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General News.

It is not proposed to send McLaren’s English cricket team to New Zealand. Korea has leased to Japan 450 acres for a settlement at Masampho, which Russia tried to secure. Tradesmen in the Tarinaki district are thinking of forming a ring, to do battle with the credit system. The Premiers of the Australian States have decided not to observe a holiday on the 24th inst. A largo meeting of Sydney Protestants condemned alteration of the Coronation oath.

It is officially announced that there are 249,486 officers and men in South Africa, including 58,821 colonials. Mrs McKinley is improving, and hopes to start for Washington on Wednesday. Mr Goldstone received a cable last night stating that Troopers R. and 0. Goldstone left Sydney yesterday by the Elingamite. The Hon. J. McKenzie is in excellent spirits. Ha is able to take a good deal of walking exorcise, an i is particularly bright and cheerful. A- supplement to tin; Gazette appoints 'Sir R. Stout DeputyGovernor during Lord Raufurly’s absence from the colony. Mr J. G. Gow, Now Zealand trade representative, having finisned his enquiring in Dunedin, and having secured various samples, left chat city for the north yesterday. The Turkish Porte has abandoned the obstruction of the foreign post offices in Constantinople and tendered apologies for the recent treatment of them.

A thousand men have struck at Mori's dock, .Sydney. The labourers demanded a minimum wage of seven shillings, and tho mechanics, sympathising with them, joined tho strike. Router’s Belg ra d e cor re s pon de n t says the rumours about King Alex a tutor’s abdication and the Queen's banishment are without foundation. Vienna and Bucharest specialists d.claro th.at iho Queen is suffering from iuctrii.ii- (internal inflammation). Last evening a number of tho brethren of St. Augustine’s Masonic Lodge met Bro. A. Donald, who is heaving on Friday for a trip to Scotland, nod presented him with a handsome Gladstone bag. Refreshincuts were provided and a pleasant hour or two passed. Tho Australian billiard champion while playing in Wellington wuh an amaioiir. made Ins record break of 475. iiiitiniali&d. Tibs is one of the world’s greatest breaks. Weiss also made 301 on another occassion, Meimnott, who accompanies Weiss: ir’-. made scenes of 2do, and 177 and lid Constable Field, says tho Press, was on Monday presented by his companions of tlio Christchurch Force with a handsome marble clock ami Giver oruc-t, on the eve of his approaching marriage, pnnsl-able FiGd was formt-riy stationed |at Waunato. The vaeht Independence, which it was proposed should compete with the tV; .-sls Liu iou for the honour of do fording the .America Cup against' the eii.dlcugc M tho Shamrock 1 j., has been launc'ned. It is u-mhUnl, however. whether she will so compote, as tho proprietor, Mr Lawson, xvUis-s to ira.n.-.iVr the ownership lo the New York Vac'u Club.

Mr A: d.-ew Carnegie lias given 83.n:)(/,uO0 to provide free edu .-alion at the Scotu.-h Universities, including the tjayrui-m of medical fees'. Tors con-ces.-iun is limited io Scottish -indents, male and female., English and colonial students do not participate. J'olimsc- Turkish Bath Gaiuxkt.— The great invc-nlion of the ago for preserving healtn and. curing di- c-.v-g. A said tori urn and bathroom combined. Vapour, Hot Air, Medicated or Perfumed Baths. Rotorua in your own borne. Every family who values good health should have one. No other hath necessary. Call and get circular or see Bath at Mr F. AKiIURST s, Chemist, Waimato

Tho following men aro p’ckod to play fur Morven against tho Wuimate football team to-morrow; R. Seaman, M. Lawlor, IV. Thomas, J. Flynn, 0. Trednea, 0. Samuels, D. Shepherd, R. Lundy, R. Flaherty, J. Oorry, D. McLeish, A. Forsythe, IV. Seaman. R. Amott, J. Gardner; emergencies: T. Parks, IV. Nelson and J. Morris. Commandant Booth, of the Salvation Army, accompanied by Colonel Peart (secretary for Australasia) Brigadier Graham, Majors Osborne and Perry, arrived at Auckland from Sydney on Sunday. .The Commandants bold a congress in the chief centres of New Zealand.

It having come to the knowledge of the Council that a large illicit trade in stage' heads is being carried on, the Government has been strongly urged to so amend the Animals Protection Act next session as to proaibit this trade and prevent the depletion of our herds for trade purposes.—Excerpt from annual report of the "Wellington Acclimatisation Society. The fact of the Court being in mourning precludes the observance of May 24th as the King’s birthday, but lost the Civil servants should be deprived of a holiday, the King has ordered the day to be observed quietly, in memory of his deceased mother. There are indications that soma cf the functions associated with the Sovereign’s birthday have been fixed ultimately for a day in summer--probably the anniversary of the Coronation.

The presence of Count Oaten Sackea, the Russian Ambassador to Germany, at the parade of troops at Atetz, ordered by the Emperor William in honour of the birthday of the Czar, is interpreted in Berlin as a tacit ratification of the .Treaty of Frankfort. The Emperor declared that the confidence of the Czar in Count Walderaee’s ; management of the campaign in-China had accelerated the return of the bulk of the troops.

If it is not all mere talk, and in some cases it does not seem to be so, there are lively times in store for a few of the. New Zealand officers who have been or are on duty in South Africa. There are jnen who are .still smarting under what they teirn unjust and harsh treatment at .the hands of certain officers, and they make no secret of their intention to get even when once civilian attire is donned- "all around. One Wellington man has brought back ..a sjambok, and he declares it is for the sole purpose of “ taking, it out of the bide of .that cad— ”,Tbe. place of residence of the individual so elegantly designated is not so very far away from Wellington

At Oamaru yesterday, Major Eeddell, S.M., cave judgement-in a case of importance to seed merchants and farmers. Jaspar Nichols, a farmer, sued the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company for .£B9 Os Bd, loss through the firm supplying him with purple mammoth top turnip seed instead of Devon greystone. The crop failed to hist in the winter, and the plaintiff sued for loss sustained by deaths of sheep and forced sales. The M.adstrato gave judgment for plaintiff for the full amount, and £2O Os 8d costs. Leave to appeal was granted.

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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 153, 23 May 1901, Page 3

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Tapeke kupu
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General News. Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 153, 23 May 1901, Page 3

General News. Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 153, 23 May 1901, Page 3

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