General News.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 100, 24 January 1901, Page 2

General News.

The Pori uguese e.re transporting to Lisbon 900 Boer refugees to Delagoa Bay.

Mr Isaacs has decided for Federal honours, and Mr Peacock, therefore, becomes Victorian State Premier.

Owing to the illness of the Queen, the Commonwealth dinner in London has been postponed indefinitely.

Trooper J. Goldstone, who was wounded at lieitfontein, has recovered and is about to rejoin his troop. Much sympathy is felt in Waimate with Mr and Mrs Morrison in the loss of their child.

The Mayor of Wairaate has been invited to be present at the reception to the Imperial troops in Tiuiaru. The Bishop of Wellington has requested that prayers for the Queen should be offwred in all the Anglicei. churches in the diocese.

Visitors from Dunedin speak in terms of praise of the Kaikorai electric tram way, which is stated to be a great success.

The murderer of M. Stambouloff, the ex-Bulgarian Premier, has esca;vd from prison. As a result of political agitation in Bulgaria in iyj)6, M Sta nb mloff, who was Piima Minister at the time, was assassinated.

The coal output from Westport last week was 10224 tons 9 cwt., of wh : c'i the Westport Coal Company shipped 8,728 tons 13 cwt., and the Weslp >rt Co operative Comprny 1,496 tons 10 cwt.

To-day is to be observed as a day of national mourning. The Post and Telegrapn office will be open from 9 to 10 a.m. and 7to 8 a.m. There wilbe no letter delivery by carrier in the morning. All mails nsnaliy despatched will be closed at 10 a.m.

The aunouacemenfc of disarmament of civilians in Cape colony is a thunder bolt to disloyalists. The penalty fo. the contravention of the order has been fixed at 7 yearn' imprisonment, or a fine of £SOO with two years' hard labour.

It has been ascertained that there are 193 vacancies in the Contingents at present in South, divided as follows:—Second, 80; Third, 56; Fourth, 31; Fifth, 26. The men in camp ai-e being given the optioi o joining any of these Contingents h y desire.

Venezuela asphalt concessionaries are trying to ount American concessionaries and are utilising a revolutionary movement for the pur pose. Venezuelans seized two British steamers which are sailing under thtBritish flag, in order to coivey troops against the rebels. America has despatched the first class battleship Keirsage, end Britain the Scorpion. According to the Wellington Post fcha Acting Premier has written to the Hon. Colonel Pitt, Chairman of the Federation Commission, stating that Government will be pleased if the Commission can see its way to allow the proceedings to be open to the Press, as it was never contemplated, when tha appointments were ma le, that the sittings would be held in uameia. The committee set up by the Timaru Borough Council at its last meeting, to deal with the question of an annuel supply of ten million gallons of water for the Smithfield Freezing Work*, met on Monday afternoon, and sanctioned the connection being made for supplying the water on the terms laid down by the Gouncil. The price to he paid by the company is 6d per 1000 gallons. A letter received from Mr H. Forlong, a New Zealauder, who is labouring as a missionary on Malekula states that the French claim the whole of South Malekula, and the small islands on that coast, including the. island where Mr Forlong is settled. Two agents of a French trading company ordered Mr Forlong to leaye, but he declined. Later on, duriug his absence, the agents returned with twelve armed natives, broke his hut, and removed much of Mr Forlong's effects, and left a warning that if he had not cleared out before Junuary Bth they would come and kick up a row. Mr Forlong's letter reoords the death from fever of Mrs McKenzie formerly of Dunedin, and stationed with her husbaud on Malekula.

It ia rather a pity that anyoue should think it worth white to take any notice of the calumnies agaiust the soldiers disseminated from time to time by Mr Siead. Like others, we have frequently received broad sheets issued by this gentleman, whioh find an appropriate resting-pla e in the waste paper basket. An example of the sort of evidence on which Sir Stead bases his groundless accusations against the army to which Lord Roberts has paid so splendid a tribute is to be found in a recent number of The Tiroes. Mr Stead published a gross allegation with regard to outrages said to have been committed on Boer women. The Bishop of Natal caused an investigation to be made, with the result that the bead of family alleged to have been the viothm declares that "it is a pack of lies." It is not always that such charges as Mr Stead thinks fit to make in this way can he thus traced and refuted ; but it is pretty safe to conclude that they seldom, if ever, have any founds* tfoninfaot. St. James Gazette-

A special meeting of tho Libra;, Committee called" for Tuesday evening to select books, lapsed for want ofj quorum.

The Hospital authorities desire ty thank Mrs T. Kelly, of Wuihaoruogj, for a present of illustrated papers f O , the use of patients; also Mr Osbotm for a gift of mineral waters. At the Magistrate's Court on Thutj day next there will be a large of civil 3ases, including one fo daruages against a Makikibi resident whose dogs to have Wortijj several of Mr Linto*'« sneep.

At the Police Court Ou T'lesty bef. re Messrs Pt#t and Atwill, J.fy a prohibition order waggranfeid again, Ceorge Brown Kerr.* -Yfte'erdiiy fo fore Messrs Coitm4n and • jOlstj, J.P.'s, Wia. White wa3 imprison till the rising of the Court for mia obscene language in Queen street, tn ordered to pay costs, Bs. Tho Com then rose.

The Hawera Acclimatisation Sooieti will probably accept an offer made bi a local resident, who is about to visa England, to bring out a eonsigamen of plover, or lapwing. No other bj|j is so beneficial to cultivators as i\, lapwing. It devours snails, w« worms, beetles, aphides, the larvjj various insects (hat infect grass, J nips, wheat, and other crops,' an 1 otbJ pests. As it feeds in the evening] has opportunities of getting fit man] insectsjwhich commit their depredatiod after sundown. It is also a used sporting bird. 1

We are informed that the & McKenzie Gibson has just appoint the llev. A. Wentwor»h Wiggt'm, B,| as his curat*. Mr Wiggins wa; o daiued by the Bishop of V.'orOjfe and after spending eom > years received an appontmsnti •huplain in India undo* the Bishipi Julcutta. He left India early | t year to take his brother's duties 83tj of the i,astern of Christ's College. 1 Wi.fj™i' s oiifi:M-r) upon h.s duties her on February 1.

Synopsis, of Kwr Advertisement

Lost: Chiffon boa. Oamaru H irbour Board: Nomii tion of mombwrs. Hospital Trustees : Meeting to <& McAdoo Jubilee Singers : Cflna ■on Monday. J Philip: Foneral notice. Death notice. Captain Garland: No firing S.SL Gup to-day. " Fldral Society: Prize money m payable. St. Augustine's Church: In men riam service.