The Hastings Standard Published Daily. FRIDAY, FEB. 26, 1897. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hastings Standard, Issue 257, 26 February 1897, Page 2

The Hastings Standard Published Daily.

FRIDAY, FEB. 26, 1897. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

For the cause that Licks a.->si%tancc,| l-"or the wrongs that need resistance. For the future in the distance. And the good that we can Jo.

to a heavy budget of cable mid tiphii- news hi e compelled to hol-l over our U-tnlmg urtu'le. " A Trip to Wonderland ami Buck, by The Suturuteti Pilgrim, will be foutul mi our fourth page. A uieeUntf of thaw int. n. the f..riuntioll uf it new i Jii-mtl. unlets i» ItuoittuL"! H called for Mombtv ut/ni. li. 11. \ leUiv .v t i•. hake Icllim d their j; {-. fn in the tilnagow li.-t i .i .tut to tin it -m!< iixjiujt tuili vti.t-fL t;.r*v Wiii be ■told tu uiurrnw. &lis« I**- Ucorge, d»ugt»t«r of Mr A. A. George, has Mi.-i-wdcd in obtaining * parttnU pa** for tU« lu Wtl&etie *t Uie i'«ceul

Another fire took place at Napier to-day at the residence of Mr W. E. Blythe. The damage done is not supposed to be serious.

The Hibernians intend holding a social in the Theatre Royal on St. Patrick s night. The organising committee is a strong one, and, as is usual with these functions, everything points to success. Mr H. O. Caulton is the owner of a rare thing in roosters. A hen, having hatched a clutch of chickens, died leaving the little orphans to the tender mercies of the world. A bantam rooster took compassion on them and faithfully acted the part of a mother to them, providing them with food, sheltering them under his wing, and generally acting the parent. He may be seen at any time strutting round the yard followed by his interesting family. About twenty cyclists and others interested m the formation of a bicycle race track in Hastings met at the Albert Hotel last night, Mr C. Hughes occupied the chair. Mr Xorris, secretary of the "Wanderers' Bicycle Club, Napier, attended and made very valuable suggestions as to the proper method of laying a well graded permanent track. From his experience of the Napier track, he estimated the expense of laying a first-class track at £3OO. A committee, consisting of Messrs Hughes, Morrison, Hyde, McDonald, Home, Symonds, and G. H. Vic-kers (secretary), was appointed to interview property owners with a view of selecting a suitable site for a track. On the last visit of the Government pomologist to Hastings he expressed a very high opinion of the manner in which the Frimley orchard w-as kept, and said if as much care was taken by other orchardists in the colony the codlin moth would soon become eradicated. It was quite understood that it was the model orchard of New Zealand. Under the circumstances the heavy January gale was especially disastrous, and many hundred valuable trees were destroyed. However, the head gardener, Mr D. McNamara, who thoroughly understands his business soon had the debris cleared away and has made another start to bring the orchard up to its old reputation. Yesterday we were permitted to sample a very line selection of peaches from the lately devastated grounds. They were of extraordinary size and of a delicious flavor —peaches that the English market would clamor for at a big price, grand specimens of what can be grown in the " Fortunate Islands " with care and attention. Mr J. N. Williams has a valuable property in Frimley orchard and a painstaking caretaker in Mr McNamara.

At the S.M. Court to-day, before Messrs Fraser and Hughes, J'sP., judgment by default was given in the following cases : Harry Skilton v 11. Pitt, £7 13s, costs .£1 8s 6d.; T. Young v J. Oliver, £\ll7s sd, costs 30s 6d ; C. Purvis v Eatima Hakopa £3 3s, costs 15s; AY. J. Tyermin v J. O'Connor, 15s 6d, costs ss; same v Armstrong, £3 4s 6d, costs 15s ; G. Elliott v Hanley, £2, costs 10s; Bennett and Bone v O. Meihanga, .£ls 8s lid, costs 445; AY. J. Tyerman v H. Temoana £1 12s 6d, costs 8s 6d; Blanche Duddy v J. O Connor .£4 10s, costs 10s ; J. Mcllrov v T. Eenate ,£1 lls,£osts 13s ; E. H. Williams v F. List £'2 3s 6d, costs 10s; E. Kewbigin v W. J. Moreland £l3 10s, costs 25s 6d. The following judgments were granted : E. Pitt v Milne, £6 4s sd, forthwith, 14 days' imprisonment, order suspended during the payment of 20s per month ; Boaeli v Munn, £3 18s 6d, forthwith, or seven days in gaol; Maddison and Co. v List, £"i 10s 6d," forthwith, or seven days; "Williams and Loughnan v J. Wells, £9 12s Id, to be paid at rate of 20s per week; W. Carter (Lewis) v C. Harrison 17s 6d to be paid within 48 hours or 14 days' imprisonment; J. P. Thompson v 11. Toms £1 6s forthwith or 7 days in gaol; J. Mcllroy v 11. Glazebrook £6 14s 7d, plaintiff nonsuited without costs; F. Murtitt and Manning were charged by Constable Smith with a breach of the peace. Murfitt was fined 10s, with 7s costs, and the case against Manning was dismissed. E. A. Smith (Mr White for Mr Lewis) v laha Otena (Mr Ebbett), claim £4 19s 4d. This was a claim for goods supplied, and had not concluded when we went to press. The manner in which the passenger accommodation is mismanaged on the Government railways is a disgrace to the country and ail insult to the travelling public. Time and again complaints have been made of the practice of overcrowding the carrriages without any apparent effect. We do not wish to attach any blame to the higher oilieials for this state of things, but certainly do to those wearing the badges. A case bordering on this complaint happened as late as this moiling on the first train from Panevirke to Napier. Four passenger cars (which were subdivided) formed part of the train, but just before starting from Danevirke the guard came along, shifted a passenger s (second class, of course) portal nan teau from a long carriage where breathing room was possible to a van the size of a respectable dog kennel. The long car was then locked by the guard and the doors of another carriage were similarly barred ; this left the second-class passengers with one snuffy ordinary and one pigmy smoker, which was occupied by Maoris and Europeans. The gentleman whose portmanteau was shifted asked if the carriages that had been locked were going on, and was answered in the fiHinuative; lie then asked to be allowed to remain in the carriage he lwd first occupied. No satisfaction could be obtained from the man with the whistle and cap. As thu train came on passengers were picked up at each station and dumped into the " only available car, ' while ample room ■was on the train but was locked up. '1 his business lasted as far as Tukapu where the guard's conscience was roused by the frequent petitioning of dilferent passengers for admittance into the locked carriages, and lie reluctantly opened them. There w as no sensible reason in the world why the carnage doors were not allowed to remain unlocked all the way. and the only apparent eveuse the guard could have was thai, it saved him the trouble of going right through the, carriages to collect the ticket*, as care was taken to hftve all the passengers collected at the end nearest inn van. A complaint is to be made to the Department, we understand, when u satisfactory reason for a lieiiaeless act may be aduced.

Wellington watvliotßi' prices sue in even instance cllill'^i-1 !'\ tin* I*. I. I'. when i orders nvenid bv po-t. Tliokc of litir rt-sitlfnti who wiuil I'tialis nicr fitshiimablt* uml nut fsrsituUi about eonauumcatuif.: vutn tLc 1), 1.0., WrHtiiffton. t tiiuplt ie fur milling (s i w ,i -!*»-■-:rt.1 tV.tturi' of tht- I'. 1. lam! tl •> who antli ljjati- rt-ijtll|-( luellti ill thin it I t Unit Will bf -Uppilrd u it!l I'iiitllogues ami t •> pual I iff.- -Ali» I. MT<'P THAI t Hi i.ll b\ taking IU nf (i 11> nd i p. iiitni- for fougtis, rifliin, ehroliU* hi■ .it. ii.tl.n ii/. Air. la i uii«b.»ub » i»l *►> 1 >t! N.'.r- liutnuii* L>i*peii' *tr««-t, Napier, and «11 H t* >1 rkt i|«l - . Al'\ I . I'uiiii' ■..v t ' Nif rl 1 »!" f.., i ,i» i;.« t-. hi.. -- 1:1 1 " 'l't** 1 - l.ia, 1 ■<'«• i >|> ,h ' -il s I S | J ;! (II t 1„U1. . « 11. k f ! m . >l-pp« j jtt-r p«ui. I'iitti i -uiii & l« , i^u»iC»vu- { attwt, Ai>Vi.

No. XIV. of the Imperial Album of New Zealand Scenery, published by McKee and Gamble, .of Wellington, is to hand, and contains some of the best views of New Zealand yet published.

"We have received from Sir James Hector, President of the New Zealand Institute,, the prospectus of a work by Augustus Hamilton, Registrar of the University of Otago, entitled '■ The Art Workmanship of the Maori Race in New Zealand," a series of illustrations from specially-taken photographs, with descriptive notes and essays on the canoes, habitations, weapons, ornaments, and dress of the Maoris. The book will be published in five parts, at a cost of 7s 6d each, and should be subscribed for by all who have any interest in the history of the Maori. It is beautifully illustrated. A number of children attending the Brunner Catholic School were swinging on an old tree when it gave away and fell ou a little girl, daughter of Mr O'Brian, of Stillwater. The child received severe internal injuries and her shoulder-blade was broken. She is in a critical state. A man named Boyle, of Blackball, West Coast, was reading in bed by candle light, when he fell asleep. The bedclothes caught fire, and Boyle was severly burned, narrowly escaping with his life. Mr Henry Blake, the husband of Mrs Blake, who died at Foxton, recently, under alleged pecular circumstances, has caused a write for .£SOO damages to be served upon Dr. McCarthy, of Palmerston North. The case will be heard at the next sitting of the District Court at Palmerston North. —Star.

Judge Yerkes, of Bucks county. Pa., sitting in the Quarter Sessions Court, handed down a decision on December 28 in which he declared solemnly that the bicycle is a promoter of crime, and that an astonishing amount of wrong doing had grown out of the craze. One third of the business of the criminal court, at least, was made up by persons wno were led astray by some connection with the wheel.

At the Gisbourne Supreme Court Judge Conolly remarked oil the unusual number of cases, 13, and commented on the fact that there were no fewer than seven charges of forgery against natives. Xo bill was returned in the case of Queen v Moody, assault. Topa Tepune and Manuhere Parapara were found guilty of forgery, and the former sentenced to two years and the latter to six months' hard labour. Wiremu Heta got an 18 months' sentence for horse-stealing. True bills were returned against Rawiri Tawiri, theft; Michael Mullooly, perjury ; Arthur George Hewitt, forgery; Friend Horatio Sawyer, false pretences ; Edwin Crawford, horse-stealing.

Neil s Corn Cure removes either hard or soft Corns. A few applications only necessary. Is per bottle at Neil's Dispensary Emerson street, Naiper, and all leading storekeepers.—Advt. It's a fact, says a well-known Cliristchurch divine the other day, to a friend, that Cougli Mixture, called Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, is the very best thing for throat Irritation and Cough I have ever taken ; I notice all the Grocers and Chemists keep it—a never failing remedy. Wholesale Agents, Drug Co.—Advt.

Neil's Celebrated Liver Tonic, a pure botanic remedy for all affections of the liver, biliousness, jaundice, yellowness of the skin, indigestion, &c. In bottles 2s and 2s 6d, at Neil's Botanic Dispensary, Emerson street, Napier, and all leading storekeepers.—Advt. Try Patterson & Co.. Napier, for Groceries. A very choice selection of Teas, best value in Hawke's liay, Pure Ceylon, Is 6d per lb, worth 2s; No. 2 Sugar, 8s 3d bag; No. 3, Bs. All goods of best quality, and at wholesale prices for quantity. At Patterson & Co., Emer-son-street, Napier.—Advt.

Eccles Cascara Liver Regulator is a safe and effective remedy for Stomach and Liver Complaints,, such as Indigestion, Headache, Constipation, Furred Tongue &e. It never fails to relieve or cure. 2s 6<l per bottle. From A. Eccles' chemist, Napier and Hastings, and all leading country storekeepers.—Advt.