General News.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 3, 7 June 1900, Page 2

General News.

The Hook School concert and dance takei piaea this evening. It ie considered improbable that legislation will be introducad this session, deling with the equalisation of salaries of State school teachers. The gold returns for April show a decrease, as compared with the returns during the corresponding month of last year, from £130,509 to £76.832. The Government have decided to have a systematic inspection of the dairies throughout the colony, and a start will be made at an early data. The Rangiora Dairy Factory, belonging to the Central Dairy Company, was burned "dovjn on Monday afternoon. The building was insured for £350. Those in search of bargains are reminded of the clearing salo of goods left over from the Combined Bazaar, winch commences this evening at 7 p.m. in the Library Hall. The Rangibikei wheat growers, at a meeting held at Martou the other day, decided to alnp their wheat to London iv preference to selling locally at the prices on°orir.g. Tt is expnct«d that in 'H about 10,000 sacks will bo available for shipment. At a meeting of the owners of the Dv idco whaler Nova Zeuibla, in Dundee, it was announced that the profit on the past year's whale- fishing was £4,58 i Us. A dividend equal to 100 per cent, on the original capital of the company was declared. At a farewell gathering in Christchurch on Friday evening, the presentation took raiher a unique torra. Instead of the usual purse of sovereigns, the present consisted of a pair of baby's bootees, stuffed with sovereigns, and accompimving these was a card on which was wiitten, t>L May your troubles only be httlb ones, and not too many of them." It was a bhock to quiet pr U'-strian^ on Queen Street last eveniug "o notice », horrible fight between t*vo mnx who should really havoTcftown oc-riei. Tbo way in which theyiona ig ed ta h other is beyo.nd 'de r oci|puon, mid bu for timely asHs-Lanes on t'te part oi some passers-by the small* r man oi the two would have conio ot T Wll A* it was his Sunday boou v> c h bought At Berry's foi 8 o\J, sav^d i L v from a ftarf jI death Barry's ie tht place lor ropairs, or for bouts of any kind. — Advt. During one of the bombardments of Maftkmgj Colonel Bauon-Poweil i und the Boers were firing one of theu-^big^guns OTer the town righs plump lnfi&^jinother of their own laagers. ThuN^being too good an opportunity to or^ost, some bag 4 oi powder were got together, and when ever the Boer gun fired, these weiw set alight, leading the artillerists to believe that they hau got range on Market Square. The gams continued merrily fjr sjme — until a messenger from the opposite laager arrived in breathless haste at the gun position \and explained matters. For children's hacking cough at night Wooda' Ckeat J^eppermuit Guie. laid.

Hull's Kinematograph and Myriorama Company appeared before a good audience on Tuesday night last, the war pictures being very well I'ticeivod. The Waimato Hockey Club's five-a-side tournament, for five challenge badges, takes place at Victoria Park this afternoon. Six teams have entered and thu first round will commenci at 3 p.m. punctually. Afternoon tea will bo provided by the lady supporters of the club and a large attendance of bpecfcators ib expected. Striking testimony to the durability of kauri timber was afforded in Lyttelton on Saturiay, when a piece of th<it wood, which has been buried for nearly fifty years, having been used for the bottom plate of on© of the oldest buildings on Norwich Quay, vv t ts unearthed, and found to be i) iolutely sound. English cyclist Edward Hale is still j'uggmg through his 100 miles a day on tha English roads. Up to the end of March last he had covered some 21.000 miles, and was then riding as well as on the day upon which he entered into his undertaking of attempting to ride 100 miles a day on the road for 12 months, Sundays excepfced. An interesting experiment was recently made m the Italian army to tesfc the efficacy of the new military cyoles supplied to various cycling regiments. A cycling detachment from one of these regiments, with full equipments, set out on an extended journey, and in 34 days accomplished 1250nrile8. This gives an average of over 36 miles a dn,y. 0, lovely isle, proud MaorilancL With sky so bluo atid landacap^s grand, , All radiant with the summer's sun, j The foliage green, when winter's gone ; That season with its storms and galt-a Brings coughs and cold, then gridf and wails, Unless we do good health assure By taking Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. Messrs Dalgety have received the following oable, dated London Ist: — " Frozen meat is in good demand at somewhat higher prices for prime quality. Queensland beef, hind quartern, is worth 4d per lb ; plainer, 3 T^d to 3^-d. Prime New Zealand mutton is worth 5J ; Queensland, 4,^d ; prime j New Zealand lamb, sgd per lb. The i xuaiket for hides is weak, and L»ss business has been doing by public | auction." The presence of so many women in j Oronje's camp has been explained. So ; /cocksure were the Boer women of Kimberley being given over to loot that large numbers of them came and stayed in the camp, prepared with trunks and pillowslips ready to fill. One lotter ftom & Boer lady to her husband implored him to give her a taw day's notice before Kimberley woold-rbe Ukon, ab she wansed to be oue 6i the 11s si to enter Oliver's large On Tuesday at the Licensing meeting it, was mentioned as probable that th 9 Waimate Hotel which has so long occupied th«> " Corner," will shortly be pulled down and a new bu.lding erected. The new building muot necessarily be in brick and would be a great improvement to the town. At presont there is great danger that some night Waimate will wake up to witness a bonfire far exceeding anything likfely to b» rnada whan peace is proclaimed. At the Licensing Committee's moefc- j ing on Tuesday, Constable Parker received a commendation for the. manner in which he carried out the duties of clerk to the Committee, and it is to be hoped that the commendation will have the effect the Committee desire. Constable Parkar, with the many offices he holds, is one of the busiest men in town, and this is not the first time he has been corupliinpnted on the excellent pprformanoe of his dvities. Constable Parker does woik that not many sergeants could do and it pleasing to«ee that this is recognised. A resident of Marfcon, has received a letter from a relative in South Africa, in which he refers to the manner in which farmers there are affected by the war. Ho says : — If this country was as fertile *s N«w Zealand appears to be, farmers oould make money, with* all the troops in the country. But all fodder has to bo imported, as last year a blight attacked all- our oat crops. The only crop we can grow with any success is Indian corn, or, as we call them, " moaiies, " and drought this year has made the orop very light. lam doing very well with my dairy just now. I milk 30 cows, ana am getting from 2s 3d to '2s 6d per lb for butter. Eggs in P:et"rmaritzburg are from 8s to 5s per dozen The va 1 «o' many patent tnediointg and medioai pr-'parations sold outside 1 »•• usofti run of physicians' presciipt'on , his be<"i pro>ed by usage to <.» 100 i 'l ton m inverse ratio to the I'^n th of the ftdv«atisments which piny such a prominent part in their sxU . Llenrj ad\'prtioing means that the oiirelv<ber pay for paper as well physio. Much more effeclim than the lengthy inteiview of undiscoverable persons , who have been brought back from the grave by mysterious decoctions, is the simple and voluntary aoknow- . lodgement of help received whioh a grateful patient *ill pen in commendation of some remedy wlroh has boen I u-swd with efficacy. The following, for j n".tance, is one among many such letters reoeived by Mr E. G-. Lane, of Omaru, with reference tQ his Creasoted Emulsion :— " Ure street, Oamaru. December 16th, 1896. Mr Lane, — Dear Sir, — Please giva bearer my account, also another bottle of C-ieasoted Emulsion. It is really wonderful the difference it haa made to my sister. She is getting quite strong and rosy- cheeked, and says she would take rather take youi* Emulsion than ' those horrid iron pill« — Yours faithfully, D. M. Johnstone,"

The German Enaperor haa offew prize of J2400G for the best automoj war carriage, which is to cowbidt; the requisites for sorvice in the jjj It appears that experiments already been made in this direct with considerable success. j A young man named Reginald^ Longuevflle Graham accident swallowed a halfcrown at Gonf Saturday. He -was sitting in a c l wit^ the half-crown in his njon and, happening to lean back, the ( slipped down his thaoat. He j brought to Duuedin and taken to i hospital. The coin had at first « in his throat, but has now sly down as far as the entrance to j stomach, where it has become lodjj So far, there are no dang^ sympDoms. The Otag® Daily Tin bays that it has not yet been detaj what course to adopt to effect removal of the coin. \ A few days ago Mr R G. Fojtj J.P., conducted a magisterial inqa nt Eehuca, Victoria^ concerning | death of Stephen Harris, whoißt was found floating in the Camp! River on the previous evening,. 4 finding of death from aufibciti through drowning waa entered, 4 being no evidence to &how how deceased got into the water. MrK; M.8., made an extraordinary diaaoj during the post mortem exauaniati In the centre of the heart he founJi ordinary wax match. How it (ft have got there h« was stt a laa explain.