LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hastings Standard, Issue 118, 11 September 1896, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

An important meeting of the Shearers and Laborers Union takes place this evening. The Earl of Salisbury, Mr J. Simpson's handsome Clydesdale, stands 16 hands 3 inches, and has acquired quite a reputation throughout this district. Mr D. Munn, of Danevirke, has leased the well-known stallion Hiko, by Musket —Uira, a full brother to Waitiri, from Mr W. Douglas, of Te Mahanga. Mr T. P. Halpin, the cash draper, Napier, announces the arrival of npw spring and summer goods, including the latest in fancy prints, crepons, ginghams, muslins, hats, veilings, gloves, corsets, ladies' blouses, skirts, &c., and a variety of other lines of interest to the ladies. Visitors to Napier arc invited to call and inspect. Messrs Ilausman and Gow have evidently " struck oil" with their X rays apparatus at the Palmerston exhibition, and on receipt of the Kinematograpli, which should arrive in a fortnight, will be able to tour the colony with two of the greatest marvels of the age. From a private wire to-day we learn that Hastings will be one of the first towns to be favored with a glimpse of Edison's latest invention. From the Bench yesterday morning, Mr Beilby commented severely upon bicyclists in general. He said that as a rule they assumed they had the sole right to the roads, and no consideration was shown by them for persons riding or driving. He sympathised with bicyclists, but the other traffic was also entitled to consideration, and very often a " scorching " bicyclist frightened a young horse, and, if no further evil resulted, the animal was ruined by the fright and rendered shy and unreliable for ever afterwards. In the Police Court yesterday morning the advantages of advertising all events of local interest in the local paper was demonstrated in a most satisfactory manner. A question as to the date of the Napier Park Race meeting having cropped up, it was found that '' His honor the judge, the clerk of the court, and the little boy out in the street" were utterly ignorant on the point. The public who attended came to the relief of the bench with guesses, all of which were wrong, until the matter was ultimately set at rest by a gentleman referring to a programme which lie happened to possess. The Hawke's Bay Jockey Club would do well to note. The social in the Princess Theatre last evening, under the auspices of the local Assembly of the Knights of Labor was in every way a success. The hall was comfortably filled, and dancing was kept up until an early hour. The tuusic was supplied by King's Band, and was perfect. Mr A. Dunn made an efficient M.C. The catering was really first-class, and was under the charge of Mr L. Brown, whose ability in that line is well known. The committee worked hard to make the affair a siyjcess, and their efforts were well rewarded, for all present admitted that it was one of the happiest evenings they ever spent. Not a little of the success was due to Mr Townsend, who carried out the arduous duties of secretary faultlessly. Colonel Newall inspected the Hastings Rifles last evening, when Sergeant-Major Hopkins was also in attendance. There were 25 on parade, including officers, and the Colonel recommended that the company be immediately strengthened by recruits. The men were put through company drill, bayonet exercise, and physical drill by the officers, some of whom were not complimented for their knowledge of the several movements. The men, however, did fairly well, and the officer in charge was not slow in bestowing praise ■rhere it was deserved. Colonel Newall to-day visited the Te Mata range, to inspeet the improvements madt# since it was washed away in Juoe laat.

G. H. Vickers and Co. sell at their rooms to-morrow, furniture, produce, &c. A meeting of Hawke's Bay Liberals takes place this evening in the Oddfellow s Hall.

The Hastings Amateurs have made arrangements to stage lolanthe in Napier on the 11th October.

The Native Land Court was this afternoon engaged in dealing with a Moliaki partition case.

Three valuable draught horses and a cow were fatally poisoned at the Hon. Mr Ormond's estate at Karamuthis morning. The affair was accidental.

"We again remind our readers of the rare treat promised Hastings residents by the popular entertainment to be given by the Mackenzie-Glover combination in the Princess Theatre this evening.

The members of the Fire Brigade turned out for drill last evening under Captain Brausch and performed some smart work both with the manual and steam engines.

The subject for debate between the Napier Junior Club Society and the Hastings Debating Society will be "Prohibition," the local representatives speaking against it.

The police seem to be fully alive to the fact that unregistered dogs are of times the cause of depredations on sheep, and at least half a dozen summonses were withdrawn yesterday on the payment of the registration fee and costs. So many complaints have been made against the owners of unregistered mongrels that it is pleasing to notice that the local police are trying to abate the evil. If the- Taradale and other country officers were to do the same, flockowners might have cause to rejoice at the fact.

The mere sight of the Ilavelock Road immediately at this side of Tucker's fellmongery works is sufficient to give one a cold on the chest. For fully 25yds on either side of the borough boundary the road and a considerable portion of Messrs Tanner and Goddard's paddocks, situated on either side, are lying under stagnant water, extending from a depth of some inches to several feet. This portion of the Havelock Road' is dealt with by a drain popularly supposed to be maintained by the County Council, but which august body seems to be in a blissful state of somnolence, from which they will be presently roused by the demands for damage done to property. The drain in question, which runs along the left-hand side of the road for about half a mile from the fellmongery, empties itself into the old Ngaruroro river, but instead of its being well-timbered and open, the sides are unprotected, and for about an eighth of a mile on this side of the river the water is carried through pipes, which in heavy weather become useless owing to the sides of the drain crumbling down and choking the passage. In order to deal properly with this matter there should be no culverts, but the drain should be completely open the entire way and the sides properly maintained. The present state of the road is a crying disgrace to the County officials, and the Council will have to show cause why they are not- to be held responsible for the damage accruing to property owners. An exdiange remarks : Despite the withering blast of prohibition a new brewery is being erected at Masterton. The owner of a dog detected in worrying sheep near Westport recently compromised with the owner of the sheep by paying him .fill. A boy of four years of age, a son of Mr Brain, butcher, of Oneliunga, slipped on a potato last week and dislocated his hip and broke his thigh. " The religion of the past had been to prepare men to die; the religion of the future would be to teach how to live." — Mr W. W. Collins, M.H.R. Large numbers of sheep are reported to have been drowned in the recent floods at Blenheim. The Marlborough Times says that over 200 were drowned on the Rivers land estate, and the loss of lambs was far greater. In the case in which Tuku Wanu sued 11. Direks, of Aramoho, for .£SOO damages for alleged unskilful treatment of a diseased leg, Judge Kettle on Saturday last gave judgment for LSO and costs. The case was heard at Wanganui. The member who wastes most time in the House, and aids and abets others to do the same is, according to the Premier, the member for Patea (Mr G. Hutchison), and next in order conies the Leader of the Opposition. The Wanganui Freezing Company intends converting its present freezing plant so that it will be worked under the Linde system. The alterations are being effected by the Linde agents, Messrs J. J. Niven and Co., of Napier. It-is stated that Mr Rene Proust, who is about to visit Paris in connection with gold mine investments on the West Coast of the South Island, is to act as the New Zealand representative of a French syndicate with a capital of L 2,000,000, which it is prepared to invest in approved mini ng property in the colony. A small boy aged 10 years, named Jos. Daly, was committed to St. Mary's Industrial School, Nelson, yesterday by Mr J. C. Martin, S.M., for stealing a canary and six bottles, valued at 5s 3d. Two other charges of breaking and entering were preferred against the youngster, but no evidence was offered and they were dismissed. —N. Z. Times. Beautiful New Zealand! 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On Tuesday Mr J. Morrison, of Waihi, brought to the Hawera Star a strange freak of nature in the shape of a lamb with two heads and five legs. The extra leg is attached to the hind quarters, and is perfectly formed, with the exception that instead of hoofs, claws are attached, giving the two-faced wonder a rather uncanny appearance. The most original reason yet given by a school committee for recommending the resignation of a teacher is that just assigned by a country committee in the Wellington district. It is that the lady referred to had promoted certain children from one class to another without the consent of their parents. The Premier, says the Mercury, looks remarkably well. It seems that age cannot wither him nor late hours destroy his robustness. When he faced the audience at Palmerston on Monday evening, the hearty cheers that went up were evoked quite as much by his splendid physical presence as by his position in the Premiership. A lad attending a large state school in one of the suburbs of Melbourne promises to develop into a Jay Gould. Unknown to his schoolmates, he is in the habit of hiring a bicycle, paying half-a-crown a day for its use. He takes the machine to school, and sublets it to the boys at 2d for five minutes. At this game he for a time made from 2s to 3s a day profit. An English paper publishes a highly sensational story alleging the death of a lady cyclist in Sloane street under extraordinary circumstances. It is stated that she made a wager with some friends that she would ride the length of Sloane street without putting her hands upon the handle of her machine, and that she safely accomplished this mad undertaking. Not content with that, being " dared " by her friends, she undertook to ride back with her hands tied behind her, but, unfortunately, she collided with a van, was knocked down, run over, and killed. " The people concerned," says Hearth and Home, " managed to hush up the matter and keep it out. of the papers." Medical etiquette is doubtless a fearful and wonderful thing, but it will strike many persons as carrying it to an extreme for a doctor to carry off a dead man's bones in order to prevent a fellow practitioner from performing a post mortem in accordance with the coroner's orders, as happened recently at the Broken Hill Hospital. In the case in question it seems the indignant medico, rather than allow an outsider to interfere with a hospital corpse, promptly removed the vertebrae and left nothing but a boneless body to be operated on. If this sort of thing becomes general it will add a new terror to death in a country hospital, and even in life a man's backone may not be safe where medical etiquette is carried out with so much punctilio. By-and-bye it may be necessary to frame a rule to the effect that no gentleman shall have his backbone removed without his consent in writing, and even then not until he is certified by the hospital authorities to be quite dead.—Sydney paper.