General News.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 101, 12 September 1901, Page 2

General News.

Wade's Thsthino Powdhxs for babies are soothing, reduce fever and prevent blotches. Price, Is.

It fa estimated that the annual loss to Australia through defective flaying and branding of cattle is about £300.000.

The San Frwicisco mail arrived at Auckland on Tuesday evening in the Sonoma. The Waimate portion should reach here on Friday. Daring the week ended Monday ret::ma have been reported from fiftysix dredges, the total yield being 15430 z 18ilwt 23gr, or an- average of 270 z per dredge.

The Wairaate Public Library advertise that the function of laying the foundation stone of their new building will be performed by His Worship tho Mayor ©n Saturday. The New South Wales football team, who competed their tour of New Zealand with the match against Auckhnd last Satnrday, hit for Sydney by the Mararoa on Monday.

A tender for the erection of the Waimate Hotel has been accepted, and work was started yesterday. The contractor was the builder of the Agricultural Hall in Christchurcb. A meeting of those interested in the. formation of an Amatenr Athletic Association in Waimate is to be held 11 bt Augustines' schoolroom tomorrow evening commencing at 8 o'clock. Mr E. O. Studholme will preside.

Potatoes are now soiling at Eketahunaat £7 10s per ton, and storekeepers assert that lhey can not procure, them locally for love or money. Growers are holding on in anticipstion of a still farther rise, which, they say, cannot be averted..

Pig rearing is extending largely over many parte of the Taranafci district, especially between.' Eltham and Koponga.the heart of dairydom. It is nothing unusual for the buyers to take away 140 to 150 baoonars .in one day. These average £2 apieee. .Evidence of tba increase of »cehbrses in the Auckland disirict is giVeo by the. fact that whilst seven years a°o there were sixty' hors&s train at the Ellerslie racecourse, last season the number bad increased, to

The Southland Trades and Labour Council resolved to wire the Goveramflittorestoretbedatyon kerosene, Oa the ground that an important colonial industry, tho Orepuki shale works employing a large number .of hands' will materially auffer by the reduction.' The Waimate Hockey Club will hold a grand social on Wednesday avenin? next in the Oddfellows' Hall Tho social is baing held to entertain the Sydenham Hockey team who play the Waimate Club the next day. Tickets are selling well, and the social promises to be a success. At InvercargQl en Tuesday* tbs fa™ found a Terdidt of guilty on both counts .against BT Matheaon, «. 2 done ptrone .tb

The Thames fishermen have hold eevertl meetings of late to protest against the damage done to the fish of Hauraki Gulf by trawling; also ito ask the Government to remove the restriction from meshes of nets, and to reduce the minimum size of flounders to eight inches. A memorial is being prepared for presentation to Minis-1 ters.

When Biormy wind and wintry blast, Affect mankind with hacking cough, They think consumption's come at last, Twill not be long before they're off. Some people go to mountain heights, And others where the skies are bluer; But what will soon put them to rights Is W. E. Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. This evening the Salvation Array open their new barracks. The building, which takes the place of that destroyed bv fire a year ago, is a handsome brick structure which improves %he appearance of the town. His Worship the Mayor will preside at the opening servL-e at 5.30 p.m., and this will bo followed by a tea maeting at 6 p.m. At 7.30 p.m., a genera! meeting be held, in whijh Oaptain and Med Bishop and other specials will J contribute.

At the banquet last evening, Mr E. J. Atwill, late of the British Navy, m*de a very interesting response. He gave several incidents from a long service, which were much appreciated. During its course, he said things had greatly -ehangod since his day in the recaption of soldiers returning from the war. When he came home with wounds that laid him up for fifteen months, no one met him but his mother and his brother. Things were different in New Zealand, however, and ho was very pleased. The wind-up social of the Waiinate Quadrille Assembly on Tuesday was mo3t successful, there being seventy , ■couples;in the Grand March, which was led off by Mr J. Moore and Miss Smart. The hall was tastefully with evergreens, and the floor was in splendid order. Excellent music was provided by Mis* Gaitt (piano) and Mr A. Miller (violin), and extras were provided by Messrs G. A. Gaitt (piano), W. Meyer (violin) and A. Cooper (bag pipes). Messrs W. Meyer and F. Wilsa acted as M.O's. Mr Gill pro vided refreshments.

ANTHBA.X IN CATTLE. The Minister for Lunds (the Hon. Thonss Duncan) states that the outbreak of anthrax which ia alarming sfttrlers in the Poverty Bay, Opotiki and Tauranga districts is the second occurrence of the disease in New Zealand, and both are ■distiro lv traceable to pastuios in which bono manure has been a~ed. Infected and fle3h, gath red from everywhere, were convened iuto manure, wi.ieh wag used on turnip lands, and cittle fed on t!>e»e were very liable to catch anthrax. The distase being eonlr*cte<i from the pas' ure, find not caught by one b-?ast from another, there is, the M ulster considsrs uo of an eiiilsuiie. The portion will be met by isolating disced cattle, 'i his wiil ito vsnt their being converted into Ktnnre, *nd th» Department can do little else xi.ji.il it can arrange for a digester that will put manure to a temperature sufficiently high to destroy diser.se. THE OUftß OF IN'FLUfiifZA.

The Melbourne Boa*d of Health tailed tlia following " instruct! >n<" v.iih re,,vd iO ij;flucJJif.fl,:-f > ersonß suffering from this dne-se must not aUceipfc to "shrike ib off," but must lie up in a room properly wanned and property veii i'uted, without drmightß, and avoid nil uimocmfeiiry erposure. la all ca-e tlie-trongih must be Wfll maintaiued by beef te 1 , nourishing bioths, egg», milk, and similar articles of diet: ad depres<h<> treatment to be particularly avoided. Whci medic»l advice ie obtainable, a li.tla quinine (aa masA aa will lie on a threepenny p eoe f->r an adult, aud half this amount for a child) may be tak'n twic.i a day in a teaspoo. fui of j mDjinig convalescence it is of tho first importance to avoid exposure, draught*, and fatigue, owing to great liability t» rsUi-.es which ni*y be, and frequently ».'i fatal.