THE WAIMATE ADVERTISER. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1901.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 127, 12 November 1901, Page 2

THE WAIMATE ADVERTISER. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1901.

During the five weeks ended November Brd the dredges in Otago saved a total of 77870zs of gold. Mr Carnegie has donated 48100,000 to establish a technical college in the south of Scotland, preferably at Galashiels. Tb 4 appointment’of Mr. John Campbell Of Bt. Andrews as a member of the South Canterbury Education Board is gazetted. It is announced that return railway tickets lor distances of over ten miles are available for return for three calendar months.

A petition is being circulated in Wsituate proving that the fine of JE6O inflicted on Mr Milsom on. Thursday last should be reduced or remitted. During September last the arrivals in the colony-totalled'-16521 and the departures 987, as against 1296 and 858 in September 1900. Bast mouth the estates of 48 deceased persons, including those of five members of South African contingents were placed under the charge of the Public Trustee.

The a s. Aorangi arrived in Brisbane., from Vancouver on Saturday, and grounded in tbe harbour at high water. She was floated off nod is undamaged. A quarrefbetween two Italian flower sellers ended in a duel with knives iu Collins street, Melbourne. One was stabbed to the heart, but is still living. The other walked away and escaped. Great Britain, Egypt and Abyssinia have settled the main outlines of tbo delimitation of tbe Soudan frontier. A mixed Anglo-Turkish Commission will delimitate the hinterland of Aden. Applications will be received at the Land Offices at Timaru and Christchurch, up till to-morrow for section 7 Block VII, Morven township. Thearea is 2 roods 22 perches, and the annual rent is £1 6s There were six bankrupts in the colony last week ; a farmer at Invercargill, a labourer at Orepuki, a doctor at Christchurch, a publican at Foxton, a painter at Gisborne, and a clerk at Auckland. Butter factories in the Mawossa New South Wales district are paying 3d apiece more for butler boxes since the introduction of tbe tariff. Farmers are urging that white pine should be placed on tbe free list. The time for receiving entries at ordinary rates for tbe Waimate A. and P. Society’s Show has been extended till to-morrow at 6 p.m. Intending exhibitors-.are requested to forward their entries to the secretary as soon as possible.

Great amusement was caused on Saturday night by a * { mourning card” in Mr H. Franklin’s window. The inscription to the dear departed was as follows : “ Died on Wednesday, 6th November, 1901, after long suilering, the Waimate Borough Harbour Inclusion Bill. R.1.P,” On Friday, October 25th, the Levels and Waimate Counties Boundaries Alteration Bill was read a second time. Mr Rhodes, member for Ellesmere, moved as an amendment to the motion for the third reading, that the Bill should be recommitted, end this was agreed to by 80 votes to 19. Before Messrs Sinclair and Nicol, J's.P., on Saturday, prohibition orders were granted against Christopher Inkster, Jas. McOallum and William Tipping, the latter on his own application. A. Lillie was convicted of having allowed his chimney to catch Ore, and was discharged with a caution.

Not content with providing its own gas, electricity water, and street-oar service, the city of Glasgow proposes to dispense its own liquor, and the municipal saloon is talked about. A committee appointed to consider the question has reported in favour of an experiment, and Parliament is to ba asked for the, necessary power. During carnival week in Christchurch the police made quite a raid oa undesirable characters, and have arrested several und> r the new clause of the Police Offences Act added this session, which gives power to take in charge any person consorting with bad characters. One got three months and one two months; whilst others are to be dealt with iaier. Th Telegraph says that with cornual indignation the New Zealand Ministers deny that the timber duty id retaliatory. No other name can put to it. As to the effect from the Australian view it is not likely to matter. Probably it would be better for Australia to import from America. New Zealand is cutting off its own nose to spite the Australian face. The by laws drawn up by the Maori Council of, the Tamatea Maori District should, if enforced, greatly improve the condition of the Maoris. The first three by laws deal with cleanliness of persons and dwellings. The fourth forbids the use of any alcoholic liquor at any fungi or other Maoti meeting, while No. 6 orders that billiard tables shall not be used under a penalty of £25.

On Saturday a newlyprohibited person, who bad steadfastly opposed his inclusion in the ranks of those who neither touch, taste nor handle, hung his piece of blue paper on the spikes in front of a Queen street hotel, fits reason is not known ; whether it was placed there as an epitaph on bis dead past, or a warning to others, or simply that the world might behold and know and not lead him into temptation.

A committee of the debenture* holders of the New Zealand Midland Bail way passed a resolution declaring that they were surprised any dis* appointed at the Government's offer ; also that they would not sudmit the proposal to the debenture-holders till the committee were- informed by what process the Government had arrived at its conclusion that the offer was fair and reasonable. The Economist supports the Government position in the matter. A case of general interest was heard at the Lumsden Court on Monday (says the Southland Times). Dr Todd sued for £i 6a 6d, fees for medical attention, and defendant resisted the claim on the ground that the visits were not authorised by him. Mr S, E. McCarthy, S.M., said that a doctor could use bis own discretion when to cease attending on patients, and added that if a parent or other authorised person ordered a medical man to diet* continue visiting the patient and be or she died, a serious responsibility would ensue. A. verdict was given for plaintiff. The Marquis of Salisbury, speaking at the Guildhall, said that the attitude of the Great Powers towards Britain was friendly. If that bad not been

the ease half a century ago the slight cloud in tbeLevant would be suggestive of embarrassing difficulties, but also

it happily was the more easily dispelled. Nothing bed occurred in South Africa to (noddy the confident hope of a successful early issue of thewar. (Cheers), Gueril a warfare must be inevitably conducted and terminated on; its own lines. A glance at precedbnte would shew that there was no Undue .unexpected difficulty; no cause for apprehension or discouragement. He was but reiterating the oonelusions of those best able to judge Id saying that the British were making, month by, month,' weak by week, sure but Abitaotblprofrcfc. *

It was rather an odd duel to the death, that of the two French doctors. They agreed to postpone the event until tbiy were ill at the Fame time, and then prescribe for each other. The' Lyttleton Times says:—The Premier admits that the Public Works Fund is a more straitened condition than it had been at any time since he -took charga of the Treasury, yet he proposes to purchase the Manawatu Railway, s.t a cost of close upon n < million, and to spend large sums of money in other directions. We are j not contending that the money will be badly' invested, but wo want to

emphasise Mr Seddon’s own warning that the colony ’‘must keep within Reasonable limits” and "must n»t go on heaping op the public debt." We take it that this was also the obj°ct of the merabsr for Riccarton, and we trust that his words will be taken to heurtby the Premier and his colleagues. A bicycle is a pleasant means of ■conveyance, and a footpath a pleasant place to be conveyed along, but thlatter has its disadvantages; sometimes it is the policeman, sometimes smoother man with a tendency to crowd, but rarely is it the weaker sex which proves the obstacle. However, the ex coption happened on Sunday afternoon Two young men on bicycles were coming' down a certain path "at a great bat ri when they espied thr-e lather youngladies coming from Sunday School, As they had perform-*! their religions obligations for the dav, it ■occurred to these youthful minds that it would be a seemly thing o make some ■disparaging remarks about the first cyclist. Being rather hot-tempered he was childish enough to look round and -give them tit for tat. This proved his undoing, for the process caused him to slow up and wojble, and his companion had run him down in an instant. One fell in the ditch and the other in the hedge. The-man who hurnn-d arose smiling, but the one who had given a wrathful answer to reflections on his ■personal a.ppearance could not see what existed to smile about. He arose and raised his fist, but words failed him for a moment only one and then such a torrent of sulphur poured out of his mouth, and out of the gnr.se punctures In his epidermis that the Sunday school girls retired in *larm. Then there was much straightening of handles and toe clips and the pair went off. ft early look still easily winning the premier expression on the long cyclist’s face.

PROPOSED DUTY ON FRUIT. The Whangarei Frnit-growers’ Ass® elation has communicated with the Premier suggesting that a duly of Id per lb should be levied on oranges during the months of September. October and November, and Id per lb on lemons all the year round. The fruit growers in their telegram stated that tie citrus growing industry of the north is stagnating, and is seriously sthreatened, owing to the markets being continuously glutted with foreign produce, and that the bulk of this .season’s crop has rotted on the ground as the prices available do not afford the cost of marketing. The Premier replied thanking the fruit-growers for -the information forwarded to him, and stating that the matter would bo referred to the Gsb&Rfet,

THE WORK OF THE SESSION. The schedule of business transacted By the House daring the session shows •twenty-three Select Committees were setup". 181 public Bills were intro duced, of which ninety seven received Royal assent, two weie reserved for signification of King’s pleasure, and ninety-two were dropped or otherwise disposed of, three private Bills received Royal assent, 1286- petitions ware presented, thirty-one papers were laid on the table, 467 reports were received from Select Committees, and 783 questions were asked of Ministers: Too House sat on seventy seven days, the daily average sitting being Bbrs 14min. The House sal 518 hours before midnight, and 116 hours after midnight.

A LUCKY DREAM. It was bound to coma. In conse qnenoe of a dream a man i i the IVairarapa has made over *3OJ because Tortulla won the Cup, The inevitable dream crops up with unfailing regularity, and a whole lot of stupid people will reaffirm their fait i in the supernatural, and recount to one another all the other strange coincidences they have heard about. We do not doubt that this dream is tone. Some people now in Christ ■church related the story substantially «s our correspondent has told it before ever the Cup was run. But how many people dreamt that some other horse would win the Cup? There was a limited number of horses and an unlimited number of dreamers, and the wonder is that more people didn D dream about Tortulla and. tell us about it afterwards; But it is a strange thing the faith the public has In dreams. Now that somebody s undigested pie has made her dream of a New Zealand Cup winner, we shall have endless female prophets eating crayfish and cheese at midnight as a certain road to fortune.—Truth.