LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hastings Standard, Volume V, Issue 1426, 17 January 1901, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

On our fourth page will be found cable news and other interesting matter.

Bugler N. A. McLean, of the Hawke's Bay Mounted Rifles has been appointed bugler of No. 17 Company, Sixth Contingent for South Africa.

Nominations for the Poverty Bay Turf Club's races will close on Friday, 18th inst, at 9.30 p.m., at the Club's Rooms, Masonic Hotel, Gisborne.

Two American army doctors in Cuba have given their lives to prove that mosquitos are active agents in spreading yellow fever. They were bitten and died.

Mr Bernard Chambers' famous Clydesdale uiare Topaz (and foalj and another mare returned from Hawera last night, after having been mated with Mr Mitchell's Glengyle.

A visitor from the Old Country, at present in Wellington, states that in his opinion the mineral waters at Rotorua are much superior to the waters at Carlsbad. The great drawback he noticed at Eotoiua was the want o£ scientific administration. A few particulars he gives about Carlsbad are interesting. Fully 42,000 people visit the place annually, and there are 101 resident medical men, whose consultation fees vary from 5s to 14s. Lord Kitchener is (the Express says) the man to restore peace. He had been unfairly and unreasonably accused of cruelty ; in fact, he is essentially a man of business, applying to war the obvious rules of adjusting practical means to necessary ends which every trader employs in his vocation. If it is necessary to kill, he will kill. If it be the truest mercy to be merciless he will be merciless. He is the man we want.

According to the Tapanui Courier a private letter from Mr Watson Abrarn, now in the Home country, indicates that horses of all kinds are very dear, and a draught station costs from £BOO to Jtl-500. First-class geldings bring up to JISC in Glasgow. Light horses are at famine prices, ,£BOO being paid for a stylish gig horse in England. The Times, on November 28, commentins on the plot to kill Lord Roberts, says: —We rejoice to observe that ;iot one of the prisoners is of Boer nationality or of Dutch blood. The men who stand charged with this combination of murder and sacrilege are live Italians, four Greeks, and one Frenchman. They belong, presumably, to the foreign mercenaries or adventurers, who were attracted by. the expectation of high pay and ample rewards to the service of the late Eepublic from the general rascaldom of Continental Europe ; or possibly they may be disciples of the Anarchist school, which looks upon the murder of those in authority anywhere and everywhere as an end in itself.

The Blanawata Standard says; —In connection with the recent racing held throughout the colony, we connot shut our eyes to the fact that a good deal of suspicious running has taken place, and indeed in several instances had it not been for a strong pair of arms, aided by equally tough reins, the wrong horses would have won races. This practice has become so glaring that the names of various parties concerned in these fraud are open secrets. Some men who can run horses for a livelihood do not care a brass farthing about the public being taken down; in fact, they rather enjoy their discomfiture. If a few examples were made the sport would improve and the racecourse would be much purer than it is at present.

At the Hastings Magistrate's Court this morning, before Messrs Beilby and W. M. Smith, J.'s.P., Francis Middleton charged with drunkenness, was convicted and discharged, the justices taking into consideration the fact that accused had been detained in the lock-up for twenty -four hours. A prohibition order was against a Hastings resident to apply to the Hawke*s Bay, - Nipier and Waipawa Licensing Districts for 12 months. John Elliot, charged with riding a bicycle after sunset without carrying a light, was fined -is and costs 7s. T. Guthrie, on a similar charge, was fined 5s and costs 7s. S. Wells was charged with disorderly conduct at the Princess Theatre during a performance on January 9th. Sergeant Smart stated that accused was one of several who had made a noise and interfered with the play. Both Justices spoke strongly upon the larrikiuistn carried on in the theatre, which they said was an annoyance to all present. The father of accused spuke in fr.vour of bis sun, and asked the Bench to deal lenu-.tly with the case, to which Mr Beilby relied that the nuisance was a growing ene for which there was no excuse, nr i sud that ho meant to support the police m trying to put a Mop to the evil. He hoped this case would be a general warning. Accused was fined -10s and costs 7s, or in default seven days' imprisonment. Ucbe For Choleki Iniaxtu.m—Never Kxowx To Fail. During last May an infant child of our neighbor was suffering from cholera infantum. Tho doctors had given up all hopes of recovery. I took a bottle of Ohiimbarlaiu'a Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Eoniedy to the house, telling them I felt sure it would do good if used according to directions. In two days time the child had fully recovered. The child is now vigorous and healthy. I have recommended this remedy frequently and have never known it to fail.— Mrs. Curtis Bakkr, Bookwalter, Ohio. For sale by J. W. Bates, Chemist, Hastings.

Tenders are called by Messrs Bros, for carting firewood. Mr Angus M'Donald, of Rangioru, attained his lOuth birthday on Christinas Eve. » » - A meeting of Directors of the Hastings Co-operative Meat Company will be held at 7.30 to-night at Caulton's HotelMr B. Shaw, engine-driver, notifies in another column that he is in no way connected with the boys Shaws, who were before the last week. Corporal Merewether, and Troopers Beihana, and Hawea, of the Hawke's Bay Mounted Rifles, returned by the express train last evening, from the Federal Contingent. Here is a curious chain of destruction. The mongoose was introduced into Jamaica to kill rats. After killing out all J the rats, the mongoose attacked all' birds which laid their eggs on the giound, killing the birds and eating their eggs. Now theso birds were the only means by which a certain pestiferous tick was kept under. With the disappearanee of the birds the ticks have reappeared in great numbers, and by a carious Nemesis have attacked the mongoose, and the Jamaicans are rejoicing in the prospect of celebrating before long the disappearance of the last mongoose.—Toronto Saturday Night. Mr Oates, of Oates, Lowry and Co., tried his motor car over the ranges in the Upper Hutt district yesterday (says Monday's Wellington Post), and found it a good hill climber. He is so satisfied that he will make an attempt to climb over the Rimutaka ranges on Wednesday ". next, and, if successful, will continue on to Napier. Mr Shorland, the firm's Wellington manager, will go with Mr Oates as far as Featherston, and from there Mr Wildy, proprietor of the New Zealand Wheelman, will be Mr Oates' companion. This ride is creating interest, as it will be the first journey over this road with a motor car. The Wellington Post's special correspondent in Sydney writes as follows concerning the Commonwealth celebrations —New Zealand can be well satisfied with the share its representatives—military political, and native —have taken in the demonstration. They have created great interest wherever they have gone, and it is quite the thing to °hear speakers Introduce the colony's representatives as < the "Distinguished So-and-So from the * great country of New Zealand." They have undoubtedly attracted more public attention than the visitors from any other colony. You notice this particularly when a New Zealander gets up to speak. Everybody wants to hear him. . . . Mr Seddon has received some new titles in Australia. Mr Hassall, the New South Wales Minister for Lands, referred to him as " my friend the Right Honorable Dick Seddon." Sir Win. Lyne spoke of him as " the King of New Zealand " and " the Tsar of Russia in New Zealand." And he was afterwards introduced as '• Sir Richard Seddon" (Mr Willis, who was standing close by said " Dick " would be pleased to find he had been knighted at lasj). On another occasion he was introduced to the audience as " Sir John Seddon." But it is in thA crowd that you hear the New Premier queerly described, One calls him . " the White Maori Chief" (which, all things considered, is not bad); others call him ■'the fat Premier," and "the jolly cove in the white umbrella " (there is no mention of any other attire).