Local and General

Hastings Standard, Volume IX, Issue 5108, 27 January 1906, Page 2

Local and General

\ The 'jovGrnmeni have granted ' .i f ;-'-,-")() 0 for the erection of a Technical School ni brick in .New Plymouth. Tl|<3 ssi'vii.'C;-: at Wesley Church and at JLingateretere will be conducted b} Rov. lT (r Carr. The Alahora acvviee will bo tab. n bv Ml - (iaulton and the PaUi J\iki service by Mr Cunnold, both in the evening. fcjtaft'A.'apt. Ward, of the !t ilvation Army, is expected to visit the local eci-ps and canines bpccj;d eathecings i liiWi-hout Hv- Sunday. lie comeI in the hirercst- of the childe . work. lb- holds the position of | I'loyhicia! Yonii? People';; Seeretvy. a: d i; responsible for that branch of I r>;.-Jvii-i:>*.s Aviny opcr-d'ions ihEouhmfc I the i\ irth 1-daod. The- S aft' Cent uu ui;! ,;h:l Ci'ilrlnc:. :>++ i j. 'resvno: hute'ii service tor young-n'Monduv unlit. A paitriii accident oc tirred at K'lii>'slic railway s:.:.rio;i yesterday at'- i - - ii.K)ii. T '■■■■ .-taeorr.i a : ter was gett:'i,e on to th va:i of a tr:in which w,iU;Ovh <i A. .'Ao-n he jT'prCU, ai;d tV> übeeA . i<- d ■.;■.'■•- in- ;>«.-, eevej.ely ct"i-:!i : 4,' t'; ■'■:. lie w;- :aken to the ho,ip;:al S v.w,- of rhe injured members ULttj" ha.vt to bs awpA.atedA

{ Mrs Siuart Miller left this morning j to spend a holiday in Wellington. SAt the present time iu Otago there, are some 150 uncertificated teachers in positions. , The lieat yesterday was experienced throughout the Island, the sky being overcast with a smoky haze caused by bush firesI This year's N.Z. Diaries, A second shipment now to hand. II ill's Book Ktere v The election of licensing committees will take place on March !■•, which is declared to bo a public holiday after mid lay. We am pleased to learn that Mr Stanley Kemp, formerly of Havelock, w'io sat at Dauncvirke, was successful in the Matriculation Examination. Mrs D. A. McLean returned to Waipukurau to-day after spending a few days in Hastings. The youngest son of the late Thomas Carroll, Alfred (Turi) is at present an inmate of the Wairoa Hospital.

Cwing to the sale of thoroughbreds on the 2nd February the meetings of the Hawke's Bay Jockey Club and the A and P. t'oeiety arranged for that day have been postf onad to the following Friday, February 9th. A prisoner named Crook, who escaped from the prison works at Wellington on Thursday, was captured yesterday wearing civilian clothes alleged to be the proceeds of a bur glary committed during his brief period of liberty.

The roads round the town are at the present time considerably cut up and are very unpleasmt to cyclists. Trac tion engine traffic has been the means of breaking up the roads in the outskirts, and they will be in a very bad state should any quantity of rain fall. It is believed that the price of grass seed this year will not come up to expectatiens. ihe highest estimatpd price beiug 4s to 4s Gd a bushel. This is partly due to merchants having a large stock of las" years seed on hand. Agents are at present engaged obtaining samples of the several crops.

The animal statement of the Bluff Harbour .Board shows that 25G vessels of 452,509 tons used tne port, an increase of 5 ship; and a decrease of about 7000 tonnige on the previous year. The income wa> £19,080, being £LH9I less than in 1991, due principally to the cassation of South African trade-

An old resident of Hawke's Bay in the person of Mi- Fred Sutton passed away last eve ling, Deceased was Kapier's representative in the Provinc al Council, before the abolition of the provinces, a;id he took a leading part in all loeil boahes. For seven years from 1877 he was the M.H.R. for Napier. Djceased, who was 70 years of age, le:ives a widow, a son and six daughters. Mr A. MaGlashan reports having he!d a clearing sale of Mr M Newrie'v's cattle.and sundries yesterday afternoon. Dairy cows, the prices for which ara very low in this district, sold up to £7 2s 6d, old ones going as low as 80s. A pure-bred Jersey bull was disposed of for £3 15s. A threshruill, a motor car, gig, express, horse and harness, and miscellaneous brought satisfactory prices. At the close of the ceremony of unveiling the memorial to the late Thomas Carroll at Wairoa Sir William Russell was presented by Mr H. G, Webber, one of the joint secretaries of the committee, with two huia mats, which had veiled the monument, also a patu. These relics belonged to the Kopu family, and at the request of Itirea Kopu they were presented to Sir William as a memento of the occasion.

At the Police Court this morning, before Messrs C. Hughes and G. F. Roach, J's.P., John Shannon, who was remanded a fortnight ago for medical treatment was fined 5s and 2s costs on a charge of helpless drunkenness, and was ordered to pay 21s for maintenance in Napier Gaol. A prohibition order was is cd against him. One month was allowed in which to pay the amount.

An instance of the advantage of being a member of a Friendly Society was given at the Kniapoi Oddfellows' Lodge meeting of Tuesday evening, A member who joined the lodge in October, 1872 died early last year. He paid in contributions £BB O-i sd, of which £52 16s S3, went to the sick and funeral fund. He was unfortunate enough to be an invalid for twentyfour and a-half yen's, and drew sick pay amounting to £425 12s jGd, also £ls from the distress fund, and at his death £3O was pnid to his family, making a total of £470 12s Gd, Henry Sides, farmer, of Waimate., was found shot in a paddo:-k about half a mile from bis house yesterday morning. He went to bring in horses, taking a gun with hiiu, and as he did net return for breaklast, Mrs Sides sent her boy to look for him. The lad found his* father lying dead, with the gun beside him. It is supposed that the deceased tripped and fell on his gun, one barrel of which we-qS off, the charge lodging in the dccwA'ed's chest,

Ueterrine; to tlio fact that a tvo nan dipionaniac v.'ho is a prohibited p±rson recently obtained liquor in several Chris-'ehureh hotels and that the police " were unable to say who supplied her," the Lytteiton Times remarks ■ --YW, shall be sorry indeed irpri\,atw individuals have to the detection of oiiences ai; : !.n.st the licensing laws, but that will certainly bo the n-sult of <t i'e.v more failures of this kind on the part of the proper authorities. The (lectors did not mean by their decision at the local option poll that the nu.idicans were to be criven tuo.ro !i,vituda than they hnl been at'tow-ed whije the question wa- uvmbiin.'.! in tho balance. They want the law clearly and honestly rtdviui;i:->irVL-l. and if they canrot v, hit ihey want under license tb( v will seek it under another system. Tlmoubhcin-- noul not deceive therm elves, There bus been no revulsion or fueling against prchibiiiun. have simply determined to juvc the l«ufe a further trial, and such cuich as she one that occupied the atten'ian of the stipendiary M>.'.ii.itrate o i Saturday wi'.l not tall in ku favour-

At the land sale of part of Mr F. J. Tiffen's Elmshill property, Block 2, con taining 512 acres, was sold to Mr John McNeill at £9 per acre, and Block 8, confining 800 acres to Mr R. Ward at £d per acre. The kt«L sales amounted to £7308