General News.
Queen Victoria's national metric x\-. 1 fund has reached £95.000. It is intended to soil by auciion 5,000 dozen of the late Queen's wines. The Hon. Tohu MeKouzie has been summoned to the Legislative Council. A severe drought exists in a portion of the mallee country and water trains run daily. Mr Andrew Carnegie lias given £IOO.OOO for the purpose of establishing libraries in Glasgow. WaDK's TKKTHIN'tf PoWDKRS for babies are soothing, reduce fever and prevent blotches. Price, Is. The McKinloys have reached San Francisco, and Mrs McKinley has made a hopeful rally. Owing to the usual Studholme sale falling on Victoria Day, the sale will be postponed till the Blst inst. Mr D. Mnhoney iu this issue advertises additional properties for sale. The Railway Department will issue excursion tickets to Dunedin for the winter show and races on May 24th. The London Times' Copenhagen correspondent reports that samplea of Icelandic ccal recently tested have proved equal to Northumbrian coah The London Daily Telegraph states that the Admiralty during the current year commences building three battleships of a displacement of 18,000 tons each. St. Petersburg prisons are full, and arrests ar3 daily increasing. There have been numerous minor demonstrations against tho Government throughout Russia. Tho Czar has abolished Finnish postage stamps. A South African alliance has been formed at Johannesburg with the object of bringing the whole liquor trade under public oontrol-and eliminating private interests. Tho directors of the HamburgAmerican line of steamships and of Atchesoii Topeka railroad are concerting to run a line of steamships between San Francisco, Honolulu, Yokohama, Shanghai and Hongkong. All hope has now been abandoned of the brigantine Linda Weber, eight weeks out from Gisborne to in ballast. Che was last heard of off the East Capo on April 23rd. The vessel was owned by Captain D. Shaw, of Auckland, and was insured for £3OO. The barque Andes, bound from Rockingham, Westralia, to London with a cargo of timber, has been abandoned, dismasted off Fish point, Cape Colony. A transport picked up the crew and landed them at Port Elizabeth. One of the crew was drowned. Who wouldn't be a brainless fool, With heaps of glist'ning gold, Than some poor scholar fresh from school Thrust homeless on the world ? Who wouldn't rather his wealth, Than coughs and colds endure '? Then be content enjoy good health, Take Woods' Great Peppermint Cure.
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A <ire at the Fuluro pr'nting-works, Laurenzo Marque?, spread- to tho Treasury Buildings, and destroyed the archives of Delagoa. In the House of Commons, Mr Balfour stnted that there was not, tho slightest chance of the Deceased Wife s Sister Bill passing this session. Wade's Worm Fr«»s are raosteffective and not unnleasant;_ children., thrive after taking thorn. Price Is. I Messrs Guinness and LoCren advor- | tise for sale a valuablo suburbanproperty on Saturday, .Tune 1.-t. Tho property is within two miles of tliopost office. The King's buck hounds, for which no provision was made in the Civil List, have been presented to Lord: Chesham, commanding the Imperial .Yeomanry, and his officers in Capo Colony. i. The London Standard states that I tho Hamburg American line has pur-clurv-M.l seven of .Tebsen's steam-r.s plving between Shanghai *"& Nortu China, and are negotiating for tin put chase of a line up tho Yai'g:so River and the British docks at Llaukow. Clouds partly interfered with tho observation of the eclipse of ; the sun atSuiuatra, but bettor results wero. obtained at Mauritius, where threecontacts were observed. Tho corona,, was fainter, but the coll owe? more diffused than that of IOOD. For attendance at the inquest on tho Into Mrs Molh-Uney, the jurme. received -U* each, whi-h th-.-y immedv-nt'--.\y h-toiled over to ?dr Mcß-r.t.ney,. Mr" Euddenkiau adding £l to tho. donation. You can depend on ridding yo-ir-chiMren of Worms whh Waoh's wo.t.'i kk;: ; , tho wonderful worm womora. Price Is
The General Conference of thn Australasian W'deym Chuivh has, opened its session in Urisbano. Tin Kov. Georg" Lan.-. of New South Wales, was elected president. Walter Smith, who created a sensation at Napier oa April 27rh, by shunting his wife, and a! tempting to shoot, himself, has recovered t!i« ei'iVots of his wound, and appeared, at Court ou Saturday illuming, charged with wounding his wife with intent to doher grievous bodily harm, and with attempting suicide. Accused was remanded. Captain Gillespie, who commanded.. the Naval Contingent in China, was entertained by t.he officers of tho Contingent; at Svduey, piior to leaving; j for Now Zealand on Saturday in tho ' o-unboat Sparrow, to the command ot r which ha has just been appointed. A. C. Bailey, a mining speculator, has been sentenced to five years' ; and Henry Destedingk to eighteen mouths'' imprisonment, for fraud in connection with the West Australian Development Corporation and Subsidiary Conipan-. ios. The charge was one of floa'ing bogus companies and the amount involved was oven' £60,000. The newspaper Figaro says that France and Germany inn-t d 4>--><A their nossessiois in tu>- P wine against the disquieting covetous >; .i- of the Conmvinw-ahh. a'.alth-l Franc.' ought to watch the early act. of the Ans'ralian Republic vigilantly, iiiK.-ariiahy, and benevoienlly. The Hon J. Unlock, the Canadian Postniastur-G-. neiv.l, states that sineo the introduction of penny postage i i Canada, tho postal revenue has largely increased, and is now £50.000 a >, ->\c more than under the hL h- l rate. Foe many years toe pn.-tal exp-eiditnra annually was £150,0?.4, more than tho revenue. It is expected that tho nrosent vear will show a 3hortagi ot only £50,000. The King has expressed to Lord Salisbury a desire that his bir;h:i.\y should be kept regularly 0 n May 2-i:.h. the Law Courts being then suspended. It is now announced that there is to bo no official celebration of the King's birthday on May 24th. Tho announcement that the Law Courts would he suspended on that day was a mistake which arose owing to certain other official announcements. The members of the Fe }ora',iqn Committee have been engaged at , Wellington all the week in disc as;.s:.r,g; their report. Although the draft 13 now practically completed it will bo a week or two before tho report can bo 1 presented to the Government, owing to the non-receipt of certain important 1 statistical returns bearing ou Federal finance, which are expected from 1 Australia. . " • An Australian, writing from tho ' Philippine Islands, warns people ' against going there, as there is no way at present !>v which ■ one can become ' an Am»r; :-.in citizen. The taloo of rich gold di posits are tales ouiy, as ' nothing payable has been found. 1 Tiiers is very little prospect of employment, salaries are low. and the ; cost of living and rents are high, while - the native population is an undesirable class. ; Mr Lee, Leader of the Stato ' Opposition, outlined „ the party's pro- * gramme for the forthcoming elections. This includes no startling proposals. He favoured reduction of the members • of fin State Parliament, adult suffrage, a State colliery for railway purposes, ■ local option, and a number of 1 measures generally aimed at nmelior- > atiiig the condition of the people and developing the resources of the Sta.e. On the arrival of the Ormuz at Perth, p. po«se of detectives boardid , her. and ovor twenty Italian passengers f were lined up and questioned. Though i the police refuse to give any informa- , tion. it is understood that an intimation . ha 3 been received faom the Imperial auOibritus that a well.known Annrehist was aboard. After the steamer had been thoroughly searched, the Italians were allowed to land. A dutactive accompanies the steamer to Adelaide, Great excitement exists at Servia ovfcr a reported embroglio. King,. Alexander is stupefied and pained owing to the Czarina's physical), who was sent to Belgrade, announcing that there was no prospect of the expected accouchment of tho Queen at the present timp. The King, doubting tho physician, left him in high dudgeon. Other medical authorities, however,, confirmed the diagnosis. Diplomatists have asked tho Premier whether tho Queen had deceived the King or if she suffered from hysteria. If it is proved that there has been deception, it is likely that the Queen will be divorced. King Alexander's abdication is even mooted. The populace is extraordinarily excited. There is a report current in Belgrade that the Queen failed to substitute her sister's child as her own. King Alexander married. Mrae. Draga, formerly a ladyin-wait. ' jnjj on Queen Natalie, ia July laefc *
\i : J. aj ileaki.igi.ani. of the welljiiDU'n Timarn l'uiidLiu'o warehouse, 1;V 4 au important advertisement; to l, 0 qf> ftl>ont to furnish. All goods „pplied are equal to the best imported md are dehvored at the noaredt raily;ly station. At St. I'aul'a Wesloyan Church on Jiieday evening, as announced, the lav. J. Blight preached a special iTi-non to young men, taking as his n t Prov'' XX, 29: "The glory of ?o'ing M'ui i«J their strength." The 'lnm;h wa° well filled, the congregaion including a largo number of young nan. 'file following playen will represent jto Waimite Hockey Club in the in■iicli against Tiniaru on Friday next, : r> I:. played on the lattor's grounds:— FmII 1 ■ *-*'v: A. Riuchor; three quarters, 0, AT tirdteslor and C. Goldstono; J uii.-.-s: W. tfaorgo, M. Hoaly and F. ' f. K .| ( • forwaaals :A. Berrv foapt.), J. II. Dash, W. Russoll and li. [;,...v5. Ihuergencies—J. Kent and T.Aovid. o i'-I enrday tu n >;itn on which the -e,! \','.;::i oe lihrarv bnililiui't stood ;R, ~.Xi in 'V; -".■.•r.iiins. Rt,- W. ■\\W\-- iio'V.'ii: Xos. I a;id 2, of 22 feet ye ;■■-■': R-io.ei -'■"'"l. and No. o, l,» ye: ;. t'!.;-}and .CITi ne;;.. r; j, ely ; "■[,■ i. aioare h.m ;hr. No. Ij section. 0; !'■..; fr.ullage on Queen street, for £[?'); efr •). Symon l)ouglit the -;.,--.i-1■ l at til-; coni'.-r of Queen street and Vieuu'ia Terrace for X'lTo, after
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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 152, 21 May 1901, Page 2
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