SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1900.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 85, 15 December 1900, Page 2

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1900.

The meeting- of ratepayers to eonside* the .question of building a Town Oddfellows' Hall. v T £ c , P, tivUe g eB *» connection with the Caledonian Society's sports will b» sold by Messrs Guinness and LeCrea *t $ p.m. to-day. A ve*y Interesting letter from Trooper A. E. r,oaeh from Pretoria » unavoidably crowded out bat will appear next issue.Yesterday before Jfr Coltman J.P. D. Seele* was Bned 10s or 48 houre for being fcrtmt. He could not pay th« fine and went to Timarn &aol. The Waidate BiSes finished th« firing for tbe Ladies' Belt on Thursday j morning, Lieutenant Jackson winning with a total of 155 Tbe detailed «oor«* are unfortunately crowded out. A meeting of the Caledonian Societ? will be held in the Criterion Hotel this evening to make final arrangemeoti or the sports .on Boxing Day, entriei Jo* which ©lose on Wednesday next. In the Victorian Assembly tbe OH Age Pensions Bill passed, after amendments bad been made raising tbe pensions to 106 weekly, and providing a 20 years' residence qualification. The mission of Major General Statin Pasha, who in September last was appointed Inspector-General of the Soudan, has proved "successful As a result of Slailn Pasha'a overture* the Sultan of Darfur baa hoisted the British and tbe Egyptian flags. A trial of the famous American Spading Harrow takes placo next Wednesday afternoon in Mr«J. Welch's paddoelc, High Street. The promient position this harrow now occupioi amongst agricultural implements will no doubt ensure a large attendance at the trial. The following will represnt the Waimate High School in their match against the . Wniiaki High School, which commences this morning at 10 a.m. : Doubles, Maggie Patterson and Grace Turner, Sarah Anderson and Anni» Smith, *nd Liszie Cooper mi Ifio Smith, The came players play ia th© eingles. The Lord Chief Justice of Ireland has declared that there are 781 fanw In ike Mungter A'striat, from wljicli the tenants tiave b«en evioted. Oaefifth ar« derelict, tbe rest are occupied by the police, who are protecting th» tenants. The juries Tef use to conviel in intimation eases,' and he advisw * change of venue and ipectal jnri«i to deal with the oa«es. The W« B Seyan Sunday Bchod celebrate* ita anniversary to-morrow, when there Trill be special service!, and special singing by tbe Bobolara, who have been pmtising for soffl» time past. A large platform has been erected in tbo church to aceommodatt , the singers, and the large ochesto which will also aegis*, and tbe ehotch is also to be decorated with flown, etc. Several correspondents hava vrritto indignant )ebkoxa re the prohibition A j Broncho George from riding a co»« We decline to insert these, for Bronek Ceorge bad been finyj for a similtf i< offence u lately, and tbe polieo b^ no alternative but to warn him of $>*, risk of legal proceedings. He eooM have ridden, bat at that risk, and t* dctjlinei. Therefore as the police «* not allowed to defend themselvei b; mean* of tbe public press, we declin* to publish attacks on them.