HASTINGS.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10894, 20 April 1898, Page 4

HASTINGS.

. (raoH oub own cobbespondbnt.) April 19, 1898. Owing (a the wui weather last ufgh only a fow persons pat In an appearanoi at (be theatre, when the Rev. J, G Pateraon attended to deliver a leotnre and tbo lecture wae Id consequence post poned, It was rather a oolneldenoe tha the subjoot of th<? leotaro shonld bi ■ "Jaok and Jill. ■' The acoldent whloh si dleoorcerted the well-known pair wonl< riot have oconrrcd had rbo rain been fall ' Ing when they started on their Ul-fatei journey aa i.t did hero last night. The; ' could have plaoad tho pall outelde thi 3 door. 3 The alterations to oar thoatre, post poned on acoonnt of the Thornton date 1 being cancelled, will now be prooeedei - with, and when finished the stage will bi one of the beit In New Zealand, am 1 capable of staging any play whloh oan b c produced In the colony, What purports tobs a dastardly aUemp 1 to wreok a train bstween here am - Tomoano, on the night of the 11th, ha ' been reported. The police have th matter la hand. Three sleepers wen 1 found on the line by the bntohers pro ceeding to work at 5 o'olook in the morn b log. It Is thought the perpetrators hai 3 a design upon the special train whloh wa 1 to have been through with the volunteer at an early hour in the morning, A man named Whlteslde was this morn i Ing fined lOi, with the alternative of 4! noun' Imprisonment, for b?lng drunk.