WAIMATE NOTES

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8287, 16 September 1903, Page 3

WAIMATE NOTES

(From our Own Correspondent.) , t the Police Court on Monda>% , -.f Worship the Mayor and J- E. AtwiU, Justices. a first offender was \ id fined '2os for being drunk and dist>rlv on the 12th instant. On Tues(U} , <- l ~ before Messrs Petit and Becthe case of W. Steevens, charged -tealing fowls to the value of ,15s at f ul auction sale at Mr Reilly>, Han- ' ton was a:*ain brought on. having be-.n from the 12th instant, to see if a witness referred to by defence IS be examined. As no such witness Jrfd be found judgment was given on trie Slice tlen lit- Saturday the Bench mSf a fins of £2, and ordering accused to pay £1 2s cos'sTlie meetina of ratepayers to consider th? uropiwil of the Council to obtain a loan for L purpose of water supply irom war the fead of the Waimate Creek for the borough «i mmoonced to be iield on the 21st ipstan . 7 E c«d deal of interest is taken in .his important question by the ourgesses, al J d nf hard to say whether those in favor 01. or onpesed to, the sch-sme are_m th? majority. Correspondence on the subject is appearing a tiie local papers, and the question k jjeing warmly diccuss=d. \nother important water question is that in "which the ratepayers of the Lower V\ aihao and the Lower Pareora water supp.y districts of Waimate County are concern:-ti. On behalf of the Waimate County Council [save will be applied for to bring in a Bill thi« session to declare all water raetv, constructed bv the "Waimate County Council, under the "Water Supply Act, 1891, to be feally constructed within the meaning of tiie Act. and to validate the Council's acts in coiling water catss past- and future. It found to riave this Bill miroiiced in consequence of a decision of the Appeal Court on a recent case of dispute to the collection of water rates in the Waihao Riding. Miss Roberts, agent of the New Zealand Alliance, addressed a meeting of friends and workers in the temperance and prohibition cause in the .Primitive Methodist Church on Monday evening, when there was lUood attendance. Miss Roberts explained the present position of affairs of the Alliance ia New, Zealand, financially and legally, and the'puzzims tangle into wtnch the licensing quLation had drifted, notwithstanding the considerable majority of votes for_ "no license" colonially and for particular datrictc-. She encouraged the workers to continue in the eood work of total abstinence from intoxicant# for the individual and prohibition fur the colony. At tlie close of Miss Roberts' address it was resolved, ' That this meeting strongly protest against the proposed alteration ofc'tie Sanding Orders of the House or Bepresentatives re closure of debate as beix uncalled for and extremely undemocratic." The thanks ot the meeting w;-re accwhd to Mi?s Roberts for her visit and interesting address. So- far this year has been one of many i!an"« in ownership cf freehold properties or Waimate Counfy. Mr Harold Studholme ias Utelv sold his hill and bush freehold sropertv'at the head of Waimate Creek to sfc Barker. Tliis property, over two thouand three hundred acres, includes about three hundred acres recently purchased by tfr Studhoime from Beckett. Mr Ged- & is offering his eleven hundred acres, Ei-hwav Farm, for sal-?, and has refused rait is considered a verj" good price for the jnperty. Not only freeholds, but leaseUd» also, are offering for sale; Mr_J. OBonoahue. amongst other?, is advertising 5r ale "his snug leasehold property at >ukuI ma.

Darin c the last few days there has been a narked change from the severe frosty ar.d fc wsather of the previous six or seven wiks On Saturday and Sunday last- the watlM- was mild and cloudy, with indications of rain, which continued until last Itmi'.v evening, when a mild, light _ rain c»Gim*;nct:d, and with very utuck. Gamp itEcsphcre. continued up to a late hour on Taeaiay nisht. It is a very beneficial change. Earlv-sown ■wheat was backwaru in "rowth and appearance; but the last fe_w days of mild temperature and genial ram have brought about a rapid change of vegetable growth in all directions. There is abuut tli-' average extent of land sown with wheat in this district, and so far there does not appear to be so much ground under oats as was the case last year. are. and have been, doing well, the snowfall not being Otariv so heavy nor so lasting as was the cise in the surrounding districts. It is too soon to- predict as to percentage of lambs Sir the s-'ason. but so far as resuLs are bown. there will be a good year of increase fcm young lambs.