General News.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 102, 29 January 1901, Page 2

General News.

The Sydney Post Office is surcharging New Zealand penny letters. The Waimate Borough Council met last evening, when, after passing a vote )f the death of the Queen, rho meeting adjourned till Wednesday tight. i Messrs. Guinness k LeGren notify that the sale of horses on account of Mr jGeo. Black will take place at Timaru on Saturday, and. not at Waimate as,previously advertised.

It is suggested that the Duke of Connaught will be commissioned to open the. Federal Parliament, and that Sir George White or Sir Redvers Duller will occupy apromniment place on his stafl.

All railway workshop men throughout the colony are to receive pay during the three days the shops are closed. All other railway men now at work will receive three days’ holiday when they can bo spared. Judge Kettle expressed his opinion in the Wanganui Court on Monday that perjury in our law courts has become a fine art. It was, he said high time severe sentences wore imposed when it was clearly proved that perjury had been committed.

The Minister of Railways has directed that on the day -o? the Queen’s funeral no -railway busines of any kind is to be transacted between 11.30 and 12 noon. No train is to be started within that time and every running train is to be brought to a-standstill for half an hour.

Constitutionally there is no change in Now Zealand in consequence of the Queen’s death, for, by the Act of 1888, Demise to the Crown Act, Parliament continues, as well as all appointments, contracts and legal proceedings. Ministers, however, will have to be sworn in, as their oath was to her Majesty. The Eastern Extension Cable Com puny's steamer Recorder has arrived in Sydney to effect repairs to the cable between New Zealand and Australia. The fault exists about 400 miles off the New Zealand coast. Tbe vessel will also shift the Australian end of the cable to the new station recently erected at La Perouse. Owing to the interruption of the Singapore cables some alteration' in the , vessel*--instructions may take place, as the Company’s other repairing steamer, the Sherrard Osborne, is at Hong kong. Synopsis of New Advertisements. Hondai Lanka—Pure unblended tea. London Dental Institute Business announcement. Guinness and LeCren—Alteration of place of sale. Butchers of Waimate—Notice re price of meat. Mrs T. Knight -Five-roomed house for sale by tender.