General News.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 137, 16 April 1901, Page 3

General News.

The National Mortgage and Agency for turnips for sheep feed. Mounted Constable O’Halloran is at •present on-duty at the wreck of .the _Ariadne. A meeting of the Waikakahi Settlers’ Association is advertised to take place jtliis evening in the schco’house, Morven. A meeting of the Waimate Choral 'Society takes place this evening at :8 o’clock, in St. Augustine’s School--room, when it is hoped there will be a -full muster of members. On Thursday last a lad named Dickson was thrown from his pony and had diis arm dislocated at the elbow. He received medical attendance promptly* ..and is doing well. A notification appears in another to the ejject that all accounts -in connection with the recent Mayoral Banquet must be rendered not later .than Monday next, 22nd inst. Trie election of Mayor for the Borough of Waimate in place of Dr. Barclay, who retires through ...effluxion of time, is advertised to take -place on the 24th inst. An election for the return of a miember to re.preient the Borough of Waimate on the Timaru Pligh School .Board of Governors will he held on "Wednesday, April 24th,. An elderly man named C. W. Franks, ifl drover, while riding from the June -tion on Sunday morning, was thrown bad bis leg broken at the ankle. <Thp horse rolled with him and forced Bis foot through the stirrup. He was /taken to the Hospital by Mr J. Ford, .and received every attention.

The Annual General Meeting of the Wat mite Public Library is announced tfo take place on Tuesday next. Among .other matters the meeting will con ; sider the question of selling the old site :ftnd erecting a new building. An elated individual caused some ;stir on Saturday night by yelling loud ,and long in the main street. However, jbe was not colour blind, and the glint jil blue stilled his sweet voice.. Edmund Bouvy, who was arrested Jast year as a French escapee from New Caledonian, but who was released by the Governor afmr being there, has issued a writ .-against -Count de Courte, French iConsul at Wellington, in whose .employ he was previously, claiming ..£6OOO damagesThe enquiry into the wreck of the Ariadne is still proceeding, and has brought to light some curious facts. ■The yacht, which is valued at £20,000, was bought from Lady Ingram by the present owner four years ago for £■2ooo. The lawyers, after the playful .manner of their kind, are endeavouring to rake up some of Mr Kerry’s past for the delectation of the public .•—and the Insurance companies.

The Waimate Tennis Club send a i Aeam to Tknaru on Thursday ■next to j <try conclusions wish a team - of thftt town, and the idlowing players ibaw-e I Jbeen chosen to Represent (She 3u£B)l xlubMesaee ■Perry, gamiltw., LeCren. Mesdames fit&tiMy mi Paiigvgod

Tha names of candidates nominated for the office of councillors are published this morning. There are sixteen gentlemen nominated, and from these the electors will be required to select nine to form the Council. The poll takes place on the 84th last., and the hours of polling will be from 9 o’clock in the morning till 7in the evening. Perhaps there is now a chance of hearing some candidates’ views on various subjects of local importance.

Mr J. G. Wooley of U.S.A., who is coming on a lecturing tour to New Zealand at the invitation of the Prohibition party is, we learn from “Who’s who in America” a barrister by profession, and is spoken of as a remarkably smart advocate. Eg was Prohibition candidate for the Presidency of the United States at the recent election, and has afiaudoned his profession to consecrate himself to the work of the extermination of the liquor traffic. Mr Woolley has lectured in the principal Englishspeaking cities of the world, is author of several books, notably, “ Civilization by Faith” and “The Christian Citizen,” and is editor of The New Voice and Chicago Lever, The Kohika Settlement in South Canterbury will be opened for selection on the lease in perpetuity system on Monday, the J3th May. The area to be made available is 3833 acres. The land was recently acquired by the Government under the Land for Settlements Act. It was part of the well-known Otaip estate, the property of Mr T. J. Teschemaker. It is situated in the Waimate County, and is a distance of twenty miles from Timaru. The northern portion of the settlement is distant seven and a half miles from St. Andrews, and five miles Lorn Otaio. and the southern portion is distant five miles from Makikini and eleven miles from Waimate. The whole of the settlement is described as being admirably adapted for mixed farming. It has produced heavy crops of wheat and up to sixty bushels .of oats to the acre, and excellent root Crops have been grown on every portion of it. The land has been under cultivation for about twenty years. It has been carefully worked, and from no portion of it haye more than iour white crops been taken.