General News.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume II, Issue 157, 2 June 1900, Page 2

General News.

During April, 997 people arrived in the colony, while the departures were 1885. The Dunedin Indian Famine Fund Committee has subscribed over £4000. If you want boots or shoes try Arthur Jones and Co., of Victoria House. Best value in town. — Advt. A terrible catastrophe is reported e rom British Guiana. A steamer was .wept over the Sumatumas Cataract, md every parson on board drowned. The Timaru Borough Council is so disgusted with the large bill it has had l o pay for the election of a Licensing Jotnraittee, that it has decided to I publish the whole of the accounts in Full. The Ministpr of Education contemplates introducing a District High Schools Bill providing for capitation allowances for those schools which are now dependent on endowments and fees. In another column will ho seen a notification that Miss 0. Turnbull is prepared to take pupils for either the violm or the piano. Miss Turnbull, coining as she does, from the Musical College at Dcs Moines, of which she is a graduate, is sure to give satisfacsion to her pupils. At the Supreme Court at Dunedin, the hf a,ring of the charge of manslaughter at Oamaru against Alexander Hamilton Eddington, Henry Hughes Eddington, and Robeit Burns, was concluded After deliberating an hour an a half, the jury returned a veidict of not guilty, and accused were dia charged. One of the cables between Lyell and White's Bay, which traverses Cook Btraites. bioke during the recent stormy weather, but the Department i.&seit that no inconvenience will be caused as the other cables are quite | eappHa of ijMirj'ing on the woik. The brenk \° a kw unles ftoai the Lyell It was fi, &hock to quiet pedestrians on (-lv)en Street last evening to notice u horrible figl't between two men who should really have known better. The way in which they mangled each other^ is beyond description, and but for timely assistance on the part of some passeis-by the smaller tuan of the two would have come off bodly. As it was, bis Sunday boots which he bought at Beiry's for 8s 6d, saved him from a fearful death. Berry's is the plaoe for repairs, or for boots of any kind.— Advt. W.iiiMßte will bo visited on Tuesday next by Hull's Kinomatograph and Myno'-ania Company. The company show a «ene6 of actual fighting pictures, including Vl Royal Horse Artillery at the Front/ " The Colonial Troops in a Warm Corner," " Shooting a Bpy," and others. There is also a grand myrioramic display of a trip from Capetown to Buluwayo, through Kimberley, Maf eking, etc., depicting tho country in which the fighting is taking pace. Vocal items and banjo odditie* will also be given. Altogether the company is a very good on&, as the success it has met with in Otago and Southland shows. Tha Timaru Herald says that an interesting specimen of the mieehief wrought by the teredo is now in the harbour office. Borne six or eight months ago a workman twuh a false blow with a 81b hammer, the handle snapped and Ihe head and part of the handle dropped into the sea and sank. This has been fished up by th<? dredge, and the hickory handle easily snapped again owing to its being all bored away at one point. The stick was sawn through in several placos, and tho borings were found to run from end to and. Tho worms started in the eye of the hammer and bored along the grain. The outside of the stick, except at the eye and, is quite whole. In reply to a request for information forwarded by the Wellington Education Board, the Education Department has stated that a school committee is entitled to take cogniiaace of the Education of «very child ia its district; that any child of school age can bo compelled to attend the public school or to ©btain a certificate of exemption ; and that a certificate of expempion to enable a child to attend private school anould not not bn given unless there is evidence that the child is under efficient and regular instruction . thareat;. The Department thinks that the exereiso of the power of withholding the certificate ought to be BUfficiftnt to bring every child within reach of the operation of the truant officer. The value of many patent medicines and medical preparations sold outside the usual run of physicians' prescript on?, has been proved by usage to i) 9 too often in inverse ratio to the length of the advestismenig which o'ay s'ich a pioumient part in their sale. H.irtvy advertising means 4hat the piuehHPer pay for paper as well physic, .'.fuch more ei/ejuve than the lengthy lufiivivjw of uuuiscoverable persons who have beeu brought back from the grave b»- my fceriou3 decoetiont, h the simple and voluntary acknowedgem,;nt oi help received which a gtmeiul patient wiil pen in comtaendation of some remedy which has been usdd with efficacy. The following, for instance, is one among many such letters received by Mr E. G. Lane, of Oamaru, with referanoa to his Oraftsoted Emulsion :— « Ure street, Oamaru, December 16th, 1896. Mr Lane,— Dear Sir,— Slease give bearer my aocount, also another bottle of Ueasoted Emulsion. It is really v^onderful the difference it has made to my sister. She is getting quite strong and rosy-cheeked, and says she would take rather take your Emulsion than those horrid iron pills.— Yours faithfully, D. M. Johnsione."

At Addington sale on WednJH last, some lambs bred by JmH Garland, of Waimate, fetched 19»S Lor.ctod direct from the manufaJH era. 2000 yards unbleached shitjM to be sold at cutting prices, Sd, I(mM Is 6d per yaid, at Arthur Jcnes ,9 Co., Vicloiia House. — Advt. *fl On Thursday evening a gfWfl meeting of the Hockey Club was |JB the Rev. A. Fowler presiding owM good attendance. It was decideftfl hold a Rve-a side tournament in jfl Paik on Thursday jext, afternoon il to be provided. The Rev. A. FowEH was elected captain of the club. • S Littld children full of health 9 Do love to lnugh and play. <■ And many a man would give his winkM To be as bright as they. V Ttaouqh illness may attend us all. As -we become mature, I Yet coughs: and colds will surely fall I "Fore Wood's Great PeppernjJ A very interesting lecture on j Transvaal will be given on WednMjjS evening next, when Mr A. W. BaWB lately a solicitor of Johannesburg, *Ifl trvke tho platform in the Oddfellow* Hall. Mr Baker's lecture is sure M draw a large audience in thsse a»J when the war is the chief topic M conversation, and wht»n it is consist M that the proceeds are to go to \\M Indian Famine Fund, the hall will \M packed. „ What mi^hi have been a serjog. accident but for timely assistant* happened at Waihaol*n Thursday, fc Miss Morton was crossing, the top of » well to th^, pump, the Boards broi, and Blie fell through. Luckily Jim Morton had the preaenco of "tuind to grasp the pipe of the pump HHji { cries for assistance were heard bj*¥j J. McTaggart, whs irntuediatli lowered a i ope and brought the lad) to the £op. Beyond a severe shod Misa Morton was none the worse foe her fall. In a discussion at the Wellington Education Bohid on the propoifi reform of the Rystem by introduce a colonial scale (of teachers' salan* all the members who spoke w«« against the scherno on the groumi .that such alteration would meaa certtralization, with all its attendant disadvantages, removal of control from the Education to the teachers and would really act to the dis. p.dvantngo of many ttea'chers in tbt outlying districts. There was, however, an expression of opinion thaj it would be a long time, if ever, befor«] the pchnme came to anything. p The high prices brought by milch cows in Cape Colony was one that that impressed Mr H. 0. Wilkio, o! the Dspartnienfc of Agriculture's veterinary staff, who has just returned to New Zealand. Whilst Mr Wiliu was in East London there was a sale' of ten cowb. They were Australianbred animals, and thoy sold at prices ranging from ,221 to £85. Four of them were in milk when sold ; tb» otaers were due to calve in a week or two. Milk wtis one of the thing! which was really scarce in the towa, so much being wanted for eonsuiup-' tion in the hospitals. Of oats and hay the stocks laid in arid arriving^ for the army aufchrities at vari»uj ports were tremendousLord Salisbury, speaking at a dinn« , of the City Conservative Club, paraphrased the 3peeeh delivered by him '- at tho end of last year, in which h« ! declared that Britain sough* no teni- 1 | tory in South Afiica. It waa uo good J to say that want of territory led m into the war. This was one of thu ntrocious calumnies spread under th» favourable influence of Dr Leyds, but the desire was to stop oppression. Tha war would never recur, as no shred of former indHpendence of thfl Republics would remain. Settlement depended laigely on the temper and attitude of thuir enemies, who so acted ' that every severance of class and race" was intensified by every measure fchs-y " had taken. Eeconcihation whs difficult, requiring much time. Bruam would endeavour to cause recsllectiona of the war to perish and follow tha traditional policy of appeasement, affection, and mutual co operation, hoping that before many years th» affection uniting the South African colonies and Britain would bo ai aquallj keen as that existing with Australia and Canada.