LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hastings Standard, Issue 444, 6 October 1897, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A lady's kid boot is advertised as lost,

It is understood that the Government has purchased the Rangiatea estate, between Te Aroha and Momnsville. The annual gymnastic competition will be held in the Heretaunga School to-mor-row (Thursday) at 280 p.m. The public are invited to be present. Colonel New all will hold his usual inspection of the Hastings Volunteers tomorrow evening, and will take a squad for volley firing on Friday morning. Several volunteers will present themselves for examination for N.C.0.-ships. The southern train after the races last evening was crowded, though numbers ire remaniing in town for the Show. The almost total absence of Napier people from the J.C. meeting was freely commented upon here. The members of the Band mainly represented the breakwater city. About 11 o'clock this morning Havelock was visited by heavy rain accompanied by hail, which lasted for nearly an hour. The drains for the time being were choked owing to the severity of the downpour, but the curious thing is that no rain fell at this side of the butter factory. A school teacher named Florence G. Roberts, for jumping on a Government train while it was in motion, was fined 10s and cGfits Is, by Mr Kenny at the Wellington Magistrate's Cpnrt on Monday morning. It appeared from the evidence that had it not been for the promptitude of a young man named Pyke, Miss Roberts would probably have fallen on to the rails and been cut to pieces.

A horse and trap driven by Mrs A. Lean took fright in Heretaunga street near the railway crossing this morning and the animal bolted. The trap came in collision with a verandah post outside Thopson's shop and tore the post away. Mrs Lean was thrown out and narrowly escaped having the wheel run over her head. However we are glad to say the lady escaped without a scratch and was able to walk awav. A boy who was also in the vehicle jumped out and came off unharmed. The horse was uninjured afid the trap but slightly damaged. Ec'cles Cascara Liver Kegulatoe is a safe and effective remedy for Stomach and Liver Complaints,, such &3 Indigestion, Headache, Constipation, Furred Tongue &c. It never fails to relieve or cure. 2s 6d per bottle. From A. Eccles' chemists Napier and Hastings, and all leading country storekeepers.—Advt. breathes therea man with soul so dead Who nevei to himself hath said : The man who would alleviate The ills which by an evil fate. Poor mortals must expect to share Deserves a crown of jewels rare ? If, such there should be let all hope that he JJbv a frame-shaking cqu o 'li just enuure Till"he hifa to confess", it was cured by no less Than Woods' Great Peppermint Cure.— &DYI.

The Mariposa with the 'Frisco mail arrived at Auckland this afternoon. A man named Ralph Anderson, was fined £l9 13s at Christchureli to-day for having uncustomed goods in his possesion. The warder of the Old Men's Home at Wanganui was to-day fined 20s and costs 40s for assaulting one of the inmates. At the inquest into the railway accident at Auckland to-dav a witness named Parking said he told the driver of the bus that the train was coming, but he drove on. The Bru nner disaster cases, 22 in number, claims by relatives of the men killed, opened at the Suereme Court at Wellington this morning. At the S.M. Court to-day befoi-e Justices Ellis and Arnott, William Thomas, charged with a breach of the peace and threatening behavior, pieaded guilty, and was fined 20s and costs 7s. John Longlands, charged with using obscene language in a public place, was convicted, and sentenced to 14 days' imprisonment with hard labor in Napier gaol. North Otago Times says that in the Oamaru district there is a farmer, and a good farmer too, who previous to 1895 had battled against hope and the fates, and was in the end brought to that condition which, for want of a shorter word, maybe called impecunious. Hope failed him, but he was induced in 1895 to put in a good breadth of wheat, and reaped a good crop find his reward at one mid the same time, for the wheat realised over 4s a bushel. Last season, inspired with the hope that success implants in the human breast, he ploughed and sowed extensively, and again he reaped—this time 50 bushels to the acre—and his reward came in the shape of about 4s 2d a bushel. To-day he is £'3ooo better off than be was two years ago, and he says, "Farming pays !"