THE WAIMATE ADVERTISER. SATURDAY, JUNE 8,1901. General News.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 160, 8 June 1901, Page 3

THE WAIMATE ADVERTISER. SATURDAY, JUNE 8,1901. General News.

A public temperance meeting is idvertised to be held in Knox Church m Thursday next.

The Westport Borough Council have inrchased a site at a cost of £1658 for mblic abattoirs.

The Waimate County Council nvite tenders for forming part of the 3larltesfield road. Tenders -close at loon on the 18th inst.

The Waimate Borough Council eqnire an Inspector of Nuisances for he borough, and applications for the losition are requested to be sent in by Jouday, June 24th. Particulars as to alary, etc., are advertised. The D.I.C. announce that they will pen a choice assortment of new goods n the sample room next the Royal lotel on June 12th. They will be on lew for three days only. A house and acre of land in Shearnan street, sold under the Unclaimed jands Act by the Canterbury Farmers’ ’o-operative, were bought by Mr J. Matthews for £lls.

District orders for the Canterbury Volunteer district in connection with he Royal reception in New Zealand ire published by Lieutenant-Colonel Jordon this morning.

A notice from several Waimate dacksmiths which appears elsewhere hould prove of interest to the general mblio.

You can depend on ridding your jhildren of Worms with Wade’s Worm ■'las, the wonderful worm worriers. Price Is

The hospital patients ate indebted lo Mr Norton Francis and Mr Buchanan for a present ox illustrated ind other Homo papers.

The Waimate Borough Council sail for tenders for the lease of a lection and store in John street. Penders will close at the Council ihambers on Monday, 24th inst. An advertisement in another column ictifies members that the annual meeting of the Waimate Horticultural Society will be held in the Fire Brigade station next Wednesday.

A horse allowed to stand with a trap near the mill yesterday made quick time to Beep Greek “ on its A cyclist pursued it and brought it back, no damage to horse or cart having been sustained. At Cork, the chief gasometer in the jity, containing half a million cubic feet of gas, exploded. It is suspected that the explosion was caused by gas workers on strike, blowing it up with dynamite.

A daisy cart, buggy, spring trap, or my kind of a vehicle. Every part juaranteed. Landed at your door jhsaper than anywhere else. Let us now your wants. We can give you latisfaction. Zealandia Supply Com--sany, Christchurch. —Advt. In our advertising columns Hia Worship the Mayor convenes a public meeting for Monday evening next to liscuss the action of the Timaru Harbour Board with reference to the inclusion of Waimate Borough in the limaru harbour district.

The district agent of the Public Trustee notifies in this issue that all accounts against the estate of Jeremiah McCarthy which have not been already rendered must be sent in to Mr W. M. Hamilton, solicitor, Waimate, within seven days, or they will pot be recognised. The number of invitations issued to be coming functions in Wellington areas fellows:—State reception, 1,600; laying Town Hall foundation stone, 300, for the Government stand in 'rent of the Government Buildings, L. 000; for the old age pensioners’ Hand, 400. A sensational scene has occurred At foronto. Thre handcuffed burglars were being conveyed in a cab by a unstable, when accomplices of the burglars throw loaded pistols into the. vehicle. The prisoners managed in ihoot the policeman dead, but though bey escaped, they weie afterwards 'ecaptureil. The report of a fire on the Oruba, hows that one bag for Wellington and )ne for Christchurch were badly iamaged, and one for Bunedin slightly. 11l were newspapeia, no mention being aade of any damage to letters. The he is supposed to have been caused luring fumigation.

In this morning’s issue the Cantor* >ury Farmers’ Co-operative Assoeia’on advertise a list of entries for heir special horse eale at Studholtue unction on Thursday nett. The list otnprises a large number of iseful animals, and a rare oppbrunity will be afforded by thia.sale for urners, contractors, and all who lesive a good stamp of horseflesh to olfil their requirements. The annual social of the local corps 1 the Salvation Army takes plaod lest Friday, Saturday and Sunday lights. Adjutant and Mrs Flanagan, mo have charge of the Men’s Home a Christchurch, will he visiting, and till speak on the Social work of' the limy on the Friday etening.

10n Saturday evening a public meeting of ratepayers ia the Upper .and , Lower iPareora Ridings of the Waimate County will be held in the Library ! Sail) St. Andrews, to discuss the j advisability of joining the Levels ; County, t At Hawera onThursdaya meeting of < clergymen, factory managers and ' suppliers discussed the question of ; Sunday labour in dairy factories. The ; opinion Was general that the evil could ■ only be minimised and that even then < that the subject would be beset with difficulties. Eventually it was resolved that it should be recommended to factories that the milk should be taken in on four days in each week during the winter months, the days to be Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays. At the grounds of the New Zealand Metropolitan Trotting Club at Christchurch, on Thursday afternoon, the pacing horse Almont attempted to equal or lower 2tnin 17seo. for a mile in harness. In the first trial he covered the distance in 2tnin. 211-5 sec. and the second time reduced this by 1-5 sec. Jessie Palm in the saddle covered a mile in 2miu. ISseo. when sent out to equal or better 2min. 20seo. This is the saddle record for the colony. John Bunyan in his prison cell, On Pilgrim’s Progress loved to dwell,: And nearly all that startling tale He wrote while pining in a gaol. His work lives on though John succumbed, No doubt the damp his limbs had numbed, And gave him cold.; his death that’s sure, He’d not got Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure.

The establishment of technical and continuation classes in connection with the Waimate school has every appearance of soon becoming an accomplished fact. In our advertising columns this morning His Worship the Mayor calls a public meeting, to be held in the school next Thursday evening, for the purpose of considering the subject. The Rev. GL Barclay and the Headmaster (Mr Pitcaithly) will explain the objects and working of the classes, and as the matter is one of the greatest importance to oar rising generation, we hope that every parent will make a point of attending the meeting and giving the proposal every support.