Notes and Comments.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 192, 22 August 1901, Page 2

Notes and Comments.

Last night, the Town Clock registered 27 i-;>th minTHE TOWN otes past 7, wh?n it CLOCK, should have said 10.30 p.m. It is not yet knowi whether t.he clock has decided not to strike until it gets an eight hour day (being dissatiafiel with working 24 hours ouc of 24) or .whether the fact ot' there being a light in the room allotted to the private, boxes and two new Roche.sters in the Post Office* had caused it to stop with astonishment. We hope it will recover to-day, and not seek to emulate the clock we read about, which ''stopped short never to go again." Wairnate has at last a swimming bath, although l'ootWATBR bath would be nearer SUPPLY, the term. Our reporter stepped iuto it last evening, and is in a position to explain its exact whereabouts. He was walking along the sidewalk near the school janitor's house, and heedless of the fact that rain had fallen during the day he attempted to cross the road. Being engaged in the abstruse mental problem of finding how many " beans " make five bob, he unwarily stepped into a pool some six yards long by three wide. His graphic description relates that the muddy stream commenced to flow into his boots, and that he dammed it back (his own word«) without a moment's delay. (P.fci.—This is corroborated by a bystander, who says his language was worse than that). Having floundered round for awhile and thoroughly investigated the depth of the pool, he came out to enquire the thusuess of the that. On his way home he passed numbers of leaser pools, and it suddenly dawned upon him. what a simpleton he was not to know it had rained heavily during the day, and that tht-se were the rain gauges of the -Borough surfaceman, showing how much moisture could be collected in a given spot. Our reporter is certain that by linking the pools a permanent temporary supply could be obtained that would last until it was exhausted. • v