General News.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume II, Issue 131, 10 April 1900, Page 2

General News.

Fob the Autumn Meeting of the South Canterbury Jockey Club there are 136 nominations, an increase of 38 over last year. Fob the week ended Saturday, April 7th 1600 the customs returns at Timara wei B— Customs, £596 13s lOd ; N.Z. beer £23 15s ; other receipts, 16s 6cl ; total £621 5s 4d. It has been asserted by an eminent physician that as long as a cyclist can breathe with his mouth shut whilst riding he is safe as far as a strain of the heart is concerned. Mb T. Eotheram, Locomotive Superintendant of Government railways, who has been in the service over 20 years, has rasigned to take up a similar position in Western Australia. A vEivy interesting fact is that the first postage stamp ever used, in the British Empire, at any rate, was issued in New South Wales in 1838, two years before the appearance of the black penny stamp of Great Britain. A sensation has been created in Madagascar by the appearance of a carriage in the streets of Antananarivo. It is the fit st one that has ever been seen in the country, and belongs to the Mayor of the city, Captain Desliona. Sir Thomas Lipxon has reaently given to the world his recipe for success in business. The advice is characteristic of the, man who offers it, and is excellent. He says ; " Work bard ; deal honestly ; exercise care and judgment ; advertise freely and judiciously. Mk Fatok, of Timaru, had rather a novel specimen of the hare, hanging in his shop on Sfttuulay, which attracted a good deal of notice from sportsmen The hare in question, had pink eyes, and was pure white in colour. Such specmens are very rare in these parts.— Moraine Posi . ; ° This Tr.->pea is the name of the steamer that has been chartered by the Government to load produce for South Africa. The steamer (says the Press) is 4013 tons register, and is one of the American and Australian line. She is 70 days out from New York to Melbourne and Sydney, and is or should be, in Australian waters at the present time. Bi a Parliamentary paper just issued nearly 100,000 aliens, the majoiity Eussians and Poles, all in miserable circumstances, arrived and stayed in London, Liverpool, Hull, Leith, and two or three other British ports, in 1899. 11 c people increase (he local rates very largely, but, worse still, they are the class by means of whom the - terrible s.stem of "sweating" is maintained in some of trades against the English workman. For Bronchial Coughs Woods' Great Peppermint Ccue.

Ir is the intention of lbs Goveinlj|^M fo spend the sum of xtiOO in tbeijj^H skuction of a nMi-bieeriing e<?teb;ib]ißj^M on the Hakataramea. The Wailak^H the only river where any success has ti^H achieved in the acclimatisation of sali^H and as the Hakatßramea is a tributart^H the Waitaki, and is excellently suited J^H the purpose, the Government have agr'^H to Mr Ayson's proposal to establia^H hatchety there. "~^B It is understood (says the Bruce Herjj^B that had the Bruce licensing poll been^^H counted the result would be : Continnan^B 1518 ; reduction, 1822; no license, 20^B The grand total of voters whose vo^H were recorded was 3537, therefore .tjH luction would have been * carried by jjH votes, and prohibition lost by only l^B The Labor Journal reports that x?o^| is plentiful all over the* colony, i^m building and engineeiing trades beiiS especially active. Unskilled labour fl mostly absorbed but there has bepn iS increase in applications for emplojm^H at Wellington and, Christchurch. Twfl thousand seven hundied and twentj-fo^B men are employed on Govemm^B eo-nperative works. ' , The Post and Telegraph offices ffjjß observe a close holiday on Gqpd Frid|M and all mails for despatch on that difl will close on Thursday next at 8 pj« On Easter Monday the office will ' 9 open in all branches from 9 a-m. !■ 10 a.m. The usual despatch of mailS will be made up to 10 am. at whiM hour all remaining mails will be closed There wilL be no letter camera* deliver? 9 that day. v ' M The first choice of the Imperial Co|l missions offered to New Zealand will \M given to members of the contingent HI South Africa ; after them to voluuteerM of 12 months' standing, next officers oil cadet corps, finally to any other iippli'.B cants. In this connection the Ministero(l Defence desires it to be known that it'« in the interests of thoso obtaining com.! missions that their parents should be ]>■ a position to supplement their pay by no|fl less than £50 per annum until obtaininlß captain's rank ; in fact, from information* received by the Minister of Defence, in feeems as if a £100 per annum will t»| required for that period for those joiningß the field artiUeiy. The time fcr thtfl receipt of nominations has been extend™ from April 21 to \ pril 27. - I At the Christchnrch Cycling Club'il meeting on Saturday the principal featnri was the race between Chalmers ani Sutherland to see which should b» entitled to race Reynolds for th^ light to , represent the colony in the World's / Chamionship at Paris. Tin meeting was spoilt by wintry weath*?, rain falling heavily during the afternoon/ As _ Chalmers and Sutherland wetf sprinting in the mile event, the latter crossed and spoilt the chance of the Wellington riiler," who protested. Thi stewards considered that Chalmers wa partly to blame for cutting in on tßj, inside at the corner, and declared i\», event no race. Tho decision of the 25] mile, and the re-mnning of the mil»: were postponed on account of the weathc/ till Tuesday night. The Defence Department have »Jread/ ; a squad of men at the site of the Easter! Rncampment for Canterbury and ©Su^s Volunteers at the Levels. Water pipes* are being sunk and tents pitched if. accomodate the 2000 men expe.«tei?4 All the volunteer corps in the Obsgol district, (including Southland )'N>wiU roI into camp. The Southland men\ leaves Invercargill on Thursday night. 'atfB.3o| and the Otago Company take theif departure from Dunediu on the samM night at 9 o'clock. Travelling all nighp the Otago men will reach the camp ni 6 o'clock on Fiiday morning, and, ths! Southland men about noon. Attendance] at the camp is optional, and 'as the] Government allowance is sufficient to^ cover only mess expenses it is feared tbn^i many men will be unable to remain in^ camp for a week, as was originalljf intended, while others cannot get leave,'^ as their employers are busy. Under: these circumstances the probability k'^ that the encampment will terminate on^ Easter Monday night as usual. Jj . How fondly rests % mother's gaze '; j Upon her children dear ; "J She loves them for their pretty ways, } And always likes them near. .She tends them in their troubles, too, \ Her care soon makes them fewer. J ; And for a cold knows what to do ; She gets Woods-G reat Peppermint Cure