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Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10488, 22 June 1910, Page 3

The monthly meeting of the Middle School Committee, held on Monday evening, was attended by Messrs Riach (chairman), Church, Galloway, Chalmers, Swinard, Leo. and Grocott. The headmaster's report showed an improved attendance. The Church of Christ Boys' Club was granted the use of the Gymnasium Hall. A committee (consisting of Messrs Riach, Church, and Grocott) was set up to communicate with the Education Board, and having secured their consent to instal a stove for experimental purposes, with a view to the better heating of the school, the committee to report to next meeting. A complaint from a. parent re the use of the cane in school and keeping in was referred to the headmaster for report. The half-yearlv meeting of the "Waimate branch of the 1.0.6. F., M.U., was held on Monday, last, when the following officers were elected and installed for

the coming half-year:—G.M., Bro. J. Bird; N.G., Bro. H. Batoman; V.G., Bro. G. A. Thomson; L.M., Bro. H. Watts; AVarden, Bro. L. Reeve; Guardian, Bro. A. M'Lachlan; Supporters, Bros. H. Miller, F. Wilce, J. Brien, and A. E. Watts. The installation was performed by P.P.G.M. Bro. Collett, assisted by L.M. Bro. Watt. Eight new members were initiated and three candidates proposed for next meeting. Accounts amounting to £4O 17s 6d, sick pay £6 Is Bd, and funer.il benefit £3O were passed for payment. The English mail, via Wellington, Sydney, and Naples, which was despatched from Oamaru on Thursday, 12th May, arrived in London on the 18th June—two days early. During March, 1910, the gold purchased in the Waitaki Counoy amounted to 1290z 15dwt 6gr. A Now Zealander, in a letter to a friend in the Dominion, mentions the interesting fact that, in the interior cf tho Argentine, ho came across a number of railway trucks which contained Oamaru stone duly labelled. For the civil sitting of tho Magistrate's Court this morning, Messrs Robert Milligan and James Craig, J.P.'s, were on the Bench. Judgment for plaintiff by default of defendant was given in the following cases:— Andrew Webster v. John Reid, £4 13s, costs ss; George Cross v. Angus M'Donald, £l3 Ids 7d, costs 15s. On Sunday afternoon Mr Martyn, of Enfield, conducted a service at Balruddery in connection with the Methodist Church, first ever held on Balruddcrv. The .service was solemnised hi a room kindly lent by Mr Stott. There was a good attendance. The next service will be advertised, and it is hoped that after a while they will be held fortnightly. The Fijian Legislature has passed a motion for the expending of £6OOO on wireless communication in the group. The idea is to give Suva a radius of 250 miles. The stations proposed are Suva, Vuna Point (Taviuni), and Samu (Suva Bay). Six British and foreign firms are to be invited to tender for the work.

Within a few years the price of rubber boots, such as are used by miners at Maerewhenu.a and Livingstone and in other mining centres, has advanced by leaps and bounds, on one line alone the increase amounting to as much as 80 per cent. The high price of rubber boots constitutes considerable hardship to working miners, but it is a hardship that will have to be faced, owing to the genuine shortness of the raw material. Experts arc now busy in the direction of obtaining a suitable substitute for rubber, and if successful their efforts should lead to a reduction in the price of manufactured articles. The increased supply of the raw material when numerous young plantations start to yield should also lead to a reduction of the cost of rubber goods. The monthly meeting of the Oamaru Hospital Trustees held last evening was attended by Messrs Mainland (Chairman), Grant, Hay, Milligan, Mac Gibbon, Dawson, and Hindmarsh. The minutes having been confirmed and the outward correspondence approved, a letter was read from Mr C. W. Kent, handing over the sum of £2O 12s 2d. This amount represented the total proceeds of a football match played on 11th June. The Trustees unanimously passed a very special vote of thanks io the promoters and all who took part in the raising of this very handsome addition to the funds of the hospital. vSpecial mention was made of the pet lamb presented by Miss Curie. The medical Superintendent reported that during the month 24 patients had been admitted, 19 discharged, 2 died, and there remained 20. The following donations were received with thanks:— Literature, Mrs P. Duncan, Wesleyan Sunday School, and Mr I. Borton; bulbs, A Friend; fowls. Mrs Robb; flowers and literature, Church of Christ Christian Endeavor Society; flowers, Wesleyan Christian Endeavor Society. The Visiting Committe paid their usual monthly visit to the Hospital and reported finding everything in a satisfactory state and the patients well satisfied with their treatment, no complaints whatever being made. Messrs Grant and Milligan were appointed a Visiting Committee for the ensuing month. Accounts amounting to £l4l 4s 6d were passed for payment. Veiled references to a big scheme to test thoroughly for radium several of the Orepuki claims recently thought to contain platinum and gold have, been leaking out, despite the efforts of those interested to keep the subject a complete secret. It will be remembered, says a correspondent, that there was a "something" in samples of several of the claims tested at the time of the recent brief boom which seemed to

baffle the analysts, and samples were sent to Europe and Australia. The result of these, it is understood, is the formation of a powerful company, almost all the capital being held by German and Victorian shareholders, a few shares only being held in the Dominion. It is further said that the erection of extensive works has been delayed only by the time occupied by a continental expert, who will be the manager, in obtaining his naturalisation papers. Auctioneers have licenses issued to them on certain conditions, and one of these conditions is that they shall not sell by auction after stated hours, unless the sale is for the benefit of a charitable institution. Recently, it is stated, some goods were auctioned at a bazaar, held for the benefit of an athletic association. Tho police hold that such an institution could not properly be styled "charitable," and they arc therefore instituting a prosecution to test the point. The Quarterly Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society contains a table showing that there is a harvest every month during the year:—January— Australia, New Zealand, Argentine, Chili; February—lndia; March —India, Upper Egypt; April—Mexico, Cuba, Lower Egypt, Syria, Persia, Asia Minor; May—North Africa, China, Japan, and the Southern United States of America; June—Mediterranean and Southern France, Central and East United States of America, south of 40dcg.; July—France, Austria, Hungary, Southern Russia, Northern United States of America, Ontario, and Quebec; August—England, Belgium, Netherlands and Germany, East Canada; September—Scotland, Sweden, Norway, Russia; October —Finland and Northern Russia; November Peru, South Africa; and December —Burmah, South Australia. It is a very complete little table, and shows how tho wheat supply pours into Great Britain during every month of the year. An amusing story (says the Berlin correspondent of the Daily Express) is reported from Gadebusch, in the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, of the manner in which the inhabitants a few days ago celebrated the birth of tho grand ducal heir. Following the example of the capital, Schwerin, the municipality of the little town decided to- fire the regulation salute of 101 guns. An ancient cannon was accordingly hauled out for the purpose, and the firing began. Unfortunately, however, the powder ran short after the ninety-third shot, and there was 'no means of obtaining any more in the town. The burgomaster was in despair, especially as ninety-three shots indicated that the gtand ducal baby was a girl. At this moment the municipal bandmaster came forward with a luminous proposal, which was eagerly accepted. He despatched the big drummajor to the market-place, where ho struck eight powerful strokes on his instrument, to make up the 101 shots, and thus tho situation was saved. It makes one anxious—any loss of weight. PHOSPHOL will rebuild a constitution. Large bottles sold by all Chemists. 3

A tramp or some such character has evidently been trying his 'prentice hand at clothes-line, robberies. About fivo places in Reed street were visited early yesterday, and from eacli a few articles of men's wear, such as socks and shirts, were taken. Attention was also paid to the meat safes attached to some of Hie houses; various small quantities of meat and provisions being purloined. It is not thought that these thefts are attributed to a clothes-line expert, since many things have been left at the houses visited, only a few selected articles being taken. For hoarseness which follows straining of the voice', nothing is so soothing or effectivr- as Zymole Trokoys. A trial will please you. 22 Whv suffer from influenza when a Shilling Bottle of ELYSIAN is a certain cure, or money returned. To be obtained from principal storekeepers. 249 Mr GEORGE ROBINSON, Dental Surgeon, may be consulted at his residence, Eden street (opposite "Wesley ; Church).

The day of the higli premium is not yet passed. :-nd woldd-be settlers, in their anxiety ;.> obtain a looting on the land, continue to pay very high sums for tho goodwill of Government leaseholds. Three eases selected at random from many may be quoted: £'2ooo has been paid where the improvements were worth between £3"O and £400: m another case £1550 was given for improvements approximating t-l'Kl: and again improvements worth about £7OO realised i'lSfK). Instances of this kind of thing might be multiplied many times, and many of the be.st authorities among the farmers and merchants have expressed the opinion that the premiums paid are .so high a.s to render profit-making for the incoming tenant very problematical. There i.s little fear in most cases so long as the price of our staple products is maintained and .so long as the weather is propitious, but what would happen it we had a recurrence of the drought* of the past —and they are hound to recur—or if there was a slump in wool and mutton, is too melancholy prosper;, to contemplate-

Mr W. C. Brown, president of the New York Central Railway (says the New York correspondent of the Manchester Guardian on May 2),' to-day made an interesting statement about the enormous increase in wages made to railway employees on account of the increased cost of living in this country. Mr Brown declared that the railways of the entire Union this vcar will have a wage-list of £215.466,600. which will constitute a record of the highest wages ever paid by American railways. The previous record he gave as £216,477,200. Mr Brown has been instrumental in bringing about- tin's reform, and the New York Central has recently made a striking increase in the wages of its employees. Many other lines have followed this example, with the result that the railway men will receive this year £29.000,000 more than ever before. It was President Brown who pointed out that, though wages were higher in the United States than in many countries, the cost of living had so greatly increased that employees were no better off than in countries where wages were far less. The purchasing value of the dollar has fallen fully 40 per ceut. in the last three years, so that even the higher rate of wages does not meet the difference in cost of living. For Chronic Chest Complaints, Woods' Great Peppermint Cum, Is 6d anH 9= fW