LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hastings Standard, Issue 411, 28 August 1897, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A large number of Maoris are in town to-day. Great interest is being taken in the Te Aute-County football match being played in Hastings this afternoon. The funeral of the late Mr Thos. Wheat was largely attended yesterday afternoon. The last rites were performed by the Rev. J. Hobbs. A man named Patrick Foley, attempted suicide by drowing off the Marine Parade, at Napier yesterday. He was rescued a wiser and a wetter being, and was lodged . in the lock-up. Mr A. B. Greene desires us to state that the amount sued for by Messrs Stubbs, Paterson and Co., yesterday was not a personal debt, but was for the amount of a bill which he had endorsed for Mr S. S. Quinn. Fears are entertained for the safety of an alleged Professor of one of the " sciences," who left Hastings for the country three weeks ago, promising to return in a few days. Numerous enquiries have been made, but no traces of the Professor's tracks are obtainable.. Some men were erecting a wire across from Nugent's acoommodation house to the station when the Maraekakaho coach rattled along and the driver had only just time to duck his head in order to avoid being swept from his seat by the wire, which caught the top of the coach. The horses were quickly pulled up and fortunately no damage was done. On information laid by Catherine McCullum John Delaney, a jockey, was arrested last night about 11 o'clock by Constable Butler on a charge of assault with intent to commit rape. This morning the accused and several other men were paraded in the police yard for the purpose of identification by the girl, who, without any hesitation, picked out the accused from the rest. Delaney was thereupon placed in the dock before Messrs Ellis and Beilby, J's.P. and charged with the offence. Constable Smith applied for an adjournment until Friday, and Mr G. Ebbett, who represented the accused, offering no objection, the application was granted. Bail was granted, himself in £SO and two sureties of £SO each. The Oddfellows meet to night. The sheep tax must be paid before the Ist prox. G. H. Vickers and Co. sell Mr Fowler's household furniture and piano next week. Mr Seddon and party arrived in Albany yesterday, all well. Whitebait and oyster suppers at the Cafe to-night. The Wanganui College boys beat the Napier High School football team yesterday by 13 points to nil. An infant child was scalded to death with boiling milk at Keteonetea, north of Hawera, last week. The tender of Messrs S. Luke and Co., Wellington, (£3020) has been accepted by the Railway Department for the supply of cylinders for the Rangitikei river bridge. The Southland News states that Mr G. A. Birch, formerly manager of the Colonial Bank in Invercargill, and latterly of the Bank of New Zealand in Timaru, is seriously ill. In the Supreme Court case at Christchurch on Tuesday, W. Profitt (of Napier) v. Canterbury Jockey Club Mr Beswick (for plaintift) submitted that the club had no more right to exclude a man from its course because he was a bookmaker than it had to exclude a man because he had red hair. Soma rather strong language was used by the Stipendiary Magistrate (Mr Kenny) at the Wellington S.M. Court on Thursday in reference to the alleged unreliability of Maori evidence when tendered in regard to debt cases. He remarked that he had lived a great many years in native districts and his experience was that where actions were brought for payment of debt one could hardly believe a word they said. Of course, there are instances when weight of evidence, &c., altered matters in arriving at decisions, but under circumstances such as were connected with the case he had just heard he would not credit a native. The moment it became a question of payment of accounts, all sorts of ingenious devices were resorted to and excuses advanced in repudiation. It used not to be the case, but it was now. Last week (says the Southland Times) a well-known boniface at the Bluff, met a young man who is now a member of the Salvation Army. The young fellow immediately handed him a sovereign with the request that he would take five shillings out of it. Much puzzled, he naturally asked the why and wherefore of the proposed transfer, as he was unaware of the young fellow being in his debt. An explanation was immediately forthcoming; —" When I was ten years old," said the young fellow, "I stole 3s from your till. Take ss, and I consider I will have repaid you with interest." He said that since joining the Army his conscience had often troubled him, and he was glad to have the opportunity of refunding the money. "Mine host" smiled, and his opinion of human nature went up at once. The death of Alfred Ray, aged ten, formed the subject of a coroner's inquiry at Guy's Hospital, London, the other day. From the evidence given it appeared that the lad was playing cricket with a componisn on Sunday evening and they lost their ball on the roof of Pickle Herring Wharf. The boys at once squeezed under the wharf gate, and Ray then got on the roof after the ball. It was Stated that he climbed up two stackpipes, one 27ft. high and another 16ft. high clambered over a steep roof, and evidently fell through a skylight, a distance of 20ft. He was found nine hours afterwards by the police, who searched the building on hearing that the lad was missing. When found the boy was grasping in his hand the cricket ball which was the object of adventure. Dr Pas call's Pills cure Indigestion) Heartburn, Coativeness, Headache, Furred Tongue, Wind, and all symptoms arising from a disordered state of the liver, stomach, or kidneys. They cleanse the bowels, and act like a charm in removing all impurities from the blood, toning and refreshing the whole system. Is 6d and 2s 6d per box. Agent —A. Eccles. —Advt.

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