The Waimate Advertiser. PUBLISHED DAILY. SATURDAY, AUGUST 25, 1917. GENERAL NEWS.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XVII, Issue 672, 25 August 1917, Page 2

The Waimate Advertiser. PUBLISHED DAILY.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 25, 1917. GENERAL NEWS.

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Ten o £ frost tins morning in Waimate, Smooth surface, strong envelopes at Daily Advertiser Office; 50 for Is caah.

Guessing Competition at G. .1. Shackletcn's. The nearest guess to the number of pairs of hose in tire window will be rewarded with sixpairs of ladies' hose, best quality..••

In the House yesterday; Mr Massey stated (bat the Government had not yet concluded any agreement, to purchase the whole of tlw butter output of the dominion.

After tho theatre or party take a sniff, or two of ''Nazoi." This wards off chills and sore throats. Can be carried in pocket or purse. Get the genuine....

Latest novels hy following (authors, H. G. Wells/.f-.reph Hocking, •Sewell Ford, Gertnulo Page, Patrick McGill, Ethel Dell, Robert Kitchens, etc., at Stationer and Tobacconist....

Thrifty folk everywhere order "Nazol" for banishing coughs and colds, and relieving son; throats. Most economical and always efficacious. Sixlv doses cost only Is 8d....

The Christchurch Hospital Board have been served with a writ for £2500 by the widow of the lale Mr Walter Jones, on account'Of the accident by which her husband met bis death.

Keep colds away by inhaling •'Nazol." Pleasant, penetrating, efficacious. Carry a Nazol Inhaler in your pocket or purse. Get tihe genuine.

Next Wednesday evening at the Knox Mall, under the auspices pf the Waimate Temperance Reform Union, a uniting will be held to protest against 'the action of the Cabinet in regard to the National Efficiency Board and its report on the licensing question. The< Mayor will preside,

All money*order offices will re'open in the evening from 7 p,m. to 8.30 p.m. on Fridays, 17tb, 24th, and 31st August, and Saturdays, 18th and 25th August and Ist September, for the purpose of transacting War Loan business or withdrawals from the Savings-bank tor investment in the Loan, This special rt\opening is for the convenience of the public who are unable to attend during the ordinary busiaes. 0 hours,

There's never a rod in "The Land of Nad," And no need of a flagellant there, For no sweet babe could refuse to- be good Jn a Kingdom so peaceful land fair.

There are rows and rows bf pink toes In that realm where no sorrows enduro; And the guardian fetes, by its great gates, ' ; Give Woods' Great Peppermint

The 'iY.M.A. .-Cog- report haying held »i during sale &t .W«iima.feß en Friday, oa. of Mr 'John. Stjajpjetoni. j There wja'af a krgej i&t>. tendance, and each lot, met with keen competition, The' principal item|s were: Sheep f.m, halfbred ewe.s, 27s to 345, -wether hoggets 24s Gd, halfbred wethers 32s 6d; horses, draught £27 10s to £2O, aged £lO to £l4. All implements sold at satisfactory prices^

Enjoy, music: by your own fireside by buying, a Columbia, graphaphone. Actual tost will prove that the Columbia-, which stood as the pioneer of the talking machine industry still stands for the most perfect disc needle Call land hear for you r self at the C.F.CA), Pliono Parlour (Furniture Department) where you can choose from a. large selection of the latest Columbia, and Regal 2s 6d records; -Columbia, Hornless Machines from £5 10s to £57 10s, also Edison Diamond Disc Phonographs (Edison's, masterpiece) from £2B to £l5O. Write to (he Farmers' Co-op. lecal dealers, for catalogues of machines and records....

It seems the cost of living is not a local ill; nil round the world it's giving poor purchasers a chill. Beside the bread Nyanzas "the people kick and rear, us buyers do in Kansas, when at the corner store. Where nobby alligators infest the stagnant Nile, it tykes, to buy some 'taters, the poor consumer's pile By many an :mcient river, by many, a storied lake, men pay as much for liver as they used to r.ay I" 1 ' steak. Anions; the hills of Sweden, 'mid Greenland's snow and ice, the peoples hearts are bieedin' when they behold the price. Along the dark M'Kenzie, and by the. languid Pu, consumers, in n frenzy, arc liirmg wails of woe. The Esquimau ',.* \vhen. buying his tenderloin of wl.' ~,,i the Hottentot who's trying to c<V '.-,'* hemlock rail, al! swell the angry '. orus, all weep and tear the robe-giro grief we see bef.-.-r..' us extends- around the "lobe. ' ' '""■■ J

Agricultural Lime is the real soil tonif. IS'o fertilizer or combination of fertilizers has materially mcrtwsed crops,, except when used in conjimctioii with lime Farmers .should commend; liming no\\\ 7 to 1U cwt of Ground Burnt Lime gives the host results. After ploughing and discing you should spread lime, tand harrow thoroughly into the soil a few weeks before sowing with fertilizers. Mil bum Carbonate of Lime can now be obtained in truck lots of not less than 6 tons, ,at los per ton nett on tracks at lime kilns, railage free to bona fide farmers bags extra (unless own supplied), and orchardists; and ground Burnt Lime .which makes an ideal top dressing for grass lands, at 22s Gd per ton. Orde r s for delivery up to December 31st are now being booked bv C.F.C.A., Ltd., Waimato