LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hastings Standard, Issue 217, 11 January 1897, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A quantity of interesting reading appears 011 our fourth page. The Tar.idalo cricketers beat the Scinde juniors on Saturday by 100 runs. The Anglican clergy held a retreat at Te Ante last week under the supervision of 1 >r Wallis, JSishop of Wellington. The N.Z. Tinies, on and after to-day. will appear as a six page paper. Nothing like advancing with the times. We have received a bundle of Indian newspapers from Mr IL Cathrall, lute of Hastings, and who was in Calcutta during November last. We beg to acknowledge with thanks the receipt of the London and Lancashire T'ire Insurance almanac for IH>»7, per Mr \\ . I>. Ireland, local agent. The lifting* Volunteer* intend holding a local encampment towards the end of this month. The Trotting course will probably be the scene of operation*. Colonel Fob* i'enton, the new Military Commandant, ia expected in thin district for the purpose of inspecting the Volunteer* the beginning of next month. I> the Hastings Operatic Society asleep, or has tho lolanthe" knock-down blowso completely unnerved them that they are unable to rouse themselves to ttnother effort The March race season will soon be upon us. and the society might eitniiy retrieve their losses by piawng an opera or two during the race week. *' I proline ye then ! We are requested to deny in toio " tins statement reported to han- been made by Captain lius->ell. that he had been informed by the Ik-gist r»r of I'Sector-, fti li&vi ke s Jtay fSert't. Mitchell* " tii.it a |*-rw» had been employed tit a -alarv of 1 "is a day noniiaiiilv to re glitter electors, but really to work in the inteiests of his opponent." It now remain* with Captain Itusiwfll to prove his amnion. A letter on the subject appeals in another column. The bodv of a man. not set wast found in n shallow creek on the North Belt, Chrwu'hurcii, on Saturday. It wtw l>mg face downwords in a few feet of slmllow water. No tu&rki of violence was apparent. The in»u was about 55, wd o! dark ecuipUxiou.

Victoria gold yield last year was 812,000 ounces, being 8420 more than that of the previous year, and the highest since 1882. Isaac Lewis Morris, merchant, Pleasant Point, South Canterbury, an identity of the early sixties, died rather suddenly on Saturday. The first report of the liquidators of the Colonial Bank has been addressed to Judge Williams, at Dunedin, but is not available owing to the judge being out of town. The enthronement of Bishop Temple' the Archbishop designate of Canterbury' took place on Friday last. The procession, which included 25 bishops, was an imposing one. A man was arrested at Christchurch on Saturday for attempting to pass one of the valueless notes of the defunct Victorian Bank which have attempted to be circulated in the colony for some months past. At the inquest on the man Earp, who was supposed to have received his fatal injuries from some of the hands of the Hakaia at Wellington on Friday, the evidence disposed of that theory, and a verdict of death from Bright's disease was returned. All the internal organs were in a diseased state, sufficient to account for death, and the injuries were caused by deceased throwing himself about. Mr Maxwell, civil engineer, employed by the Napier Harbor Board to inspect the breakwater, has completed his examination, and the report will be available in a few davs. Advantage was taken of Mr Maxwell's presence to obtain his opinion on the proposal to build an open sea swimming bath on the beach, which lie considered altogether impracticable, but favored the construction of baths under the lee of the breakwater. At Wellington on Saturday the coroner inquired into the circumstances of the death of the infant child of Louis and Margaret Anderson. The evidence showed a disgraceful state of affairs. The mother gave birth to twins, and it was shown that the father, mother, and nurse had all been in a state of intoxication, and had neglected the children. A verdict that the child died from neglect was returned, and the coroner suggested that something should be done in regard to the second child or it would probably share the same fate. The Warden's Court, lieefton, was occupied all Saturday hearing applications for licensed holdings on the Victoria Range, _near Capleston, where a discovery of a new line of quartz reef was recently made. The Warden granted, subject to the Minister's approval, a holding of 100 acres to a prospecting party as a reward claim, and only 300 acres in all the other cases. A rush has set in to the locality, which is situate at an altitude of 8500 ft. above Capelston in an easterly direction. Some splendid specimens have been brought to I?eefton. Un Tuesday last the licensee of the Sandridge Hotel, Christehurcli, was lined £2 and costs for Sunday trading. The liquor was supplied to a person who was ill.

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