LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hastings Standard, Issue 114, 7 September 1896, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr W. Y. Dennet advertises an auction of a miscellaneous collection of articles at his auction rooms on Thursday next. Mr Eccles advertises for a well-edu-cated and gentlemanly youth as apprentice to the general drug and apothecary business. Apply to Mr Wallace at the local branch.

At the Police Court this morning, before W. Beilby, Esq., J.P., a smartly-dressed young woman named Margaret Chesnell was charged with being drunk and disorderly on Saturday night, and, as it was the first offence, she was fined 10s and costs.

The K.O.L. ball, which takes place on Thursday next, promises to be a most successful function. The committee which is responsible for the direction of affairs is sparing no efforts to make the dance thoroughly happy and enjoyable, and the tickets are going off like the proverbial hot cakes.

Owing to the Princess Theatre being engaged throughout this week, the management announce i;i another column rehearsals to be held at the Band Hall and the Oddfellows' Hall on Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday. Full attendances are requested. At the Catholic Church last night the special devotions in honor of " The Sacred Heart," held in connection with the Society of the Apostleship of Prayer, were well attended. Father Smyth delivered a short, telling address upon the mode of living which the society exacts from its members, and exhorted the congregation to live up to the standard laid down.

Mr F. D'A. C. De Lisle, a musical graduate of Bonn University and a vocal diplomat of Garcia, the celebrated Parisian singing master, announces in our advertising columns that he has commenced teaching in Hastings and district. Mr De Lisle was for some time choirmaster of St Patrick's Church, P aimerston North, of which the Bev. Father Patterson is the head. Under the musical guidance of Father Patterson and the conductorship of Mr De Lisle the choir became justly celebrated for its high standard. Mr De lisle is also an artist of high repute, and his pupils may feel assured of a painstaking master. We wish him every success at Hastings, and trust that such a musical attraction may remain long in our midst. Mr Macarthur, of the Bank of New Zealand, who, during his stay of some twelve months in Hastings, has won golden opinions from all classes of the community, has been ordered to Wellington on pt'uiuotioij. In his official capacity Mr Macarth'ur was capable; courteous, and most obliging, which qualities secured for him the confidence and esteem of the business public, and his genial, unaffeeted manliness earned for him the respect of his acquaintances and the sincere attachment of a wide circle of friends. Mr Macartbar has ficjively identified himself with the Athenaeum, in lip took a deep interest, and that institution is in no snjall degree indebted to his efforts for the position it noyr holds. He leaves to take up his new duties on Thursday next, and we congratulate him on his well-deserved promotion and wish him every success is bis new sphere of labor.

Subscription lists in aid of the widow and child of the late Mr E. McClelland, whose death under such sad circumstances occurred recently, are about to be opened up, and will be issued in the course of a day or two. Hastings public will no doubt respond, as it always does, to the call of widow and child left unprovided for. On Saturday the Columbia Skating Rink was, if possible, better patronised than usual. The attraction was the race for the four-mile championship between J. Hay, the three-mile champion, and H. Sollitt. A really interesting race was, however, marred by the latter losing his skate in the last mile, and though in true sportsmanlike fashion Hay refused to take advantage of this but waited until his opponent's skate was adjusted, and won the race by half a lap, still the interest flagged. The weather yesterday was beautifully fine, and throngs of people took advantage of it to air themselves in the sunshine. The effects of the recent heavy rains were apparent all over the surrounding districts. The two creeks at Pukahu had burst their banks, surface-water was lying over a large tract of country, and all the lowlands between Lougiands and Mount Heron were submerged. At Pakipaki, for a distance of one mile and a half along the road, the fence on either side was completely covered, and Donnelly's swamp was one large lake. Sheep in this locality were turned on to the roads, and the loss in lambs is likely to be considerable. To-night Mr William Mackenzie and his talented collaborateur, Miss Jessie Glover, appear before the Hastings public in their grand popular concert and entertainment. Mr Mackenzie possesses a powerful baritone voice, which has the quality of flexibility in such a degree as to render his efforts in both comic and pathetic songs brilliantly successful. His forte is Scottish songs, and his broad in-

tonation of that " language " goes straight home to the hearts of Caledonia's sons. Miss Glover, a young lady whom Scotland also claims as her own, accompanies Mr Mackenzie and brings with her the most favorable criticisms from the press and public. The programme which has been circulated to-day, is one which appeals to every one, and the house which greets Mr Mackenzie to-night should be full to overflowing, Why the authorities do not establish telephone communication between Clive and this town is a mystery, the solution of which would be gladly received by those interested. Certainly telegraphic communation exists, but there are times when the necessary curtness and spasmodic wording of telegraphic communications is inadequate to expi-ess the exact meaning intended, and a message delivered verbally would prevent the possibility of a mistake. Again seeing that floods or rumors of floods are frequent with interest to the inhabitants of that part of the globe it might be represented to the authorities that if the postmaster's house at Clive were placed in communication with Hastings it would be possible to warn the inhabitants of the rise of the rivers at their source and possibly prevent disastrous consequences. As it is, should a flood be threatened on a Sunday there is no means of transmitting the fact to them by telegraph or otherwise. A serious accident happened to a Wanganui cyclist the other morning through a boy throwing his cap in front of the machine. Sections in Reefton that could have been had before the advent of Mr Ziman for cE'IOO are stated not to be now purchasable under ,£IOOO. That it can blow in other parts of the colony besides much-maligned Wellington was shown at Greymouth lately, when the front of the Argus machine-room, facing Mackay-street, was blown out. The Eltham people are agitating for the construction of a railway from that town to Opunake. An executive committee has been appointed to work the matter up. The estimated cost is about £30,000. It is reported by the Southland correspondent of the Otago Witness that a large station owner residing not a thousand miles from Gore has issued a writ for £IO,OOO damages on the Union Bank of Australia for dishonouring a cheque of his at the Invercargill branch. The captain of the Wellington Fire Brigade estimates the cost of complete appliances and uniforms for the Danevirke Fire Brigade at £416 7s lid. The matter has been referred to a select committee, as the Council considered the price was above their means.

The N.Z. Baptist Missionary Society is about to send out to India what is probably the largest band of missionaries that has ever left the colony for foreign service. Misses Bacon and Ings (Dunedin), Messrs Barry (Palmerston North), Ings (Dunedin), and Takle (Wellington) compose the party, and are at present saying goodbye to their friends.

The letters " M.H.R." have more fascination about them than we are often led to suppose (says the Pahiatua Herald). In the new electorate of Pahiatua there are no less than twelve well-known gentlemen, who have expressed their desire and readiness to offer themselves up for sacrifice (and £240 per year with perks) if their respective parties should select them for the slaughter. Out of the twelve ready and willing victims eight are of the' Opposition persuasion and four are anxious to lean on the Government. One of the richest specimens over got in the distriet was to be seen at the Bank of New Zealand in Coromandel the other day. It weighed about 451b, and it was estimated to contain JEoOO worth of gold. It was a beautiful piece of golden stone, some portions being very rich. It is"probable that the stone will be sent to England. If so (says the Mining Standard) it will give the English people some idea of the richness of the stone that is found in the most favored mining district in New Zealand. Stop that Cough by taking Neil's Balm of Gilead, a positive cure for coughs, colds, chronic broncliitis, influenza, &c. In large bottles at 2s 6d, at Neil's Botanic Dispensary, Emerson street, Napier, and all leading storekeepers.—Advt. Neil's Compound Sarsaparilla. A household niedicine 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 Toxic, a pure botanic remedy for all affections of the liver, biliousness, jaundice, yellowness of the skin, indigestion, &<j. In bottles, 2s and 2s 6d, at Neil's Botanic Dispensary, Enjerson street, Napier, and all leading storekeepers,—Advt. - Neil's C'obn Cuke 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. It's a fact, says a well-known Christchurch divine the other day, to a friend, that Cough Mixture, called Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, is the very best thing for throat Irritation ml ( hi have ever taken ; I notice all t e G ocers and Chenjists keep it —a ieen ll g remedy, Wholesale ■igsute, Drug Co —Aon.

Sir William Jervois, formerly Governor of New Zealand, is in a very feeble state of health in London.

It is announced that Sir Geo. Bowen, an ex-Governor of New Zealand, is about to marry again. The lady is Mrs Henry Whyte. Sir George is 75 years of age.

The Danevirke Borough Council have resolved that the first time an animal is impounded the owner be not summoned, but that legal proceedings be taken in case of further offences.

Two old Otago residents died recently —Mr E. W. Burden, one of the oldest residents in the Waikouaiti district, one of the hardy pioneers of Otago, who arrived from London in the good ship Ajax in January. 1849, and Mr Patrick White, one of the earliest residents in the Tuapeka district, who came to the colony in 1862. The Dunedin City Council has established a precedent that in future any tradesman can hang a flag, so long as it is a certain height above the street, from his shop windows for three weeks at a time. An application for a permanent hanging sign was refused, but two applications for displaying a flag contrary to the bye-laws were granted for the abovementioned term.

" Juanita," in the Pahiatua Herald, says " Dress and husband-hunting are the aims and objects of the modern girl, and mothers are in a great measure responsible. Domestic duties are all made subordinates to these two aims. Not one girl in every live can cook a decent meal or keep house properly. This being so, is there any wonder why so many homes are a failure, and so many young men are content to remain single." Now, young ladies, what do you say to that ?