THE WAIMATE ADVERTISER. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1901.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 197, 3 September 1901, Page 2

THE WAIMATE ADVERTISER. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1901.

The Fire Brigade will bold a meeting this evening. The quarterly meeting of the Lioen*ing Committee will be held to-day at noon. The Welsh eteel combination fa preparing to fight the American steel trust. Cairo reports elate that a bad Nile is expected this season. The river is> already falling rapidly at Khartoum. On Saturday morning the Eyretou murderer, Alexander McLean, was executed in Lyttelton gaol. The Waimate Borough Council invites tenders for picking and breaking stones in two oI the borough streets. Wadb’9 Tbbthxkoi Powdhks for babies are soothing, reduce fever and prevent blotches. Price, Is. Yesterday before Mr R. Niool, J.P., a man was convicted of drunkenness and fined 10a or forty-eight hours* imprisonment. The contractor for the Litany building is getting on very well, aol already the walls are beginning to show above the ground. The Daily Express says that France and Russia jointly will bare ninety-two submarine boats of the newest type ready by February. , At Wellington on Saturday the New South Wales team met a ta&m repraaanting New Zealand, and suffered defeat by twenty points to throe. About 8000 people watched the gams! The Timara A, and F. Association, at a meeting on Saturday, decided to send Ityo delegates to Wellington to give evidence oh the. question of •oppressing trotting at augium «Uwl

Tha Market Reserve, which lies jjgtv'aen Queen and John “treats, has ploughed up and sown in oats’, clover and cowgrasa, ao that it should be in good ordar far tha nest few years. A hockey match between teams r «pfoganting Waimata and Sydenham • 0 have bean played in Victoria Park on Thur»day next is postponed, as the pjitiog team is *• thinned out" by jollnonza. The Canterbury Farmers’ Co-opera-tive Association are now receiving entries at their Waimate agency for jhe fourth monthly horse sale at gtadholme, which is to be held on a date to be fixed. The Waimate High School girls open thi tennis season on the Waimate jlub’i courts on Thursday next. The jehool has a very good tennis team tbi* y e * r ’ probably the best school team in South Canterbury. Quite the latest use—in Waimate at ill events—for the flags purchased ffheu the patriotic feeling ran high, but jjpvr of no value, is to utilise them for scaring the birds from newiy-sown ' saeds. And it is said they answer the purpose admirably.

Tha Governor and Lady Ranfurly giva a concert to sailors and their and families at Government goose on Friday night. There were o r?r 200 present, and, as the newspapers say, “ a moil enjoyable time has spent.”

At a meeting of the Wellington Hospital Trustees, on Tuesday, it was stsl-.-d that poultry was so scarce in the city that there was difficulty in obtaining a supply for the institution, Viiich required some 3000 birds per jnn'un. It was decided to advertise ir. Nfllnou and Bleuhefm for supplies. Russian control of the Custom* and •fllher influence in Persia are obstructing the development of the QuettaHudihi route and seriously injuring Indian tradara. The Loudon Times nrgos the Government to deal with the -question.

Thera is apparently an unusual dearth of Preibytorian ministers at p;.s&nt in the colony. It was stated st a meeting of the Dunedin Presbytery that there were ten or eleven vaeant charges, and not a probationer to put into any one of thorn.

It's football that work* up the muscle And gives a man plenty of dash ; It's kick, it's scrum, and its bustle, And a general looking for “ lash." In the good old hunt for the leather K a cold you should have to endure, You will soon pull yourself altogether With Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure.

THE EMPRESS’ WILL. The estate of the late Empress 7,••.'d0. : ck is valued at e'even million marks. She left each of her children, acladina the Kaiser, a million marks in vih (shout £50.000).

KGW ZEALAND’S DAIRY YIELDIt is estimated that the v.lue of butter id cheese locally consumed in New Stand is £1,600,000 annually, which, «.th the £1,059,403 worth exnor.ed, mkes the dairy yield of New Zealand tot»l £2,6-59,403. SUGAR INDUSTRY. Id the Assembly the Premier, in reply [osproposal to establish a State sugar refinery, said it would be madness Tortile Government to embark farther sums Dbs industry at tbs present stage. It ns possible that in a few years no sugar cold bs grown in the State. Those rao had triad to grow it with white iswr had failed. FRANCE AND TURKEY. The real cause of the rupture in the Ijlomatia relations between France and Jrkey was the action of the Porte in Mrtantly imposing obstacles in the »7 of French commercial interests, tj various concessions made by the irto to Germans have caused heartirniaga in Kussit. The Constans icident corning on the eve of the Czar’s 'lit to France is regarded as ft veiled unlng to Germany. NEW GUINEA. Ht Le Hunte, C.M.G., Lieut-Gov-Sor ot New Guinea, who is visiting fdney, favourably views the prospects ' ths posaibiluie* of the possession. • revenue is increasing, and its trade id gold output are steadily expanding, bile cultivation is spreading. The wives gradually are replacing savage muni with civilised Idea*. A great Kwbick is the unwillingness to permit iu fide companies to take up large **«. If the country was under the tamonwealth, wiser counsels would '«ail, and the industries rapidly ! f«d.

eikolkum bores a failure. Ibe Taranaki Herald says that after *ri o! per ail tent labour and the Puditure of a large lum of money in £ work of endeavouring to find a l J*ble petroleum field at Moturoa, the hi gentlemen who embarked their 9 hey in the venture have decided to 'continue operations. The lasb bore, which work is still being carried on. * tan drilled to a depth of 1960 fest ■t no traces of oil have been met iib, although the bore is only 80 feet •o that in which at 950 fest oil was 'hinsd in what was at first considered ta payable quantity. In the present water was troublesome for come but this, after considerable labour expense, was effectually sent off, so a good test of its oil-bearing 'pscity was obtained. But the results tm the bore have been disappointing.