Local and General.

Hastings Standard, Volume VIII, Issue 3054, 30 June 1903, Page 2

Local and General.

A special parade of the Hastings Rifles is called for Thursday next at 7 p.m. sharp. We remind ouv readers of the Harrison dance to be held in the Drill Hall to-morrow night. In the chess match. Timaru v. Oam am, the latter won by !> to 3, with two games to be adjudicated upon. Messrs T. L. Buiek and ,J. R. Russell, of Palmerston North, look over the Dannevirke Advocate yesterday. The partnership hitherto existing between Messrs jVlcCoubrio iind fccul lin, carrying on business as contractors and farmers in Hastings, has been dissolved. The Oamarvi Harbor Board to-day decided to support. the Auckland Board in its efforts to secure power to pay hanoraria to chairmen ol Harbor Boards. The remains tv Peter Lonus, fisher man, were found on the beach at. Plimmerton yesterday. Lomas and three 'bovs were drowned on April I 6th by the capsizing of a boat. ! Two men named James Donnelly and John Osborne were charged on remand before Mr Bralhwr.itc J.IV, this morning:, with the theft, of >s from David Clark, the man who was ! run over in the streets o?> Friday. They were further remanded until tomorrow morning. At. a meeting of the Canterbury College Board of Governors yesterday, Mr Cr. W. Russell gave notice of motion that a committee be appoint ed to consider the advisablencss of es tabiishiug a conservatorium of music in connection with the college. A correspondent writes : —""Your report of the football match between Kahukuranui and the Ilawke s Bay Mounted Rifles on Saturday was misleading. when your reporter said the Kahiss plaved a rough game. They did no such thing, but from first to last; they outclassed their opponents in nac'e, and won the match entirely 011 their merits. It has been found that matches made in Italy and Belgium are being imported into New Zealand without! proper indication of'the country of or igin. The Commissioner of Customs lias decided that the words showing the country of manufacture must be distinctly legible. Any shipments after this date will be dealt, with on arrival under the Trade Marks Act. The Christch'urch City Council estimates that the cost of the abattoir will be AJ19,68-'). without a cool cham ber. Plans and estimates will be prepared for*the latter, which it is proposed to place it in the city where it will be easily available for butchers. The Dunedin Shipwreck Relief Society, having received word, in reply to inquiries, that the survivors of the crew of the ketch Eva and Ada had got. ashore in rags and very much ex hausfed, and were being sent from Okarito to Grcymouth, telegraphed £2O to the Mayor of Grcymouth to be expended in relieving the men, and requesting information if more is re quired. .Mr Yal Vousden appeared at the Princess Theatre last evening before a most enthusiastic, if not. a particularly large audience. Mr Vousden went through a, somewhat different programme to that submitted last week, and his pathetic rendering of "Sentenced to Death" was as fine a declamation as has ever been heard here. He kept the house roaring with laughter and trembling on tears for two hours, when a most, enjoy;* able entertainment concluded. The first rehearsal of "Les Cloches de Corneville," by. the Hastings Operatic Society, will 'be held this evening at the Princess Theatre. Mr E. V. Hudson has been appointed conductor, and a sub-committee has 'been elected to arrange the east of the opera, which will be produced in a couple of months, under the stage managership of Mr Vict«<r Roach. This means hard work, hut if the members pull together there is n<> reason why, with their previous experience, they should not eclipse tbeir previous effort, which i.-> saying a ■ great deal. A despatch from St. Petersburg to the Paris Press states that two escaped convicts from Saghalien Island, who have just been re-captured tell a shocking story of cannabalism The runaways originally numbered four. The scanty stock of provisions was soon exhausted, and starvation' stared them in the face. Two of them awed to surprise and kill the other two. This they did, driaking the blood of the murdered men, and cutting their flesh inlo strips, which thev froze in IV hard snow. Laden with their rdmstiv stores, the survivors resumed their march, and still had some of the strips in their posses c; o" wlir"- re-Wcev.f These men were br •. summarv eourt-mar- .?.•/ d to death. "A ceir ; ~tr J ioi l to settle the question o" hew beefsteak a man eouh' eat at nr." sitting was recently he'd iti America. Although seven of the srreatest steak-eaters of the New World, were present, the record was not beaten, hut nevertheless the competitors proved thamse!ve.s> valiant, trenchermen. The first of the cornnet !1 ors <n fall out of the race ac-*-:now'ci!tred himself beaten after harms? eater, tfu. Ihe second after sft, n , ir ; fhlrrt riurinc: the sixth noimd, but- the had eaten 7V?li before he tave : 'i. The record so far is !OT% of steak. hut. the ho'der of *his record died r.ot long -&:o. It need hardly si n .t so gw not live to a very! §?ea! as"-