The Hastings Standard Published Daily FRIDAY, JULY 23, 1897. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hastings Standard, Issue 380, 23 July 1897, Page 2

The Hastings Standard Published Daily

FRIDAY, JULY 23, 1897. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

For the cause that lacks assistance. For the wrongs that need resistance, For the future in the distance, And the good that we can do.

The Volunteers paraded under SergeantMajor Dewar last evening, when several useful movements were gone throng!'. The annual meeting of the subsn'ii: ers to the Hastings Atlienteum takes place this evening. The Defence Department is making enquiries from the various Volunteer corps as to the most suitable time for holding the encampments postponed at Easter. The following further contributions have been received by the Mayor of Napier towards the flood relief fund : —J. Bennett, £5 ss; Rev. F. W. Martin's list, Opotiki (balance) 15s. Piofefsor Charleston lectures at St. Matthew's Hall to night on " Heads and Faces." No charge will be made for admission. To-morrow night a lecture is announced for men only. Nelson Bros received the following cable from London this morning:—"To-day's quotations —Best Canterbury, oid ; Punedin, BJd ; Napier and North Island, 2,' { d. There is indifferent demand for lamb and prices have fallen —best quality lamb, 3Jd ; second quality, 3+d." Recently a passenger bv the train from Melbourne to Oakleigh dropped dead in a carriage. He was identified by a bank pay-in slip in his pocket for £'1,650, a sum he won recently in a Tattersall's sweep, as Alfred Gates, senior clerk in the Government Audit Office. At the S.M. Court this morning judgment was given for the amount claimed with costs in the following cases : —John Evans (Lewis) v. Alex. McKay, claim £4 4s, costs 10s; John Hickey (Ebbett) v. Frederick Power, £5 ss, 10s was paid into Court and judgment given for balance. £4 15s, costs 12s; Stubbs, Paterson (Lewis) v. Thomas Quinlivan, £lO, costs £1 3s 6d ; John Hickey (Ebbett) v. Robert Smith, £1 4s, costs 5s ; Henry W. Jacksor. v. Alex. C. McKay, £lB 7s, costs £■2 Is. This was a case for the recovery of rent and an order was granted by the Court for the recovery of possession of the house within a week. J. L. Mcllroy v. Tangata te Hapuku £2 10s, costs 10s 6d; Thomas Stewart (Lewis) v. "William Boult, 12s. costs 5s ; Marion T. Nelson v. James McCausland, £4. costs 5s ; MTvor r.nd Wyatt (White! v. J. Adams, £lO 13s, £2 10s was paid, and the Court made an order for the immediate payment of the balance of £8 os with the alternative of a week's imprisonment, the warrant to be suspended during the payment of £2 a month, the first payment being due on September Ist. D. Pilmer (White) v. Hera te Upokoiri (Scannell), claim £lO los ; judgment lor j£B, costs 3s, solicitor's fee JHls.

A lost hat is advertised for. Stubbs, Patersou and Co. advertise three properties for sale. G. H. Vickers and Co. sell at their rooms to-morrow furniture, fruit, &c. Lady Tieliborne is expected to arrive in Wellington shortly. Two Chinese paid the £IOO poll-tax at Wellington on Wednesday. One of them was a woman. The small Norwegian town of Namsos has been entirely burned. The inhabitants, numbering about 1800, were unable to save even their furniture. Messrs Bigg Brothers, manufacturing chemists of Melbourne, have been fined a total of £2BO for attempting to evade the customs. It is stated that there are nearly 10,000 applications for employment on the Government railways in the handsof the Department at present. Heavy snow fell on the ChristchurchJacksons road on Friday and Saturday last, and a gang of 150 men was required to allow of traffic being resumed. The report of the Private Benefit Socity Commission is expected to he in the hands of the Government in a day or two. A late wire states with reference to the Ward Farmer's Association case that Mr Chapman intimated that he did not intend to re-examine Mr Ward. Mr Fisher was under examination to-day. A slv grog selling case was heard at Groymouth on Thursday, when P. Bvers, of tlie Christehurch road, was fined £ls and costs £9, or an alternative of 14 days' hard labor in the Hokitika gaol. lie elected to take it out. Peasant riots of a Socialist character have occurred in Hungary, the gendarmes having to fire to quell the disturbances. At Nadudvar one man was killed and 30 wounded. At Alpar one was killed and several wounded. Twenty-one agitators were arrested. The Viceroy's weekly telegram to the Secretary for India for the last week of May states that there is no important change in the situation with regard to the famine. The total number of persons on relief works is 4,064,000. It is stated that a settler on the Pornahaka Downs, the occupier of a 250-acre section, has this season threshed 1064 sacks of oats from about 130 acres—representing something like half of his holding. This, at 2s per bushel, gives the handsome return of £425. Mr Thos. Morgan, the well-known boot importer, announces elsewhere that he is prepared to make a discount of Us 4d in £to all cash purchasers. As his stock is a specially selected one for this district and is always being replenished purchasers might with advantage to themselves make personal enquires from Mr Morgan. The proposal of the natives to send one of their number to England to place certain grievances before the Imperial authorities is to be discussed at {(.representative native meeting at Papawai shortly before the opening of the session of Parliament. Committees in the various districts have already begun the work of collecting subscriptions. —N.Z. Times. The ammunition received by the Shannon Bide Club from the Government is too dangerous to have anything to do with. A few days since some of the members went out to try the rifles just received, and after a few shots thought it best to cease tiring owing to the cartridges not being lit for use. One of the party got a slight, wound close to the eye.—Farmer. Referring to the conference of traffic managers and locomotive engineers on Government lines held lately at Wellington, the correspondent of the Auckland Herald says the questions proposed to them for consideration include the arrivals and departures of trains on the Wellington, Taranaki, and Napier sections. The decision of the conference is likely to determine the action of the Government in respect to the Manawatu company s line Women are notoriously bad shots. In Western Australia the other day, according to a Sydney paper, a mine manager's wife was christening an engine, and had to throw a champagne bottle at it. jt was somewhat larger than the proverbial haystack, and she was only a couple of yards away from it, yet she cleverly managed to miss it and hit her hubby—a portly person —knocking him into a cistern ten feet deep and badly hurting him. The Manawatu Daily Times learns that in addition to the purchase of Mr Pascal's property, Mr A. Mcllardy has secured the properties of Messrs J. Knight and F. Boyes adjoining. The price paid for Mr Knight s farm was £l7 per acre and for Mr Boyes' £ls per acre. The total area of the two latest properties, acquired by Mr McHardy is about 390 acres ; and including Mr Pascal's property, the former gentleman will now own about 1610 acres in the Bunnythorpe district. A New Zealander writing from Johannesburg says : —"The waiters and workers are all niggers. The place simply swarms with Malays, Kaffirs, Zulus, etc. ; and, poor devils ! they have a rough time of it. They are all labelled like dogs, with a brass plate affixed to the arm ; must not go on any foospath; can only go to certain places for food ; must be in by 9 o'clock at night; and not allowed to have any drink. In to-day's paper I read one ho'telkeeper was fined £2OO for selling a drink to a Kaffir (second offence), and another (first offence) £75, and the niggers got a month each." Referring to the gentlemen commissioned by the Government to receive Lord Ranfurly in Sydney, the N.Z. Times says: —Mr Smith is peculiarly qualified to conduct this mission, having been on the staffs of Governors Bowen and Grey, secretary to a number of the Premiers of the colony, and for 30 years in the public service of New Zealand. Consequently, he is au fait with most things likely to be of interest to His Excellency. It will perhaps be remembered that Mr Smith went to Napier as the envoy of the Government of the day to welcome Lord Onslow, when Governor-elect, and escort him to Wellington. Men's shooters 7s 6d, English Balmorals 8s 6d, Bluchers 5s 6d, shoes from 8s 6d, slippers Is 6d. See our window for prices.—Patterson & Co., Napier —Advt. ' In view of the approaching winter you cannot do better than purchase Doods Seasonable Suitings to order at £2 12s 6d. Address, Heretaunga street. —Advt. Eccles' Quinine and Ikon Tonic contains Quinine and Iron in a high state of purity, and is the most agreeable strengthening, and efficient agent yet discovered. 2s 6d per bottle. To be obtained from A. Eccles, chemist, Napier and Hastings, and at all leading country stores —Advt. Patterson and Co. give best value of i Teas, Pure Ceylon for is 6d, worth 2s. A I big reduction on all Teas for slb or over Get our price list,—Patterson & Co., Napier.—Abyt,