HASTINGS.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 10058, 27 July 1895, Page 4

HASTINGS.

(FROM OOR OWN CORRESPONDENT. ) ! Jnly 26, 1895. After a period of comparative quietness the town is again made lively by the' visits of sundry entertainers. Lust night we were mystified" In the highest degree by Professor Davia and' hia talented wife, and he gives a repeats performance tonight ; rlnklng ia in fall evidence at the theatre ; on Monday nest Mr T. Teagne has made arrangements to give lovers of. the P.R. an entertainment to their i^cy, and the handsome medals which be is giving for competition in three classes of boxing ate now exhibited in Mr Whytock's window ; on Tuesday the Ken-nedy-Lucas company, whose manager lotonus mo have had a highly buccesefal tour, are appealing in a sensational drama, "Fighting Fortune," a I play of strong dramatic Interest turning upon the failnre of the Glasgow I B^nk and the onseqnent ill-fortune of ■ tha hero and heroine, Iv a fire sceae enacted the heroine is ot conrae reconed from the greedy flunes, and a view ot the Thames Embankment by night also gives (be company s scenic artist a chance to distinguish him°elf, which be tokes full advantage of, On Wednesday Sir Henry Irving's version of the famous drama " The Belle," or the tnoider ot the Polish Jew, will be presented io all its welrdne;B, I noticed recently a paragraph tothe effect that the first sensation made by Sir Henry was in Hamlet. This ia incorrect, as It was in this drawn that he first took London by Btorm, and saved the drooping fortunes of the Lycenm Theatre, then the property of It. Batemin, Leopold Lewis, who was the author of the plßy, strangely enough went down tha tide of fortune troii the d.ito of this, his chief sncceßs as a play writer. The company are trying to orranca for a third night here, after which they will play a season in Napier. When doctorß differ who shall decide. Yesterday a non-smoker dolirerei. to a man who was emoklcg a lecture upou the evilß attending that sad practice. Later iv the day n local dealer in tobacco presented the delicrjaeDt with a packet ct Frolsßard's Cavour Cigars. " Your Own" decides that tbey are good, aud the nonBmoker now Hyde's hi 3 diminished bend. The now post-office bnildlng is in fall coarse of erection, and an extremely small balldlng it promises to be. The ground i« not of mnch extent, and now, instead of coming out to the piesent linn ot buildings, the frontage is set back some inches Cutloaaly enough when the surveyors firßt staked out the plan it projected beyond the Hue of bnlldings. Instead of using tno ordinary bouse blocks, smaller blocks ot trimmed wood are being U3ed at more frequent interval", pOßeibiy to prevent, as much ns possible, shtlokige of any green timbers of which the building may be erected Two or three months more stacking would certainly have been of advantage ! The business men of the town do nob i intend to be left behind Iv reference to it reduction in the fira premiums, and v meetiug Is to ba ked iv tho Council : Chambers ou Monday next for the purpise oi dUcuifclog me Meps to be taken '.o obtain such a reduction and tho advisability of instituting a scheme of cooperative insurance.