The Waimate Advertiser. (Established 1898). (Published every evening since 1934) WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 5, 1923 GENERAL NEWS.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIII, 5 September 1923, Page 4

The Waimate Advertiser. (Established 1898). (Published every evening since 1934) WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 5, 1923 GENERAL NEWS.

The lambing season is just coming in at Morven, and quite a number are to be seen in th paddock. Over 200 challenge matches were played during the year, stated the chairman at the annual meeting’ of the Timaru Club last night. It is reported that a reduction in the price of sugar may be expected before the end of the. month. Tho first Ipt of tomato plants this season are on sale in a local fruiterers. COCOA is one of the finest beverages we can use. With the low prices now ruling, its use should be daily increased. BEST ENGLISH COCOA Is 3d per lb. FRY S HOMEOPATHIC COCOA Is 3d per lb. PYNE, GOULD, GUINNESS, LTD....

'There appears to be a slack searson in operation at: present; very few people are buying farms and houses,” states a local auctioneer. The Timaru and Waimate Ladies' Golf Club will play a. match at Timaru to-day. The following have been selected to represent Timaru:—• Mcsdames Cox, Ken - . Lattimore, Thompson, Misses Crawford and Tori esse. The National Mortgage and Agency Company of N.Z., Ltd., have received instructions to offer in their Land Sale Rooms, Waimate, on behalf of Mr Daniel Fraser, Tawai, Glenavy, his fanning property consisting of three lots of good land. I'iie hum :h Jersey Lily owned by Mr Alexander White, of Whitianga, was wrecked on the Mntorangi Beach. Air White and :< sailor readied the rocks and spent the night there. Hunt Club Dail, Olympia Hall, tc-rr.crrcw night, Miss Morgan’s Band. A store af Tok-ian-.i, owned by Robert Jones, licensee of the Tokaanu Hotel, was burned down last night. The insurance "on the building and contents was £’5300 in the 'United Office. Mr Jones is at present in Hamilton. At the Poli.e Court Selwyn Haslett, a medical practitioner, Putaruru, was charged with being drunk while in charge of a motor car. The defendant pleaded that he had had a very busy, fatiguing time owing to the amount of sickness in the district. Ho had taken some brandy, and later an injection of morphia sulphate. On the day in question he was not drunk. The police said the defendant drove the car in a reckless erratic manner. He was lined £lO. During the la.’t few days, and pait.cularly over the week-end beautiful summer weather has prevailed in Waimate. Signs that spring has come arc numerous. The warm, weather has: succeeded in melting, snow lying on the ranges. The spring grass is coming away plentifully and: the fine weather is welcomed by the farmers who have been delayed in their usual work owing to the inclemency of the weather. FISH is an essential article of diet. MORTON'S HERRINGS now reduced to 7d. per tin. SARDINES to 6d and 8d per tin. PYNE GOULD, GUINNESS. LTD.... Nature is putting on her gay spring trappings once mere, and next Saturday the full glory of spring will again burst upon the town. Violets, daffodils, and all tho dainty spring flowers will then be offered for sale at the Y.W.C.A. marquee at the comer of Queen Street and Victoria Terrace. Violet Aay which the annual Y.W.C.A. effort, affords an opportunity for the general public to assist this organisation in the work of training young women and girls in Christian citizenship. The Y.W.C.A. is being recognised by all thinking men and women as a vital and constructive agency in the community to-day. It is therefore hoped that the townspeople of Waimate will give their support to next Saturday’s effort. Gifts may be left at the Hostel on Friday, or at the marquee on Saturday mornin®.

A start was made on the top dressing of the tennis court, stated the chairman at last night’s meeting of the Tennis Club. The courts will not be available for play until two or three week's time.

HIGHLANDER MILK ICING now Is 3d per lb. We recommend buying a few tins at this reduced price. PYNE, GOULD, GUINNESS, LTD...

According to a well-known Morven. farmer, there is not a great amonnt. of spring wheat going in this season. One of the factors is that the pre,- nt time is the first opportunity that has been given for workon tin land, owing to the wet weather ; and the present is rather lato for sowing. i Hunt Club Ball, Olympia Hall, to-morrow night, Miss Morgan s Band. Mr Justice Sim delivered judgment in the appeal in the Lind case regarding the admissibility ot the I evidence of one girl in respect of the I cases of either- or both the other two I concerned. The Judge refused the ! application to state a case for the I Appeal Court. He held that the evldI ence of the three girls was admissible on all the charges, as it helped to prove the system adopted by accused l of using his position as a pastor to ' obtain influence over the young woI men of his flock to debauch them, and ! furnishing an additional argument I that fh»re had not been real consent. Ladies' Crepe Dresses, lang sleeves, fast colours, 4 styles, 10s 6d, worth _ double, at G. J. Shackleton’s. j At a meeting of the provisional diicetors of the Dunedin and South Seas Exhibition Company last night, a rel port was received from the architect giving the approximate cost of the exhibition buildings to cover an area of ten acres, with buildings to house exhibits, the erection of a grandstand, I and also fireproof art gallery, at not 1 less than £150,000, probably nearer £200,000. I An event of particular interest to the gentler sex is to take place on Saturday next, when A. E. WilliamAson, of Oamaru, .will open up in Twoi mey’s Sample Rooms, a most captij voting range of costumes in all the I latest styles. There will also be on I show the latest in frocks and jumpers, and altogether a most beautiful assortment will be exhibited. i Hunt Club Bali, Olympia Hall, tc-mcrrcw night. Miss Morgan’s Band. The following players will tak" part in the inter-club golf mat. i next Thursday against Waimate a Oamaru: Morning, 10 a.m.. s.ngles Cuthbertson, Humphries, K. Fam 'ilton, Holmes, L. Wright, Smith, J. Fraser, Fisher, Woodward. Gilchrist, Doyle, Bradshaw; afternoon I p.m. fourball- Cuthbertson, an ’ T cwat Saunders and Armstrong, Seo; . a I Donaldson, Grave and Maude. 11. Fam ilton and McKeefry, Ireland and Wilson, The following will represent the Waimate Club:—Fulton, Brierley, Reilly, Hertslet, Laing, Holmes, Fraser, Foster, Oughton, Nash, D. Borrie and Hassall. Read G. J. Shackleton’s advertisement of Lower Price Goods on first page. In the Magistrate’s Court to-day before Mr Bartholopiew, S.M., the case i was concluded in which Rattray and Son claimed from the Commonwealth .and Dominion shipping line £125 4s 5d for damage alleged to have been sustained as the result of negligent carriage of 300 boxes of dates consigned to plaintiffs. Mr J. W. Sinclair appeared for the plaintiffs and Mr Ramsay for the defendants. After hearing legal argument the Magistrate said that he would take time to consider his decision.

Rev. Bates’ weather forecast:--V ariablo and moderate breezes, but easterly, moderate to strong prevailing. The weather will probably become milder with increasing haze and cloudiness for a change to follow after 48 hours. The barometer has a falling 'tendency. The last representative Rugby match of the season will take place at Victoria Park on Thursday, when the Waimate team will play South Canterbury. A Maori seaman employed on the steamer Tntanekai, named Morehu Titotre, fell between the vessel and the wharf on Saturday night, and was not seen again. It is supposed he struck his head on a pile. Considerable improvement has been effected in the Dominion Museum. A great amount of work has been done in spacing and displaying the exhibits, and attention has also been paid to the lighting which is now greatly improved. The Maori collection, said to be one ol great value has been ieclassified and placed together with explanatory remarks. The annual ..onventiou of the: Provincial W.C.T.U. will take placein Knox Hall next Tuesday and Wednesday. On Tuesday evening at 8 o’clock, a public welcome will be given to delegates in the Method ist Church. The speakers will bet His Worship tho Mayor and local ministers. An address will also be given by Mrs T. E. Taylor, of Christ church. This meeting should be well worth attending as several fine lady speakers arc included in the delegation from the twenty Unions ;o Canterbury-. The Convention which is held aiuiually in different town-, in Canterbury, took place in Waimate 13 years ago. John Griffiths aged 31, who was arrested after an exciting hunt al New Brighton on July 11th was convicted at the Supreme Court of attempted rape at Burwood. Sentence was deferred. Messrs Dalgety and Coy., have been instructed by the contractors. Timber Rights, McLean's Estate, to sell by public auction without reserve, at Point Bush RoacL Waimate on Friday, September 21st., at 12 o’clock the balance of the timber posts, strainers, stakes, fii-ewood, etc. Luncheon provided. The report submitted at the Tim aru Presbytery monthly meeting from Waihao Downs contained the information that the grant from the Home Missions Committee was £36 5s This year had been commenced w th a credit balance of £BO and had < t:d(,! with a credit of £9. The income for the year was- £226 Ils 5d Th ’ I!< - Missionary (Mr Loudon: was doing very creditable work. Almost everywhere in Timaru today (says the Timaiu Post) it ipq sible to see building operations of some kind in progress. Several large buildings arc in course of construction, besides many residences. From March 21, 1923, up to August. 18. 1923, building permits to the value of £75,195 have been issued by the Timaru Borough Council. An example of the vohrbility of public speakers, and more especially those connected with the Presbyterian Church, (says the Timaru Post} was given by the Rev. J. D. Madill at the last meeting of the Timaru Presbytery. That gentleman stated that the Presbytery should ensure at its forthcoming jubilee celebrat ions that there war not. an effervescence of verbosity on the part of the speakers. For instance, he stated that at a Presbyterian meeting in Auckland some 20 years ago, one. speaker had held the floor beyond time within reason. It was a public funct.on, and the Mayor of tne cityhad presided. The loquacious gentle man had turned the meeting into a riot.