LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hastings Standard, Issue 178, 23 November 1896, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr A. 1.. D. Frascr addresses the electors at Clivo to-morrow evening. The D.I.C. representative leaves Hastings on Wednesday. Ladies please note.* Dr Pestre of Meanee cor.d icted the services in the Catholic Church yesterday. Father Smyth not having returned from Auckland. Mr A. L. D. Fraser's meeting at Petanc on Saturday evening was a great success ; as was also Captain Russell's at Clive. fn each instance the usual votes were carried. The Industrial Exhibition, under the auspices of the Wesleyan Church, which takes place in December, promises to reach much larger proportions than the promoters at first anticipated. The idea of a local Exhibition of various industries has fairly " caught on '' amongst the business people, whose promises of hearty support, together with the many applications for space from intending exhibitors, has encouraged the managing committee to make the affair really worthy of an important town like Hastings. Dr Hosting is about to visit Wellington to get exhibits, and both he and his committee are throwing all their energies into the work before' them. The secretary. Mr Goldsmith, will be glad to receive curios, of which all care will be taken, for exhibition, and applications for space should also be made to him. 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 spec ; al feature of the D. I. C., and those who anticipate requirements in this direction will be supplied with catalogues and estimates post free.— Adyt.

Messrs "Williams and Kettle announce tlieir periodical stock sale at Stortford Lodge on Tuesday. Yesterday evening a pair of horses attached to a buggy belonging to Mr S. Charlton and driven by a lad in his employ bolted ia the Karamu lioad. In his plunging one of the animals succeeded in getting liis legs inextricably entangled in the harness, and by this means they were brought to a standstill, The pole of the buggy was smashed, and one of the horses injured about the legs, but happily the lad, who pluckily stuck to the 'animals, escaped without injury. The following are gaze! ted as the polling places in the Hawkes's Hay electoral district : The schoolhouse, Hastings (principal) : Mr Macdonald's shop, Kuripapango ; Mr Noel's store. Waikonini ; Mr Shirley's homestead, Korokipo ; the schoolhouse, Clive : the schoolhouse, Haveloek ; Mr Weed's rooms. Elsthorpe ; Mr M'Kenzie's shed. l-Yrnhill; the schoolhouse, Kaikora; the schoolhouse, Pataugata; the schoolhouse. Hampden; Mr Anderson's woolsbed, Kereru , the schoolhouse, Te Ante ; the Public Hall, Maraekakaho; the reading-room, Tomoana; the schoolhouse, Mohaka, the schoolhouse, Petane ; Messrs Crowther and M'Cauley's store, I'oliui; the Public Hall, Puketitiri; Mr Sanderson's men's wliare, Pat oka ; the schoolhouse, Puketapu ; Mr Williams's Accomodation House, Hissington , Mr Towgood's woolshed, Tongoio ; the polling-booth, Tarawera ; the schoolhouse, Pakakura ; the polling-booth, Waimarauia. The local police, who always discharge their duties in an efficient and impartial manner, have been made the subject of a spiteful attack in a Napier evening print for repressing larrikinisin at Captain Pusseli's meeting. The facts of the case art! that a few " sporting men " as the papr-r in question calls them, left the meeting saying it was •* too tame " and planting themselves immediately outside the theatre made such a disturbance as to render it difficult for people standing in the porch to catch the remarks of the speaker. Some gentlemen complained of the annoyance to constable Uutler and asked him to stop the the rowdyism which he strove to do, by asking the •• sports " either to enter the building or go away. His request was met with insolence on the part of one of t he men. whereupon the constable threatened to remove them. The duties of the police often require a great deal of tact and forbearance on their part and the action of the Press should be in tin; direction of helping them in their efforts to protect society from larrikinism instead of hampering them by unjust and unfounded criticism. The Lyttelton Times says that Ilavvke's T.ay is the " Darkest Africa' of New Zealand politics. I STOI'PKI) THAT Cor OH AND CUHeI) A vkhy i:ai> cold by a. single bottle of Dr Paseall's Cough Mixture. Signed, 11. McDowall. 4s (id and 2s 6d. Ecclks. chemist. Napier and Hastings.—Aovx. Ecclks' Cokx Paint quickly removes either hard or soft corns. Only a few applications necessary. In bottles Is (id, from A. Ecxes. chemist, Napier and Hastings. —Auvt. Nkil's CoMi'orxr? Sahsai'akilla. A household medicine for purifying the blood and toning up the system. In large bottles at 2s Gd at Neil's Dispensary, Emerson street, Napier, and all leading storekeepers.—Aovr.