LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hastings Standard, Issue 153, 23 October 1896, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Correspondence and other items np pr.tr mi our fourth page to-day.

The Native Land Court: this morning wa-i adjourned unlit to-morrow, when I'ukite will In/ resumed.

Mr 11. IT. Hum has been appointed lieturuing Ot'licer for the ilawke's l!ay Klectoi al District at the coming general election.

Our leaders are again leminded of the marine excursion on the Te Anau tomorrow afternoon. Should the weather he fa\orahle no doubt country visitors will lie there by the score.

Mrs George Sands, well known in Hastings. died unexpectedly at lier residence. Avenue road, shortly before noon to-day. Deceased was highly respected, and her death is regretted by a. very large circle of friends.

()nr sporting scribe's < • ipsy (Irand ) tips for the Wanganui meeting were much in evidence yesterday. He picked four winners out of seven races. Had anyone invested £1 on the tips, including the unsuccessful ones he would have drawn £V2 Hs from the totalisator.

A concert was held at the Mechanics' Institute at Haveloek at which the following ladies and gentlemen sung:—'l lie Misses Tanner. St. Hill, and A. St. Hill; Messrs Louglman and -f. A. Krazer. Miss Nairn contributed a \iolin solo, and Miss Speight with her pupils from l'ukahu were very successful in their rendering of several glees.

I f Hastings had a proper riding track, with an energetic management, the Heretaunga Cycling Club should be one of the most important clubs in the North Island, and the local race meetings should bear a colonial interest. As the club, financially, is in a most healthy condition the committee should at once devise means for laying a racing track in order to induce visitors to compete at their animal sports, and when this is done, and not before, local cycling will receive a much needed impetus. The Mr Charles Godfrey announced to appear at the Princess Theatre on Tuesday evening next is none other than Cliarles Godfrey, the great London lion combine, whose name has been a household word for the past quarter of a century. Mr Godfrey, who will be supported by a specially selected Trilby Burlesque Company, has but recently concluded a most successful engagement in Sydney and Melbourne, and being desirous of seeing the colony prior to his early return to London, signed with Mr 1,. J. Lohr for a tour'of 24 appearances, six performances being allotted to each of the principal cities. The same proved such a phenomena] success the management persuaded Mr Godfrey to play a return trip through the Island, which will thus allow him ample time to take up his London engagements in on lioxing night. A Tiilby mammoth bill will be presented to the Hastings patrons on Tuesday, including the world-famed burlesque in Trilby, and the exhibition of the world's latest wonder. Edison's]" Kinematograph,"which in itself will doubtless attract a bumper audience.

Extra police surveillance being necessary during race week, a number of special constables have been sworn in at Wanganui. It is estimated that about 400 Chinese .-treamed into Gre.vmouth one day last week in order to take part in the •' feast of the dead." an annual observance religiously attended by Chinamen. Great parties were driven out to the cemetery, wlu re food was consumed, liquor drunk, eh it lies burned, joss papers sent a riving on the breeze, and formalities customary to the occasion gone through. After the •• feast of the dead." the living generally manage to have a gay time when they comc back after their own peculiar customs."— G. E. Argus. Wellington warehouse prices are in every instance charged by the I>. I. C. when executing orders received by post. Those of our residents who want really nice fashionable goods need not hesitate about communicating with the I). I. C., "Wellington. Complete furnishing is now a special feature of the D. I. C.. and those who anticipate requirements in this direction will be supplied with catalogues and estimates post free.—Advt.

In connection with the Godfrey performance in Napier to-morrow night the train usually leaving for Hastings at 10 o'cljck will not leave until 10.45. ~At the request of a large number of el ;ctors and influential chiefs Mr Touiati Fox, the well-known Native interpreter, has consented to contest the East Coast against the sitting member, Mr "Wi Pere. On Saturday last a man named Thomas Sepalbury entered Waters's Coffee Palace in Auckland, and presented a loaded revolver at several of the employes. He is now under arrest on a charge of lunacy. The production of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera, " The Mikado,'" staged by the Gisborne amateurs last Tuesday evening, is reported to be brilliantly successful from every standpoint. Mr ,T. G. Swan's Mikado is mentioned as being the best representation of the character ever given in New Zealand, and in some of his numbers he was obliged to submit to a double encore. The Cbristchurch police, according to the Press, are led to believe at present that the remains of the man found murdered at Mtmdeville may be those of a man named Suffrell, an umbrella mender, and some slight clue to identification is reported to be forthcoming. In the Ohoka district a report had gained currency last week that a suspected person, who had been seen in the district at a time probably corresponding with that when the murder was committed, was being shadowed by the police. This man was taken by the detective m charge of the ease to several persons who were expected to identify liini. but they were quite unable to do so. There are, however, other clues which the police appear to be carefully following.