LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hastings Standard, Issue 514, 31 December 1897, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

(jH, and after New Year's Day the Hastings Standard will be in Station-stP&eti near the Post Office and adjacent to the railway station. Adver. tisers and subscribers please note.

The HastingsXStandard will not be published tomorrow (New 1 ear's Day). The Plumpton Park picnic and sports are to be held to-mSiraw.._

The San Francisco mail reaches Hastings to-day. There are 38 factories in Hastings, employing 19 fc-males and 247 males. The water-gas is to be ready for use in Dannevirke early in the new year. The body of Matts Mattson, who was"* drowned at Paremata, has been recovered.

The trains arriving at and passing through Hastings to-day were well patronised. The bodies of the victims of the sewer disaster in Melbourne have been recovered by the divers. The members of the Hastings Lodge of Druids are invited to attend the church parade on Sunday. For endeavouring to save the life of Mrs Hickey,at Napier recently, Constable Wainhouse has been awarded £5.

The heat in Melbourne yesterday reached 109 degrees in the shade. Several cases of heat apoplexy occurred in the street. The bagpipes are to be called into requisition in Hastings this evening, and "Hogmanay will be right royally celebrated. Hastings was enveloped in smoke on Thursday. The wind had evidently carried the smolce from the direction of Norsewood where there are large bush fires. Twelve prohibition orders are in force in Hastings at present, and a similar number are receiving relief from the Charitable Aid Board.

Constable Butler, of Hastings, who has been confined to his loom for the past few days with an attack of influenza, is better, and will be about in a day or two. Great preparations are being made to hold celebrations in Maraekakaho in honor of the marriage of Mr Arch McLean, the popular manager of that station.

The comparison of returns of Christmas postal and telegraphic traffic shows that Wellington had a substantial lead in the amount of both postal and telegraphic work put through. The streets of Hastings bear a more animated appearance than usual this afternoon. Visitors are coming in from all parts of the district, and to-night our tradespeople should do well.

The official returns show that there were eight bankruptcies recoiled in Hastings for the year 1897 as against seven for the previous year. During the month of December this j'ear there were two bankruptcies as against three for the same month last year.

The Friendly Societies in Hastings are reminded of th; church panrje niilch taies place on Sunday morning. The procession should be a very lengthy one. The service at St Matthew s Church will be conducted by the liev. S. Hobbs.

To Messrs Webster and Stuart, of the Albert Hotel, Hastings, and Messrs Robjolms and Sons, the well-known Napier brewers, we are indebted for a New Year hamper of sparkling ale, horehound beer, etc. May the donors have all the prosperity, that they deserve, which is a lot. •' Here's tae ye." Dr. Archer Ho skin,while surgically examining an amputated limb after a recent operation at the Masterton hospital, slightly scratched his hand with" the dissecting knife. On Wednesday blood poisoning symptoms became so serious that he decided to go to Wellington hospital for special serum treatment, the remedy not being available in Masterton. Mr H. Catherall, who is well-known in Hastings, writes us from Calcutta under date November 27th: —" The ship I arrived in landed 340 horses for the Government and private market. .. The private market is quiet. There are no buyers looking for horses. The Government want 864, but there are as many here for sale. The market lias been glutted ever since last year." One lucky New Zealander seems to have come in for a pleasant little legacy (reports the London correspondent of the Christchurch Press). In the will of the late Rev. Wasliboui'ne West, of Notting Hill, who died recently at the age of 85 years, leaving personal estate to the value of £4o,ooo,there is a bequest to the testator's great nephew, Tom Brown, resident at Levin, near Wellington, of the sum of £IOOO.

Our Te Aute correspondent writes : —A large crowd of natives (numbering hundreds) are flocking into Te Aute by every train from all parts of the Island, reaching from Waikato to Wairarapa, to attend a meeting of the Hau Haus. Never has Te Aute been in such evidence before. This has been going on for several days past, and is expected to continue so till New Year's Eve, when it is anticipated there will be seven or eight hundred natives here. On New Year's Day feasting, etc., will be the order, and will continue till Monday or Tuesday ue 4 t. The visitors are the guests of Hori, son of Arihi Te Naliu. Meetings are held daily, and business is good in consequence. A lady passenger to Napier by the Wcstralia on Thursday complained that she had been robbed of £2l. The enquiries made revealed nothing to justify the complaint, and on arriving at Gisborne the lady discovered her money intact. This reminds us of a case which happened in a New Zealand township last year. A man had cpme down from the country for a holjcfey. He cashed his cheque, which was of the value of £IOO. He at once set to work to make things >' hum,"_and had plenty of friends to help him. When he awakened the very next morning he found his money gone. He immediately informed the police, and a man was arrested on suspicion. Fortunately he obtained a remand, for on the following evening, on going to bed, the robbed one feu rid his notes earc-fully concealed in his so?k. He had slept in his boots the night before.

Large stock of spring and summer suitings. Every variety of best material it moderate prices. Cut style and finish guaranteed by Dodds the Tailor, He retain! g a road. —Advt.

Eccles' Quinine and Iron Tonic contains Quiniiie and Iron in a high state of guritv, and is the most agreeable f strengthening, and efficient agent yet discovered. 2s 6d per b,ottle. To be obtained from A. Eccles, chemist, Napier and Hastings, and at ail leading country

A nurse to look after two young 4fildren is required by Mrs C. A. Loughnaf, Several private picnic parties leave Hastings on New Year's Day. t The New Year Presbyterian servfcs and sermons in Hastings are notifies elsewhere. f Mr Hill, the new sta-ionnna*er at Hastings, is expected to arrive otaJfandny or Tuesday next. IT, £ The police officers in intend taking vigorous steps tbisßßpning to suppress anything in the silMs of horse play or larrikinism. 1 The Defiance Packing Co. in|_Hastings advertise for fruit in any quantity. The company is kept very busy* lust now preparing cans for the comin J'season's 0 ifput. The new intends immediately th. prj^Hfcs. There died at Parawanui last, Hamuera Baikiritea, wl»e history, as be was 96 years of age, hasßridged the period which has converted Bvage New Zealand into colonial NeW Zealand. Historically, too. Hamuera nfay be said to have had an official hand i*i the transformation, seeing that he was* one of the (three members of the Ngatiapa'Trib*. who affixed their signature to thei treaty of Waitaugi. —Advocate.