LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hastings Standard, Issue 219, 13 January 1897, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Miscellaneous extract matter appears on our fourth page. The County second cricket team are today engaged with the Taradale team. Colonel Newa.ll inspects the local Volunteers oil the '2Bth inst. Tenders for tarring and sanding the cemetery footpaths close on Friday next at noon. Mr \V. V. Dennett will sell furniture and miscellaneous goods at his rooms tomorrow afternoon. Mr Karnshaw, ex-M.ll.if. for Jhinedin, is now employed by a firm of plumbers aud brass founders in Wellington. A bullock dray with'a team of 12 bullocks is in Hastings to-day with a load of barley for Messrs Williams and Kettle. To-morrow promises to be a lield day at the S.M. Court, as a large number of of cases under under the Borough byelaws are set down for hearing. Mr (larnefl is making rapid strides with the erection of the infants' school. The building, when complete, will be an acquisition to our public structures. The son of Mr I arsons, our local stationmaster, has been transferred from the South Island to the Waipawa railway .station on promotion. The annual general meeting of the Hastings Fire l.rigade is called for next Thursday evening. The announcement appears elsewhere. There are five vacancies in the sergeant division of the N.X. police at the present time. The new appointments will not be made until sometime next month we understand. If there is one thing more than another that jars on a sensitive ear that particular thing is an untuned piano. There are some people who are quite content to thump away oil a wretched instrument an octa\e or so below concert pitch, and the rents in the vicinity go down ; but these poor creatures are more to be pitied than blamed for their lack of tune, but that man or woman who wilfully and with malice aforethought inflicts a discordant piano on a long - suffering community should be dealt with by the strong arm of the law. Mr 1>» I,isle, with bis reasonable fee.s, leaves no excuse for untuneful instrument* in Hastings. if there is an individual in this town that requires cheeking for the careless manner he drives and rides horses through the mam streets it is the red and brazenfaced buy emploved b\ one of the local butchers. This would-be knight of the pigskin may be seen any day with the blue jacket on riding or driving an unfortunate burse unh the aid of a pair of cruel hooks on his heels or a stuck -whip in his hand. I'nder* tho prevention >■( cruelly lo amiiiula ah.lie this very swift youth should be brought it round linn. No regard whatever Is paid to the i< r iii(ioii re driung of riding round i itnt ik, but Biuoe day wheli it is too late an I it serious accident will '«• the outcome of tins misguub'd lad's driving the law will step in and say : •' You Imv# *rriou»ly injured or killed someone ; von must not do It again. ' It m quite needless to hero mention the boy s name a» lie is well known to observers about town. It Is rumored inay* the North Otago Tiine»i that Mr itolUntoi! will probably replace Captain liuasetl al the hitter's request) »• leader of the Opposition in the HuUK ui Ifepr»««t)tfttiv«i.

The dastardly act of stabbing horses is the latest from Christchurch, and three cases have already been reported. At Christchurch on Monday burglars succeeded in lifting £SO boelnging Mr W. Bowman, auctioneer, Hereford-street. A spark from a bush fire destroyed the residence of Mr T. Gore, at Parkville, near Eketahuna, on Sunday. The insurances are .£IOO in the North German office, and £SO in the Is ew Zealand. A remarkable record of grass-seed cutting has taken place at Mr H. L. Donnelly's Cricklewood station, Wairoa, according to the Guardian. Last Tuesday week after dinner Mr Donnelly let a contract of 180 acres of cocksfoot to 60 Natives and four Europeans, who liac! the area down by 10 a.m. on Friday. Sir Robert Stout has been instructed by Mr Te Ao, the second on the Western Maori poll, to take steps with regard to the petition against Mr Kaihau's return. The chief grounds are that many voted under 21, and that some of the successful candidate's nominators were also under that age. At the Auckland Police Court yesterday Andrew M'Leod was charged on the information of Mr Ferguson, Inspector of Factories, with having, as the keeper of a servants' registry office, committed a breach of the Servants Registry Office Act by receiving from Albert J. Lock a greater fee than allowed by the Act. Defendant admitted that he had received 10s instead of 7s 6d. He was lined 40s with 30s costs, and his license was endorsed. Eccles Cascaka Liver Regulator is a safe and effective remedy for Stomach and Liver Complaints,, such as Indigestion, Headache, Constipation, Furred Tongue &c. It never fails to relieve or cure. 2s 6d per bottle. From A. Eccles' chemist, Napier and Hastings, and all leading country storekeepers.—Advt. 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 D. 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.—Ai>vt. Eccles' Quinine and Ikon Tonic conains Quinine and Iron in a high state of purity, and is the most agreeable, strengthening, and efficient agent yet discovered. 2s 6d per bottle. To be obtained from A. Eccles, chemist. Napier and Hastings, and at all leading country stores. —Advt. Stop that Corcm by taking Neil's Balm of Gilead, a positive cure for coughs, colds, chronic bronchitis, influenza, &c. In large bottles at 2s bd, at Neil's Botanic Dispensary, Emerson street, Napier, and all leading storekeepers. —Advt.