General News.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 179, 23 July 1901, Page 2

General News.

The Duke of Connaught has been installed Grand Master of the Free' masons.

The Canterbury Farmers’ Co-op. advertise entries lor Friday’s sale at Studholme Junction.

Wade’s TbethiSTg Powders for babies ate soothing, reduce fever and prevent blotches. Price, 1%. Arctic expedition has sailed from Tromsoe, in Norway, xJdeti^srds. Sir Edward Grey* speaking at Peter* borough, declared that Lord Bosebery eugbt to return to the arena of politics,

Messrs Shackleton and Grant, bavd an important announcement on our fourth page in connection with their great alteration sale. The National Mortgage and Agency Company publish the entries this morning for their sale tit Studholme Junction on Friday next.

A syndicate with a capital of <£40,000,000, has been formed to prevent a slump in shares in steel companies on Wall street, New York. A cablegram from Adelaide, dated. July 21st, says that Owing to heavy weather, the Ophir and the Roy& Arthur, which sailed - lor Fremantle, had to return.

The Ormuz,, homeward bound from Australia, was refused admittance to Gibraltar, having two oases of plague pn board. The vessel sailed for Plymouth.

Contrary to the views of the Govern' nrent, the Lords appointed , a Select Committee to inquire into the action fit the Irish Commissioners in seriously reducing Irish landlords’ rent. At a meeting of the North Canterbury Centre of the League of Wheelmen, a resolution was carried approving of the Cycle Hoards’ Bill, and trusting that it would be passed this session.

Mr Barry, chairman of the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company-, states that the cable from Mauritius to Western Australia will be opened before the end of the year, and the whole system Contemplated will be finished by spring.

It ie notified in another column that the Waihao Downs quarry has been reopened. Samples of the stone may be seen at Messrs Priest and Hoid"rte’s and at the Borough Council chambers, and full particulars can be obtained at the office, Waihao Downs-, or from the quarryman. Lieutenant-Colonel Maokay, of Now South Wales, who has just returmd from Cape Colony, says that it would he worth while for any State, or for Australia as a whole, to send a competent commercial agent to South Africa to develop trade.

The London Standard states that iibis proposed to invite all the colonial Premiers to attend the coronation, and also to hold a Conference on Imperial questions,, including the commercial relations between the Motherland and the coloniegj

An instance of prompt settlement of a claim for insurance came under our notice yesterday, Mr H. Franklin* of this town, whose premises were destroyed by the recent fire in Queenstreet, held a policy in the Royal Insurance Company, and although-faia claim was only presented on Friday last, the local agent, Mr W. MiHamilton, yesterday handed him a cheque for the full amount of the insurance money. Such promptitude

is rare indeed. At a meeting of the representatives of eight Unions, held at Timaru on Saturday night, it was resolved tO recommend the Unions to form a local Trades and Labour Council, and to set up a Committee, two from each Unio* ■, to formulate a Constitution, and draw

up rules. A motion recommending that efforts be made to have Smith Canterbury proclaimed a sep £re

industrial district was negatived. It was resolved to Convene a meeting of farm labourers next Saturday for the purpose of forming a Union. The reported death in South Africa of Trooper G. H. Fisher, son of Mr G. Fisher, M.H.R., happily turns out to be incorrect. The latter on Friday received a letter from his son, bearing the date .Tune 11. In it he stated that “ one of the Eaffrarian Rifles, a LanceCorpoml G. Fisher, was shot dead the other day.” A similari y of u» rfleg must haVe given rise to the report tnet it was the son of the Wellington M.H.R. who had met his death in action, both being members of the Eaffrarian Rifles.

We have to apologise to the very large number of people Who were unable to secuie a copy of our Tuesday’s issue. As a matter of fact we have been adding copies each issue fo r the past two mouths, and yet are constantly “ clea-ned out.” However, thieis very pleasing, to us, as a sign that people recognise the merit, of our journal, for it is being sent all over New Zealand to old Waimateites, and all those interested in the place. It would be a more satisfactory proceeding if those who are not subscribers would enrol themselves as such, otherwise we cannot always guarantee to supply copies. Apropos to the presentation of an address by the Quaker body to King Edward VII. on the occasion of his accession to the throne, an English paper recalls the quaintness of the address of the Friends to Tames on a similar occasion. “Wo come to condole # ”it ran, “ on the death of our friend, Charles, and we are glad thou art come to be our ruler. Wo heat 1 thou art a Dissenter from the Church of England, and so are we. We beg that thou woiildst grant ns the same liberty that thou takest thyself, and we wish thee well.”

Preaching at Bangiora on Sunday morning, the Rev. F. Stubbs It* nounoed the doctrine of necessity as applied to conduct, and in illustration told the following story -A mad having been brought before tha Court, aud convicted of thetft, the Judge asked him if he bad anything to say for himself before sentence was pronounced. Yes, nay Lord,” replied the prisoner, “ I assure your Lordship I comifiitted the act quite agaiust ray will—quite,, ray Lord.” “Just so,” said the Judge, “ and the offontfe shall, therefore, be raetf in a proper spirit • as you committed the theft against your wi'L you shall also be punished against your will. You will go to prison for twelve months.”

By the death of Boron Wedel Jarlsberg, born in 1816, democratic Norway has, say* an English paper, lost its last and only nobleman, the nobility as an hereditary institution having been abolished in IQ9L The deceased was a distinguised naval officer, who served the Norwegian navy for sixtynine years. He took part in the first Sohieswig War in 1849, and bad » commission on the great battleship* Christian VIIL, when she was blown up by the Prussians in the ECkernforde Fiord, the Norwegian .officer' being at the moment in a boat close to the ship. Thrown into the sea by the catastrophe, ha managed to swiotttsbore, and was subsequently cap* tured.

The Dunedin correspondent of the states that Messrs Bayley and Sons, tanners and leather dressers, intend giving up their ext' nsive manufacturing business at Burnside, and transferring that branch to New Sou*h Wales. The reason for this action is summed up in an interview with a member of the firm, who put it in these words: “ Our fear of the future in New Zealand is that with the prospect of increased cost of production, owing to high, wages, shorter work hours, and the reduced output of machinery, together with a possible hostile Federal tariff, unfriendly customs duties and other catises we shall feel safer in transferring our manufacturing department somewhere else, where the conditions are more favourable.”