present divides the two of the House would be effectually got rid of. In fact, there seems a good deal to be said in favor of a general extension of the system of fines as a means of purging contempt, because there is not only the actual revenue but the amount saved in the offender's keep which has to be considered. It would be inconvenient to keep the Parliamentary dungeon always prepared to receive visitors, but it is always easy to invent a code of impertinent questions to ask wealthy witnesses, so that the new system of finance appears to open up opportunities to the Colonial Treasurers which it would be almost criminal on their part to neglect, . A Native named Whiri Meihana is alleged to have committed an impudent robbery at Wairoa last week. It appears that he went into Mrs Parker's store for the purpose of purchasing some goods for Mr Stewart, of Nuhaka. When giving the Native change Mrs Parker took out of the safe from behind the counter a canvas bag, containg silver to the extent of £l6 5s 6d, which she immediately replaced. The Native then went outside, and as a pretext asked for a bag to put his purchases in. Whilst Mrs Parker left the vicinity of the store to get it, he must have slipped in and abstracted the bag of cash he had seen her put away a few

minutes before. After getting his prize he detained Mrs Parker under the verandah, talking to her, and effusively bidding her good bye till he was ready to start. As soon as the theft was reported to him, Constable Ramsay started off in pursuit, and the next day arrested Whiri at Xu!ial<a North, a portion of the money being found under a mat in his whare, 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.—Ad vx. Stop that Cough by taking Neil's Balm of Gilead, a positive cure for coughs, colds, chronic bronchitis, influenza, &c. lij4arge 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 st or ekeepers.—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. 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 yon good." " No, thanks; Woods' Great Pepperment Cure for me; it beats all your rum hots for coughs and colds, it's sold everywhere."—Advt. " Drunkenness is not a sin—simply ai: excess of conviviality," says a thirstv philosopher. '< Nothing like a good skin ful of whisky far a bad cold." Don't you belive it, my friends, take that unfailing remedy. Woods' Great Peppermint Cur< for oos shilling and sixpence,—-Aim. W;i : J'■ i-' : 't : s»f tU* { v* s i r,' H V WJ J. * *