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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 162, 13 June 1901, Page 4

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A NEW DAIRY EXPERT.

New Zealand has captured enotbor bright young Canadian for service in the Dary Commissioners department, says : the Canadian correspondent of the Otago Daily Times. Mr W. M. Singleton, who leaves for the antipodes on the next mail steamer, has been engaged by thO Governin' nt of New Zealand as an instructor in cheese-miking. He is a '■on of Mr J. H. Singleton, one of tho :<! best known cheese manufacturers of 3 Ontario, who owns and operates twelve \ factories. Mr Singleton jun., who is * young man of pleasing address, and is bound to make his mark in New Zealand, Ins engaged in ch ese-makiug since 'i h r left school. Part of the time he has |

been superintendent and instructor in his father's factories. P»r tour sessions he has also been instructor in cheeeemakingatthe Provincial Dairy School at Kingston, Ontario. Mr Singleton has a splendid class record. He took the dairy courses at the Ontario Agricultural Cohe eat Guelph, at Kingston' and Madison (Wiscon-in) Dairy Schools, standing at tho head of the class at tho two latter places. With such a record he may fair ; y be expeetel to'enhance his reputation in New Zealand.

REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR * As soon as a man gets so fee can afford. ' to keep a hired girl his wife begins 'o go i visiting and tft'k about all the trouble she has with “ th» servants.” ! After a woman has been keeping a 1 house for two years the only room tfe & i looks like she thought her b droom ; would look after she got married is tlie J spare bedroom. J The first thing Eve said when they J got outside the Garden- of Eden was i probably that no nutter ho v nice it was 1 he knew she always did hate to be j cooped in there. I If the average women had been.up in a 1 balloon wh§n the bottle of Manilla was i going on she probably would have looked ■] over the edge and said: “ Oh, isn't that >

■ unning V \ When the average man stands up to ; get married be looks !o the woman like aj hero, but he looks to the man ra >re like | a curly hawed steer at a prize fair wi:h £ a pink ribbon tied to his horns. !

A woman expects a man to work all \ day to buy her one of the new style f dresses that drag all over the street and then sympathise with her air the eys n , s ing became she has to be sewing on the bottom.

PECULIAR SUPERSTITIONS^

■ Some people believe— ; That for every f>>g you get in March :j you will have a frost in May. If the thread knots While sewing the ;l sewer will liv&to sea the garment worn | cut. ;

If the sun goes down behind-a bank of ; clouds on Friday it will rain on Sunday. \ While peicoek feathers are kept inf the house sickness wilt never be out of it. i If a pen drops and sticks in the floor ] \ the owner’s lover lives in the direction i towards which it inclines. • If a spider is found on one of your I garments it signifies tint you will soon have a new one of the same kind. If a person’s two front teeth are wide enough to place a gold coin between. | them he will alwhjrs be rich. | A ring around the moon indicates bad | weather which will last as many days 'as 1 there are stars enclosed in a circle. J If a hairpin sticks out, but does rofcjl fall the wea er will have a disappoint- i ment; if it fails her lover is thinking -of i her.

If a silver coin or a fresh-laid egg is p’aced in the hand of a new-born bU & long life and prosperity will be assured *o it.

If a peahen calls, a donkey brays, pigs carry straw geese flap their wings, a pot. boils dry, or the deads move northward, it will rain.