THE WAIMATE ADVERTISER. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1901.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 108, 28 September 1901, Page 2

THE WAIMATE ADVERTISER. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1901.

The Boroagto Ceuoeil invite tender* for eartieg shingle in High- Btreet. • Twelve dock labourers at Naples have been seized with plague. There are fire thousand applications to become Carnegie student* in Scotland. The Wsllington-Sfanawatu Railway Company pay an interim- dividend of 8- per cent, for the half year lust closed. The Government Baa acquired or is- in negotiation for the purchase of 86,804 acres of lnnd in the interior of the Wanganui district. A meeting o£ the Caledonian Society will be held this, evening in the Criterion Hotel to discuss the programme lor the annual sports'.' The Commercial Pacific Cable Company, with a capital of £IOO,OOO, has Beefl formed to eonneet California', Bonoluulu and the Philippines without subsidij ok guarantee. This evening a 'general meeting of the Waimate Amateur ArbJetifr Association will be held in St. Augustine's Sunday sohooL Intending, members are invited.

At ff p.m; to-day a general meetingof the local branch of the Farmers' Union will be hsld in the County Council Chambers to appoint a delegate to 11m provincial coofetence at Ashburtorr. : In the County Cbunca Chambers a* two a'dsjok tbi< afternoon a general meeting Wiba tracers q* tfwmeraVCJnb will be held,to discuss to^ostjpiaitfrfamalgamation withthe

Eggs seem to be very 'plentiful in >he North Island. One Ma%ertott firm has put 2000 eggs into pickle for the summer months. Eggs can be purchased there at sixpence per. dozen. At the Magistrate's Court or* Tnare* day, Mr J; Keddell S.M. said be disagreed with allowing, the solicitor a guinea for every small flattie trespass case and be allowed one guinea for ail oases heard.

Tomorrow at the Wesleyan Church the annual home mission service* will be held. The Rev. W. Tinsley will preach here, the Bev. J. Blight occupying the pulpit at Falmerston South.

Practical exhibitions of glass-blowing are now being held daily at the glass works, Christohurob. : These exhibitions are practical, amusing and instructive, and are well worth a visit. Particular* ruftj be found in advertisement* The ordinary meeting of the WaJkakabi Settlers' Association will be held in the Morven cbo>J on Tuesday evening next. After thia, a ' meeting of the ■• Morvin branch of the Farmers' Union will be held, to which intending, members are* invited.

A iirotor-car at the Jkimburg' (Belgium) military .manoeuvres over» turned, injuring, the occupants. The German and Belgian attachesit is feared are fatally hurt; the captain on the Dutch staff is seriously hurt, and the Russian and Norwegian attaches.are slightly hurt. The canterbury Centre of the Swimming Association has decided to ask the members for the province tourge the Government, to place on the Supplementary Estimates a sum for" obtaining ah iustructor from Australia to teach' swimming at the schools in Canterbury. A subscriber naff drawn our atfention to the casp of Mrs Clear, whose husband died a short time ago. The widow has a number of voting children dependent on her, and deserves the help of the public Such nases are not for newspapers to> look after, and we will leave this in the hands of the proper persons; the ministers of religiofiv . The British Bulldog rules the wave, Undaunted tar is he, And angry billows eft bis grave,. Can't turn him from the sea, The hardship's of a sailor's life He can so well endure, When coughs and colds are always rife, With Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. Our Studholme correspondent writes J —" Farmers here are in great spirits, weleoming the'rain, whkb will do s vasb amount of goods- At the sale yesterday very little stock was offered, owing to the wet weather. A lively interest was taken irr dairy cattle, and any offering' here command good prices. I hear the timber is now here for the creamery, and it ra expected to get a start with it at once. Trnre is every prospect of a< plentiful milk supply. A constable 1 who was (fonteyfng* m fanatic from Hastings to Wellington} had a startling experience. When the train reached a tunnel near Eketahuna lire lunatic violently assaulted the constable, burst the handcufiV and leaped off the tram. The lunatio wa» subsequently recaptured by the''police) from Masterton. The constable in charge is considerably Knocked about, but is not thought to be seriously injured. GQVERNMBNT ADVERTISING. According to a return l,.id before the Housvthe Government, during the year ended March &ltt, 1901, p*id te newspapers in the ooloay £10,860 for Govern* ment advertising, £14,621 for Governrnent printing, and £lO7 for advertising; New Zealand scenery*

A BHOOTEBS' PARADISE". The East Coast and some of the Lower Valley runs in the Sortfr Island, *w reported to-be over-run with deer, wild piga, and goats. A correspondent of the* -, New Zealand Times states that one runholder is about to call for tenders for the destruction of all deer on faff estate* Large numbers of ewes and lambs have . been consumed By pigg. Another grievance of the fet tiers ie the depredations of ; seagulls and hawks. Ewes get cast, and being defenceless, are attacked? by the birds, which immediately peck out the eyes. The manager of another station »t Whatorangi, states that these are over 3000 goats on the run*. THE WEEK'S WORK. Speaking to a deputation- of Wellfngf ton master builders on Monday, the* Premier Baid that, so far as the workmen were concerned, there should ,be * maximum of forfy-eight hours per week, and that any other alterations and ; adjustments required' should 6e decided by the Arbi ration Court. So far as? holidays were concerned, be believed 9& per cent of. the men did not wish to her paid for what they did not Worfc. (Hear, hear.) As for women and children,, for them forty-five hoots were quite sufficient* It was in the original A,et, and was altered by mistake, and it was hi» intention to put it there again. Whether this would apply to all overtime had not -been'settled yet. It would be settled} if the Labour Bills Committee. Hie own opinion was that th*re ought to becertain exemptions. He wished bothemployers and employed to- understand that the €tovernmentwould' be noparty* to anything injurious to the. interests of either »ide; The -Government wanted" to> see both- employers and emplojed paid well for what they did*, and the oouniry flourishing and industries going »head", " Where it could / be shown that th* country would be injured, or industries injured by any measure r the Government would 6e no- party to ifc»