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Hastings Standard, Issue 126, 21 September 1896, Page 4

Owing to the heavy demands on the rolling-stock on the Western Australian Government railways, the Government has just indented upwards of £300,000 worth. This will make nearly £450,000 worth that has been ordered during the current year. A leading Dunedin lawyer has had imported a pair of pheumatie roller skates—the first pair, it is believed, that has been brought out to Duuedin. Great speed, it claimed, may be attained by this means of locomotion. The advent of the learned gentleman, meantime, gliding noiselessly along at a rapid rate is anxiously being looked forward to. A somewhat pecular accident occurred in Masterton on Tuesday last. A lad named Harold Mcintosh, a son of Mr D. W. Mcintosh, was returning home from school, when one of his comrades tripped him and he was thrown on to the footpath on his head. He was picked up, and at the time he seemed only a little dazed, but subsequently he became ill, and it was found that he had sustained a slight concussion of the brain. It will be some days before he returns to school. There is a man—we presume we are correct in describing him tlrasly —on the staff of the Napier Telegraph, who writes funny little things under the heading of "At Home and Abroad.'' The Government — the people's Government—the Premier—they all rise before him as a dismal nightmare, and he shivers and shakes and runs his fingers through his hair, and sits himself down and writes billious tarradiddles under the heading of "At Home and Abroad." All wo can say is that when he gets hold of a homely subject he is very much abroad, and when a broad question comes before him he is not by any means at home.—Wairarapa Star. Neil's Compound Sarsaparilla. 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. Confound it! said a testy old gentleman the proprietor and editor of this paper ought to be shot; I was just reading a nice pithy little paragraph, and found it wound up by advising me to take Wood's Great I'epperment Cure for Coughs and Colds, sold by all Grocers and Chemists ; the price was only Is 6d, but the advice was invaiuable.—Advt.

BARRY BROS. &;CO., £JAERIERS, FORWARDING AND CUSTOMHOUSE AGENTS, &c. Wood, Coal, and Grain Merchants. Agents for— WESTPORT COAL COMPANY. Furniture carefully removed. YAEDS: MARKET STREET, HASTINGS. White Road, Napier. Waghorne Street, Spit. J£ ING ' SADDLER & HARNESS-MAKER, 78, Emerson Street, Napier. Direct Importer of Saddlery from the Best English Makers. Orders and Repairs promptly and properly executed. Agent for Hawke's Bay for the " Humber " Bicycles. By SPECIAL ajwhntmekt. MOATEI C? t—PRIZE MEDAL 9 PURE CEYLON & INDIAN TEAS Now Within the Reach of All CEYLON INDIAN OR BLENDED EACHPRICE AND UP TO 4/PER LB SOLO STALL GROCERS. 1/8 m 2/1