General News.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 107, 12 February 1901, Page 2

General News.

The revolution which for some time has existed in Venezuela has been suppressed. Mr C.JFaukner, Wllowbridge, offers a reward for the return of a black colke dog lost on Sunday. The Smithfield freezing woiks will hold its annual picnic at Waimate on Saturday, March 2nd. French soldiers holding Transvaal bonds have protested to Dr Leyds against the Boers destroying the mines.

An unemployed Italian committed suicide by shooting himself with a revolver in St. Paul’s Cathedral during service.

Queen Wilhelmina, of Holland, was married at the Hague to Duke Henry, of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. The ceremony aroused tremendous enthusiasm. The King will open Parliament with full State honours, the Queen accompanying him. Their Majesties were warmly acclaimed while driving from Marlborough House on Friday.

The British Government is issuing eleven million 8 per cent Exchequer bonds repayable in 1905, and ranking with the issue of December last. The bank was to open the tenders on Monday.

A telegram has been received in Loudon from Messrs John Aird and Sous, who are erecting irrigation works in Egypt, stating that the last channel of the Nile has been closed, and it is now possible to walk across the river at Assuan. -

A London cable of Saturday says: A jury has mulcted the Daily Mail in £725 damages for alleging that Charles MacDonald, jeweller, of Glasgow, supplied a worthless s word of honour to the Clan MacDonald Society for MajorGeneral Hector MacDonald. Ihe French Army Committee adopted the Adrian Montebello’s reorganisation scheme, reducing the term of service to ten months or a year, and offering privates and noncommissioned officers bounties and high pay if they enlist for fivC or ten years,

At Lyttelton, on Friday, four firemen of the s.s. Britannic, which conveyed the Imperial troops,were charged with damaging property, and with using obscene language on board the vessel. Two were sentenced to three months’ imprisonment, and two to two months. '

The King of Portugal, receiving a deputation from the Evangelical Alliance at Buckingham Palace, said that at his distinct vftsh religious liberty had been granted t> all Protestant Christians throughout His dominions.. It was his determination to enforce this rule, and'He was givifig orders to ensure it being carried out. The' western bound express on the New York-Chioago line* one of the fastest on the Erie Railway,was derailed owing to a fish-plate breaking at Curoe on Saturday, between Amasa and Greenvalle. The mail and composite oars were telescoped, but the ladies was Undamaged; : Six ; people wexe killed and twelve Injured.

The Queen of Sweden is seriously ill. Mdme Lilienthal Squire advertises terms for pupils desirous of attending her finishing classes in Timaru. Yesterday, before the Rev. G. Barclay and Mr W. Coltraan, J.P.’s, Walter A. Wilson had a prohibition order taken out against him. A Japanese syndicate is constructing the Soul-Fusan Railway at a cost of twenty-five million yen (£5,000,000). Corea is giving the land. A hundred cases of dynamite accidentally exploded on Friday last, blowing off the top of the Sqn Andres silver mine, Mexico, and killing 87 persons. German newspapers sharply criticise the decoration of Lord Roberts, and declare that the Kaiser’s act and long stay iu England runs contrary to the prevailing feeling of the German nation.

The Portuguese Government has agreed to the return to Delagoa Bay of Mr S. Potts, whose exequatur as Netherland Consul was recently withdrawn, the King Portugal at the time alleging grave reasons for the step. Monsignor John Vaughan, in a letter to the London Times, said that it is unreasonable for Catholics to complain about snot offering masses for the Queen, who upon her accession remarked > that - the mass was superstitious ftnd-’idolatrous.

Messrs Bostdbk and Company, sugar refiners, Liverpool, have been mulcted to the extent of J 21980, for the damage sustained by a brewer in connection with the recent beer-poison-ing cases through using arsenous material supplied by the Bostock Company.

The Waimate Racing .Club advertises closing of nominations oh Wednesday. The Club has lately put up a new fence at the straight and is making other improvements to the course. Nominations are coming in freely and a good meeting should be the result.

Two cases of bunbonic plague are reported Loin Capetown. Major Yarra, an expert, and Colonel Mackay, of Now South Wales, have been summoned from Pretoria, and are consulting and advising with the authorities. Every precaution and rigorous preventive measures are being taken. The outbreak has caused no alarm.

Mr Thomson, the President of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, in an address to the Chamber, stated that although immediate prospects were less bright, the country’s trade was sound. The controversy, Freetrade versus Protection, was still alive. There was no telling, considering Britain’s costly wars, how soon the issue would bo raised, oven in England.

At Clinton on Friday a case of importance as affecting drink in the Clutha prohibition district was heard. The police laid an information against John Hay for receiving orders for liquor. Mr J. F, M. Fraser, the Crown Prosecutor, contended that the evidence disclosed that the defendant had received orders at Olir.ton for the supply of beer, and that by virtue of the provisions of the Act no commercial traveller or other person could receive any order for liquor in the Clutha. Dr Findlay, for the defence, contended that the liquor to ho supplied must bo within the county. Decision was reserved.

The usual fortnightly meeting of the Loyal Heart of Friendship Lodge was held Inst evening, Bro. Fagan, N.G., presiding over a large attendance of members. A. large amount of correspondence was received as follows : From the District Lodge, notifying the Lodge 'of the annual visit next meeting ; also,-from Christchurch and Timavu ; a long letter was read from Bro. R. D. Smith, now in the Transvaal ; several letters from other members wore also received. The quarterly accounts- were received and passed for payment, the amount being £39 16s Bd. Sick pay (£l2 4s 4d) was also passed. n The Sydney Bulletin states that Captain Gordon Wilson, who Commands the detachment of Horse Guards now visiting New Zealand with the Imperial troops, prevented the madman Roderick McLean from injuring -Queen Victoria when the lunatic fired,at her Majesty at Windsor Railway Station some year ago. Young Wilson was then at Eton, and going to Widsor Station to see the Queen pass, noticed a miserable looking man pointing a revolver at her. The Etonian immediately seized him and deprived him of the weapsn. The assailant to/ned out to be a lunatic named LcLean, who, on his trial for high treason, was acquitted on the ground of insanity.

The War Office issued two volumes of despatches covering the period of Lord Roberts’ command. They graphically reveal the terrible drawbacks encountered by the Army Corps, The organisation was disintegrated in the first contact with the enemy. In reality there was no organised transport. The corps after this had been organised. Lord Roberts consciously encountered the risk of a rising in Cape Colony and having his lines of communication cut rather than forego the enormous advantage of striking at the “ enemy’s capital. Lord Roberts pathetically laments the subsequent condition of the mounted forces, which prevented any operations demanding rapidity of movement, and he pays a tribute to General Buffer and his subordinate officers and brave soldiers, who were marching And fighting almost incessantly • from January 15 to February 28 last year. Finally", he emphatically declares that the permanent tranquility of the annexed colonies is dependent on .the complete disarmament of the inhabitants, rand admits tba,t this task is difficult, yet one that can be accom■pliahedLin time and by the exercise of patience. Synopsis of Hew Advertisements. . Sbaekleton and Grant—Last ten days of Centennial sale. District. Order —Thanks to volunteers. Mdme. LUienthal Squire—Finishing classes m Timaru. Waimate Racing Club—Nominations dose on Wednesday. Lost —A dog. . Wanted—Washing I .' •