General News.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 185, 6 August 1901, Page 2

General News.

Mr T. W. Oroa-j invites tetidonl stone-breaking on Timaru road. Tenders are invited by the Wains County Council for two road contra Thf Canterbury Farmers' Co-op. i hold the next sale of hoi ses at Stuclhoi Junction on Augiw, 22nd. Mrs Brodrick, wife of the Sflcreti of State for War, has died from bin poisoning. Lieut. V. O'Farrefl, well-known Waimate, left for South Africa Friday. "Wade's Tbbthing Powdrrs I babies are soothing, reduce fever i prevent blotches. Price, Is. The Waimate "Bowling Club I nounces its annual meeting for Ths day evening next. The Canterbury Farmers' Co-opersS Association publish n large em ry of sb for their sale at Studholme on Friday At the Invercargill Doultry show Thursday, Mr E. Beilly, of Studholi Junction, secured a third prize I crossbreds. The National Mortgage and Agen call attention to the clearing salts to held at Mr B shop's farm on Thucsi nest. At the criminal sitting of the djstri court at Brisbane last week, a worn was sentenced to one minutes' ii prisonmsut for attempted suicide. The Paoific Cable Board's engines are satisfied with the contracts ability to complete the Pacific cablei December, 1902 The Wairmte County Council noi fies »he publ.c that the bridge ovarii Waimate Creek on the south road, close* agaiimt wheel traffic for repair Gallioth, an Anarchist emissary fro Paterson, New Jersey, who waschos to kill the Cz »,r, and'who was a frf* of Bresei, has been arrested* in Sttitfl land. The Waimate County Council adw tises that a meeting of ratepayers « be held in the Council Chambers < August 24th to consider the closing! a road in the Waihao riding. There is a growing impression th the Government will postpone & Declaration Bill owing to- the numb of amendments xequiri consideration. An advertisement in another coin* request* the person who took a cod eoat from the Presbyterian Church poH on Sunday evening to return it I Messrs Guinness and LeCren. The Quadrille Assembly, which W beettruoang with great success throng! <>ub the season, announces iter of* extended night for Wednesday oetl when everything will be *p to date« usj^. The final rehearsal of tbe Waitm* ..Choral and Orchestral Society wart ird attended last evening. Pract o> «* gme through wrlnnt a hi oh, ti promise* » most suuoesaiul entertsio ment to-night. Mr A. B. Paterson, ♦* The Banjo' who represented the Sydney Morm'J Herald during the first part* of the ff* in South Africa, has. left on a trip, i< the service of the earn* pape^stofibto l iricT Japan, and thence by the Trout Siberian railway to St. Petersburg.

<?Jwing'to the low prioe of lead the iProprietary Mine at Broken Hill closes iaach Week from eight on Saturday morning till eight ou Monday morning: This means a loss of two shifts per -week to the miners.

The President of the Sydney Board of Health hafc received private advices that the plague has reappeared at Xouraea. Precautionary regulations ore being enforced on vessels from New Caledonia.

The London Spectator endorses a correspondent's explanation that the South African Committee's tenderness to Mr Cecil Rhodes was due to his contribution of £§ooo to the Liberal Election Fund on condition that the Liberals retained occupation of Egypt. The American Steel Corporation insists on the resumption of work on the basis of last year's scale of wages. The men decline the terms, accusing the corporation of withdrawing certain promised concessions. A great struggle is threatened.

The Commission of Inquiry into the Newtown Park camp has bpen altered, and now consists of Colonels Pitt and Davias, and Major Hawkins ; 'Colonel Pitt being chairmm- Tho Coramis mon will meet at the Drillshed on Monday at 11 a.m.

A poll of the burgages of the west. •am portion of the T.maka borough 'was taken on Taesdav, on tho proposal i . :)irruw j&ioOO for water supply and ■d linage purposes in that part of the s>3 0 igh. the proposal being carried oy a majority of thirty-five. Thp Empress Frederick of Germany is suffering from a renewed attack of her illness, and i 3 showing signs c-.f failure of strength. The Emperor and his sisters hastened to Kronberg. The King and Queen of England follow shortly. The Crown Princa nf Prussia will receive Coflnt Von Walderseo on his return from China at Hamburg, in the Kaiser's stead.

Sir W. E. Garston. Under-Secretary to the Public Works Department of Er/vpt, has submitted to Lord Cromer a scheme for completing the irrigation of and the Soudan by anticipating the raising of tho level either of Like Tsana in Abyssinia, or thp Albprt in ordar to feed the Nile ■■Surmg the months of low supp'y. Lord Crr,m*r emphasis the recomm n-da-ion as one of urgency. Thp Khar-toum-Red Sea railway investigation as to the bust route is proceeding.

In the Supreme Court in Chambers, at, Dunedin on Friday morning, th -re wa-i a motion to 'give the official liquidator of the Ward Farmers' Association payment for further clerical jwaUUnee and also for travelling expenses. Mr Woodhouse appeared in support of the motion, and Mr Brent for the liquidator of the Colonial Bank. The question arose as to whether a •charge for travelling expenses should or should not be made apart from the liquidation fee, and Mr Justice Willinina said he would Uko to have an affidavit showing the items of travelling expanses. Mr k. B. Joske, ft resident of Fiji for 23 years, has informed the Sydney I>/ii!y Telegraph that the de.«ire of federation with Australia is pretty general. He considers federation with "N?w Zealand out of all rensona'ble ■reckoning. Naturallv. Sydney i 3 Fiji's tent trading port. In the absence of alliance with Australia, he thinks that white residents should bo allowed to select eight unofficial members of the lugislative body, who are now elected bv Downing street. He eulogised Sir G. O'Brien's work in the group.

The Oant«rburv Tirabpr Yard». Sawmills and Cealyard Employees' Tndur,trial Union of Workers has fi!»d a statement of conditions of labour, whijh will be bt ought under the Conciliation Board, Messrs W. Stephens &nd Co. and forty-four other ■employers, representing nil parts of •Canterbury, including Timaru, Ashburton. LyttH'lton, Kainpni, Rmigiora, and other towns, have been cited to appear. The workers ask for fortyfour hours a week, overtime considerations, and a minimum wage for permanent hands ranging from £2 5s a week to £3, w-ith £% 10s for practical or joiners' machinists, and £4 a weok for " saw doctors."

Major Steward recently the Minister of Justice whether provision would be made for police protection »or St. Andrews by stationing a constable there and providing a lockup? to the increased population cf the district there was a necessity for a constable and for the erf ction of a lockup at this township. The Minister of Justice said that daring the last twelve months there had been three offences reported to the police from St. Andrews. In two cases prosecutions resulted, and in the third there was no prosecution. The population of the Lower Pareora Riding, Waimate bounty, within which St. Andrews was situate, on March 31st, was 642. while the general average throughout tbe colony of police to population was on-e policeman to every 1331 of the population. St. Andrews was purely a farming district, and the resident population •orderly and law abiding, but during harvest and threshing time the floating population, many of whom were undesirable characters, was considerable, and during that period additional police protection was no doubt required, and would in future be provided. He was sorry to think the honourable member should hold the opinion that his constituents were of such a class that they required graater police protaction than any other part of ihe colony. Major Steward said he did not think it whs right that the suggestion should come from the Government benches that a member of the House had-traduced his constituents. He had brought the matter up at the request of a number of his constituents.

Synopsis of New Advertisements. Waimate Bowling Club—Annual meeting <>n Thursday. Waimate County Council —Meeting of ratepayers on August 24ih. National Mortgage and Agency Company—Clearing sale at Makikihi. Arthur Joaes and Co.—Salvage and end of season sale. Waimate County Council—Tenders for road »vorba, T. Crone—Tenders for R^on«-breaking. T. Kennard—Has found a dog. Waimate County Council—Bridge closed for wheel traffic. Canterbury Farmers' Co-op.—Entries for Sturiholme sale. , Guinness and LeCren—Want covert coat returned. Canterbury Farmers' Go*op.—Horse •ale on August 22nd.