Mostly About People.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 199, 7 September 1901, Page 3

Mostly About People.

Our writes that 0* Hinman Jackson is staying on a visit with her son, Mr William Her Hontor friends are pleased ~t 8 her looking so well. Robin has been Rioted to command the Otago Military Wet, and Lieutenant Oolonel Webb, '•’fc he succeeds, will be transferred to

Canterbury, vice Colonel Gordon, retired. ’ Mr Morgan, Waihao Downs returned from Dunedin on Thursday afternoon. Mr D. Stowell of St. Andrews who ha 4 been assisting in the work of valuing the Waimate County, left Waimate by the express ye-terday. Mr Jr Manchester was in Timaru yesterday at a meeting of the Timaru Harbour Board. Ho returned by express.

Mr G. Rodgers, formerly of Waimate, came down from Christchurch yesterday afternoon.

At a meeting of the Geraldinn Brass Ban d on Wednesday evening, Mr /as. Bennington formerly of Waimate Brass Band, was unanimously elected bandmaster.

At a meeting of the united committee of the Waitaki and Waimate Acclimatisation Societies held at Waimate on Thursday evening, Mr Ji Sinclair, secretary to the local branch, received a welldeserved vote of thanks for his efforts in the cause of acclimatisation.

Mr H. R. Asquith, formerly of Waimate and now of Mastert >n passed through Stndholmo Junction yesterday from Dunsdin on his w*v north.