General News.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 300, 27 December 1902, Page 3

General News.

The local Acclimatisation Society has appointed Mr J. Sinclair delegate to a conference to be held in . . Wellington on January 28. At the sports meeting yesterday remarks were freely passed about the great improvement noticeable in the playing of the Woitmfca Brass Band which gave a most creditable account of itself. On Wednesday evening, .Christmas EM Mr W. Coltman met with a painful accident. He was riding:,up j Queen Street on his bicycle when a vehicle came from each of Queen and 1 Lower High Streets. In endeavouring .* to avoid one Ke was run into by the < osher and sustained a severe shaking ; i the effects of which will cofifine bim, < to bis bed for a week. . < The Waimate Brass Band did-a grateful- act on the afterndon of Christmas Day, when they voluntarily 1 needed to the Hospital aad-entertairied * < the staff and patients by a -number of well played selections. On eonoludipg they were entertained''at aftemoootea and the matron conveyed the tbs. ik': of the institutton for. the J please ■> fcbnir playing had given. '■ p 1 i i - , **■ >'] Oa t ureday afternoon a number or the yor* ‘g- people of A . few ia' Fiends, held a jpicnipjin Whitney ' ”i. Despite the;taittr t of , the previj jSjfetbe bashr/yrte Fwand an e <t#Sftempotf wasjpehL; In the the party reassembled at the hoi Mr J. Anderson wbera^.; music, d| - and; parlour .‘gamls, filled evening. About LSflh ; i a.m. ri /lot. Mr And AndersonV pleasant c - to a close. ~ -'.'W, ’ A crickel North Otago 1 South Cant) will be played id > 'Victoria Parit, commencing r lO a.m, A( will be taken lap/ to help deft*, ies. The Wai- > mate men p u Sputh Gamer*, i bury are-; r as, H.~ H*-;-Fished and D. : A. 1 FUlton; thd’ri» mbeing.^ i [ R; Palglrisb, T , 8., Msl* cohUtonftndHE henries t I Qnldstone and T , ~ ( 1 On - FrenkHn,' | i its W* ' X Mtpwplw ridesir m&‘ X. 4 .nS^^lQaude, i mm