General News.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 80, 4 December 1900, Page 3

General News.

The_ Brifcannio with the Comruon- - wealth contingent -has arrived at ! Jlden. A powerful ißritiah Byo'dic»t© is .completing arrangements for the .erection of a .very extemive nickel 1 ,itneking refining works in the Newtcftfttle district. 'Otto Nerdenskjold, the Swedish, .explorer, has .purchased the steam? Antarctic, -arid will 'leafl a, ;Swediah Ant rat; tie expedition, fgmld. in August next. vWe'have received * bo'intf copy .of, (the atauit«fl: cainplete&fluriag the last nession. ThaytoWl 110 and include ,78 Public General, r «4 Local and person*), nuni $ Private Acts, In addition to Hawora's donation' •of £167 1198 I4d, Nelson has given MOO towards the funds to enable Mr •Pilcher to provide -comforts for tne Itfew Zealander's in South Africa. The Premier .has received anrinvitation from ithe Government of .flaw South Wales for himself and Mts~ rSeddon asking them to be present ,-ot the inaugural scelebrations of the <C<nniuorrwealth. The Premier has xeceWed "from the •-Secretary of State for tbe "Colonies, vthroiiglrhra. Excellency the Governor, .jk^pico t,bat ad Imperial penny postage -scheme will be adopted in she Trans vVftftl aad Orange River' Colon-y 'from Dec.l. i Ten thousand packages -of butter; f»nd three hundred of cheese, were nhipped at New Plymouth on Friday Sfor transhipment to the Papacoa, which will, also taie large quantity, to leave New Plymouth on Tuesday. A. telegram from Wellington -states Uhat the British Government has donbied the order tot oats, making it HO 000 instead 5,000 tons oiginally »oidered. - No reply *has as yet been' -received -as bo the -acceptance of offers 'lor jiun in the colony. The Melbourne -Postal -authorities 'have commandeered a fully laden j?om-pom shell, sent by a soldier at i,\\6 front toa lady friend. 'fl?he cliarge will he withdrawn before, the miserve' 'Will be delivered. ' The Weatjwrt Goal Company haa' lud a «oncr«te foandatioa .for extend-, -td ccal bins at • Gr»nity < which will provide storage for 2000 tons. When fthis work^ia -completed, there will be .iloragd at Crranity for 3200 toui». The Assembly adopted a resolation".r«)oasing she JHun Mr JKingstonjfroin &", promise given at ifae end of lastsession ilo refrain from becoming a candidate Jfor the Federal Parliament until the' {household -suffrage is secured for the legislative Council.. _- , - Mr W. N. Niabit, formerly colonial iraantger for the- Westingh'aui Brake Cmnparty, but now chief mechanical ■tgninaet to Q»i6e«*Und, has r««j©ived from lits Goveromvot to take his late " brother's' duties •an supervising the work of installing the the Wostinghouse fittings on . tbe New .28&]nnd Governibent plant now prp•tteding'at Petone. The application to the Court of •Appeal for *n order for a new trial in the Sfcyche case will not come before 'the Court until ite lirst sitting; Jint year, which will be held in' watch. *The sitting »of the Court on Dec. 22 will be a formal one for <itiivtting judgements, »ud probably' "Wli not be attended by all tbe judges, uud the sitting being bo ne»r tuths Chriatmas vacation, there would 'uot be time for the case to be goo© into The officers of *the •tretutne'd Aub•fralian troops state that the Australians' We great difficulty in getting away, u Lord Kitchener regarded them as; jnast suitable men. He would not I i»ve allowed, a single oae to depart if; to could hare helped it. A responsible 'Officer waited on Lord "Kitchener and >ppealed to him to be allowed to. •fopart on the .ground of "business-) •figigements. The .interview was a, ?tty stormy one, and but for the jjotorvantion of Lord Roberts, Lord' Kitchener would ao not-have consented "to the officer's return. The men' the campaign m excedingly Uauous. Several practical farmers': sflw the country a bafl name agri'WJturaHy. 1 Nearly tDO.OQOIb of enaila sr« sold' <3aily in the Paris markets to be eaten ty dwellers ia that city. Th«y *r«* ttr«fully reared for the purpose in , titenaive snail gardens in the pro-, winces, and feed .on aromatic herbs' to makft theiif flavour finer. One, uitiWy In Dijon is said to bring to b proprieter '7000 francs » ye*ar. U»ny Swiss cantons also contain ' vge snail gardens, where they are ! with much pains. They are! jjftt'only regarded as a. great delicacy Jt are reckoned as very nutritious..; SygieniBts say 'that .they contain 17' P«t cent of nitrogenous matter, ftnd,. *»t they are equal to. oystoro in. tattittve properties. The uflotl fortnightly meeting of the ttj&l H«arfe ef Friendship w«» held JiheOddfeUowa' Hall Ust evening, ",Q. Bro. Mines- in the chair. There *M a fair attendance of members, and torreupondence was read from Christ«nroh, Timaru, Papanui, Baogiora J^4 Dunedin Lodge*. The "N.G. and ucretary had attenaed to this. The m. Yifiitors'<report was received and pay passed to the amount of £& .4s **- Acoounte amounting to i&l» 8d ><re also.passed. The -Becret*rt ;: W*« [ttructed to obtain extra seatipg (or w Ball, also to have an extra ticket tadow provided,' opening oat«ide. «h<r matters re the extension xifvthe cud providing a gall«rjw«c« left' Ift fntnremeetmg. Beceipts lot the Jtning were £16 8e 9d. Nominations (officers were received for-noxt lodge, •|ht. . - ' /''

- The Queensland Fren^tr ttetea that -owing to the -eonQition 'of-H&e colony . the Government will not bring'^at any/ ■more free immigrants ' ™ Three «aeee df plague have been' discovered aboard the Government tug Cormorant, which arrived «t day laland from England. The old workings of the Blackball? tmine are on fire, and it 15 feared thatthe furnsoeman, -George Green, is: suffocated. Steps are being taken tof flood the mine fromXoal Creek. Maflsra Priest sod Holdgat«, the'; well-known ironmongers of Tnnaru, whose Waimate branch js under the, managership of MrlE.'J. A twill, have, an important notice in this issue. ' At the Court yesterday, befon Messrs Nicol &nd Graham, J.P's., < first offender was fined ss, with tht usual alternative for drunkenness. On his own- application, a prohibition ordei was granted against a resident. The Christchurch Meat Company are now booking application! for iipaoe for slaughtering and freezing, on sheep owners' and farmer*' account. Full information *«an be obtained on application* «t the Timaru offices oi the company. B A. boy, while playing on the Weem road, Aberfeldy, found a purse contain ing jglOOin notes under « stone on the top of -a wall. - -They were claimed by a resident, who declared that, having too much money, he had hidden the notes on the -top of 'the -wall for safety. Tenders were opened on Saturday at the Bank of New Zonland for eh« second issue of £16,000 of the Lyttdltoo Harbour Hoard's 4 pec cent, debentures, issued under the Act of .1897, authorising -c £60,000 loan. I'iie amount was found tobe over sab scribed at par- and above. In the Home Industries section of the Canterbury Exhibition tba following Waimateites obtained awards :—;: — ; Vertical writing, class i, Division A :' Ida Munn, certificate. -Class 2, Division A: H. Wilson, special mention. As the competitions were open to the. whole of NewvZeaiand, our 'local com* petifcars deserve much credit. > A cyclone house h«s been navanted by an Juw-a .genius. Jt is built over a -deep cellar. When a cyclone gives Jadication of its approach, the owner of the house touches a buttoo, and the. house does the rest-^it quickjiy* -descends • into the cellar. When the' cyclone is over, another touch of tho button brings the house' above the earth's surface. The Moana on her first trip from Lyttelton to Wellington lowered sfti records for mecchaut <ves»els. She steamed from heads 'to heads in JLO hours 15 tninutef, and from Lyttel ton breakwater tp blowing down \a *1Q hours £0 minutes. The record is held by H.M.S Orlando, which did the distance between Lyttelton and Wellington iv a little under 10 btmvs. The New South Wale* full Court after a lengthy argument on the point raised that having beeo outlawed, the Governors' etmld not .be tried, as it was ..tantamount to trying twice for the^ aajoja offence, .confirmed the. L«onvk;tion of Jimmy Governor. ~^fti6" court held that the English' outlawry law did not apply to the colony, but that 'the Melons Apprehension Act, which did apply,' provided for the trial of proclaimed outlaw.