LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hastings Standard, Issue 468, 4 November 1897, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The monthly meeting of the Borough Council takes place this evening. Miss Luckie will le glad to receive gifts' of fruit, flowers and vegetables, for the approaching Floral Fete, on the race course. Mr W. Y. Demiet submits to auction tomorrow at 11a.m. on tl:a premises, Warren street, the whole furniture of Mrs Susan Evans, boarding-house keeper.

Entries for the Floral Fete closes to morrow with Mr S. I'attison.

An apprentice to the dressmaking is advertised for.

Bishop Williams, who arrived from Home by the Rimutaki yesterday, will be a passenger by the express this evening. M.ss Taylor, milliner, dress, and mantlemaker, announces in another column that she has started business in Central Buildings and solicits a fair share of patronage.

Our readers are reminded that Mr DeLisle's concert takes place at the Princess Theatre to-night. The revised programme appears in our advertisement columns. Mr DeLisle should get a full house.

Constable Tarrant, who replaced Constable O'Brien here some few week since, is under orders to proceed to Whakatane, Bay of Plenty, to take charge of the station there. Constable Tarrant during his short stay here has proved himself an enegetic, efficient, and obliging officer whose loss will be felt in Hastings. Mr Tarrant is to be congratulated on his promotion.

A bowling match between the treasurer's and secretary's teams was pla,yed on the club green yesterday with a win for the treasurer by one point. The following

are the scores : —Treasurer's Xo. 1 rink : J. Reynolds, D. M'Lood, J. MTlroy and Land (skip.)' 22; No. 2 rink: King, Wright, Newman, and Haszard (skip.) 21. Secretary's No. 1 rink : O'Reilly, Roach Vickers, and Clark (skip) 1(3 ; No 2 rink: Darvall, Tyerman, Thompson, and Eliis (skip.), 26.' The express lust night was three quarters of an hour late, having been stuck up in the M.inawatu (rorgc by a slip from the hill side caused by the heavy rains which have been so prevalent m that district during the last few days. While the train was waiting some of the passengers were in mortal dread of an avalanche sending the whole train into the liver, as the rain was pouring down as if the sluice gates of Heaven were opened. Luckily no such catastrophe occurred. In support of his contention that th e Union Steam Ship Conlpanv was the largest employer of labour in Wellington, Mr W. A. K onnedv, local manager, quoted some interesting figures to the Conciliation Board. The expenditure on labour at Wellington for the yer.r ending 80thSeptember, 1897, was : —On the company's repairing yard, £'22,219 ; I a idling of c rj ). ,£14,417 —a total of £'B6,6ot>. or an average of over £7OO per week. At times as many as 252 men were at work in the Wellington vard

A resident of the Wairarnpa, who was leaving the district some little time back, requested a well-known auctioneer to call round and express an idea as to the value of the furniture and effects, presumably in view of an auction sale. The man of " third and last times" spent the .main part of the day with the "canny Scotchman and his guM wife" in explaining the sale prices of nearly every article in the house and when asked abont the sale, the auctioneer was thunderstruck with the reply that " they merely wanted to tind out his prices with a view to selling the articles among their friends." And they did. With a long list headed " Mr 's prices," the business couple had little difficulty in clearing out their house at a remunerative figure.—Wairarapa Standard.

The anniversary tea in connection with the Wesieyan Church, Hastings, held in the Protestant Hall last evening, was a conspicuous success from all standpoints. Mr S. Woodfield, who occupied the chair at the public meeting in the church read an apology from Bev. Mr Morrison for his unavoidable absence. The meeting opened with prayer and during the programme a strong choir rendered several anthems. Miss Collinge contributed a solo ".Jerusalem." and Mr Hudson rendered " The destruction of Sennacherib," a composition of the llev. W. B. Marten, most creditably. Mr Maekay sang "He wipes the tear" add Mrs Price also contributed a vocal item. Addresses were delivered by Rev. Mr Marten, Fnsign Aitkenhead and Rev. W. A. Beck.

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