Directory of Local Bodies.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume VI, Issue 10, 26 January 1905, Page 4

Directory of Local Bodies.

Waimate County Council meets on fourth Wednesday of the month at 10 a.m. G. V. Cochrane, clerk. Waimate Borough Council meets _ second Tuesday in month at 7.30 p.m. G. W. Parsons, Town Clerk. J Waimate Domain Board meets after the Borough Council meeting. G. W. Parsons, secretary and treasurer. Waimate County Farmers’Association (affiliated with the N.Z. Farmers’ Union) meets in County Council Chambers fourth Saturday in the month at 2.30 p m. Waimate Agricultural and Pastoral Association. W. H. Beckett, secretary. t Waimate Hospital Trustees meet on same day as County Council, in Council r Chambeis, at 4 p.m. G. V. Cochrane, s secretary. r Waimate High School Board of Govert nors meets on third Tuesday in every 3 second month in Courthouse, at 7.30 p.m. r G, H, Graham, secretary. 3 Waimate Public Library Committee meets first Monday in each month at 1 7.30 p.m, R, A. Nicol, secretary. r Waimate Volunteer Fire Brigade meets for business every first Tuesday, and practice every second Tuesday in the month. J. Sinclair, captain. School committee meets every first Wednesday in each month. W. M. Hamilton, chairman. Waimate Rifles parade drill shed every second and fourth Wednesday at 7.30 p.m. C. Jacksou, secretary. j St. Augustine’s Lodge (N.Z.C.) meets Wednesday on.or before lull moon. J. Sinclair, secretary. Oddfellows’ Lodge meets every alternate Monday at 7.30 p.m. J. g. Butcher, secretary. Magistrate’s Court sits on alternate Thursdays at 10 a.m. W. Y. Purchase, Clerk of the Court. Foresters’ Lodge.—Every alternate Munday at7«3op.m., P. Grant, secretary. Juveniie Lodge.—Every alternate Monday. P. Grant, secretary. Waimate Horticultural Society meets every third Wednesday in each month. S. J. Adams, president ; C. A. Wilson, secretary, Hibernian Society meets alternate Mondays, commencing 7«30 p.m. Secretary, J, Sims. J Waimate Workers’ Industrial Union of Workers—Meets last Saturday in each month, in Foresters’ Hall; J. Mills, secretary. The Waimate Loyal Orange Lodge, No. 27, meets on the third Thursday in I every month, at 8 p.m, David Bucking- : ham, secretary. The Ivy Lodge, United Ancient Order of Druids, meets every alternate Wednesday, at 8 p.m. Thos. A. Gardyne, secretary.

An elderly couple in Paris met with a sad misfortune a few weeks ago. They had invested their whole fortune (amounting to over £5000) in bearer shares of various public companies. These they pnt inside a dilapidated old hat-box, so shabby that the most experienced burglar might easily have ignored it. Periodically either the husband or wife opened the box and connted over their wealth. When they went to it one day, however, nothing met their eyes but a little heap of dust. Rats, says the Petit Journal, had got inside the hex and devoured almost every scrap of the precious paper. “ I suppose I ought to be inured to abuse by this time,” said Miss Corelli to Mr H. Vivian, who records a long conversation which he had with the authoress in the Pall Mall Magazine. “ When I first began to write, I confess it came to me with a shock of surprise. Even if my work was bad, I was doing my best; I was young and struggling, and I had others to support beside myself. I had set out with the illusion that nearly * everyone was kind, and that the others did not matter. Perhaps I was foolish to expect to find the world a garden of roses. Bnt it was not so much the criticism I minded as the unkindness. A little child cries if you slap its hand—not because you hurt it, but because you are unkind. Now I have outgrown that feeling to a great extent. lam always sorry if anyone desires to do me ill. I can't help it; I suppose it is a question of temperament. What I mind moat is the backbiter, the scribe who stabs in the dark. Fair, open criticism is quite another thing. If someone came to me and said, “Miss Corelli, I have been commissioned to write an article attacking you ; I am paid two guineas, and I want the money,” I should say, “Very well, that is straightforward ; I would rather give you ’ the two guineas, but as that cannot! be, say what you like.” It is all • very well for a man to be indifferent about abuse. . . . But a woman owes a duty to her sex. A man thinks literature is outside woman's sphere. What is woman’s sphere! To get married, I supII ose. But we are forgetting that there are not enough men in the world to go round. If every woman is bound to get mairied, we shall have to borrow from the E ist and establish harems.”