LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hastings Standard, Issue 425, 14 September 1897, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Last evening Mr A. L. D. Eraser received a wire from a member of the Maori contingent stating that it was proposed to leave Greytown for Hastings on Thursday with Tamahu. Mr Fraser wired asking if it will be convenient for the contingent to arrive here by Friday's express, in which case arrangements will be made at once for a big welcome on that day. At a committee meeting of the Bowling Club last evening several new members were elected. It was decided to build a pavilion on the preaent green, and orders were given to commence work to-day. It is understood that at the tournament to commence 011 January 25tli next the local ground will be occupied for four days, three rinks playing each day.

"With reference to the application of the Hastings Borough Council that the H.B. County Council co-operate in providing a better* system c£ slaughter-house inspection by the erection of public abattoirs, the latter body has requested the Hastings Council to send a deputation to Napier to confer on the question. Mr G. P. Donnelly has recommended to the H.B. County Council that the Omaliu bridge be erected much higher than proposed. He contends that this would be necessary as the bridge would have to carry a much greater volume of water, as it is proposed by the natives and himself to erect an embankment, starting from the bridge at Broughton's, following the river on to the bridge at Omahu, and thence along the river bank to his (Mr Donnelly's) boundary. " I am sorry to say," writes the Figaro, " that on one of the London illumination nights the driver of a four-wheeler was rude to a Scotchman. The Scotchman and his wife, with the object of getting a better view of the illuminations, had sat on the roof of a cab, They were driven about for over four hours, and on reaching home, the Scotchman gave cabby 4d —2d, he declared, being the right charge for an article on the top of a cab. The stories that the Queen is almost blind are quite incorrect, says LieutenantColonel Pitt. " She took the liveliest interest in the Jubilee celebrations,'' he says, " and at Ald&rshot, at the review sat from 4 o'clock in the afternoon till h.ilfpast 6 while the troops marched past the carriage in steady and monotonous regularity, line after line. No light task this for one so old." An extraordinary case of self-destruc-tion was reported to the Port Adelaide police a few days ago- Edith Coleman, aged 17, living at Yatala, visited Adelaide that afternoon with her mother for the purpose of shopping. She desired to purchase some stuff for a blouse, but her mother refused to grant her consent. The girl thereupon flew into a passion, and. high words ensued. She walked away from her mother, and they took the same train home, but occupied different compartments, and walked home from the train apart. At seven o'clock in the evening another daughter told her mother that Editl* had taken poison. Her mother replied, " I'm gUd; let her die," not thinking the statement true; but subsequently she learned it was only too true. A doctor was sent for and an emetic administered, but the girl died in convulsions three hours later, It has transpired that ou the way ham 3 she bought strychnine and swallowed a quantity of it, 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 cure. 2s 6d per bottle. From A- Ecclks' chemists Napier and Hastings, and all leading country storekeepers.—Advt ( Do you want a good durable pair of Trousers ? Well leave your measure at Dodds'. Only 12s 6d. Address, HeretpSDgp street.—Adyt.

The Druids meet to-night. A contractor under the Masterton Borough Council has written to say that under his contract he can only make tenpence, and at the most five shillings per day. According to a ea«e recently decided in the Luton County Court, England, an innkeeper is responsible for the safe keeping of the bicycle of his guest though no special charge has been made for taking care of it. A little boy, son of Mrs Williams of Heretaunga street, was yesterday bitten on the leg by a dog. The limb was so lacerated that Br Tosswill who attended him found it necessary to stitch the wound and the little fellow appears better to-day. The dog was destroyed. A remarkable rescue was reported from Vienna. A man of 88 years of age jumped fro in a parapet six feet high into the river near Strakonitz, in Bohemia, to save a schoolboy whom he saw being carried away by the current. He brought him to the bank and sank back exhausted, but was himself saved by a girl of 18, who happened to be passing.

A very interesting case has been treated within the past few days in the Dunedin Hospital. A child who experienced a difficulty in her breathing was brought in from the country. The trouble was caused by something which the patient had swallowed, thought by the mother to be a, piece of hard potato picked up by the child while playing about on the floor. Tracheotomy was performed, with the result that part of a crayfish claw, from lin. to Kin. long, was extracted from the air passage, in which it had lodged. Fortunately, as it happened, the claw was hollow, and the consequence was that the child was able to breathe through it, otherwise the case would have terminated fatally. The Otago Daily Times says that the child has since the operation made a capital recovery.

A Sunday school excursion train, containing a party numbering 300, became derailed recently in England, and a collision occured, the res\ilt being thaklO persons were killed and 21 injured. The heroism of many of the wounded passengers won the admiration of their rescuers. A girl lying beneath a heavy piece of iron I am all right. I have only a broken leg." A little boy, .whose arm was broken, was very anxious that his mother should not think he was much injured. After his arm had been set, be knelt on the sofa and repeated the Lord's Prayer. One of those who rendered first aid to the wounded says, " They all wanted to know how such and such a person was getting on." The Queen's Bench in England is reported by the London papers of July 30th to have decided the day before that a constable who had forcibly stopped a cyclist who was not carrying a light had committed an assault. The cyclist had paid no attention to an order to stop, and the officer had accordingly got hold of the machine and thrown him to the ground. The rural Justices, acting on many previous decisions of their order on the point, had held that the arrest was justified, and had dismissed the cyclist's complaint against the constable. They are now required to entertain it, and to convict. The constable had no power to stop a person on the highway for "an offence punishable on summary conviction." Therefore, as the constable had not statutory authority, there was an assault, for which a summons could be taken out.

Thus the Auckland Herald :—Happily for us Parliament will on its assembly find the country in a prosperous condition. Trade is sound and fairly prosperous, the country is being steadily developed in all its resources ; the revenue has been increasing in all its brandies ; the railway traffic has been growing in volume and in profits; mining is showing steady and rapid development the output of gold in our own provincial district for the month past has exceeded that of any other month for twenty years; and as the extensive mining plant now placed on the goldfields is got into working order that rapid increase of production, from the time onward, will be even more marked and striking. Altogether the new Parliament will enter on practical business under most favorable auspicies, and with prudent legislation much prosperity and progress may with considerable confidence be anticipated,

They are trying the " Children's Curfew Bell" in many places in America, after the hour of which it is illegal for young people under a certain age to bo «ut in the streets at r,ll. Jiev. li. P. Stevens writes, in the Christian llegister, " there are about 200 cities and towns where it has been adopted. I know personally of the recent agitation of this matter in lowa, where public sentiment has been calling for some sucli action, and where practical experience has fully justified its adoption as a great moral and social restraint from juvenile depravity. I was instrumental two years ago in getting such an ordinance passed in Perry, a small city of four thousand people ; and the reports as to its value and efficiency are unanimous, both from parents and city officials. This testimony could doubtless be duplicated by that of each of the forty cities and villages in lowa which now have the curfew law in operation. It is endorsed by the chiefs of police in all of them, without exception. The last city to join in this movement is Des Moines, the capital,—a city of one hundred thousand people,—where it was passed unanimously, with the hearty endorsement of the mayor. 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 iu spreading the news ot 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 free.—Advt Eccles' Quinine and Iron Tonic eon* tains Quinine and Iron in a high state of purity, and is the most agreeablestrengthening, 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 —Axjvt.

Eccx.es' Corx Paint quickly removes either bard or soft corns. Only a few applications necessary. In bottles Is 6d, from A. Eccles, chemist, Napier and Hastings.—Advt. A cough is only worth eighteen-pencs, for the simple reason that if you invest that sum in a bottle of Woods' Great Peppermint Cure for coughs and colds, you can get rid of it straight away—it never fails—every grocer and chemist in the town keeps it. Wholesale agents— All merchants and drug firms.—Advt,