LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hastings Standard, Issue 216, 9 January 1897, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A quantity of interesting reading matter will be found on our fourth page. The Port Darwin telegraph communication has been restored. A kindly widow advertises for a baby to take charge of. Tenders are invited forwell-sinking. Apply Albert Hotel. A six-roomed cottage, with orchard attached, is advertised to let at a reasonable rent. Mr Hastie who is suffering front a form of paralysis is at present undergoing a course of treatment at the hands of " Herman the Healer." Already lie is considerably improved, and hopes to dispense with the use of crutches in a few davs.

A nasty accident occurred at the Hon. J. D. Ormond's Xaramu estate oil Thursday. A loaded dray was being driven along when the wheel struck a seven-year-okl lad named Fred Carrington and knocking liim down passed over his body. l)r Linney attended the child, and though his condition was reported somewhat easier last night he is still in a critical state. The boy is the eldest son of Mr Fred Carrington, studmaster at Karaimi. If some steps are not taken immediately to remedy the disease-bed ditch along Havelock I load we fear that it will be our unpleasant duty to record a typhoid epidemic in that particular locality. The stagnant quagmire, which extends nearly the full length of the road, is constantly emitting fumes highly charged with the germs of disease. The present long spell of sultry weather will aggravate and hasten on sickness if some urgent steps are not taken to remove the nuisance. I'obert Tinline, an old Canterbury runholder, died on Thursday, aged 78. The necessary deposit of £"200 has been lodge in connection with the election petition cases at Wellington. Phenomenal drought has been experienced thoughout the Peninsula and Upper Thames, and there is scarcely any portion of those districts that have escaped bush tires. Mr Jackson, a commercial traveller, who had his leg badly broken at the Thames wharf on Dec. 24, died yosterday afternoon. He had been unconscious fourteen days. A gumdigger in the Auckland district named Robert- Brown was badly burnt about the right arm and shoulder in the bush last week, and now lies in a precarious condition. John Lewis, who attempted suicide on Monday last at Napier by taking chlorodyne, was brought before the Court to-day and discharged, arrangements having been made for his admission to the liefuge. rn connection with the recent discovery of the qualities of the cabbage tree for cordage purposes, Mr Freyberg, the timber expert, is sending a large sample of the fibre to a leading cordage manufacturer in London. At a meeting of the Clmstehurch Chamber of Commerce yestesday it was decided to request the Government to open the telegraph office on Sunday mornings as formerly, and to point out that considerable inconvenience was occasioned by their being closed. A dastardly act is repotted from the Auckland district. The daughter ot' a settler ;it Tuupiri, when returning from church, was waylaid by tramps and dragged into the scrub, but her screams attracting her brothers the assailants decamped. The police have failed to unearth tlie offenders. A private letter received at Wellington from the Cape says that the rinderpest ; has practically wiped out all cattle north of the Orange river, and transport is done by mules and donkeys. Tile pest i.- d illy expected te cross the river. though the Government is doing its utmost to keep it out of the colony. John Cave, a mill hand at Messrs Lavland and O'iJrieJi"s. Customs-.street, Auckland, tjubject to fainting tits, fell over the breast work at the rear of tha mill >estertla\. striking with his head on tin' logs at the bottom, and whs found unconscious m the water. He was removed to the hospital, win re he du d tins urimuig. He leaves a wife and rive children. The itiiifiiii Mt tho l Conference At Feildmg lit 1 .4 a gnat -h < ial question meeting on \\ edtu«da\ U-i Special addresses w-ere <i> Ucrnl I \ the lWv*. Ward, I »rake, Liol a' lUk'tti uel ih. nievt- r lug was v>.-ry enthusiastic. The deh gate-t ; to tlie conference were welcomed hv the j Mayor and ( ouncil and Mr Lettht.-r-.dge, ! M.fl.K for tise district. 'i'iie r.-port ~f the connect lot ml fire insurance cotumiUet! | •bowed that there were 76 ttMuntiu-r*. ' covering i."12,*i40, the gain for the \ i ur belli jj i."75, and theft is uvw tu I bo j credit uf the fund. *

Pigs are advertised for sale in another ' column. The cricket match, County second v. Palmerston second has been postponed on account of the former team having to meet Taradale on Wednesday next. Owing to the prevailing dry weather, the Napier water supply is scarce, and householders haye been cautioned against using it for anything but domestic requirements. | Major Loth aire, who gained considerI able notoriety over hanging Mr Stokes, a British trader, in AVest Africa, left Brussels for Java on the 7th inst., where lie will become a planter. Fifteen thousand trout fry have lately been placed in Lake Waikaremoana and the streams running into it. Gilbert and Sullivan's tuneful and pretty opera " The Gondoliers " is to be the next opera produced by the Wellington Operatic Society." The New South Wales Chief Justice, in making absolute 19 decrees nisi for dissolution of marriage the other day, called attention to the fact that in 18 cases the wives were the petitioners. While at Picton H.M.S. Wallaroo completed a survey of Picton harbor, which will be shown on the Admiralty charts as a place of call for all Her Majesty's ships that visit New Zealand. Mr T. Perry, part owner and manager of the Cresswell Down Station, Port Darwin, was shot in bed the other night by one of his black boys, who cleared out with all the other boys, taking horses, rifles, ammunition, &c. An examination of the Ruapeliu's bottom was made by a diver, who reported that the vessel had escaped injury. The steamer, however, will be docked at Lyttelton, and a more complete examination made. The Manawatu Parmer says : —Several of the farmers 011 this poast are making ensilage this season. The few who pitted the surplus feed last season proved the benefit of it with their cows during the winter, and it will not be long before every wise farmer will endeavor to keep up the milk supply all through the year by making ensilage. In a political address given the other day at a garden party, talking about the actions of the present Ministry, Captain Russell instanced his own district, where a person had been employed at a salary of 15s a day nominally to register electors, but really to work in the interests of his opponent. He made this statement 011 the authority of the Registrar of Electors. What does Sergeant Mitchell, the Registrar, say to this '? All application was received by the Land Board from a selector somewhere near Eketalnuia asking for leave to live oh' his section for two months 011 account of the mosquitoes. The nature of the request caused some amusement, but it was admitted that the mosquito in the bush was at limes a genuine impediment to a comfortable residence, and instances were cited where bush-workers have had to tlee before the mosquito, both present and to come. The exploring party led by Messrs Fleming for the purpose of finding a route to Canterbury through the Whitcombe Pass returned to Hokitika last Thursday after a successful expedition. Mr Douglas (the West Coast Times states) takes charge of a party who go through after the holidays, taking the levels and preparing for the survey, which will subsequently be checked by Mr Murray, Chief Surveyor. Great care is being taken to ensure that the best possible route is secured, so that every additional expenditure on this work will be a distinct step towards getting a safe and easy means of access to Ashburton and South Canterbury, and at the srme time bring within the reach of the tourist some of the most sublime scenery in the Southern Alps. The cable reports that Mr Cecil Rhodes had a great reception at Cape Town prior to his departure for England, by a gathering which numbered full 1000. In the course ofaspeechlie declared that the policy he had pursued for fourteen years had been the means of keeping foreign Powers from acquiring further territory in South Africa. The English residents at the Cape and many Dutch recognised the good work he had done for the country, j and refused to condemn him because of one act. His desire was to prevent the limitation of the Cape's hinterland and promote federation and the unification of South Africa in regard to the Customs tariff, the development of railways, the native question, and mutual defence against outsiders. Four cases closely resembling English cholera have occurred in Gisborne and the district recently, says the Herald. Mr J. Wallace, a storeman for Messrs Williams and Kettle, one day last week was suddenly seized with violent pains, and other symptom* of the complaint, and had to t>e taken home 111 a cab. He was attended by Dr Cole, and the next day had quite recovered. Another case was that of a cabdriver named MeCoombe who was taken ill while driving some passengers in his cab, and was driven home by Mr F. Stafford. He is now all right. A lady residing in Gisborne and a resident of Aatutahi have also been seized with the same complaint. In view of these facts people would do well to be very careful of their diet, avoid chills, and boil the water before drinking. In spite of all that is done in the way of washing fruit trees with lime, sulphur, and other insecticide-, the codlin moth is extending its ravages in and around Mas tertun to such an extent that in many (pirdciis and orchard- the apple crop will be practically \alueless. It is allege,l that a L,'nod deal of mischief is done by the distribution of fruit infected with blight by Chinese vegetable groweis, most of whom are unwittingly contravening the . law by selling without a hawker's license, j The eodlm moth, which 1- the most des- j tractive of insect pests that the fruit lm- ] porter has yet introduced to the colony. ; has not yet found its way lo a good many j of the newly-settled part- of the Fortyintle l»ush, and front I'ahuuua and Alfredton a capital yield of fruit may be anticipated this year. Li the future, how e\et\ j miles* some very stringent steps are taken j to eliccliialiy prevent the introduction in [ any shape or form of fruit from infected ! districts or general markets into clean district-. the dreaded pest will pruhabh march or tly through the bush on it» tour of conquest and destruction.—Times. la t'LKS C.WAUA LJV'KK KkuI'LATOH IS a sale and etlectue remedy for Stomach and laver Complaint.-., such Indigestion, Headache. 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