LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hastings Standard, Issue 125, 19 September 1896, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A short story appears on our fourth page to-day. A new three-roomed cottage with all conveniences is advertised to let. The annual meeting of the H. B. County Cricket Club takes place this evening. Nominations for the several events of the Hawke's Bay Trotting Club Spring Meeting close this evening. We are compelled to hold over an article on the Ngapuke stables by Gipsy Grand, which will appear in our next issue. The Columbia Skating Eink will close its session to-night, when all lovers of the pastime should not miss the opportunity of attending the last rink of the year. Mr Pitt announces in this issue that he has smoked gurnet, whitebait, and prime Canterbury hams for sale cheap. Mr Pitt has also got in a splendid stock of Island fruit which form a tempting display in his window. An inset of the programme of the forthcoming opera lolanthe is enclosed in this issue. As the amateurs have spared neither effort nor expense in staging the opera, and as the caste is a capable one, the opera from a musical, histrionic, and spectacular standpoint should please the most fastidious patron.

Two summonses have been issued in connection with the larrikin disturbance at the recent 1.0. G.T. entertainment at St. Matthew's Hall. It is high time that that social excrescence the larrikin shall be made to understand once and for ever that by keeping quiet he will be tolerated, but if he intrudes his viciousness upon the public he will be crushed like a bloated spider and with as little compunction. The energetic and popular Adjutant Drew of the local branch of the Salvation Army and his wife have returned after a much needed trip looking strong and well to resume his duties. Adjutant Drew, ably seconded by Mrs Drew, has always thrown himself heart and soul into the noble work of the Army, and the meetings which he organises are notable for the large number of people who attend them. The subject at to-morrow evening's meeting will be "Killed by a Crowd," which will be conducted by Adjutant Drew and Lieutenant Hultquist. Sergeant Mitchell has resolved to deal very firmly with i a nuisance which for some time past ha| been showing signs of rapid development in Hastings. Young men of the most objectionable type congregate round the street corners at dusk rendering the foot walk in their vicinity slimy with their filthy expectorations and subjecting pedestrians, especially ladies, to a running fire of the coarsest criticism. These fellows are usually an idle loafing lot, who are too well fed, and Sergeant Mitchell in stamping tlieni out will confer a great favor upon the community. Mr T. Franklyn, paymaster of the Greymouth-Point Elizabeth Coal Company s colleries at Brunnerton, passed through Hastings yestdrday. Mr Franklin, in common with the rest of the company's officers, went through a fearful ordeal during the recent terrible disaster, and now that affairs in that district are settling down in their normal groove his company has granted him a month's leave of absence to recruit his energies. Mr Franklin, who is the mainstay of the Brunner operatic amateurs, proceeds to Auckland; but has altered his further programme in order to be present at the production of lolanthe by the Hastings company on the 29th inst.

The attention of our readers is directed to Mr Sam Ridgway's business announcement in this issue. Mr Ridgway's long and intimate connection with the drapery business has imparted to him a thorough knowledge of the public requirements in outfit, and his stock is being continually varied in order that his patrons may have the very latest London fashions to select from. Mr Ridgway's spring novelties in the gentlemen's department are especially worth the public attention, and a visit to his premises will repay anyone requiring a part or a complete outfit of the neatest and most fashionable description at most reasonable prices. Since card-playing was prohibited there has been a marked falling off in the attendance at the coffee rooms of the Masterton Women's Christian Temperance Crusade. A gentleman and lady, at Forest Hill, recently celebrated the coming of age of their three daughters, triplets, who constitute their whole family. A woman went into a butcher's shop at Masterton on Saturday and stole a leg of pork. She was brought before the bench and fined 40s, or 14 days' imprisonment. Mr E. M. Smith is moving for a return giving details of the statistics of crime, cases of drunkenness, sly grog-selling, &c., in the Clutha district since Prohibition has been in force, and a similar return for the corresponding period immediately preceding Prohibition, The Hon. J. Garrard, one of the New South Wales Ministry, said the other day:—" Australia had to thank God for such .an organization as the Salvation Army, and for the splendid work it was doing in its social aspect, and he believed that the Army had dealt with this social .Question better than any other section of Christ's Church." N Bit's Celkbfatbd Liver Tonic, a pure botanic rem*»ly fpr all affections of the liver, biliousness, jaundice, yellowness of the skin, indigestion, Ac. In bottles, 2s and 2s 6d, &t Neil's Botanic Dispensary, Emerson street, Napier, and all leading storekeeper*.—AJWT.

Apropos to his visit to the West Coast, the Westport Times recalls the fact that Sir Robert Stout played in a football match there 22 years ago. While a young man named Sorensen was riding down Queen-street, Masterton, on a cycle (says the Times), a stallionhe was passing reared up, and swerving round sent the cycle-rider flying, and then walked over the machine, badly damaging it. A special despatch from Toranto to the Paris Journal says it has been discovered that a young man has been imprisoned in his father's house for 17 years. He is now 24, and he was first shut up in a hole in the roof when only seven years of age. Here he remained until found the other day by a detective. When examined by a doctor the latter pronounced him an idiot. The parents, a brother and a servant were arrested. Wellington warehouse prices are in every instance charged by the D. I. C. when executing orders received by post. Those of our residents who want really nice fashionable goods need hot hesitate about communicating with the D. I. C., Wellington. Complete furnishing is now a special feature of the D. I. C., and those who anticipate requirements in this direction will be supplied with catalogues and estimates post free.—Advt. 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. Confound it I said a testy old gentleman the proprietor and editor of this paper ought to be shot; I was just reading a nice pithy little paragraph, and found it wound up by advising me to take Wood's Great Pepperment Cure for Coughs and Colds, sold by all Grocers and Chemists; the price was only Is 6d, but the advice was invaiuable. —Advt.