News Items.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 162, 13 June 1901, Page 4

News Items.

Tho unimproved value of property inf Timaru Borough is £217,000. The Government have pnrcfaased lbs Ringevay estate, at Otautan, the> property of Murray, Roberts and Co. The estate contairs about 2,300 acres of capital land, and the railway runs doss by. Surveyed are now engaged subdividing the property into five or six farm".

Owing to a rupture between Mr T. W. ; Lawson, owner of the yacht Independence, : and the New York Yacht Club, the Independence will not compete lor the* America Cnp. A freight train from Lackawanna, , Pennsylvania, collided with the rear of ; another train at Vestal, near New York, ] containing dynamite, ■An explosions; followed, which shattered and fired the • trains. Nine employees killed.j< All the windows in V stal were broken. The shock was felt for thirty miles. The Bri ish escorti of coal for Majf i, increased 11,000 tons compared with May of the previous ye<r* M. do Lanessau the French Minister of Marine, has au horised Mr Arnold Forster, the British Parliamentary Secretary to the. Admiralty, to inspect the arsenal at Toulon. Great unrest prevails in Albania. The peasants refuse to pay taxes, and defy the : authorities to coerce them.

Mrs McKinley is suffering from* bio d poisoning, the result of a whHlbwv-.i 8