LOCAL AND GENERAL

Hastings Standard, Issue 27, 28 May 1896, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Mr Leask, dentist, Napier, visits Hastings every Monday ami Thursday. Nominations for tho New Zealand Cup close on Thursday next. I'. A. Herman & Co. hold a largo sale of new and second-hand furniture, &c. on Saturday. A late train is announced to leave Napier for Hastings on Saturday evening after the theatrical performance. Attention is called to the advertisement referring to tho disposal of the Elthorpo estate, of which full particulars can be obtained in a pamphlet provided gratis at the Hastings Post Office. At the Prohibition Council meeting at Masteiton Ilev. Dr. Hosking moved, That this Council recommend the Executive to arrange a plan of campaign in each electorate during the months of July, August and September. The motion was carried. Another new business in Hastings was opened to-day. Mr J Pellew, who has had large experence in many parts of the colony, has furnished a haircutting saloon in Station-street, and with good workmanship at lowest prices he should command a share of public patronage. There was a large attendance of brethren at tlie meeting of the Heretaunga Lodge of Freemasons last evening. Two brethren were raised and ono candidate initiated. Bro. W. G. Martin was reelected Worshipful Master for the ensuing twelve months ; P.M. Bro. G. Williams, treasurer ; and Bro. Cliudley, tyler. Last evening between five or six o'clock a bicycle belonging to Mr H. Castle was taken from the vestibule of the Post Office. The offender evidently was a novice at riding, and not being able to bring the machine under control, threw it over a fence some distance away. Th e bicycle was considerably knocked about. Wo acknowledge receipt from the re - preservative of Messrs M'Kee and Gamble of Wellington, of the first number of their Imperial Album of New Zealand scenery, a handsome and useful pictorial guide. Tho work is decidedly good, and tho half-tone engravings are beautifully printed. It is style almost unknown in this colony, and will compare favorably with work from the best English establishments. It is intended to issue tlie album in numbers, and if the sets to follow are up to the standard of the first one, the work is sure to become popular, and in consequence profitable to the enterprising "■'•in. No. 1 includes views of Napier, W-" 1 Coast, Lyttelton, Port Chalmers, V, ak-.iipn, &c. For the next set other at-

■ a ' : - <..-«nes are promised. M "SY. 'hoinpson, of the Oamaru Citi' , '• ft Napier at 10 o'clock ' ■-! ',h? intention of breaking 1V.;,; •>!•..! 1 ours 40 minutes to \\\ ihiu'i n. I r v.v- paced as far as ■' !>• - 5 ' - -''as taken on to ' v "-.i ;■>=■- »\\l ? Hastings, at a i A; .\tlock lie was se\i i * ' " r d, and at a v by half an hoi:*. " he hrr' he was only pulled p '' his chain eighteen : "i ■■ This accident neeessitai. ! > ' Mr Thompson returned to u• this morning. That he po - r>ir ;! will be admitted when it is staic'i He tackles the journey again to-day, lt.iV'";;-' Napier at 4 p.m. Given fine weather :> feels confident lie will easily lower the record. He holds the New Zealand road records for 15 and eighteen miles, having accomplished those distances in 40 minutes and 18 minntes 47J- seconds respectively. The Birmingham correspondent of the Feilding Star says:—" AladnamedFranckhauser, apparently rbout 8 or 9 years of age, was kicked on the face by a vicious horse at Eangawahia a few days ago. The poor little fellow had his jaw smashed. In its description of the International four-oared race, the Sydney Morning Herald says that for a mile and a half the New Zealanders pushed the Victorians, compelling them to row all they knew to keep the lead, but want of condition on the part of a couple of men in the New Zealand boat told its tale, so that the Southerners won rather easily at the finish.

The robe the Czarina wore at her coronation took six months to make. Its cost was L 40,000. Union Company's intercolonial steamers are now coaling at Aucklaud, in consequence of the Newcastle strike. It is stated that one large stock and meat shipping firm in Victoria will lose ,£12.000 over recent shipments of frozen meat to Great Britian. A racecourse has been laid out at Coolgardie. At the first meeting ,£IOOO will be giveii away in stakes, .£SOO of which will be added to the C-oolgardie Cup. The prohibitionists of New York State have managed to get a temperance text book introduced and made compulsory in the public schools. The racehorse Hopgarden was shipped from Gisborne to Auckland by the s.s. Tarawera. Mutiny and Tiritea were also on the steamer bound to Australia. A gentleman in Wanganui possesses plans for the construction of a flying machine, and is anxious to obtain a partner with a little capital to assist in constructing the same. Sir George Grey celebrated bis eighty - fourth birthday sitting at home nursing a bad cold. Unfortunately there is no disguising the fact (says a London correspondent), that Sir George Grey's health is by no means what it should be. Bronchitis is his chief trouble. It is only a few months since the Gisborne Freezing company commenced operations with a capital of about .£4OOO, and the result of four months' work has been a substantial profit for the shareholders. 28,871 slieep were frozen and '24,489 boiled down. Up to April 7th, the amount of butter imported into the United Kingdom from New Zealand for the season was 48,104 cwts, against 42,207 cwts the previous year. All the Australian colonies showed a decrease. Victoria from 106.183 c-wt in 1894-5 to 140.277 cwts in 1895-6. New Zealand cheese fell from 80,722 cwts to 2(i,8l8 cwts for the same period, and Victorian from 2877 cwts to 10 cwt. A most sensational suicide occurred in Birmingham. A man named Thomas Anderson suffered so incessantly from toothache that he blew out his brains with a ri fie. pulling the trigger by means of a string loop in which he inserted his foot. He left a latter which said " The toothache made me do it. I'd rather die than stand it any longer, so here goes. Good-bye." A 'woman named Hannah Moriarty, who attempted to committ suicide by jumping into the Yarra, at Melbourne, and was rescued by a constable, stated that her husband was residing on the West Coast of New Zealand. She further stated that he had slighted her, and sent her to iter brother at Perth, and that she had not since heard from him. The woman was remanded for medical treatment.

A peculiar recommendation was made by a Melbourne jury recently. A young man named Vivian was charged at the General Session with stealing a gold albert. The evidence showed that he went into a jeweller's shop and asked to be shown some gold alberts, and whilst the shopman was attending another customer Vivian walked out, one of the chains being afterwards found to be missing. The jury brought in a verdict of guilty, but recommended the prisoner to mercy, on the ground that the crime was unpremeditated, but was a sudden yielding to temptation. At Wanganui, on Monday night, Sir Robert Stout was asked by an elector who did not like the Chinese, if he was in favor of the sentiments expressed by his wife. The answer was to the point, and was as follows:—" I have always been in favor of female franchise, and whenever the question came up I voted for it—even as far back as 1878. I recognise the right of females to hold their own opinions, and to say because a lady is the wife of a man she must believe in everything with him would simply mean that the husband had two votes. My wife is just as much entitled to her opinion as lam to mine." At the Christchurch Magistrate's Court yesterday a butcher named G. W. Brventon was charged with having prepared and exposed for sale meat unfit for human food. Evidence for the prosecution, which was instituted by the City Council, showed that a son of Bryenton had removed portions of the carcase of a cow which had died from tuberculosis and the meat was found in a tub in defendant's backyard. The defence was that the meat was intended for fowl feed and that the defendant himself had been unaware of its being on his premises. Evidence was also given that the meat was not cut in a manner that it would have been had it been intended for sale. The case was dismissed. Writing under date, April 18th, the London correspondent of the New Zealand Herald says : —Mr E. Metcalf Smith, M.H.R., who is now in London, is actively employed in pushing various New Zealand interests, especially those connected with ironsand. I met him yesterday at the Agency-General, evidently up to his eyes in business, and as enthusiastic as ever. He is endeavouring to bring under the favourable notice of city capitalists the excellent opening for profitable investments, which he believes to be oifered by the mineral resources of Taranaki, especially ironsand, and he seems sanguine of success, although he informed me that, he considers it would be premature at present to furnish any detailed information as to his progress. Much consternation was caused last winter, amongst the medical men in Wellington, by the introduction of Woods' Great Peppermint Cure for Coughs and Colds : that a very bad cough could be cured by a 1/6 bottle, and a whole family, with a 3/6 bottle, was a serious loss to them. It is sold by all Grocers anc 1 Chemists. —Advt. Stop that Coush by taking Neil's Balm of Gilead, a positive cure for coughs, colds, chronic bronchitis, influenza, &c. In large bottles at 2s 6d, at Neil's Botanic Dispen- *;'. v y, Emerson street, Napier, and all 1 !ii storekeepers.—Advt. . - Celebrated Liver Tonic, a mi.',- vraiiu remedy for all affections of -.I::- ii'.-ci, -ness, jaundice, yellowness o' *'ii j tion, &c. In bottles, ■ 'iotanic Dispensary, Emerson -u i-f - Xtii:: >•. and all leading "vt, " r■! : ■ > '.T.A. A hou~ 1 ■- or purifying the b l -; >.»nui,u' *sp >•>.• vstem. In large ■ i; , r ri.i v v -*'s Dispensary, ]. . 'v.-!. •• , and all leading Stoi' r >- EII , i<F lemoves either hard or so ft i A few applications only necessarv. ' T>er bottle at Neil's Dispeusarv," Em street, Napier, and all leading sior»: —Advt. Lime in tbt '■ y may cause serious mischief T ito be tiu oncebathed wit-: we&!; vmejrar, or lemonjuice arid, water. It idj eye shows the least sk;!i itif! tmiiiitiioil a doctor should Be '