LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hastings Standard, Issue 460, 26 October 1897, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Omahu Notes from our own correspondent and other interesting matter will be found on our fourth page. The Druids meet this evening, when nominations of officers for the ensuing year will take place. Captain Kussell went south by this morning's express to attend to his Parliamentary duties.

Mr Dennett conducts a sale of the effects of Mr Ellingham, who is taking Mr Stock's Hotel, on the premises, Gascoigne street. The Native Land Court, Dannevirke, has adjourned the balance of its sittings to Hastings, commencing on the 17th ult.

Two employees of the Wellington Gear Company have drawn Lord Richmond in Tattersall's 5s sweep on the Melbourne ( up. The same two men won £IOO over the Caulfield Cup. The traffic returns on the Napier-Tara-naki section during the four-weekly period ending September 18th amounted to £14,124 9s 3d, against £12,900 lis 5d for the co) responding period of 1896. Mr Alf. Eeid holds a sale of farm plant, horses, cattle, pigs and sundries on the farm at Havelock at 10.80 a.m. to-morrow-oil behalf of the trustees in the estate of the late Mr James Boyle. A correspondent of the Dunedin Star appeals for help for Mr Thomas Bracken. He states that Mr Bracken has been lying upon a sick bed for many months past in a little cottage at the back of the tram shed at Mornington, and that it is the opinion of those who ought to know that he is not long for this world. The Jubilee address to the Queen signed by 25,000 school children in Auckland was brought to Wellington at the request of the committee, by Mr William Douglas, co-editor of the New Zealand Herald, and by him presented to Lord Ranfurly, to be sent to Her Majesty. His Excellency forwarded it to London on Saturday. The address is of elaborate design, and one of the most artistic yet produced in the colony.

In the reign of James I. Croydon in the south and Garterly iu the north were celebrated racecourses. Another very famous race-meeting in those days was held annually at York; the only prize was a little gofden bell, which was the recognised prize at all race-meetings till Charles 11. established races in Hyde Park, and, instead of bells, gave silver bowls as prizes. It was about this time that race-meetings were first held at Newmarket; but the races at Epsom were not commenced till about 1771. The first race for the Derby was in 1780, won by Diomed. No little mystery attaches to the discovery of the corpse of a singularly beautiful woman, attired with considerable refinement, which has been picked out of the Seine. It had been at first imagined that some terrible crime had been committed, as the delicate features showed traces of wounds, which were presumed to have been inflicted with a knife or dagger, but a close examination has revealed the fact that they were caused after the submersion of the body in the water. Nor, indeed has the original theory that the young woman belonged to the upper classes . derived confirmation from the circumstance that she is found to have been tattooed in a very lavish manner with certain odd and rather vulgar devices, couched in the following style; " A .Julot pour la vie." There is, however, one motto which has attracted the particular notice of the officials, and has led them to infer that some strange mystery has yet to be uuravalled, as it runs thus : " Mort aux traitres." It is thought that this lovely girl may have played some secret political role, and that her death may be connected in some odd way with certain events of a startling character. Eccles' Quinine and leon Tonic contains 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 tores —Advt.

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An active lad to milk and drive is ad vertised for.

The driver of one of the little open carriages known as " carazellas ' that ply in Naples for hire, has murdered the driver of another who secured a fare of 20 centimes (2d), to which the first one thought himself entitled.

During September last 106,687 gallons of milk were supplied to the New Zealand Farmers' Dairy Union from the various creameries. This is an increase of 42,383 gallons upon the amount supplied in September, 1896. The sum of £l3Ol 7s 3d was advanced for the milk supplied during the month.

Aluminium neckties are on sale in London. They are fastened to the collar button by a band round the neck, and are particularly recommended for summer wear, since they can easily be cleaned when soiled, while they are not perceptibly heavier than cotten cambric or silk.

Mr Field, the member for Otaki, spoke as follows in the House on Friday : —" I have pity and contempt for a man who lias to go about with a blue ribbbon in his coat for the purpose of parading his weakness before the world. He is only one remove from a drunkard. Gambling in this country does quite as much harm as whisky. ... I have drunk too much

A cablegram recently announced that three American tourists had been drowned by being carried over the Niagara Falls. It appears that the men most foolishly attempted to sail from Chippewa down stream. Owing to the mismanagement of a sail they were drawn into the current, and the boat got beyond control in sight of the people on the shore, about a mile above the falls, and was swept away. The craft capsized in the rapids ; and the men, exhausted by pulling, were shot out and whirled onwards over the upper cascades. The boat was washed ashore. One man had nearly reached land, where the people were l'eady to rescue him, but he was caught by an eddy, and all were swept into the mad battle of rapids and rocks. They were last seen above the Horseshoe Falls, and then disappeared, carried over the awful green centre of the downpour on the Canadian side. A man who has been much troubled with warts in the course of his life says he finds an infallible cure is to rub the wart with a bit of bacon. Only one rubbing is necessary; the wart, whatever be the reason gradually disappears as if by magic. This treatment was suggested by an old woman who removed his warts when he was a boy. She, however, insisted that to be effective the bacon must be stolen, and attributed the cures she wrought less to the bacon than to the way it was obtained. When the boy became a man he naturally guessed that the virtue was in the tiling not in the theft, and on trial found bacon honestly come by equally effecth e.

Referring to the unexpected diversion which took place in the House of Representatives on Wednesday night on an amendment that the debate on the Budget be postponed, and in which the " Left "Wing" voted against the Government, the Dunedin Star says : —" It was a close shave, and calculated to intensify distrust of the Left Wing, which comprises an insignificant quartet, whose silly vanity aspires to control the balance of the voting power of tha.JTouse and the destinies of the country. The only safe policy for the Government is in future to regard the quartet as open foes and take precautions accordingly, or else some time, when least expected, the Government may suffer a damaging defeat through the eccentricity or treachery of false friends."

The following story about the late Duke of Hamilton and his Arran tenants will be new to some During the races at Hamilton one year his Grace invited a number of the tenant farmers to Hamilton Palace to witness the sport. Amongst tho.se who came were one or two elders in the Kirk, and one who held a similar office in the Free Kirk. Just before leaving the Duke asked the Free churchman how he had enjoyed himself " Grand, your, Grace, grand an I've won some bits of bawbees, too. But dinna let on about it to anybody, for I'm ail elder." Tuts, never mind that," srid the Duke. " So-and-so and so-and-so have been betting, too, and they are also elders." " Oh, ay, they are elders, nae doot; but they are Auld Kirk elders, an' they're not nearly so strict about their duties as us Free Kirk folk."

It happened the other day on the West Coast. The clergyman was round among the dwellings to rope them in for a service he was to hold that night. One of the miners whom he visited hadn't the moral courage to say no, and so presented the excuse that he was on night shift at the battery. To his surprise the clergyman said " The very thing, as you will not require your bunk to-night I will come and sleep in it." The miner felt he had tumbled in all right and could not see away out of the hole. Yvhen bedtime came and the parson got back from the service, the miner went out to seek sleeping quarters elsewhere, and the parson turned into the vacant bunk. All went well until the morning, when the miner's mate, passing by and noticing no one about, concluded he had overslept, and decided to wake him up in double quick time. Rushing in, and being sure he had his man before him snug between the blankets, he seized him by the legs and gave them a vigorous pull, saying with emphasis as he did so: —" You lazy devil, why dont you get out ? " The clergyman has not yet recovered from his suprise.—Brunner News.

While business was going on briskly at the Garrison Band Fancy Fair at Wellington the. other evening, and the crowded gathering was enjoying itself to the utmost, a cry of " Fire " was suddenly raised, causing general consternation. Most of those present made a wild rush for the doors, and for a short time the scene was one of excitement and danger, mothers racing round looking for their charges, children screaming for their parents, and men folk endeavoring to pacify their startled companions. It is marvellous that no one was hurt in the hurry to get outside, for the steps leading into Vivian street were densely packed by struggling people, intent on self-preser-vation. It appears that some small bovs in playing about the building loosened the strings attached to the screen above the stage, and brought it into contact with one of the gas jets, with the result that it instantly flared up, setting alight other material in the vicinity, Several members of the band, as well as persons in the audience, promptly pulled down and extinguished the burning articles, and so ended the danger. Bandsman Goodchild, who was very prominent in this work severely burned his left hand ; so also did another young man. To add to the excitement, a man, who had climbered on to the rafters to pull away some of the flags, &c., stood upon a temporarily fitted up gaspipe which gave way" beneath his weight and he fell with a crash to the floor. There was a general cry of " Turn out the gas," and this was done after some difficulty, damage being caused to the meter in the operation. The fallen man was carried outside, where u was found that beyond a swollen wrist be had sustained no serious injuries.—Post.