LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hastings Standard, Issue 227, 22 January 1897, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A lost collie dog is advertised for. A continuation of Indian sporting stories appears on our fourth page. There woro 85 civil cases at tho Waipawa Court yesterday. Sharks are very prevalent on the coast just now. A fisherman at ('live caught three good-sized ones in his nets this morning. A lamp has been erected at the corner of Heretaunga road and Nelson street on tho Theatre side. The Palmerston North howlers plav a friendly match this afternoon 011 their green with three rinks from Napier and two from Hastings. At the K.M. Court, Waipawa. yesterday, two Maoris were convicted of spearing trout in the Mnnganoaka river, and were ouch lined X"2, with costs 7s. interpreter 10m, witness Ids 6d and solicitor '2ls, or 14 day's hard labor in Napier gaol. A hardened criminal named .Jorgenson alias llanuis alias Hansen alms .lansen, was brought up before Mr Heilby this afternoon charged with being a rogue and a vagabond. Tins accused, who had a record of 40 years of iieeumuhUed senteiiceu, pleaded guilty and was sentenced tti I'2 months imprisonment. Mr 1 ><• Lisle met with a very nasty accident \esterday. He was out driving in the country with his wife uiid baby when the horne took fright and bolted. Mr l>e Linle Iwd till but pulled up the mud brute when the left rem broke, and there was nothing left hut to pull the horso into 11 high hedge on the- shle of the road. I a doing »o both horse and trap nutl'cred considerably. and on .ihghtmg Mr l»e l.tsle found that two uf the finger* on his right hand wertt broken. Mm IV l.:«lc ami baby escaped an> bruken bones, but .•ufferwl •overely from the »hork. Owing to the accident Mr I>« I .isle w ill ix» unable to do an* fiklio luiuug for Utt prtoctit.

A man named Hansen was arrested yesterday at Napier for stealing a watch in Hastings. The Christehureh Women's Union have decided to establish an Armenian Relief Fund. In default of paying a fine of £45 for having uncustomed cigars in his possession at Paeroa, Marcus M'Dowell was brought to Auckland last night to serve six months' imprisonment. George Lawrie, of Wailienga, near Martinborough, was found dead on the road yesterday. It is believed chat he had been thrown from his liorse and his neck broken. The evidence of the man Chappie, who is accused of putting "ihe woman Jessie Hay on the fire at Kereru recently, was heard at Wellington yesterday. He states that the woman had been drinking heavily and walked into the fire herself and tried to climb up the chimney. The Wangaheu bridge, near Carterton, ' caught fire yesterday, it is supposed by a | spark from a traction engine. In a very plucky manner, Mrs Cameron, who was J driving past, kept the flames in check until assistance arrived, and the structure was saved. Says a Dunedin telegram:—A petition, having, it is understood, been forwarded to the Calonial Secretary in favour of j granting a license to the railway refresh- | inent room at Clinton, in the Clutha district, a counter representation has been forwarded by the officers of the Clutha Electoral Prohibition League. At the District Court, Palmerston North, before Judge Kettle, on Wednesday, the Rev. Innes Jones sued Jane Evans for slander. The defendant was charged with having accused plaintiff of making improper proposals to her in his kitchen on Sunday evening, sth July, and of informing other persons of such proposals. The plaintiff claimed the nominal sum of £5 each on the two charges. After the trial, the jury found a verdict for plaintift on both charges, and defendant was mulcted in the amount claimed, £lO. The New Zealand Institute is taking steps to preserve records of the unique characteristics of the Maori race. It is intended to publish the work in five parts, the first of which will be • ready shortly, and will be devoted to illustrations of Maori art. The other four parts will deal respectively with Maori habitations, weapons, ornaments, and dress. The work is being undertaken by Mr Augustus Hamilton, Registrar of Otago University, and arrangements have been made for MiHamilton to go through all the Maori country and obtain the best photographs possible. An accident, which resulted in the sad death of a young man named Leonard Cole, occurred at Foxton yesterday. The school children from Feilding had gone on an excursion to the Foxton Heads and during the afternoon three children got into Cole's boat, and while playing someone cut the painter loose. The boat drifted out into the stream and eventually capsized, the children being nearly drowned before they were rescued. In the excitement of rescuing the childreu the boat was allowed to float away, and noticing this, Cole pluckily swam out to bring her to shore, but failed to reach her, and before help could be obtained he was drowned. The unfortunate young fellow was about 28 years of age and was a son of Mr E. Cole, fishmonger, of Palmerston North. The three children were brought on by the train, which passed through Palmerston about 10 o'clock last night, and were said to be in rather a bad way. —Standard. After being in the water since May 17, 1895, the remains of a man named Thos. Yiddler have been identified by his wife. It seems that on the date mentioned deceased and two other men had the misfortune to bo capsized in the Akiteo river, through the boat striking a snag. The two other men succeeded in reaching the bank", but Yiddler was swept away with the current and disappeared. The remains were discovered by a man named Frank Newman, who, while bathing in the river on January 5, trod on the skull, and subsequently further portions of the skeleton were found. As no one has been missing since the man Yiddler lost his life, Mrs Yiddler (now Mrs Lunt) was communicated with, and she identified the remains as those of her husband by the fact that similar teeth were missing as those in the skull and also by the formation of the frontal bone. At the inquest on the remains at Weber on Sunday last the jury found that they were those of Thomas Yiddler, who was accidentally drowned. The utility of the Rontgen X rays as an auxiliary to surgical science is being well proved by their employment in the treatment of a little daughter of Mr. J. L. Murray, of Masterton. Some ten months ago the child, who is six years of age, fell from a table, and received injuries to the elbow joint of the right arm, as the result of which the forearm has ever since been paralysed, through partial stoppage of the blood circulation, and the lingers of the hand have been drawn up very painfully. The patient has suffered intense agony and has been muter chloroform some 30 times, but her medical attendants have found it impossible to ascertain the condition of the arm without, opening the flesh. Now. showever, thanks to an application of the X rays to the arm, and the taking of a shadowgraph l>y Mr, It. T. Turnbull, the exact position of the displaced bone ha* been revealed, and the nature of the growths at the joint to some extent made clear, so that the surgeons will know exactly the position where they will need to operate. !■',( ( i,ks' QrtNiSK ami liioN' Tonic con ains (Quinine ami Iron in a high stute of purity, and is tin- most agreeable, strengthening, and efficient agent yet discovered. Us «>d per bottle. To be obtained from A. Ho les, chemist, Napier and Hastings, and at all leading country stores. —Anvr. Nun. s Cokn Ci'kk removes either hard or M)fl t orns. A few applications only necessary. Is per bottle at Neil's Pinpeiisarv KnuThon street, Napier, and all leading storekeepers.—A DVT. It's a fact, sa>s a Well.know Christchurch divine the other day, to a friend, that Cough Mixture, called Woods' Ureal Peppermint Cure, is the ver\ best llnng for throat Irritation and Cough 1 have ever taken; J notice all the Grocers and Chemists keep it- a never failing remedy. 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