LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hastings Standard, Issue 129, 24 September 1896, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pressure of space crowds out our Omahu correspondent's letter. It will appear tomorrow. The Cricket Club meeting announced for last evening was adjourned to allow of the committee obtaining the names of intending members. There was a large attendance at Stortford Lodge yesterday to witness the glassball shooting, which is becoming a very popular amusement. Included in interesting matter on our fourth page is a letter on State fire insurance from the pen of B. Hallenstein, which is, well worthy of perusual. We acknowledge the receipt of the Mutual Provident Messenger, the journal issued by the Australian Mutual Provident Assurance Society, from the company's local agent, Mr R. Brathwaite. The programme for the Otaki race meeting on the 9th November appears elsewhere. In advertising in the Standard the Otaki committee are patronising a medium that circulates amongst every horse owner in the finest racing district in New Zealand. The benefit social in aid of the widow McLelland will be held in the Princess Theatre to-night. The tickets for the affair have been selling rapidly owing to the indefatigable efforts of the committee, and the affair is certain to be a great s\xccess. Mr Karrium Bux, an Indian specialist in treatment of the eyes, has decided to make a short stay in Hastings. Mr Karrium Bus is no stranger to New Zealand, as he toured the colony in the practice of his profession some four years ago, winning good opinions for his successful operations. " The Indian doctor comes amongst us with an excellent reputation, which his cures in optical and other diseases have secured for him, and his visit to this district may be the means of restoring many a sufferer to health. Mr Karnum Bux may be consulted at his rooms, Sehaeffer's cottage. To-night at the Salvation Army Barracks, Mr Kitchen, of Wellington will deliver Mr Spurgeon's well-known lecture •' Sermons in Candles." There will be a collection at the door in aid of the Salvation Army work. The Salvation Army is an organisation which, commencing in a small knot of enthusiasts fought its way gallantly through ridicule and persecution by the sheer force of its catholic charity and its masterly and practical handling of the criminal and pauper classes until today it stands a hallowed institution throughout the Empire, loved by the masses and revered by the State. Adjutant Drew, the local officer in charge, is an earnest man, working in a sacred cause which calls for the support of every thoughtful mind.

If there is one class of the community more than another which requires to be on its guard against plausible and unprincipled people it is boarding-house keepers. From the nature of their business they must necessarily see a great deal of the seamy side of existence. When a man is in that unenviable situation known as "down on his uppers" he generally falls back upon the boarding-house keeper for the inexorable necessities of existence until such time as the pecuniary storm has passed; but it often happens that when his troubles have been tided over and he is once more basking in the sun of prosperity, he is often guilty of the ingratitude of forgetting his friend in need until he is forcibly reminded of her existence by reading her name and his on a sky-blue document, of which by some means or another he finds himself possessed. Becently a lady, who gets a scanty living by letting lodgings, took in (or, possibly, it would be more correct to say was taken in by) a woman with a small family, who were hoisting distress signals. Compassionating the poor creatures she gave them food and shelter for two months at a barely sufficient to recoup her outlay; but when at the end of this period the slippery damsel got emplovraent she •" scooted," refusing point blank to liquidate the debt. A hard heart supplemented by a f»U stomach is the best armor far fighting the battle el §Siateace after all,

A nursegirl is advertised for. A housebreaker made a haul in the refreshment line at the S. A. Hall last evening, after the Wesleyan Church soiree. Last evening, by special invitation from the management, we were present at the full dress rehearsal'of "lolanthe." Criticism will be reserved for next Tuesday ; but it is only fair to the performers to say that last night's rehearsal was gone through from start to finish in a manner to do credit to any company. "VVe have no hesitation in saying that the opera will result in a brilliant success. Miss Mildred Lmdeman, 18 years of age. second daughter of Commander Lindeman, Sydney, has died from the effects of burns. It appears that on August 28, while the deceased was in the dressing room at Misses Liggins and Arnold's school, her dress came in contact with the flame from a gas ring, which had been left alight, and ignited. In her fright, Miss Lindeman rushed into the street, and being seen by a man named John Haslem, he promptly seized the girl and extinguished the flames, but not before she had received severe injuries, especially about the arms and chest. Beautiful New Zealand I The laud 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' Greut Pepperment Cure.—Advt. 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 storekeepers.—Advt. 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 Pepperment Cure for Coughs and Colds, sold by all Grocers and Chemists; the price was only Is 6d, but the advice was invaiuable.—Advt .