THE WAIMATE ADVERTISER. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1902.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 171, 27 February 1902, Page 2

THE WAIMATE ADVERTISER. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1902.

Correspondence and otht-r matter is cro'.vdt'd out. of tliis issuu.

?Ir James ?dci-h,ui is building a twostoiifcd bo.-rJi.ighousio no::L duor to his Mo:vc-u store.

A n.'.'.-'tini.; of thr, How!;.'!,. Ch.b adjoin li.d 'rum hist Thursduy i. tO I'!.- held to d.-.v.

Mor.t of tin.' crop it) j\lon\->n and Gi.'":;;vy U in siooh. and the niiils ;iro already iv, work.

Tho adjourned annua! meeting of thfi \Ya.hnr v :<; Choral Union will bo held in St. Augusu.iu's Schoolroom tliis

t-« J IU!lg. Ivaservos 951 and 052 in Wainmte will be ol'f.Tetl for lensy by anclion at the YYaimati' Courthouse at; noou today. A I'.euteiAs announces that liusshi lia:i convinced Aiutfrici of tin: correctness of hor intentions with regard to l\laiici)uiiii.

Mr Ar'.hur Lalfour lias welcomed Professor Smart's proposal to the Glasgow Corporation to appoint a Commission of Inquiry with regard to housing the poor of Glasgow.

The long pending charge of assault on a Chinaman against; Leonard Jacobs of the Eighth Contingent, whs completed in the Magistrate's Court at Wellington on Monday, whan the licensed was committed for trial. Lieutenant WiHiam Colbeck coni. mands the Antartic relief ship, Morning. Sir Ciemont'3 Maikbam has appealed to the city of London to assist in her equipment. The sum of •£2OOOO is rcmmed. The Prince o£ Wales subscribed X'so and the Goldsmiths Compitny X'oOO. Advices received show that no lest' than eighty-livo passes have been applied fur by delegates purposing'to attend the Eire Uiigades Conference in Hokitika on lht> 10th March. The largo and representative attendance will constitute something of a record. The proposed exhibition of fire'escapes and life-saving apparatus will be ah attractive feature of the gathering.— Captain Sinclair is Waimate's delegate.

The lease of a block of second clas'i pastoral country, containing 9b'(.C acres ; ia to be sold by auction at Uio Land Oflice, Thn'arii, -to day. Tbo run is situated on the eas'ern slopes of Slat-ion Peak range, on the north sida of Meyer's Pass road, near the source •of iho Waihao rivtr. The elevation, ranges from 1500 to 3500 feet. '1 he rent is od per acre, and the must 2ss down £tj'd~> 10s for fencing and*Vut3 on the land. The lease id for te i years, and-possession can be given oa March Ist.

A return ordered by the Eouse oh the motion of Mr Flatmau shows that from April, 1807 to 26th July last, th.* colony paid 1:67,1;"9 to Briash and £178.817 to American manufacturers for rolling stock for railways, and .£BI4O for freight on British ord-.nv.. On the lntt.3l' dr.to iln-re wera liabilities for crderu given, d£,j1,4551 on B. ir.i*h (f luY-: £13,000 for freight), and £72,558 ou American orders not then paid for. During too Jasi four years there had been manufactured in tho colony .24.38.74.5 worth of rolling stock. Mr Humphrey Berkeley, of Fiji hud an inteniuw with the Premier at Wellington on matters connected with Fiji, the rosuls of which is that Mr Bcu'koloy h'i« decidftd to proceed to Fn»land with the Premier and plaCi before the imperial authorities the condition of tin* 'Pijinn:?. Mr Berkeley asserts that the Fijians are in a stuLo of absolute vassalage, and, ut tha suggestion of tho Prmnier, ho has deciden to lecture throughout; the Colony ou tho condition of slavery and oppression under which the nativts of tho islands are suf'.'ering, Tho removal of Kir George O'Brien from Fiji has not improved matters, ns the present Administrator is adopting the precedent of his predecessor.

A mass meeting called by the TraduS Mid Labour Council to protest agonist tho action of tho Millers' Trust in raising tho price of Hour waa held in Cathedral square on Saturday night. The president of the Council presided, and said that the mealing was called t 6 give the people of Chdstchnreh an opportunity to protest against, tho formation Of trusts and monopolies in the colony, audi as had obtained so much powor in older countries. Somo very stirring addresses werogivon, and the meeting was unanimous and enthusiastic throughout. .Resolutions were carried protesting against necessaries of life being monopolised by private individuals; also urging thd Government to introduce a Food Trust* Bill providing for the Htalc taking over any truais that may be formed.

A DISMAL PIIOPJSeCV, " Sloper " writes from Auckland f'6 tho Wellilingiou Evening Post as follows:—Allow mo to piopbes\ ~ '•That during that during the Übxl twelve months pnblio work',-; will bo at a standstill; that within iiva yc.-.rs nin> Vemh.B of the last ten years' le'iElation will bo abolish* d ; that within three years, owing to lack of funds, the old age pension scheme will ct-a.se to act; that M'r F'e.ldon will n'otrett'rn to New Zealand ; that ti:o community will, when too late, see the awful foliy of boycotting capital ; that'extravagance- in using the pubie purse for bin. ing tho estates of private- persons wj' 6 leave the coiony with the proceeds of such 'files will, owing to falling ma ". kets, shortly dawn upon tho tuxp that in the near future the people w 11 insist on tho abolition of one in- n Government, the claaning out of bttfi House*,, the hccti.vu&y for buii.j fcr .,« represrntatives, few ami well paid* that fi flushed, undignified man with u vast talking, talking, talking copiously out of *H tho windows o"f .railway cum; gey, tall.i >g on tarruir i platform's, tallu g from hotel bajconiei tilliigon tubs, barrels, Bci.ffoldi o g 8 and tii.s, will presently depart torottfiil no more."—A dismal prophet truly and one who will not f'tad a gieat deJ : bi "k'ouour La his owb