The Waimate Advertiser. PUBLISHED DAILY “Multum in Parvo.' MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28 1921. GENERAL NEWS

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXI, 28 February 1921, Page 2

The Waimate Advertiser. PUBLISHED DAILY “Multum in Parvo.' MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28 1921. GENERAL NEWS

In order that the Daily Advertiser staff, including' the runners, may enjoy a day at the seaside, there will be no publication of The Advertiser next Thursday. Don’t forget United Friendly Society Picntq, Thursday March 3rd. Best Music supplied... The spate of the fishing 1 rivers al 9 am. itjo-’day was as follows:—Opihi —clear, fine; Waitaki — fishaible; weather fine.

In the event o f a iw c t vfoy flor the picnic next Thursday, the trains will be cancelled and the tickets will hold good for the following Thursday. The tickets are selling'" very freely. At a meeting of the South Canterhury Executive of the Farmers’ Union in Timaru on Saturday, the president (Mr J. Bitchener M.P,) reported that flhg Government would fix the price of this season’s Wheat on Tuesday next; and that (ipie representative from South Canterbury at the deciding conference (Mr J. Trotter, of Fairlie) would go to Wellington to-day.

Mjsf) Sumayeh Attiyeb, whospeaks on Thursday nigfajt in tare Big 1 Tfent at Drillshed Paddock, Waimate. on “Syrian Life and Customs,’’ M not a Mahbmedan, biu,t a Christian and a prepossessing one at that. The lure of the Near East ’will jbie over everybody in the tent that night; Padre J. D. Wilson and Savant Wm, O’Connor, who-ih.jive b»th been on war service in Palestine and Syria, will be there; can bet your lite on if! ,

Don’t forget United Friendly Society Picnic, Thursday March 3rd. Best Mpgic supplied... The Canterbiujy Land Board granted the following transfers:— L.P. 1725, Section 8 Mips Settlement 49$ acres/ V. Nelspn to W. I'/ Watkins; O.L. 1900 Block 11 41 acres; J. R. Dalum to W, J. A. Clay; O.L, 1484, part Otaio riverled, 40 acres. R. Fenwick to D, M. France; O.L part Makikihi riverbed, 17 acrefo T. Mercer (deceased) to M. and M. Earfe

At a meeting of the Cbiau( a uqua guarantors on Friday night tii,e reports of the various committees were received. It was shown that the sale of tickets had been good, and everything pointed fo a auccessfiiil Waimate season. The Defence Department is charging £6 lor the use of tiiyi paddock tfos year, lhe poor old Government is turning an honest penny wliprever it can nowadays.

Sunshades for th® beach next Thursday in Wbjte Embroidered, Tussore Shade, f loral etc Sale Price from 2/6 at «. J. 'Shackle (JOB’S...

While the first express for the north was waiting at Palmerston one duy last week the mixed glow train from Oamaru took the wrong' points and . crashed into the engine of a goods train. The moving engine got the worst of it; and the. cowcatcher was bent backward I right under the front whfeis. Tae trucks immedaiteiy behind the fendep—a sueep yto.ck and an L. wagon con; ainiii g b arrels —we th row n completely off the mam line and folded up 'parallel with etacli, other a-t right -atng'ies to the Jin«'. The sheen ,truck Was, (splintered to. ma'.ch,woodj, ta,t Hie few slqßiep on ‘tlhe Wer floor were got opt unharmed. No one was hurt, and neither of the engines appeared 'to be teally crippled., The rear of the slow train from Oamani, which, caused the accident!, fouled the main line, and there was a deiay of fully 20 minutes before! the way was clear for the express to resume its journey.

Mrs Albert Hunt has secured two good dressmakers, who undertake all classes of sewing at reasonable prices. Addres s 59 Parsonage Rd, • ’Phone 166...

"Nothing succeeds like success.’ Everybody wants to go to Chautauqua as often as possible. Chautauqua’s appeal is irresfetiW®. It is a conference—a summer camp—whatever you, like to call a freewill gathering of folk out to learn sometlhing. of the great world they live in, and at the sarnie lime be entertained: with delightful music and elocution. Seas oll ticket buyers are really subscriber* tq their own “aupnnßr camp,” and they should make a point of attending every scission throughout the season. If there are two in a family equally anxious to (attend;, buy ( wo season tickets. It works out at only lOd per admittance—cheaper than pictures and bet.er in results than gold—yea, much fine gold.

Don’t forget United Friendly Society Picnic, Thursday March 3rd. Best Music suppitod... After the excursion to. Caroline Bay on Thursday—yes; the harvest 13 jugt about over, and everything "safely -garnered in’’—the lads and lasses, will want to finih up th© day, and many of them will find their way into tofle Big (fieint in tile Prillshed Paddock at. 8. “The iieite’’ will be the entertaiuors for that nigli't only. Their music and fun is vouched, for as tip-top by people who ihav* Peen to 1921 Chautauqua already in the northern parts of this Island. “We don’t believe pmt folks should go around -with long faces," says Emery Parnell “We sing a little; play a little; do a few sketches and impersonsat;ions? a d o.ii'e in a while hit a pathetic but. thb burden of our song is ijoyousneHs artfl we ■sincerely try to make the world a happier place in which to livTO.

Some good fish were caught in the Waitaki last week by Christ church anglers. Mr Harty Jack-, son landed a 251 b; salmon ye'’t!®rday. The river is low and dear. A cable states that Sir Henry Sam. mon is on his Way to New Zealand for the trout fishing What’s in a name?

Those fin® properties in Waimate, belonging to the estate of thje late Aipheus Hayes, are to be brought under t'he hammer on March 12th. There are four lots; including tire paddjock in Mill Road adjoining: Dr Fitts’s surgery; the plantation up Mill Road opposi-e Mr G. A. Manchester's (ttp pinuu insignis timber on this alone is worth looking at); t'he fine section opposite Mr Fitca’s residence. Upper Parsonage Road (planted with shrubs); and a group of town sites, Mr Bohm h the auctioneer.

In the Police Court to-day, Mr G. V. Cochrane,, J,P being' on the Bench, a country worker Angus McDougal, was charged with being found drunk in Queen Street on Saturday .night; having previously been convicted once within six months-, He pleaded guilty. Sergt, O’Connell said that McDougal was a good worker, but had tliege periodical lapses. A fine of 10s was imposed- ( A t the farm of Mr IG| L ! . Hansen, Waihaorunga, last evening at 11.30 Miss Emma Atwiil, aged 17. daughter of Mr Jack Atwiil, Waimate! was badly burned about the hiead, face and back and if it had not been for old Mr Adam Wilson, an employee at the place,, whip, rolled her in iiJiSs' coat, she might have been burned 1 po death. As it is, she lieis in the Waimate Hospital badly injured. It appe a rs that sli|e was going to bed; which; slid was in the IpaHi'it of doing, at about (7.30 each evening!, and ter hair caught fire. Her ears were almost burnt off, and her hair is all gone!. There are surface burns about theshioiulders and face and upper (part ot the back, but not on t’htei breast. She is d|oing as hveil' as e a n te expected.