Local News.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Issue 3, 11 June 1898, Page 2

Local News.

A Letter by "Batepayer" and a- larg« amount of other matter is crowded out. At the committee meeting of the Wnimate Hospital Board on Tuesday the tender of the Timaru Wollen Mill was accepted for blankets, and that of A. Jones and Co., Waimate, for sheeting, A Prominent Topic of conversation in this district just now is the sale of the Willow Bridge estate, which takes place next Tuesday. It is Sfcid that one speculator has his eye on a section he considers suitable as a site for an accommodation house. It is ibritating, when far from home, to find that your bicycle has given out because of the want of some trifling article. A good plan, before going out, is to see that you have everything you are likely to need and that your machine ia in good order. The best way you can assure yourself, is to pay a visit to Wills Bkos.' and make your choice from their large stock of requisites. They keep on hand tyres, lamps, bells, pumps, repau'ingsheet, etc., and all of the best. At the meeting of Direotors of the Waimate Industrial Co-operative Association on Tuesday evening, (the fiist held since Mr Mann retired from his position as manager) it was unanimously resolved that the chairman should write to Mr Mann thanking him for his services during the past six and * hall years. The Directors expressed their appreoiation of the cordial relations which - have ' always existed between Mr Mann and themselves, and also of his efforts to promote the interests of the Company.

Ths Waimate Young People's Mutua Improvement Society held a social evening oa Monday evening last. About 50 members «,nd friends were present and songs, recitations •and games aqieeably passed the time. An advertisement in this issue announces .an addition to our local industries. Mr A. Baker commences business to-day as a manufacturing confectioner in the shop adjoining Mr R. E. Boyd's. Mr Baker makes on the premisss all he sells, and guarantees his gsods to be puie. A Numbsr of people journeyed from Waimate to attend theiuneral of Mr D. Sutherland, late manager of Eskbank, which took _p!ftco at Timaru. The funeral was a very large one. The Waimate Fire Brigade held their ÜBual meeting on Tuesday evening when there was a good attendance of members. The mmuxes of the previous meeting were lead and confirmed. Some discussion took place regarding the holding of a torch-light procession but nothing definite was done,| The Nukuroa Band of Hope held its monthly meeting oh Tuesday evening. There •was an attendance of between 30 and 40 children and adults, the chair being occupied by Miss S. Peck. A splendid programme was well received, the items being dialogues by Miss W. Hinch and Messrs Middlemis and H. Hayman, recitations by J. Mills, Hinch and Middlemis, a solo by Miss Lowe and a scientific temperance lesson by Mr G. Dash. Mr Middlemis was nominated to the chair for next meeting when home made wme will be the lesson subject. The Kauri Gum Commission at Auckland elicitad the information lhat certain diggers who sold their gum to the publican -were known as his working bullocks. After all, the transition is not so great from "horny handed toilers " to " handy horned toilers." The measles are very prevalent in Waimate just now, many business men being laid up. Measles are evidently no respecters of persons for it is whispered that a member of the faculty has them, while one of the strong arms of the law was lying helpless by its side. But the other arm is as will as iver, begorra. An inquest was held on Thursday before Captain Wray S. M., on the firing of a threshing machine, the property of Thomas John Meaclem, and which was insured in the Norwich Union Insurance Co. The fire took place on the farm of A. Rattray, Hook. There was no evideno to show how the fire originated, and the jury after a~quarter of 'an hour's deliberation returned a verdict to that effect, 21- \ -

The monthly meeting of the Wesleyan Band of Hope was held on Tuesday evening, in the Temperance Hail. Mrs Dates presided. The second Temperance lesson was given by Mr Wake. Duets were rendered by Misses Bennington and Hore, and Misses Goldsmith and Ruby ; solos by Misses Dukes and Goldsmith ; a recitation by Mr G. Eussell and a dialogue by J. and M. Hawke. Mrs Dowle presided at the organ. The meeting closed with the Benediction. Mu Dug\ld Cuikrou, one of Waimate's early settlers, died at 5 o'clock yesterday morning. A quiet unobtrusive man, he took no prominent part in public affairs, but was well known, and highly respected all over the distiict. During the past few months he has suffered terribly, but bore all with characteristic' patience aud fortitude. He was in every sense of the word a good man. A large circle of friends sympathise with Mrs Cameron in her bereavement. Will o' the Wisp. — When a tradesman asks you to go out of your way to buy flannels, and offers as an inducement a rather shady argument and no figures, he really invites you to chase a shadow. But not so with Akthur Joxes & Co., for they offer Kaiapoi unshrinkable flannel — and make no mistake about the fact that Kaiapoi flannels are the best make in the market — in grey, pink, Shetland and white at mill prices, IOJd, Is, Is 2d, Is 4d and Is 6d per yard.