TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23,19G0.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 62, 23 October 1900, Page 2

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 19G0.

The Blackball strike is still on. The company are sending to Newcastle for ooal. A poll is to be taken in Timaru on Thursday next on the question of Rating on Unimproved Value. Charlea E. Macrum, formerly the American consul at Pretoria, is now a travelling salesman for a glasß company. The Waimate Hockey Glub hold a general meeting of members in St. Augustine's Schoolroom co-morrow evening. The Presbyterian congregation of Waitaki have unanimously decided to give a call to the Eev. Joha Norris, of BuntervUle. The London Times announces that Rear-Admiral Boaumout, Commander-in-chief of the Pacific station, has been transferred to the command of the Australian squadron. The Government has offered £250 reward for information that will lead to the arrest of the train wrecker, and offers a free pardon to an nccoroplice giving information, if not the principal offender. The revenne collected at the Customs House, Timaru, for the week ended Saturday, was as follows : — Customs duties, JG723 12s 9d ; New Zealand beer duty, JE22 5s 6d j total. £745 18s Bd. Colour-Sergeant Stevenson, of 'the Waimale Biflea, is busy working tip a team to compete «t the Military Tournament at Dunedin, on Boxing Day. They intend competing in firing, manual and bayonet exercisos. Strawberry growers are notified by advertisement, that cardboard strawberry boxes aye on sale at the Advertiser Office. Since the introduction by us of the system of packing, the boxed fruit has always commanded a better ealo and price. This is [ easily explained when it is understood i that under the old tray system growers packed seven pounds of this delicate fruit together. It often arrived at its destination in a '• jammy " state, With a one pound box there is no Biicjh dangor. The berries » are picked into the box direct, and are never rehandled until they veftoh their .consumer, auothflt saviog »[ labour and fruit.

It ia estimated that the conques* of the Philippines has coat tha United States 186,000,000 dollars, vhile 2394 soldiers were killed, 3073 wounded, and 1668 have died of disease. The story goes that when Major Bobin returns to New Zealand he intends to take action for libel against certain papers which printed letters from South Africa, in which paragraphs have appeared to his disatvantage, — Free Lance. Loi?d Curzon states that there are Btili two raillions of Hindus receiving relief. Half a million deaths havo occurred through famine, while the loss of crops ia estimated at fifty millions sterling, exclusive of cattle. Tha outlook is now promising. The number of labourers employed under the Government departments on co operative Works during the month of September was 3318. The Survey Department employed 1756, and the Public Work 1 ? Department gave work to 2082 on railways and roada. The nevr building by-law of the Waimute Borough is now out of the printer's hands. It comprises 20 pages, and ,vill be interesting reading as showing " what not to do " for those about to build in tha " inner area." Copies may be obtained at the Borough offices. We desire to draw attention to an advertisement in another column announcing that Miss Fergusson has ipened refreshment rooms in tho lew shop next door to the Co operative ■score. Mias Fergusson. has hid some years of experience in attending to the Waimate publio in this direction and this experience should enable her to give every satisfaction to visitors. Miss Fergusson will stock the most approved confectionery fruit, cakes, aud fancy goods and will in all probabiJity receive liberal patronage. In most South African towns a dog tax is imposed. Some timo ago, in a certain frontier town, the authorities instead of employing constableg ov Others to catch unlicensed canines, authorised the pound-rnaater to pay a shilling for every stray deg brought to the pound. In a short time 20 dogs wore thus collected, and the town council, being humane and a trifle parsimonious, instead of leaving them destroyed, directed them to be sold by public auction. This was done, and amid great laughter the entire pack was knocked down to an unsophisticated looking Kaffir at Id each. But Johnny Kaross was not so simple as he looked, and soon had the laugh on his side. "Withiu the nest two days the whole of tbo 20 dogs were again impounded, tha Kaffir receiving a shilling for each, and making a profit of 18s 4d on the transaction. Needless to say, the town council sold no more dogs by- public auction. When doctors disagree, says the j adage, who shall decide ? It ia difficult j very often, even without the difference \ of opinion ainorug tha faculty, to decide as to the merit of the varions medicinal preparations which are upon the niaiket. A safe, general rule is to believe that a preparation which professes to cure everything will cure nothing. Having" thuB | weeded out nine-tenths of ths claimants, it is comparative^' easy to find reliable evidence of personal U3a concerning the remainder. Mr E. G. Lane, of Oamaru, is ia the fortunate position not only of having no medical difference regarding the value of his Creasoted Emulsion, but also in having direct professional approval of it. He has in his possession a letter writtou 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 'less, the night Bweating had almost stopped, and the weight of the patients had increased seven ot eight pounds.