General News.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume II, Issue 28, 1 August 1899, Page 2

General News.

Colonel Pole Penton inspects- tho Waimate Rifles on Friday evening ' next. The Financial Statement will be introduced to the House on Tuesday night next. — "Wei. coi'. De Barcxay will lectnre to his class this evening, instead' of next Tuesday night. An obvious printer's error occurred in our article on Saturday; representing the cost of exporting frozen mutton at Is 2d instead of per head at Oamaru. - 'It was announced at the performance of the comedy last Thursday that persons who had booked reserved, seats but who did not occupy them would be entitled to use their tickets to-morrow night. The result of the crib and euchre match, played last night in Mr Miller* rooms between. Oddfellows and Fore^ ters was : — Crib — Foresters i 9 games, Oddfellows 17. , Euchre— Foresters 19, Oddfellows 15. Theee were 15 members a^ the Juvenile Foresters' meeting last evening, O.E. Bto H. 'Wilson presiding. Routine business was transacted, the receipts for the evening being 12s. On Sunday evening last at the Anglican Church, 'the Eev McKer\zie Gibson anriounced that a curate was coni- ! ing out from England to assist in the I work ot the parish.

Mr Masse* is moving to* a retfurn ■showing, the income and expenditure on or in connection with the &t&te/arm at Levin,' for the year,ending -Une" Slst of March.. 1899.— Wei. <cor. ' v

-Ms O'Mbara is asking the Premier, whether he will bring in! this 'Session * f short measure, to ' put, the, Voting for cpuntie^ ,6ii the -same „ footing a* boroughs, so -la* as* singlt Voti&g '»

oncerned -Wei. cor Jlajor Stewvrd 3 Bill, dealing with lie erection of gates across roads, has )eeD referred to the vaiious county ouncils. As nothing will be done mtil the view of these bodies have ,?en produced on the sublet, it is not ikelv that this measure will become jw this session. — Wei. cor. ' Cricket. — The match, Australians tcrainst Sussex, was remarkable foxtail 'coring The Home tea.m batten iir&t, ■udp'Jtnp the good score of 414. of ,-hich number C. B. Fry made 131, lid Killick 106. The cornstalks went , n e better thin tins by knocking io 6'2-i tor 4 wickets. The scores v\ ci o, fruuible 26, Tiumper 300 not out. i \vonall 1-2S, Glpooiv 7">, Hill 23 and Palling not out 36, sundms 13. \ hamper's fine score was chnncolos-,. ?mlit is a pity that he did not have <i ciiance of completing his inning?. In t'aeu second venture Sussex made 143 foif 0 i i wickets 'Tnc quarterly Customs return i}lucb w°ro issued on Thursday even hip, show tli.tt the revenue from this 6O mc.' aaioonicd to ,£-100.710, bein» (in inert riO over the correspond .mc; ijuanei ot lint year et -£27.016. bi<j ic-pon-able of an mi ifciise of i?«>400. tobacco =6-1000, sugu- .£3600. goods tlassefl as ad wiloiem £14.0jO\n'n"i than the same pr-riod last year. The i>v"sa duty on boei for the qnaiter endins; June COth, amounted to ■£17.731, being an iuciease of over £600, and the quantity on which dut\ wis paid amounted to 1,423,280 g.'llonfe. The total excise duties collected for the quarter amounted to 118,073 —Wei. cor. Oddfellowship. — The half-yearly summoned meeting of Loyal Heart of Fiiendship Lodge -was beHl lasf evening, PG.M. Bro. H. Watts' in tbo cbau 1 , and 37 members present. A consi'lei able amount of coHespondeuce was lead and dealt with. The halfjeaily bilance fchtet and report were iead and adopted. The sick and funelalfuml showed a credit of £31 3s Sd, managainent fund £15, hall fund debit of i-10 ss. Sick visitors' report was recened and dealt with at some length, aftei which sick pay for JC6 4s 4d and one small account were pnssed. One candidate was proposed for membership, and the lodge adjourned to play the test matches. A Llngthy debate took place fluting the passing of the Impiest Supply Bill when several members aired their guevancas. Mr G. Hutcheson, member for Patea, complained of the way in which the Premier had opposed his lnotion for a return sh swing the corlespondence leading up to the purchase ot the Waikakahi estate. The Premier said he opposed the return on punerple for it would be unwise to make public the offers of persons who wished to sell to the Government. Such a proceeding would be prejudicial to the working of the Act. He also liitimated that had the Government cut up the estate into four runs they could have got £10.000 on their bargain the day after purchase. About a hundred people assembled in the Library Hall on Saturday evening to witness the drawing for the "puzea in Mr C. J. Goldstone's art union. The drawing %vas under the supervision of His Worship the Mayor (Dl 1 Barclay ) Two boxes Were employed, one to hold the 700 blocks of tickets sold, and the other with a corlesponding number of blanks, except foi the.six winning numbers. A block v.as diawn out first, and then one fiorn the other barrel, with a prize or a blank. The drawing had proceeded for an hour and an half before a prize was drawn, and by this time a good few of the audience had dispersed. However, once the drawer had ".struck - the reef," he brought out the other numbers in a very short time. The winning numbers, four of which' had bsen bought by Waimate residents, to ill be found in another column! It is a noteworthy fact that although sis gentlemen had bought a book pf 21 tickets apiece, not one of them secured a prize.

Fire at Government Houpb. — The - Wellington fire brigade were called up " at 3 o'clock on' Sunday morning to 6x* languish a fire.stt Government' House. They were srqartly on tha Jscene, and *oaadOie outbreak in the" woodwork

underneatli the fireplace of the ladies maids' bedroom. The rooms weie filled with dense smoke, and for tome time the bugade were unable to get to work at the seat of the fire. Meai.while the flames spread underneath the floor of the bedroom, worked their wav up the walls to the outside of the building, ri,nd .ilso went along the mam corridor upstairs. After about three quaitpis of an hour's hard light the bri^ado obtained the mastery. The building h.id a very narrow escape of destruction. A strong squally wind was blowing, which made the task of tha men a diificnlt one. "When the brigade an ived the Governor and Captain Alexander hnd run out the length of hose with which the building was p"o\uli;d, but it was of little use under the circumstances. The building and furniture were considerably damaged by smoke ami water. Being Go\einimmt piopeit^ these are not in smed The Vlh.i.nce office has a large li'io on TTis E\c"llcucy's private effects, vwudrobe, jewellery, ptc- ; but as far ns can be asopitamed these sustained no diimaqo whatever. The cause of th°, ihe one riu>inan sustained nasty in]mies to his hand, whirhweie quickly and piopeily attended to by Lady Raufuily.