General News.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 173, 9 July 1901, Page 2

General News.

Mr T. McPherson advertises a list of bargains in boots this morning.

Bari Russell’s trial has been ex* peditod, and is now fixed for duly 18. Thirty thousand dollars have dis* appeared mysteriously from tbe mint at San Franci'sce.

The Excelsior Dancing Class wilt hold its weekly assembly to morrow' night instead of on Thursday.

The Australian labour paperd unanimously condemn Sir John M’Kenzie and Sir Joseph Ward for taking a title.

You can depend on ridding your children of worms with wade.s worm figs, the wonderful worm worriers. Price Is.

Grandaur, and Towns af Sydney, row for the world’s championship at Rat Portage, Ontaria, in the third week of August.

The Waimate Borough Council invite public tenders for the lease of ft reserve in High street. Particulars will be found in an advertisement.

One hundred and eighty more deaths from heat occurred in New York on Wednesday. The asphalt roadway was melted and traffic impeded. The complete figures for the review at Christchurch during the Royal visit show that the total number of troops was 10,745 made Up of 7765 volunteers and 2980 cadets.

The body of the late Mr Geoffrey Studholme is being brought to Wab mate for interment. The funeral will leave the Waimate Railway Station at 11 a.m. on Friday nett.

Queen Alexandra received 150 Queen’s nurses at Marlborough House and presented 200 badges and certificates- The King, the Duchess of Argyll, Princess Victoria and two of the Duke of Cornwall's children were present.

At the police court yesterday before Messrs Milsom and Nicol, John Flynrt was charged with drunkenness and fined 10s. Defendant did not appear. On the certificates of Drs. Barclay and Nicolls a man named Archibald Little was sent to the Stinnyside Asylum. At a meeting of the Waimate branch of the New Zealand Workers’ Union held on Saturday night it was resolved that the Forester’s Hall be the official meeting place for the ensuing year, and that the committee meet the firti and last Saturday in each month. A special meeting of the Timaru Harbour Board will be held on Satur* day next to meet Mr A. D. Dobson, when the appointment of a resident engineer for the now works will b considered ; also business in connec tiou with the overdraft and other business.

The B.s. Rotorua bad a rough trip from Nelson to Now Plymouth. She was swept by waves repeatedly, and most of the cabins were swamped. One heavy sea bartered in the after skylight, and twisted the compass case like a kerosene tin run over by a train, and several deck seats were lost. Mr F. Whitehead, now clerk a* the Levels Station-, was en Saturday appointed clerk to the Levels County Council. Mr Whitehead has very high credentials as a clerical man, and is said to possess all those qualifications which should make him anexcellent county clerk.—Timaru PosS. George Judson, a farmer atßangiora, died suddenly on Sunday morning. He was a married man, thirty-six years of age, with four children, and apparently strong and powerful. He went out to water the horses in the morning and returned to the house, saying that he felt as if he were going to die. He wad dead within a few minutes.

Detective Fitzgerald, who did a good deal of work in connection with the Byreton murlers, has been granted six months.’ leave to commence immediately after the Koyal visit, and had made all arrangements to leave with bis family on a long- sea voyage by the Papanui. He will now heTve So postpone his trip.

Tbe southerly buster at its height* With wind and rain and sleet* Is bound to give us every night Wet clothes and cold, damp feet. Bad coughs and colds must then prevail. We’ll try to make them fewer, And take a dose of never fail—

Some . Woods’ Great Peppermint Core.

The Governor has postponed his visit to Auckland for the purpose of christening the new Government steamer for the Cook Island trade. His Excellency will go to Invercargill early in the week for the purpose of meeting the troopship Tagua on arrival, and. presenting medals to the members oF ibe Fourth and Fifth Contingents. Afterwards his Excellency will go to Auckland and perform the christening ceremony. “We learn that the Bight Hon B J. Seddon did not again refuse knighthood, as has been stated. The posh tion seems to have been that the question was asked: “Does Mr iSeddon want anything ?” and the reply was in the negative. The Premier does not want anything. Contented man, say we. The attitude of Mr Seddon in the above respect i» somjßwhalremarkable, but it is who has tbe reputation- of being tbp ablest—-undoubtedly a past master la tbe art of diplomacy—in tbe Australasian colonies.”—Ashburton Standard. ■ ■. •

7 ith their incessant demands for inci poed wages and short hours of J [ the workers are in danger of ■dtieatihg their own ends. They are reducing the chances of obtaining ena>ployment, they are in reality helping to establish a monopoly by imposing severe restrictions as to the terms of apprenticeship, and they ate increasing the cost of living all through the country by the regulations passed for their benefit. At the same time, their representatives are demanding tho abolition of taxation on their food supply) and the increase of taxation on the land, whose natural products are comparatively valueless. It is little Wonder that the farming community has at length bestirred itself to meet the growing demands made upon it.—Timaru Post. English papers to hand give par•tioulars of the death of Bresci, King Humbert’s assassin, who committed suicide by hanging himself with a towel. The man’s body presented a horrible appearance. On the wall of his prison he had scratched with his thumb-nftil. which was covered with blood, the word “ Vengeance.” The body was to be taken to a burialground on a desert island. Bresci’s "death was almost instantaneous. The warder saw him hang himself, but found him dead when he reached the -apot. Bread's wife is living at Jersey City with her two children- On being informed of her husband’s death she dsclared that he had been murdered, as bo was not the kind of man to end bis lifo by suicide. The Italian Anarchists at Paterson, New Jersey, where Bresci formerly lived, are confident that he was killed by his warders. Synopsis of New Advertisements. T. McPherson—Bargains in boots and Kxcelsi >r Dancing Class —Meets tomorrow night instead of Thursday. Waimate Borough Council—Lenders for lease of reserve. N. M. and A. Company—Additional *9Dtri s for StUdhohn sale. G. W. Collett—Funeral not'ce. found—Lady’s shoe.