General News.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 171, 4 July 1901, Page 2

General News.

For the Christchurch seat Messr*A. H. Turnbull, <& Taylor, and (i. J. Smith are out*

Wash’s Teh-Thino PoWnaits for babies'are soothing, reduce fever and prevent blotches; Price, Is. The intelligent Conip., in our last issue, made it appear that an Inebriate Home, was-being 3built at Waimatet This should-read “ Waitati.”

The National Mortgage aod : Agency Company advertise two town section* for sale, at the County saleyards tomorrow.

The annual meeting of the Stuck holme Junction Saleyafds Company shareholders isadvertised to take place on Friday, July 12th,

Careful calculation and estimate* show that 43,500 persons travelled by .ait to Dunedin during the Week of the lioyal visit.

; The quarterly reVCmie for the United Kingdom was £29,681/276, including customs £5,227,203, excise £7,232,448, and stamps £1,960,000. Terrific beat is King experienced iff ReW York. Seventeen deaths front sunstroke, six suicides, and numerous cases of insanity have aheady. been reported. Study your health, keep- yew feet warm, Sbackleton and Grants reputation for stockings and sox is evet increasing by. giving best wearing qualities at lowest prices.- -Advt.

Mr Hall Jones, Whose position? in the Ministry is just now , the subject of much conversation, has not. yet put in an appearance in Parliament, .but may be expected in a few days. Shippers of grain wilt be pleased td notice that the rates to London hard', been reduced by §s per ton. The freights now .quoted are—Wheat, 255,. and oats, 80s. It is understood the Government will retain the services of the poultry expert Who came from Australia unde* engagement for a Certain period to thff/ Department of Agriculture..

The last Gazette Contains fr notice to the effect that-cnlesa cause is shown to the contrary the Timaru Sea Bathing Company will be struck off the register at the expiration of three months. ' The municipal gas works .in, -Mari* cheater made a net profit of £74,05i last year. The gas committee have, decided to hand over £31,090-. id that sum to relief of rates-

Mr G. A Hollamby announces that he has secured the Waiuiate agency fer the celebrated Massey - Harriscycles, and. has a* competent workman engaged for the repairing department. The clear, frosty weather gave way yesterday morning to rain, with a. bitterly cold Westerly wind; The rairr cleared off at mid'day anfisbowed the Hunter hills dad in robes of spotless white..

Given fine weather this afternoon the Wamate-Tiroaru hockey match should be well worth watching. The Waimate boys are in good form, and expect to give the viaitors-a “rosy ”‘ time.'

■ Under the Land lor Settlements 3 Aet the Government has purchased front Sir Westby Perceval 100 acres situated; on the Horewood road, about two miles from the present terminus ot the Papanui tramway. The Premier has given a further assurance to Mr T. M. Wilford that there will be an enquiry into- what is known as the tfewton Park scandaL The Cabinet, Mr Seddon states, is noW Considering what form the enquiry shall take.

If your hands are cold, look, pV«f twelve dozen pairs of Sample. Gloves 'at Shaofcleijou .and Grants. All kinds. Cashmere, ffid, Driving, ‘SveUiog gloves, Cycling gloves, even Infant. Prices, Bd, fid, 9d, la, Is fid, to 6a 3d —Advi.

M A Farmer,” writing in the: North'Otago Times, points out that at present prices the demand for 10s & day would mean that a farmer’s man could go home on Saturday afternoon' wittk seven bags of wheat and'twelve bags of oats for his short work.

The Dunedin Liberal Says that last/ Wednesday there were fewer drunks-' looked up than usual and says *• yod. don’toatchacopper locking Up auy< one when be will miss 'seeing spins*; . thing hygoingto-thie Wah&hoase and court nest morning.* r . ~ '

An extraordinary extendednfght will be held- this evening, in ihe Oodr fellows’ Hall, under the auispfces of the Excelsior Dancing Gloss. High-class music will be provided by Miss Oaitt (piano)* and. Messrs Miller (violin) and* Harwood (cornet), and altogether on 3 enjoyable evening is promised. The monthly meeting- of • tae' Wai mate Volurfteer Fire Brigade was held;onTuesdayevening; Captain Sinclair, -presiding over A good muster.' Tim -principal business of the evening was compiling send to -head' quarters,. Desultory discussion*. took place on several other matters.' Seven' Gisbomo lads carried , oh? sanitary operations on .a. Gisborne resident, pppnlariy known as u Soapy Tom,” in order to mark the. arrival of the RoydUie* in New Zealand, and _will bow have to answer at the Police rGoucVfortbeir conduct.

r During the whole of the three week# *thaf Maoris were congregated afe [Rotorua, and passing to and fro, there was not a< single case calling for the iuterveotioh Of the pnlke. It is quee- - tionable (says a contemporary) whether. 5500* whiles on. a . holiday could have ; preserved similar good Conduct, -The Wellington Employers’ Assn* elation bas set n» a Leoslative (committee to watch brought/ % -forward during the coming Session ot Parliament-. ADisjwteSub-oom mitten hasa%beeh estaWwhed, and ap effort is";be«jg made to^tfend

The .Borough Council met as a ■Committee last evenin; to discuss the water supply question. Mr Reynolds, tt Dunedin engineer, was present. The new Salvation Army barracks |n Waifnate are now In hand. The work isijeing done by the Army from headquarters hy day labour. Several persons have remarked chat ; ilthough the Fourth and Fifth Contingents arrive on Friday, there B no move made towards welcoming be Waimate troopers.

Forty-eight hundred and eighty lozen of the King’s sherry, Chiefly the ite Queen’s stock, have been sold hy notion, and brought JE18.547. Some {the lots sold for 4605, 650 s and 570 s er dozen.

To day is the. “ Glorious Fourth/’ rhen the wild Yank will burn thouuids of dollars’ worth of fireworks jd get blue, blind, paralytic with iniembrance of the batching of. that able bird, the free American eagle, ere’s to you, anybow, Sana.

The 'question of Subsidies to merican mails comes before the ederal 0 abinet shortly. Sir W. Ly ne II urge the Cabinet to grant a subly to 'the Vancouver service. He . jocts to any being given to the San. ancisco service owing to American, ide restrictions.

Wbilfl the people of New Zealand ve freedom and prosperity and a ■tful, generous Monarch, ready *o !k9 himself the. bulwark of the itish constitution, their loyalty wiil nain unaltered, and times of trouble 1 always Sad the colonial lads “ up the king.”—Stratford Settler,

Balaclava years ago, l hundred men engaged the foe, . 1 what a gallant charge Was made, that courageous Light Brigade. o ugh many perished there, who knows, 5 number killed by Russian sAows,

none can damp and cold endure, ihout some Woods’ Great Pepper

mint Cure

L good brand of tea is what every u°htfiri housewife is always anxious n-ocure. There should be no diflr;y with regard to this article now, according to announcements in our ertising columns, everyone who ains the “ Hondai Lanka ” brand feel assured of possessing the t quality of the “ Cup that cheers not inebriates.”

he monthly meeting of the Ladies’ levolent Society was held yesterafteriioon ; present —Mesdimes . AdiiiH, McKenzie Gibson, Wilson Sinclair (secretary). Assistance granted in three cases, ft was ded to forward a letter of sympathy drs Studholma (president of the ety) in her recent bereavement, he flags in Waiuiate were fIoWA '•mast high on Tuesday out of ieot to the late Mr Geoffrey Studna. On receipt of the news by A. E. G. Rhodes, Mayor of Christrcb, and whose wife Was cousin to lata Mt Stadholme, an “ At Home” d for Wednesday Was indefinitely tponed, and the flag at_ Gravonor [dings flown half-mast high. 'here was a good attendance in the oolromh at Nukaroa Band of Hope sting on Tuesday evening, one of youthful members presiding. A led programme of recitations-, [ogees and songs was weH. received, chief attraction being a speech by jor Turner, late of the Salvation ay, on temperance work. An iresting meeting was concluded by singing of “ God be with you till

meet again.” ‘he Liquor. Party is said to be raising pressure on the Pr>-inter to end the licensing law in direction of king the term of licenses six or e years instead of three. Tne vernnieut is anxious that the onial Secretary should have power jrant a license in a district for the loaragement of the tourist traffic* lit is probable that a strong effort Iba made to alter the law in that wtion. The Temperance Party, vever, will not tamely submit to h alterations in the law. —Press.

lie fortnightly meeting of the New land Workers’ Union was hold at Troeaidora last night. Mr O’Brien, sident, was in the chair. Mr F. mbam was elected to fill a vacancy the Federated Eight Houis Union, ras reported that a branch of the rkers’ Union had been formed at imate, South Canterbury, its memi being agricultural and pastoral kera. A resolution was passed gratulating the Canterbury workers the steps they had taken, and sting that before long rutal workers tywhere throughout New Zealand ild be organised. A resolution was ied deploring the action of'the City incil in dismissing several of its )urers now that the winter months [arrived.—New Zealand Times.