LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hastings Standard, Issue 381, 24 July 1897, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Interesting Home and Foreign items appear on our fourth page to-day. A smart shock of earthquake visited Hastings at ll'lO this morning. Mr W. Beilby, who has been laid up for the past week with a heavy cold, was out this morning for a little while. Everyone will be glad to learn that he will bs about again in a few days. The"' skating rink will be open at the Band Hall to-night. The Town Band has consented to play several items, and the double attractions should secure a large attendance. The two men Roberts and Gould, arrested in Hastings on a charge of burglary at the Shakespeare Hotel were brought up at the Napier S.M. Court yesterday morning charged with the offence. The police withdrew the charge, but further charged them with being incorrigible rogues. After hearing lengthy evidence the case was adjourned for hearing by Mr Turnbull to-day. Professor Charleston delivered his lecture on " Heads and Faces " in St Matthew 's Hall last evening. The audience was not as large as the brightness and instructiveness of the lecture deserved, but this might be accounted for by the bitterly cold weather. The professor is well up in his subject, and whilst not being by any means an orator he has an easy colloquial address and delivers himself with a conviction and a force that never fail to impress his audience favorably. In bis lecture the speaker touched generally upon the effect different characters had upon the features, the laugh, the pose and the carriage, and gave married people several homely candid hints on the study of and allowances for each others foibles. The lecturer also glanced at the subject of love, courtship and marriage, and though his address on this important question was not long it was comprehensive and to the point. The discourse was here and there enlivened with racy anecdotes which were greatly appreciatad. The address concluded with the announcement that the professor had taken offices next Messrs Vickers and Go's sale rooms, where he may be consulted. The professor lectures again to-night at 8 o clock to men only ; no person under 16 years of age will be admitted. On Tuesday next another lecture will be given on " Phrenology and Physiognomy." The annual general meeting of the subscribers to the Atlienieum took place in the Reading Room last night, Mr R. Brathwaite occupying the chair. Tlie'secretary's report congratulated the members on the sound financial basis of the institution, which had to its credit a small balance of £4 after paying all expenses. The ball organised last year for the purpose of purchasing new books realised the sum of £4O 2s 3d, and with this and some moneys from the ordinary funds of the institution about 350 new books were placed on the shelves. The outgoing committee desired to thank the ladies and gentlemen who helped to make the ball so successful, especially Mr Sydney Pattisou, who acted as secretary. The Sketch, The Strand Magazine, The Nineteenth Century, and some extra New Zealand dailies had been added to the current literature during the past year, but as the Nineteenth Century did not seem very popular it was removed and some lighter magazine should be substituted in its place. The report and balance sheet were adopted. The following officers and committee were re-elected :—President, Captain Russell; vice president, Mr Robert Brathwaite ; committee—Messrs Brathwaite, Tyerinan, Tipping. W. Russell, Darvall, C. Holroyd, Webb, and N. G. Cox (secretary). Votes of thanks were accorded to the donors of newspapers, to Mrs Price for extra work done, to the auditor, Mr G. F. Roach, and the secretary (Mr Cox). It was decided to call a special meeting of the members for the purpose of considering the question of putting up an addition to the Athenaeum to be used as a chess and draughts and smoking room. This concluded the business. Do you M'ant a good durable pair of Trousers '? Weil leave your measure at Dodds'. Only 12s 6d. Address, Heretaunga street. —Advt. Cheapest Grocers in Hawke's Bay. Get our price list for all kinds of groceries and provisions. Only best brands kept.—At PAiXEftaoN & Co., Napier.—Advt.

• Services for to-morrow are advertised by the Salvation Army. The Education Board advertise for a teacher for the Wainui school. Thos. Quinlivnn, seur., of Hastings, is defendant in an affiliation case now before the S.M. Court at Wellington. Some amusement was caused at the Phrenological lecture last night by the Professor's apt readings of the heads of some of our well known citizens. The Mataura Ensign hears that Mr J. J. Meikle, who has frequently petitioned the House for redress for false imprisonment, has decided to run for the Awarua seai. The Rev. Robert Burrows, one of the oldest missionaries of the State Missionary Society, died at Auckland yesterday, aged 84. He was through the Heke war in the north in 1845. He leaves two dauglitei-s. The annual balance-sheet of the Wellington Meat Export Company, after writing £5020 off leasehold buildings, &c., and adding £IOSO to the reserve, shows a profit of .£4500. A dividend is recommended at 8 per cent, absorbing £3995, the balance to be carried forward. The new operating theatre at the Bunedin Hospital will have its walls lined with opaline glass, specially imported for the purpose, to a height of 7ft. from the floor, in order to afford the least possible hold for the development and growth of microbes. The Lyttelton Times says that the reduction of the frozen meat freights just made by the shipping companies has already borne fruit for the farmers, as shown by the fact that sheep suitable for export have risen in value fully Is per head. In consequence of the success of his sale Mr S. Ridgway has determined to offer still greater inducements to purchasers and will clothe men from head to foot for 32s 6d, which includes hat, shirt, flannel, pants, suit, sox, &e. Full* list of prices will appear on Monday. At the inquiry into the accident to the Wainui, at Wellington yesterday, Captain Lambert said he toolr bearings at Point Louci which showed him to be a mile and a half from land, and he could not account for striking. The other witnesses thought there might have been an unusual current. The Court found no blame attachable to the captain or third officer; the captain was not guilty of any misconduct, and after the accident the conduct of both himself, officers, and crew, was praiseworthy. The certificates were returned. On Wednesday, while evidence was being taken in respect to the Horowhenua Block at the Levin Native Land Court, a wellknown women named Weka Hunia seized a heavy piece of firewood and violently s :ruck the interpreter Mr A. M' Donald, upon the forearm. The offender was at once arrested and placed in confinement until the rising of the Court, when she was brought up before Judge MaeKay, who imposed a fine of £5, or in default seven days' imprisonment. The policeman's life in Queensland is not such a happy one as it is in Westralia, as may be judged from the following circular recently issued to the force in Bananaland : —" The privileges and duties of married policamen living out of barracks do not appear to be well understood. For the future such men must bear in mind that they do not cease to be policemen on their return to their dwellings and that the same regulations which govern the conduct of men in barracks apply to them ; consequently they have no right to be absent from their phonies after 10 o'clock p.m., nor at any time to appe.- r in public in plain ]clothes, unless they first obtain leave to do so from thej officer or sub-officer in charge of the station to which they are attached ; and any such leave when granted is to be entered in the station diary in the " remarks' column.'" Patterson and Co. give best value o Teas, Pure Ceylon for Is 6d, worth 2s. A 1 i ; reduction on all Teas for 51b or over G t our price list.—Patterson & Co., .Napier.—Advt. I STOPPED THAT COUGH AND CURED A very bad cold by a single bottle of Dr Pascall's Cough Mixture. Signed, R. M iDowall. 4s 6d and 2s 6d. Eccles, chemist, Napier and Hastings.—Advt He was trying to tell them the story, It was broken by coughs and by spits, And the points of it came very slowly, By starts, as it were, and by fits, And they said " You should take something for it, Something that is wholesome and pure." And he said " I'll be alright to-morrow, For I'm taking Woods' Great Peppermint Cure."—Advt.