LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hastings Standard, Issue 106, 28 August 1896, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A five-roomed cottage > is advertised for sale. Two cows and a heifer are advertised for sale. lolanthe rehearsal takes place this evening. A change in the weather brings us back to winter again to-day. Influenza is said to have a firm hold of this district, and the epidemic is spreading rapidly. In connection with the HawUe's BayWellington football match to-morrow the afternoon train has been delayed. The annual social in connection with the Knights of Labor Assembly will be held on Thursday, September 10, as the date previously announced will clash with another function. Rev. Mr Morley arrives this evening by express from Wellington and will lecture at the Wesleyan Church at halfpast seven. Mr Morley is set apart as a general organiser of the Wesleyan Church. He is the much-travelled and has been in all the bush settlements from Auckland to the Bluff. No man lias seen more of New Zealand life. We hope a large crowd will come to-night and give the rev. gentleman a patient hearing. His lecture is entitled, " What I saw and heard in America." For the first time this season lovers of football will have an opportunity of witnessing an up-to-date game. To-morrow afternoon on the Recreation Ground at Napier, Wellington will meet Hawke's Bay. The former is one of the premier teams of the colony, and is capable of giving a thorough exhibition of the scientific portion of the game. Our representatives are a fine body of men, and are certain to make a big fight for supremacy. The Hastings district should be well represented amongst the spectators as there are hundreds of admirers of the game in our midst. A meeting in order to form a local branch of the Juvenile Templars was held in St. Matthew's schoolroom. Mr T. Kingswell, who convened the meeting, occupied the chair, and there was a very good attendance of children. It was decided to form a Juvenile Temple under the patronage of the 1.0.G.T.. and 14 children were enrolled. It was resolved to send a deputation to the Presbyterian Band of Hope with the object of recruiting members. Mr John M'Coniiell, superintendent of the Spit Juvenile Templars, will come up here on next Tuesday for the purpose of installing the officers of the new lodge. A Volunteer cadet corps is being formed at Waipawa.

For creating, a disturbance at a Salvation Arm} 7 meeting at Norsewood the other day a man was fined £1 14s or a fortnight's imprisonment.

It is stated that the shock of the Wanganui larrikins' cannon-firing at midnight on Saturday lias retarded the recovery of the liev. J. Treadwell, who is now in a very critical state of health.

The question of corporal punishment in schools is to be enquired into by the Otago Education Board, the School Inspectors, and the Committee of Management of the Otago Educational Institute, with the view of drawing up a regulation on the subject. Rev. L. M. Isitt on the police;—" He believed they were more sinned against than sinning, and that it was the head of the Police Force that was to blame for the way the law was administered. He held that a Royal Commission should be appointed to enquire into the position of affairs." A man named Thos. Sonntag was fined 40s, with £2 9s costs, and ordered to find sureties to keep the peace, for annoying a girl named Kate Martin by following liar along the public streets of Dunedin and continuing to speak to her against her will, and finally assaulting her by putting his arm round her neck. "While a "human pyramid" was being formed at an entertainment at Milton, it overbalanced, and a young man named James M'Millan, who was on the second tier, fell on his back against a step, with one of his comrades on top of him. He was able to walk home, but complained of pains in the abdomen. Peritonitis supervened, and caused his death. At the inquest the jury returned a verdict to the effect that no blame was attributable to anybody. Beautiful New Zealand! The land overflowing with the buttermilk and applesauce of prosperity—produces anything and everything, such as petticoat government, unemployed, and coughs and colds veritably; but' that's not a drawback, they can be cured in every form by taking Woods' Great Pepperment Cure.—Ajdvt. Neil's Compound Sarsapap.illa. 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. Neil's Celebrated Liver Tonic, a pure botanic remedy for all affections of the liver, biliousness, jaundice, yellowness of the skin, indigestion, &<?. In bottles, 2s and 2s 6d, at Neil's Botanic Dispensary, Emerson street, Napier, and all leading storekeepers.—Advt. Stop that Cough by taking Neil's Baku 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.—Advt. Neil's Corn Cuke 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.