General News.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 199, 7 September 1901, Page 2

General News.

On Thursday evening the new Salvation Army barracks will be opened

The Waimate Quadrille Assembly hold their wind-up social on Tuesday evening. * . B- E. Boyd’s firvt show of spring and summer dress materials begins to-day.—Advl. The Stony Creek lignite is in use at the Waimate floor mills, and answers very well. Warm's Taaratt® Pownxtta for babies are soothing, reduce lever and prevent blotehea. Price,’ Is. The annual meeting of the Caledonian Society will be held- on Saturday, September 14th. The annual district meeting of the various Oddfellows’ lodges will beheld 1h the Waimate Oddfellows' Hall on Thursday evening next. Tba Qphir baa arrived at the Caps Verde Islands. The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall had a smooth passage and pleasant breezes. The torpedo destroyers Zephyr and Fervent are to form part of the flotilla of destroyers which are intended fc> strengthen the Australian Squadron. A cartons freak of nature is to bo wan at Saitnna. viz., a dwarf cow, standing only about 3ft Bin in height, and giving four gallons of milk per day. Gardening seems at the present time to be the chief topic of conversation. The recent fine weather has girsn an opportunity for the planting of a number of seeds, but these wUI not make much headway until a much needed shower of rain some*. ,

Xho Shipping Companies have re duced freight on poultry to South r jc‘i and London to 2-4 per cubic foot, which is equal to la Id per pair, about 6d less than at present. This includes all end) charges as wharfage, insurance, grading, and packing. After practice on Thursday the Waipute Hockey Club held a meeting ff ben it was decided to entertain the visiting Christchurch team at a social on September 18th. Tickets were tir&uged for and a committee consistjjg of Messrs Berry, Jack, Coxon, ffilson, Goldstono. George and Adams fere appointed to arrange details.

The firstclase cruiser Bedford has bias launched at Fairfield. The Bedforiis one of the ’99 1900 programme, jjj bsi been built by the Fairfield (jpiDpsny. She was laid down on fsbruaty 19th, 1900. She is a vessel 9800 tons with a speed of 23 knots, tyjg is the third British war vessel hunched within a fortnight.

'fba Roman Empire, nigh forgotten, One# exercised a mighty sway, jjus like some buildings old and rotten, left to crumble and decay, human body needs attention. In order to long life assure, For coughs and colds we've but to

mention, E. Woods’ Great Peppermint Ouro.

fha secretary to the Post and Tolojrsph Department states that a anuiber of parcels containing matches tuva recau tly been posted to members 0 j ;hs contingents in South Africa. In one case this resulted in the mail boiag on fire. In view of this ocnnmuice, the Department have JecuDcl to taka criminal proceedings against persons posting dangerous , fl b«i.»nc9P of any kind. Almost every boy one meets nowjdsys is armed with a stick with some nriVty of crook to it. A stranger p]ight fancy the youngsters were trmod for offensive or defensive purposes, but the explanation is simpler Han that —hockey is in. In a few years there will not be a boy in the pliee who cannot talk authoritatively jbout “stick.” “corner hit,” “bully off," and other technical terms, and gven now some of them have nothing id learn of the game. Waimate should lorely produce some hockey Stodd»vts", Meclarens, or Banjitsinghis in t'oe vears to come.

Tho following is clipped from a tceat London paper: —“ Many a gold nine has been found under the eea, ad when five years ago a poor fishermnoffTitnaru in Now Zealand pulled ipt piece of quarts in his net. he nturally thought he was on the high ny to fortune. Subsequently various indicates have expended over a [wrier of a million In trying to locate he mine, three divers have lost their henu wandering about among the oeks, but tho gold still remains iidd?n. though there is every reason 0 believe that it is there somewhere.” tii incident has never haon heard of ! nT'onru and la another instance of oing away from home for news about melvss. At Thursday's Studholme horse sale torses did not bring a very high price, ict rabbits rose far beyond their eulcet value. It must not, however, « Inferred that the rabbits were 'knocked down ” by tho auctioneer. IhuTie Cornelius received a present if s pair by the south express, and [tve one to Host Mann. The gonial 'H. E." saw vi«ions of rabbit pie, and kt prospect was so pleasing that to ke first enquirer he said, “ Come along nd wet him.” (This does not necesirily infer that poor bonny got any if the dust in bis throat moistened.) Itch a course produced more onaides, with a similar result, till billy the whole gathering at the lie, thinking someone was killed, ashed over and joined in the proenioD, beaded by “Herbert” and iis bunny. They started to follow ah the hotel, but. with ths assistance I‘‘Walter," tbs torrent was stemmed, ad only twenty-one got in at ths biib. Herbert “ filled ’em up,” but »is either going to refuse presents a the future or hue a boy to earry ken, WIfifANDANT OF THE FORCES, lathe House ou Tuesday evening in spy to Captain Bussell ths Premier laid kit he was sorry to say that Colonel hoty had nob seon hie way to accept h position of Commandant of the Wes in Now ZoaUnd. He had been dvlssd that the War Office was endeav aring to salaat another suitable officer to Hthepoaitiou. MrPlranl thereupon gave otica to ask whether the Government ,; H give the House an opportunity of kidiug whether a colonial officer should < ippoiated to fill the position of Compliant of the Forces instead of an special officer, CANTERBURY GROWN LANDS. In Canterbury the total number of torn tenants of all classes in arrear dlh their payments on Slat March, 1901 171, holding an area of 33,446 acres, •1 owing £3146, out of a total number f!)&l Wants paying an annual rents] 1 £104,564. The arrears, therefore, •wording to a report presented to Par*o»ab yesterday, amount to ab at per eent ot ths total This is less •disfaotory than during the previous a result which may in part b” Mributed to the latenesss of ths season, bslag ou an average nearly Sooth later than usual. Some settlers ■the country districts also oomplain of w difficulty in getting their produce to market.