General News.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XIV, Issue 67, 30 October 1911, Page 2

General News.

Items in the Supplementary Estimates:—Gratuities to widows of late members of the Legislature.—Mfs Kirkbride, Mrs Smith, Mrs Taylor, £3OO each; gratuity to Miss Pitt, £3OO.

Owing to the rise in the fat storjc market the Dunedin butchers have raised vhe price of meat one halfpenny and one penny pep lb. Mr Jennings’s Gaming Amendment Bi\l, which sought to rehabilitate those country clubs which had their totailsator permits abolished as a result of Racing Commission’s report, was “killed” in' the House of Representatives early bn Friday morning. Mr Burke, of the wireless division of the Post and Telegraph Department, left for the Chatham Islands last Friday in connection with the possible telephone installations. While at the Islands, Mr Burke may also look into the matter of a site for a wireless telegraph apparatus. The Supplementary Estimates in elude „ compassionate allowance to the mother of the late Miss Alice Power, who was killed in the train by a falling stone at Paekakarka, £400; grant to Mrs S. Claude, for services of her ; husband in preventing a railway collison, £IOO. Mr E Richards, yielding to the request of a large number of ratepayers in the Waihao riding, hasjeonsented tb become a candidate for one of the r.ding seats on the Waimate County Council in the forthcoming elections; The customs revenue collected in the Dominion During the quarter ' amounted to £887,415, atjj compared with £837,019 in 1911. | : New Zealand has the reputation ofi producing the best illustrated Christ* mas numbers in the world, and thin year the publishers have gone to ex-> tra trouble to try and excel! previous issues. The Auckland Weekly News,! Weekly Press and Otago Witness} Christmas numbers, were published I i on the 23rd of this month, and those A J who desire to secure copies before,/ _ they'are out of print should placo ’ their orders at once with W. gheywinj Newsagent; Waimatfl; and avoid dih | 1/ Ci ’> a