The Oamaru Mail. SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 1905.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXX, Issue 8683, 7 January 1905, Page 2

The Oamaru Mail. SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 1905.

The- result of the w,te of shopkeepers on the question of Thursday or Saturday halfholiday is net very conclusive, as the figures hero mentioned will shew: —106 voting papers -.veie sent out, and 61 only returned, of which 40 are in favor of Thursday and 21 in favor of Saturday. It may be quite fair :o assume that those tradesmen who have not recorded their votes are indifferent about the day to be kept as half-holiday. If, therefore, the banks, solicitors. Government offices and all those who now have Saturday, together with the larger mercantile houses which favor the same d-iv add their weight to the 21 retailers, vvs may assume that a majority of th/ 1 traders in the community favor Saturday being given a trial at anyrate, thus antiriovtlrn by a year or two, perhaps, the universal Saturday halfholiday for the :o''':!iy. The wishes of the large body of fr»f)!o"ees have not as yetentered into i'lr, !'ne=tion. but seeing that we are so e-v-mlv li-ided about it, it might "be well to still further ventilate it before

the speci.'i! Comci! meeting takes place to fix the day for 1.905. Sir J. G. W id ya r -scd through Oamaru by the second express to-day en route to [Wellington. A meetinrr of the directors of the Oamaru Caledo"ian Society will be held in the Borough Council 'Chambers on -Monday, at 8 p.m. The follow-;*::;- rinks from the Phosnix Club will take port in the Christ-church ■bowling tournament: —Rule, Hewat, 'Heron,"arid T?.y.i>r (s) ; Bloomfield, Shand, Procter, Potter (s). According tn the Christchurch Press, sheep imported by the undermentioned breeders were ralensed from quarantine on Thursdav :—-Mr A Murdoch. Riversdale; Southland; Messrs Little Bros., Ngapara; Mr W. Grant. Timaru; 'Mr J. Reid, Oamaru; Mr D. Temuka; N.Z. and A. Land Company. Dunedin : Mr L. White, Rakoir. : and Mr T. Reid, Oamaru. The Externa! Affairs Department- of Australia is to New Guinea and some other British possessions information in reference to the detection of radium. The authorities believe- that in many places in the Pacific Islands there are vast deposits of substances from which radium may be extracted. The Dep-rtf--f.it ■■! Agriculture has been advised that qivntities of clover seed, badly infected wi'h rl'-'lder are being sent to New Zealand. The- Department .emphasises the necc-sltv for farmers to be careful, as dodder i 1; a serious pest. The Noxious W-re-ds A't make it an. offence for anyone to s-'w, se 1 ! or -offer to sell seed containing doddor. The officers of the Do part-ment have been instructed to keen a sharp for offenders. The New Ze-L'nd Loan and Mercantile Agency ■CoTnnnv, Limited, -have fxxived the follow in 7 T.bV message from their London he-use. under date 4th inst. : Tmllow—'Wo ':•!"(■? present- spot values for the follow-in? of tnillow—'Fine mutton 29s ."■!. "'-d beef 265. mixeo- 24s 9d. Fine witf'-n tallow market- has an upward tern-en' >-. Oliattine- ovr r-rent events in South Africa with '■'? -Times Christie, who returned from last- week, the question ofj indentured labor on the Rand crop^e-- 1 --p (Rays the Balclutha Free iPress). Mr Ch:-\«' : e is of opinion that the experiment w : " prove a very expensive one, and is likely, he thinks, to be carried to i'.- '••-iT-ina-lly-devised conclusion. Of the 80.000 coolies who wore to be on the Rand by the end of the hst year only about 20,000 have arrived. The question'of fe»'i ; n-T the Chinese is a- very heavy one. all their food having to be imported from China. As compared with the cos', of feeding native labor, which subsists principally on the locallygrown mealie. !'■■.■" imported article is very heavy- Th e rr-T'iting of native labor h now going on b-- : skly, as Mr ChrisTie is o; opinion it mirrhi- have done all along had it been desired. Ministers wijj assemble in Wellington probably at tV* end of next week, when a meeting of th°. Cibinet will be held. It is safe to say th.'! one of the questions that will come up f"r consideration will be the appointment- of the members of the- Land I Commission.

The s.s. Ko.inya left last evening for hendquarf,STS. She will return here on Monday to lo:>.d for northern and West Const ports. The s.s. Wiir.-il.-a will load her* on Monday for Auckland. Brethren of ;he Endeavour Lodge are requested to Ti-?et at the lodge-room ;t 2.15 p.m. to-rr~rrnw to attend the funeral of the late Brr.. Ceorge Leslie. ■Major Lovedny, commanding the cadetr, ■will leave a'brrai. the end of the montli f»r Oamaru to tnko part in the public reception to ELord P'linket with the cadets (says the WeHiogtnr, correspondent of the Di:nedin 'Star). Th<* Governor will take advantage of the occasion to present fie South" Island shield to 'he Oamaru jSc-ifch School, winners with Ti'i point 6. A peculiar pcsitinii> in connection with the clause in the Counties Act providing against any Councillor speaking or voting on any subject in which he was personally concerned otherwise- than bis interest as a ratepayer of the county, cropped up at the Taieri Counts- :Ccrancii meeting yesterday, when Councillor Samson moved that all persons having sates or other obstructkins across any of the county roads should 'deceive -notice to at once Temove such «b----structions. It turned out that there w<re no less than 210 gates across Toad-lines iin the county, and one-half the members jof the Council, inelndine the Chairman, w<re interested. This leftTbut a 'hare quorum to deal with the matter, and the motion yas not seconded. Councillor Sampson intimated his intention of moving the Supreme Court in the matter, as he held that m the case of most of the obstructions (the

proper ilegal permission had not been obtained. —Otago Daily Times. An Amberley correspondent of the Lyttelton Times writes :—The weather during the past few days has been quite -wintry, and everything is very backward. The grain crops everywhere promise to be heavy. To-day I saw a crop being harvested where the straw -was so heavy that the machine could only take half 'the usual ■width. Mr H. F. Gibson, of Tyne street, announces that he lias been appointed cliief nyent for North Otago of the old-estab-lished Northern Assurance Company. THANK YOU FOR KHBUMO. Rheumatism is no respecter of persons. The savant and the sweep are alike its victims. Wellington's well-known chimney sweep, Mr C. Dowsett, offers his tribute to the* curative properties of Bheumo in simple, but convincing language. He writes :—"I thank you very much for the use of one of your bottles of Bheumo. I have tried nearly everything in existence for rheumatics, but found no relief until I used your Bheumo. After nineteen suffering it is a great comfort to be free of pain." Bheumo conquers chronic rheumatism. That is its mission. Chemists and stores, at 2s 6d and 4s 6d per bottle.

Inquiries have been made by the lost concerning an allegation that dicontent existed at Shelly Bay because the submarine miliars have been asked to perform orderly work for a cadet officer and clean his boots' (says the D:iily Times' Wellington correspondent). The reply of the authorities is that a lieutenant is entitled to .111 orderly, but that it has never been claimed that a. cadet is entitled to an ordorlv, and that the statement that the men had been asked to clean cadets boots is untrue. It is considered by the Post that the. fact that all the available men refused orderlv duty seems to prove that all is not well at Shelly Bay. This and other incidents indicate that discontent is rife, and discipline not what TE should be, and the cause should be exhaustively and impartially inquired into. In the last two years about a dozen experienced members of the corps have left it, which may be due to dissatisfaction or may be due to their getting more lucrative positons. It is a great remedy, and it is wonderful stuff for the liver. You often hear these remarks made by those wlio have cured their indigestion, constipation, and liver troubles with Dr Grassland's marvellous medicine, Noxol. Get a bottle to-day if you suffer. 2s. at chemists and stores. KUROYV.—Mr SWINDLEY, Resident Demtist, will visit Kurow on THURSDAY, January 12th, and may foe consulted at 'Simmons' Hotel.

If you feci drowsy and languid in. rising, with a poor apatite, a bad taste in the mouth, it is a sure sign your liver and stomach are disordered. Just try a fewdoses of Dr Grassland's Noxol, and see how quickly it will revive you. 2s at chemists and stores.

White Sale prices for Japanese silk. Beautiful pure silks in white and cream, medium width, guaranteed to wash and weaT well, worth Is 9d, sale price 11-jd ; fine quality Japanese silks, 23-inch, in white or cream, worth Is lOd, sal© price Is 3d; heavier quality Japanese silks, 23incli, in cream, or white, worth 2s 3d, sale, price Is 7jd; superior finish kawamata Japanese silk, in white or cream, 24-inch, worth 2s 2d, sale price Is 9d; without doubt the best silk shown for the money is'our 27-inch, all silk, at Is lljd, the ordinary value of which was 2s in wliito or cream; lovely ma.ke of Japanese silk, in ivory white, 27 inches wide, worth 3s 6d, sale price 2a 9d; while heavy quality "Shunghai" silk, worth 2s 6d, sale price Is lO^d; fancy embossed Japanese silk, 25-inch, makes pretty blouse, former price 2s 6d, sale price Is lid; white tucked Japanese silk, extra, wide', former price 6s 9d, sale price 4s Iid.—PENROSE'S Drapery Establishment. Noxol will not cure a housemaid's knee, nor will it cure brain fever; but for Indigestion and Constipation it stands without a rival as a curative vegetable remedy. A few doses will convince you of its merits. 2s at chemists and stores. Dr Crossland's Noxol was so effective in the case of D. Smith, Ahuriri, that he sent two bottles to a suffering friend who had indigestion. If you suffer or know of other people afflicted with the torture of this disease, get them to try Noxol. It will cure them. 2s at chemists and stores.