General News.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 143, 30 April 1901, Page 2

General News.

' *'■'* '"•■ v.'. - ' S. A financial panic exists io Japan. ,'■' } - -The Shah of Persia is dangerously ",< '"• - - Students' rioter still continue ifc Russia. The allotment.of the half million , loan.Urwnjpleted. Britain haa aubaiitted terms to '* Pranoefor thea6ttlenaeniotth« Haw* ' ) fonodland fisheries question. / * - A football warn from New South *js Wales visits' Netf Zealand at an early ->£* , date. I You can depend on ridding children of Worms with Wadb's Wo2£? figs, the wonderful worm worrienli sT 1 Price Is. . The Sydney Daily Telegraph pre. diets little sympathy with Mr Seddon's State-owned cable between Australia and New Zealand. , An Australian British Commission will probably be appointed to deal with: land troubles in the New , JSebrides.,.,.■,»»« _ There are indications that the Home Government. will secure the removal of the strong expressions without im* u pairing the substance of the tion oath. ■ The Defence Department wish all veterans, whether soldiers or sailors, v who have seen service prior in 1870, to seqd their names to LieuteuantColonel Bailey. No less than sixty-one shopkeepers in Cuba street, Wellington, have declared that they will not close their shops unless the route chosen for the Royal procession includes that street. W - It is improbable, for various reasons, mthat the route will be altered. If The Fielding Chamber of. Com- I' raerce, in protesting against the in- B creased fire insurance rates, asks 'S Tarsnaki and Wellington provincial » districts to join in urging the establish* K ment of a .State Fire Insurance I ~ Department. I ,A portion of the Bangatora estate, m hear Woodville, has been purchased ■ from the Assets Realisation Board by ■' the Government under the Land for m. Settlements Act. » In a desperate fight between 400 K "British-led; troops and slave-owning m> Erairs in Northern Nigeria, the natives ■: repeatedly charged wii>hin thirty yards Wi of the Maxim. Ultimately they gave it up as a bad job, and the British garrisoned two large cities, installed new-rulers and.released 1000 slaves. The pressure on the goods sheds, in and around Waitnate has not been so great this grain season as last. At Hook, Makikihi, and St Andrews the sheds are barely full, but at Otaio a good deal is stacked alongside the station, some of it uncovered. No doubt were Dickens still alive He'd yet write many a tale, Though he is dead his works survive, - Their reading ne'er grows stale. So many try to imitate, Bnt they remain obscure, For coughs and colds don't hesitate, - Take Woods' Great Peppermint Core. ' The Hatnma Estate, of 25,787 acres, 'which was acquired compulaorily under the Land for Settlement Act, and'Whioh was the subject of long legal proceedings between Mr Purves Russell and the. Government, was balloted for at Waipukuran on Thursday in the presence of a large number of spectators.'' Altogether there were 225 persons, representing 920 applications fur 67 sections. Sergeant A. H. L. Richardson, of • Stratbcona'e Horse, who was decorated by the King With the Victoria Gross at St, James's Palace, is a Liverpool man. He went to Canada eight years ago to .join "he Canadian Mounted { Poliee. On returning to the dominion I I he will receive a present of £BOOO. This sum has been subscribed by Canadians for the first representative of the Canadian forces winning the V.C. t - wh»t the Goal Commissioners bad seen at ' Mokau.T.ifr' Hflselden, S.M., said it was difficult ', to say much without anticipating their report. There was, • however, no .harm, and it was only fair to say that they were aU pleasantly surprised at the extent to which the coal bad been opened up, and the quality of the eoal was vptf much superior to what they had been led -to expect.—Press, Preparations are going on aotively in Wajmate for the shooting season which opens on Wednesday next. At Lake Wainono five miles from « Waimate, rhooters have already built their oaia mias. Docks and ewans > are very plentiful and a few geese have made their appearance on the, * lake, but unfortunately the late dry weather has eauettd the lake'to be rather low for-boating and sport may not be as good as usual. , Reporting to the Timaru Harbour Board on the respective merits of the day labour ecntraot system*' eifcearrying oat big works, Mr Dobson #Bted that stv expected that the saving to.tbe Board by employing^day : .labour would Jbe afeant gjaflOQ. Ha '■ aaidjbat in tgosi «ate» (he contract \ system was nreier&We, but this wbtfc -' was a notable esqeeption. \ \ - The ioflwvia* ielegtam has been- \ received from the Hon, W. Hall Jones i by the Timaru oommittee of the : citieens' aocial and ball :~-~ : - »JBfi\TMarn & Sooth Canterbury 1 trooperK. It is>»t present' uncertain -> ; wk«n the yongsjfiro will arrire in New i .Zealand. as this is definlW* knewn-I-wiU-adsrisa yaa. Thia wiU .govern the return.to South Canf*' \ bury. I shall be very pleased, if my 1 pnblic duties permit me to accept y6nr 1 "kind invitation,-to be present at the H social and baliintheir honpur.*'", v"v -I A native woman is being "^ Gis>orne for manskugliter by doctor. '' l inga typhoid patient. 'A r him dipped into jthe J and given'flajt I rwat*T *s »'jpQrtfative. As jtt-nS 1 the m»eww

Much merriment waa caused on . Saturday attbe Farmers' Club meeting . when Mr Hertslett, ia proposing that the Club be form'ed, mentioned the speeches of Messrs Douglas, Ward and Porterr-chainaan ;of the .WaikakahiSettlers Association. ■. cor tfßcted him and said *th.e uama qhould"fee *• Mr Hfcrtsletl; immediately' Apologised (or- his; mistake, but fresh merriment was erased by Mr Boer's tetnark, " Oh, never mind, its' haif-and--bdilf." It was several minutes before those present «oal< unfarl their smites. Mr Hertslett sat next tbejovlal R, 0. B find a3ked hia» the name of the speaker/ The occasion was ioo good-lo lit slip; "bence the inversion, of the names.

The Federal Contingent left Xyttel•4on by the Warrimoo on Friday night. 5t did not receive much of a send-off, popular enthusiasm being about run 4iry. It consists of Major N. L. l>. 33arith in eonamand of 26 Mounted infantry, 25 Infantry, 4 Pipars, 22 Highlanders, 2i 17 Engineers, 9 Permanent Artillery, "-22 Field Artillery, and a s:aff of two -and the Medical Officer, a total of 172 The Contingent m to leave Sydney on :*ts return to New Zealand on May 18th.

About forty - couples attended • the Sauna ton bachelors' social on Frid iy evening ■ttTji.:«pe«u ; ,a,jn9l|t. enjoyable : time. Dancing, to music provided by Messrs H. Wilson and Saunders (violin •and accordeon), was kept up till late, Mt T. (ioodman making an efficient M.O. Baring the evening songs were ■sung by several gentlemen and a step•dance Was given by Mi-George Rogers, Abundance of refreshments was provided aod done-full justice to. Tne chaannao «f thts School Com•mitCee°h*u received from the Education Board «e eofuivy as to the number of -children tr tvafti'jg to Chrisbehuroh for Duke of York's visit. They will %e carried at school excursion rates, one adult going with every 10 children. Tickets will be issued to school com •'guittees.

Synopsis of tow . Adfertisements.

Col. Bailey: Notice to veteran sailors ;sa I soldiers., The.'* ck Inapectcar visits Waimate on Tliuwday. Guinness and LajCfcea pffer Library sites ou llth. N.Z L. and M.A. Company? Entries ?or Fr.day's sale. J. K«an<: PigkUling and howeclipping. Caiterbury Farniara's Fwe-Toomed &ous4 for sale. Y. 3. ty'il 9011 : 1° business as gas -.and «i»ier titter and plumber. E. J. AtwHl; Duaean drills. Orand conofiirt in Wosleyan Church Sail on Thursday.