LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hastings Standard, Issue 453, 18 October 1897, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Lord Banfurly is to visit the Palmerston North Show on Wednesday, 17th November.

The Maori Parliament at Papawai will be sitting for another month at least, according to the Wairarapa Standard. By Amberite's win in the Caulfield Cnp on Saturday Messrs Allen and M'Leod of the Wellington telegraph office divide £6500 through Tatter sail. The opening of the Hastings bowling season will take place on Wednesday afternoon, when several Napier visitors will attend.

Brigadier-General Westmaeott, who is taking a distinguished partin the expedition against the tribesmen on the Indian frontier is a brother of Mr Herbert Westmaeott, of Christchurch. The Wireless Telegraph and Signal Company has applied for a New Zealand patent for Marconi's " improvements in transmitting electrical impulses and signals and in apparatus therefor. " The Hon. W. T. .Jennings has (says the Auckland Star) received notification from the next-of-kin agents requesting him to toward full particulars of his parentage, &c., in connection with the great Jennings estates in Chancery, in which an enormous sum is unclaimed. The money is lying to the credit of descendants of a certain Jennings who died in the last century. On the trip of the Mataura from London to Wellington the vessel had to call at Albany for coal. Prior to that cases of German measles and typhoid fever broke out on board, but the patients are now convalescent. This outbreak was followed by a case of scarletfever, but as the patient, a child, was isolated and almost convalescent, the health officer passed the vessel this morning, considering there was no necessity to enforce the quarantine regulations.

The members of the I3isle3' rifle team and the remaining members of the New Zealand mounted contingent arrived in Wellington by the Mataura yesterday morning. Mr Bell, the Mayor, congratulated them upon the way they had upheld the honor of the colony, and at his call they received three hearty cheers from the crowd assembled 011 the wharf. Major Soinerville bricily replied on behalf of the team. Private Hawthorne, Wellington City Eirles, was singled out for an especially hearty welcome, being shouldered high off the steamer and taken to a carriage, which was dragged by a number of his comrades in the company. The City Baud also serenaded him to his home.

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