LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hastings Standard, Issue 484, 24 November 1897, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Rev. James Blackie, for the past ten year? Presbyterian minister at Lumsden, Otago, died last evening. He leaves a wife and two children. The winner of the Maiden Hack Bace at Wellington to-day is named after our genial townsman, Jim Campbell. We hope Jim had a couple of tickets on the horse. Mr A. Graham, who has been Kailway statiomnaster at Napier for a number of years, will be entertained by the officers of the department at a social gathering this evening prior to his departure for Balclutha. We are sorry to learn that our Omahu correspondent and general contributor, whose articles have always contained so much local interesting matter in connecwith the district he so faithfully represents, has been prostrated for a time suffering from a severe and painful throat affection. Last Sunday his condition looked so critical that his friends called in the aid of Dr. Nairn, who performed a skilful and delicate operation on the part affected, which at once had the desired effect. We along with his many friends are pleased to learn that he is slowly recovering, and Lopes to be about shortly,

Boy wanted for Messrs Hannah and Go's, boot shop. At Auckland, Mrs Lynskey, wife of a lumper is missing. She had complained of pains in her he:\d. The police are searching. In the Divorce Court at Christ-church yesterday in rc Mary I'll a/bo Williams, petitioner for disolution of her marriage with Alister N. Williams, Judge Denniston granted a rule nisi with costs. A new idea has been instituted on board the Union t ompany's s.s. Mararoa. In place of the old-time bells and gongs sounded at meal times and prior to leaving port, a bugle call is blown by a neatlyattired trumpeter. The eldest daughter of the great William Thompson, the Maori king-maker, died at Waharoa last week. The deceased was well known, having taken part in the fight at Rangiriri, where she loaded the rities for the defenders of the pah. A lodger in Bodlev's private hotel, Wellington, was nearly suffocated the other night. He went to sleep with his pipe alight, and some of the tobacca falling out set fire to the bedclothes. The night porter rescued him in the nick of time.

Last Wednesday a terrific whirlwind prssed over Puniho, near Opunake. lifting a two-roomed cottage occupied by four Maoris bodily off its piles, and carrying the roof ten chains away. The occupants escaped injury, but the chimney in falling killed a dog which was on the premises. A private departmental inquiry into the circumstances of the escape and death of Meredith, an inmate of the Avondale lunatic asylum, who got away from the institution recently and hanged himself, commenced at the asylum last evening, being conducted by Mr Thco. Cooper. Mr George Allen, one of the oldest residents in Wellington, remembers meeting a party of whalers in 1841 who had* been wrecked at Cape Pallisor, and thinks the carronade recently found there probably belonged to their vessel. Whalers in those days were in the habit of cairying guns. Ellen Terry, it is said, makes on an average £l5O a week; Julia Neilson, £100; Ada Kehan, £180; Sarah Bernhardt, £BOO ; Elconora Duse, £200: Mesdames Melba and Calve as much as £3OO per night; Yvette Guilbert, £BOO per week; Lilian Russell, £o00; Olga Nether sole, £300; Madame Patti, £BOO per night; Annah Held, £l5O per week. Mr Patullo, of Dunedin made a decided hit in responding to the toast of the judges at the Paluierston Show dinner. Referring to the fact that two of the sheep he judged were named John M'Kenzie and Richard Seddon, he said he could claim to have " pulled the leg" of the Right Honourable Richard Seddon, and tweaked the nose of the Honourable John M'Kenzie, a unique record in the historv of the colony.

The fortnightly meeting of the Carlton Lodge of Druids was held last night. There was a good muster from Napier and elsewhere. A rehearsal of open installation, which takes place on the 7th of December, was held. Nominations for the different offices were received, and were more numerous than was expected. The lodge although comparatively young is progressing in a most satisfactory manner thanks in a great measure to the energy displayed by its secretary, Mr J, Ilodd. A meeting of the Brass Band Contest Committee in connection with the forthcoming band contest to be held in Napier on the 25th -January, 1898, was held in the Masonic Hotel, Napier, last evening. The chairman stated that the committee had every reason to feel gratified with the large number of entries that had been received, eleven bands having entered for the contest, seven for the marching competition, and 67 competitors for the solos. It is estimated that about 300 bandsmen will be present at the contest. The following are the entries for the marching competition : Wellington Garrison Band, Oamaru Garrison Band, Napier Garrison Band, Feilding City Band, Woodville Brass Band, Wanganui Garrison Band, Canterbury Engineers' Band. Contest : Wellington Garrison Band, Wanganui Garrison Band, Oamaru Garrison Band, Napier Garrison Band, Woodville Brass Band, Fielding City Band, Canterbury Engineers' Band, Palmerston North Band, Jupp's Private Band (Wellington), Napier City Band, Waihi Brass Band. Dodds has the very latest patterns in Scotch and English Tweeds. For firstclass cut and fit Dodds is unrivalled. — Advt.

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