General News.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume II, Issue 153, 24 May 1900, Page 2

General News.

Mr Bremner, the new county overseer, arrived in "Waimate on Tuesday. It is not generally known that letters to members of New Zealand Contingents in South Africa will go for Id. The Collector of Customs in Christouurch has received the sum of £1 as conscience money from an anonymous correpondent. The Star Cycling Club will hold a procession of cyclists to-day, leaving thfi Post Office at 11 a.m. The sports commence at 12.30 in Victoria Park. The present high prices of fat sheep is shown by the sale this week of 3000 wethers on the Corwar Estate, I Rakaia, at =-£1 a head in the paddock j for freezing at Fairfield. — Lyttelton Times, Having received a number of applications for copies of our Mafeking Belief inornento, we have decided to print a few more, and will be pleased if those desiring them will let us know at once. It is reported that Wo luggage packages, whiGh were shipped for London in tthe Moraysbire, were rifled before the ship left the Bluff. They were property of a family who are returning to England via Melbourne, and were shipped as cargo.* In the course of Monday afternoon's rejoicings at Christchurch thsre was i performed an act which, it has been j suggested, might be brought under the notice of the Hoyal Humane Society. After being maltreated irt various ways; i an effigy of President Kruger, which had figured in the afternoon's procession, was thrown in she fountain in ront of Burke' a Hotel, and three men who were passing, promptly jumped into the water and rescued the President of the South African Eepublic, from drowning. " Woomera" relates : — An undertaker in one of the Melbourne suburbs lent one of his horses to a member of a riding party.; The horse, unaccustomed to brisk pAces, soon tired, and eventually "knocked up" and refused to stir at all. At last one of the party hit upon a bright idea. He stood in front of the horse, lifted his hat, and walked backwards bowing, as Mr Mould is accustomed to do. The horse responded to the familiar attitude and walked funereally home. The Otago Daily Times, sal's thr»t on Saturday morning, whan>jtae firaman employed at the lj>unediri Engineering Company's worifs we 1 t down to the foundry he made a som - what Rlarming discovery. The flo> r of the boiler room was covered with water the fire in the furnace, which had been banked as usual, had been raked up, fefl with fuel, and tho safety "qjajjre \raq wiightedfdown. The whole tmjggLlookel Ike 1. carefully palnned attKo||ttkto yreeekir the premises, for if snffic^matSiml%ad be«n generated th«fcoijfe, ffl|(wutse. would have burst. fflappijM EowJlger,* things had not yß^eJoflpdla icirocal stage when the fkeilfflnt f«iiii£azMfappearai.ice, and he ■ lost ii<PlunesB rtoJif jing the dangerous state of tOT^boiler? The only outcome of the affair \j*9 that the men had to have a half holiSay, while things were being put right again. For Bronchial Coughs take Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. Is 6cL >

Thirty-six school districts in Ofcago failed to elect committees, and twentyone others failed to elect the full number. During the last few days no fewer than 11 boys have escaped from the Burnham Industrial School. Only one or two have bean discovered so far. The Nelsoa Colonist published a report' that gold-bearing quartz has recently been discovered in the Colling wood district, and that the indications are favourable. A herculean drummer in the demonstration at Oamaru in honour of the relief of MafeMng thumped through the end of his drum, and had to raise a subscription for a new parchment. — North Otago Times. At the beginning of this year the British Government had to borrow £2,000,000 for six months, at the rate of £4 15s Id per cent., and a few days later a further sum of £1,000,000 for a year at £4 3a 6d per cent. It is expected (says the Wellington i Post) that the fire-proof library at j Parliament Buildings will be ready for { the reception of the books during the coming session. Portion of the sleel shelving will reach Wellington this week, and the remainder is on its way from America. Advice has been received that Reuter'B Telegram Compauy declared a dividend for the half-year ending ! December 31st at the rate of 50 per cent per annum, and has carried forward JB3OOO to the reserve fund, which now amounts to *£30,000. What brings the colour to the cheek Of those that suffer and are weak, Whose ailments have but made them crave To be released and in tha grave ? i What now has given such desire To live again, you may inquire, Consumption cannot well endure The strength of Wood's Great Peppermint Cure. The annual report of the Wellington benevolent trustees show a much ' improved state of aftairs in the administration of the institutions under their charge as compared under the former management by the incorporation of stores for outdoor ! rations and supplies to homes. There has been a large saving by combination of offices. There has also been a reduction in expenses under all heads, the savings for the year being £2162. The report goes on to say that next they anticipate a similar result. The Defence Department has issued a notice that letters to members of the Contingents should be addressed with the number and the name and number oi the company of the New Zealand Contingent, and . General Hutton's Brigade or " Rhodesia,'' as the case I may be. The first six companies j wnich form Contingents, 1, 2 and 3 arc i in General Hutton's bridgade ; com- | piinies 7to 15 are in Bhodesra. The j reserve men who were intended to I be attached to Major Kobin's command, were taken on to Beira with Colonel Newall. Particulars of numbor, rank, etc., can be obtained from the post office rolls. I If any man has a wish to raise himself in the estimation of his countrymen just now (says the Sydney Daily Telegraph) let him straightway qualify as a scientific rat destroyer. Apparently the Mayor of Sydney has got hold, of a man who very nearly fills the bill. This particular expert has apparently made a careful study of the methods employed with such success by the Pied Piper of Hamlin, Aa sxplained by th« Mayor, this gentleman, accompanied by light-footed assistants, enters & rat-infested room and closes the door carefully. Then after placing his assistants round the room in positions of strategic importance, he himself advances to the centre and strikes up a wonderful, patent, rat-enticing wbistle, and lo J out come tha rats from their holes, and. under the spell,'remain sufficiently long in the open to enable the vigilant outposts to get between them and cheir base. They are then made close prisoners, and are ready for disposal as the Council may order. The pity is, however, that this' gentleman's genius does not appear to be communicable. —Next. The value of many patent medicines and medical preparations sold outsids the usual run of physicians' prescriptions, has been proved by usage to be too often in inverse ratio to the length of the adveßtisments which play such a prominent part in their sale. Heavy advertising means that the purchaser pay for paper as well physic. Much more effective than the lungthy interview of undiscoverable persons who have been brought back from the grave by mysterious decoctions, is the simple and voluntary acknowledgement of help received which a grateful patient .vill pen in commendation of Bomft remedy which has been used with effieycy. The following, for instance, is one among many guch letters received by Mr E. Cr. Lana, of Oamaru, with reference to his Creasoted Emulsion :— " XJre street, •Oamaru. December 16th, 1896. Me Lane, — Dear Sir, — Please give bearer I my account, also another bottle of Greasoted Emulsion., ► It >ia' really i wonderful the difference it> has made to my sister. She is getting quite strong and roay-eheeked, and says she would take rather take your Emulsion than those horrid iron pills. — Your*, • faithfully, D. M.. Johnstone."