General News

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 169, 29 June 1901, Page 2

General News

Mr R. E. Boyd advertises particulars in Connection with a clearing sale.

The Foresters’ social is announced to take place on July 25th.

The National Mortgage and Agency Company advertise town properties for sale.

Wade’s TbethinA Ponders for babies are soothing, reduce fever and prevent blotches. Price, Is, Welland,who some time ago made a murderous attack on the Kaiser, has been adjudged a lunatic and confined in an asylum.

A social in connection with the Waikakahi Settlers’ Association is advertised to take place in the Morven schoolroom on Friday, July sth. Several Unionist newspapersapplaud the Hon R. J. Seddon’s crying shame on the English statesman whose utterances prolong the war.

We would draw the attention of our readers to an advertisement from Arthur Jones and Oe., appearing in another column.

King Edward, of England, and President Loubet of France, cabled condolences to Mr Hay, the American Secretary of State, on the tradgio death of hid son. The Scottish Courts have decided that Sir William Oualiffe Brooks’ domicile was English, thus sustaining his will. His widow and daughter sought to .prove his domicile to be Scotch.

. A man named Peter McOallnm, a resident of Oamaru, who was travel! ing by the midnight train, fell ofi the platform, and had his legs badiy crushed. He was brought to the hospital, where he died on Thursday. Mothers requiring warm serviceable dresses for the girls before reopening school are invited to look at a special purchase of heavy dress material at Shackleton and Grants. Eight shades Is yd, double width half price.—Advt. The Rev Geo. Barclay will deliver an address on " The Manuscript Sources or the Bible,” in the Foresters’ Hall tomorrow afternoon at threi o’clock. The young men’s bible class will meet at haH-past two. Mr George Grey, chief engineer of the Ophir, wda presented by the New Zealand Marine Engineers’ Institute at Christchurch on Wednesday With the gold badge of that institution. Afterwards the engineers on the Ophir were taken into the country on an enjoyable excursion. Giving evidence before the Conciliation Board at Wellington on Wedues day in the printers’ machinists dispute, Mr Palmer, lithographic artist, suggested the necessity, owing to .machinists .varying so much in the capacity, of instituting trslidingaea! of wages, to be settled by the employers and the union. William Withel, a young man, aged twenty-onei a painter, : fell through a trap door m • a -building in Dunedin, in course of demolition on Wednesday morning, and sustained severe concussion of the brain. He was-taken to the hospital, in an unconscious state, and is not expected to recover.' Preparations for. the approaching sale at Manchester Brothers and Goldsmith’s are making rapid progress and they hope to issue circulars announcing date of commencement yext week. Startling bargains will he given in every department; Several thousand lairs.of boots, shoes and slippers will >e offered at this sale ..at simply astonishing prices.—Advt. New Zealand was not going to let Old England call in vain* Together they the foemen -met. And side by. side were slain. ’Tia said “disease kills more than war,” And nothing can be truer. When coughs jmd colds knock at the door, . ’ i ■ . , Take Woods’ Great Peppermint ] . Cure.

Mi T. J, Soljiyap, formerly employed on the staff of. this paper, who some lime baclcwas compelled to relingoish work-' on account of ill-, health, returned to" Waimate on. Thursday lash Hie many Waimate. friends will he pleased ,fo learn that: ‘•Tim-” haß-eommetsly health,' afid will 1 take up his formed position \on the staff of the Apv»|V lisas* i - vi -. t

On Wednesday at Waimate, Mr R. W,.‘Marshall,- who has been employed at Messrs driest trad Holdgafe*s establishment, Timaru, fbr the. past twelve years, was married to -M'bs Millie*3olg6ur. ' Mr Marshall Was the ; recipient bf two Very 'handsome and useful presents at the bands of his employers and bellow "employees, and Mitis Kilgotri also ‘received many , presents from friends in Waimate. The following cable was received‘o Thursday night by Mr Ryan, of Sydenham, the father Of the late Tiiautenaßt Ryan:—Lieutenant Ryan was killed■ ‘near Wakersttbom. His trodp Went up a ravine to take some waggons that were dying the white Sag, when the enemy treacherously fired. He ordered his men to retire. He retired last, and fell, a‘gallant soldier mourned by all—Andrew Major, Officer Commanding. Capetown, dime 26th. A hockey ’match Was played in Victoria Park on Thursday afternoon last between teams 'picked off the field, C. Manchester and W. George each piloting a team. The gamo rsUlted in a win for the former's side by Eite gbals to three. Some very good' play was shown, M. Healy and C. Manchester patting in good work for the winners, while -for the losers LReeve, T. Sims bad H. Cash played with a "certain amount cf science. A, committee .meeting- will be, held on Monday’ night to arrange details, in connection with the forthcoming, match against Timaru, The Excelsior dancing class bn Thursday evening was a decided success, when about seven sets. “ tripped the light fantastic toe ” to the sweet strains of music provided by Mr A. Miller (violin) and Miss A. Gate, (piano), the lime and tune of which’ left nothing to be desired. The floor was in excellent order, and Mr Frauk Drayton was, as nsual, quite .at home'; in the office of M.O. Rather a scarcity of ladies was noti:v.able, however, owing, no doubt, to the extremely cold weather experienced in Waimate of late. The Management intend holding an extended night shortly. Correspondence Was received by the' South Canterbury Board of Education" oh Wednesday from the Temuka; school committee, Certifying that preparatory classes had received instruction in the school on the follow-, ing subjects, regularly, “for two hoiirfc a week during the quarter ending March 31st, and during the present quarter; —Paper folding, paper-weav-ing. stick laying, modelling in pla's ter, and drawing in Coloured crayoa. The average attendance during the quarter ending March 31, was *l9, and during this quarter up to June -6, -80 The capitation claimed at the rate bf fid per >pupil per annum was therefore ( £l9 10s.

The report was current in Timirii the other day that the health of the Hon W. Hah Jones is in a very unsatisfactory state, and 'that 'the labour of administering the Public Works Department is proving a ’Very severe strain upon Wm. It is, of course, known that he has gone for rest and treatment to the hot springs at Rotorua, but it was fnely stated yesterday that he has left his resignation as a member of the Ministry, in Wellington. It is said thkt a meeting of his committee was hold in Timaru yesterday to Consider this matter, and that the Hon W. Hall Jones will be asked to withdraw his resignation.— Timaru Post.

Eight men, described ns Arabs or Lascars, who were brow dil froth Grenville to Tuur&day Island, tell an extraordinary story. They state that they left an unnamed 1 port in a small sehooner, and voyaged for three months without touching anywhere. The schooner foundered in a gale, and the men say they swam together for eight days, eventually landing at Cape Grenville. The supposition is that they either jumped from a passing steamer or are escapees from New Caledonia, The Arabs were brought before the Police Court, where the evidence disproved their story. A letter addressed to a prisoner at New Ooledonia was foflid on one, and a Noumea paper on another.

Synopsis of New AtotiseiHents.

Waikakahi S (tilers’ AssociationSocial on July stb. R. E. Boyd—Great clearing sale. N.M. and A. Company—Sale of property on July 6th. Court Foresters’ Pride- Annual social on July 25th. A. Philip—Funeral notice. Arthur Jonee and Go. — Sale of dress 'material. EL E-. McGowan—SO acres of turnips to let.