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Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10499, 6 July 1910, Page 3

A special meeting of the \Y annate Borough. Council was lield yesterday at 830 there being present the DeputyMavor (Mr R. Inkster), Councillors Cox" Miller, Manchester, Collett, Hunt, Hutt, and Saunders. The new valuation roll was placed' on the table and discussed by Councillors. It was decided to draw the Department s attention to a seeming discrepancy in the value of two properties m High street, and to the omission to show leases or the railway station yard separately tor rating purposes. The new roll shows a net increase in the unimproved ratable value of £5573. The Town Clerk (Mr C. Dash) was appointed assessor tor the borough on the Assessment Court A letter was received from the bouth Canterbury Education Board asking tor the lease of three acres of land at a nominal rental for agricultural experimental purposes, and a sub-committee was appointed to make inquiries and reP For the quarter ending June 30, 1910, the vital statistics for Waimate district are: Births 44, deaths 17, marriages Our Studholme and" Willowbridge correspondent writes :—The weather during the past week has been wet but mild, and stock have not suffered any inconvenience do far. There has not been a great amount of rain, but sufficient has fallen to get well into the land. The wheat crops are looking well, and farm work of all kinds is very forward. There lias evidently, beer, a very heavy rainfall m the back country, as the Waihao came down in flood during Sunday night, and, owing to the outlet being silted up, hundreds of acres of land are under water and the farmers had a lot-of trouble to get their stock to safety. A great deal o damage has been done to wheat and Xr crops- During Monday the river burst a way out by the old outlet and now the water is subsiding, but it will +nk« a long time to get away. EndeavoSr Lodge, U.A.0.D., held its half-yearly meeting Inst evening m the lodge room, there being * £ OO , d . at ; tenlance. A.D. Bro. W. M'Cutchron presided. Formal business having been disposed of, and the care of tue sick attended to, the following officers wcie elected and afterwards installed in their respective chairs by Bro. Mitchell, T> G V P., assisted by Bro. Wallace, VT)V -—J P A., Bro. W. M'Cutcheon; AD'; Bro. H. 0. Milne; VA., Bro T. Cos; secretary, Bro. I! Vine (re-elect-ed); treasurer, Bro H. Grenfell (re-

elected); minute secretary, Bro, J. M'Jennett (re-elected); 1.G., Bro. A. Aitken; 0.G., Bro. H. Benson; A.D.B.'s, Bros. J. Reams (re-elected) and H. Grocott; V.A.B.'s, Bros. J. Meikle, jun., and A. Sandoin; auditors, Bros. H. Grocott, G. M. Gardiner, and J. Gerrie. A voto of thanks was accorded to the installing officers. Bros. 'Mitchell, D.G.V.P., and Grocott, P.D.P. and member of the Board of Management wero present in an official capacity as representing the Grand Lodge, and each gave an interesting address, explanatory of the forward movements that the Board of Management would submit to the noxt Grand Lodge meeting, to bo held in. Oamaru. Votes of thanks wero accorded to tho retiring officers and the lodge surgeons and chemists. Tho lodgo was closed in unity, peace, and concord.

The monthly meeting of the Waitaki Hospital and Charitable Aid Board, held yesterday morning, was attended by Messrs Fraser (chairman), M'Farlane, Nicolson, Dovey, Finch, Allan, and Mahoney. The Clerk of the Waitaki County Council notified that his Council had appointed Mr H. A. Dovey to fill the vacancy caused by tho death of Mr Robert Blair. The Town Clerk wrote, that the Borough Council had under consideration the question of erecting a public morgue, and as it was understood that the provision of a mortuary at the, Victoria Home was contemplated by the Board, asked if the Board would be prepared to consider the question of erecting a building suitable for both purposes, each local body to pay a. proportion of the cost on a basis to be arranged. It was agreed to replv that the mortuary for the requirements of tho Home must be near the main building, and it would not be advisable that a public morgue should be erected, in close vicinity to the Home. The Matron reported that six inmates had been admitted during the moutb, four had been discharged, and one bad died, there being at present 37 inmates—five females and 32 males. The following donations wero acknowledged with thanks:—Fruit, Mr W. M. M'Kenzie; clothing, Miss Chase, Mrs J. M'Donald, and a friend; provisions. Christian Brethren, Alfred Lodge, and members of Columba Church; vegetables, Mrs D. Isbister. Accounts amounting to £156 2s Gd were passed for payment, and the Board rose. Judgment for plaintiff by default of defendant was given at the Magistrate s Court this morning in the case of "Win. Beo v. John H. Brown, a claim for £3 Is Id, and costs 12s. Including Senior Cadets, Rifle Clubs, and Territorials, there is a total enrolment of 22,700 in the New Zealand defence forces, an increase of about 2000 for the year. What is claimed to ho tho greatest picture of tho present day, entitled "The King's Funeral," will bo shown at tho Opera Houso by the Operacinescopo Company on Monday evening. The usual matineo of the Company will bo held on Saturday afternoon.

The London Operacinescopo Company were favored with a splendid house last night, when sonio pictures of remarkable interest were presented. "London in Sorrow" and "Proclamation of King George V." were of exceptional merit, and served to give peoplo an idea ol such a great function with little cost to themselves. Another good picture was the "Cambridge-Oxford Boat Race." As a comic "Tho Threo Brothers could not be excelled, and caused much amusement and laughter. ' Tho audienco wero also favored with an illustrated song from Mr "W. Lupton ontitled "Baby Bunting," which was rendered in good style. During tho evening a special orchestra was engaged, and tho niusio rendered added greatly to the enjoyment of patrons. Business men find Zymolo Trokeys a great convenience. A box is easily carried and there's nothing so good for hoarseness and coughs. 28 Mr J. SWINDLEY, Surgeon Dentist, will visit Hampden on THURSDAY, July 7th, and may lie consulted at the Hampden Hotel. 738 Mr K. J. DAVYS, Dentist will visit Kurow next THURSDAY, July 7th, and may bo consulted at Spiers' Hotel.