Local and General

Hastings Standard, Volume XI, Issue 5730, 10 February 1908, Page 2

Local and General

i At the Police Court this morning I before Messrs D. McLeod and G. F. Roach, J's.P., two first offenders on a charge of drunkenness were each 1 lined 5s or 24 hours imprisonment. Mr Torle.-se, Manager of the Union Bank, has returned to Hastings. Mr France, who has been relieving him, leaves shortly for Masterton branch of which he will take over temporary charge. At Dannevirke on February sth, Miss Charlotte Mary Smith, second I daughter of Mr R. S. Smith of Have- ! lock North was united in the bonds of I holy matrimony to Mr Alexander i Struthers, son of the late John Struthers ofPukahu. Owing to a very severe attack of rheuma ism, Mr YV. C. Maddison has found it necessary to take a few days rest. He left for (he Grange Beach 'I this morning. His decision regarding j contesting the Iviayoralty depends upon his state of health. The little girl Jemima Mitchell who was taken to the Napier Hospital on Saturday morning suffering from severe burns occasioned by falling on i a blazing kerosene stove, did from her injuries at about 9 o'clock on I Saturday night. I Notic.s of motion bv Cr Fowler: j "That the 'lown Clerk be instructed I to take the necessary steps to constitute the Borough a registering authority under " The Motor Registration Act, 1906 (2) That in future tenders be cailed by advertisement for all material or work other than that done by the Borough staff, the estimated cost of which does exceed £io." A movement was on foot to invite the Hon Geo. Fowlds to Hastings to give a po'ice address after his visit to Dannevirke this week, but owing to the Princess Theatre being booked by PoUards's Juvenile Opera Company for Thursday, Friday and Saturday, it is feared that suitable arrangements cannot be made. Mr Fowlds is to be written to and asked to fix a date on which he could conveniently address a Flastings audience. The fear ful accident which occur- 1 red to the 10 year old son of Mr Greaves, Mangatainoka, on Friday, ' demonstrates the danger of indescriminately leaving phosphorous lying < about. The little fellow picked up 'he shinny stuff from the river bed, and thinking it was a rare piece of metal he galloped off with it in his blouse. He had not travelled far before it burst into flames. He was 1 noticed by Constable May who im- ( mediately placed his coat round the ( little sufferer, and managed to extinguish the fiinias The p )or little chap was fearfully burned, and he ' died at 2 o'clock on Saturday morn- I iiiff- I On Saturday night a brawl in ( Herctaimga street was interupted by a Constables Watters and O'Gradv. One man named Charles Olson .was foolish enough to resist arrest, and I ' the officers laid him face downwa ds in the gutter while they manacled his n hands behind his back. During the process the prison?!- bellowed like" a calf, and the noise he made attracted | <- a large crowd. This morning at the I Police Court" he was fined 5s for druukeness and £1 or seven days for resisting the police. P A pleasant Sunday afternoon was a spent yesterday bv the members of the M.Y.M.I. Bible Class. The Bible reading was Matthew's Parable, and F the accusation of David in the matter s i of Uriah, the hittite, as found in ; t 11. Sam. XII. chapter. The following items were rendered, songs. Messrs Barnes and Hulbert, recitation, Mr Palmer, p-'ading Gibbs, vocal quartette Messrs Barnes, Meads, Gibbs and Palmer, violin and clarionet, w Messrs Palmer and Burge. Mr Joll n of Waitara gave a short address. t | The second anniversary of this pro- ~ gressive class takes place on Sunday and Monday next, when the newly a ' formed Orchestra will be heard for ai the first time. Panicul trs will b-? tc duly advertised. t j. For all kinds of Bedding and Fur- tc aiture try KERSHAW'S. A'l /ir own manufacture. w