The Waimate Advertiser. PUBLISHED DAILY Multum in Parvo. TUESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1921.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXI, 9 August 1921, Page 4

The Waimate Advertiser. PUBLISHED DAILY Multum in Parvo. TUESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1921.

D. C. Bates’s weather forecast.— The indications are for southerly winds, moderate to strong, and backing south to west, then freshening, The weather will probably be cold andr changeable, with a hard frost to-night. The brometer has a rising tendency.

Our feature article to-day is a column of notes on health, specially written by a family doctor. These notes, which have been secured exclusively to the Advertiser in South anterbury, will be found to contain much useful information. The notes will appear from week to week. Among articles of special nad general interest in to-day’s"issue ’"ill be found Argus’s notes on the Springboks v. Otago football mateu to-

morrow (written for the Advertiser) and “Austras Peace Terms.” and an article upon Americas prohibition

A thrilling tale —William Duncan in “Wings of the Morning,” at the Olympia to-night.

The officials for the next shoot at the miniature, rifle range are Jones, Bird, Cameron and Weir.

Meadowbank Coal is now being retailed by the C.F.C.A., J. Wilce, and H. Hunt. Thirty shillings per ton, delivered in the Borough. For price and quality this eoal cannot be beaten. Try so e to-day...

The Hoi >t. P. Lee stated to-day that it was a surprise to most New Zealanders who visited Sydney to find die goods t.iere, especially clothing, ticketed in whop windows at much higher prices than in New Zealand. Fruit was dearer in Sydney than in Wellington, and some New Zealanders in Sydney had complained. The very best pipe tobacco obtainable in the Dominion w"s 8d or 9d per ounce, while in Sydney there was only one price, stanu d brands being is per ounce. Price Bros.’ Garford lorry will make the run to Dunedin on< Saturday, Aug” it 13th, for the Springboks’ match provided sufficient support is forthcoming. Intending passengers are requested to leave their names w’ ’ N. L. Thomas.

Captail McKinney, Commissioner in charge f the Canterbury and Wsetland districts of the St. John Ambulance Association will be in Waimate . meet the newly-formed local Brigade to-night. Anyone interested in the work is invited to be present at Mr Inksters hair-dressing saloon at 7.30.

To-night at the Olympia—William Duncan in the first episode of “The Silent Avenger.”

The Weekly fialf-holiJay—-Kerr & Co, opes all day Saturday.—ln cnnsegiieiice cf the iw-jraus requests af our emwfry customers, we nave to chserve the weekly -half-j-.31.--.lay in i:?;h our crockery and me Thursday, closing rnin’r.g open all p.m —Kerr ant! ' rtckcry. .

’The Waimana is sailing bn September 1 with 900 emigrants. Half are exservice men and the remainder nominees. Nice warm wool jerseys for ladies’ wear all greatly reduced at Kerr and Co.’s. Pneumonic , influenza at Nukualofa claimed one death in the west end of the island. Germany lost thousands-of dollars in the reparations transaction involving the handing over of the first billion marks to the Reparations Commission as a result of advance . information given in Berlin to the Wolff and agencies. The Reparations Commission in Berlin maintained the greatest secrecy regarding all details until the negotiations were completed, and theif it was discovered that Berlin’s agents had spread the details broadcast twenty-four hours before the transaction actually was carried out.- The result was that Germany discovered tho value of the dollar had increased, and the Government was compelled to ne-

gotiate with American as well as Ger-, man bankers at a higher rate.

At the fortnightly euchre party and social in aid of the Willowbridge Hall fund onFriday, Miss D. Meynell and Mr A. Borthwick won the first prizes, and Miss N. Holamby and Mr E. Ramsey the consolation prizes. HOT SAVELOYS AND MASHED POTATOES—WITH COFFEE. Cordner’s have opened their rooms for hot saveloys, mashed potatoes and - offee at nights; also hot soups, drinks and bovril every morning and evening. Lady Diana Manners, who will retain her maiden name as a screen artist, was cast for the leading role in a new photo play, “The Glorious Adventure.” The plot includes the Great Fire of London, and T-he London to be burned wilt be “built” at Cricklewood. Thousand's of people were to be in the crowds. It was to be incidental to a notable film innovation—the making of the first superphoto play ‘in color, and also the first British Blackton film. The work was to start at the end of June, and will occupy about three months.

For cheap crockery and household ironmongery, visit Kerr and Co.’s great removal sale. Everything substantially reduced —bedrock prices the rule. Only at Kerr and Co.’s great clearing sale...

Old time benchers of the Temple are scratching their wigs to determine what garb is to be worn by Miss Olive Clapham, tho first English woman to pass the bar examination. It will be eighteen months before she will be able to practise, but, judging by the divergence of opinion, it probably will need that much time to decide whether she will have to appear in Court in a wig and gown. It is realised that this is a delicate judicial feministic point which must be decided, because there are 50 women preparing for examination for the bar, and nearly a score of them are well along.

Order that rubber stamp from the Advertiser. You will get what you want.

Louis Flament, the oldest of tho French Navy divers, died lately at Toulon, aged 90. For his valuable services in salving the French battleship Magenta, in 1875, he was made Knight of the Legion of Honor. Some years ago, while examining the hull of a sunken torpedo boat at Toulon, he*was attacked by an octopus. He pulled th.e alarm signal, and was hauled up with tho octopus clinging to him.

Girard, the insurance agent who was to have been tried by the Paris Assize Court on tho charge of having poisoned four persons whose lives he had secretly insured in favor of himself, died while awaiting trial in the prison infirmary. The details of Girard’s diabolical methods were given in tho Mail a short time since..