THE WAIMATE ADVERTISER. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19 1901.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 130, 19 November 1901, Page 2

THE WAIMATE ADVERTISER. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19 1901.

Thera are 340 small-pox patients in Loudon iioapitali. The South Canterbury Education Board scholarship examinations will begin on Wednesday December 18th. “ My people have six shelves in the catacombs at Kensal Green.”—The Magistrate, to-night. Fifty shocks of earthquake at Erzeroom in Asia Minor, killed 22 people, and destroyed many buildings. Professor Hahnmann of the medical college, Chicago, claims much success in treating cancer with the Rontgen rays. Groat Britain and Turkey have agreed upon a delimitation of the frontier and spheres of iufleunoe in Yemen and Aden. “ I’ll hurry home before .Eneas, and if he hasn’t arrived when I get there—l’ll sit up for him.”—The Magistrate. China paid 500,000 roubles to resore the Russian Legation Church, and authorised tee conduction of an orthodox Russian monastery at Pekin. The first strawberries of the season were sent away from Waimate on Friday last, Mr T. .8. Hardy despatching 141 b to Chriftchureh. Mr J. Watt’s lecture on water gas takes place to morrow night in the Oddfellows' Hall, Mr Watt especially desires a good attendance of ladies. Twelve or more boys are wanted to sell show catalogues. Application nuy be made at the Advhrtishb office before nine o’clock this morning. “Cab coming?” “Yes, mum. I didn't wait for it, mum; can walk faster. Slow horse, mum, but very certain.”—The Magistrate to night. President Roosevelt has assured the chairman of the Civil Service Reform League that be intended to exclude all political in flounce from the army and the navy in the colonies. At a recent mooting of the Wanganui Rifle Club it wvs decided to wind up, owing to lack of interest and the poor encouragement extended to rifle clubs by the Government. Cable advices from San Francisco state that the B.M.S. Ventura sailed for Auckland and Sydney via HomoluiU and Pagopago at 11 a.ra. on Thursday, one day before the time. The Indian Plague Commission reports that inoculation sensibly diminisned the plague, Seventy cases were tested, but protection ft not absolute in individual cases. Visitors to the Show are advised to visit' the various machines which Messrs Priest and Holdgate will have on the ground. They will have a set of the famous Planet Jr. tools at work. “ Gone,‘and without a cry. Brave fellow, brave fellow! The Magistrate, to-night,

“ Bai Jove, my heart is broken. Mind ray flower-, waiter,, con-found you."—The Magistrate. The new Factory Act passed last aession has name Into force, and' its provisions are much more, stringent than €fae Act of 1894. Factory owners would do Well to make themselves acquainted with the new Act. •As" a -result -of the recent census, there will be six additional members inltbe new Parliament. The Beprementation Commissioners are to meet w, rearing the recess to arrange the boun--1 -flariee. A trial ol the “ O.K. ” washing machine will be held at Binney’a hotel on Wednesday morning at 11 o’clock. This machine is said to be really; wonderful, doing more work in tea animates than a woman would in an hoar. Babbits are said to be more ammerous in Southland at the present l time than they have been for many years. The prolonged spell of wet weather has given the young colonies tmnsual immunity ’from the effects of poieou. The gunboat Sp s.r/o r has returned to Brisbane from the Solomon Islands, During her visit to Attioa Island, she •bombarded the village of Kuiofoia, it. The natives of the island had been for some time past 'very turbulent, A lifeboat belonging to Oaistor, ■©era. Yarmouth, was wrecked, and uine imen were drowned. The revenue gutter Flora was wrecked at Kingstown, - -tmt the crew ware saved. The gales are subsiding- It is 'known that 187 •persona were drowned. Lord 'Roseberry, sneaking at Edinburgh, said that it was only f o-:«jHc to carry great measures if there were a truce la party warfare. He would like to see the Cabinet composed of business men of the Bir Tiiouus L'-pton and Andrew Oarnogio type. “ Madam,, it may ha extreme ncr'voasness on your part, but you aie •certainly pinching my arm.” —The Magistrate. Show night. On Sunday morning the coach house at the Waimate Estate had a narrow escape from catching fire. A quantity •of rabbit poison, largely phosphorus, was stored there, and it burst into flame. The fire had just commenced to creep up the walls when it was noticed and put out. The Government and leading business men of Saxony held a conference at Halle -respecting the great distress existent in the kingdom. The 'Government were optimistic, while the business men considered that the ••crisis was very serious necessitating -'special help for the people. It has been decided that the chamtpionsbips held under the auspices «of the -association of Caledonian Societies will be competed for at the sports of the Garaaru Caledonian -gociety which take place on the Ist -and 2nd olf January, 1902, and the team of £4OO baa been voted for prize ■money. A country correspondent writes : 'Crops in the* Tinaaru and Geraldine •districts are in a deplorable state, and du many places sheep have been itnrned in. The country looks desolate and everyone wears a woe-bygone ■appearance in cousequense. There is ’.not a particle of everything is •completely burned op, and stock is The French Chamber of Deputies Iby 338 votes to 87 votes adopted the Dill which was introduced by M. Berteaux, a Badical Socialist deputy, -conceding 10 hours a day to railway ■servants and allowing them a pension after’ 20 years* service. M. Oaillaux, Minister oi; Finance, vainly protested •against saddling the State with a •charge of 76,000,000 francs yearly. “ I ’sacrificed five years of happy jgirlhood. and said X was only thirty•one.” —At the Oddfellows* Hull tonight. THE COST OF PENNY POSTAGE. By the publieraicfi of the postal returns to September 30th, says ». contemporary, we are put iu possession of tho particulars for the first six months of the financial year, •and the results, as regards tho effect of the concession of penny postage, are very interesting. The gross loss in postage stamps alone i% £22,361 for the half year, against an estimated deficiency of £BO,OOO for the year, ■while tho net decrease in the whole department is only £8313. THE FROZEN MEAT TRADE. Mr Gilbert Anderson, manager of the Christchurch Meat Company, has returned after a prolonged visit to the United Kingdom and America in connection with the frozen meat trade. "He has arranged with the shipping •companies to take frozen meat direct to any port- in the United Kingdom ■where there is cool storage. He says that plenty of trade can be done among the better classes of artisans in the ■ north of England.' He thinks that , American methods of marketing goods . in a, bright and attractive manner should be .adopted, In bis opinion the ■frozen rabat trade has virtually only commenced, and he is inclined to ■ believe that it will not bs very long before Canterbury lambs will be going into New York. THE ANTARCTIC’ EXPEDITION, Twenty - five Canterbury sheepbreeders have offered each ten sheep •or lambi: towards the provisioning of the Antarctic exploring 'Vessel Discovery, or 260 sheep in all. The dogs for the Discovery expedition arrived at Lyttelton in the Talane bn Friday morning, and were immediately taken over-to enail Island, where they will remain until the Discovery is about to sail for the Antarctic regions. There are ' twenty-three dogs altogether. They are in charge of W. J. Weller, who is on the staff of the expedition, and who has been attending to them all along. They are of many colours, bat all of the same size, standing about two feet high. One is a purebred wolf, four are Esquimaux dogs, •andthb remainder are quarter-bred And half-faced Siberian wolves. Their long pointed hoses, sharp ears, end •shape of body denote* the stock from they have come, and there u generally .a very wolfish, look about them. I The averse cost of each dog i« £4fl, and the average’-pulling •capacity of each, 2001 b. , SLACKNESS OF TBADE. . The 1 email -quantity of’ product ; offering ; for.. Australia Die a? sobjec , thatbang.iheeniy--discussed. ii

reporter that the Federal tariff was not 'altogether to blame for the rmall amount of stuff now going from New Zealand to Australia. H 9 pointed out. that crop prospect* in Ausralia were good, and that this was the slackest period of the year in tiae trade. New patatoes, for instance, were coming into the market in Australia, with the result that shipments from New Zealand were not required. He called attention to the expansion of farming and allied industries in all the States of the Commonweahh. To take New South Wales alone, there had been a great development of dairying on the northern rivers, and bacon and hams were being cured on a large and increasing scale. In Queensland, also, greater attention was being given to big products. The agricultural capabilities of Victoria and Tasmania were of remarkable proportions. Altogether, the. informant of the ••Times" came to the conclusion thaf the advancement of the agricultural industry in the Commonwealth, in combination with the Federal Tariff, made it impossible for New Zealand to any longer count upon a regular market for her produce in Australia.