General News.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 89, 27 December 1900, Page 2

General News.

The Wady Haifa- Khajtoum railway has' been opened to traffic. An important notice appears to-day in reference to the Jubilee picnic on New Year's Day. The funeral of the late B. Murphy, victim of Sunday's accident;, wa3 largely attended yesterday. t The takings at yeifcerday's sports* amounted to £06 7s 4d. It is estimated that over 2,500 people were on the, I ground. .

Sir 'WHHani liyne has 'been unable i to form a Federal Ministry sufficiently: representative of Australia. .Mr Barton , has been entrusted with the'fcrrnation, which he expects, to complete by the' end of this weekt ' ■ - . -

The.Jßfoer raiders .have brdken ihn Kansas for South Africa. The Galedonian concert last evening was well attended, ,650 befog taken af thedoora. Tho •onoertw* qSfup to its usual high standard. A fuH report wdlappear next issue. * Apropos of New Zealand's proposal to send a further contingent £ South Africa, Sir W. Lyne considers that a tami ar move on the part of Australia would hawto be a Federal one Anyone requiring boots, shoos, or slippers will save money by burin* froui Berry's. You get thf belt Jffi at the lowest possible prices, Jt opa S a speciality at Berry's in the corner Advt * eyOceapi6d bv Coil ett Bros! Lieutenant-Colonel Hume, Insp<>< r of Prisons, returned to Wellington {>■ > ', a visit to the Rotorua district,^}," he>ha 8 been making arrangement i5 > .putting ioto operation *the -scheuii, for utilising short-sentflnce prisoners rV purposes. _A -sitfe ,h^ been chosen, about twenty-four L>i\t& from Eotorua, and will ocoupv V-* years in planting. The question J tree planting at Tapanui 'and Nkseby" m Oiago, is still under consideration by tua depanmeut. ' .u Th ,fT mosfc im P° r^nt matter which tha New Zealand Cabinet has had uudor consideration during the recetit sitttmg, nas been the question of des. patching more troops to South Afnoa The, Secretary of State has sent au important communication in reference to the position of affairs in the Tungvaal and Orauge Kivor Colony, and m oonse.quenoe of his representations it has been dooided-to retain at the s at of war until further notice, the wbol« of the members of the various Now Zealand oontingents who have" notbeen sent back to their homes Tl,j Government ha 3 also decided to send drafts of troops to fiil up the vacation which have occurred in the tseverM contingents. Steps will therefore bs taken at once -.to form another con. tingent.