LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hastings Standard, Issue 113, 5 September 1896, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Acceptances for the Marton J.C's.meeting close to-niglit. According to our cables to-day New Zealand produce prices show an improvement all round. The Band concert has been postponed for a week. Even should the weather clear up the ground will be unfit to walk on. A sharp shock of earthquake was experienced here this morning at 6.50, which lasted several seconds, and seemed to be travelling in a north-westerly direction. Messrs Williams and Kettle advertise for private sale the Clydesdale stallions Clansman and Stanley and the thoroughbred stallion St. James. The animals can be seen at Beecroft's stables. J. Hay, the present holder of the local rinking championship, has received a formal challenge from H. Sollit for a fourmile race to be run at the Columbia Eink when arrangements can be made. Messrs Blythe and Co. draw special attention to a sale of choice spring goods which takes place at their Hastings establishment this evening. These goods were damaged in transit yesterday, and bargains can be reckoned on. • The Columbia Skating Eink which, under the efficient and popular management of Mr J. C. Lyon, offers such attractions to the inhabitants will be open tonight at the usual hour. This rink is quite an established fact here now and it is looked forward to with pleasure by crowds of pleasure seekers. Mr William Mackenzie's grand popular COaoert, which was billed for last Friday at the Princess Theatre, will be held on two nights next week, namely, Monday ami Friday nights. Mr Mackenzie made foi'a name as a Scottish minstrel when he toured New Zealand with Miss Bessie Doyle some two years ago, but since then he has made vast strides in the public favor. Wherever he has been he has always sang to crowded audiences, who accorded him the most flattering receptions. After listening to Mr Mackenzie for a few seconds an audience is completely unburdened of the popular fallacy which has been received unquestioningly $s tradition from time immemorial —that a BcGtchuian " jokes wee deeficulty." Mr Mackenzie is supported by Miss Jessie Glover, who will make her first acquaintance with a Hastings audience on Monday night, but, as she comes here heralded by press criticisms of the highest character, it is safe to predict her a hearty welcome in our midst. fly} Rpikoura coach from Blenheim was stjack up on Monday while crossing the Talor Biver, which tyos iii flood. fhe driver got dear with ths horses &Q& maih,

The total cost to the colony of the Sawmillers' Conference in Wellington was £3BO 5s 2d. The remains of a large eagle have been uneathed at Dune din, mixed with the bones of a moa, kakapo, and a huge goose. The Land Board has decided to call upon a number of settlers who are in arrear with their improvements to carry out the work without delay. Mr Maule, of Wakefield, while working at a construction of a bridge at Pigeon Bay, met with an accident which caused the fracture of both legs below the knees. The Governors,of the Auckland Grammar School have agreed to co-operative with the Auckland Board of Education in erecting a separate High School for girls. The Gisborne Borough Council has decided to take the sense of the ratepayers as to whether j£lß,ooo should be borrowed for the purpose of obtaining a proper water supply for the town. The site of a Government township of 500 acres at Tokaanu, Lake Taupo, has been surveyed. The natives are opposed to a township, and have sent a deputation to Wellington to protest against the proposal. The Waikato Argus reports that there has been a good deal of grumbling amongst the natives lately owing to the repeated stoppage of land purchase in the Waikato because of want of funds in the hands of the Government Land Purchase Agents. Mr Joseph Ivess, better known to fame as the " rag-planter," left by the Tekapo foi Sydney yesterday, where he will purchase a newspaper plant in view of starting the Asburton Standard. This done, Mr Ivess will stand for Parliament. The Salvation Army's self-denial week this year will be held from October 17th to the 23rd, both days inclusive. In 1895 the sum of .£2887 9s lOd was raised by the Army's self-denial effort, and it is expected that this year a larger sum will be raised. The Dowager Duchess of Newcastle has taken up her residence in Whitecliapel, the poorest and lowest district in London. She lives in a very small house, just big enough to hold herself and her two friends and assistants, Miss Bosamond French and Miss Fortescue. The Duchess, who is still remarkably handsome and who is well-known in society for her exceptional musical talent, has for the past four years devoted herself entirely to the very poorest Catholics in the East End, some 3000 in number. A sad case came before the Benevolent Trustees at Wellington on Wednesday. A girl of 15, a mere child in appearance, who is said to have been betrayed by her brother-in-law, arrived in Wellington in a destitute state, and has been taken care of by the Salvation Army, which is anxious that the Benevolent Trustees should assist in sending the unfortunate girl to the Maternity Home in Christchurch. The Trustees decided to send the girl to Christchurch as requested. The Marton Mercury states that during a recent meeting held at Feilding—and which was addressed by Mr Bagnall, an anti-Prohibitionist considerable merriment was caused when, on the Rev. Mr Cocker ascending the platform, he took up a tumbler, which to all appearances contained aqua pura, only to put it down again on raising it to his lips to find it flavored with a drop of the " cratur." This was evidently not according to Cocker ! 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. 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 only necessary. Is per bottle at Neil's Dispensary, Emerson street, Napier, and all leading storekeepers.—Adyt. 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 Pepperment Cure.—Advt.