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Oamaru Mail, Volume XXV, Issue 8011, 21 December 1900, Page 2

The local branches of the Banks •will be closed from Tuesday to Thursday inclusive next week, and the following week from Monday-to Wednesday inclusive.

The choir and office-bearers of Columba Church mlet last evening for ithe purpose of presenting Mr Jbhn Brown, the late leader of the choir, with a handsome marble clock in recognition of his long and valuable services ; and to Sirs Brown, two bronze ornaments and a gold brooch. A further presentation, which took the sljapp of a dozen handsomely bound volumes in a case, was made to* Miss Banks, as a mark of appreciation of her services as organist. To the Rev. M. Wright fell the pleasing duty of making the presentations, which, he remained, gave him. great pleasure, as lie felt deeply the hearty and ungrudging support he hadl always received l from Mr .and Mrs Brown and Miss Banks. Opportunity was taken, to accord a lieartv welcome io Mr Ferguson, the new organist and conductor, audi to. his wife on tlieir settlement in Oamaru.

Our Redclifi correspondent writes:—At ■ a meeting of the Redcliff School Committee o» Tuesday evening, a letter was read from the headmaster in reference to a report that appeared in serer&l local papers of the South Canterbury Boawl ef Education last meeting, when correspondence frojn the Chairman of the Red cliff-School Committee made reference to irregularity of school hours. Before closing the meeting the headmaster was' invited to attend, and Mr David Rossi Chairman of the jSphool Commitee, denied that he made aiiy reference whatever to irregularity of school houi> in. }}is letter co the Board. Mr Goodeve said he was pleased to hear Mr Ross' denial. He was at a loss to understand how such a report'could. Ijave reached the Board without the Committee's sanction, but he wo;hl<J endeavor to clear up the matter. - Just before the proceedings Ihe, distribution, of prizes at the Middle Scliool last evening, Miss Agnes Jack, one of jjie senior girls, on behalf of the girls' gymnastic class, presented Miss JKLiiig, th» jriistress, with, a, handsome butter dish as np acknowledgment of the interest shown Dy her in the work of the class. Miss King, in reply, expressed surprised at the presentation. It was very kind of the girls, 8-od she thanked them, very much. The Nga/para Rifle Club have arranged to fire an open handicap match on the Ngapara range on Christmas Day, commencing at 10.30 a.m. Intending competitors .at the Caledonian gathering are reminded that nominations for the various handicaps will close to-morrow levening. ! At the Magistrate's Court this , morning, before Messrs Headland <uid Brownlee, J.P.'s, a prohibition order was, npop the application of Sergeant O'Grady, issued against George M'Kenzie, jonr., said ordgr to apply to the WaitaM licensing* district for 12 months,: - .

The following names were omitted from" the prize-list. of the Middle School: Standard VI.-^-Sewing: Sophia Dogherty. Standard) V.—Sewing: Lizzie Millar. . A sal© of the balance of goods left over from the recent. Wesleyan Bazaar was held yesterday afternoon in the Church Lecture Hall. It was very successful, a large num- ■ ber of articles being disposed of. In the evening- a social was held of the Bazaar workers. Advantage was taken of it to read a balance-sheet of the effort. All voted it a pronounced sucoess. Hearty thanks - were given-to Mrs C. F. Roberts, the President, Mr Rice, the Secretary, and all the workers. A merry evening was spent in bright entertainment. During the first part of this week Mr John Mitchell landed 16 .trout, two of which were fine specimens, the largest weighing 191bs'and the other 13£lbs. Mr John Sinclair, who .went out with Mr Geo. Bruce, captured 10 nice trout, and Mr George Bruco five. We were shown one of .Air Brace's trout- which turned the scale at 18Lbs, and was such a. fine specimen that Mr Bruce had it photographed by Mr R. Mahan. The river is in good order, and large takes and big fish seem to 'be the order of the day. At the adjourned 'hearing of the charges of theft, forgery", and attempted murder against Charles Arnett, before the S.M. at lnvercargill yesterday, the accused :was committed' ito stand his trial at the next sittings of the Supreme Court. Bail was refused.

• In connection with the Christmas holidays, the following hours will be observed at the Post and Telegraph Office :—Christmas Day—Post Office: A close holiday will be observed. All mails for despatcli will be closed at 8 p.m. on Monday' evening, 24th December. There will be a counter .delivery of letters between 8.30 p.m. and 9 p.ml on Monday, 24th December. Telegraph Office: Open from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. to 8 p.m.. Telephoae exchange: Open from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. only. Boxing Day—Post Office : Open in all branches from 9 to 10 a.m. All mails for'despatch will be closed at 10 a.m. There will be one delivery by letter carrier, commencing at 8 a.m. Telegraph Office : Open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. to midnight. Telephone exchange: Open from 'J to 10 a.m. and; 7 to 8 p.m. Mails for Australia, Tasmania, Ceylon, India, China, the Straits Settlements, South Africa, the Continent of Europe and tiie United Kingdom will' close at the Bluff, per Waikare, on Monday, 24th instant, at

3.40 p.m. The mercantile offices will be closed, on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday in both the Christmas and New Year weeks.

Acceptances for handicaps and entries for the Maiden Plate in connection with the Waikouaiti meeting close to-morrow with the secretary. Five years 'ago, in soma far Western States of America, wild' horses were so plentiful that farmers let ithem die on the range, stallions were shot, and even some premiums offered' for the removal of herds. The war in (the Philippines and an South Africa lias created a demand' ifor them', and, as the breed is good, it is likely to continue. A little boy, eight years of age, committed suicide on a Sunday afternoon recently at a private boarding-school, near Leeds. It appears that the child was only sent to his bedroom to learn some Bible verses as a punishment, and there hanged himself to the bedstead in a kneeling position. The statistics as to the trades and: occupations of the C.LV.'s are distinctly interesting. The clerk is easily the predominant partner, with 591 representatives. No other one occupation or trade gets as high as a hundred. There are an umbrella maker, a varnish tester, a solitary journalists, a a candlemaker, two '"clickers," a brewer, a mosaic worker, a fiorist, and a gamekeeper! The quarterly summoned meeting of the Star of Oamaru Lodge No. 13, P.A.F.S. was held in the hall on Monday evening last when there was a good attendance. After the usual routine business had been disposed -of, the election of officers for the ensuing year 'jvas with, resulting as follows : W.M., Bro. G. Gerrie ; D.M., Bro. E. F. Davey; Treasurer, Bro. Giliies j re-electd Secretary, Bro. A. Brown; reelected S.E., Bro. T. Williams; J.E., Bro. John M'Kenzie; 1.G., Bro. A. IJ. Smith; 0.G., Bro. John Gibson; Chaplain, Bro. E. Lane; Assistant-Secretary, Bro. R. E. Main ; Auditors, Bro. H. J. Mote W. Gibb; Medical Officers, Garland and Whitton ; Chemists, Bro. G. M. Prodtor and E. Lane. Votes of thanks and confidence were passed to doctors and' chemists, and to retiring officers. It was also decided to Change the night of meeting to Wednesday, and to meet in future in St. Andrew's Hall, the next meeting taking place on January 16th, 1901. The receipts amount, ed to £96 10s, a very .satisfactory termina- | tion to a most successful year. The Duntroon Athletic Sports Committee intend to add throwing the heavy hammer to their programme. A special meeting of the Waitaki High School Board of Governors was held this morning, there being present—Messrs Borrie (chairman), Rose, Brown, and Familton. The purpose of the meeting was the appointment of a finst assistant in the Girls' High School, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the retirement of Miss Crosby. There were twelve applicants, and the choice fell upon Miss Violet M. Greig, M.A., lately holding an appointment as locum tenens first assistant in the Timaru High School. Miss Greig, having previously distinguished herself at the Otago Girls' High School, of which she was dux in 1895, entered the Otago University in April, 1896, and took her B.A. at the end of 1898, and was successful in winning the Tinline scholarship. At the end of the session of 1899, she was dux of both the senior and honors' English, and in November of that year gained her M.A. degree with second-class honors ill Latin and French. Many of (the railway companies of the Southern States of America are now using very powerful electric searchlights as headlights on their engines, with a view to de-

tedtiing cattle .which frequently stray on the line. Hitherto the large railway companies have Ibeen compelled to pay large suras annually for catlle and hogs killed by passenger and) freight trains. By the employment of 'electric searchlights it is now .possible to detect cattle at Consider-

able distances. A dog or sheep can be seen (by the engine-driver by means of the powerful rays of an electric headlight for a distance of 1500 ito 2000 feet, and a cow or a .horse for a distance of half a mile. The searchlights are not expensive, and one sti'pk of carbon, costing about a penny, will furnish ia -.brilliant light for about eight hours.

According to *1 French" investigator the nerves, especially those of the aged, require to be. -well nourished, and l 'he recommends as food for the purpose the serum of young animals or the juice of the organs .ol young animals. These have a tendenfey to keep the nerve cells from ageing, and! thus to prolong, as it were, the period of youth. During the illness at the end of last year of the late Right Hon. Professor Max Muller (who was learned in Eastern philology and philosophy) public prayers were offered in a Hindu Temple at Madras for his recovery, a distinction never before given to a European. Similar services were also performed in other towns in India, including Benares, the centre of Brahmanic learning and Brahmanic orthodoxy. When the news of the last serious illness of the Professor cai)ie, all the Benares priests assembled _ tpgpther, and agreed to offer prayers in their sacred temple for the recovery of the great European Professor. This they did, and prayed for the man they neyer met. Sipido, wlia attempted to shoot the Prince of Wales, at Brussels, was on a re. ceijt gattjrday arrested at tlje house of his aunt, at Billancourt, near Paris, and in the evening was removed to Brussels, his extradition having been granted by the French Government, Since his residence in France Sipido has mixed in anarchist circles. Sipido was sent to the Saint Hubert penitentiary, where he will remain until tihe age of twenty-one. His father lies at the point of death, never having recovered from the blow his' son's disgrace was to him.—Home paper. . '

The late Mr Sims Reeves, famous tenor, who died at Worthing recently, in his seventh-ninth year, used to.'my tJjat his conscientiousness about Ilia voice had cost -him the handsome sum of £BO,OOO. Mr Reeves preferred to disappoint an audi-

ence rather than sing to them with o. throat which was not in the iinest condition. During his recent visit to Hawke'a Bay, the Minister of-Lands spent, a day in riding over the Hatuma. estate, Waipukurau, recently acquired by the Government from Mr Purvis Russell. The lion, gentleman informs the Post that he was very pleased with the land, and is certain that ta(e purchase will turn out to be one of th« uest the Government has ever made. Tlio work of cutting up the estate into blocks of from 300 to 900 acres has been: more than half completed, and there is every reason to believe that the land will be thrown open for selection, early in April. About 100 acres are t<J foe reserved as a site for a township. Writing on .the welcome given on the return of .the London City Imperial Volunteers, a writer in a Home serial says: The men were magnificent. They had the indefinable war-look, the .splendid dignity that comes of discipline and hard work. They had seen death and' pestilence, and the nameless horrors of war, and these | things had moulded their features; steel and powder 'had become part parcel of their beings. They had left England u. miscellaneous body of. men of many ,ranks, clerks and merchant princes, yokels and landowners : war had levelled' them down, had lifted then* up to one likeness. Before and above everything else, they were soldiers. . . . In a neighboring window sat- a mother and three daughters. As (lie men began to file up the Cathedral steps the excitement in that little group hurt the onlookers. The hands were clenched on the window jsill, the faces drawn and puckered! with emotion. The men passed and' passed l —and he was not there. The mother sobbed pitiably; the girls were in a frenzy of grief. Then someone, just entering the Cathedral door, turned and waved a handkerchief. The madness of joy and thanksgiving in that window cannot .be pictured'. At the next window a woman in deep mourning sat watching the scene, crying ceaselessly. It was not a grand 1 organised spectacle, but there was one moment of striking and' moving iiietiiresqueness. It grew quite dark when the thanksgiving service was being held in the Cathedral. One electric light in front of Queen Anne's statuo shone on the assembled' band!*. The great buildings with their crowded l windows were silhouet. ted in the background; the Cathedral was ■a suggestion of majestic blackness. Suddenly a door was opened, and a ray of light, fell on the solitaiy figure of an invalided' C.l. V., who, amid the blare of the National Anthem from fifteen .massed bands', was being led' down the steps to

the ambulance wagon. In, wishing our numerous customers a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, wo would especially draw their attention' to some very special lines that we. are just now offering. We have «i splendid lob of shirt blouses well made, good material anil colors, the prices were 5s 6d and 6s od, we are selling them fast at 2s lid .and 5s lid. We liave also some nice dark prints, they were 7£d, going at 4|d. Mercerised prints, were Is 3d ,now Beautiful muslins, were Is, now Bj|d. Striped piques, were9d, now 4-|d. Children's pelisses and costumes,.in cashmere serge, etc., all cream color, were 8s 6d to 13s 6d, now 5s 6d '<> 7s 6d. Children's bonnets, liats, etc., at very .special prices, at L. H. TEMPERO'S, Thames and Wear street.

Still they come ! Six additional cases of Christmas novelties to hand yesterday ; these will be added to-day to our Christmas bazaar. You will find thousands of useful and curious articles in our stock, and all so very cheap that; the most frugal among us can afford to buy. Toys and (lolls ill great variety, and at prices lower than over. Tlio Queen of boxes of 10 artistic and beautiful Christinas and New \ear cards, with envelopes, Is the box. —Penrose's Cash Drapery Establishment. It is useless to advertise unless you have something worfli advertising. Our QuilU are worth advertising, and what is more, they are worth inspecting, and so is the whole of our furnishing department. See the prices. We have honeycomb quilts, the very largest size, at 6s 6d, 7s lid, 8s lid; "smaller sizes are cheaper, but these are the biggest size made. Largest size toilet and satin quilts, 10s lid, 12s 6d, 15s to 255. Sheetings from 9Jd. Towels from sid. Calicoes from 2Jd. Hearthrugs, 2s lid, 3s 3d, 3s lid, to 12s 9d. Art muslins, from 2j|d. Lace curtains from Is lid to 12s 9d, at L. H. Tempero s, Thames and Wear streets. At this season buyers are often at a loss where to go to purchase the little nicknacks which they are in quest of. Visit the Polytechnic and you will bo suited exactly. A large consignment of travellers' samples representing Purses, Mirrors, Photo Frames, Handbags, Pipe Stands, Work Cases, etc., which we have marked to English cost, are very tempting. Our Millinery Department is crowded with every requisite for the season. Ladies' Trimmed Mulinery, Sun Bonnets and Hats, Picnic Hats, 3, 4, 6, 9; Sailor's Trimmed and Untrimnied; our Silk and Lace Mantles, 12s lid, 13s lid, 17s 6d up, aro selling very fast, do not delay. We have pleasure ill announcing the arrival of another consignment of Lace and Muslin Fichus, also novelties in Collars, Cuffs, Gloves, etc. For Men and Boys we offer a. largo and well-assorted variety of requirements. Men's Tweed Suits, 18s lid, 22s lid, 25s 6d, 27s 6d up; Men's Colonial Tweed Trousers, 7s lid, 8s lid, 10s 6d, and 12s 6d; Boy's Knicker Suits, 8s lid up; Men's Ties, Shirts, Braces, etc., in great variety. At the POLYTECHNIC, the Favorite ReadyMoney Drapery, Thames street.