LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hastings Standard, Issue 84, 3 August 1896, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Skating Rink was again well patronised on Saturday night. Captain Russell arrived from Wellington by the express on Saturday evening, and returned this morning. An inset referring to the business of Mr. Joseph Palmer, herbalist, appears with our issue to-day. The investigation into the case of the infant found in the Makirikiri creek has elicited nothing new. The adjourned inquest will be held to-morrow at 3 p.m. The members of the Ainatuer Opera Company meet for rehearsal of lolanthe at the Princess Theatre at 7.50 this evening. Wednesday next is Arbor Day, but so farno official announcement has been made as to how the event will be celebrated in Hastings. We acknowledge receipt of a parcel of Parliamentary papers, including a voluminous report on the goldfields of the colony. The Hastings Brass Band is an institution worthy of every support from our citizens, and it is pleasing to know that the tickets for the art union in aid of the funds for purchasing new instruments are going off freely. At one o'clock this morning the fourroomed cottage of Mr William Morcland, of Fernhill, was discovered to be on fire, and in spite of all efforts the house and furniture were destroyed. It appears that Mr Moreland returned home at. about nine o'clock, and in order to make himself comfortable took some fire from the kitchen into the fireplace in his bedroom, and retired to rest about 10 o'clock. He knew nothing further until he awoke and found the place full of smoke, and he had not much more than time to escape from the house when the building was in flames. Both house and furniture were insured. The usual fortnightly meeting of the Loyal Hastings Lodge was held in the Oddfellows' Hall on Saturday evening, Mr G. Dixon presiding. Amongst the business discussed was the forthcoming district meeting to be held in Napier on the 12th inst., and Bros. A. A. George, Livesey, and W. G. Martin were appointed to attend as delegates representing this lodge. One new candidate was initiated. It was unanimously resolved to present P.G. Bro. J. W. Livesey with a P.G. regalia in recognition of his many services In connection with the lodge. Bro. Livesey, who has been connected with the order for over 15 years, has during that time been a tower of strength to the society, and by his untiring energy and universal popularity lias done a giant's share in the work of the lodge, earning for himself the respect and esteem of his fellow members. On Saturday we were the recipient of as fine a selection of oranges as could be produced anywhere, from the orchard of Mr J. N. Williams, of Frimley. On a twig about a foot long were six splendid samples of the fruit, weighing s|lbs. They were rich in color and delicious in taste, and it is not too much to say that they were superior in every way to the best imported article. Under the watchful care of Mr D. McNamara. Mr Williams's orchard is one of the best kept in the district, and a perfect model for fruit-growers. When the codlin moth was so destructive two years ago, Mr McNamara had his trees quite free from the pest, and it is mainly due to his assiduous care that the ravages of the moth have been minimised. If oranges can be raised to such perfection at Frimley, surely sufficient could be grown throughout the district to open up a profitabl| trade. While on the subject of fruit culture, would it not be an encouragement to keep the trees clean if Government offered a bonus of say .£IOO for the cleanest orchard in the North Island and the same amount in the South? It would certainly encourage some owners to cope with the ccdlin moth and the blights that are proving so disastrous to fruit trees all over the colony. A Maori syndicate has started a billiard room at Levin, and so populai" has the game become that it is proposed to make additions.

At a recent American wedding the " W r edding March" was whistled by twelve girl friends of the bride. The reported discovery of diamonds at Hanging Rock, New South W 7 ales, has caused much exietement, and hundreds of acres have been pegged put. Mr Friedlander, of Asliburton, has adopted a plan for fattening pigs on turnips, feeding them off like sheep. Mr Friedlander estimates that in this way pigs can be reared until they are four months old at a cost of not more than a penny per head per week. A new company, to be known as the Wairau Meat Freezing Company, Limited, having a capital of £20,000 in £1 shares, was formed at Blenheim a few days ago. The proposal adopted is that the company this seasonshall only erect works necessary for killing stock and conveying carcases to Picton, the meat to be frozen on sailing vessels at that port. Housewives in search of good domesties will probably appreciate the motives which led to the insertion of the following advertisement in the South-eastern Herald of England : " General servant required; board school training ; liberal wages; use of piano; time allowed for practising violin and dancing; all evenings out; followers unlimited ; dirty work done by mistress and daughters ; early riser objected to ; bicycle and modern costume provided; latchkey; highest reference given, none required." According to a late issue of the London Daily Graphic, a man between 70 and 80 years of age was found by the police wandering about Lavender Hill, Battersea, and being unable to give an account of himself or his friends, was conveyed as a " wandering lunatic" to the Wandsworth and Clapham Union. It was then discovered that he had in his possession a pocket-book containing nearly £4O in gold, and an envelope addressed " W. C. Denneson, ' Danevirke,' Hawk's Bay, New Zealand." The lot of the policeman is still not a happy one. At a Prohibition lecture at the Taieri the local constable occupied a whole seat to himself, and while he sat in the middle of it and drank in the words of the lecturer he fell through the seat on to the floor with a crash that made the lecturer think that a whole row of bottles had shot their corks at the same time. The two ends of the seat rose in the air, and almost met over the unfortunate officer's head, and while he no doubt suspected the lecturer of playing a low down d«dge on him the lecturer looked as if he imagined the policeman had done the thing designedly—Exchange. A terrible accident occurred a few days ago at the Shamrock claim, Addison s by which a man named J. Hepburn was partially buried through the falling of a face of rock. The matter for wonder is that he was not killed on the spot. In addition to losing most of the teeth of both upper and lower jaws, both jaws were found to be shattered to pieces and dislocated. Drs Willis and Macdonell succeeded in reducing the dislocation on one side, but owing to the shattered state of the lower jaw on the opposite side the dislocation could not be reduced. Acting on the advice of the medical men, the injured man will be taken to Wellington, where it is thought that by the aid of the Rontgen process and better surgical appliances more may be done for him than in Westport. Neil's Compound Saiisaparilla. A household medicine .for purifying the blood and toning up the system. In large bottles at 2s 6d at Neil's Dispensary, Emerson street, Napier, and all leading storekeepers.—Advt. Stop that Cough 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 Dispensary, Emerson street, Napier, and all leading storekeepers.—Ajdvt. Neil's Celebrated Liver Tonic, a pure botanic remedy for all affections of the liver, biliousness, jaundice, yellowness of the skin, indigestion, &c. In bottles, 2s and 2s 6d, at Neil's Botanic Dispensary, Emerson street, Napier, and all leading st or eke eper s. —Advt , Neil's Corn Cure removes either hard or soft Corns. A few applications only necessary. Is per bottle at Neil's Dispensary, Emerson street, Napier, and all leading storekeepers.—Advt. " Drunkenness is not a sin—simply an excess of conviviality," says a thirsty philosopher. " Nothing like a good skinful of whisky for a bad cold." Don't you belive it, my friends, take that unfailing remedy, Woods' Great Peppermint Cure for one shilling and sixpence.—Advt. Mr. L., a broad-minded pressman, met Mr. C., a Prohibitionist, the other day. " That's a nasty cough you've got," said L. " Come and have a rum hot; it'll do you good." "No, thanks ; Woods' Great Pepperment Cure for me; it beats all your rum hots for coughs and colds, it's sold everywhere."—Advt.