General News.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 50, 25 September 1900, Page 2

General News.

A number of Australians have been appointed o<>coud lieutenants in vaiious Jiniidi tegiuiojta. Twelve months ago, 9a3*3 f.ho Free Lance, new nrecl,-jujj companies "wero bung flouted r.l r be rate of iivo a week. They aro now liquidating at about the Sdine rote. Lioutenant Cameron of the Third Contingent, who bus just been leloased by the Boers, is ih with fovor. Thu oikoer had been \ory urfoituaote. On tho Knight Templar ht contracted pneumonia, and way vory ill. Mr 31. Mackintosh, secretary to lit. 1 Waitaln Acolnnaii.^a'ion Sodiuty, ha 1 ; lUou-cd (ho iuYio\v]i)g note f?oin Mt \V. J, <)a;n, K^ro'V : ' I aavv .a'-graat many ti'out in vhe WniuLi last wet is, more than 1 havo pvor s?en on an > other occasion so early in the seaßon. If the rivf«r koops clear there Bhould Wi good fishing up hero." — Korth Oia^o Times. "Banjo" Patterson lecturing in Sydney on the Austrulasiaus m action, jj.ud a high tiibute to the New Zealandors. He regarded then as tho host of tho AmtraLisians that have beon cent to the war, which was probably accounted for by iho face that thevo were no boy officers, but all men of sense and matured experience. Ke eulogised Major ilobin. In the House on Friday the Hon. Major Steward asked the 'Minister of Justioo -whothor he had received a memorial from the Justices of the Peace, tsettiug- forth the grave publio inconvenience caused by the frequency of iho occasions on which tho Stipendiary "Magistrate ia unable to visit »Wuimato, and whothor ho will airange matters so that a Stipendiary Magistrate, either from Oamaru or Timaru, shall sit ,at "Waimate at least once a fortnight? The Minister said the memorial had been received, and he would have inquiries made. If he found there -was great inconvenience to thd public he, would see what could be u d.ono to remedy it.

Messrs Guinness and LeCren adyertise that they are receiving entries for Makikihi sale. Tht> fane^-al of the late Mrs Hunt took plrieo on Sund.iv afternoon v/hen her icm.uns were followed to their lust icstmg place bv a largo number of dece^se-d's iriends. The liev, lAcKew/Ae Gibson conducted the service at the giavo. A dismounted parade of tho Stua ■ holme Mounted Rifles was htld last 1 '•'veiling, about 65 men parading under | Captain Garland and Lieuts. Stud i holme, McUowaa and Mustyn Jonea. iSergt.- Major Jonea was alt>o present, and she men were taken into the open °ir whoie a good night's dull was put in. Mr J. W. Freeman recently bought , from Mr Boyle, of Glirtefcehureh, that,, thoroughbred stallion, Conqueror. Tho horse is just fi,ve years old, and has already won a lavgd nnmber of racoa for Messes Stead, Greig arid Boyle, ha former ownais, and iviU jnove an uoqmsitiou to tho di^wlct. ! The Not'th Otago Tim.->i is Jivfufmad ,that doer aro vary plentiful in the br«ek country this season. Thoy cari bossan tn uun.orouß herds of 80 or 40. In ! the direction of Vvan^Va doer o-ro al^o j fo bo s*H>n in large nninbois. On the Slue Mountain*, near Tapanui, fallow deer have heoome r» nuibd&co, so nunioroiTß aro they. | O lie cannot h»Jp reflecting what de- | Hghlftil husbands oiu* troopura will I make v/hsji tbcyi'otiirn from She fields joi gl^ry They v/i!l nor; (say fi s^_ con | JonnoiiH'v) f;riin/oloat fhcif di'>n§K3, ot I fii a fruit with their b r , aktasta, bu» 1 w si? cout. ui^diy './hat j9 ses^ heloie thc,:n. Any com^ij-aon tbej' may i Jnw 'ull, if tliov i4iw'Xjh<)? Aliifokinj/j be ddcidcrily in favour of Lh^if doiaojtio uk&ls. G-i/fl vmild do wed to rom-»:ii br-r tliAb tho supply of tho as modi' 1 bisb^Jick H lnni|ji->d, Ana socuro oue bdfoie it zs too late.

The cn^S of aims of the Or»ns;e Freo SLxto sL r '\vg au omngQ trte lv the middle of r> fi«,M : on one bide st.'-iicb v^ Lori, on the o'hcr a lamb. Ths motto beneath is " Fi'Dodoia. linrui^r^tton, P.if'onoe, Oonr> ; .'.'' Ti.y ckiVf m of tut' lion mid ißrub h l o « t-tiiptiu^] i"if"r^s^oo to thi p«n<v fUiJ haiuiouy witliiu its bordevo, and doo c i ?)ot r>>{er to thy gooympbicc-'l pontioa o! the republic between tho drmam o* tbc Etitish lion and tho p^&iorU Boer.-, of the Transvaal. %■ A _

Tiio Auckland HemlcTi^Baiaiionga coi're&ponricuu says thnt, <\b \ mosting of the ruling Arikis it deeirljd to send a pe f ition to the >New Zoalanfl Govornmcufc, praying fot ? aDn^"nuon, and to make use of all ai Sruona in the place of the prcsont protseujratG. It was d.l^o sug^^isd ilidt iha ij|&pcu of Penihyn, Manahnkl, iJ'ika Buk?ana Nmo shonlJ hu includku. sr.ould tho piayer be granted, TIII3 rcovo is probably one of the comaqueucea of ihe Premier's visit a shcit iixn^ p.go.

At the Now Plymouth B>.cbour Board meeting on Fi icLvy an application was received for a lease of the foieshore. The applicant agreed to deposit ;£IOQ, to be forfeited in the evont of his failure to form a !>or.;>. fida company with a capioi.l of £109,00') !o "woik the ironsand dt>po-ils, withi'i eighteen ruonthb. The baao is not ro ' miked for speculative p\:rpooos, but on almost a certainty of (lotting n com pany to woik tlio diyocifa, a Ir.rgo ■•portion of the oapital being found in the eolonvi Troopers Mitchell, Wright and Morris, invalided from South Auioa, arrived by the Molcoia, in Wellington on Saturday. Trooper X. M. Mitchell (Balclutha) is of the First Oontiugont and is one of several menuioHod for distinguished conduct at Nov.' Zealand ilili. He aaaist"d in carrying Sergfc. Go\nloy from under Sre, and stumbling over an.anthill hurt hib ankle severely Aftyr this ha recovered and continued with iho confciugi-nt lill he vvaa invalided to Wynburg with enteric. H«rs>, whon convalescent end ftbout to be sent home, he contracted pleurisy and \«<io for some titue very t»«iiously ill. Trooper Morris of the Second Contingent, had a brother in the Third who died in East London about a fortnight after landing. When doctors uiaagree, says the adage, who shall decide ? It is hfiicnlt very often, oven without the difference of opinion ainomg the faculty, to decide as to the mtiit of the variouo medicinal pieparaiions which ara u;;on the maikot. A safs, general nilo is to believe that a prepterafcion which professes to euro ovtayihing will euro nothing. Having thus weeded out nine tsjiihs of the claim ants, it is comparatively easy to find reliable evidence of por,son ( 'il uso concotniuK thw vcinainclor. Mr E. G. Lano, of Gaiuaru, is in tlw foitamite position noo only of having no medical Piiereiice reg.irdhig fcho v.ilue of : Crersoted Emulsion, but also in ving direct professional approval of fHo has i.J hii possession a letter ritten by a member of the faculty stating that he created a case of consumption with Lane's Creasoted Emulsion, and was glad to say that after a course of treatment the patient had improved greatly. The sputum had diminished^ the cough was less, tho night sweating had almost stopped, and the weight of the patient had increased seven or eight pounds.