LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hastings Standard, Issue 179, 24 November 1896, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr Carnell addressed the electors of Napier last evening, and was well received. Mr Fraser addresses the electors of (.'live this evening; and at Hastings on Thursday evening. "Notice of polling day appears in another column. Nominations of candidates must be sent to the returning officer, H. H. Hunt. not later than Friday, 27th Nov. and the poll will take place on Friday, 4th 1 >ee. The election of Mayor for the Borough of Hastings takes place to-morrow at the Borough < 'hanibers, the hours of polling being from 9 a.m. to 0 p.m. The candidates are ('. A. Fit z Hoy, present mayor, and George F.llis. ex-mayor. Both their addresses will be found in another column. All who know Mr Fraser, says Scrutator in the Mail, -Captain liussell s opponent, know that he has a very happy knack of repartee and woe betide the man who seeks to take a rise out of him. At Hastings the oilier day he returned a very " hot one to a local man of law who is a staunch supporter of Captain jjii'-sell. The Liberal candidate had driven up to a Hastings hotel where some thirty or more shearers were waiting to into; v iew hiui. When he stepped out of his dog-cart Mr Fraser was accosted by the legal gentlemen aforesaid who. with a palpable sneer and air of mock deference, remarked, " Shall I—haw —hold your horse—haw —Mr Frpser ?" " No thanks," replied the candidate, "any horse will stand all right : I'm sorry, though, to have to deprive you of an opportunity ior earning the first honest shilling in vour life." More than -1000 children were present at the fete at Newtown l'ark, Wellington, oil Saturday. '• Inhibition exhilaration " was Unoriginal and up-to-date plea put in by Margaret Bobinson at the Stipendiary Magistrate's Court. Wellington. Excuses good, had or indifferent, wise or otherwise, don't hold good in the Lower Court, so a fortnight's imprisonment was the resnft. A boy named H. Maslin, 10 years of age. was arrest-id on Saturday, going through the chests of drawers, trunks, Ac., in the diiTerent rooms of the Empire H itel, Wellington. The youngster is very reticent, and will give no information as to his intentions, but the police have a suspicion that he is simply the tool of a gang of thieves. John lthodes. a labourer on the co-oper-ative works at Kelly's Creek, West Coast, was killed last Friday morning by a tree filling on. him. On the same day a miner named James Harris, while working in the Coolgardie mine, Brunnerton, was seriously injured through a fall of earth, sustaining a severe fracture of the thigh as well as internal injuries.—l'ost. It will be news to many to learn that. Millie Christine, the famous colored double-headed nightingale,'' is still alive and on exhibition in the United States. She is now about sixty years of age and will not appear for less than 600 dollars (.£l2oi a week. But she can well afford to demand these terms, since she has made a large fortune by speculating in land, and is independent of showmen. A remarkable argument in favor of the divided skirt was given yesterday (says Saturday's N.Z. Times) afternoon, on Jervois quay, when a lady was violently blown along the street, and only pulled up against a pile of broken stones which had been placed in the roadway. Judging from the rate at which she was travelling, if it hud not been for those stones she would have been somewhere about the Chatham Islands bv now.

The London correspondent of the Christcliurch Press lms the following note —I regret to record the death of Lady Glasgow's father. Sir Edward Hunter-Ittair, who passed away at his residence, Blairnuhar ('astle, Ayrshire, on 7th October at the age of 79. Sir Edward married Miss Wauchope in 1850, and succeeded to the baronetcy seven veai s later. Ilis eldest son, who becomes the new baronet, joined the lioman Catholic Church some years ago, and is now well known as the" Rev. Father Hunterlilair, at the monastery of Fort Augustus, in Scotland. Seven other sons survive their father, also two daughters, the eldest of whom is Lady Glasgow. A ease was heard at the Magistrate's Court Wellington, on Friday between Henry R. Lascelles, of Napier, and Win. Patrick Kirkwood, of that town, claiming £'l4 12s 6d for commission on the sale of certain property—namely, the Clarendon Hotel, Napier. The defendant was brought tip under a writ of arrest on the grounds that he was about to leave the Colony for South Africa. Mr Lee, of Napier, appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr Wylie for the defendant. After healing the evidence of the plaintiff and Mr H. F. Cohen, of Napier, Mr Greenfield gave judgment for plaintiff for £39 12s lid, and .£4 14s costs.

A young lady, Miss Watson, received very "serious in juries through falling from the'stair-head leading into the cellar at Oriental Hotel, Wellington, on Sunday. Pr Chappie was called in, and found that one of the lower libs had been fractured and that she was very much bruised externally and internally. She is, however, progressing as favorably as can be expected.

No arrangement has yet been come to between the contractor and the men who struck at the Wellington sewage works. Seven boxes of gold, valued at .£2.3.000, arrived at Wellington by the Wainui from Greymoutli on Sunday consigned to the National Bank and the 13ank of New Zealand. Mr Aslicroft. speaking at a meeting of creditors at Wellington on Friday of the probable value of land in Sydney, pithily remarked that, " first they had a boom and then a burst, and now they had a cross between a boom and a burst."