News Items.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 158, 4 June 1901, Page 3

News Items.

A brilliant meteor was seen all over the South Island on Sunday night.

The London Church Defence Association has received several hundred resolutions carried at meetings, protesting against any alteration in the Coronat ion Oath.

The Premier of Westralia promised a goldfields deputation that he would take measures to prevent foreigners, especially Italians and Austrians* flooding Australia.

Count Kropotkin, Russian Minister for War, submitted to his colleagues a scheme forcompulsory military service in Finland. Ministers to a large extent rejected the proposal. General Bounal, of the French service, was present at a review outside Berlin, He afterwards rode at the head of a Prussian brigade through the capital. The Kaiser paid him striking attentions and called for cheers for the French Army, who, he said, were brothers in arms in China with the German.

Admiral Birileff, commanding the Russian brigade of the Mediteraneansguadron, who is visiting Ring Ferdinard of Bulgaria, is suspected of trying to - arrange for a Russian naval station at Varna. The winner oA the Paris to Bordeaux motor-car race covered 345 miles in 524 average speed between towns being fifty miles an hour.

Mr Ward has instructed Mr Donne to secure the Northern Club's premises at Auckland, if : possible, for the Ducal suite.

There *re 2,000,0001 bof manufactured tobacco in bool at any one time in the United Kingdom.

The number of known explosives la stated to have increased from twenty-five to 1,000 in thirty-two years.

Half a pint of whisky brings 8} to the Exchequer, while a quart of beer is represented by a fraction ovec a baUfieno?*