Directory of Local Bodies.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Issue 38, 11 February 1899, Page 3

Directory of Local Bodies.

-0 — Waimate County Council meets lasi Wednesday of every month. G. Y. Coch r»ne, clerk. Waimate Borough Council (Domain Board), fourth Monday of every month, E. G. Baiter, clerk. Waimate IJospitaJ. Trustees meet s&nie day as Waimate County Council. G. Y. Cochrane, secretary. Waimate High Elehool Bqard of GoTtrnors.' G. H. Graham, secretary. Waimate Public Library Committee meets first TVEon'day 'in fcyery month. J. BE. Dean, secretary. ' Magistrate's Court sits alternate Thursday, Oddfellows' Lodge meet* every alternate Monday. Waimate Eifles. W. Coltman, captain. Drill second and fourth Wednesday m month. Waimate Brass Band meqts every Monday and a J^ J - Harwood, bandmft^gp j B. Goldstone, secretary. " llU St. Augustme's Lodge (N.Z.C.) meets Wednesday on or before full moeu,

Mr Cedil Rhodes is negotiating with King Leopold for an ultimate junction of the Khartoum and Zambesi railways. Six veterinary surgeons have been selected by the Government to inspect the meat from New Zealand ports. It is custdmary in China to Congratulate a fat man, because it is taken for granted that he must be rich. Two Mormon priests, from Salt Lake, accompanied by Sydney Whastriga have gone to Kaiapara to proseletyse the Maoris. At a rileeting of the' two Oamaru bowling clubs on Tuesday night, it was decided to hold the annual bowling tournament at Easter. Gold fish are Of Chinese origin. They were originally found in a large lake near Mount Tsientsingf &nd were brought to Europe in the seventeenth century* Those who have converted from one form of Christianity to another generally display a strong animus against the church they have left. It is not generally known that all persons to whom light gold is tendered may break) Cut, or deface any coin below the current weight. In the reign of Edward 111, all the bi'dwers and bakeis were wdmen, ftnd when men fiist begfln to engage in these occupations it was thought so stiange that they weie Called nienbrewers and men-bakers. It would be difficult to imagine more extraordinary digestive powers than those of the HyvOna. One of these beasts has been known to swallow six large bones whole without crushing them. It is understood that Lord Kitchener, of Khartoum, when on his visit to Balmoral, presented to Her Majesty many interesting relics of the famous fight outside Omdurinan. A million loan is now being raised under several Acts of the Legislature, principally the Advances to Settlers Act and Aid to Public Works Act. The latter authorises half a million for railways, rolling stock, roads and bridges. The Education Department has received over 100 applications from married couples in all parts of the colony for the position of master and matron of the Burnham Industrial School, at a joint salary of .£240 a year, with board and residence. The Chinese Government, in accordance with the demands of Sir Claude MacDonald, have declared Nanningfu, at the confluence of the Yuluang and Tookiang rivers, a treaty port, thus completing the opening of the Urst river to trade. A prohibition by the London County Councils against empty cabs standing in the principal thoroughfares in London has created dismay among the cabbies, and two thousand have refused to ply, alleging that it is useless to do so in the face of the prohibition. The coin known in Austria as the kreutzel* has been withdrawn from circulation, and will not be accepted even by Government after December 31st, 1899. The coin has been in existence since the fifteenth century, and took its name from the cross marked upon it. There is a growing feeling among Frenchmen that Eussia has failed them at a critical moment, and that her alliance will prove but a broken reed in a time of emergency. This fact has probably had as much to do with the change towards Italy as even the prevailing anger against this country. The past half year of the Wellington Typogiaphical Society shows that tho period has been the most disastrous yet chronicled in connection with the trade" in the city, principally on accouat of the introduction of the linotype machine f which had been the means of adding to the large army of unemployed hand compositors. In the test case brought to decide whether the Stratford rifle range is safe, the Stipendiary Magistrate imposed a fine of Is, and condemned the range in scathing terms. It was a constant source of danger, and detrimental to property in the vicinity. No reasonable expenditure could make it safe. The club loses heavily by the decision, as they have already spent large sums on the range.

The shortening df the San Fra'rtcis'c'cJ mail time by twd days from tHe coVny 1 to London will probably be inaugurated next mdnth by the Mariposa/, wHicH not leave Auckland 'until Mdndity 1 , Scitb. prox., in place of the pfaviofdai Saturday change. This will reduce , tide ilirddgh mail time to London to 30 day 3. The AilVtißTiSEit is read by e'vefybddy. Advertisers take note. The Eais'Si 4 , addressing iHe berg Diet, said that his lio'uSe Haii succeeded cfaiefly through niaintairiirid their personal responsibility to tHe iluier of Heaveri. Whilst tinexpiated siri reigned in the world, war and hatred wduld exist. United Germany Avaa the bUlWafk of peace. M. Cb'nStans, French Ambassador at Constantinople, has pYotea'te'd to the Turkish Government against the concessions made to a German railway syndicate to control the railway^ i i Anatolia, and to construct docks and warehouses at Haidesj some distantie south of Scutari. He complains that tlie concessions will prove injurious to tils' tfrelnch Cjjitfty Company. dape Horn is a gieat tadss df rock rising abruptly from the sea Arid forming a small island, 'dpoci on«! of thfci lodges of this rook stands a coverdd barrel, thti internationul letter boit of a rfigion iriorS th.tn 500 milei from anything that resemble civilisationIt is the 1 custom of captain's passing round the Horn to send it boat ashore at this point if possible, take whatever mitll Is going in tha diidction of the vessel, and drdp in whatever it is desired shall go in the other direction A well-knowri profe«sor h&i f6und reason to think the faint light which we 1 can get in darkness, or with dosed eye*, arid which appears in the fortn of rings, wdVM, and irregular figures, is due not, as is generally supposed, to chemical changes in the 1 retina, bdt to iomethmg occurring in the brain, •Which he calls " cerebral light.*' He traces a close connectiori between these figures and those of dreams, and thinks that the hallucinations produced by drugs like haahiah may be simply modifications of such figures.