General News.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 296, 16 December 1902, Page 2

General News.

A quantity of reading matter, including last night's Boiough Council meeting, is unavoidably held over. The WV.sieyan Sunday school anniversary services were held on Sunday. The church was exceedingly well decorated and all services were vory successful,

Mrs Fox advertises in this issue that she has a large and complete.stock of Christmas toys. These will certainly bear inspection and will bo found to contain goods to suit all pockets.

The Wellington master bakers have raised the price of bread to Id per tkb loaf. The Governor will distribute prizes at Timaru Main Se'ucol on Thursday. The cricket match South v. Xortli Canterbury will be played in 1 un i.-it on Hscctnber 2ord and '2 Ph. In the Victorian As-embly, the ci m-e in the Reform Ihll ttivin:,' !he frauchi e )o women was adopted uv •.■> \ -'■'■- ' > •>:> \otes. A yonne A\.-.-k'.y. m_ .;; :• • -■' ■ - with Ii revolver in .'•irrora' l'i:a:. Out of work, he iul and so killed himself. The Doer delegates vint An-t -•';-!. and th,e;i «t'oine on to buy st,r;t in New Zealand before rcttiminy, to South Africa. t Thirty-six seleetions of iatnU in the King Country orougnt •_>,io applications from returned ior whom it was cot tip. A social will be held in 1f mm ton school on Thursday in",'. An eop'.vable time is pr<ami-.-d all who attend. Price's drat.; leaves " The Cort'ei a. 7 p.m. The Millers' Association hive ;1 ■}. . vanced the pi ice of llour auoih.-r !.'l per ton, the price now standing at, L'l-'i to L'll per ton. The Agent-General in Loudon asked " our -Joe " how he was: g t'ing on on Tuesday. It. took him only one hour and twenty mhmes to do it per tinnew cable-. The Lroad Hay voting papers being still missing, M.i Carew. S.M.. iai!(-s that a recount of the Chalmers local option poll is impossible. Prohibition therefore stands. Last issue the date of issue of exclusion tickets for Christmas and X«w Year holidays were adverti ;ed as from the Kith. This, we are informed. should bo the IHtli. The error occurred through defective type-written " copy." The Australian C tmumnw'ihh. while appreciating N'ew Zealand s offers of assistance by seudu.g fodder. has replied that nuns have rendered help unnecessary. The Morvcn sports committee hold their annual meeting in Steward Park to-day. It is to be hoped it is at Last dry overhead tu an excellent programme has been prepared. The secretary of Martin wrote to the South Canterbury Athletic Club asking if a. race meeting could be got up. but the Club- was unable to do anything and hand, d the letter over to the Timaru Licycle Club. The reserve fleet at Devonport is to be ready to sail at a day's notice No word of its destination, but hk-iv enough there will be work for the " Sons of the Sex." It is time they had an innings, they say, Joseph T.ylield. a Oreymouth labourer, involuntarily partial with his thumb while discharging cargo. ILassessed its value at JL'ddU lis dpi. and at the request of a sympathetic Coin; the Railway Department involuntarily parted-with X"270 l'.fs Hid. Waimato Cricket Club will In represented in the junior competition match to-day by Cooper. Oril'lin. Wilson, Hayes. Lergussou. Hour, Goldstone -L, Ihittray. Goldstoue \V., Lark and O'Shea. The match commences at 10 o'clock in Victoria Park. A couple of ("hows, accompanied by .£IOO worth of opium, were arrested on their way from < hristchurch to Seddonia," West Coast. Thought they intended to get Dick's support-.-rs m lovo opium before next election, in the interests of a rival candidate. However, no one of any consequence thinks this, so our readers' natural alarm maybe allayed. Two columns more against the Mad Mullah in February. 'Tis said the Mullah's digestive organs wer- made a receptacle for an assassin's spear. If true, this will prevent his welcoming Tommy Atkins, However, his relatives will do the honours, while he watches from the Orientals' Paradise, where all good Mullahs go. The following judges were nominated for the South. Canterbury Poultry Society's Show in Timaru : Poultry ; Messrs Mcintosh (Wellington) and Tomar (Auckland); canaries : Messrs A. Gasper (ohristchurch) and Luscombe (Makikihi) ; cats : Mr Warrington (Timaru.) Eev. P. Eegnault presided over p. meeting of the Coronation Committee. last evening, The balance - sheet. which is to be published, shows a oredit balance of some £'22. His Worship the Mayor is to be asked tc inaugurate a trooper's memorial fund at once and the credit balance will be added to the amount raised.

In commemoration of the fall of Plevna the O/ar has issued a general order to the army and navy, wherein he declares that he is convinced that there is a period of trial in store for the Fatherland, hut they must do their duty to the throne and to their country. In other words the bear cubs are to keep their weather eye lifting and their powder dry. The proprietor and publisher of the "Age" were each fined £25 for contempt of Court, for publishing, on ©etober 4th. an article calculated to imperil the fair trial of A. B. Worthington on a charge of false pretences. In the matter of John Norton, for pub. lishing a similar article in Truth, Mr Justice Holroyd said that he had no jurisdiction, and discharged the rule nisi, but without costs. The first motor. bus service in the colony har just been arranged for in Napier, to run twelve miles an hour each vehicle carrying 32 passengers, at a cost of something like Id a mile. Negotiations are said to be in progress in Auckland, Kotorua, Wellington, "Wanganui, Nelson, Christchurch and Dunedin for similar services. Australia refuser 1 to receive some hatters who arrived in Sydney under contract, on the ground of tln-ir not being millionaires or something idee that. They naturally got mad as hatters, and so did a lot of newspapers and other influential concerns. Conseciuence is, Australia takes m the new arrivals and wishes she hadn't spoken. Mr H. Saunders lately got down a nair of squeakers from pigeons imported to Christchurch. He stamped their wings plainly with his naiii3 and address.' One got out a few days ago and returned vesterday with the four fliohts cut off and the ring inissiny from its leg. Evidently some person is not blessed with much honesty. Another gentleman was observed firing d eun at three birds homing from a toss One of the birds returned wounded. It will he well to remember that such pranks are punishable by law.

! A well-known lawyer ! considers that the publieius are lightin!,' ac/iinsi thorns-elves i.o trying to annul pells taken. Ho says : '• K iciion d of lite Alcoholic Liquors Sair; Control Act Amendment Act. ls;.)o. declares that no license of any desc; in'i ,n cm \n granted or renewed 1 until th; electors of the district have ; previously determined whether licenses ; arc to be granted, and the result would ' be tiu.'U. in l>n'i"din. for in-!at;e-e in ■ v.-: e t-i or ".. v ic. o; t'e'lu -Moo o.'i,: j | jj :■-./.h. -L i . \\'. [<;•.;. at a r':-t; don^of ! :'ie L'tnup t'arty in the '. aiiiedral <'i:y. i -aid 1.0 and i,.'.)ii?i'il, with plenty more ein lYiete.-. ■•,',■ ■./■ild. ride : j win in the next: election. Three weeks niter the election, it appears. oiTus for the Temperance vole were made, ;U id if he ; ' to hi ihe mono of one of tho-a-; who j were win'int,' to ccnte forward it, would i-ei.d a thrill •.luaiueh the nvidiene<\ llappiiy ['rank spaii'cd tiiein tlie thrill, mil now every.ee' is ;tsk'm» who the li';!, !.:ili il'!. I',','iiapS it isn't a lU'lll tt a!!, bar one of our fair -istrrs win 3 pardon. niercy--i)f t!i;- iron and 1 independent and win their votes. Of | course, lie. ladies will "pve her a block I vol-. Kveryont: know> iiow they stick up for their sex. i The Tit nam Harbour Hoard is in ! trouble with its employees io the quarries where stone is obtained fori lie j new mole. One of th" crimes broke I anal the men on it were told to go otT ] ii!i it was repaired. The men objected i to this and said there was plenty of other work (.-tripping) ow which they could be employed mean while. A man called Leemiue. employed cm the crane that was not brnk<ai, acted as : spokesman and accordion 'o the chairman of the i harbour 1! ,-->a -' and the '. r.umhi.-'cr he sah'l th- hi ) ir.l h it! tr.ated the uem hive schoolboys, and had practically accused i'o.nil of breaklie- crane and had dr m iceii" as a pur.islmi"ii\ The i-hie/m a-r dis- ) ~hi.ii-,'.'d tie- mm. an 1 til-e! all the i,: lea' !H"n in til-' .jnarri -s -; j-i :,-!<. .\n enquiry .vas h -id and the 11 vird closed j u ivei th.' w irl.s. Tn-' mil '■■■'•: will j com' up no-tin at the Board's maeine ion S itm-day and will be fully i eon-hd-n'ed. i tie' S'Oi'V. and e.l t,!ll--S oo- { if '■>.• -I',' ; lull tiieVl em mi is i'-)r •!',•• llriusm ad : piano, beeaue: ihey a.-re buiii t.i last. j not for •> or hi v ' rrs. bo; for a iit-' ! tint \ Their moe aqip-'als to t:i" ,■ ir, their -Pn-ibii;:'.- and prie > t i v.eir po.-k'-'t. th■•!!• d:r-ct apne -.1 is to vat , Why vej ae if -.' lat-'/rie-y them at Ih-ee's. nrx; Th-aitre. Tnnaru. • Adv;. ! M-SS-, U. W. Ilu-.t and Co., t lilors : and clothii rs. -h-ai.e to thank tinar '■ numerous patrons for 'lie support : Tiiev have just ope:e-d a splendid ranee of new season's e-iods. which they will sell at prices that must suit the times. Also, a it!'.'" as.ortntmt of h-os, shirts, •; ■-. and u : h rwear ,i f o.'ic.-s that am -mro to command a r. adysala. Advt. Have your land prosp.-eLed, it- mav contain a fortune. J. lb St. \'incem manaoer (.Torywell oolliury4'o., j\d., has |Tidl»i' tSny prepared mep-lmldntp r "^ n on properties.%cC M/ ithe v,%cr of " >h-w wealth?' " The h)la.ck%%uond|?d two Hemispheres." ;i Gold etc., Hirun st Home and Coiotiiai and te.-timomals. Coal and #old ininino and dr-'deim; a specialty/ Particulars as to terms iorwawled upon appiication to dvt.