General News.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 108, 14 February 1901, Page 2

General News.

The Memorial Committee meets on Friday next to arrange financial matters.

The cflico of the Victorian AgentGeneral, London, was wrecked by a gas explosion.

Mr Barton has gone on a visit to Mebourno and Add,aide, where he addresses public meetings in connection with the Federal elections.

Lev. Father IKgnauit returned to Waimate on Tuesday from Christchurch, whore he has been attending the annual priests’ retreat. Lord Hopetoun has received a cable expressing the King’s high appreciation and warms thanks for the colonies’ congratulations on his accession. Eighteen wheelers, who were responsible fur tho recent stoppage at tho Stockton colliery, New South Wales, preferred a week’s imprisonment to tines.

A French newspaper, Annee et Marine, states that the French warships Aube and Eure, both of which hare visited New Zeuland waters, are to be disarmed at Noumea and used as hulks.

A fire near Orange, Now South Wales, destroyed a house containing the body of Mrs Ivors. Three daughters were badly scorched in attempts to subdue the fire. The corpse was almost cremated.

A cadet has been appointed to the St Andrews station. It is to be hoped that this change will greatly benefit the public and also the stutionraaster, Mr Bush, who will be kept very busy during the grain season. The Presbyterian General Assembly opened its sessions at Wanganui on Tuesday night. There were rbout 100 clergymen present. The ModeratorElect, the Rev. J. K. Eliott, of Wellington, delivered a splendid address.

Colour-Sergeant Wain of the Studholme Mounted Rifles will attend the Rifle Association Meeting at Wanganui next mouth. He is, without doubt, one of the best shots in either the mounted corps or the Waimate Rifles, {of which he is an honorary member.

The Rev S. Barnett, who has been supplying the Presbyterian Church for the last three Sundays, goes to Nelson city on Monday. He is applying to the Wesleyan Conference for admission to its ranks. He has also received an invitation from a North Canterbury circuit.

The Napier Gas Company has issued a very satisfactory balancesheet for the year ended 31st December, 1900., The profits for the year amounted to £4205 9s 7d, and, with the balance of £207 7s 8d brought forward from the previous year, £4412 9s 7d was available for distribution.

Under a clause in the Appropriation Act of last session, the Government has deducted £254 3s 8d from subsides due to the Waivarapa South County Council for expenses of the returning officer at the licensing elections of 1897 and .1890, which the Supreme Court had decided the Council was not liable for. The Federation Commission is now sitting at Dunedin. On Monday Mr F. R. Chapman, solicitor and chairman of the Conciliation Board, was examined. As a whole, Mr Chapman did not think the manufacturing and agricultural interests would suffer by federation, but ho thought ib was undeniable that some classes of manufactures would suffer.

It is not generally known that throe brothers’ Rippingalo were successful in being enrolled in the Sixth Contingent and quite established a record. A sergeant jocularly named the troop the “ Bippingale Horse.” For various reasons the applications of a number of Wairaatoites were not successful, amongst these being the two returned troopers whose leave of absence expires at the end of this month.

Speaking at the Australian Natives’ Association luncheon, Melbourne, Mr Barton, referring to the New Hebrides, said that the chief source of the disputes was the question of land ownership, upon which the AngloFrench agreement was silent. The Federal Ministry desired, if it could be done without embarrassing the Empire, the creation of an international tribunal to remove the sources of the disputes,

The ex-King of Servia died at Vienna on Tuesday.

The Timaru Borough Council has at the present time a debit balance of £8784 14s.

The Waimate Hospital Trustees advertise for applications for the position of probationary nurse. Lord Hopetoun, Iho GovernorGeneral of the Australian Commouwealth, has an income of £70,000. Last wet k I Last week of our end of season sale. All millinery at your own prices at Arthur Jones and Go’s.— Advt. The San Francisco mail reached Wellington yesterday. Tha southern portion will come by the express lo day.

Miss DuEfield announces that she has arranged for a supply of fresh vegetables twice a week'"; also, that she is prepared to take orders for fruit for jam. The estate of the late Mr John Stephenson, auctioneer, of Dunedin, has been certified to as of the value of £56.298, and stamp duty on that amount has been paid. The weather has now cleared up all round and the prospects of an uninterrupted harvest look brighter thin they did a week ago. In all directions there will be a very good average yield. In our advertising columns Mr C. H. Verily, Timaru agent for Lawes’ Sheep Dips, notifies that be ha ! ready for forwarding both po’souons and non poisonous dip, in single and double strengths.

Messrs Guinness and LeCren announce that, to close their season’s brokings, they, are now selling their binder twine at 3kl per lb, procurable at Mr J. McPherson’s, Sindholme Junction, or at their stores, Waimato. The Australian Natives Association’s Wheel Race was run at Melbourne on Tuesday ami resulted ts follows: Martin, 1 ; Murphy, 2; Mathias 3 Won by three lengths. Time, 4 min 22 4 fiscc. Martin also won the first prize in the Gold intakes. , At tho Dunedin Police Court on Tuesday, Samuel Eiaherly was charged with a criminal offence on a young child at St. Clair, and was committed for trial. He asked for bail, and the Magistrate said that he. would make it nearly prohibitory, fixing it at £IOOO, with two sureties of TfiOO each. The Smithfield freezing works. Timaru, have been connected with tho borough water supply. The works have hitherto used water from deep wells, but the water is unsuitable for boilers, causing much scaling. The Borough Council will sell water at the works at fid per 1000 gallons, and tho minimum payment will exceed £‘AOO a year.

According to the Tapanni Courier, a private letter from Mr 'Watson Abraham, now in the Home country, indicates that horses of all kinds are very dear, and a good draught stallion ; costs from TBOO to *ISOO. First-class geldings bring up to TlfiO in Glasgow. Light horses are at a famine price, £BOO being paid for a famous gig horse in England. The Timaru Harbour Board’s pump drfdgo has lately lifted some big boulders from tho bottom of tho harbour. Three weighed respectively 124, 130, and . IfiOlbs. The 160 pounder was apparently too heavy or too big to be lifted up the rising discharge pipe, and it got jammed in tho pump. The pump had to be opened to got it out. There is a good deal of indignation expressed in both town and country regarding the attack on tho acting Town Clerk (Mr G. Akhurst) at the late Borough Council meeting. Mr Akhurst has made himself very popular during his short residence in Waimato and people who know his business capacity and sterling qualities object to his being so roughly handled and with no apparent reason. Captain Smith, formerly of the Defence Department, who left New Zealand in charge of the Hotchkiss battery, quotes a picturesque metaphor uttered by a Canadian soldier as to the aridity of South Africa. ” If,” said the “ bluenose,” “it wore within the range of possibility for him to own both South Africa and Hades, he would rent out South Africa and try and live in the other place.” At the Dunedin Supreme Court on Monday a case was heard in which Mrs Whale claimed £2OO for injuries sustained on the Dunedin and Kaikorai Tramway Company’s line. Mrs Whale was a passenger on the up car. and when on the top of the steep grade the car stopped, and the driver let it go back to pick up the cable rope. Mrs Whale got frightenedot the speed, and jumped off. Sho herself said chat she did no-t remember what happened, owing to fright, but she had no intention of jumping off, as the thought of tho Chinaman being killed was running in her mind. The jury returned a verdict for £l3O, and the Judge gave costs.

On December 23rd London was enveloped by a fog, and some idea of what this means is given by the Daily News. During the whole,, of September, October and November there had been no fog, a circumstance without precedence during thirty previous autumns. But when the fog did come, cold, damp, and raw, it was all the more uuwelctme for its long absence. During the day of darkness communication between ships of war in Sheerness Harbour was totally suspended. Accidents in the street were frequent, and at a rough estimate 200 cases were treated at fourteen London hospitals. As could only be expected, the fog was readily taken advantage of by hooligans in their robberies with personal violence, as it gave them an easy escape from pursuit. The police were informed of a number of cases of watch and purse snatching, as well as parcels and other belongings being stolen from off vans and from the fronts of shops. In two cases the victims of these outrages wore left insensible,and wore found by passers-by stumbling over their bodies. In each case the injuries were not very serious, and they soon recovered, but the amount of money lost was consider--1 able.

St. Augustine’s dunday School picnic will be held-on Saturday next. It is likely that the Waihio murder case will be brought up at the next sitting of the Magistrate’s Court at Waimate.

Bayers of prints, muslins and all cotton goods, are invited to inspect the many bargains at Arthur Jones and Go’s, last week of sale.—Advt.

A young man named Geoige Bauer, working at Bt. Andrews, had his arm broken by a kick front a horSe yesterday afternoon! He was taken to the Timaru Hospital, Mr Waddell, S.M., will hold a sitting of the Magistrate’s Court to-mar* row. There are thirty seven applies? tions for renewals of old ago pensions, The billeting of the troops in DanediQ had its charms —to some. But it also had its drawbacks. One Tom my, in conversation with a northern reporter, said: *’ This ’ore billeting may he all very well, but I ’ad rather ’ard luck. You see, I struck the Salv.v tion Hanuy, an’ I’adn’t a particularly lively time of it, I can tell .you.” Synopsis of New Advertisements. Guinness and LeOren: Binder twine 83d per )b. W imate Hospital: Wants probationary nurse. W mod : To lease a house with land. C. H- Verity: Agent for Lawes’ sheep dip. Miss Duffield: Fruit and vege ibles for sale.