Local and General

Hastings Standard, Volume X, Issue 5346, 6 November 1906, Page 2

Local and General

Potato crops araund Levin are re ported to be looking splendid.

The Native Minister (Hon. JCarroll) is still confined to his house by illness.

Captain Edwin wired to - day : Gale frois between north-west and west and south ; glass rise fast ; tides high ; sea heavy off shore ; rain probable and weather very cold. The usual fortnightly meeting of the Loyal Hastings Lodge, 1.0.0. F., M.U., will be held on Thursday this week, owing to the King's .Birthday falling on their usual meeting night. There is at present on view at Mr A. Hyde's window, a facsimile of the largest gold nugget ever obtained in the world. It was found several years ago in Victoria, its value being £BOOO, The facsimile gives a good idea of the shape and size of the valuable find. Mrs Hiorns has disposed of the property Known as " The Bungalow ", in Gascoyne Eoad, to Mr T. Bayliss, of Eketaliuna, at a satisfactory figure, Mr J. Bayliss, of the same place, has purchased Mr W. Y. Dennett's house at the corner of Eastbourne and King streets. Mr J. A. Fryer negotiated the sales.

Missionaries report a terrible famine in North Kiangni, China. Ten millions are on the brink of starvation.

The Union Steam Ship Company's fine steamer Manuka will leave Napier at y a.m. on Friday next (King's Birthday) for GL-jborno and Auckland. For first-class) dental work at reason J able prices, Hughes & Benjamin. T Rooms abovo J kites' Shop. Open | Monday, oth November.-'-'

"Would you have the sweetest tone" place a " Challeu" in your home. Hall and Son, sole Hawke's Bay agents. "■'■

Some half-dozen tenants running businesses in Hastings have received orders to rpjit, pending alterations to buildings. A sneak thief has been at work in Victoria street for some time, and it would be as well for the individual to stop the mean acts being perpetrated, otherwise ths law will be brought to bear.

It is freely stated in town that a builder who has been cutting prices, has gone on a holiday, but, through an oversight, neglected to leave his intended address. He has left a few friends behind.

A London cable states that Lieutenant Peary's ship Boosevelt reached Battle Harbour, Labrador, without coal. She had burned hor wooden fittings and quantities of blubber for fuel.

A young man named Edward Pegg had one of his eyes knocked out by a piece of steel while working at the Harbour Board Works, Wellington, on Friday.

It is stated on good authority that Mr Charle3 Lewis, M.H.E., for Courtenay, who ha o resided at Halswell for a great number of year 3, has sold his farm, and takes up some land in the backblocks of the Hawke's Bay district, His Excellency the Governor has remitted the unexpired portion of the sentence that was being served by Harriet Drake, and she has been released from prison. Mi' 3 Drake was sentenced to six years' imprisonment in November, 1902, for manslaughter, in connection with the death, at Otaki, of one of her children.

The social and dance to be held in St Matthew's schoolroom to-morrow evening under the auspices of the Daughters of theßoyne, L.0.L., gives promise of being a great success, and the energetic committee, with Mrs Keith as secretary, are doing all in their power with that object in view. A landlord in a Wanganui hotel the other night noticed a flicker of light from under a door, which he thereupon opened. To his astonishment he found a father and son lying asleep with a candle (already burnt down to the socket) on the pillow between them. A movement would have upset it. The Hastings Cycling and Athletic Club's annual sports to bo held at Cornwall Park on Friday next, the King's Birthday, give promise of being a greater success than last year, the entries being larger and the grounds have been much improved on since the last meeting. Special arrangements will be made for picnic parties.

There are various indications that there is going to be a great demand in Taranaki this yoar for pork, a demand that is not at all likely to be fully met. Various buyers are making arrangements for thoroughly exploiting the market, and pig raisers are likely to secure good prices.—Waitara Mail.

Writing of Mr Sydney Hoben (whose concert will be held on Friday evening), the Review of Reviews, in an article on New Zealand music, describes Mr Hoben as one of the two or three musioians (Mi Alfred Hill, the Exhibition conductor, ia named) upon whom the hope of New Zealand music rests. Mr Hill was a fellow student of Mr Hoben's at the Leipzig Conservatorium.

At the Princess Theatre to-morrow evening the favourite Steel-Payne Bellringers appear in one of their delightful musical entertainments. The programme to be submitted is selected with the care for which this combination is so justly noted and consists of vocal solos, trios, quartettes, part songs, plantation melodies, and instrumental selections on various instruments, including the violin, sleigh-bells, and hand-bells.

The usual fortnightly meeting of Court Heretaunga, A.0.F., was held in the Oddfellows' Hall last evening, Bro W. Keith, C.R, in the ohair. A goodly number of members were present. P.C.R. Bro T. Styles waav presented with a handsome neok-ribbon for his services to the lodge daring the time he occupied the chair. The * recipient made a suitable reply. Two candidates were proposed for membership. P.O.K. Bro Styles was nominated for the offices of District Woodward and District Beadle at the next district meeting.

It is stated by the Cambridge correspondent of the Auckland Star that the farmers of the Waikato and East Coast have combined to send largo quantities of beef out of the colony, with a view to compel butchers to pay them a better price for that remaining. Arrangements have been made for exporting over 1000 head as a first cons:gnnient, through the Farmers' Freezing Company, and several truck loada have already been put through, fho correspondent understands that sr vera! thousand head of cattle will be sent out of the colony from the Wa'kato and East Coast per tho route abova indicated. The chief complaint of the farmers is that they only receive from 16s to 19s per cwt for their beef, while the pi ice quoted in the Auckland papers for the same is about 225. In addition to the dressed beef the hidett and offal must bring in a respectable SjLUU.

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