General News.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume II, Issue 7, 13 June 1899, Page 3

General News.

Wk hear that a dramatic performance is to be put on the boaids soon on bo- j half oi the Wiiim.ite Cricket Clnb. j The ])i auntie Club are now lehearsing a, piece called " Dandy Dick," a. horsey play that should mteiest a counliy j audience. The c.iste is strengthened b\ Uio aJdifion of a AMbonine Is'dv at pujjinit otauntj here, Miss 1? ic. Under the creuinstanoo;;, we may expect ji pnfonniinee as successitil as the previons ont's. A:n" antvpiolubilion league has been formed in Fielding, m the North Island. *\Vn vt -vvo-jLn J ?sus do ?—lt? — It is said that 4,000,000 c-opus or Sheldon's "In His Slops oi what uonld Jfsiis do?" hiiA >i b?en sold. Th-j piolnhition paitv in Dnnedm aro ordeinig a l.ir^o nti'iitaor of conies for dntiibntion amon« the peoplo. The book deals lav^elv with the saluoii3 or dunk traffic in Ani^noa, and i\ penny edition is being P'-l'lttvl. Thk Mayor of IWelulhn has been pcisnrad \> x ' the Boicigh Connc 1 ! Oi that town tor writing his opinions on tbp results of piohibilion in ihcA tlisU\ii to a gontlcnian in the North Island, not in his puvatp but in his ofli-'ial cfipicity. Tho Afa\or could not be prespnt, but a le.iq-thy resoln tion condr>niniM^ his action t. as passed. July 1 9 ( \rb tv P.iy) will be obsei-Vdd as a public hohdav in ail Government olfiees, and, bv notice in the Gazette, tho Colonial £W,ietavy invites lo^al authouties to do all they can to cneo'Mvjnfe plti'ithiif. It hns been n>-oposod to ask the Vdnvr.aHv to allow the Austnlian j Sqiiiulion to make a thorough search l of Ihf Tf!°nj^n Sea, for t,be J-Vilhslrire. Tin? Wvudliam H^inll undevstnntU that Mr R. M'^^.b, M.IT U , has ourchxsed the Wail:n,wi V^loy dairy tir'lor^ , and piopo^ps (o make exton-i-ive alteration! and additions to the factorv'nL\t s'p.wi. Thero is anothv^r factory souiowlierp i>i New Zoa^and that Mr it'Nnb miijht, do with. Can An\o'i« "ii-ss it is?