THE WAIMATE ADVERTISER TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1902.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 284, 18 November 1902, Page 3

THE WAIMATE ADVERTISER TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1902.

The Japanese troops evacuate Shanghai on the 22nd inst. The Antarctic relief ship Morning arrived at Lyttelton on Sunday after a presage of 130 days.

The Railway Department issue excursion tickets for Dunedin Show from November 24 to 27.

At a meeting of the Makikihi School Committee oh Friday night it was decided to bold a concert and dance on December 12tb.

America desires the French President to visit St. Louis Exhibition and tour America. If he does, Uncle Sam will convey him back in a warship.

A meeting of gentlemen desirous of tendering a farewell social to Mr G. S. Mathias will be held to-morrow afternoon in the Borough Council Chambers.

To-morrow evening in the Temperance Hall Revs.. W. Tinsley and JCarlisle will reply to Mr W. W. Collins' address on the “ Fallacies or Prohibition.”

Mr J. Holden, who has opened in the shop next to Mr P. Grant’s with a largo stock of jowellry and watches, invites inspection. Since ho has opened he has done good business.

The volcano Santa Maria in Guatemala, is in eruption, and Das buried the towns of Palmar, San Felipe, Columbia and Coatepec. Many lives have been lost.

The nomination of candidates for election of councillor to represent the Hakataramea Riding on the Waimate County Council closed on Saturday. Mr Donald McFarlane was the only nominee, and was declared duly elected.

There is still no settlement of the successor to Australia’s GovernorGeneralship. Lord Tennyson has first refusal and the Duke of Somerset and Lord Windsor come next. Our own Dick is not even mentioned.

Mr T. S. Hardy’s house at Waituna had a narrow esc ipo from being burnt down f ho other day. The fire started in the kitchen about noon, but fortunately two or three men employe! about the place were close at h ind and soon got it under. The house is insured for .£2OO.

How good a man is Lite Sultan of Morrocco. He has given an t-xc llent site for a Christian cemetery at hex. Probably he will add to his kindness by helping to fill it, according to the reputed fashion of these Eastern potenates.

The Province of Ontario has sold to an American syndicate 2,000 000 acres, in connection with a settlement scheme, at 00 cents an acre. The syndicate resells at a maximum of 3 dollars per acre, with a maximum of 160 acres for each settler.

* Lord Ampthill, Governor of Madras, states Cochin, on the Malabar coast, ►is naturally a perfect harbour, which occommodate the Heet of Europe if the entrance to the channel were dredged. The Government are likely to undertake the work,

Mr G. S- Mathias, for eleven years manager of the Union Bank of Australia in Waimate, has received promotion to Ashburton, leaving about Saturday next. Mr Mathias has made a great number of friends during his stay, and these will be exceedingly sorry to see him leave the town.

The Labour Commission organised by Mr Afred Mosely to study American problems of labour and capital in visiting factories of New York was much impressed with the facilities for workmen’s education. Mr Mosely, who accompanies the Commission, remarks that American workmen have a straight course compared with the hurdle race for British workmen.

After a wreck or a tram smash-up we always hear of those who wanted to go by the conveyance but were stopped by some unforeseen occurrence. Mdme Dolores, the famous singer, had intended to come to New Zealand after concluding her Sydney engagements, but changed her mind and went to Melbourne. Had she not done so she would have sailed in the ill-fated Elingamite.

England has at present a few little wars on hand to keep her veterans in training for the big event which is sure to come off in a year or two. In Morocco the Kahyles have demanded several prisoners’ release, one being a murderer of a Britisher, ibe request was refused. As the Kahyles ate stripping off preparatory to wading in "ore three cruisers have been sent to argue the matter out. Then from Kohat in Northern India, four flying columns are going to punish tribesmen for harbouring raiders.

Owing to several recent deaths under Christian Science treatment, Mrs Eddy, head of the cult in London has forbidden her followers to doctor infectious or contagious diseases. Presumably they may “ cure ” diseases which simply require the patient to have faith. For instance, if you have a broken limb and the faith healer says you have not, you believe him (although you know better) and the limb heals. How beautiful a thing is a child like faith.

The Rev. Glover spoke on Prohibition in Queen Street on Saturday night. A large crowd gathered and Mr Boreham contested the speaker’s statements that Prohibition was a success in Clutha. The crowd then started to push in and crowd the lecturer, who would then speak no further. To “ keep the fun going ” a couple of stalwart citizens commenced an altercation, but before it came to blows they separated. Altogether things looked lively for a minute or two. It is said that an old Army veteran of thirty years service, carrying many medals and scars of severe wounds returned home to rest. As he sat on the balcony of his country seat a cat rubbed against his legs. He picked it up and stroked it, when it suddenly turned and bit him. From the effects of the bite he died. Similarly Lieut. Dugald Holden, a Victoria Cross holder, was killed in Gloucestershira the other day by his horse stumbling in the hunting field, missing a violent death hundreds of times in the field to get it close to his own home in the piping times of peace. A man named Campbell who has made a pile of money by pretending to have made a pile of money by pretending to have fallen off a train and sustaining paralysis, has been laid up since his last “ accident ” for eight months, never moving under any tests and one of the doctors who suspected malingering applied an electric battery without result. However, when he announced his intem.ion of giving another electrical test, the paralysed man exclaimed that he had been long enough in bed and was going to get up, declaring that he wanted no more electricity.

The clause of the Factories’ Act which provides that the half-holiday for factory employees must be Saturday, irrespective of the day fixed for shops, has come into force as from October 3. This is only the first stop in the direction of that desirable reform, the making of Saturday afternoon the cpmpulsory half-holiday for all businesses throughout the colony. Dr Finch, the newly-appointed Health Officer for Canterbury, is at present in Waimate, inspecting the town and district in his official capacity. He attended the meeting of of the Borough Council last evening.

Messrs R. W. Hu f t and Co., tailors and clothiers, desire to thank their numerous patrons for the support given thorn since commencing business. They have just opened a splendid range of new season’s goods, which they will sell at prices that must suit the times. Also, a nice assortment of gentlemen’s hats, shirts, ties, and underwear At prices that are sure to command a ready sale. Advt.

Oa the West Coast a man named Petersen went to sleep in his hut and left the candle burning. There is nothing wrong about this as a rule, but Petersen had the candle standing on a case of gelignite (a full cousin to dynamite) and when the candle burnt low it ignited this. Peterson was dreaming hard, in tact he was dreaming that he was out shooting and that someone was using him as a bullet, when he awoke at the rate o c knots to find that his dream had come true and that he was a hundred yards from the place where the hut used to bo. All he had in the shape of injuries was a nlack eye, notwithstanding that there was hardly a foot of the hut’s timbers intact.