General News.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 11, 26 June 1900, Page 3

General News.

North Otago Agricultural aud 'H^Ed Association will have a polo "mm compeutxon at next show.— «9« 9 handle of the sword of honor 9 preseiLtid by the citizens of «HS«BSt3«n to M-ijor-Geuera'-~£fHen Powell is to be of solid silver ■ T IH S of Kruger coinage. SlHhe \acki«id Education Board •«SHad on Friday to join with the " < §^Hi Canterbury Boaid in asking the '^^Beinment to in^ke the inspection :^^J rJV atB schools compulsory. -i^^Hhe Thornton Stewart Kinemato--^M^R,}, Qompaay wake their first T '^Bavancs in Wanaafco to-night, and n nees in other places they will _":J^Eeil worth seeing. Gosohen, in the House of Comsa id that experiments as to VlJ lßuiatino boats were not bbing made ---«• Admiralty, bnfc a careful watch f 'Jh^R buibg kept upon the experiments '-'^■nginaae by foreign Poweis. "^fßfoff '^ winter Iws set in, you will ; '^H.,i a pair of vwu n slippers. Call afi --.'^■tv's and get a pair for Is. Berry's '-if^Bbe cheapest place for hoots, shoes *~~sJ^K slippers. bUoaira a specialty at in corner shop, lately occupied "^jßcolleH Bros. eight waeks ago, Miss Morton 4v^BWiuhao, mot with an accident by tyMjingdown a well. Though sufferk^jj^Hr ghghtly from tha eftects, it "-•* HB^ though nothing uo serious -^^■jw had reßulted, but an exsunina-'-''-^HnoaS^tiutlay proved fclufc one of -~ "^Ks; Morton's nbs ha.d b<*dU broken. sMy>s9 Bar.i-ii, ivijHer of n, very "H^Ksttlei, ln«s big.uiiid her iatoasiuu /-r^B^p,ojent the toxv 1 01 Wan^aaui with '- %^H peal uf hoIL-t a.id a clock, value /-^I^B/OQ, as a memento ot tlio po.ice ""^■.t'.riiions, ti<l i'- hpp^ecinriOii of olid *" "^H placed b} Vv r aL<g uiui u\ assisting :^HTheie has be?n, sinoe the com - il^H.neanirat of thi-> year, a guittf-, •ig "'■c 1!1 !' 1!'1 !'' 11 ' 1 ' 1 ' number of d-atha m -^HH 9 ji i, as compared with the same /'j^K^oi foi last voar. In 1539 from j^Bnu. v let to June COsii. there were *s^H)le?o tu-i'i 6'l d_. .*jhs rocoiJjd. woae -- :^Br tho aiue ptao>{ this ;scar thore -"■^■"f o-i'y 20 doaths locji lod. — Mora I y^k l^o.-th Ls'ft H rnambar of feho First "■^■oa! ngeu'., M a U>tt< >vi h"Mii~, says: t utd roiuoint i& beyjnd a joke '^■i ha 3oof pjn, b'tj had soon if--^Bjitdiys loog bri'oie I >ot it, having i.^B^n uddoii .dmoit to death by tbt -• j^Bjjtj. We have 72 of this sort, and " 4R"»ki'i thii ()j?h i'!l then: time to \vo'*k ; >^Hhs'i 't- a blt 3" = lf^ouwAat'd to get ,J^Hit scl<Ws 5 cl<W5 in New Z'lUrtu you would v j to p\y 2j vi o teh -ip iv the Kiag l^B \ wutrri'i Hif Mfrlboiouqh Express •j^Htho bi's recently vi^ r.ed the freezing -^Bp^kiof G'X''icibui:y, siy3 : — At ihs .J^fcuU'Mi >*oik' <iiso a »ai {j& addition to -^■iieshughi i'Lome w.is j jst couapleted, ""^■ii'dasshov.n; the sfcncl( j s> thia factory '<^Hts 'iih'J^ since b log purchasod by s^Bv GhiHtch iica Me"jt Company from '^B '3ra:i oivnerj, 3 ."'ji'mer's company '^■ffAsniirm^d ilia t , previous to the J^Puiiging bauds aS the end of th~ 1398. the btnt year's work wn« about 75 UOO sheep and l^Bimibo all told, wh:lo for 18Q9 th^ (|^» i "nb j t- of sli3cp and iambs totalled '^H 'f' 1Q Jjp\iidje ara getting onxious :^Bbnt th-ir phvique, which is ijjAfKiOTiiting <-, 0 ranci that the Land of J^HPbyei* id <? Xi cwi'ij of tuna boeomd jß>. Ltuvl of BU)'p=. The military' h)Vd discovered tliat thfir ' I^Rsoi camot uso tho ordinary rifle (j^Bwi'iss it is ico iong for theua, and i ba&n o^ .l^aiicd in consequence th')ra with special shore fit-o Kecsut investigations have that the students are among worst developed cpociinsns of ua t-u iioo of she earth, finished prodaot of tha Japanese generally, prossntmg the ■appeavanco of a puny, sickly, youth. H Tlierehas jut died atßushey (Enga ?ariu'H" n xmed Henry Afckms of a family noted for their plupieil * proportiona. He thirty ihvoe aiona, and the ■measurement of lus-ch^st was aixtyHtnrea niches, of his waist sixty-five ■inched, and of his thigh thirty-three Hiuehos.^ A btother of the, deceased, ■a pablican, living at Harrow, is of ■ almost equal weight;, vvhile a tkird ■ brother, wno died two or three years ■ago, reached tho enormous vreight.of ■ fo'Jty-four stone. — The foregoing is ■ token from the London Daily M3II, ■ aud we ha»e been informed by Mi ■ S. Hftrdy, of Waituna, that the ■ raraily iv quGf3tion were personal ■ Inends of Mrs Hardy, who can verify Hwp accoia ; j t givei ye n . ■ When dcotoiq disagree, say? th^< ■ *aago, who snail decide ? It is difficult ■ 'eiy often, even without the difference ■ of opinion among the faculty, to decide ■ as to the nwits of the various mcdi ■ «inal reparations which are upon the ■ J»wker. A safe, general rule is 'to ■ Dp"9ve that a preparation which pro- ■ tees fc 0 eU ro everything will cure ■ nothing. Haung thus weeded out ■ nuw. tenths o£ the claimauts, it is com- ■ P» ( a»vely easy to find reliable evidence ■ w Phonal uso concerning the ra ■ mamder. M. E. G. Lane, of Oawaru, ■!3! 3 lu . ths wrtunnte position not only of ■ navmg no medical diffwrencQ regarding |tti6valuo 0 f his Creasoted Emulsion, I aho m having direct professional I "ptowal it. He has in his posses- ■ «on a letter written by a member of I * 9 {ac^ty" stating that he treated a I n s of , consumption with Lane's I n^ff Emulsion, and was glad to I Z J aftev a coUreB <>*• treatment ■ we patient had improved greatly. I «J,\' putum had diminished, the 18, Was !ess ' tha n b t swearing Itu l 1l 1 st °PP^. and the weight of I 2,f c - nt , had iQcrooaed seven, or ■ *gut pounds,

A meeting of the committee of the ' Waikaltaliij Setfctlers Association will be held at Morven this evening, to consider what steps will be taken with regard to rating on unimproved valuo in the Waimate County. The 'San Francisco Examiner is responsible for the statement that Mm Brown-Potter, who has receatly been divorced from her husband, is to liatry Lord Kitchener, the hero of the Soudan. Which, we wonder, was the harder to lay siege to— Mrs BrownPotter or Khartoum ? The* Union Company has received ! information that tbare is good prcipeet ! of saving the steamer Kakapo, which was recently stranded at the Cape of Good Hope. An attempt is to be I made to float her on the spring tidos 1 this week. The captain's certificate ! has been suspended for three months. New Zealand's athletes afe ths front In cricket, football or the hunt ; He shines in any sport or gi ne His prowess has a worid wide fame. But training has its usual ills, A3 over heat that, causes e'lMta ; Then don't dblay, bit health recive, By taking Woods' Great Peppermint Cure* Tho First Fifteen of the High School visited Oamacu on Saturday and played a team from tho Waitflki Hiyh School. The horns team had rather the best of the game throughout, though the Waunate boys niiy< d wiUi their usunl vigot- and da«h. Al th-3 conclusion the scores stood : Oam.u'u 14 points, Waunate 5 points. McPhersou scored for the visitors. A. meeting of subscribers to the Wai mate Library was held last evening when th^ra wa°s only a smill attendance. The question of the s-^llii q of the library buildings was di-uus^ftd, audit was ultuu-itp'v dfcidtd on thd motion of ilossr!> Akluir^L aad Asquith that the committ«. bo empo"vei<?d to diriposn of tho bmldn.g and the laid immediately in front aid bohiud it.