LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hastings Standard, Issue 162, 3 November 1896, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

—V Election excitement has caused Mr J>e Lisle to postpone the production of " The Head Shot " until further notice. Tin.' partnership between Me-srs Hoy and Dillon, butchers, has been dissolved. A notification to that effect appears elsewhere. A man named George Champion had his hand almost severed while scrubbing for the dear Company at. Te Iforo a few da\s ago, the sinews of the hand being cut through. The lameeting of the Debating Society's IWHS season will be held in the Council Chambers this evening. The subject for discussion is liepublie v. Monarchy. and it should prove interesting and instructive. A large attendance is expected. The message from the re the Mohawk. first brought to light by the Stam>ai:i>. is exciting some interest in marine circles, and an improbable story is sent along by our Wellington correspondent to-dav. The paper looks too well preserved to have made n journey for 16 years. Besides, the writer must- have "omitted to note that the document was dated "July 1:5, 189(3." There was a large attendance at the meeting of Liberals at Mr W. Y. Dennett's auction mart last evening. There was great enthusiasm shown, and strong executive and working committees were appointed. It was understood that the Premier would speak in Hastings about Wednesday, 11th inst. and that probably the Hon. j. M'Kxnzie would also speak in favor of Mr Eraser's candidature. A ladies' executive committee is to be appointed ill the Liberal interest. Several medical students, who were travelling from Seville to Cordova in Spain, played a practical joke on the occupants of a neighboring carriage with serious consequences. '1 hey had with them a skull which they fixed to the end of a walking stick, and held it up to the window of the next compartment, at the same time emitting a series of awiul groans. The victims of the joke screamed with terror, and one lady opened the door of the carriage and tried to jump out. When the train was stopped it was found that an old lady had died from fright and anotlur had fainted, while an old gentleman had almost lost his reason. 'lhe students were arrested. The following appears in the Telephone : —•• Sir. —Is not Hastings a twopennyha'pi'tinv sort of place, when the Mayor can go off electioneering by the month at a time What a hubbub there would be if the Mayor of Gisborne went off in this fashion: there would soon be a call upon him to either to return or to allow some one else to take the office. There can't be much public spirit in Hastings, or this sort of thing would not be tolerated. I am. etc.. Gisrounk. We disagree with our correspondent, our idea being that Hastings is patiently playing a deep game, in the hope of getting two members ; and the prize of " getting Gisborne and Wairoa by the wool " is worthy of an effort — of course this district's interest is not likely to concern the Hastings peopleEn. Telephone.] " Eo.'LKs" Quinine and Ikon Tonic contains Quinine and Iron in a high state of purity, and is the most agreeable, strengthening, and efficient agent yet discovered. 2s 6d per bottle. To be obs tained from A. Eccles. chemist, Napier j and Hastings, and at all leading country 1 stores.—Ai>vi.

Patented improvements in articles in everyday use are very often most profitable to tha inventor. The extinction of the harmless and, until recently, necessary clothes-peg is the object of the very latest evolution in elotlies-lines, and from the appearance of this development the clothes-peg in the immediate future must be doomed to swell the ranks of the unemployed. The new lines consists of one foot lengths of doubled galvanised steel wire firmly fastened in the centre, the different lengths being linked together after the manner of a surveyor's chain. When the line is stretched between poles the ends of the articles to be dried are merely inserted between the double wires where they are gripped as in a vice. Mrs Moore of Railway Station street has secured the local agency. The medical officer of health in Johannesburg reports that, so far as he knows, the death rate is higher than that of any civilised town in the world. A correspondent informs the Manawatu Times that recently Arthur Brightwell a native of Palmerston North, shore 261 i'ullwoolled sheep in one day at Porere station. The shearing was done with a machine. In the gentle game in which an unsuspecting lad is selected, and while one boy bends behind him as in leap-frog, another violently pushes the victim backwards over him, a liiverton boy's spine whs seriously injured.

The cholera epidemic in Egypt is rapidly declining, the weekly mortality for all Egvpt for the second week m September having fallen from 2000 to 600, and the number of cases remaining in the hospitals being only l.'S'S. It is the opinion of the chief of the Sanitary Department that by November or December the epidemic will have completely disappeared. A dangerous joke was played by some boys at Milton last week. Because a lady, into whose garden they had continually knocked their cricket ball, threatened to burn the ball if it came into the garden again, they bored a hole into the ball and filled it with gunpowder. In due course it found its way over the fence and into the fire, where it exploded, scaring the inmates of the house, but fortunately doing no damage. Angus Peterson, while endeavoring to mount a trolly attached to IVfrSkey's traction engine when it was travelling through High-street, Carterton, recently, fell anil went as close to the threshold of death s door as he is ever likely to do again until lie makes his final exit. He escaped being crushed to death by tin; wheel, but his body is terribly bruised, and his flesh lacerated. though no bones are broken. Dr. .Johson is isays the Observer) giving him every attention.

I STo;']*K(> THAT <:or<;n AND C'Ui'.el) A vi;nv !:Ai-> ('<>li> by a single bottle of I>r Pascall's Mixture. Signed. li. Mcl'owiiU. 4s (5(1 aud '2s lid. biVLES. chemist. Napier :m<l Hastings.—Akvt. Very few people know that Mr I). Whvte, ot Tiniroto who advocates the coii.stnietion of a railway between Napier and Opotiki via. Wairoa—was tho designer of Lord Mra.-sey's famous yacht The Sunbeam." and as supercargo took her out to India and delivered her to Lord Braxsey. Whilst in India Mr "Whyte acted as engineer for one of the railway companies, and ninny thousands of miles of railway were constructed under his supervision. Mr Whyte therefore, knows what he is talkingand writing about. —AYairoa Guardian.