LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hastings Standard, Issue 110, 2 September 1896, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A lad leaving school advertises for employment. The rivers are reported to be very high to-day, and all low lying places are under water. Mr E. Goodwin intends starting business as a boot and shoemaker in the premises lately occupied by Mr Prior Home. To-night at the Columbia, Skating Rink a championship iS-mile race takes place. The event is exciting a great deal of interest. Rev. A. S. .Morrison. M.A., has definitely decided not to accept the call to Akaroa. and the Presbytery have expressed their acquiescence. Mr E. H. Williams still carries his arm in a sling as the result of his accident, but he hopes in a fortnight to have the full use of the injured limb. Messrs ('has. Hughes, W. Y. Dennett, and J. I!. Roberts have been nominated for the two vacant seats in the Borough Council. The town is billed to-day for the M'Kenzie entertainment on Friday next, which promises to be one of the finest treats extended to the Hastings district. The company is very highly spoken of, and is certain of the patronage it so justly deserves. The quarterly meeting of the Hawke's Bay Licensing Committee was held at the Court House. Hastings, to-day at 12 o'clock. Mr Titrubull, S.M.. presided, and there were also present Messrs ('-. A. Fits'.Roy, 1). McLeod, W. B. Rhodes, .T. Harker. Thomas Howard. John Thornton and W. 1 ieilby. Transfer licenses were granted as follows : —Hastings Hotel from Thomas Surman to Daniel O'Reilly, and the Exchange Hotel. Haveloek, from D. O'Reilly to 11. ('. (). Caulton. On the motion of Mr Fit/.Roy. seconded by Mr J. Harker. it was resolved that this committee requests the Government to amend section 20 of " The Alcoholic Liquors Sale Control Act Amendment Act 1895," as regards- the issuing of conditional and temporary licenses, and recommends that the chairman oil his own authority should have full power to issue temporary and conditional licenses, thus relieving the two members of the committee of the necessity for being present when such licenses are required. A pretty but quiet wedding took place this morning at the Catholic Church, tlie ceremony being conducted by Rev. Father Smyth. The parties to the contract were Mr Michel Maloney of Patone and Miss Mary Cealer of this town. The bride looked well in a travelling costume of tweed with hat and feathers to match. The bridesmaid. Miss May Maloney. of Heretaunga Street, looked charming in a dress of white cashmere and swansdown. Both ladies carried beautiful boquets of choice (lowers. The bride was given away by her brother. The marriage service was very impressive, the musical and vocal parts being beautifully rendered. A large number of friends and well-wishers attended the ceremony, the bride and bridegroom leaving the church under a crossfire of rice and flowers, and not forgetting the slipper business, of which they had their share. Tbe happy couple left shortly after for their new hotel at Wansted, their friends wishing them every success and prosperity in their new undertaking. The local amateurs have arranged for the production of the opera " lolanthe" in Hastings for four nights, commencing Tuesday, September 29. This work, which is one of the eailiest efl't-r.s of Gilbert and Sullivan, has been produced all over the Empire by both professionals and amateurs with phenomenal success, lake most of the creations of W. S. Gilbert, the plot is bewildering, as that lingual magician picks up the English language and simply juggles with words, leaving his audience amazed and amused at his audacity. The libretto is bubbling over with jen d'esprit, and the situations throughout the piece, both pathetic and absurd, give ample scope for acting. The music of this opera is acknowledged by connoisseurs to represent Sir Arthur Sullivan's genius at its best, and the vim and brilliancy with which it abounds keeps an audience entranced from the rise to the fall of the curtain. The local amateurs liave made great strides with the opera, and in their appearance on the 29tli and subsequent nights they should do credit to themselves and to the management. On a recent Saturday night a man. arrested for drunkenness at Timaru, was found to have over .£2OO in his pockets-. A Chinaman named Ah Lee was missed for some days at Adams' Flat, Otago, and his cabin-door being forced ho was found dead in bed —from natural causes. During thepast financial year 100 cadets, 374 permanent clerks, 178 temporary clerks, and 81 messengers were employed in the Government Department at Wellington. The following birth notice appeared in the New Zealand Times :—At Baker s Hill, Karori road, the wife of R. G. Knight, of a son. Mother and child doing well. This makes a baker's dozen. The Auckland Racing Club are up in arms at the action of the Hawke's BayJockey Club in deciding to hold their summer meeting on .January Ist, instead of as in bygone years on Boxing Day. Mrs Tames White, widow of the late Hon. James White, whose blue and white banner" was so successfully carried to the front in a great number of the most important races in the other colonies a few years back, was married to veterinary surgeon Captain Scott, of Sydney, last An accident occurred during the progress of the Hunt Club's meet at Miramar on Saturday afternoon. Miss Mary Skerrett. who was following the hounds, was thrown heavily to the ground through her luics" itiverviflg after it had jumped a ditch. MUs' right arm was broken above the wrist, and ttbe al§q sustained minor injuries. She was driven ti> her home by Mr A. C. Crawford, and was promptly attended by l>r Cahtfl.—.Post,

It was 38 years last Tuesday that the first military settlers in Taranaki were sworn in. It has been decided to raise a loan of ,4'1900 for building a new bridge over the Patea River at Stratford. In tbe four weeks ended 15th August, 146,4491b of butter was despatched from the Taranaki breakwater. In eight years the Adelaide charities have benefited to the extent of £2750 from the totalisator percentages of the South Australian Jockey Club's meetings. A Teimika chemist lias been fined 40s for,neglecting to have his child vaccinated. He stated that the neglect was wilful, and that he had no legal excuse, but several very good medical ones for the course he ha<i taken. Dr. Alexander, of Dunedin, and bis groom —a man named Campbell —were driving along the Kaikorai \alley-road, when tbe wheel of the buggy came off, and both occupants were thrown to the ground, the doctor sustaining a fracture of the right leg and the groom a fracture of the wrist. Thomas Rjid, who was accidentally killed by a fall of coal while working at the Fernhill coal-mine, was found buried under a lump of coal about sc\vt in weight. It was thp duty of the deceased to wheel out tbe boxes when they were full. He had been working in the Fernhill mine for the last 12 months, and was a practiced mi r.er of HO years' experience. According to tbe Nelson Mail, a voting married woman, who had suffered great aflliction and unliappiness," left the house where she had been staying last Monday, and some hours later was discovered by a milkman sitting by the roadside some distance out of town in a state of nudity. She has since been committed to the Asylum. At the Mataura Freezing Works, where operations had only a few days since been resumed after a rather prolonged cessation consequent upon the carrying away of a greater part of the race by the late floods, the main shaft of the turbine snapped last Tuesday. A shaft of more solid make was cabled for from Home some time ago. Neil's Compound Sarsapaeilla. 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 Coron by taking Neil's Balm of (.Ulead, a positive cure for coughs, colds, chronic bronchitis, influenza, &c. In large bottles at 2s (id. 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, &e. In bottles, 2s and 2s 6d, at Neil's Botanic Dispensary, Emerson street. Napier, and all leading storekeepers.—Advt. Beautiful New Zealand ! The land overflowing with the buttermilk and applesauce of prosperity—produces anything and everything, such as petticoat government, unemployed, and coughs and colds veritably ; but that's not a, drawback, they can be cured in every form by taking Woods' Great Pepperiuent Cure.—Advt.