LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hastings Standard, Issue 441, 2 October 1897, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Train arrangements for Monday and Tuesday are advertised elsewhere. Constable Tarrant took up his duties in Hastings yesterday. A bicycle exhibition of the qualities of the Red Bird will be given at Mr W. Y. Dennett's auction rooms to-niglit. As the two men arrested yesterday and remanded to Monday were unable to obtain bail they were taken to the Napier Gaol. We have received a very fine collection of tulips from Mr G. H. Tickers, grown in Hastings. The coloring is very attractive, and the flowers well in advance of anything seen here so far. Mr F. Harrison, who represents the tenth volume of the New Zealand Stud Book, is now booking orders for this valuable work and may be interviewed at the Hawke's Bay and Napier Park Eace meetings. The bore at the Moturoa works, New Plymouth, is down a depth of over 1300 ft, and oil is expected to be struck any day, but it is thought a depth of 2000 ft will have to be touched before it can be tapped in payable quantity. The Hawke's Bay and East Coast Railway League is asking the support of Hastings and district in promoting the construction of a light line railway through to Gisborne. The petition to Parliament to take into consideration this important matter is being very largely signed here. The secretary of the League is arranging for a tent at the Show where signatures may be left and subscriptions noted. Mr G. H. Swan, Mayor of Napier is chairman of the League and he is well supported by an energetic committee. It is understood that whichever way the line goes Hastings will be connected. Somehow or other the impression prevails that this town is to be left in the cold; but it is pretty certain that the result of the trial survey will bring Hastings on to the line. Mr W. J. Martin, with Mrs Martin and child leave London by the Oratava on their return voyage on the 29th of this month. At last advice (August 19th) Mrs Martin was well but the little girl was recovering from the whooping cough. On the evergreen subject of weather Mr Martin writes " The English climate i? very trying. English people say_they have had a glorious summer ; I think it has been horrid. Even in August the sky is seldom clear, and it rains almost every day. As the people know of no other climate I am content to let them rest secure in their own ideas of what a decent climate is. The English roads are perfect and must be a source of great joy to cyclists, being as good as the most perfect'cvele track. I have not yet procured a bike, bat I}o{>6 to do so befw Jiving."

A gig is advertised for sale cheap. Messrs R. Hannah and Co. advertise a grand display of new goods including some " cheap boxes." The Clutha Presbytery has decided to call the attention of the Synod to the growing evil of Sunday trains". A most amusing mechanical novelty in the shape of a scene from Frog Land is on view in Mr Eceles' window. A Londoner experienced in petroleum working is at present inspecting properties about New Plymouth where oil is known to exist. A burglary was committed at the Fernhill Hotel last night. Mrs Ramsay aud the occupants were aroused b,y a noise and the miscreants were surprised in the act. They however escaped. The police being communicated with Constables Butler and O'Brien went out to make enquiries, and there is every likelihood of arrests being made. As will be seen by an advertisement in another column Mr H. H. Murdoch has returned from Napier where he has been very successful in pushing the typewriter with the tongue-tangling name, having got it adoped by the Herald and by several firms already provided with Yosts aud other expensive machines. A boy aged about four years of age was picked up on the flat this morning at 8 o'clock. As the child had evidently lost himself Mr Stack took him to the police station. Constable Smith on making enquries found the child's name was Willie Curry, who came from Woodville last night on a visit to Mr Myhill of this town. The child had wandered off from the house. His anxious friends were pleased to see him back. A representative of the Standard was recently invited to inspect Mr F. G. Moore's "Book Arcade at Paliiatua and he states that a finer selection of books, journals, and general stationery, could not be found in any inland town in the colony. Perhaps no town in the colony has made more rapid strides than Paliiatua during the past 10 years, and, with its onward march, Mr Moore's establishment has been in the van. Persons requiring a rare literary work will not fail to be supplied at Moore's Book Arcade. The weather promises to be on its best behavior for the races, and already there are signs of a busy week for Hastings. Accommodation at the hotels has been bespoke for some time, but with the large number of boarding-houses in the town country people may rely on ot least getting shake-downs. Already numbers of visitors have put in an appearance, and by Show day there should be a record attendance. A marked improvement has been made in both grand-stands on the racecourse in anticipation of large attendances, and, if the weather acts, kindly for the next six days Hastings should have good cause to remember the October carnival week.

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