News Items.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 169, 29 June 1901, Page 3

News Items.

Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and happy purchase. The Prussian Government have spent £1,250,000 in] the purchase of rendering the State railways independent of the coal ring. The Boer refugees’ camps in the Orange River Colony, besides the nine for nati% r es,'require a weekly importation of eighty eight tous of food, stuffs. The average m tft.dty ifc these camps is 116 per 1000 per annum, largely a result of Boer disregard for sanitation and the women’s neglect of the children.

Henry fcooke, a young resident of the Dartmoor (Victoria) district, recently met his death in a curious manner. Severs:! young men were training for the Dak Drik sports at Catterton, and when a gun was fired to a race Cook's horse, which was tied to a fence, became restive, and kicked him in the abdomen. The injuries proved fatal. About 2000 designs fdr the Federal flag and seal were sent in, a large proportion of them being 'designs for the flag. The drawings for the seal are limited t 6 300 or 400. The designs, together with 6000 or 7000 sent in to the Review of Reviews, will be handed over to a Board, -which will shbrtly be appointed by the Prime- Minister to choose the ‘moat suitable ones.

Maj >r Slocum, military attache with the British, reports that if the .EpgUsh had displayed less bravery, there would have been many fewer faults and more victories. the slowness of General Bullet’s advance after the relief of Ladysmith was inexplicable. If the Delagoa Bay railway had been cut Kruger would have been compelled to surrender. The British were too merciful. The protefs’bnS of %'iVrender after the fall of Bloemfontein und mbtedlv deceived Lord Roberts.

Tha Trai*vaai flag, raptured by the Sixth Contingent on Easter Monday, has been forwarded by Captain Rigel Markham to Mr John Menz*es, secretary and manager of the Northern Club, in a covering. A letter from. Captain Mark ham states ’ “We had a merry gallop, bat not much fighting, bur losses being two officers and two men killed. Give my kind regards to all friends, and tell them I thought they would like to have a momento bf the war.