General News.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume II, Issue 2, 1 June 1899, Page 3

General News.

Owing to the prp' aUnce of diphtheria in flip Wood\ille district, the schools hive been closed tor a foitni'jfht. Sevpr.il cases, one fatal, have been' reported, i Polo— Five polo players from tho M'l'mwiitn distiict. uiCiutly visited Australia, and while them acq.nttod thetns -lyes with great credit. Thcv returned last Thursday hiving w>n se\ en out of the nine matches played Out of the 20 ponies they brought back only ele\en. having disposed of th-3 oiheis in Australia. TH'i Victorian Government offjrs spocn'l inducements m the w.iv of re du '-ed fares, to cvchsls to utilise the railways for a. run mlo the country when th rt v wish to ovcle the return fonrney only. The principle has been found to be sound from a commercial point o f view, and it was suggested at the meeting of the League of Wheelman on JI tid ay night that the New Z .*nl and GoAernm^nt night be approached with a view to getting similar concessions. Ult'initely it was decided to write 1.0 the Victorian League for -full -particulars relating to tiie concessions. ■ A Case presenting precisely similar circumstances to one in Punedm last week has occurred at Gisborne. A little boy was taken suddenly ill eight days ago, abscesses formed all over the body, and he died on Friday from acute blood poisoning, which apparently originated from a blister on his foot. The four doctors who attended him express the < p lion th.it it is wrong to allow children to go barefooted. Wanted Ladies to Know that we have in stock o\er 2000 Mad une Wfiigel's cut paper patterns which we sell at Madams Weigel's published prices. — Vitnrjß Jo^s-i & Co. BiND of Hope. — There was a good attendance on Tuesday evening at Makikihi, F.va Fuller providing. Bv le quest th 3 quartettes of tho picvious j meeting wero lvpjatedby Kitty Childs, j Fanny Waters, Man Fuller, and Prudie Simmons. li-ctatiions weiv given bv Llo^d Hamilton, Robert Harris , John Simmons, W Oter Waters, Kitty Childs, Lucy Witers, anl Messrs Q. Russell and G. Dash. Ihe membji'sh'p of this society stead'lv increases, tliare being now twenty pledged inQuibeis. (Yesterday Robert Dowi" was charged with bji'ig drunk and disorderly in Queen Street oi the 23rd. He was oonviefcod and ordered to-pay cost a 7s in default 24 hours. Mdosrs Coltiuau and Graham presided. What might have been a serious accidsnt hnppe'^d to Mrs M'Gdi\ y'e-,terd i v. Slu3 was dhvmg into town and "when turning the corner of the road from Painstown into Parsonage Road, the horse took it sharp and capped thu cart. Mrs M'Gee was thrown ou^aud bidly shaken. Messrs Thvne and J. AtwiU wei'e passing aud l.hey rendered what assistance they could, drawing >.the cart, the shatts ai which wei'e broken, into a neighbours yard till it could be taken into dry dock. JysT Opened — June number of 'J Madame Weigel's Journal" with free paper patterns (ladies' blouses) at Melbourne published^ price, Sd ; > also now cat papec patterns ai all the latest I &vj*ments tor inter \Vfiar at 'ABTIiJH ;J&«Co. r .' u ' o