THE WAIMATE ADVERTISER. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1901.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 131, 21 November 1901, Page 2

THE WAIMATE ADVERTISER. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1901.

The Railway Department notify cheap fares for the Dunedin show and races. Among recent applications for patents is one by Mr T. E. Loach, tinsmith., of Waimate, for an improved sectional watering pot rose. A trial of the Southland Irnplemen Co’s rotary disc ridger will be held on Mr W. Crowe’s farm at Morven on Monday nest commencing at 1 p.m. The Sultan of Morocco gave an audience to the Times correspondent. The latter describes the Sultan as being anxious to institute reforms, but bis advisers obstruct him;

A trial of the OK washing machine was held at the Criterion Hotel yesterday morning. The trial was moat successful, proving the machine to do its work well. A full account is crowded out.

On tbe evening of Friday, the 29th inst, the Knox church choir will render the cantata The New Jerusalem in the Waihao Downs church. Refreshments will be provided by the ladies of the district. The Waimate Amateur Dramatic Club staged the farcical comedy, “ The Magistrate,” on Tuesday evening to nn overflowing house, and were eminently successful. A critique of the play is unavoidably held over till next issue.

A lecture on Rome, Florence, Venice and Milan, illustrated by views and maps will bo given by that well known and popular lecturer the Rev G Barclay, in the Hanrmton schoolhouse on Tuesday evening next- Tbe proceeds will be in aid of the Sunday school funds.

In Timaru on Monday a young lady. Miss Morris, a resident, died while getting a tooth evtracled under chloroform. The chloroform was administered by Dr Bowe. At the inquest a verdict of death from natural causes was returned, no blame being attributable to any one. Last evening in tho Oddfellows’ Hall Mr J. Watt delivered a lecture on the subject of water gas for Waimate to a fair audience. The speaker proved interesting, showing the many advantages of this gas over other methods of lighting, heating and cooking. A full report of the meeting will appear next issue.

It has been left to a French physician to enunciate as a curious medical fact that cancer rarely attacks persons who have led a dissolute life or those who have given way to drink. The majority of the women attacked by the disease are active and energetir workers, and in a vast number of cases it has been shown without question that not one single person who has succumbed to it has been of dissolute habits.

Mr John Wrighi, a member of the firm of Messrs Wright, Stephenson and Co. of Dunedin, and a son of one of tho founders of the founders of the firm, met with a shocking death on Monday. He was examining 'some machinery when he was caught in a belt and whirled round at the rate of 150 revolutions a minute, striking a beam with every revolution. He was horribly mangled' when tbe machine was stopped. The Lotus Club, New York, entertained Mr Choate American Ambassador in London. The friendship of of England and Amirica was the keynote of the gathering, Mr Choate, in his speech; knowing both nations, predicted that any possible question could be harmoniously and honestly adjusted. Ex-Speaker Reed said that there was bo country Americans cherished such tenderness for as the old Homeland. Trains, each travelling 25 miles an hour in an opposite direction at one time, crashed into one another with terrific violence near Adelaide. A fireman named Pennington was terribly mutilated and severely scalded. His condition is hopeless. The damage is estimated at JBIO.OOO. The accident was due to the failure of. the brakes to control the train on the greasy line, one train dashing past tbe point where the trains were limed to cross.

The Bishop of Christchurch will arrive in Waimate on Saturday morning. The Vicar and Mrs McKenzie Gibson are arranging a reception at the Vicarage from four to six on that afternoon, for which the Vicar has extended an open invitation to all Church of England people to meet their bishop. On Sunday His Lordship preaches in the parish church at 11 a.m. and 6.80 p.m., and at 3 in the afternoon at Morven. The seating of the Oddfellows’ Hall on Tuesday night caused some dissatisfaction, there being such a crowd waiting that a few minutes after the doors were opened the hall was packed. Many reserved seat holders were unable to get near their seats, which wore, in fact, already occupied. About 200 people were unable to obtain admission, and the general concensus of opinion was that a town hall or some larger building was urgently needed. Correspondence on this subject is held over. KANAKA LABOURERS. Replying to Queensland's protest against the Kanaka Bill, Mr Barton declines to admit that State legislation represents public opinion more truly than the Federal Parliament, which Queensland helped to chorse. No good ground existed for supposing that white labour was not available to carry on the sugar industry. Mr Barton adds that the Commonwealth will take the responsibility for deporting the Kanakas, whatever the result may bo. THE USE OF LADYBIRDS. About three thousand Nedalia, or ladybirds, were recently sent from New Zealand to the entomologist at tho South Kensington Natural History Museum, who has placed them und' r muslin in a Kent hop garden to see whether they will breed and thrive in England. If they can be acclimatised they are expected to become invaluable in clearing the orchards of the scale pest. In Los Angelos the breeding of these pretty little beetles is encouraged by a Government oommission. In the United states the demand for them cannot be satisfied, and several years ago a representative of that country collected many ia Australia. THE LABOUR MARKET. One of the affiliated unions has made complaint to the Wellington Trades Council about what are described as “ the glowing and misleading statements which are being made in the press of England by the AgentGeneral, the Rev. L. M. Isitt, and others, about the condition of the labour market in this colony, and thereby inducing artisans to leave good situations in the Old Country, under the impression that a fortune is to bo made in a short time, only to find, when they arrive, that they are thrown into the ranks of the unimployed.” The Trades Council has decided to write to the London Trades Council showing the true condition of the labour market in the colony, and advising it to make tho facts known amongst the workers of England.