LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hastings Standard, Issue 360, 30 June 1897, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Tlie Hastings Rifles will be inspected by Colonel I'ole-Penton to-morrow evening. An important meeting of the Star of Hope Lodge, 1.0. G.T., is called for tomorrow evening. It is understood that a novelty in the shape of a bal masque will come off at an early date under the auspices of tlie Bowling Club. At the Te Mala links to-day a golf match is being played between teams representing Gisborne and Hawke's Bay. To-morrow the visitors play the Te Mata team on the same ground. Last night eight gentlemen met and formed themselves into the nucleus of a Liedcrtafel. Mr H. H. Huntwasappointed conductor, and the Club will go into practice at once. The committee of the proposed recreation ground have inspected the two properties suggested as being suitable for the purpose, and have drawn up a report which will be considered at. a meeting to be held on Friday evening next. Arrangements have been made by a Wellington firm for the sole agency for New Zealand of an improved motor car. It is quite probable that in a few weeks one of these modern machines will be seen in the streets of Hastings. The Pollards are nothing if not thoroughly previous. This popular company has booked the local theatre for race week in March and Show week in October, 1898. The management for Bristol's educated horses have booked dates in January and February next." The Rev. Mr Hobbs, who always interests himself in the extention of useffil knowledge to children, proposes to give a a lantern entertainment on Monday evening next at St Matthew's Hall. The views, which are said to be very good, will include scenes of " Life in London." The Hon. J. Carroll states that the engineer of the Public Works Department, who has been recently engaged upon the main trunk railway line, has received instructions to proceed to Gisborne forthwith and make a trial survey of a line for a light railway between 'Gisborne and Rotorua. This morning, before Messrs M'Leod and Hughes, J.'sP., \\ i Pere, M.H.R., was fined 10s and 9s costs for boarding a train while in motion at Hastings. The case against a man charged with creating a disturbance in the public streets on the night of tlie 22nd inst. was adjourned until 3.45 p.m., owing to the absence of essential witnesses at the Supreme Court sittings in Napier. The following additional amounts have been received in aid of tlie Flood Relief Fund :—Thames, per T. Radford, £ll2 16s 4d ; Wellington Woollen Company's employes, £l2; Culverden, per D. Rutherford, £ll 6s ; Blenheim, per S. J. Fuvniss, 10s ; Woolston, per J. Richardson, £1 7s ; " J.H.M.," Dunedin, £1 10s; Mrs Slazenger, Milbourne station, £IOO. Judgment in Waitio was delivered at the Native Land Court yesterday. The land adjoins Ohiti, the ownership of which was decided some weeks ago. Briefly the Court finds that both these blocks were one and the same land without ancestral boundaries, but the owners of Ohiti are not owners in Waitio, as the latter block was the special hunting ground or waste land for a section of the community occupying Ohiti and Omabu. Certain of NoaHuke's people, the permanent occupiers of Ohiti, have been admitted, and Mrs Donnelly and a number of her followers are also found to be entitled to ownership. The Court is now engaged in defining individual interests and hearing the claims of parties who assert a right to come under the general judgment.

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The Supreme Court -has been engaged all day in the Mcintosh murder case. The evidence is much the same as that given in the lower Court. A Press Association message from Auckland says :—The barque Kate Tatham, from Newcastle to Napier, put in there this afternoon in distress. Mr John Plimmer, the father of Wellington, celebrated his 87th birthday on Monday last. In New Zealand last year £270,000 were spent on imported fruit. The Hon. W. C. Walker returned to Wellington from South on Sunday. There are 800,000 more widows than widowers in England. In France for every 100 widowers there are 194 widows. On Saturday there were 27 patients in Waipukurau Hospital, three having been received during the week and one discharged. It has been estimated that upwards of 18,000 horses annually die or are killed in London, and of these about half succumb to accident or infirmity. A Christchurch cyclist, E. A. Archer, broke the New Zealand 100 mile record one day last week, getting over the distance in 6hrs 23mms 33sees. The gross wages of 14 young women working at a large drapery establishment in Christchurch are £3 per week for the whole 14. Mr Tom Pollard and Mr Wybert Beeve combined to give a big matinee performance recently to the poor in the various institutions at Adelaide. The town of Borea, in Ohio, was the scene of a disastrous fire on 20th April. Twenty buildings were completely destroyed before the flames could be mastered, and several persons were injured. The loss is estimated at 100,000 dollars. Waihan, the accredited " tohunga of Mahuta, the Maori King has arrived at Tauranga. He professes to cure the halt, blind, sick, and distressed by the laying on of' hands. All private " toliungas " are to be suppressed. The safe of a Chinaman was bodily removed from a store in Dunedin on Friday evening and taken to St. Leonard's, where it was broken open and £lO in money abstracted. The robbery was a most daring one. Yesterday Detectives O'Connor and M'Grath arrested a cabman named Clifford for being concerned in the robbery. Says the N.Z. Times :—Mr Louis Martin's death calls to mind the dreadful scenes enacted at the wreck of the Northumberland at Napier in 1887. He was engineer of the little launch Boojum, belonging to the "Union Company when that ill-fated boat was sent out to render assistance to the ship in distress. The whole business was of a foolhardy nature and those who were aware of the Boojum's faults in a rought sea felt that nothing but disaster could result. The little boat was caught broadside on by one of the huge seas that were driving the Northumberland on to the Petane beach, and in a moment the Boojum had " turned turtle." Martin was below at the time attending to his engines. From the beach the launch was seen to capsize, the crew went on spinning round for a moment or two, and the captain and crew—some of the latter volunteers for duty—were drowned. When the steamer turned over, Martin dived and came to the surface clear of the Boojum's hull, and he was afterwards picked up by the Sir Donal (if memory serves). One remarkable incident was that the cabin clock, when the steamer was cast in so much matchwood on the beach, was found to be ticking away quite merrily. The whole thing happened, t\s it were, in a Hash, and Louis Martin was the only one of the Boojum's company left to tell the tale. His was an escape little short of miraculous, and only those who witnessed the occurrence can have even the faintest notion of the presence of mind and pluck which characterised him on that occasion. Let us hope that after life's fitful fever he sleeps well. ■ 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 c«ld out of you in no time."—Do likewise.—Advt. Do you want a good durable pair of Trousers '? Well leave your measure at Dodds'. Only 12s 6d. Address, Heretaunga street. —Advt. Men's shooters 7s 6d, English Balmorals 8s 6d, Bluchers 5s 6d, shoes from 8s Od, slippers Is 6d. See our window for prices.—Patterson & Co., Napier—-Advt. Eccles' Corn Paint quickly removes either hard or soft corns. Only a few applications necessary. In bottles Is 6d, from A. Eccles, chemist, Napier and Hastings.—Advt. Our stock of boots, shoes, and slippers is very large; we are giving ihe best value in Napier. See our window for price.—Patterson & Co., Napier—Advt. Just received 100 pair Evening shoes, from 2s 6d; also walking shoes from os 6d, worth 8s 6d; slippers Is. See window for prices.—Patterson & Co., Napier.—Advt. To the deaf and those troubled with noises in the head or other aural, troubles, Dr Nicholson, of London, the worldfamed Aural Specialist and Inventor of Artificial Ear Drums, has just issued the 100 th edition of his illustrated aud descriptive book on Deafness and Aural Troubles. This book may be had from Mr Colin Campbell, 160 Adelaide road, Wellington, N.Z. Mr Campbell was cured of his deafness by Dr Nicholson's system, and takes pleasure in spreading ■the news of the great specialist in New Zealand. A little book on the cure of llbeumatism, Corpulence, Lumbago, and Indigestion by the same author, may be had from Mr Campbell, also free.—Advt_