LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hastings Standard, Issue 215, 8 January 1897, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

On our fourth page to-day will be found the concluding part of the article on '• The Black Hole of Manila" and a short life sketch of the Czarina. Messrs G. H. Tickers and Co. hold a sale of miscellaneous goods at their rooms at 2.30 to-morrow afternoon. It has been decided to hold a local camp of the three Napier corps towards the end of the present month. Tenders are invited in another column by the Cemetery Trustees for tarring and sanding the footpaths in the cemetery. We regret to learn that at a meeting of the Hastings Band last night, the conductor, Mr Fowler, tendered his resignation, which, we understand, was accepted. Our friends, the Woods Dramatic Co., appeared as defendants in a debt case at the Napier S.M. Court yesterday. Plaintill' awarded claim. More "You'll remember me" business. We sympathise. Fellow feeling, etc. The chorus parts of " Hinemoa," to be produced when M. Ovide Musin appears here on the 20tli inst., have arrived, and the first rehearsal will be held at the Princess Theatre on Monday night. Mr Horace 11. Hunt has undertaken the managership for M. Musin for his season here. Mr Sam Charlton, besides being a fancy bicyclist and a jovial host, is also a thorough caterer for the public. His hotel is replete with every home comfort, and nothing is neglected to secure the approbation of his patrons and keep his house in line with the requirements of the period. The bar is supplied with the very best brands of wines and spirits, and the only beer he has been drawing for a considerable time is Newbigin's XXXX. At a meeting of the Danevirke Jockey Club held on Tuesday last Tuesday tenders for working the totalisator at the forthcoming races were opened. Mr C. C. Miles, I'alnierston to work the machine for 1 per cent, and two-thirds of the odd money, or 1] per cent, and the club to retain the odd money. Mr W. Stock, Hastings, offered to work the machine for 1A per cent., the club to retain the fractions. The tender of Mr Miles was accepted. During the discussion that took place, mention was made of the very 'satisfactory manner in which Mr Stock had previously worked the machine. Bishop Nevill and Miss Nevill took their departure yesterday from Dunedin for England, via Sydney. liangitikei folk are said to be agitated over a local failure, the total indebtedness almost reaching £'(30,000. John Smith, a shepherd, employed on the Kawarau Falls station, Queenstowu. was drowned yesterday while crossing the river in a boat. The petition lodged against Mr Fisher's election for Wellington City is on the ground of dual voting, personation, undue influence, and want of secrecy in the ballot. The question of Italian Consulship is, however, not raised. Mr Stanford, S.M., at Feilding yesterday, gave judgment in the case of Police v. Bert Champion, a bookmaker, charged with trespass on the Feilding racecourse. The defendant was fined X'lo and costs. Notice of appeal was given. The schooner Elizabeth Price, late Glide, put into Wellington yesterday after being aground on Pig Island, Queen Charlotte Sound. The accident is staled to have occurred through baffling winds and currents, but the damage is trivial. After inspection she proceeds oil her voyage to Clarence river, New South Wales. The operations of the Greymouth-Point Elizabeth Coal Co. during the present year will lie on a very extensive scale. The company has already secured an outlet for about 100,000 tons, nearly onethird of which is for the Government railway:-. A representative gathering of supporters of the Opposition was held at Kongotea, near Feilding, yesterday afternoon. Speeches were made by Captain Kussell and Messrs F. V. Lethbridge, M.ll.H.'s, .1. <». Wilson, A. S. Mciiteith, T. C. Bruce, ami I). Bliick, all in the direction of consolidating the parly. l.'pwards of 1(H) persons were present, including many influential settlers. Two seamen belonging to the ship Waitiingi, named Curl .loliansen and Edward Frederick had a light on the 1 Marine I'arade, Napier, the other day. .loliansen drew a knife and stabbed Frederick on the shoulder, inflicting an ugly wound. The mutter was kept quiet and .loliansen was only arrested vesterday on board his vessel. Frederick left the hospital y estei day , and .loliansen will be brought up to day nt the S.M. Court. Mis-, Harding, mistress of the Waipu kurau school, v, as married to Mr Edgar Swam, at Ashburtoil, oil ilecember 2-tth. Mr Swam was at the time dangerously ill with inflammation of the lungs anil brain fever, the ceremony being performed at vv hat was considered hi* death bed. Luckily a ••Suuice for the better has taken place, and he is -.low Iv recovering. Mrs Swam espectn to return to Hauki s Bav in the couie of two or three weeks.Herald. The bidani e sheet of the New Zealand Insurance Company for the vettr eudmg November 'MI, lh',NS is puhh-iiled m autlclpate.n of the annual meeting to be held in Auckland neu Week. Lows Imvu been heavy, but the premium* have considerably llicli .i.ieil, <U:d the total revenue la a ti-eot'il, being close upon JNUM(XJU. The Lnlanc-k at the credit of prufit and lo»a, after paving the usual dividend m July bisi, u lis Id. from which the <llt'ecten" prto pay a further dividend of *2«t »kI and a boitutt of 6d per »lmr„, j ciuTvmg forward ig the i»w account m,m vh id,

Henry By an, alias Devoy, was com mitted for trial on a charge of forgery ai Napier this morning. The cricket match Canterbury v Queensland cainmenced to-day at 2 p.m, The visitors are at the wickets and at c o'clock had lost one wicket for 37 runs. At the Napier S.M. Court to-day a sea man named Johansen, of the ship Wai tangi, was committed for trial on a charg< stabbing Edward Fredkrich with a pocke knife. Mr M'liav, the Government Geologist is making an examination of tlie Haurak Peninsula, from Cape Colville to Ti Aroha. The work will occupy about fivi months. According to a London correspondent " The Manchester Co-operative delegates who have just returned from New Zea land, are entirely delighted with th< colony, with their trip, and with theij reception on ' the other side.' speak in the most glowing terms o almost everything that they saw, and tin highly favorable account which they giv< of things in New Zealand ought to do £ great deal of good, especially in the \va; of encouraging immigration of the righ sort." •' I am very sorry, but I was under tli< influence of drink," was the only attump: at defence made by the man Henry Har graves at the Magistrate's Court says the Post. Hargraves yesterday pleadec guilty to five charges of theft—chiefly o harness—and this morning he also ad mitted two oilier thefts. All these offence: were committed oil separate occasions but the sole plea put in by Hargraves wa: as stated above. Mr Wardell, S.M., de cided to send the man to gaol for sis months with hard labor. "It willl giv( you a chance to get sober," he added." Letters have been received in Sydnei giving particulars of the wreck of th< steamer Taip. bound from Mauritius t( Bombay with 25 passengers and 21,0 CX bags of rice. She left port with a heavj list, and capsized when 105 miles out The ship's cook and 16 passengers wer< drowned, and 74 saved, including tlx captain. They were picked up by tht barque Caradoc, bound from Mauritius t< Calcutta, and were transferred to th< German mail steamer Prince Heinrich The Taip was a Bombay owned steamei of 878 tons net, and 140 horse power built at Whitehaven in 1884. The reported big Native meeting ai Waitotara, according to the correspondent of the Hawera Star, is a fiasco. He doubts if there are 70 non-Waitotara dis trict uatives present, and of the strangers there are some Wanganui and Wangaehu probably 40. and a few of what are knowi: as the fiingatu natives, from Urewera district, some of Te Kooti's old people He adds—" They are travelling througi: the country on their religion, with the view of obtaining adherents, which it seems is a somewhat difficult matter They are, I think, waiting here a day oi two longer trusting for invitation from uj: the coast for them to go on, but this is somewhat doubtful, so I expect from appearances they will have to turn bacL from here." A singularly striking story of a Hying feat by an Antwerp homing pigeon reaches us (N.Z. Times) from the Hon. 11. J. Seddon. It appears that some time ago his family were the recipients from relatives in Victoria of a beautiful pair of pigeons, which were duly installed as pets. One day the birds were out flying, but only one returned to the cot, and nothing more was heard of the other, despite every possible enquiry ; but on Tuesday a letter was received from Victoria in which the wonderful announcement was made that the missing bird had arrived safely at its former home ! There can be no mistake about the matter, as the bird was easily distinguishable. To reach Victoria from New Zealand, the bird must have accomplished the feat of tlving something like 900, or possibly 1250 miles, without a rest, and, according to the dates, it must have done the journey in three days, which wouhV mean that it would have to fly at a speed of from 18 to 20 miles an hour continuously. How very misleading circumstances may bo made to appear was given a very plain proof in the Magistrate's Court this morning dining the hearing of a wife's application for a judicial separation from her husband (says Wednesday's Post). The defendant, in the case was endeavoring to cover liis own shortcomings by throwing into relief those of his better half, and with this object called a witness to show that his (defendant's) wife had one night during her husband's absence gone out in his (the husband's) clothes. The witness who gav« this evidence went as far as to say that he saw the woman put the clothes on, but on the Bench expressing astonishment at this, he admitted that he was confused, and that lie did not see her dressing, but afterwards. The whole story put a nasty aspect on the woman's conduct, but this was quite cleared away when she explained the reason for the masquerade. She was always up to playing jokes, she said, and one bright moonlight night, she thought she would have a lark with Charlie (the husband). He was always thinking some one was stealing his fowls, so she determined to dress up in his clothes, take a pup under one arm and a rooster under the other, and go out and meet him as he came home, and niake him think lie had caught the thief. When pressed the witness before mentioned admitted that the facts were as stated by the woman, though he did not explain why he hud attempted to put so different a complexion upon the affair. Folks Cam u;a I.ivkii ltiiia latoi: is a safe and effective remedy for Stomach and I.Her Complaint*,, such a-* Indigestion, Headache, Constipation. Furred Tongue Ac. It ne\er fads to relieve or cure. 2s (3d per bottle. From A. IVi i.ks' chemist, Napier and lla-tings, and all leading country storekeepers. -Anvr. Wellington warehouse prices are in every instance charged by the I). 1, C. when executing orders received by post. Those of our residents who waul really nice fashionable goods need not hesitate about comiuunicaung with the D, I, Wellington. 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