LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hastings Standard, Issue 486, 26 November 1897, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Our special reporter wires from Wellington : "I hear that a number of J. G. Ward's friends in the South have purchased for him the whole of his private estate which includes his large warehouses and stores at Invercaagill, Gore, and the Bluff."

His Excellency the Governor proposes to spend a large part of the earlier half of next year at Dunedin (says the Post), should a residence be fonnd of sufficient accommodation for the transfer of his whole Government House staff. Messrs Nelson Bros, received the following cable from London this morning: " Further fall in the frozen meat market ii? all qualities. To-day's quotations are : Best Canterbury mutton, 3d ; best Southland and IJuncdin, 2}d and 2Jd ; Napier and North Island, 2;|d.

Neighbors' quarrels are fruitful of much profit to the lawyers and of much weariness of spirit to everyone else. The time of the S.M. Court for the last two days was occupied with cases which were the outcome of these paltry squabbles; in both instances the cases were dismissed, which should discourage nagging neighbors from dragging each other to Court. In the S.M. Court this morning the language necessary to be used by witnesses in describing the expressions of the parties to a law suit was simply abominable and shocking to seasoned ears. It is a. shame that girls of 16 or 17 years should be permitted to sit and listen unblushingly throughout the case.

Will the boy—bearing the name of Wall—call at our office and remove the stone that he deliberately heaved in at the front door during the dinner hour as he was proceeding to school to-day. We promise him no harm, but the office boy has been sharpening his teeth all the afternoon and is now anxious to give the aforesaid schoolboy hydrophobia. We would like to be that boy's teacher at school this afternoon—he would stand up to his meals for the next fortnight. At lialclutha yesterday the charge of sly grog selling against Margaret Heney was dismissed, Mr Hawkins, S.M., holding that neither a sale nor anything in the nature of a sale took place. It was a case of suspicion, but there was not sufficient proof of sale. A charge of exposing liquor for sale was adjourned till December Bth.

Mr W. Russell, an old Victorian and New Zealand pioneer, died yesterday morning at Sydenham, at the age of 77 years. He brought the first cargo of horses from Melbourne to Otago in the steamship Ouieo, commanded by Captain M'Lcan. Mr Russell drove the first dray which crossed the Port hills, and also the first team on the West Coast road.

The police are in hot pursuit of an amorous gentleman—fomerly of the Spit —for the purpose of compelling him to make provision for certain distinctly obvious contingencies. The erring footsteps of more than one member of the weaker sex were guided along primrose paths by this semi-nautical Don Juan, the story of whose audacity in intrigue, and of whose coolness in the hour of danger will, if ever published, be a decidedly interesting narrative. The flight of the gay deceiver has, however, been marked by that thoroughness which characterised him in other affairs, and it is problematical whether his apprehension will be effected.—Herald.

Even the prosaic meetings of pu'dic bodies yield their bits of romance to local history sometimes, says the "i 5.7,. Times. The other day a man who advei-tised for a wife received a favorable answer from a lonely damsel, and accordingly set out to meet her and have the marriage at once. But it was then discovered that the wouldbe bridegroom had neither money nor prospects —was in fact penniless. This circumstance, though it aroused her father's just anger, did not daunt the girl herself, and she and her newly-found suitor were duly married, the father of the bride being left to pay the expenses. These facts were related at the meeting of the Benevolent Tiustees yesterday; and it only remains to be added that the bridegroom is now a claimant upon the Trustees for assistance. His chances of getting it are none too good. Eastern papers to hand contain reports of the great seismic disturbance which occurred on the 21st September along the west coast of Mindanoa, and in the Sulu Sea, which is considered to have equalled in violence the great earthquakes experienced at Manila in 1863 and 1880. A letter from Zamboanga to the " Comercio " states that at 3.20 a.m. on the 21st an oscillation of marked intensity was experienced lasting a minute and a half. The inhabitants at once rushed out of their houses, and congregated in the streets. Smaller shocks were experienced at intervals until 1.30 p.m., when one of extreme violence took place which brought most of the houses down, the various public buildings being amongst those destroyed. At the same time a tidal wave occurred, after which the water rose and fell for some time in rapid succession. From some of the villages along the coast a large loss of life is imported, and there was considerable destruction of property at all of them. Private letters published in the " Comercio " give graphic descriptions of the harrowing experiences through which the writers have passed.

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