LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hastings Standard, Issue 464, 30 October 1897, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

An anniversary tea in connection with the Wesley an Church will be held in the Protestant Hall on Wednesday evening next.

Three settlers atMakara, near Wellington, were fined £'2o, £lO and £8 respectively for failing to keep down rabbits on their properties. The cases are said to be the first of that kind heard in the district for >io years.

A sixteen-rooiued house at Johnsonville, owned by E. Petherick, Wellington, and occupied by Ballinder, a butcher, was de strayed by fire yesterday. The house, which was valued at .£BOO, was insured in the National office for £250, and the furniture in the Alliance for ,£-50.

The state of Sir George Grey's health was very critical on September 16, says the London correspondent of the Sydney Morning Herald. He was ill for a time in the spring, and ever since has been losing strength. Now he is so weak that his friends are keenly anxious about him from day to day. Sir George is in his 86th Year.

A wire from Hokitika says that Margaret Carson, charged with causing the death of the infant child of her daughter, has been remanded til! the 4th prox. She confessed to having accident!}' smothered the infant when taking it home and to having buried the body on the river bank. The police asked for the remand to enable the body to be recovered. The attention of our readers is specially drawn to the railway time-table which is published in another column, and which conies into force oil Monday. IJy it it. will be seen that among other alterations the express for the south leaves here at 11.1 a.m. instead of 11.30 a.m. as formerly, and arrives here from the south at 5.15 p.m. instead of 5.2 p.m. We would advise our subscribers to clip the table out and paste it up in some prominent place until they get accustomed to the alteration of hours.

The doom of the dairymaid is pronounced and the skilled fingers will presently have to give way in milking, as in other channels of industry, to mechanical science. The mechanical milker is not unknown, but a Christchurch inventor, Mr Cunnington, lias produced a new pulsator apparatus for milking purposes, which it is claimed embraces the merits of simplicity, ease in working, naturalness, cleanliness efficiency and cheapness all in one. Special holiday excursion tickets will be issued between all stations on the NapierTuranaki section on the 6th, Bth, and 9th of November in connection with the Prince of Wales Birthday and the Canterbury Show and races. Excursion tickets to Wellington will he issued from the sth to 9th November. These tickets are available for return up to and including 23rd November. Special tickets are also issued for the Floral Fete at Hastings and the Napier Town and Suburban races. The Floral Fete promises to boom. In another place will be found the conditions of entry and a list of articles for competition, including decorated vehicles, art and horticulture, needlework, sweetmeats and cookery. The conditions attached to the baby show and sports will appear in a future issue. As will be seen by reference to the advertisement a substantial increase in the prizes in the Decorated Vehicle Class have been made. This should bet he means of considerably increasing the number of entries and adding to the attractiveness of the exhibition. As it is confidently expected further donations towards prize-money will be received, it is probable that still further inducements will be offered to intending exhibitors. Special train arrangements in connection with the fete are announced elsewhere.

Some very warm remarks were given vent to at the Acclimatisation Conference at Wellington in reference to the wholesale slaughter of birds which were supposed to be protected throughout the colony. Mr O'Regan, M.H.R., alluded to the depredations of people representing foreign societies —curiosity hunters who shot everything they came across that they deemed good enough to send Home. He instanced the native grebe, which had in a district he knew of —Lake Rotoiti, in the South Island—entirely disappeared. One foreign individual witha swivel gun had destroyed every bird there. The destruction of prized birds by foul means in this fashion should be pptirely prohibitory. People who represent foreign museums ought to be licensed by acclimatisation societies. Mr G. G. Stead said in the course of an interview with a Chistchurch Press representative: "It was impossible to get an ordinary seat in the theatre in London under 7s 6d : and even then it was necessary to apply for it several days beforehand, so great was the demand on the part of the public. The astonishing |bing was where all the money csme from, for there were hundreds of thousands of people continually spending large sums in nothing but amusements. In fact I have come back to New Zealand with the impression that we are here the most economical and careful people in the world, and the idea of our being extravagant, with which I departdd from these shores, has almost vanished. At raca meetings thousands and thousands of people weje readv to pay a guinea a day for the stand merely for the sake of saying they had been to si]ch and such a meeting. Many of them never saw a race at all. For a box at Epsom on Derby Day, fca hgld sis persons, Mr W. R. Wilson and I had tQ pay 40 guineas. For this we had less accommodation than you can get in the colonies for half a crown a head.'' Dodds has the very latest patterns in Scotch and English Tweeds. For first, class cut and fit Dodds is unrivalled,— &DYf,

Captain Simeon Fraser died at Waitara last night.

Competitions for the Sports and for the Baby Show in connection with the Floral Fete will be advertised nest week. ;:;

In the House last night the Hon. John M'Xenzie defied any member to prove that the Government had ever tried to influence any Magistrate in the colony.

A cabdriver named Henry Mali on was committed lor trial at Auckland yesterday 011 a charge of the theft of ,£6 from a fare who was under the influence of drink.

A man who was arrested recently at Edinburgh for burglary, admitted that he had spent 20 years of his life in prison, but added be " had never yet broken the Lord's Day." The Gardiner Bros.' Musical Comedy Company appear at the Princess Theatre on Monday night. This company is spoken off in the highest terms by the press and the programme presented by them is both refined and entertaing.

Probably the first diamond wedding ever celebrated in "Westport took place there last week, when Mr and Mrs Morgan entertained their friends. They were married in ISB7, soon after the Queen's accession.

At the French Pass recently a man named Smiler went out in a small boat, which became unmanageable, and drifted about for several days before being picked up, with its occupant in a terrible exhausted state.

The body of a man in an advanced state of decomposition was found between Swanston and Henderson, Auckland. A razor was alongside him and his throat was cut. He is believed to have been a tramp as no one is missing from the locality. At Deep Creek, Kotukn, near Greymouth on the Midland railway, Jackson's line, two men found five spring of petroleum- Tliey have obtained protection over four acres of land which they applied for. Samples are being sent to Mr Skey, Wellington, for analysis.

The costliest cornet ever manufactured was made to the order of the late Czar of Russia, and is of sterling silver richly engraven with various devices among which the arms of the Imperial house of Romanoff figure conspicuously. The whole of the ornamentation is of beaten gold filigree work, and the " bell " of the instrument- is thickly encrusted with rubies and em-ir.-.UU. Its iv.'.t- value is a triile over 2000gs. The petroleum bore (No. 1) at Moturoa, New Plymouth, lias reached a depth of 14G5ft. A new driller from Australia is expected to arrive within the nest fortnight, and then double shifts will be renewed. No. 3 bore, which was left cased to the bottom, continues to run water mixed with a little oil, and the company saves the latter at the rate of about 30 gallons per week. It is hoped to strike the same supply of oil m the last bore put down as in No. 3 bore. The company has ordered a new drilling engine of most improved pattern from the Oil Wells Supply Company at Bradford, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. This is intended to be used in connection with boring inland. Argument in the case of Loughnan v. Dalgetv and Co., was commenced in the Appeal' Court, Wellington, yesterday. This is an appeal from the decision of Judge Edwards in an action heard at Napier. Appellant and respondent company formed two of a partnership which owned a station property in Hawke's Bay. The partnership sold their property to W. Nelson in 1888. Appellant then became manager of the property for Nelson. In 1891 a new arrangement was made between appellant and Nelson, ander which an increased sum was to be paid by Nelson. Respondents contend that the partnership are entitled to the benefit of the increases. Appellant asserts, and is supported by Nelson, that the additional sum was intended as compensation to appellant personally for cancellation of the agreement as to managership owing to Nelson deciding not to hold the property. Judge Edwards gave judgment for respondents in the action which they brought against appellants in connection with the amount. Mr Bell and Mr Williams are appearing for the appellant and Mr Carlile and Mr Humphries for the respondents. Argument will be resumed on Monday.

The Sydney morning Herald states : li The steamer Omi Maru, from HongKong, brought an account of a fearful scene at sea on board the American ship Belle of Bath, which was bound from New York to Hongkong with a cargo of kerosene oil. On the voyage the ship sprang a leak. W inle trying to lie p her afloat the cry of "Fire!'" rang through the ship. The chief officer detected little clouds of smoke coming from the forecastle, and quickly sounded the alarm. Captain Curtis, who was below snatching a few minutes' sleep, sprang on deck and ordered the hatches to bo closed down. In a few minutes dense smoke poured out of the forecastle, accompanied by flames. The fire was soon shooting high into the air, and fanned by a breeze, was threatening the ship. At once the captain realised that his vessel was doomed, aud that to tight the lire would be useless and dangerous. Boats were hastily provisioned, and the order was given by the captain to lower them at once. With marvellous rapidity the flames spread all over the ship, and the men were forced to make haste in getting away. The boats dropped away to leeward, and the men put out the oars and rowed away to a safe distance. By this time the ship was a blazing furnace. The flames had reached the oil and burst out from every part of the vessel. When the flames had eaten their way Into the hold a tremendous explosion was heard. The deck of the ship flew up, the sides burst, and a great body of smoke and flame filled the air. It took perhaps half an hour to finish this work. The crew landed at Barbadoes after sailing 120 miles, and were sent back to New York by steamer." Dr Pascall's Pills cure Indigestion, Heartburn, Costiveness, Headache, Furred Tongue, Wind, and all symptoms arising from a disordered state of the liver, stomach, or kidneys. They cleanse the bow-els, and act like a charm in removing all impurities from the blood, toning and refreshing the r-hole system. Is 6d and 2s 6d per box. Agent—A. Eccles —Advt.

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All Australian parrot is advertised as lost.

Mr A. Eliingham, the popular trainer, took possession of the Stortford Lodge Hotel to-day. Mr Eliingham is an old and well-known resident of this district and we, with many of his friends, wish him every success in his new sphere of life.

Councillor Solomon is so struck with the unsatisfactory position of the Dunediu Corporation finances that ho intends to move before the election of Mayor that, no matter who should be elected, the salary of £4OO at present attacWL lo the office should be materially redggecb s probably to one-hnlf.

Some Taranaki people are proposing to form a company with a capital of £IOOO, half called up, for the purpose of sending Mr E. M. Smith to England again in connection with the ironsand industry scheme. Subscribers will receive shares in any company that may be promoted. At Masterton, Mr Foster Wellington, was about to bathe his face with hot water to reduce a swelling, the other morning when he accidentally jerked boiling water over his face. He was scalded so badly that the skin peeled off. Luckily his eyes were not injured.

The Fortrose correspondent of an Otago paperr states that there is any amount of tuberculosis in the starved cattle in that district that he saw lately round about Fortrose township some of last season's calves that were simply a handful of vermin, ringworm, bones, and hair—not to mention scour.

The Government Stock Inspector, on "a recent visit to the country lying between Opunake and Pungareliu (Taranaki), condemned a large number of cattle found to be suffering from tuberculosis. The Inspector, remarks the Taranaki Herald, has gone still further to prove the unwelcome fact that the disease is all too prevalent. It is stated that as many as '26 cattle in one day have been ordered to be destroyed during the past few waeks owing to their having been affected with tuberculosis.

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Eccles' Quinine and Iron Tonic contains Quinine 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 couutry stores —Advt.