LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hastings Standard, Issue 408, 25 August 1897, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

We regret to announce the death of Mr Thomas Ashling Wheat, an old and respected resident of Hawke's Bay. Deceased has been suffering from paralysis for the past sis years, and. latterly he was unable to move about at all It is expected fully five hundred natives will be gathered together at Papawai next month to welcome the native contingent. They will be present from all parts of the Wairarapa. The local Europeans have undertaken to give the natives a banquet on the occasion. The large attendance at the debate between the Hastings and Napier Clubs at the Oddfellow's Hall last evening denoted the greet interest taken in meetings of this kind, which it is hoped will be of more frequent occurrence in the future. It was generally conceded that the Hastings representatives had much the best of the argument throughout. The Wanganui College football team went through to Napier by the express last evening. At the Hastings station they were met by the boys of the Heretaunga school and cheers were exchanged. This morning the team returned to Hastings, and this afternoon are engaged with the Heretaunga school reps. The Wanganui collegians are a smart-looking lot, and are favorites for the local match. Mr H. 11. Hunt has just received his first consignment of the celebrated Waldemar pianos and at his invitation several prominent Hastings musicians assembled in his show rooms for the purpose of inspecting the instruments. After examinating the pianos the unanimous verdict was that for clearness of tone, for volume and for compactness combined with strength they cannot be excelled. Mr Hunt invites inspection. An application for letters patent, with provisional specifications, has been received by the Registrar of Patents from Joseph Gaut, of Leichardt, Sydney, for improvements in air-pumps for inflating the tires of bicycles and like machines. Mr Gaut is ail artist well-known in this district, and has secured the patent rights on several inventions which ought to return him a very considerable sum. He is a mechanic of no mean order, and his model of the racing recorder, which besides giving the time of a race photographs the horses as they pass the post, and which was on view here some months ago, was a splendid piece of work. Eccles' Quinine and Iron Tonic eontains 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 —Ady r. In view of the approaching winter you cannot do better than purchase Dodds Seasonable Suitings to order at £2 12s 6d. Address, Heretaunga street.—Advt. Tyerman and Co s Weed Destroyer, for garden paths, carriage drives, &c. One gallon of this to 40 of water will destroy weeds and prevent growth for some two years. Price, bottles Is, 5s per gallon; reduction in larger quantities.—Advt. Just received 100 pair Evening shoes, from 2s 6d; also walking shoes from 5s 6d, worth 8s 6d; slippers Is. See window for prices.—Pattebson & Co., Napier.—Advt.

Whitebait at Cowlriclt's. Five shillings reward is offered to the finder of a lost cockatoo. A central site has been purchased at Eketahuna for a new Post and Telegraph Office. Danevirke proposes to petition Government to take over the whole of the Tamaki block for close settlement. There is a probability that the .new bridge over the Rangitikei river at Bulls wjil be erected a mile lower down the river than the old bridge. A number of Christchurch bookmakers were fined yesterday for trespassing on the show grounds of the meeting of the Canterbury Trotting Club last week. Naomi te Wai, better known as " Old Mary," one of the oldest native women in the Manawatu district, died at Aorangi on Thursday last. The case against Richard W. Hall, charged with procuring assistance to administer noxious drugs to Caroline Matthews, is proceeding at Invercargill today. The burglary epidemic still continues in Auckland. The shop of L. Goldwater, jeweller, was broken into on Monday night and about £lB worth of clocks, &c., disappeared. The petroleum boring operations at New Plymouth have been resumed, and are to proceed until further advice has been received from the Sydney Board of Directors, which recently proposed to stop the work. The Melbourne correspondent of an Otago paper writes :—" The draught horse parade was this year noticeable for the great superiority of the New Zealand horses, and the Argus states that a noticeable feature of this year's parade is the number of really good horses sent from New Zealand. A New Plymouth spinster, Miss King, lately deceased, left the whole of her personal estate to the local Recreation Grounds Board. Owing to calls made by the Bank of New Zealand, in which shares the deceased lady had money invested, the Board will not receive as much as the testator intended. During the performance of " Cavellerie Rusticana' at the Politeama Theatre, Genoa, before a crowded house, a man named Biaggie Arrodia Noli, of Pizzighettone, said to be a chemist, suddently jumped up and rushed to the box of the conductor of the orchestra. Having broken down the partition, Noli exclaimed in a loud voice, " This opera is mine and not Mascagni's. I composed it and sent it to him for his opinion of it but he kept it and made use of it on his own account. Mascagni is nothing else but a plagiarist." A scene of indescribable confusion ensued, and, as the man persisted in his denunciations, the opera had to be suspended while the police was sent for to expel this alleged composer. Do you want a good durable pair of Trousers '? Well leave your measure at Dodds'. Only 12s 6d. Address, Heretaunga street. —Advt. A cough is only worth eighteen-pence, for the simple reason that if you invest that sum in a bottle or Woods' Great Peppermint Cure for coughs and colds, you can get rid of it straight away —it never fads—every grocer and chemist in the town keeps it. Wholesale agents — All merchants and drug firms.—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 and 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 Rheumatism, Corpulence, Lumbago, and Indigestion by the same author, may be had from Mr Campbell, also fcee.—Advt