LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hastings Standard, Issue 190, 7 December 1896, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stray horse advertised in another column.

In another column Captain Russell. M.H.R., and Mr A. L. I>, Fraser return thanks to the electors who voted at the recent poll.

The licensing poll returns stand as follows : For continuance, 2162; reduction 1210; prohibition, 1524; informal, IHO. Total. :>477.

We have to acknowledge receipt of Part IX. of Messrs McKte and Gamble's Imperial Allium of New Zealand. The illustrations are fully up to those of previous numbers.

At the Police Court this morning before Mi' W. P.eilby a first offending drunk was discharged with a rebuke and a man named Denis ISrosnahau alias O'Connor, an old offender charged with indecency in a public place was sentenced to six months' hard labor.

The Kuripopanga returns to hand show Russell 20 and Fraser 7. There are some electoral rights yet to come in before the Returning Otlicer can officially declare the poll, the numbers standing at present — Russell, 2.H41 ; Fraser. 14M6 ; informal. 47. Total polled, Mr C. A. Fitzrov, mayor, returned from Gisborne by the Te Anau this morning. Referring to our worthy Mayor the Poverty Hay Herald eulogises Mr Fit? Roy for the honorable and straightforward manner he contested the Waiapu seat against a Minister of the Crown.

Messrs lJolijolms and Sons, the wellknown Napier brewers, whose ale and stout fire so widely and favorably known throughout the district, announce their business in another column. At the recent Agricultural and Pastoral Society's show here this enterprising firm secured four tiist prizes for the excellence and purity of their manufacture, which they guarantee to be unadultered and made from the best quality of malt and hops.

The remains of Albert Karaitiana arrived in town by the express on Saturday. A procession was formed from the station to deceased's late residence by a large number of natives, wearing willow twigs twined around their heads and chanting a dirge. A tangi was held and the scene was a most affective one. The funeral took place this afternoon, and was followed to the cemetery by over one hundred vehicles besides a large number of horseman. In the English Church Arch-deacon Williams read a Maori service. the l!ev. -I. Ilobbs delivered the impressive service of the English church, and the ''Dead March" in Saul was rendered on the organ by Miss Kelly, after which the body was removed to the cemetery for interment.

The Rev. Dr. Hosking preaching at the W'esleyan Church, Hastings, yesterday morning, said m his sermon, that the recent W'esleyan Synod at Wellington, had decided to employ one of the old pioneer W'esleyan Missionaries to work among the Maories of Ilawke's Bay during the next year. There was a kind of understanding in the early days of the religious history of this province that the Anglican Church should undertake the spiritual and pastoral work of the Maories, but that had been sadly neglected. So the Wesleyans are going to* take the matter up, and establish an aggressive spiritual work among the Natives. Special Evangelistic meetings will be held, and sermons will be preached by the Rev. W. Ilowse of the Wairarapa, in the Maori language. The young people of the W'esleyan Church are urged to learn Maori sufficiently to be able to join in the meetings. The preacher asked any of the old settlers of his congregation to inform him of the ground of the so-called agreement made between the W'esleyan and Anglican Churches, and if it is only a mere rumor, no notice would be taken of it, and the work would go on. It is stated by the Marlborough Express that an information for perjury has been sworn against George Langlands, of Picton, arising out of a recent licensing case in which the accused w-as a witness for tha defence. The shares in the Consolidated Gold Fields of New Zealand were quoted in the Australian Trading World oil October 6th a£3 ss, and oil the 13tli, at £3. It is doubtless whether this stock will get up to its old level until there lias been a good crushing. For several years the Queen s eyesight has been to some extent impaired owing to changes in the eyes incident to advanced years, and this partial diminution of vision naturally causes Her Majesty a certain amount *of inconvenience. W T e are. however, glad to be in a position to state that there is good reason to hope that the measures recommended by her professional advisers, combined with due precaution not to overtax the weakened eyesight, will enable Her Majesty to continue, as at present, to perform the multiduties pertaining to her exalted station. — British Medical Jouraal.

Bishop Lenihan is an enthusiastic cyclist. Return from Achilles goldfields for October was 480oz gold. The telegraph line of the world aggregate 1,069,128 miles. Of the natives in India about 2,000,000 can now read English. Mr Alexander M'Clintock, F.E.1.5., teacher at Archill, has been appointed Inspector of Schools at the Cook Islands. The gold export of the Hand Mines for .September was 202,0610z5, against 194,7640zs in September, 1895. Thirty-three tons of pearl shell have arrived from Tahiti, the most extensive and valuable consignment for years past Hamburg has run ahead of Liverpool and is now the chief port of Europe, if German statistics can be believed. Fifty-nine fish-hooks, all baited, have been found inside a codtisli caught off Flamborough Head. With the completion of the TransSiberian railway in 1900, the tour of the world in thirty-five days will become an accomplished fact. Mr P. Gill, for the past two years manager in Napier for the National Mutual Life Insurance Company, has been promoted to Auckland. ft is stated tluit the Governor and party will leave Wellington on the 20th instant in the new Government steamer for Auckland, and take a cruise around the North Island. A skeleton, supposed to lie that of a missing deaf and dumb man named Fleming, vas found between MVngapua and the Bay of Islands, on Saturday. He was lost in the bush in 1894. The mountain birch'trees of Marlborough Mr Freyberg has found to be admirably suited for gnu stocks, a supply of which, made from this wood, will be sent to the British Government. The streets of Wellington never bore a more animated appearance than they did on election night. The crowd was so dense that traffic was blocked, and vehicles had perforce to avoid the principal streets. Mr Barney Barnato has presented President Kruger with two magnificent life-size marble lions, which have been erected in front of the Presidency. They are a birth-gift from Mr Barnato, and also a souvenir of the reform troubles.

There is evidently but little profit in the burglary business down South. Thieves who broke into the Hotel Metropole, at St. Clair. Dunedin, only succeeded in annexing two sixpences and a packet of cigarettes, while tliev left behind them a handsomely-finished crowbar. A cholorodyne drinker of Masterton. an unfortunate woman named lilizabeth Wood, was sentenced by a sympathetic liench to H months' hard labor on Wednesday, so that she may be cured of the terrible habit. The woman was found in terrible condition, and had pawned all her belongings, even to her boots, to procure the drug. The woman was once in good circumstances.

The supposed madman. John Grooby. who last Saturday murdered his wife by chopping her head to pieces with an axe at Pangatotara. near Motueka, Nelson, has been committed for trial at the March Sittings of the Supreme Court on the charge of wilful murder. Another painful outcome of the affair is reported by the local pape.i. Mrs .Joseph Graves, sister fo the murderer, having developed symptoms of insanity since the tragedy. She had been in an asylum before, but was released two or three years ago as cured. The criminal idiocy of some persons in pointing lire arms at theia comrades in " playfulness " has often been the subject of comment in these columns (N.Z. Times). The latest lunatic in this particular line yesterday pointed an air gun at a friend (a gentleman employed in one of the city warehouses), and fired two shots at him, with the result that the second shot, went right through his upper lip, and was afterwards extracted from the inside by Mr FitzGerald at his dispensary.

It is understood that within the last few days quart/ has been struck in the Globe mine, llec-fton, far superior to anything ever seen before in the workings (says the Grey ltiver Argus.) It is likened to the patch of fabulously rich stone was that found in the Keep it Dark a few years ago. Besides, the quartz is in such quantity as to resemble a quarry more than an ordinary reef. The Company have over 1000 tons stacked on the surface, and will be compelled to commence crushing before the new plant is erected in order to make room for the quartz being sent to grass. The advent of the young Duke of Manchester to Newport, one of the most fashionable of American seaside places, is causing quite a flutter of excitement among the inhabitants. It is believed that his visit is inspired to find a wife among the daughters of one of the numerous millionaires who foregather there. Among the heiresses whose names have been mentioned as most likely to attract the young Duke is Miss Alice Gould, the youngest daughter of the late Jay Gould. She is entitled, under her father's will, to a dowry of £1.200,000, and is only eighteen. Another young heiress is Miss Elizabeth Perkins, who will, in the course of the next two years, come into the snug little fortune of about £3,500,060. Then there is Miss Virginia Gammell, who is worth about £1,600,000, and perhaps a dozen more with fortunes running high into six figures.

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