THE WAIMATE ADVERTISER. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1901.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 105, 21 September 1901, Page 2

THE WAIMATE ADVERTISER. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1901.

Seventvjthree "dogs have arrived ftt Syd&s fofthft An tar tic expedition. * r

A f,peqj|pl summoned meeting o! the OddfdHbws' Lodge will be held on Monday night. ’ ’W&db's Teething ToWUErs for babies are soothing, reduce fever -and prevent blotches. Price, la. The precautions taken lor the safety of the Czar and Czarina in France are so great that the line of route has the aspect of an armed camp. In response to a request made some time ago, the Adelaide Cadet Corps has received from Lord Kitchener 200 Mauser carbines which had been captured from the Boers. Mr J. Sinclair, secretary of the Waimate branch of the Acclimatisation Society, advertises the date of opening the trout-Sehirig, and where licenses may be obtained. The South African war correspoudents who are attending the Danzig manoeuvres, describe the scouting of the German troops as greatly inferior to that of the British. The Indian Famine Commissioners* report states that adverse conditions during the famine year Caused a million deaths. Three-fourths of those who died belonged to Bombay Presidency. The Hawke's Bay Education Board has decided to adopt* a uniform set of school books for the whole of the educational district. The new system comes into force after the annual examination.

The Women’a Franchise Bill is being strongly apposed in the Ne\V South \Vale* Legislative Council, a motion to adjourn the second reading of the Bill was carried by twenty-two to twenty.

The Mackenzie County snfferreJ serious loss by a grass fire last Friday, between fifty and sixty acres of a young fresh plantation at Lake Tekapo being swept over by a grass fire front an adjoining sbe&p run. A meeting of the Waimate branch ftf the New Zealand Farmers’ Union will be held in the County Council Chambers this afternoon, to appoint a delegate te a provincial meeting at Ashburton, and to transact other business. The annual horse parade under the -auspices of the Waimate Agricultural and Pastoral Association will be hell on the Show grounds on Saturday, October sth. Entries close with the secretary, Mr Ohas. Akhurst, on Friday, October 4th. A general meeting o! the Waimate Amateur Athletic Club will be held on Saturday evening next. The business of the meeting is to elect permanent officers, and to fix the day on which the sports are to fee held. Intending members are invited to attend.

The Alfred the Great millenary is being •celebrated at Winchester with great success. Thousands of pilgrims are partioipa'ing in the celebrations, including representatives, of English, American, Australian. Tasmiuian, Indian and Canadian Universities.

To-morrow evening the E v. I. Blight will preach on President McKinley, at Work, at rest. The Church authorities have made a very pleasing invocation lately having arranged for an orchestra to play sacred music for ten minutes, commencing at 6.25. The tide of visitors to the Hanmer Plains has set in this year very early. Ordinarily it is not till Oclober that the visitors Congregate at the sanatorium, but this year all the accomodation has been fairly well fillel from the early part of the presept year.

A start bas been made clearing the ground for the erection of four shops for Mr Molloy in Queen Street. This makes no fewer than nine shops that are being <-erected in the main stivel and this with an hotel and the public library going up give the town a busy appearance;

It’s football that works up the muscle* And gives a man plenty of dash, It’s kick, it’s scrum, and it’s bustle. And a general looking for lash. In the goed old hunt for the leather, If a cold you have to endure. You will soon pull yourself altogether, With Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure.

Consequent upon the visit to London of the Managing Director (Mr. Gilbert Andetson) the offices of the Christchurch Meat Company in London have been removed from Graoeckurch Street to 64 West Smitbfield. The Company will thus be able (by being on the spot) to obtain for their clients the immediate benefit of any change ia the market.

Yesterday, before Messers W. Coltman and E. J. At will, J’s P, a prohibition order was granted against a resident of WiJlowbridge, The Bench, mentioned the fact that the newspapers usually refrained from publishing the names of .persons prohibited, and expressed the wish that, in the public interest, this should be done in every caso.

It seems (says the Auckland Herald) that the prisoners at work on the Government tree-planting stations al Waxotapu have a good time. They ■do their regular day’s work at treeplanting, clearing new areas, etc., but have concessions and and relaxations in the form of tobacco allowances, etc. They are allowed to play football in their “ off time,” under the instruction of one of the warders. ' An exciting occurrence happened at the Waimunga geyser the other day, says the Hot Lakes Chronicle. Without giving warning, the geyser spouted whilst a lady and gentleman were standing near it. The , lady fled, but the gentlemanf lost bis presence of mind and stood, with the result that he was almost smothered with the downpour of water, mud, and stones Which descended from the great height to which they had been shot, A South African /exchange says there is one feature, small, but cheer* ing in the news from country districts. Everywhere dancing, which has bees practically suspended for two years, is being takes, up again. There arenot many years for a girl between putting her hair up and settling down into staid womanhood; and it has been £ard for the South African war generation of debutantes to lose two of lbeae years. Still, of all war hardships there Were no worse than that.

' JAPANESE IMMIGRANTS. The Japinese CoDsol has protested to Mr Barton, the federal Premier, against the Immigration BestemUon BUI, on the Suauds .that the Japanese belongto so i ihtirh whort standard of efv}Ka&*.imi f*

no much higher than those the Bill, '.proposes to include, and that it is a •reproich to inc’ude th°ra. He asked •that they should either be exempted or on the same footing as Europeans ■ GOVERNMENT FI STANCE.

It is hoped 'that the -'consideration of the Estimates may throw at le-.st some light on ihe hidden details of government finance this ye«r. Ttie attitude of some of his own supporters has forced the Premier to come down 'ponderously from his high horse, and grudgingly promise the fullest information about the various items.—Truth.

THE COLONY’S RAILWAYS. Tbe railway revenue for the fourweekly period'ended Ahgudt 17th totalled £123.69.5, toward* which the 540 miles ojif! fir traffic in the North Tsland. jOi il' ih-.ilod £42,951, and the 1383 miles i:i tho Souih Inland £80,653. The fxponditurc during the above-mentioned period an'ounted to £99,938, the North I Imd lines being responsible tor £38.815 of that amount and the South Island lines £61,172. The Haruaui-’BlufF section oi 1180 miles contributed £68,812 toward the revenue, while the expeudi ta e reached the sum of £53,087. The Westland lines earned £5259 for an exponditu-e of L 3825 ; ibe Westport lino’s revenue total! d L 5206, the expenditure being L 2515 ; 'hr Nelson lines brought in L 733, as against an expend!* luro of L 939; aud the Piet,on line earned 3,642 tor an expenditure of L 644. .

A SMALL HOLD MINE. The London urchin is fairly Sihart, ’■writes a member of the East Australian 'cricket team who revives the following 'story. Outside the Crystal Palaceground ‘we saw an immamre All English Eleven practising with the usual kit—a battered 'bat, an indiarubbar ball, and a kerosene tin wicket. They recognised ns as Australians, and invited 'us to have a hand. One of the team tried it, when ->he bat broke off in his hand at the first ■stroke, and they looked so disconsolate that we subscribed 5s ! tD boy another bit. The incident was mentioned after ■lunch, when one of the team who had not been present said “ Why, I broke the ram© bat yesterday morning, but they -lot me off for half-a-crown.” “Ah,’ said the caretaker smilingly, “ them boys 'have struck a gold mine i i that bat. They todk Rartji down for -5s over it the day before yesterday.*’

A FARMER AND SOME 5-TONES: A certain Yorkshire farmer had a field •which j ined up to the mad. There was a long and steep slope fr >m the wall to the centre Of the field, and it was the ■delight of a certain section of the villagers to push the coping atoms off

the wall and watch them roll down the 'slope. Warning notices were put up, b it to no avail, eo the farmer put up heavier atones, but they were pushed off a* usual. one day the farmer, a man of herculean build, secretrd himself, with a big whip, and captured a pair of culprits, .young men who ought to have known btter. “Now then” SSiS the firmer "you rolled them stones grandly down the hill, but we’ll s :e if you can roll them back as easily.” The men gazed at the siein features of theffarm*, then at his whip, and capi ulai’ud. Tt took hours ’to put the stones back on the wall, the funner keeping guard with his whip, and , •ere the task was completed all the village had come to see the Inn. That waU is ■left in peace now.