LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hastings Standard, Issue 264, 6 March 1897, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

+ The continuation of " Saved by an Albatross" appears on our fourth page. Train arrangements for the Takapau Caledonian sports, which take place on Wednesday next, appear in this issue. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company announce that they will impound all stock found on sections 210 and 211, Karamu road. Mr James I'. Thompson has received his lirst shipment of new goods for the autumn season, which are now being displayed. These goods have been specially selected, and intending purchasers would do well to inspect these goods. The Misses Adams', who have altered their decision about retiring from business, have I,aken the premises recently occupied by Messrs Whitehead i>ros.photographers, and will start business there on Monday next, where the residue of their old stock will be ottered to the public considerably under cost. The Chiaroscurama will be on exhibition this evening in premises opposite the Dank of New Zealand, lieretunnga road. This mechanical wonder comes direct from the Wellington Exhibition, where it was most favorably criticised. Views of the principal and most interesting parts of the world are exhibited, the natural colors being faithfully reproduced. The show is well spoken of, from an artistic and educational point of view, by the colonial l'rcss, and, as the prices (if admission are within the reach of all, the ('hiaroseurama should be well patronised to-night. An information was laid to day at Napier against themanagerot thu Hank of New Zealand by the Factory inspector for keeping employees at work after hour-; and ole-itmetnig the entrance "I the Inspector. This may tend to biing about ii relief to the unfortunate bank officials who are obliged to work night after night for a hare existence ill almost every linaneial institnnnn in the colony. The Illtside World has hilt little idea of the ippivsMoti under which bunk officials iiitler i and it is little wonder that e\ery low and again one conn s before a judge md jury to answer a charge for the dvaleatiou of sundry sums of money. Tiie most attracti \ e sitht about tow n ~ - *ei ,l.i> was a ludv (dressed jn thu /rdmai'v every day garb) aboard a gent's .>ik<- sailing at top through the main • ireet. The rider or ruleress, whichever t may be, had liei f io -tiiuilv hidden Vein public gaye hetnatli ahi-avv, dark, i ii. and chucked herself on and off the ake like a champion ndcr, caring bill ittle w hat the onlookers [bought of the •ulotir of her stocking* which went otiuidts | it a p.m 1 of puts that Would have dune • untice to a yutsng nparroxx in trnuunj.*- It i -< spectacle* of ihf* kmd that makes one i 11,< ion : " \\ hut is lovely woninti coin- j ng !•>««. aud whero will she pull up ' j \\ i \X.lt.hou->i pi lee* ,ii . til lei". IO ' .i (ic! ■ e1.ii.1.1 11 \ I' I < .. ihen eVecllllltg ul'dt'ls recti* ed ill. pent iliow of our resident* h ie. want leally ; li< e fashion iMe go>,di llml lint iifsilale ; buui ciiiimmn-atutj.' with ti.r l» f. « .. : \ l ilnigtoll. t Oiuplrte /ill nlahiOg liolv ; special fenltlre of the I * 1 1 . .u. 1 11 tito ant.ci n-'i itiifiiirHts 111 inn direit Util wilt W »U|!pJied with »h 4 , •lUUAtva J>U»t Af. I

The next meeting of the Highland Society will be held at the Spit. The average life of a ship is about 26 years. Duiein,a new sweetening material,is said to be 225 times as sweet as sugar. "Wild pigeons and pheasants are very numerous in the Puketoi district just now. The Palmers ton North ratepayers have decided to bring into force the Rating on tJnimproved Value Act of last session. Shippers of cargo by the s.s. Manaia, wrecked on the Taranaki coast, are going to bring an action against the owners for the loss of goods. Two ex-Hawke's Bay runholders are now in C'oolgardie, one keeping a publichouse and the other a butcher's, shop. Both find business brisk. An exhibit of Auckland dried fruits is being prepared in Auckland for the Queensland Exhibition, which takes place in June, under the direction of the Agricultural Department. The Wellington seamen are willing to accept the award of the Conciliation Board, but the owners have not yet agreed on all the points, and another conference between the two parties will bt held. A writer in the West Coast Times, in complaining of the action of one of the southern constables, asks for an investigation, and affirms that, if one were granted, the disclosures would quite put in tlu shade the Auckland police-South episode. A gentleman who has recently returned from Auckland informs us that it is computed that .£l/5,000 per month is now being paid by the nining investors in this colom in calls on shares, and in the course of a couple of months or so that amount will be greatly increased. A bright outlook ? Two middle-aged women, named Louisn Bishoff and Mary Walikopsky, charged at the Auckland Police Court yesterday with having stolen at Wellington a watch ami other effects and .£IOO cash, were remanded to Wellington. It was expected that the railway line to Pahiatua wonld be opened for passengei traffic as from the Ist of April next. The probability now is that it will not be possible to run passenger trains until about a month later, although goods trains have been running for some time past. William Carlson and Charles W. H, White, on remand in the Tekuti (Auckland) stabbing case, have again been remanded for eight days. Since last remand the injured man, Kenneth Bayne, had got worse, and it was not known whether lie would ever come out of the hospital. Mr E. Tregear, the head of the Labor Department, is expected back from Auckland about Tuesday next. On his return he will report concerning the land near the chief centres of population which he has inspected with the object of ascertaining the possibility of the Government establishing workmen's villages. Mr Edmund Peters, the well-known coach proprietor, went through by train to Napier (says the Parmerston Standard) with the remains of his sister, Miss Gertrude Peters, who died at Ohingaitf on Monday. Within the last few years, Mr Peters has lost his father, mother, wife and two sisters by death. If any person in Hastings wishes to see a mad act performed let him or her step into Warren Street anywhere between Mr Hughes' corner and the State School about. 6 o'clock on any evening and there will be witnesed a youth riding a horse at full gallop and carrying a little girl, about three years old, in one arm. AH that is now required to bring about a fatal accident is for the horse to stumble during this brainless performance. On the score of furious riding this lad should be brought up with a round turn, " I think ' lawyers ' will not burn unless they are first cut," said Mr Tlios. Cooper to a witness in a bush-falling case in the Supreme Court Gisborne. The witness readily assented, and the public present laughed, but His Honor frowned judicially, evidently misliking anything that savoured of a reflection on the profession. Of course the reference was not to lawyers who appear in Court, but to that other genus of the species which is found growing in many parts of the colony, and which lias a remarkable knack of sticking closely to anything with which it comes in contact. Our soldiers, says Lloyd's, are scattered in liandl'uls all over tilt world, and if they were gathered together we should have a British army of about 221,000 strong, without reserves, Recent- returns show that of the total nearly 10(5,000 are at home, about 7(5,000 in India. (000 in Egypt, and the remainder are distributee! over the Mediterranean garrisons and the colonics. At home there are in round numbers, 215,000 troops in Ireland, -1000 in Scotland, and 7(5,000 in England iiul Wales. Of the large force required-iu India, the Bengal command has the greatest share of the 70.000. South Africa has lately occupied the service of a considerable number of Imperial troops, and there are still about (ioOO men at the Cape and in Natal,and in the territories which have recently been the scene of trouble. A special message to the New l'lymonth News from Midhirst sa\s that Valentine Short, aged two wars, was run over and instantaneously killed at .Midhirst by a special goods train on Tuesday. The child had been playing on the railway line, and although the engine driver did his utmost to pull up bis train, he was unsuccessful, the chilil being struck by the cowcatcher, and dragged along for nearly 2(hds. Only last Tuesday the bin's father (Mr. liichard Shorti was taken sudden! v ill, and had to be taken to the New Pl\mouth Hospital on I'Yiday, where In: died on Saturday night. I >eep and hearti'ul sympathy is felt, for Mrs Short, who has bet n deeply bereaved within u Week, Die 1 '.wall's J'ills cure Indigestion Heartburn, t"ostivcness, Headache, Furred Tongue, Wind, and all ssmptolus arising from a disordered state of the liver, stomach, or kidnevs. Thev dentist* the bowels, and act like a charm in removing all impurities from the blood, toning and refreshing the whole svstem. 1-- odund '2» (id per box. Agent A. I'a. cUis Napier and Hasiine*.-- Anvi. Nkll.'s ( oMl'ul'NO >. ve- ti u: 1 1.1. \. A household medicine for piirifviug the blooti and tomni; up the sv?4em. In lartre bottles at 'is (. ! at Neil's I hspensurv, Emerson street, Napier, and ail leading storekeepers. Ai■ vI - 1.11 Ui t oKN I' vIN r liui.klv leluove* either hard or stilt col n*. 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