THE WAIMATE ADVERTISER. TUESDAY, AUGUST 28, 1900.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 38, 28 August 1900, Page 2

THE WAIMATE ADVERTISER. TUESDAY, AUGUST 28, 1900.

Hia "Worship the Mayor forwarded yesterday £1 17s 6d for the Indian Famine Fund. The fourth card match between the local lodges of Oddfellows and Foresters takes place on Thursday evening in the Oddfellows 1 Hall. The annual meeting of the Waimate Cricket Club will be held in St Augustine's schoolroom on Friday evening at 8 o'clock;. All members and intend.ing members are requested to attend. * During the current year, from dredges alone, the yield of gold has been 35,4540z5. During that time the Otago dredges have paid dividends aqual to 28 per cent of the capital invested. The police have reason to believe (says the Fielding Star) that several illicit distilleries are in active operation in the ranges between Wellington and Palinerston. A bankrupt stated in the Westport District Court recently that he had worn the clothes he stood up in for throe years — except the trousers, and they belonged to a man who had gone to South Africa. A case of successful imposition by a small boy occurred at an Auckland drapery establishment recently. The boy, armed with a cheque belonging to | his employer, went to the shop and invested, in a suit of clothes. Going into the dressing room, he changed into the new clothes, and eventually succeeded in walking off with the cheque as well as the new suit. ! The following will represent South Canterbury in the match against North [ Canterbury next Thursday at Victoria Park, Temuka :- Full back : O'Malley ; three-quarters : Mibaka.-' McTeague. Palmer ; five-eights : Dr Gibson; half . Baymond ; forwards : Dean, Hobbs, Kennedy, Mara, Wright, Fitzgerald, J, Scott. Frazer, Fawcett ; emergencies : backs, Lynskey and Shirtcliffe; forwards, Sealeyand-South. A cable message has been received frdm South Africa (says the Wellington Post) to the "effect that" a number of ' arms taken from the Boers have teen shipped to New Zealand. On £rival they will be sent as a loan to the Christchurch Exhibition, and will foircu an interesting part-of the exhibits in the Defence Court which is being arranged by the Department. The Wedderburn correspondent of the Mount Ida Chronicle says : — The Public Works Department seems to be in earnest this jyear in. pushing the Otago Central railway ahead. _ There are now about 400 nien employed on the works between- Wedse*surn and the western slope of Jhg SBJajpkstone Hill range, and three gapgs, wprking night and day, have been put on the heavy cutting near .Wedderburc, known as the over- bridge cuttitag. An earthquake, with its mystery. Will cause the stoutest heart' to pause, The bravest men in history Have trembled at all nature's laws The man who then invokes the saints Would rather sickness long endure, He knows the thing for cheat complaints Is W, E, Woods' Great Peppermint Cure.

A novel and ingenious objection was urged at the Wakaia Warden's Court on Tuesday (says the Mataura Ensign) to the granting of a certain application for a lignite license. The objector (who forwarded a letter to the Court) stated that he was the owner of a lignite pit, and was quite able to supply the wants of Wakaia without any others starting in the same line of business. Warden* Stratford, in dismissing the objection, pointed out with becoming gravity that in these democratic times anything savouring of a monopoly had to be " trodden on with a. mm hand." A certain firm of merchants at Napier evidently were forwarned of the probable remission of Custom* duties, and had a consignment of some 600 cases of kerosene waiting to be landed as soon as the remission was allowed. Unfortunately for the firm in question, the law only allows this article to be stored in the lighter a certain number of days, which expired the day before the remission, and the kerosene had to be landed and Customs duly (at 4s per case) amounting to about JGI2O had to be paid. The antediluvian puddoGk that now and again jumps out, of the flinty rock when the Scotch orEnglish quariymen strike a memorable blow must now hide his diminished head. Colonel Rhodes in bis interesting volnma of Egyptian reminiscences tells us that it was while excavating coral rock one day iv the desert that an extraordinary thing happened. On a soldier breaking with a pickaxe ap'ece of rocki what looked like a fossil whelk shell fell out from the interior. Colonel Rhodes picked it up, and eeeing it was covered with white limp, was convinced that it was the fossil of a hermit crab in a whelk shell. He was was carrying it about, when, some ten minutes later, he felt atickling in the palm of his hand and then a slight nip. On looking at it, lo and behold, the crab had pushed out an antenna and a cla-v, and was not a fossil at all, but alive and well. "After," adds Colonel Rhodes, " thousands of years of imprisonment in that coral rock." The following-advertisement appears in a Wanganm paper : — Matrimony. — 1, the undersigned am a pretty girl with a flower-like face perfect and a good figure. I have money enough to make life easy and to entitle myself to spend ray yeai-s with some man who will ever be my companion and will admire the flowers by day and the moon by night. If any handsome fastidious clever and accomplished gentleman is willing to accept this offer I can assure him that I will be true to him for life and that when life is over I shall be ready to get buried with him in the one grave. Mr Pitt, representative of Messrs Brunt, Pitt and Co., "iodent agents and importer, of Ohristehurch, is at present in Wainiate. Yesterday we had the pleasure oT inspecting some of the many articles for whidbf they are agents. The first noticed was a very handsome bicycle, it being an exceedingly up to-dato machine, fitted with patent collapsable handles that can be altered to suit any shape required by the rider. Instead of the oldfashioned brake on the front wheel, the bicycle is fittpd with a new pjitpnt that acts on the back one. The saddle pillar is also fitted wifch a spring which reduces the vibration and jarring on rough roads to a minimum. Altogether the machine is very well finished and Mr Pitt informs us that to introduce it; into New Zealand they are selling a few at a very low figure, at the same time presenting each purchasei with a first class ascetylene lamp and a patriotic bell. The firm are agents for the Sun Cash Register, which is without doubt the most complete piece of mechanism of its class yet patented All businees people know the value of such an article, which is now within the reach of all as the price is extremely low. Mr Pitt has received a large number of orders for the machine from all parts of Canterbury. Mr Pitfr will be in Waimate for three days, occupying the Empire Hotel sample rooms, where he will be pleased to receive visits of inspection from the business people of the town, Whpn doctors disagree, says the adage, who shall decide ? It is difficult very often, even without the difference of opinion arnomg the faculty, to decide as to the merit of the various medicinal . preparations which are upon the market. A safe, general rule is to believe that a preparation which professes to cure everything will cure nothing. Having thus weeded out nine-tenths of the claimants, it is comparatively easy to find reliable evidence of personal use concerning th%i!etnainder, Mr E. G-. Lane, of Oamaru, is in the fortunate position not only of having no medical difference regarding the value of his Creasoted Emulsion, but also in having airect professional approval of it. He has in his possession a letter written by a member of the faculty stating that he treated a case of consumption with Lane's Creasoted Emulsion, and was glad to say that after a course of treatment the patient had improved greatly. The sputum -had diminished, the cough was lesst, the night sweating had" almost stopped, and the weight of the patient had increased Beveh or eight pounds. Anyone requiring boots, shoes, or slippers will save money by buying from Berry's. Yon get the best quality at the lowest possible prices. Repairs, a speciality at Berry's in the corrier shop lately occupied by Collett Bros. ' Colonial Advertising Agency, 202 ; Hereford street," Christchurch, for everything connected with advertising throughout the colony. Cbristchurch Advertising Agents,- for this paper. — Advt. " . ,- - \ For child Ten's "nacking coughs at night, Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, Is 6d For children's hacking coughs at night, Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. —Is6d.

There was a large attendance at the ordinary meeting of the Oddfellows' Lodge last evening, the N G. Bro <T Mines presiding. Correspond, ence was leceived from Christchurch with reference to a brother, notify nig his removal; from the District Secie" lary, asking the number of delegates the lodge would send to the district meeting; from Mount Somers Lodgn, in reference to the late Bro Richaid. It was resolved that the matters be attended 10. Two brothers were declared on tQB funds of the lodge aud three declared off, leaving two still on. Sick pay amounting to £9 Is was passed for payment. Next lodge niglit being quarter hignt. the secretary was instructed to arrange for a socul evening.