The Hastings Standard Published Daily TUESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1897. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hastings Standard, Issue 401, 17 August 1897, Page 2

The Hastings Standard Published Daily TUESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1897. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

For the cause that lacks assistance, For the wrongs that need resistance. For the future in the distance, And the good that we can do.

An interesting account of the Colonial Troops at Home will be found on our fourth poge. It will be seen from our telegraphic news that Parliament is expected to meet on Thursday, September 30. At the S.M. Court this morning, before D. M'Leod, Esq., J.P., a first offender was convicted of being drunk and was discharged. The local representatives of the New Zealand contingent are expected to arrive in Hastings from their Jubilee trip on September Bth. We understand that preparations are being made to give them a reception. Lord Ranfurly has promised to visit Auckland on the 25th inst. The Governor will probably bo asked to give his patronage to the A. and P. Society's show to be held in Hastings in October. Messrs Williams and Kettle, Ltd., report holding their monthly stock sale at Beecroft's repository to-day when they offered, to a moderate attendance of those interested a small entry of stock, owing no doubt to the unsettled state of the weather. We realised the following prices : —cows, forward in calf, from £o 2s 6d to £'> 10s; y.-arlings, up to £1: only inferior sorts offered ; horses, from £2 10s for light hacks up to JSIS for heavier sorts. In the Magistrate's Court at Wellington yesterday a firm of drapers was charged with a breach of the Shop Assistants Act with having employed a shop assistant to deliver goods half an hour later than the prescribed time for closing the shop. . The assistant in question was the son of a carrier, who contracted to deliver defendants' goods, and it was contended that he was not liable under the Act. The case was a test one, and the Magistrate, in dismissing it, said he could not unduly strain the interpretation of the statute. Writing under date 24th June, a London correspondent says:— Mr and Mrs Seddon and their two daughters continue to be feted to within an inch of their lives and they are enjoying an experience such as has hitherto fallen to the lot of very few colonists, if any. As the Queen's guests they have been at State balls, receptions, concerts, garden parties at Buckingham Palace and elsewhere. They have a tremendous round of brilliant gaiety still before them. Eccles Cascara Liver Regulator is a safe and effective remedy for Stomach and Liver Complaints,, such as Indigestion, Headache, Constipation, Furred Tongue Ac. It never fails to relieve or cure. 2s 6d per bottle. From A. Eccles' chemist. Napier and Hastings, and all leading country storekeepers.—Advt. Cheapest Grocers in Hawke a Bay. Get oar pi ice list f*r all kinds of groceries and provisions. Only best brands kept.—At PATTWttOH & Co-, Napiw.—

The Druids meet at 8 o'clock to-night

A good housemaid is advertised for. The weather to-day was truly wretched, being cold and wet. Sister Mary Aloysius died in the Greymouth convent last week. She a daughter of the late Mr P. Duugan, who was at one time editor of the Tablet. It is reported that Mr Ivess has started, or is about to start, yet another newspaper —this time in the North Island. The Eev. Dr Hosking has been lecturing 011 astronomy in the Wesleyan Church, Hamilton. A female offender in the Auckland district has been convicted 170 times. Her offences include drunkenness (111 convictions), vagrancy (37), malicious injury to property (9), assault (1), theft (10) and breaking and entering (1). It is said that the once wealthy squatter who introduced the rabbit into New Zealand is now a rouseabout on the station he once owned. The rabbits completely ruined iiini. The Marine Department was advised on Saturday that the Monowai struck a rock while entering the Bluff harbor on Friday. The vessel has not evidently received suliicient injury to cause an interference with her time-table. .The following are the dates arranged for the test cricket matches to be played during the coming season between Australia and Mr Stoddart's team : —Friday, 10th December, at Sydney ; Friday, 81st December, at Melbourne; Friday, 14th January, at Adelaide; Saturday, 29th January, at Melbourne; Friday, 25th February, at Sydney. This programme has been arranged so as not to clash with the V.R.C. races.

"When Governor Atkinson of the State of Georgia, learned two months ago that his son, 16 years of age, was going to elope with the daughter—only twelve years old —of a neighbor, lie locked the boy up, and the little girl was packed off to a distant school by her father. Four weeks later, however, the youthful pair eseaped from their guardians, and were married by a justice of the peace. 80 the parents made the best of it, and a second marriage took place, at which were present all the dignitaries of the State. " After all," says the Governor, "it is the best to love young. lam proud of my son. He has grit, and I will do all I can to assist the couple to take honored places in the world."

In the course of an interesting article on the Jubilee procession the Westminster Gazette says:—"The fact that all that are left of the heroes of the Balaclava Charge were to he assembled together in one of the weekly paper offices in Fleet-street for the purpose of paying homage, perhaps for the last time, to their Queen had dfearly not been kept from the Court. When the carriage of Her Majesty arrived at this spot, the signal for a halt was made along the line by bugle after bugle. The Queen turned to the window at which her old soldiers were congregated, and for the minute or so during which the halt lasted the old men stood bareheaded, and cheered with the greatest enthusiasm, while the Queen herself was clearly touched by the warmth of their greeting." When a housewife buys her tin of kerosene she little thinks how she is helping to swell the riches of the wealthiest man in the world —John D. Rockefeller. This gentleman, says a contemporary, owns more than half the shares in the Standard Oil Company, one of the greatest monopolies in the world, and from which most of the kerosene used in Australia comes. The par value of his shares amounts to the modest sum of ten millions. In three months he added four millions to his fortune through these shares alone. In February last his shares were worth £26,000,000. At the time of writing they are worth .£80,000,000. Every day of his life now this modern Croesus adds £IO,OOO to his fortune. Outside the Standard Oil Company Mr liockefeller has .£20,000,000 invested in enterprises of vast magnitude, and a rough estimate places his fortune at £50,000,000. Yet at the age of 35 this man had not £2OO to his name.

Further evidence was heard in Wellington on Friday morning in conueetion with the shocking charges against the man Alfred Percy Westbury of indecent assault upon two girls named Everilda Bowden and Edith Howell, aged respectively fourteen and twelve years. Tlie evidence showed that the girls, though young in years, had for some time past led shameful lives, one admitting quite openly, and without the slightest sign of shame, that she had sought the accused. Mrs Bowden also gave evidence. The accused reserved his defence. Mr Wilford asked whether the accused was to be committed for trial on the evidence of such a girl. His "Worship said that the charge possessed somewhat different features from the charges against other men, and though he would commit for trial, he would not, as he had done in the other cases, increase the amount of bail. Another similar charge against the same accused was then proceeded with. The youngest witness yet produced, Violet Bowden, a mere baby, just nine years of age, gave evidence that the accused had indecently assaulted her companion, Edith Howell, at "Westbury's house. Do you want a good durable pair of Trousers ? Well leave your lfteasure at Dodds'. Only 12s 6d. Address, Heretaunga street.—Advt.

Defiance Packing Co.'s Coffee is the purest and best. Ask your grocer for it. —Advt.

In view of the approaching winter you cannot do better than purchase Dodds' Seasonable Suitings to order at £2 12s 6d. Address, Heretaunga street.—Advt.

I STOPPED THAT COUGH AND CURED A very bad cold by a single bottle of Dr Pascall's Cough Mixture. Signed, R. McDowall. 4s 6d and 2s 6d. Eccles chemist, Napier and Hastings.—Advt

Our stock of boots, shoes, and slippers is very large; we are giving ihe best value in Napier. See our window for price.—Patterson & Co., Napier—Advt

To the deaf and those troubled with noises in the head or other aural troubles, Dr Nicholson, of London, the worldlamed Aural Specialist and Inventor of Artificial Ear Drums, has just issued the 100 th edition of his illustrated and descriptive book on Deafness and Aural Troubles. This book may be. had from Mr Colin Campbell, 160 Adelaide road, Wellington, N.Z. Mr Campbell was cured of his deafness by Dr Nicholson s system, and takes pleasure in spreading was decided not to hold the usual trotting meeting in October as it was considered the news of the great specialist in New Zealand. xV little book on the cure of Rheumatism, Corpulence, Lumbago, and Indigestion by the same author, may be had from Mr'Campbell, also free. —Advt. Men's shooters 7s 6d, English Balmorals 8s 6d, Bluchers Gs 6d, shoes from 8s 6d, slippers Is 6d. See our window for prices,—Paxthbsos & Co., Napier—A»yt.

There are still a number of cases of iniluenz.t in town. A silver palace is to bo a feature of the Mississippi Exhibition. It is to be 400 ft' square, the whole to be covered with rolled silver. In proportion to 1000 of population Wanganui had the lowest death-rate of any borough in the colony last month. Greymouth and Hokitika were the highest. No less than 400 cases ol rabbits were received at the Mataura Freezing Works on Saturday week, and on the following Tuesday the number was over c! 00 cases. That means about 12,000 and 9000 rabbits respectively. The average number of cases received during last week was 200 per day.—Southern Standard. The Carterton Leader says :—There seems to be au unusal run on one market at least in the district, viz., the Matrimonial Market. The marriages in Carterton during the last few months have been phenomenal, scarcely a few days elapsing without " the knot being tied " in one church or another. In point of number the Espicopalian Church is leading the other denominations in this connection, two out of every three weddings being celebrated in that sacred shrine. Eccles' Corn Paint quickly removes either hard or soft corns. Only a few applications necessary. In bottles Is 6d, from A. Eccles, chemist, Napier and Hastings,—Advt.