LOCAL AND GENERAL.
On our fourth page to-day will be found cab ! e news, and other interesting matter. The sale of Mr Whiteley's household furniture by Mr Montague Lascelles has been postponed till Thursday, 21st inst. The Bain Company intend holding a grand sacred concert in the Princess Theatre. Hastings, on Sunday night to commence at 8.30 p.m.
On Tuesday next Messrs Williams and Kettle will hold a sale of horses on account of the Hon. J. D. Ormond, at Beecroft's Expository at Hastings. Sale to commence at 2 p.m.
Messrs Williams and Kettle will conduct a sale of thoroughbreds at Beecroft's yards on Friday, 22nd inst,, commencing at 3 p.m.
The New Zealand polo players, composed of the Oroua team, yesterday beat the Victoria representatives by four goals to three.
The Hastings Town Band will play a select programme of music in the main street to-night. A collection will be taken in aid of the instrument funds. The British Medical Journal for the 2nd of February has a commendatory notice of the New Zealand Public Health Act of last session. It is described as " an enlightened piece of legislation, and one well calculated to maintain New Zealand in the very favourable position in respect of sanitary administartion in which it nowstands. The sweepstake in connection with the Hawke's Bay Gun Club's Autumn meeting resulted in Messrs T. Stewart and H. G. Smith killing all their birds, and they agreed to divide the money. The remaining competitors, eleven in number, met with but indifferent succes.
The Masterton Band, which got within two points of first honors at Wanganui, has during the past few months been prepared for the contest by Mr F. W. G. McLeod, formerly leading cornet player in the Oamaru Garrison Band, and who has won several gold medals in solo competitions during the past ten years. Mr McLeod is still well on the sunny side of 30, and the position his band has gained is more than creditable.
The express train was crowded last evening with people coming to town for the Hawke's Bay Eaces. A great many proceeded to Napier as experience has taught them that sleeping accomdmoation in Hastings, on the occasions of the H. B. meetings, is taxed to the uttermost. There was a sharp shock of earthquake, lasting several seconds, experienced in Hastings last night at 11.15. This is a young country and, we fear, a rather giddy one as these earth tremors have been quite frequent of late. Attention is directed to the charming programme Mr Mac Duff Boyd intends presenting to the Hastings public on next Tuesday eyening in St Matthew's Hall. Altogether 185 witnesses were examined in New Zealand by the Federation Commission, of whom a considerable majority were against Federation. Out of the number, 112 were against Federation and 50 for, the remainder beingindefinite. Auckland provided 60 witnesses, the largest number of any of the New Zealand cities. Mud, says the " Lancet" is, roughly speaking, wet dust, and dust is dry mud; bus the evil effects of dust far transcend those of mud. In the dissemination of disease, mud remains comparatively innocent, but for the behavour of dust in this respect no words can be too strong. Paradoxical as it may sound, mud is clean, at least as compared with dust. Moreover, the ultimate fate of mud is in the drainpipe of the street, but dust too often rests in the windpipe of a man, if not in the alveloi even of his lungs. Fuller's Waxworks and Bijou Company which has been doing the colony with such marked success, has booked the Princess Theatre, in Hastings, for the 20th and 21st inst. The figures, which are said to be so starthngly real as to deceive onlookers, include Her late Majesty Queen Victoria, The King, Lord Boberts and several other occupying the public attention at the present juncture. The show also includes a biograph and a talented combination of bijou artists. The British Foreign Office (reports the Christchurch Press) has recently put in a claim against the Chinese Government for the sum of as compensation for the death of Miss Searell, late of Christchurch, who was murdered in the Shansi district on the 2nd of July last. The claim is being made on behalf of deceased's mother, who lives in Christchurch, and it has been suggested that it might be spent in erecting some memorial in the Cathedral City to Miss Searell's memory. An anecdote is going the rounds of the mess tables concerning that popular Irishman, Major-General Thomas Kelly-Kenny C.8., who has just gone home with Lord Boberts. It is well-known in army circles that the general is one of the richest of high commanders. He is possessed of a large fortune, although when he entered the army he was not more plentifully endowed with cash than the average sub. On a certain wild day at Brighton young Kelly-Kenny happened to be out for a stroll on the King's road. He noticed an old gentleman vainly endeavouring to cross the road in the teeth of the furious gale. With the politeness characteristic of his race, the gallant officer rushed to the old man's side and assisted him across the road, placing him in a seat on the other side. The stranger asked General Kelly-Kenny's name and after some years the old gentleman died, it was found that he had left the greater portion of a large fortune to the young officer. " M.A.P. " tells a tall story of two wellknown Yorkshiremen. Two wealthy natives of the country "of broad acres—one of them was the head of a large existing West Biding firm, and the otherthehardheaded founder of Beckett's Leeds Bank —met at dinner in the principal hotel of a country town, Whilst over the table a dispute arose as to which %vas the wealthier of the twain. At length the banker suggested that the question should be put to a practical test, aud the pair drew up their chairs to a corner of the room where a bright fire was burning. It was agreed that each in turn should lay on the coals a £o bank note, and he should be considered the vanquished who should first cry " Hold, enough ! " This singular contest proceeded in solemn silence for a long time, till at length it dawncl on the less brilliant mind of the manufacturer that he was having the wo-.-i of the encounter. The notes were those of his opponent's bank, thenuniversally used in that part of the country, and every time the manufacturer placed one on the burning embers the astute Yorkshire banker was £o the richer, whilst each move of the banker himself involved him in no personal loss !
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Parliamentary Buildings, Mr M. Impey "August 11, 1090 Dear Sir,— I recently contracted a severe cold accompanied by distressing symptoms. I, fortunately met a fellow Member, who advised me to take Impky/b 'May apple, ;: I accepted his advice, and the result was marvellous, I cannot too strongly recommend your medicine, judging by its efiect on myself. You are at liberty to this testimonial as you think lit —Yours truly, F. Lawrv, M.H.B,
The annual harvest "thanksgiving services in connection with Wesley Church will take place to-morrow. As usual much time and thought have been spent upon the decorations and our Wosleyan friends are anticipating a successful day. The pulpit in the morning will be occupied by the Rev. W. J. Comrie, and in the evening by the Eev. C. Eaton. With fine weather there will no doubt be large congregations. The constructors of the Cape to Cairo telegraph are having much less difficulty with the natives than was anticipated though the line runs through the territory of several warlike tribes. At first it was necessary to give meddlers a few electric shocks, then the line became a fetish and was left alone. Much trouble has been experienced through falling trees and in the transportation of the forest. From Cairo the lineTjayoeen completed 100 miles beyond the southern end of Lake Tanganyika, a total distance of 1700 miles. From the Cape end nearly 3000 miles has been completed, leaving now but 1200 miles to finish.
We remind our readers that Jam 6,3 C. Bain, the celebrated comique character artist, supported by his oleve r company will commence a short season at the Princess Theatre to-night. The company has done splendid business on the other coast, and the Press critcisms are particularly flattering. Those who did no see Mr Bain at his former appearance should certainly not miss this opportunity, while we feel convinced that those who did visit the Princess Theatre on the last occasion will be eager to do so again. To-morrow night a grand sacred and classical concert programme will be submitted, and on Monday the company will appear again with an entirely new bill.
A writer in the Melbourne Herald narrates how harshly the servants in good families in the Victorian capital are treated. This "man-servant" says he has been working for years past in the best families in St. Kilda, Toorak, and Hawthorn. His hours are from 5.30 a.m. to 9 p.m., and his wages are fiye shillings a week. Hundreds of men and women live thus in this great " bright happy Australian Commonwealth." He has to attend to the stables, the grooming, the milking, the fowls, and the garden ; and men servants are never allowed even half a holiday, public or otherwise, and the master or mistress will reply on preferring such a request, " If you are not content there are hundreds willing to take your place for bed and keep." Even Sunday labor is enforced in the best families.
Count Adalbert von Sternberg discribing his experiences on the Boer side during the war, says;— Even if the leadership of the Boers left much to be desired, each individual possessed such inborn talent to select the right spot for himself that this defect was not much noticed in the defensive. In any case, their generalship should not be condemned en bloc; one ought to recognise that in small detachments they manoeuvred quite brilliantly. The Boers would have had much greater successes if they had not abandoned all idea of taking the offensive. They could not be brought to that: for that they lacked courage, and to that lack of courage they owe their destruction. The fact is, the offensive is much more difficult; it requires precise orders, a single control, punctual co-operation, and plenty besides.
Sir Westby Percival, An the course of an interview with a Lyttelton Times reporter, gave his impressions of the changes in the colony during his prolonged absence. "I am surprised," he said, " at the large amount of interest in the colony, and its cheapness. The deposits at the banks are evidence of the wealth of the community, but the low rates ruling for money show that there is very little outlet for it. Cheap money has doubtless helped the farmer; but when money can be obtained at less than 5 per cent, it shows, of course, that there are few openings for its investment. I do not think that there is any lack of confidence in the colony on the part of the investor; but the number of colonial enterprises is so small that money find profitable employment, and a very large amount lies idle, finding a temporary resting-place in deposit. This is, I think, a matter of regret rathaf than congratulation."
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Hastings Standard, Volume V, Issue 1474, 16 March 1901, Page 2
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