General News.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume II, Issue 5, 8 June 1899, Page 2

General News.

Two severe cases of frostbite hay» occurred in the last fortnight in this district. The Masterton fish hatcheries cos.i the Wellington Acclimatisation Society frbm .£5OO to £600 a year to maintain.

Mn Northcroft, in the Ohau enquiry, will be assisted by two nautical assessors.

A Minister in Central Ofcago in giving out a hymn a few Sundays 'ago said '• Those of you that have not books cftn easily follow the -words by the tune-."

The Rotoiti, •with the San Francisco mail, was expected to reach "Welling";ton yesterday afternoon, and leavo 1 again for Lyfctelton with • the southern portion not later than 5 o'clock th& same day. The names of the new justices of the peace mil not publicly transpire for at least a fortnight, nothing definite having been done an the matter so far beyond the usual inquiries.

; A Ekgord. — The LyUelton Times says :— "The yt Albans Borough Council held a record meeting on Monday evening. The proceedings started ai, 7.30 p.m. find by 7.31 p.m. all the business bad been transacted." Tak» with a grain of salt, bus if it is true it would be a good thing if — well, never mind.

FoOi'3Ar,L.— The Otago Kugby Union, m response to a letter froua the New Zealand Union, decided, in the event of a trfatch against the English team being played at Duaediu, to guarantee JS2OU lipluyed on a Satartiajr

" What is a primitive man, pa ?*' " A piinntive inau ? Well, he is a man that goes about with his e^is tied up" in a led and yeiJow chinchilla crocheted scarf." liepentanoe js often niereiy turning Stated evidence on oneself to escape the full measuio of puuishinent. " Can't he suppjil his wife?" "Oh he cun support h&r all right, but: he complains that she is insupportable I" Miss Beauhgul: "Doesn't a nmn' q aecortd We Uaual'y differ from bis fbsi }ove ?" Aunt BioadheaJ : " Yec ; she gfeneiallv has more mortpv." Theie ai6 two kinds of laziness — active and passive. The passively Sazy man does nothing, or as near it a3 ciioumstanees vril permit; the actively lazy man shkks the wi.rlc he ought to do, but spends his time doing something else. A boy's conscience is that part of him which pioinptrf him to eat all. the sweets iq keep- fiiieih L 'frA)u! making hia little btn'ther ill. *Pueie is no trath whatever in tha hdief that: anyone fafiuig into the- soa tieiiessalijy lises.and fiioka- ihxek tichvs. before droWmngj . . -~ , • 7

but the Committee declined to guarantee any sum for a match outside Dunedin. - ' ' ' , ' ' "

OiCbFEixo-svsHiP. — There wa^a large gathering of members at tb.6 oVtlihary meeting of the above on Tuesday evening. A large amount of correspondence was dealt ,with, some of* special importance being held over till a tneetine: to be summoned shortly. Sick visitors' reporrshoWed'^a clean sheet : all jflerabers off the funds. Stele .pay was passed to the amoiiAt of £6 3s 4d. j Two CMiditates were initiated. The, obarsfp was given by P.Gr.M. Bro. Asquith supported bv Bros. Fagaa and Sullivan. Two candidates were ptoposed for membership. The nominations of officers were received as fpl» l ows : — Elective secretary,' Cecil "Ward and C. Jackson ; vice-grand, T. Pagan, D.Jackson and J. Wilcel. N.G.,' r RSmith, J. S. Butcher and H.> "Watts. The lodge closed in the usual form,..

Johann Strauss, the 'famous composer, is dead. t \ He was, born in- Vienna in 1826 and was bost/kpown ,as, a composer of waltz music. ' On 'the death of his father, also celebrated as a writer of dance melodies, he assimied the direction of his orchestra. Among, the many tuneful compositions w.hich he produced, the waltzes " Die Schone Bke Donau " and " Kunsterlebeh " achieved, perhaps, the greatest popularity. He also wrote a few operettas. During the month of May "the estates of twenty-four deoeased persons were placed under the management of the Public Trustee. The estates in Canterbury were those of W. G-. Gray. Temuka ; John Hunt, Lyttelton ; Lars Johnston, Okain's -Bay ; Mary -Ann Recce, Jjo Bon's Bay, and Allan". M. Steel, Hakataramea. ' *' '* During the last fortnight the Native Land Court has been sitting at Wrfnganui, presided over by Judge Wardj' t It has investigated the bulk of the dative land purchases made on behalf o$ the Government, and ' has made orders vesting 68,732 acres in ,the Cr&Wn., Most of the land 13 up the Wanganui river, and it will,, b,e 'at 'once tljfojyn open for European settlement. 1 Savoan news states that Malietoa and Mataafa visited the Commission, And both expressed willingness to aTjide by its decision. The Commissioner? called on them to disarm. Mafeafa surrendered 1800 guns, 1 and the others are also surrendering their guns. Matters are resuming a normal condition. The British and American "^consuls are leaving for Europe. ! The Melbourne Argus, in an editorial, says that the dispassionate testimony of recent visitors to New Zealand agrees as to the fact of a most gratifying state of 'industry and trade. And it is generally admitted that there are no elements in the situation wh;ch should excite, alarm as to what .will probably happen in the near future. Happy is the community of which so much may confidently affirmed.

Mr Jambs Freyburg, the timber expert, is trying to arouse attntion, by letters in the Post, to the desirability, of replanting the " totara zone "Vi the Noith Island with that valuable-, timber. He says that totara wil} gv.G'W.' anywhere ,ia New Zealand, but three times as fast in that Zone, which he says is bounded by" " a line drawn across the North Island map from. the Wcukato to the Thames, and another line from Hawera to Nnpier." Mr Freyberg sa^ s that only gross stupidity can hinder the colony obtaining, a continous and increasing supply ~of totara, as three simple m^ans of veproduotion exist, and all are iinmpdi;itely ux'ailable. The totara w ill grow from dul tiags. " stuck " in damp sard, or from the innumerable seedlitigg-^haf pnn be dug up in the totara oi # , with more trouble", can be lft.sad flout; seed. He thinks that convicts itiight\ be used as forest planters. , ( „

v Omission.— ln bur report of *the i*e-| turn dance to Mr Douglas and tbe j Wftiha'o l')o\vns employees, thb nstrbkj of Miss Florwica Hardy v w*a inaQvert-, \ eutly , omitted ' froai th6 v list -of'tbose who played" extras. -Misa ' HrtrcLy played a y^ry^dorrtifitllv.'/ ; With regard to/tli^^sftlj^^e^^t^vV:

year our reporter retied upon outside aid in giving a description of the dresses worn at a ball, arid he " fell." This fcime he 1 took another line abd -to preclude the possibility of mistake, asked the ladies*theroselves. But still dissatisfaction has crept in, because some ' names were omitted. One lady came ' to the office last evening and gave the i ''■sub" a lively .time. He protested -that it wag almost impossible to avoid missing some, and that no intentional i ' slight wag caused by the omissioft. It was no use, t.he fiat had gone forth and the Advertiser gdes to that lady's i house no more. Hine illse lacritnae. Pity the sorrows of a poor newspaper man. If ladies had only vicited the office bbpobb the paper caoie out, to see 1 if their dresses had been made mention of. all would have been well. The editor is seriously thinking of taking up some restful occupation, say the Premiership, till the present storm b£ows over, his hair grows again and another bail eventuates and gives him a chance to make the ' amende honorable.' On Sunday evening last a man named Cameron, a contractor residing at Willowbridge, was riding home and when near Downlands his horse slipped and fell on the frosty ground. Mr Cameron was thrown under the animal and received a very severe shaking. Two brilliant meteors were observed in Waimate last evening in the space of half an hour. Those who read our issue of June 3rd will note with interest the following paragraph from the Otago I'aily Times' correspondent in Wellington. This is what we foreshadowed in commenting on Major Steward's speech ; we hardly-.expected to see our words confirmed -so soon. They have not been long in coining true to the very letter : — The Government are already having trouble with the Crown tenants at Pahiatua who want the freehold. At a meeting held the other day they resolved to support the Oppositiou candidate at the genefal election unless the Government granted them the freehold. _ i . At the meeting of the Kaiapoi Licensing Committee at Christchurch, it was stated that since the edict had gone forth calling upon publicans to provide fire alarms irT their premises there had been such a run of gongg that the supply had not equalled the demand. The licensee of the Plough Hotel, Rangiora. not b^ing able to procure a gdng, had provided a large frying pan, which was said to be an excellent substitute. Tub North Otngo Times' Waimate correspondent writes :—": — " lam beginning to think that Waimate is jast as cold a place as it is possible to find in New Zealand. Whether this is fancy or owing to the fact that the town has been entirely without wood during the last mouth, is a question that I am not just at present prepared to answer. Suffice it to say that your once smart military looking correspondent, that used to do the block in Oamaru,' walking as straight as any regular in Her Majesty's army, & now a bent-down spook-like looking creature, that would hardly- be recognised by his one-tmae intimate acquauttaiic&s.',' When lecturing on " Distillation and its Products," at Canterbury College on Monday night, Professor Bickerton incidentally-mentioned, as a" scientific fact, that in the prohibition States of America crude alcohol had three tinies the sale of the properly manufactured article. Having pointed j oiifc many easy and simple iU3thods by which alcohol, could be lnanufoctorod out of al toidst anything irom wood upwards, the lecture!' wont on to say '■ that much as he sympathised with the j ideal of prohibition, the vote .would <»c \ Utterly useless unldss, the whole community sympathised 'with the subject.;. Professor Biekertdn then proceeded io show in a cool ttud-sgu-nij.ijc way how easjr i,fe WR3 tot *a/gr.ajri-shed with a double iron, vodf to be turned into au 11 licit .distillery; dud how admirably a doublet, gal Vains^d u,'oo fence could be. ■adapted to like purposo. A mbrixng r . ot ,Ahos6; interested in;, foriding'aJbrt^li^T' the Timaru Far- r &ors' ;% uo-op^iW\ J e, _Wiir l>e^|j£l<ir,in" t the.v / HaKQJi^ion" schocdYooni" t^J"|jVon-/'