General News.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 59, 16 October 1900, Page 2

General News.

The Band practice this week will bo held thia evening instead of on Thursday. Lady Ranfurly has left for England via Sydney, accompanied by her daughters, The Bowling Glub opens the peason on Thursday next, as also does thfi IVnnia Club. Owing to the Pope's strictures on the Emperor Franz Joseph, the relations between Austria and the Vatican ara strained. Ladies come and see the new blouse cottons in all ths latent designs and shades at prices that cannot ba beat. , Arthur Jones and Co,. Victoria House. — Advt. A meeting oi the Works Committee of the iiorough Council w^is c>illed for i.tsfc night, but a3 Kia Worship the Al'vy&i: and Councillor Dean werB the only msiubero vrb j attended, the meet ing waa ndiourutd till Wednesday evening at 7. 80 p.m. Mi J. F. Douglas, Chairman of the W'iimate County Coimci], in response to requests troia ratepayers, has convened v, meeting bo discuss this queation of rating on uniinp:o\^d j value. The meeting vill bo held kt j th.3 County Council Chambers next Satuid.iy afternoon. The C'An.*dian Pnriiamrnt has dissolved. The elections will uLo place on Nov. 7'ub. At tjie elections, idh. | ChavlbS Tuppev, loader ot tbo ' Oppo-uion, fights Sir W. Lwder, for givn.g Britain preferentail tanrf treat mont without receiving .corieopLiidug ■ idvania&as. A section of the Libc:.il- i a! tack the Government on the ground of participating ia the South Ah/iean war. The Court of Pope Leo XIII com prints 1000 persona. These are 20 valets, i'2o house prelims, IT'> puvy chamberlains, 6 chamberlains, extra honorary chamberlains, 13) supernumerary chambeclaius, 30 Oilicbra of the noble guard and 60 guardsmen, 14 officors of the Swiss guard and police guards. 7 houorarj' chaplains, 20 private secretaries, 10 stewards and masters of the horse aud 60 doorkeepers. A wanderer from the Flowery Kingdom recently died i»i Moloourne. It transpired at the inquest that he had been treated by a Chinese physician who gave him pills, each the size of an egg. There were said to be 40 different ingredients in the medicine, including blood, grasshoppers, ashe3, bone duat, clay, dates, honey, sawdust, and ground-up insects. If pll these ingredients coaldn't keep him alive, then he deserved to die. A Sydney paper tells how a cook on one of the large ocean- going liners, lectmtly landed four hogsheads of fat, of which three were delivered into rostauranta, and the fourth into tbo basement of a city warehouse. Heie careless handling etova in the fop of the cask, and revealed the fact that the fat extended only to a depth of Gin, the balance of the cask being filled with tobacco and cigars. According to a statement made at a recent meeting of the Swedish Agricultural Academy there are now 1550 dairies established by co-operative associations and joint stock companies in Sweden. The number of cooperative dairies is 450, of which 300 manufacture butter alone, 100 cheese alone, and the remaining fifty produce both butter and obeeso. Of the 1100 dairies run by joint stock companies. 900 are engaged solely in the production of butter. In addition to the foregoing establishments there are about 200 State dairies, and a lar c c number of smaller private dairies. When doctors disagree, says the adage, who shall decide ? It is difficult very often, even without the difference of opinion amomg the faculty, to decide as to the merit of the various medicinal preparations which are upon the maiket. A safe, general rule is to believe that a preparation which professes to euro everything will cure nothing. Having thus weeded out nina-tpnths of the claim- ; ants, it is comparatively easy to find reliable evidence of personal use concerning the remainder. Mr E. G. Lane, of Oamaru, is in the fortunate position not only of having no medical difierence regarding the value of his Creasoted Emulsion, but also in having direct professional approval of it. He has iv his possession a letter written by a mernbsr of the faculty stating that he treated a case of consumption with Lane's Craasoted Emulsion, and was glad to say that after a course of treatment the patient had improved greatly. The Bpu&mu had diminished, the cough was lesss, tho night sweating had almost stopped, and tbe weight of ths patient bad increased seven or eight pounds.

Ladies coma and sao oho new tlj icoi and pi uu lu-st*-)* ivi fU^sa i3iod;ul at Arthur Jo'iss and J) 3. — \.*.7~ I Sir Thomas LaptoA had egom i^r iuci a challenge to sail foe the Au.,£)i tft Cup. A yacht will be built to his order on the Thanae3. Brain's Stain Eradicator will clcjin your conscience. Try it. O nly j 8 and Is 6d per bottle, at Hair dressing Rooms, Qaeen Sttoet. The Pa ris Exhibition clos^b oa November sth. Somc-thirg like 42780 awards have been distiibuled tmctig 70j531 sucoessful exhibitors. Brifch troops hnve been de^prtched to North Bfluchistan to es-ti'Uicii a ft blockade of "Waziiistan as a pui i3hment to the natives for u/lleiy 0 mails and attacks on officials. In connection with the American Presidential Election, Mr Benjanhu Harris has issued a campaign statement in which he asserts that Mr Bvyan's success will lead to confusion Li the Government, and in business. Tli9 Canterbury Chamber of Coin tnr-ive has decided to invite all similar chambers in the colony to send dolegates to a conference to b9 held oa Jaaurary 9, aad to ask for suggestion! to bo sent in by th 9 end of November as to tho questions that might be disenssed. Two delegates will ba invited from each chamber with a membership of 50 and over, und one £rcm each chambrtr with a membership under 50 The Canterbury Chamber has decided to ask the Government if in the event of a direct service with South Africa being instituted it would i subsidise it.