General News.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 131, 2 April 1901, Page 2

General News.

The Government, Valuation Departrnaut has a notification in this issue re objections to valuations. Mr A. 0. Friugle, of Timaru, was on Friday nominated as a representative of the Timaru Harbour Board. Messrs Guinness and LeOen notify , that, owing to the Easter holidays, their ' usual sale will not be held on SaWmLy next. A petition is in, course of preparation asking Mr W. Priest to allow hims'-lf to be nominated for the pcsi ion of Mayor of Timaru. Messrs Guinness and Lopren advertise their Sfcudholme Junction sale this issue, which takes place on Thursday next, at 2,30 p.m, * We would draw the litteuljibn of our readers to the advice contained in Mr W, E. Woods’ advertisement pars, which, will be found elsewhere. Mr R. Skiun.’r has been returned unopposed as a member of the Timaru Harbmr Board, to represent the Geraldine district. The Melbourne butcher,s have increased the price of meat a penny per pound all round owing to the high, prioe of s.ock. James Woods pleaded guilty at the Thames Police Conrt on Friday, to a charge of indecent assault on a girl thirteen years of age, and was commuted for trial. ' A London cablegram says the Rydalmere, a LivefphSkbarqub, which loaded at Marseilles for was seen in a sinking condilioiuon March 19th near Gibraltar. ■ ‘ The Defence Department require from Canteibury district four Mounted Infantry. five Naval Artillery ami four Infantry to go with the represenative Contin. gent to Me.bouroe. * Corporal Fowler, of NeUpn, sustained concussion of the brain add fracture of several ribs afc the Seventh Contingent camp on Friday, through jumping from abolung horse. . *Lord Solbome, epeakiug at the Liberal Union Club, recently, dehounced the ■ current agitation'against Sir Alfred Milner, who, he said, had stemmed twoinvasions without-infringing the constitution. At the Wanganui Police Court oa Friday a man named Walter William Alfred Bates was committed fur trial at the District Court on a. charge of indecenily assaulting a girl under five years of age. A slight mistake ocoured in our report, last issue, of the Gala Day in Timaru, when Mr Amoa was stated to have cut oat the Amateur Quarter-mile Bicycle Race in Simla. 2-sth seconds. This should have been 31 2-sth seconds. A London cablegram, dated March 29tb, states that wireless telegraphy messages were sent by the Ophir 7 to Canea and Suda Bays, in the island of Crete. A similar message was sent to Malta when the Ophir was 110 milAn distant. It is stated that Mr M. Gilfedder, M.H.R., is to be a member of the Epyal Commission on Teachers’ Salaries, as teachers’ representative. As Mr Gil. leddef was in charge of. Wrey’s Push School, Southland, where the, average attendance was about 50, he nmßtknow all aboct ilh—fiflmeritioa Standard*. “ :

Two special trains of fifty-five trucks sheep arrived at Morven ear y on turday morning, consigned to Messrs flinuesa and Le Cren. The freignt jnsiats of 3850 yoUng breeding ewes, bich are advertsied Dr sale at otuajhne Junction on Thursday next.

An accident happened to a man named, cKay, who is employed by the Harbour o»rd, when working on the line near 1B big mill. McKay was using an axe, b#o, by a mishap, it slipped and entered he calf of his leg, and out it rather idly. The man had to be at once pnvayed homo in an express, where the round was dressed.

The departure of Mr Hutchison from hb colony will be no loss to New Zi-a-aud politics. He has never been considered a good party man, lack-ng consistency and loyalty, and probab>y this is to some extent responsibl • tor the fact that his ambition to achieve Ministerial rank has neverbien gratified. —Waihi Daily Telegraph. News is to hand that Colonel Francis, of Christchurch, who went to South Africa with the Fif h Contingent, and was subsequently invalided to England, and then returned homo to New Zealand, died at 11 o’clock on Sunday night. Col'inel Francis arrived :n Canterbury in 1857, and has been connected with volunteers for many years.

The proprietor of the Woodville Examiner has appealed to the Minister of Jusrioe to remit the £5 fine, wnh c .sis, recently imposed on the petitioner for publishing an advertisement relating to a Melbourne art union. The ground are Chat tbe advertisement was immediately withdrawn, and that on e milar offenders nominal fines have b j -en imposed. The New Zealand Loan and M-rcantile Agency Comp my, Limited, have re cmved the following cable message, dated London, 27 h inslant :—" Wool.— The sales closed firmly this d «.y, at an avenge advance of auout 7|j per cent, on last sales’ "losing rates for nj“rino, and $ per cent, for fine crossbred, and an average decline of about 5 per cent, for medium and coarse crossbred.”

Yesterday was the first day of the first closed year Dr native pigeon, pukeko, aqd kaka, wfi eh, under the Animals' Protection Act of last session, will be protected f-r twelve months every third year. Tne shooting season generally for Otago wifi begin on Monday next, and close on June 30th. For the rest of the colony it will begin on May Ist, and clqee on July 31st A Press Association message from Dun edin states that the general manager of the New Zealand Coal and Oil Company h is received a message from the manager a,t the shale works at Orepuki that oil is running from four retorts, and that everything is favourable. The output is expected to be 2000 gallons of kerosene per day. Already numerous orders h vve been received for the company’s pr 'due .

The wea l her in Waimate during t'e past w-ek has b"en warm, and very favourable for harvesting opcatiom. News to hand from No-th Can erbury states that the threshing machines there have been working very lo -g hou s, thus taiiin*: ad van'age of the weather. Clover cutting has also com..»ouc d, and feed is plentiful. A s art h<u» al»o been made with the digging of the earlier ripene' potatoes. A general meeting of the South Canterbury Hunt Clnb was h<4d on Saturday, the Master (Mr A. S. Elworthy) in the chair, and there were also present Messrs C. N, Orbell, S. Higginbotham, J. For d, W. J. Bassett, F, 8 nmons, G. H Rh des, A. E. Kerr, J. M z->, IV R bortson (secretary), Huntsman Mr Orton, and Dr Cox. The balance-sheet was read and adopted as printed. The election of officers resulted as follows : Master, Mr A. S. Elw rthy ; cmr.mittie —Messrs A. L. Baikor and Morris Harper, representing the GerMdme Dri trict; Messrs C. Jtudholme, W. J B ;83' ti, J. Ford, and Hunter Morri«, representing the Waimate Dis riot; Messrs F. Simmons, A. E K u r , M. Gray, S. Higginbotham, Jack M-e, H Orbell, J. Rutherford, G H. Rhodes, J. M ze, D. Robertson, and Dr Cox, represen ring jhe Timaru District; secretary an I treasurer, Mr D Robertson It was decided to hold the opening meet on E-ster Monday at noon, at the Kennels. A vote of thanks to tha chairman for presiding term nated the meeting. Consumption’s often caused by cold

Neglected in its early stage, And once it gets a good firm hold,

It hasn’t much respect for age. How, when a man’s so near the grave, When hope is dead and death seems sure. Oh, whait ban ease him, what can save ? W. AE. Wood’s Great Peppermint Gore.