General News.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 41, 4 September 1900, Page 2

General News.

Correspondence by "X " and other matter is crowded out this issue. Albert Trott has taken 200 wickets in first class cricket this season. The American visible wheat supply is estimated at 65,195,000 bushels. The Medio arrived at Albany on Friday, with 60 invalided soldiers on board Under five million persons are now in receipt of the Indian Famine Relief Fund. Ersmith, a member of the Transvaal Volksraad, and many burghers are sailing for Europe.' The French -military authorities, experimenting at Calais with Creusot guns, obtained a range of 20 miles. The New South Wales Government intend to introduce a bill in the Assembly to expedite cheaper litigation. The plague at Glasgow is bubonic Twelve suspicious cases are under obs. ervation, and the sanitary staff has been doubled. , The total British losses ia the war Are 40,571. This, of course, includes dead from wounds and disease and nvalids from any cause.

Lance Corporal Wilson and Trooper Freeman have received six months' leave of absence, on full pay, trou* their respective contingents. A cable has been received in Adelaide announcing the safe arrival at Shnno. hai of the Key. Mr Allurdyce and Mr Russell and wife, who were among ih 8 besieged at Pekin. The Orchestral Society held ifc s weekly practice last evening, there b«ug^ a good muster. This evening the Choral Society hulds its practice - > in St. Augustine's Schoolroom. Lord Roberts reports that the Boers' resistance ba3 been finally broken, aud the forces are retreating, on hem ing a rumour that all the Johannesburg I Police had been killed or captured. ; On Sunday morning a thanks- I giving service for the return of I the two "Wnimate troopers wag I held in St. Augustine's chinch The Eevs: McKenzie Gibson and Fowler officiated. On Thursday evening next the Yen. I Archdencon Harper will lecture in the* Oddfellows' Hall on his recent tiip up the Nile. The lecture will be illustrated by photos taken by the lecturer aud I will he exceedingly interesting. ! Major X>a\is has cabled to the Promior that all the Now Zealanders wounded at Ottoshoop nre doing well, Sir A. Milner oables that ColVm anj Upton, of the third contingent, died ,i{ Joharmpsbiug as far back as Juno 12, I Colonel Pranois has gone to Kimbeile? unwell. Now Zealand great in nature's gift Possesses chann3 for every eye, With sounds and rivers, lakes and rifts, , And mounts on which vast glaeieis lie, All mike this laud a paradise, With atmosphere so fresh and pure, Where coughs are eared we do advise, By takitig Woods' Great Peppeimint Cure At the local examinations instituted by the Boyal Academy and held in Tiraaru lasfe June, Miss F. J. H:u% reoeivod a pass certificate, obtaining the maximum number of marks. MU Hardy was previously taught by the Sisteis of the Convent heie, jmdlaituly by Professor Wolfe, of Timaru, with whom she is going to continue her studieg. Colonial Advertising Agency, 202, ' Hereford street, Chmtchurch, for everything connected with adver Gibing throughout the colony. Christchurch Advertising Agents for this paper, Advt. When doctors disagree, says th» adage, who shall decide ? It is difficult very often, even without the difforeuM of opinion nmomg the faculty, to decide as to the intrit of the varioui medicinal preparations which are upon the market. A safe, gonnr&l rule is to believe that a preparation which professes to cure everything 1 will cure nothing. Having thus : weeded oufc nine-tenths of the claimants, it is comparatively easy to find. reliable evidence of personal os« concerning the remainder. Mr E. 6. Lane, of Oamaru, ia in the fortunatt position not only of having no medical difference regarding the value of his Oreasoted Emulsion, but also ia having direct professional approval of if.. He has in his possession a, letter written by a member of the faculty Btfttmg that he treated a case of consumption with Lane's Cr<?asoted Emulsion, aud was glad to say thut after a course of treatment the patient had improved greatly. The sputum had diminished, the cough was less, th» ■ night sweating had almost stopped, I and the weight of the patient had I increased seven or eight pounds. H