WAIMATE NOTES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXVI, Issue 8227, 14 September 1901, Page 2

WAIMATE NOTES.

(From our Own Correspond* On Thursday Mr Wm. Coiwre Waimate, lost a draught hor.si'-undn. circumstances. The animal was r, itself against the <] rickety one—when the windlass pjt: wild the poor horse foil hind-partf down into the well. The well was feet deep, but as tlio horse's lirad: wards and above the water it wojj might be got up alive. 'However,! the 'hauling and the shock land fr of time before it could be puIW horse was quite dead. There was a .good muster ol the I Rifles with Captain Barclay, 1; Hurst and Jackson present, in tlit at parade on Wednesday. Unde cers there was comipany drill, and non-commissioned officers riflt When parade was over two new were admitted, and three othen posed for admission. On Tuesday a grass fire rap over a. large piece of country Is hao Forks and Pentland Hills, s several thousand acres. The IK fences were so dry that nothing m the fire. • Much damage was dot" and feed on the lands of Mesa Studholme, Gardiner, Pentland £ tion, and Messrs Clement and I Mr Gardiner lost a number ol« their being burned to death, an! many more were badly injured. The half-yearly meeting of thfli District, 'M.U.1.0.0.F., was lidk mate on Thursday. Nearly all la bers of local lodges were present K gates from other lodges <if Aii There were also prewent--llim P.G.M.; North, D.P.G.M.; Car.* and Jackson, D.T., as district' District business was carried on intb noon, and nominations of candife district officers were made foi'iiextt After conclusion of'business, a veryj evening was spent by all, a moh having been arranged, a.t which tii good singing, recitations, awl sodii meiits. The Rev. Mr O'Conitcl) Gotdstone (Hibernian Society) Ml Grant and Colville (Foresters! wm The Studholme- 'Mounted lliflre honor of winning the Challenge Si! at the late competition open to & Canterbury battalion of mounted r. is ;i largo and ■beautifully-eni;ra« ornamented with fern engraving, b scribed thus : "First Battalion, Sk terbury Mounted Rifles.—Chalk' Presented by Major Haylinrf' August Bth, 1901, won 'liv ft

Mounted Rifles." The cup is Mr J. E. Attrill in <Wip .shop " Priest and Holdgate, Waimalr. At the Magistrate's Court on before Messrs Atwill and '' rll a man named Watson was police under the Police vagrancy and not being factory account of himself. After had been taken, lie was eonvicM to Tiraa<ru Gaol for 14 days. The members and supporters of tion Army desorve praise for tliw and energetic action in faring ! barrack erected at Waimato on '''' the old wooden building some time ago. Tlio new opened by the. Mayor on presence of a large'igatheriiig °' ? r 'hall being filled. The Rev. J. nl A. Morrison, Rev. Mr Carlisle, <H tain Bishop (Christchui'ch). son (Temuka), Captain Marshal! Captain Law, and Lieutenant I ' lrt sisted at the ceremony. When tea, was served in the new bin large number of people partook ments, after which an open-air vice was 'held. During the- < ' ourM proceedings, Mr Thomas, wio M the carrying out of the workmta* was higlily complimented on the and thoroughness with- which the been carried on from start 1" '" r> , h building' is a plain liall in brick, WC bv four windows on each side window on each sid* of the Its size is 50 feet by 27 M. L2 feet.