General News.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume II, Issue 24, 22 July 1899, Page 2

General News.

The Hinemoa is to search the Snares, in about three weeks' time, in case tha 1 Waikato has been wrecked there. The Premier has promised £1000* as a subsidy to the Christchurch Jubilee Exhibition. Dandy Dick.— "We hear that th# reserve seats for the above productfoa 1 are going off very fast. Mr Frankiln informs us he will close the box plan on Tuesday next. Wanted Known that Berry's pricey for boots, shoes and slippers cau't be' beat. They are of the best quality and marked at the lowest possible prices. Repairs promptly attended to. Don't forget the address in corner shop' lately occupied by Collett Bros. [Advt.j A painful" accident occurred on Thursday to Mr White, employed on Mr Bennetts farm at the Hook. ' Ha* was loading .grain at the Hook siding' when his thumb' got jambed in ths iron door of a railway wagon , r th«thumb being burst open and the bon» broken. A quantity of wreckage has 'been seen in some of the bays on Banks Peninsula, some- hatchways and a box contained charcoal, and is supposed to have come from a large frozen meat steamer. The Cape Cablb.— : The manager of the Eastern . Extension Company, ha* received a calMe stating that the ftrsi- ' Bection of the Land's End, to Capetown cable- will be proceeded with at once if the necessary consent is given byjthe Australian Governments, and that within two years these colonies will be connected with England via ' the* Cape. - „ , The Queensi^nd Police — The, report of the Royal Commission *ap--pointed to enquire into* the admjjjistratiori of th& Queensland police", sets 1 forth that whereas certain crimes 'wera"; committed and? the porpelrg,tors brought to justice , doublet liiwe!' wtact

{0 the efficiency of the criminal' ndi oi the force. oUJNTBER Socivl.— The volunteer »1 on Thursday evening was fairly (attended. The grand march was o ff by Captain and Mrs Colt man, ut 50 couples following. The floor jn <»ood order, and the music plied by Messrs CrawshaW (piano) I Harwood (cornet) was all that ,ld be desired, a hapoy combination jj eh c h ensured an enjoyable evening. Frank Drayton mode an efficient 3 Mr V^ T . JMillev had charge of the dmissatiat, and gave every satisfaci. The cr.ilheiiag broke up at 1.30. } NO w. Bkwtiful Snow.— Yester- , morning early snow began to fall Wimnate, and when people woke it , to v^e iho landscape clothed in ite as fir as the eye could reach, the ,rl and the heaviest fall in 83 years. Pdlp*s to say the boys and girls, or hi more correct, the uholo popiilaa of Wiiraite, was in a perfect eccy of dfhght. The game of snowhnghfio is a ti'eat which does not ne'mme than once in a lifetime and ntbe pnpved acrovdinglv. Pedes •nx ,md equestrian*? shared alike and ■n'coriipr had its throng of ea?pr ufhs armed for tho fray. Most took leltm." vet-v and rented in bud ; the street rang with i<»hter and good humored bantor, d for <i pp".p© the dulness and humam disappeared and all was life".