LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hastings Standard, Issue 157, 28 October 1896, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Correspondence and other items appear on our fourth page to-day. A number of trotting horses wont through to Palmerston this morning by the express.

The boilers turned uj) in force tllis afternoon, and the green presented unite an animated appearance. According to the Bush Advocate liev. I>r Hosking has a Prohibition debate in Danevirke with Mr Baker on Monthly and Tuesday next. To-night at fifteen minutes past twelve will be the second anniversary of tlie wreck of the s.s. Wairarapa on the rockbound shore of the Great Barrier Island. The members of the Godfrey Company left for Palmerston by the express this morning. The train was crowded with excursionists. It is said that a syndicate is being formed in Hastings for the purpose of erecting a commodious theatre in the vicinity of the Albert Hotel. There is no doubt the ITavelock end of the town is progressing by leaps and bounds. To-morrow afternoon a gymnastic competition in connection with the Ileretaunga School takes place, commencing at 2 o'clock. Mr ,T. A. Fraser will be in charge, and all interested will be welcomed. The competition should prove an interesting one, and no doubt there will be a large number of visitors. We acknowledge with thanks the receipt of part 7 of the Imperial Album of Xew Zealand Scenery, just issued from the oflice of Messrs M-Kee and Gamble, of Wellington. The Album maintains the high standard which has made previous issues so popular. Amongst the views is one of the lfunanga Falls, on the road from Napier to Taupo, Wellington wliarf, and other striking pictures. With reference to a patent proposed to be taken out by Mr li. C. Pitt, to which reference has been made in these columns, it was to-day put before the well-known financial agents, Stubbs, Paterson and Co., who have had some experience in patents, and they have discovered that it had been patented previously. This is much to be regretted, as we are assured that Mr Pitt conceived the idea six* or seven years ago, and then entrusted it to an agent, who apparently neglected it. Mr Pitt's agents will now' sift the matter and ascertain whether the patentee has made use of Mr Pitt's earlier information. "We may mention that the article treated is in use every hour of the day, and the patent would have proved a mine of wealth. It is to be regretted that Mr Pitt's idea appears to have proved of value to another in tha inteival. At Colga station, Coonabarabran, Xew South Wales. -1066 hogget ewes shore for 21 bales, weighing over 21 tons —a fraction short of 111b per sheep. A most obliging personage, living in Hangitikei district, wrote to the "Wellington police the other day stating that he could not appear on summons issued. He was working; could not be spared, and gave other reasons. However, if a warrent was deemed necessary for his arrest he would not give any trouble. If they kindly telegraphed, apprising him of the fact.'he would give himself up to the Feilding p >lice. The idea of the police wiring a bally-wanted man that they were going to arrest him is quaintly humorous. —Wellingtaa Times.

The Native Land Court is still occupied with Pukite.

Oar sporting contributor at C'hristchurch wires that Day Star did not reach the course this morning. He was going very sore and has been eased in his work.

There are ISO different religious de nominations in New Zealand at the pre sent time.

It is stated that a Liberal weekly paper is to lie started in Wairoa in opposition to the Guardian.

An optimist may be defined as a man who is happy when he's miserable, and a pessimist as a man who is miserable when lie's happy. Shorland, the cyclist, left Napier at midnight on a record-breaking tour to Wellington. If the weather keeps fine he expects to make a marked improvement 011 Fabin s time.

As showing the way the natives of Otaki are opposed to di'inlc, they forbade intoxicating liquor to be taken bv natives present at the tangi which was held there recently. One Maori managed to get the worse for drink, with the result that liewas fined IDs and locked up for the remainder of the time that the tangi lasted. —Farmer.

We believe in specialities on the farm, writes the Montreal Weekly Witness. Fvery farmer should have one. No matter how much general hj: ruling is carried on, some specialty should receive his bestthought and energy. At least let the specialty be to your liking. Follow your

'•fad" or fancy in the matter and you will most surely be successful. Specialists on the farm make move money than any other tillers of the soil.

It is not sill surprising that there has been a split in the Temperance Party in Dunedin. The extremists desire to force Prohibition down the throats of the people and demand that the men and women voters shall cast to the winds every other consideration than that, of the return of blind and blatant Prohibitionist candidates. Naturally there are hundreds of men and women who recognise in this narrowness and fanaticism a serious danger. They very properly ask themselves what is to become of the great principles of Democracv if everything is to be subordinated to an effort to bring about the unattainable. 'The same thing that lias happened at Dunedin must happen in all other constituences where the narrowmindedness and blindness of faddism seeks to bind a burden on the shoulders of the electors which they will emphatically refuse to bear.—N. '/. Times.

The ways of the learned pleader in the Court of Appeal are sometimes hard fsays the L'ostl. He is liable to be interrupted at any mement by one of the live Judges. For example, a record kept during argument by a counsel in the present sittings showed that in one brief half-limn-tin- learned gentleman was interrupted no less than ")0 times, or an average of one interruption in every three-fifihs of a minute. Of these SO remarks by the I>eneh. one particular .1 udgc 'contributed exactly half. Another record kept for another half-hour of the same counsel's address disclosed the extraordinary number of 7:'> interruptions from the Feneh within that time —one interrupiion every two-fifths of a minute. Again the Judge mentioned above was well to the front with a total a total of ->o interruptions. It will not be doubted that our Judges show a laudable desire to get at the bottom of the case brought before them.

The teachers of the Ilawera School, together with Mrs Struck, went for an outing at the AVaingonoro 15eaeh on Thursday (says the Star). The occasion was marred by a rather alarming incident. The party explored the old fort, rifle pits. iVc.. and then decided to cross the Imalm at the mouth. The tide was at about half, and Air Si rack carried the ladies across. After they had been across for a while the weather came up very rough and prevented rewading the stream. Accordingly some Maoris were beckoned, one of whom pushed across in a canoe, it being fastened by a rope to the bank. It was decided to take over two at a tune, and Alisses M'Donough and Purr verc the first- to go. In midstream, however, through the Maori standing up in the canoe, the occupants were capsized into the stream, which was then running very fast, and about sft deep. *The Maori rescued one lady and Mr Straek the other. Mr Straek then went in to recover the ladies' cloaks, i<cc.. hut was carried away by the stream and had to cling to the canoe. The ladies were rehabilitated in dry clothes, and a large fire started, and are none tile worse for their enforced drenching. AVellington 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 D. I. C., AVellington. 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. Neil's Celebrated Liver Toxic, a pure botanic remedy for all affections of the liver, biliousness, jaundice, yellowness of the skin, indigestion. &e. In bottles 2s and 2s 6d, at Neil's Botanic Dispensary, Emerson street, Napier, and all leading storekeepers.—Advt. Neil's Corn" Cure removes either hard or soft C orns. A few applications only necessary. Is per bottle at Neil's Dispensary Emerson street, Napier, and all leading storekeepers.—Advt. Neil's Compound Sarsapakilla. 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.