LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hastings Standard, Issue 413, 31 August 1897, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

+. —. An interesting article on the rebellion in India appears oil our fourth page today. The loan proposals of the Ilawke's Bay County Council has been carried. The voting was slow throughout. A public meeting of citizens is called for to-morrow evening to form a committee to make arrangements for a fitting reception to the local members of the Jubilee contingent. A Maori's horse and trap got loose in Station street this morning. The horse fell on the footpath in front of Nan man s restaurant and was promptly secured. Mr F. De Lisle (a pupil of Parcia) announces classes for singing and harmony. Under so competent a tutor the members of the classess should make rapid progress. Lieutenant Ridgway, of the Hastings Hi lies, left for Wanganui by the express this morning to undergo an examination qualifying him to retain his commission as second lieutenant. Mr Seddon and party arrived at Adelaide yesterday, and will be in Melbourne on Wednesday. They will reach Sydney on Friday and leave by the Waikare next day, reaching Wellington on Wednesday next week. The Acting-Premier has informed Mr Hosrg, M.U.E., tnat a Bill to assist dairy farmers, by means of advances repayable on the instalment system, in establishing butter and cheese factories and creameries has been prepared and will be introduced at an early stage on the assembling of Parliament. During Inspector Pender's visit to Feilding he was waited on by a Prohibitionist deputation, which urged him to take steps to ensure a conviction against the publicans in the disti'ict for the selling of liquor after hours, owing to the extreme prevalence of drunkenness. The Inspector promised to make enquiries into the matter. The estate of the late James Mackintosh, M.H.R., has been placed in the hands of the Deputy Official Assignee. The assets amount to £I3OO and secured liabilities £2379, showing a deficiency cf £1279. After preferential claims have been settled it appears unlikely, says a local journal that there will be anything for the unsecured creditors. The Clutha Leader says : —The death is announced, on Tuesday, at Woodside, West Taieri, of Francis M'Dairmid, aged ninety-six years. Mr M'Dairmid was born on July 21, ISOI, came to the colony in the Philip Laing in April, 1848, and came to Woodside, in July of the same year, where he has resided ever since. He selected Woodside, which he named at the foot of Maungatua, on account of its resemblance to Ben Lomond. A meeting of the Turakma and Parawanui Maoris, which took place recently at the latter place, was characterised by cross purposes. A Turakina Native had been appointed some time ago by the tribe to look through the Treaty of Waitangi for the purpose of ascertaining whether the treatment of Natives had according to treaty, with a view to formulating a charge against the Government to the authorities at Home. The Parawanui Natives, however, at the late meeting, strongly objected to the selection and put forward W. Ratana in. stead, and he was elected. His duty will be to study the Treaty of Waitangi, and to give his opinion on the faith with which its provisions have been kept by the Pakeha, to the Maori Parliament. The question wiir then be decided as to whether some one shrill be delegated to lay their grievances before the Home authorities, and if so, the selection will be made there and then.—Advocate.

The usual fortnightly meeting of the ! Druids will be held this evening. J Spring novelties have arrived at Kirk-j caldie and Stains'. Lord Ranfurly left Auckland for Wellington to-day. Messrs G. H. Vickers and Co. advertise particulars of goods to be sold on account of Mr Fowler on Friday next. A it a 1 live lord is at present in the Wanganui district engaged in the pleasurable pastime of bushwhacking. Adjutant Bishop lectures at the Salvation Army Barracks this evening on " My life in a Monastery.' Mr W. Y. Dennett, sells on the premises, Heretaunga road, to-morrow the furniture and household effects of Mrs Bogie, who is leaving for Western Australia. Dr Charlton, the victim of the Feilding shooting casr, has been taken to the Wellington hospital. His condition shows some improvement. Melbourne police have one tradition they do not boast about. They had " wanted " a man for over three months, and discovered when he got clean away that he had been cook at the police barracks all the time. The natives at Qtaki have quietened down somewhat after their lengthened korero, two shots having been tired by way of intimidation. The parties have now agreed to refer the subject of dispute to the next meeting of the Native Land Court, although it is considered doubtful whether they can allay their feelings so long, as the first Court is not expected to sit until about January next. There was some little excitement on the Otaki Railway station on the arrival of the train that Lord Ranfurly was travelling in. A number of natives, thinking that the aide-de-camp was the Governor, went up to him and heartily shook hands one after the other, while the Governor quietly stood close by and looked on amused at the incident.--Manawatu Farmer. Speaking of kleptomania as a real disease affecting wealthy people, an English Review hazards the theory that the rich inherit, along with large hoardings, the acquisitive instinct which prompted their grasping ancestors to amass possessions and this having no natural outlet takes the form of the insanity known as kleptomania. In other words it is the shady transactions of the father reflected in the lives of the children. The Libre Patrole describes two new military inventions recently submitted to the French army authorities. They consist of a number of instruments which enable an enemy to be re cognised anywhere within a distance of thirty miles, at the same time indicating his line of battle and other important details which are transmitted at once to the officer in command. The other convention is a contrivance which when fitted to a rifle or cannon directs the l-ange or aim with marvellous precision. At a recent Chinese banquet in Sydney, attended by about 50 Mongol storekeepers, says an exchange, some one asked a Chinaman how many of those present were opium smokers. "About half-a-dozen," was the reply ; " you wait till 11 o'clock and you see." At 11 o'clock precisely six of the guests arose, and, despite the endeavours of their companions to detain them at the festivity, they made for the door. The hour for the smoke had arrived, aud no power could keep the votaries of the drug from their midnight whiff. The uses of the banana are claimed to be many and various. The latest is both unique and important. According to the belief of Mr William C. Usery, M.D., of St. Louis, the banana is the very best food obtainable for typhoid-fever patients. In this disease, he explains, the lining membrane of the small intestines becomes intensely inflamed and gorged. Eventually it begins sloughing away in spots, leaving well-defined ulcers. At these places the intestinal walls become dangerously thin. A solid food, if taken into the stomach, is likely to produce perforation of the intestines, and dire results will follow. Therefore, solid food or foods containing a large amount of innutritious substances are dangerous, and are to be avoided. The banana, although it may be classed as a solid food, containing as it does 95 per cent, nutrition, does not possess sufficient waste .to irritate these sore spots. Nearly the whole amount taken into the stomach is absorbed, and gives the patient more strength than can he obtained from other food. 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. Do you want a good durable pair of Trousers '? Well leave your measure at Dodds'. Only 12s 6d. Address, Heretaunga street. —Advt. Eccles Cascara Liver Regulator is a safe and effective remedy for Stomach and Liver Complaints,, such as Indigestion, Headache, Constipation, Furred Tongue &c. It never fails to relieve or cui-e. 2s 6d per bottle. From A. Eccles' chemist, Napier and Hastings, and all leading country storekeepers.—Advt. Eccles' Quinine and Iron Tonic eontains 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. To the deaf aud 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, aud Indigestion by the same author, may be had from Mr Campbell, also free. —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.—Patterson & Co., Napier.—Advt.