LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hastings Standard, Issue 151, 21 October 1896, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

• ♦- Says Tuesday's Chronicle : —" The two sons of the Earl of Glasgow, who h;ivo been prosecuting their studies at tlie Collegiate School, left for A\ ellington l>y a special train at 'i.l.'i o'clock yesterday afternoon, having been summoned home by urgent telegrams 011 account of the serious illness of Lady Glasgow." A good opportunity for Hastings and country residents generally enjoying an afternoon •• 011 the briny" presents itself on Saturday, when Mr 1!. Putiett, manager of the I'.S.S. Company, has arranged for a grand marine excursion in one of the best tilted bouts in the fleet, the Tc Anau. No doubt a large number of parties will avail themselves of the opportunity offered. Mr T. Quinlivan notifies that he has taken over the hairdressing business heretofore carried on by Mr J. Power. Mr (.tuinlivan. who is well known and deservedly popular through the district, has a thorough knowledge of his business in its various branches, and as lie intends to attend personally to the requirements of his customers "he should command a full share of the public support. The state of the footpath 011 the main street is not only a discredit to the authorities responsible for its maintenance, but a positive danger to the crowds of pedestrians who throng the thoroughfare. In many parts of the path the asphalt© is broken and unpleasant for walking, but immediately opposite Messrs Thompson Bros, establishment the footway on Saturday night had subsided, leaving a liole large enough to admit a person's foot, and presenting an obvious danger to passers bv. Messrs Thompson Bros, have filled in the hole with sawdust, which scarcely relieves the Council of responsibility. There was a record attendance at the Debating Society last evening, the ladies especially rolling up in force. Mr Sydney l'attison" occupied the chair. The subject for discussion was " Should ladies ride bicvcles." The debate was opened in the affirmative by Miss Gallien and in the negative by Mrs Darvill, both ladies adducing arguments in an attractive manner. °The following also expressed their views, some of the speeches being becidedly to the point and giving promise of eloquence and debating ability :—Mesdames Luckie, Newbigin, and Tyerman, Misses Percy, Roach, Newton, Pattison, Ingpen, andE. Hartshorn ; Messrs White, V. Pioach, Holroyd, Arnott, Venables, McLean, Bennett', Bridgman, O'Brien, Merewethcr, Beharrel, Darvall, Fraser, MeCorkindale, and Tickers. On the vote being taken it was decided almost unanimously in the affirmative.

A serious accident occurred in the Waikopiro yesterday morning at about ten o'clock." Messrs Reissima, Fayer, Halliburton. Morden and Osborne were working on the bridge which, when completed, is to give access to Mr Mcl.eod s new mill, "and while attempting to place a stringer in position, it swerved and fell, knocking the three last named off the bridge. Mordern escaped with slight injury, but Osborne and Halliburton were not so fortunate. Osborne was forced to stop work, but was able to ride home by himself, although we are informed his injuries were of such a nature as would have warranted his being assisted on the home journev. Halliburton, in addition to having a big fall, was badly cut about the head and received serious injury on his right side. He was taken to the Waipukurau Hospital by yesterday s express. —Bush Advocate.

A sharp shock of earthquake was felt in "Wellington on Monday. It is 91 years to-day since the Battle of Trafalgar was fought. Lambing in the Forty Mile Bush district averaged 70 per cent. At the regular weekly sale on Saturday Messrs G. H. Tickers and Co. arc selling without reserve 28 sacks seed potatoes. To the Echo—the first halfpenny newspaper in the colony—Wellington was unkind, and it died a natural death in nine days. Ninety-seven sovereigns were taken from the pocket of a medical man, Dr. Putton, while he slept in his room at Gore. A man named Thomas Webb, employed at the sugar works at Chelsea, Auckland, fell from a height of 30ft and received internal injuries the other day. The Godfrey Company play in Hastings on Tuesday night. In Auckland last week the company had to produce the Kinematograph no fewer than six times each day to cope with the rush of sightseers. Gold to the extent of .£57-10 forwarded bv the AVaihi Gold Mining Company from Auckland was shipped to London by the Aotea on Saturday afternoon. A clown in Finlay and Probasco's circus broke his arm during a performance at Cromwell as lie was entering the ring by wav of falling over the ropes. He pluckilv finished the joke before retiring. Mr Alfred F. Hill, the talented violinist and composer, has become a member of the Musin Concert Company and intends to travel with that company round the world. Miss Hatlierlcy, of AVanganui, lias also joined the company. The New Plymouth Harbor Board ha snubbed the irrepressible Mr E. M. Smit h M.H.K., who has been stirring himself with regard to haulage charges on the Breakwater line, by informing him that " the Board wishes to conduct its business without unauthorised interference on his part.'' Miss H. C. Taylor, private milliner and dressmaker, Eastbourne street, has a notification elsewhere. Her work is a sufficient recommendation to ladies to assure a large connection. Miss Taylor has been appointed agent for Conley's " Orange Lily " and Alice B. Stoekham's book " Tokology," which every woman should read. A young man, a son of Hcobie Mackenzie, took four young girls for a drive ill a trap from St. Clair, but the horse bolted, and Mackenzie was thrown out, and one of the girls then plnckily and sensibly lay out along the shaft and recovered the reins. and afterwards was able to some extent to guide the horse, but not to cheek its gallop. The runaway presently fell dead.

The Hastings Bowling Green was formally opened this afternoon with a match between links selected by the President (Mr Maddison) ancl the Vice-president (Mr Newblgin). There was a good attendance of lad'es on the ground, and a sprinkling of Napier visitors. The Misses Maddison provided afternoon tea, which was greatly appreciated by the ladies and gentlemen present. The scores will appear tomorrow. With reference to the petition presented to .Parliament by Captain lJussel for Mr J. G. Le Brun, the son of an.ancient and honorable family in Norway, the Public Petitions Committee found that there was not sufficient time this session to go fully into the evidence avialable. The matter will, therefore, stand over, and be brought up before the House as soon as Parliament meets again. Mr Frank Iredale one of the Australian Eleven writting from England to a friend in Sydney, said that so far as attendances had gone'the Home tour had broken all records. lie gave a forecast of Stoddart's team to visit Australia next year, and the names, the reading of which will convey considerable pleasure to the public, are: — Stoddart, llangitsinghi, Jackson, L. C. H. Pallairet, Mason, McGregor (wicketkeeper), J-.illey (wieketkeeper), Richardson, J. T. Hearne, Brown (Yorkshire), Ilaigh, Peel, Abel and Hayward. Two painful accidents are recorded by the Kuinara Times. A well-known miner nnmcd William Holly, engaged driving a tunnel tailraee for Pascoe and party, had both legs broken by the fall of a large block of pug. said to weigh half a ton, which pinned him to the ground. He has a large family depending upon him for support. —The eldest daughter of Mr J. A'Church'. a child eight years of age, was dreadfully burned about the arms, shoulders, and face through her clothing catching fire when roasting onions. l)r Scott regards both cases as serious. When Charles Godfrey produced "On Guard in Portsmouth the veteran pensioners presented him with a wreath of laurels in a hall that was full of our lads in red and blue. Sailors even climbed the pillars supporting the galleries in their anxiety for a better view of the proceedings. 'The National Anthem and " Pule Britannia" came again and again from loyal throats, and the cheers of Her Majesty's fighting men of both services crowned a memorable scene, unexampled in the history oy Music and the Drama. The West Coast Times is very rough 011 the representative for the district (the Premier), and says the " talk of getting up a requisition asking him to stand is surely a work of supererogation seeing that lie has already announced himself. If they wanted further evidence they need only to refer.to the Public Works estimates to say nothing of the facts that Government' billets have been found for a large percentage of the inhabitants of this constituency and that nearly every second person met with on the countiy roads is a Government inspector or a co-operative workman.',