HASTINGS NOTES.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 546, 29 June 1909, Page 9

HASTINGS NOTES.

(By Teldßraph.-Speclal Correspondent* Hastings, Jnne 28. • 01 . the Hewke's Bay Ploughing Match Committee on Saturday night, it waa decided to ask Mr. Sinclair, of f ra&Sr , - 1 town, to judge the horses, and Messrs. Cochrane, of; Lindsay Settlement, and Upsall - Grey, senr., of Onga Onga, to judge the /ploughing. . As showing the state of the labour market in the Hawke's Bay district, it may be montioned that the police visited one Sunday two Ttntenanted whares • usually used by swaggers passing through'the district in' search of, work, and found them occupied by twenty-two men, all out of work. This is an, unusual number, and indicates the scar'city of labour round about Hastings. At the morning services at St. Matthew's ' Anglican Church jestorday, the Ecv J Hobbs referred to the departure of tie Very Eav. Dean Smyth, who, after be- , ing here for 25 years'in chaTge of the Catholic Church, is now to be transferred to Meeaueo College. Tho preacher also referred '* ii. v -V- i 60,11 1? >? anll er to tho resignation oj tbo Bishop of Wttiami, who resigns this week at the age of 80 years. Mr. Hobbs tave a brief 'resume'of tho Bishop's early te since he-was ordained in 1853, and hu subsequent attainment of the offices of pnsrt, canon, archdeacon, and at tongth bishop. His dioceso extended from Tauranga to Woodvilk The preacher said that, though resigning an actiVft part m tho Church work, the Bishop wtraw still bo near them; and ho would hope that sometimes in St. Matthew's Church the aged Bishop would givo them the benefit of his venerable and oxuorienccd 'counsel. ' ' r ":' v