General News.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 129, 28 March 1901, Page 2

General News.

The N M. and'-A. Company notify that they require 100 good chaff bags at cnoe. Canterbury Farmers’ Co.-op. adver ise entries for th ir sale on Friday.

The own up of the Ariadne, who. is in Sydney, s'a es that the yatcht is insured for £IO,OOO wi h Lloyds. 1 1 another eolqn n the N. M. and A. Company adv rtiao entries for tho»r usual stock, sale at the Waimate County paleyards. The quantity of rubble tipped over the B aging for “the new mole contract at Timaru du ing the month ending March 23rd, was 3347 tons. At Wanganui on Tuesday last, Hewlett, ot Christchurch, won the Otago match (£7), ten shots at 300 yards, putting on 47 out of a possible 50.

The State Minister of Labour is taking steps to arrange a conference of coal lumpers and collier owners with & viaw of compromising the difficulty. The Waioute Gtonnty Council invite tenders for^threefcontracts, particulars of which williwPfound in our advertising columns. Tenders close on Saturday April 6th. ’

Our report of the 'annual meeting of the Waimate Choral and Orchestral Sodety is unavoidably crowded out this issue, and will appear in our next. A Sydney cablegram says, great com* plaints are being made by fa mers at the want oletorage for wheat on the railways, and the poor wharfage and shipping facilities. The Syduey Daily Telegraph states that six million bnshels are awaiting over-sea transit in the State, and are likely to miss the market.

The Kailway Departra nt advert! es train arrangements in connection with the school sports to be held at Timaru to-day. The evening train from Timaru to Oamarn will leave at 6. 35, p.m. and will tun one hour later than usual The branch train will make an with, this train.

The census forms which are being supplied by the sub-enumerators ace to be filled in on Sunday night next, and will be called for on the following day, or as soon thereafter as possible. The penality for wilfully neglecting or refusing to fill up the forms is a sum not exceeding £2O. A telegram from Wellington states that for the three Royal saloon carriages to be used by the Duke and Duchess of York on the railways of lha colony, ordinary 44ft buggy oars will ba adopted, and when the Royal visit is over will ba available for Vice-Regal use. The decorations will be in good taste, and will include handsome New Zealand woods, relieved by linorusta, Walton panels and ceilingsA wellknown Hibearnian, says the Dunedin Star, refer red at the Mornington meeting re tramways to the backward condition of the borough in the “ nineteenth century ! ” “ Ihe twentieth,” came from a dozen voices. I admit,” said the speaker, “ I am a little behind the time*, bub that se- tna to be the general condition of the Morningbon people.” And everybody roared.

The Trade and Labour Courcil in Sydney passed a resolution asking the Labour Conference to appoint a deputation to wait on the Minister of R always and urge that preference of employment should be given to Unionist?, in view of the action by the Minister of Works in New South Wales.

The Sydney League of Wheelmen has selected Chamberlain, an English amateur, as its representative at lha Christchurch meeting. It is rot y< t certain which of the New South Wales t iders will start . It is ’stated that there is a certainty that the L->agu« a representative will not ba allowed to s arb if the Union’s representatives ride, and vice versa.

A well-attrnd* d meeting of the Mny-ir’s Banquet Committee w s held last evening at Tw< mey’s hotel, about thiity gentlemen being piesent. It was decided to hold the banquet on April 11th, tickets to be 7i 6d each. Subcommit'ees were appointed to look after different matters of detail. The event promises to be an undoubted

Mr Thomas Culling, the oldest prict r in the South Island, and head of the Mataura Balls Paper Mills Company, died on Saturday afternoon last. He was employed on the Otago News du mg that paper’s publication, and afterwaids on the Lyttleton Time?, Witness, and Colonist. Mr Culling was a paseeng* r by the Ajax which arrived in Otago in 1849, and was looked upon as the most venerable memb r of the printers’ craft in the South Island.

A Dunedia Press Association message received on Monday states that at the KaitanagaU railway station on Saturday afternoon, Dav d Fraser, aged five years, was run over by some t 1 ucks of coal, and terribly mutilited, death being instantaneous. H.s sister, aged seven, had a miraculous esc pe, getting off wi K a fractured wrist. The children, with other-, were playing on the station yard while shunting operations were going on.

At the meeting of the Acclimatization

Society on Tuesday it was resolved to procure some pheasants and also soma eggs. Th-y will be liberated in K.no ! tmgly Park, and as they increase will be taken to different parts of the di trict. It is only a matter of a few years before they will be plentiful enough to shoot, and then some g >od sport should be obtainable. At pi esent tnere are no hing bat bares and ducks to be got and the introduction ot pheasants is a step in the right direction, and it behoves sportsmen and others t" protect them earefußy till such t me as they are allowed to ba sho*. No doubt a htavy penality will be ’mnosed for the destroying of them, and this should add to their -afety.