General News.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 176, 16 July 1901, Page 2

General News.

\ The Fire Brigade will master at the Btation on Thursday to attend the fuueral of the lafe' Fireman Watts. Wadb's Worm Pigs are , most, effective and-not flnpleaaant; children thrive after taking them. Price Is In our advertising columns Mr H, Franklin sincerely. thank? all who assisted [a saving his stock at the recebt fire. *. . r> Meyers and Jonea announce that they, have opened business la the premises at the corner of BJigh and! Johnjstreeta. . The Oddfellows arereqtwafcd to meet »t the'Lodge-room on Thursday ,tq atteridJbe foneraf o* the late Bro. - ..\ *f. An iUumfeated address will be pre- - sensed to Dr. Barclay on Thursday evening ai the. B&ough Council Bhambers. The publio are hjyitt4jy ,JMtsQS]j> » *■ ,

la connection with the Accession Oatb, the Catholic bishops protest against the Sovereign danouacing any special doctrine. Major Fox, ft celebrated Maori worrior, died at Maketu OB Friday ■ He took a prominent part in the re caption of Royalties. Major Madocks, who has completed Vis five years' periol of service under, the Defence Department, left Welling . ton on Friday morning for Auckland, «n route for America and England. The first Hansard of the second! session of the fourteenth New Zealand' ia a .booklet of thirty-two pages. When members get " warmed tip " they will produce a deal more in two days.

Mr H. Saunders, Sigh street, has a few pens of golden Wyandottes for Tsale. The birds were gold and silver inedal winners at Oatnaru and Timaru. ge also advertises settings ot eggs at 10a 6<l.

By 950 votes to six, the Ohio jOemoState Convention rejected Mr W. J. Bryan and his free silver policy. This is interpreted to augur the repudiation of Bryanisra by the Democrats throughout America. The census returns show that the population o? the colony was, eKclasive of Maoris, 7?*2.455. The number of males etceeded that of females by 89,85; the e*a«t figures feeing: males, 406,161; and females, 566,294.

The Timaru Morning "Post Company : w issuing 4100 preferential shares, with =b cumulative preferential dividend of sve por cent. .Shareholders ate much pleased at the progress of the paper, *« indaed they should be. It is an •excellent production and has done good work.

There is a movement on foot in Auckland to construct a cycle path from that city to Rotorna. The Go verniHont are to be .asked to assist, as •the carrying.oat of the Work wonld •greatly assist in popularising thd Hot Lakes District as a health resort.

-John Banyan in his ptisan cell, O.i Pilgrim's. Progress loved to dwell, A-id nearly all that startling tale H* wroto while pining in a gaol. Hia work Uvea on though John suc- &<> doubt the damp his limb 3 had numbed, &:id gave hiin cold-; hia death that's

sure, He'd not got WoodY Great Poppermint Cure. The Caaterbury Land Board has solved to recommend the forfeiture H>l John Kobinson's lease in the Ram■clii! settlement, together With moneys paid by him, on the ground that he lu-ido a false Kfcateiaent at the time of app'ientioiv; alleging thit With the hnd for which he was applying he wvild hold less than 1600 acros, whereas the actual ar*a was 1589 :&'rei. A farthar res.) * ion recommending that proceedings bo taken to ih°, full ettent ef ine law was carried •also.

• A shocking-fatality occurred in I » vjrcar-il! dating the fireworks display in connection with the w<>l«oma to ret ir.idd troops A b >mb went off among lim crowd, and -eiplod jd in thirtr faces. Mrs Sneyd, an <ag d ividow, Uras struck fell in the face ■wound in the thigh;' his wife is -■seriously bruised all over, and h«s «sontu-ed wounds, caused by frag j mnnt?. and their son is also injured. fireworks were also responsible, for other henries more cr less serious. \ lu all sir persons are in tho hospital' iu cjnaee ion with the bomb explosion.

New* of the gifts of stamps untie to She Duke of Cornwall in Australia 'elicited the asshraace' frora the Hail that fee has no* one of the finest collections in the world, "said to fee worth .£100,000." An eminent phila telist who has often inspected the dike's collection, however, iuforuied i ty that though ih~> Dukj's " album* was undoubtedly goud o.ie, it was aidt at present, as collect! ins go, eiceptionaily fi:ie or comprehensive, and he doubted if it: <could be priced higher than j 615,000. ; " At least, twenty collectors," he said, i "have far better ' books.' So far as is known, only three philatelists have _ acquired Stamps the Value o! Which < could be pat at £IOO,OOO, and of these is a foreigner/' \ In a letter, received recently from j an Imperial officer in South Africa, he J jays:_" I had sketched out far myself j a trip in the Aim fntare, when the ] Wicked here have eeasad from j troubling. When that will be I don't j saow, though Lord Kitchener says j July Ist. I hue ma doots, and think \ he is ultra-optimistic, an'd everyone j Baems to attach a rao9t absurd importancj to Mrs Botha's vi3it to Kruger. The Boers doH > t cafe a tap Mfhat Oom Paul says or thiuts, and \ peaee certainly doesn't depend on the \ inovenieno of one of his fingers. lam 3 told tliat De la Rey, who is a much \ taore important factor, won't hear of peace. However, if he has a knock or \ two such as he's just had at Nauw- ] poort, near Kvttgersdorp, he may, change his mind. * ■• , Mr A. D. Dbb=ion suggested to the Tiuiaru Harbour Board on Saturday! that they might very materially in fcrense the size and import*uce of trio" fcort by mfcking it a shelter 9? a harbour--, ol «&£« for vessels belonging to the Adtnirality. Such a harbour could*b-3 inade here, he considered, than at any ■ other pkce he knew on the east <*oaat ol this islund. To do this the- new mole should be carried out straight for aorae considerable distaaoe, and then the Government should be asked to carry the work further, so a* to provide good shelter which could easily be ifcne. Dissatisfaction had been ei prawed at Lyttelton afti Port Chalmers *ritb the accommodation there provided for such vessels, and he thought that the-best of facilities could be provided here. He looked upon Tiraaru-as ft port of great importance, acd one which would grow to _very great dimensions. Supported, as it was, by so large and rich a district as U had at the back of it, be failed to Bee how it could do other than become a teally big port.—Port. >

Synopsis of Hew'- IdiMtisemMte. Boroagh Council Chambers - Presentation to Dr. B*rclay. , ■• ?£' tf Mancbestt Br<*. and Goldsmith--*; Freah bargains laid oiHt. - :■ - t ' : , H. Saund-M-Pnte nonltry for sal*. Cinterb»ry ftfnßtnr Co-op.—Faftner-wtri .8 for spwjiai sale. . OdaMlowßhip-Fonerid <« »i »*• &o. Watte. Meyera »nd J«0«-H»ve rw>ptn*d ! Waimaje Fire Brigade-Moiter °* 1 to attend faner«L, . notioe.