LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hastings Standard, Issue 456, 21 October 1897, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A cottage is advertised to let. The time for receiving tenders for the seven-roomed cottage in Karamu road has been extended to Wednesday, 27th. Why pay a big price for your suits when you can get as good material with a superior cut and style at two-thirds of the sum from Dodds' the popular Tailor, Heretaunga road.—Advt. Large stock of spring and summer suitings. Every variety of best material at moderate prices. Cut style and finish guaranteed by Dodds' the Tailor, Heretaunga road.—Advt. It is said that Mr Tom Pollard lias paid the sum of £IOOO for the New Zealand rights of " DjinDjin.' The piece will be staged in Hastings in March next. There are one or two wags in the House of Representatives. " "What made the Scotch nation what it is?" asked Sir Kobert Stout on Tuesday last. " Porridge' was the retort. The new proprietor of the Stortford Lodge Hotel takes the premises over on the 30tli inst. Mr Stock proceeds to Wellington where he has some business interests which require his attention. This morning as a horse and cart belonging to Mr Lawton, of On e, was standing in the railway enclosure some waggons, which were being shunted, struck the cart, breaking the axle. Fortunately no other damage was done. While bathing at Scarborough recently a youth dived in shallow water, inadvertently buried his head in the soft sand, his legs sticking up in the air. Had it not been for his father, who was close by, the youth would have been drowned. As it was the sand crept into his ears and burst the drums, making him stone deaf. The amount devoted out of the civil list to native purposes last year is £6843, of which £1443 was spent in pensions, the bulk of them being in Auckland district, £403 for assessors, £llß3 in medicines, £76 miscellaneous salaries, £1205 food and clothing, £225 travelling expenses, and £2314 for contingencies. Of Sir George Grey isavs a London correspondent) I regret very much to say I have a poor account to give. His health has, in fact, broken down altogether, and his present condition is exceedingly grave. His illness latterly lias taken a very distressing form, and his condition is a source of the deepest anxiety to his many friends. Five men were lynched on the night of the 14th September at Ogood, Ind. They were caught at burglary and strung up by a crowd of angry citizens. The many burglaries which have occurred in the neighborhood have stirred the people to frenzy, and they determined to make an example and carried their plans out with despatch.

Robert Fitzsimmons, the New Zealand pugilist, has been arrested in New \ork on a warrant secured by Howard J. Patterson. Patterson had been acting as coachman for the pugilist, but Fitzsimmons discharged the coachman, and a quarrel following, Patterson now claims that Fitzsimmons assaulted him. Patterson has also sued the pugilist for S2OOO damages. During the discussion on the question of out-door relief at the Charitable Aid Conference at Wellington on Tuesday morning, the Napier delegate (Mr R. D. 1). M'Lean) referred to the excessive cost to station-owners of providing meals and shakedowns for "sundowners.' It was estimated that as many as 1000 received assistance on one station in his district last year, and though he did not suggest that station owners ought to get a £ for £ subsidy, no doubt they deserved it as much as the Charitable Aid Boards did. After the Polo Tournament which will be held during March next Mr W. Stock purposes to lay down a bicycle track on the Trotting Course at his private expense. Mr Stock is a true sportsman, and his action is a reproach to the paltry selfish spirit in which the question of a public recreation ground was approached some months ago when the object of some public spirited people was defeated by miserable personal jealousies. If the people of Hastings were large minded and generous the town would be one of the chief centres in the North Island instead of being known throughout the colony as a Napier suburb. Mr Alexander M'Lennan, who died suddenly at Waitati on Wednesday last, at the ripe'old age of 98 years, was, says the Dunedin Star, one of the few remaining links that connect the present with the past, tie was born in Applecross in Scotland, in the year 1799, and was a splendid type of the "old Scottish shepherd. Although a resident in the colonies since 1861, deceased never got a proper grip of the English language, and his speech was always quaintly interlarded with Gaelic expressions and phrases. For twenty years he was head shepherd on a station in the Mackenzie country, after which he took up his residence at Double Hill, Waitati, and there spent the remainder of his clays. Both deceased and his wife, who survives him, were well known throughout the district. Sydney is as well supplied with professional street beggars as any part of Australia and the public are beginning to grow l-estive at the opportunities afforded them of bestowing indiscriminate charity. Their complaints have reached the ears of Mr Brunker, who has addressed a communication to the Inspector General of Police on the matter. It is stated that while the Federation Convention was sitting, the number of mendicants prowliug round the vicinity of Parliament House was very much in excess of those ordinarily met with, and that the delegates appeared to be singled out for the attentions of those who gain a living by working on the good feelings of others. -, A deputation consisting of the employees of the two Wellington meat preserving and freezing works was introduced to the Premier last night by Mr Wilson, M-H-8., and asked that employees in meat preserving works should be exempted from the provisions of the Eight Hours Bill, as unless such workers were permitted to work overtime in the busy season they would not be able to earn sufficient to keep them in slack times. In reply the Premier said the Bill was not intended to injure the working classes, but unfortunately the eight hours principle was not universally recognised, and in order to prevent a reversion to the old order of things the Government had determined to place the principle on the statute-book. He thought that the exemption asked for by the deputation might be made. Hallo there! Do you want a good summer suit ? Then by all means call on DoDds, the popular tailor.—Adyt. Eccles Cascara Liter 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' chemists Napier and Hastings, and all leading country storekeepers,—Aj>vt.