LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hastings Standard, Issue 341, 7 June 1897, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The first portion of an interesting judgment in the Ohiti case appears on our fourth page to-day. Owing to pressure of space the concluding chapter of " Victoria in the Early Fifties " is held over until next issue. In another column H. Neagle challenges W. Cleaver to a running match for £lO or upwards a side. Rev. Father Hugo, of the Meanee Mission, conducted the Catholic services yesterday. Many of our readers will regret to hear of the death of Mr Alexander Jones, which took place at Waipukurau on Saturday. Deceased was a brother of Mr W. Jones, the well-known implement maker, of Hastings. There were mumerous grumbles heard to-day in connection with no notification having been made as to the closing of the banks. The ordinary business man has no time to reckon up saints' and other holidays, and the fact that Whit Monday was on ns appears to have been overlooked by many. An advertisement notifying closing days would be welcomed. The Rev. Mr Hobbs has naade it a practice to have the English Church open on week days for the use of worshippers who desire to offer private prayer. On last Saturday some larrakin took advantage of the open door to enter the church and inflict injuries on the organ by breaking the swell. If the rascal can be found he will be punished to the utmost limits of the law. The Standard suggests that a children's treat be instigated in connection with the Jubilee demonstration. Special trains might be arranged for the 23rd of June, and a trip to the country, say to Waipukurau, might be undertaken. An advertisement in a southern paper calls for tenders for 200 lbs cake, 700 large buns, and 1 cwt of lollies. "Why not treat the children similarly here ? The whole outlay would not be great, and the general public would no doubt willingly contribute to the function. Two well-known " sports " left Hastings early yesterday morning for a day with the playful rabbit on the Havelock hills. They were both armed to the teeth. Daylight had scarcely broken when they reached their bivouac. One of them in reconnoitring after breakfast struck what he took to be a splendid sample of quartz, and the pair spent the day in developing their gold mine. Instead of game their bags were filled with specimens, and they returned to make enquires as to what amount would be required to purchase a few hundred acres in proximity to their prospecting area. Today they are disillusioned, and it is understood that the contents of their bags will not be sent to the Thames School of Mines for analysis. They had been working all the Sabbath on an outcrop of limestone.

The Skating Kink was again freely patronised on Saturday. There is more iniosication in Belgium than in any other country in Europe. Mrs Scott advertises tha she will supply meals at all hours at Is per head at her boarding house, near the Land Court. A bill is to be introduced in the House of Commons to enable women to sit on county councils. The Masonic Hotel at Danevirke had a narrow escape of being destroyed by fire on Thursday last. Miss Clara Skinner, of Hastings, is an important witness in the Soler divorce case in Wellington. The winter meeting of the H.B. Gun Club promises to be a big success. The programme certainly should bring together many of the best shots in the colony. Some excitement was caused in town on Saturday by an exhibition of samples of the mineral strata struck by Mr Clark while sinking a well on Mr Reynolds's property in Southampton road. It is understood that something worth mining for has been found, but until an assay has been made the value of the find cannot be estimated. Misses Hardie and Manning announce their Hastings will be held every Tuesday. A special class for lady students will be held at Miss Hodge's School from 3 80 p.m. to o p.m., and the usual evening classes at Mrs Hartshorn's, King street, at 7 p.m. A great deal of interest is being manifested in those classes by the pupiles and many ladies and gentlemen have signified their intention of ingA Hastings gentleman has received a letter from a friend at Johannesburg, from which we have been permitted to make the following extracts : —" This place is getting horribly slow. At the end of April 500 clerks and shop-assistants were dismissed and about the same number are now under notice, besides thousands are already out of work. Mines are closing down in all directions, and all this is to try and force the hands of Government into granting the concessions asked for by capitalists, which are—reducing railway rates, granting greater facilities for obtaining Native labor for the mines, and the cancellation of the dynamite monopoly, which is in the hands of a lot of Jews.' The death was announced in the Sydney papers of May 16th of Mrs Stevenson, the mother of the late Robert Louis Stevenson, the novelist. It is intended to make some amendments in the Volunteer regulations, and a circular which has been sent out to the officers commanding corps asks for suggestions, to be sent to the Commander of the Forces. A Taranaki settler, lies been fined £2, with costs £3 10s 9d, for putting a cancerous beast in a saleyard, after being warned by the local Stock Inspector to isolate it. The police at the Thames have taken charge 'of six children, whose ages range from 11 months to 12 years, who it is alleged had been left for days without food, their parents being absent from town. Their clothing was most scanty, and the bed clothes are described as rotten.

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He'd got a chill. How, is outside the question ; but he was as hoarse as a crow and could not clear his mucous passages. When he met Smith, Smith said to him " You're very hoarse to-day." He said, " Sam; I'm hoarse to day, but you're an ass every day." Smith laughed, and pulling out eighteen pence, said : "Go to the grocer or chemist and get a bottle of Woods' Great Peppermint Cure; that will knock the cold out of you in ho time." Do likewise. —Advt.

Patterson and Co. give best value of Teas, Pure Ceylon for Is 6d, worth 2s. A big reduction on all Teas for 51b or over Get our price list.—Patterson & Co., Napier.—Advt.

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