GENERAL NEWS.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIII, 23 November 1923, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS.

Commencing December Ist, the charge for The Daily Advertiser booked will be reduced to 32s per annum. Casual copies will be sold over the counter and by the newsboy at Grant and Wright's Cornefr at Id. This substantial reduction in price is rendered possible by a recent increase in commercial advertising rates, and by the larger bulk of commercial advertisements now carried* in The Daily Advertiser. I Rev. Bates' Weathep Forecast. —■ Northerly winds, moderate to strong, freshening and veering by west to 1 south. Weather clouding over, with rain later. Barometer is unsteady, bui rising soon. On Sunday afternoon, at three o'clock, weather permitting, the Waimate Philharmonic Society will give a concert in Seddon Square in aid of the Silve r Band's new instrument fund. Don't miss the Musical and Dramatic Recital that will be held in St. Augustine's Hall To-night. 23rd. at 8 p.m. Admission Is. Reserves 6d extra at Mr Akhurst's. The Auto Picnic Co.’s Kelcy’s Bush service carried a full load yesterday. By request, the time of starting has been made 1.30. Bookings f«r next Thursday has already commenced. Ring up 55. Picnics to anywhere, for anybody, at any time. From to-morrow ices and iced fruit sundaes and fruit salids at Newall and Jones; Savoy Tea r00m5.... Diving into a .swimming pool in th<. Ashburton Domain, John Brophy, a postal messenger, aged 17 years, struck the jagged shoulder of a broken bottle, severing a muscle at the knee. He was taken to the hospital where he will remain a month, with the possibility o. a permanent limp. Sale of Furniture and Sundries. The Waimate Auction Coy., have received instructions from Mr Harvey (who is leaving the district) to sell in their yards on Saturday the whole of his Household Furniture and effects.—Waimate Auction Coy., Auctioneers.... The Rev. Win. Beckett conducts the Methodist sendees at Hunter at 11 a.in., Nukaroa 2.30 p.m., and Waimate at 6.30 p.m., next Sunday. His subject is “Who is a Christian?” Mr Kippenberger conducts the services at Waimate in the morning and Kapaa in the afternoon. Do your marketing at the Plunket Stall on Nov. 24th. From to-morrow ices and iced fruit sundaes and fruit salads at Newall and Jones’s; Savoy Tea Rooms.. . The Waimate Auction Coy. has received instructions from a large Wellington indent firm to sell in their yards on Saturday, 24th inst, absolutely without reserve, for cash only: A Choice Collection of Ladies’ Expansion Wristlet Watches, Gents’ Hunting Case Watches, etc., etc. Here is your opportunity to secure a good watch, etc., cheap.—Waimate Auction Coy., auctioneafs. MR BONNINGTON, Fruiterer and Confectioner (late of Hunt’s Buildings), lias secured more central and commodious premises in High Street, next Arcadia Theatre, where he to meet old and new customers. He states that it is intention to stock only the primest of fruit and the very best bi ands of confectionery, and hopes thereby to merit a fair share of public patronage. In connection with the business there will be an ice cream park ur. Note the addrers: Next Arcadia Theatre.

A Dunedin message reports death of Mr John C. McGeorg. 61. Ho was best known in minm-HL operations and was a director of Westport. Coal Cov. B The Plunket Society will eonduct a ß produce stall in Queen Street i>.9 morrow. A doll has been for a guessing competition. Ther-B will also be a bran tub for the e|a|.H dreu. B' Waimate Am’tion Co. notify J this issue that on auction sale, ... M account of Mrs Pearce, will be em r,tß (ducted at her residence. Hairis <: I l on Thursday next. A full li»t ai..M pears in another column. 1 The Cooked Ham. Meat. Homo-matit.diM-Cakes and Sweets on sale at Plan * f or ket Stall. Nov. 24th. | | ive|' From to-morrow ices and fruit sundaes and fruit salads #;■ ail Newall and Jones's; Savoy Tnlany Rooms... es it i The Railway Departmem Inounces that excursion tickets be issued to Dunedin from 26tli t H 30th November, in connection the ForbuFy Trots and A. an! Show. ® Vegetable Plants ant! Flowers m ' sale at the Plunket Stall. Nov. 24th It is 0 of At Wanganui, Joe Keri waguilty of indecent as-auli. and sentenced by the Chief Justice (..fcth two years' reformirtive treatine:i 'nth*' His Honour said the ease w;>- . one for two reasons. I'risoner hall b*’ made a Maori woman drunk and ha made false statements in the He had also behaved badly |>rm ly in trying to get a wife to her husband. y ino An Ashburton message -t ;ite< that a midnight hold-up with a ! befel Robert Totty. chemist, and bi- j.,, , wife. At one o'clock on Honda’ morning they were roused from sleep by rapping on the door. thinking somebody was reipiirinu’ a.idicine, opened first the back and then the front door, and search-L. ed the verandah ineffectively. ' turned to lied, but sholtly heard a voice outside the Totty, now alarmed and asked “What do you want? you?” A man's voice replied: ' want your money." Totty rephM: “I have none.” The man pushed t the window, presented asin. ' relied gun, and repeated his den .aai I Both then sprang from the la 1. || u Totty ran to the telephone ami -n' l moned the police. Her husbaml r;ii th« a tiously approached the n:tru<W|d at with his hands up. The strnnp ,| '| then withdrew the firearm ami " it pi camped. The police arrived promptly, but so far no capture ha- I"'’’’ i made. A theory is cuifrent tlmt tb a intruder was a weak-minded ier-<'i n it it If visitors from another spl >’ »''■ ion, suddenly to arrive in England 'l** * th would l>e awe stricken by the feveriJ eon, interest with which so many Brit" scan thc^ newspapers, said th- lb-' 5 jg Horton, a well-known London «h*rman. But if they investigat'd would find that a large iiumri thesr int*Tested readers were only « 0 ing to ‘‘spot*’ the winner in HHi.s. A nunilxT of libraries 1 so out the country will not permit I m racing pages of new‘■pap rs to I" til** IMH au.se if they do the p.i|X‘rs ;♦>< I opslised by those who arc an' - us follow the horses. While Bnt.im I (tg ho maintained, can coalesce wh de science, bceausf nience has a - *l9l the result of the present b it: dencics. The Bishop of W< ]|d« : ever, -ays th.it he does not sin in the act of betting it- “'** that once when he was a boy : lie laid a bet. According to ’' Lee. controller of the central :■ Of ( office, fully 5.000,(100 telegran patched in this country in a ywith horse racing. This is 7 j , of the total.