LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hastings Standard, Issue 170, 13 November 1896, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Tenders arc called elsewhere for a daily mail service between Hastings and Maraekakaho. Mr Quinlivan's horses Douglas anil liarshot went south this morning to fulfill their engagements at the Exhibition llaces. The Hibernian Social, which was unavoidably postponed from Holiday last, will take place at the Oddfellows Hall 011 the l(3th inst. It is sufficient to say that with Mr S. G. Popplewell as secretary the affair is certain to be a huge success. Mr W. I'. Stuart, of Hastings, the wellknown Highland dancer and piper, has suffered a heavy loss by losing a portmanteau containing his Highland costume, bagpipes, and 22 gold and silver medals won by him at different periods, and which "lie values at .£6O (says the New Zealand Times). Mr Stuart arrived in Wellington by the express train on Tuesday night, and on reaching his hotel found that lie had forgotten his portmanteau. Enquiries were made at the railway station, but it was found that no portmanteau answering to the description of the one owned by Mr Stuart had come down by the train" It is probable that he left it at Palmerston North when embarking on the train there. Mr W. B. Jones, of the firm of Jones and Sons in this town, met with a nasty mishap this morning. Whilst engaged in making a spanner the emery wheel upon which he was working flew to pieces and struck him upon the forehead, iiitiicting a severe wound and knocking him to the ground. He was immediately picked up, and after recovering himself somewhat he pluckily picked himself, together and walked over to Dr Linney's surgery, where his injuries were attended to. Dr Linney s investigations proved that a triangular portion of the wheel (which was revolving at the rate of 3,000 a minute) struck Mr Jones immediately below the left eye and ploughing its way downward left a large gaping furrow in his cheek. Another piece struck him on the lips, knocking out one of his front teeth, the nerve of which Mr Merewetber, dentist, subsequently _ extracted. Fears regarding his eyesight, •which were at first entertained, were set at rest by the medical examination, which seems to" have declared that organ intact. Mr Jones, with his usual grit, returned to his office in the afternoon, but was persuaded by his friends to return home. He is to be congratulated oil his wonderful escape from serious if not fatal consequences. for had the missile struck him half an inch higher his eyesight would have been destroyed and perhaps his Kfe forfeited.

Mr -J. T. M. Hornsby, sub-editor of the N.Z. Times, will contest the Wairarapa seat against Mr Buchanan in the Government interests. With the warm weather comes the desire for a daily swim, and in keeping with the season the Hastings baths have been renovated and are now open daily. Under able management these baths have become immensely popular, and it is probable that a ladies' club will be shortly formed for reserved hours on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Fridays. Season tickets have been fixed at a low figure. Those who can swim will appreciate the baths, and those who can't should learn at once. In the intense heat of the summer months Mr 11. Winsley's new branch cafe in Heretauiiga-street should prove a boon and a blessing to the hurrying business mail or the weary pedestrian in need of light refreshments. In this branch establishment will be dispensed cool, summer, and iced drinks, light confectionery, muffins, tea and coffee, and in fact everything that a wearied person may require to fortify himself against the intolerable heat whilst running about shopping or amusing himself. Mr msley's forte is pastry and confectionery generally, so that his looms ought to receive a large patronage at the hands of the public. According to the Gisborne paper Mr Fitzlloy is being well received by the electors throughout the district. It is interesting to note, says the Bush Advocate, that the Makotuku school has the best attendance of any school in Hawke's Bay, the average being 100 out of a roll number of 10-!. and 101 were present on the day of examination. Advanced age is the characteristic shared by the most inlluential people in F.urope at the present time. The l'ope is bfi, the same age as Mr Gladstone. Prince Bismark is 81 ; Queen Victoria, and Signor Crispi are both nearly 77, and Lord Salisbury and the Austrian Chancellor are both 60. There is every probability that a match for ladies only will be fired at the meeting of the New Zealand Iliile Association in Auckland early next year. Many residents of Auckland are anxious that such a contest should be arranged, and the Ammunition Company has promised to manufacture weak cartridges for the use of the ladies. The Hon. William M'Cullough came back to New Zealand in the Tongariro. He has done very well by the mining boom and his trip to Europe, his profit from the Waitekauri Union property, which lie floated, and from the Deep Sinker and other ventures. being equal to ,£25,000 in hard cash. So that the Honorable William lias now something substantial in money to run the title on. Harry Greenslade, who was Mr McCullough's editor on the Thames Star, is also £"'25.000 ahead of it. — Observer.

Writes the Wellington correspondent of the AVanganui Chronicle auent the election Sir Robert Stout's chances require no comment; and lie will do much to help Mr Atkinson who will get the Temperance vote which is about 8000, and he will poll heavily with the women. Mr A. S. Menteath will get the business and liquor people, and has a wide circle of acquaintances who all admire his abilities and past career in the House. These three will, according to the man in the street, be the Wellington members in the next Parliament. A tradesman, formerly a resident of Sydney, writing from Johannesburg to a friend in says that the place is so overcrpwded that it is with the greatest difficulty work can be got. Wages in some trades are falling. Painters are getting £4 to £4 4s per week, carpenters 18s, and bricklayers 20s per day. A single man of temperate habits might live for XI 10s per week, but if a man has a wife and family the expense is very great, and the writer advises such to remain in Australia, where, he says, they can live far more comfortably than in Johannesburg for about half the cost.

A novel, but somewhat cruel, method of keeping small birds off gardens (says the Wellington Times) was referred to at the meeting yesterday of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. The inspector said he had been informed that some Chinamen had been in the habit of keeping cats tied by long cords to boxes in their gardens, for the purpose of frightening away the small birds. The animals, it was alleged, were not fed, but had to depend on the birds they caught for subsistence. The inspector said he had visited the gardens complained of, but he did not sec any cats there. At Baylcy's Reward, Coolgardie, recently a man "named Edwin Hurlestone committed suicide. Hurlestone lived with his wife and daughter in a hessian house at the mine. Deceased's wife left her husband reading a novel entitled "Hand and lling; or the story of a mysterious crime." While reading the "penny horror" he came across a chapter relating to an inquest. Without further ado he laid down the volume, marked the portion which .seemed to disturb his equilibrium, and, finding his revolver, shot himself right through the brain. His wife, hearing the report, hastened to the house, and there found her husband lying dead. The bridegroom at the wedding ceremony is the least noticeable of all, and in fact, were it not that his presence is required for the purpose of adjusting the ring, he could be dispensed with altogether. A Christchurch paper has evidently come to recognise that the bridegroom is but small beans indeed at a wedding function, for in reporting a catastrophe of the sort recently, it described everything and everybody, from the color of the bride's hair to the shade of the bridesmaids bootlaces, and gave not the slightest hint of the bridegroom's presence there—not even mentioning his name. —Exchange. Eccles' Corn Paint quickly i*emoves either hard or soft corns. Only a few applications necessary. In bottles Is 6d, from A. Eccles, chemist, Napier and Hastings.—Advt. 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 not 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 Celebrated Liver Tonic, a pure botanic remedy for all affections of the liver, biliousness, jaundice, yellowness of the skin, indigestion, &c. In bottles 2s and 2s 6d. at Neil's Botanic Dispensary, Emerson street, Napier, and all leading storekeepers.—Advt. It's a fact, says a well-known Christeliurch divine the other clay, to a friend, that Cough Mixture, called Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, is the very best thing for throat Irritation and Cough I have ever taken ; I notice all the Grocers and Chemists keep it—a never failing remedy. Wholesale Agents, Drug Co.—Advt.

The new Commandant, Major PoleFenton, will arrive in Wellington from England on the 26tli inst. The Wairarapa Star says there is a scarcity of laboring men in the Masterton district just now, good men being unobtainable. The Ashburton Guardian of Saturday last says that 4s a bushel was offered on Friday in Ashburton for a line of wheat, and was refused by the holder. On Tuesday a man named K. Ravenhill, while bushfalling 011 Messrs Olliver and Williams' station, liuekakapituna, about 12 miles from Martinborough, had his leg broken below the knee. Sir George Grey is about to become a New Zealand mining director. He has accepted an honorary seat on the Board of the Hauriraki Consols Company, which has taken over the New Whau andClunes mining properties. Another rather distinguished director of the new company is Sir Somers Vine, late secretary of the Imperial Institute. The latest scandal in Europe is the elopement of a famous American beauty and heiress from a Western State, who married some years ago a member of a ruling family of one of the oldest Continental principalities, with a musician in a Hungarian band. In this she has fol-' lowed the example set by a married brother, who some time ago eloped from his wife and children with the maid of ail English lady of title.