LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hastings Standard, Issue 160, 31 October 1896, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Hon J. Carroll goes on to Gisborne to-night by the Anglian. Mrs Mackie, wife of J. Maekie, Rumania, died yesterday. Deceased was well known in Ilawke's Bay. Mrs Adjutant Diew lectures to-morrow night at the Barracks on " The sad end of a rich man." Brethren of the Heretaunga Masonic Lodge meei to-morrow at the Lodge Rooms in order to attend Brother l'eter Ramsav's funeral.

The H.B. Jockey Club committee has decided that bookmakers will not be allowed on the course at race meetings during the remainder of the season. The Salvation Army self-denial fund in the central division (headquarters, Wellington) totalled over £'looo this year, as against Jt'BOO odd last year. Lovers of the skating pastime will have an opportunity this evening of indulging in the pleasure, the Columbian Kink being open at the Princess Theatre.

The concert to be held on the racecourse to-morrow afternoon should prove a big success both financially and otherwise. The Napier Hospital funds will 110 doubt be largely increased therefrom.

Adjutant Drew collected the sum of <£ss in his self-denial mission. This amount exceeds that of last year although Clive and Taradale districts have been tacked on to Napier. The energy of the local Adjutant is being felt, and the good work of the Army is receiving its due reward.

Mrs G. Hastings has disposed of her premises in Heretaunga road to Mr "W . Mcnldev, and announces a sale of her stock of fancv goods for any reasonable offer. Mrs Hastings is the oldest shopkeeper in the town, having been in business for over 17 vears. Her retirement will be regretted by a large number of customers, especially at Christmas time, when her shop was a centre of attraction to town and country folks alike.

Tattersall's XI sweep on the Melbourne Cupis only half tilled. The anionnt payab 1 e to the drawer of the winning horse will be .£15,000, less 10 per cent. This reduction is attributable to thefaet that investors prefer having four chances in the 5s sweep before one in the £1 sweep. Three difierent--5s consultations on the Cup have filled on this occasion.

Miss Lee, who annunces her card ill this issue, requires 110 introduction to the Hastings public at our hands. Indeed throughout the province Miss Lee is well known and highly respected. Her capabilities as a thorough musician are placed beyond the pale of question by the diplomas which she holds from Trinity College, London ; but as it requires qualifications other than musical to be a competent teacher, it may be said that Miss Lee is a most painstaking, patient, and, above all, sympathetic instructress, who devotes all lier energies to imparting her art to her pupils, and they, in almost every instance, reflect the highest credit on her tuition.

Mr Peter Ramsay, well-known throughout Hawke's Bay, died at the Fernhill Hotel this morning at 10 o'clock. Deceased was of a kindly disposition that endeared him to all with whom he came in contact, and very many were the acts of charity performed by " Old Peter " during his lifetime. He arrived from Scotland .wars ago, and has resided all that time in the" district. Xo one was more popular with either pakeha or Maori, and the latter are cengregated to-day at Fernhill in scores to carry out a tangi. Deceased was (>0 years of age and leaves a wife and four children, all married. r I he funeral will leave for the Havelock cemetery to-morrow afternoon, when Masonic honors will be accorded the departed brother.

We hswe received a copy of the balancesheet showing the maimer in which the moneys subscribed in the matter of the Fllesl'ey fund has been expended. It will be recollected that some 12 months ago the Klleslev family were left totally unprovided for, and a fund fur their relief was initiate d which realised £lO5 18s. The llev. Father Smyth and MrC. Cughes were appointed trustees of the money which was expended as follows: —C. P. Joyce for cottage, .£2O; C. Brausch removing same, £8; H. 'long section land, £2O; If. Collins building chimney, £(>; Ganiinon and Co. timber, £ls 10s; I>. McLeod timber, X'l l'is; lb L. Knight timber, £5 !5s Bd ; Messrs Scott and Muir wages. .£;> 10s ; S. I'ong work, £l6 ; registration of deeds, ifcc-., £2 4s sd; W. Y ickers fencing. £1 ; C. Waldron cutting thistles, :>s ; .1. Stack carting, ss; insurance risk. ss; insurance on .£9O. 14s lOd ; \\ . Lane carting, -"is ; liennett and Hone strainers and binges. 8s Od ; Williams and Sons nails. -is Od ; making a total of .£lO7 5s 9d. The fund fell short of this amount by .£1 7s S)d. which sum was made good by the Uev. Father Smyth.

There were 1:30 applicants for the position of truant-olticer in Wellington.

The Wellington correspondent of the Lyttelton Times expects to see the elections on the fiOth November. Three hundred bales of wool were despatched from the Masterton railway station last week. It is expected that four hundred bales will be sent away this week.

Mary Ann Savers was arrested in Masterton yesterday afternoon on a charge of performing an" illegal operation on a married woman.

The Wanganui Herald understands that several estates in the Ivai Iwi and near the Westmere Lake are to be cut up into sections, and oftered to the public. The Lyttelton Times states that Mr Duthie, M.ILK.. informed a leading temperance man in the House the other day that not only would the Opposition refuse to help the Temperance Party, but would tight them all they could. It is stated (says the Feilding correspondent of the N.Z. Times) that out of forty odd applicants for the situation as clerk and treasurer to a certain local body, everyone stated his religious creed with the exception of one, and the members decided to elect him. and found after he had been installed into office that he was an exparson. Fact !

The Union Bank of Australia is extending the New Zealand system of having a resident inspector to each of the Australasian colonies. The resident inspector in "Wellington. Mr G. E. Tolhurst, has been appointed to organise the system, and he will shortly leave for Melbourne for that purpose. During his absence Mr S. Hallamore, who is at present manager of the bank at Christehurch. goes to Wellington to relieve Mr Tolhurst. Mr Warprop, it is understood, proceeds to Christehurch to take up the management- there. Master .Tames Suisted, nephew of Mr James Suisted of "Westport, accompanied Captain Robertson, of the barquentine St. Kilda, on her last trip from Westport to "Wanganui, for the benefit of his health. As the boy's condition became serious after the vessel left "Wanganui last week, Captain Robrrtson put into Queen Charlotte Sound, taking the sick boy in a boat eight miles to Picton. He was admitted to the Hospital where every attention was given him, but he died last Sunday of paralysis. The body was forwarded to Westport for interment. The "Wellington correspondent of the Wairarapa Star wires as follows : Country visitors should be on their guard when coming to Wellington during the Exhibition season. The city is infested with a number of thieves and criminals from Sydney and Melbourne of the worst class, some of whom have been seen about town. That these individuals are here "to carry on their nefarious practices during the Exhibition and Christmas holidays there can be no doubt, and the police will use every effort tc break up the gangs before it is too late.

That horses have n good memory is (says the Wanganui Herald) borne out by the fact that one which had been impounded lately at Durie Town, wended its way back in the middle of the niglit a few weeks after, and by backing against the gate of the pound woke the keeper np. "When the latter went out to see what was the matter the equine visitor neighed a recognition and plainly intimated that he wanted to be impounded again. He was accommodated and made straight for the hay rack, where his owner found him next morning finishing off the remains of the statutory feed. So well satisfied was the horse with it that he stubbornly refused to leave the pound, and it took his disgusted owner some time tli get the horse away. He now has to hobble it at night to keep it from returning to the pound, and putting him to the time and expense of releasing it.

Neil's Celebrated Livkr 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. Stop that Cocgh by taking Neil's Balm 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 Igtuiiiig storekeepers,-"Advi.

The following appears in last week's issue of the Budget:—"Wanted, Five dozen Bull Pups to keep off Prohibition Canvassers from annoying our wives and daughters in our absence and imparting untruths to the detriment of LIBEKTY —Apply sending particulars to Worry-em. The Tuapeka Times states that a man named Hobert Currie, of Coal Creek, recently made a desperate attack on Mrs H. Smith with an axe. The woman's husband roped the infuriated mail down, and secured him until the arrival of the police. It is supposed his condition was caused through excessive drinking. A retired Civil Servant —without a pension—is one of the most spineless creatures 011 the face of the earth. Compared to him a jellyfish is a being with a backbone of iron. He—the ex-Civil Servant —has so long been accustomed to look upon the Government as his father and his mother that when its aid is suddenly withdrawn from him he falls prostrate in an amorphous moaning heap. He feels utterly helpless when cast out without provision into a' cold, hard, rudely-com-peting world, which has to hustle for its living, and can do nothing but wring his soft white hands and wish he. had never been born.—Melbourne Tunch. It is understood by the Hawera Star that as a result of experiences in connection with the erection of the Hawera Post-office by co-operative labor, the Minister for Justice lias arranged for the compilation of a price book to regulate prices at various stages of building. He thinks that from the outset the price given to the men for this work was, taken as a whole, 011 the low side, and this was aggravated by want of provision for graduating the payment according to the difficulty of the work. It is therefore intended to fix prices so that they shall increase as the work rises from the ground and there is more difficulty in carrying on the work. A contemporary tells a story regarding the latest up-to-date method of liow-not-to exterminate bunny in Central Otago. A stranger was commenting on the number of rabbits 011 a certain run, when a rabbiter chipped into conversation with—- " Well, what can you expect ? Old Sheepshanks won't pay extra for does, and you bet we won't kill them off if we can help it.'' He frankly confessed that there was not a rabbit inspector yet born who coald catch him. He wound up his remarks by declaring that when any of them were around lie turned up a few sods near the main road and sprinkled some unphosphorated oats about, and tlie guileless inspector rode on his way, quite satisfied that the farming of rabbits is an unknown art in that district.

Wellington warehouse prices are in every instance charged by the 1). 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. It's a fact, says a well-known Christchurch divine the other day, to a friendthat Cough Mixture, called Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, is the very best thing for throat Irritation and Cough I have ever taken ; I notice all the Grocers and Chemists keep it—a never failing remedy. Wholesale Agents, Drug Co.—Advt.