General News.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 190, 17 August 1901, Page 2

General News.

hbe French census .shows t]H| population of France as 88,641,883, iH| increase of 412,804 in five years. fl| 1 Wajwb’s Work Fies are nfl[ efieotive and not anpleasant ; cbilcl^H thrive after taking th‘oxq. Price I«^H The directors of the Westport oSj Company have declared wrinta® the-half^J

;« The Uoyal Hotel sample rooms are tiiitlergoing renovation, -.a A general meeting of shearers will ■ M be held this evening, to form a Union. 9 The second concert in aid of the I Technical Classes is advertised for I 'Wednesday next. ' 9 Six torpedo destroyers, with a speed 9 0 f upwards of thirty knots, have been :i9 commissioned for the British Medi‘{erranean fleet. 9 The Canterbury Farmers’ Co-opera--9 -jive Association have an extensive list 9 of entries for their horse sale on '9 Thursday next. 9 The New South Wales football team ■ -arrived in Wellington oh Thursday, I Thev play the first match of their tour, that against Wellington, to-day. ■ “No matter what the question, I whether an election or anything else, ‘ ■ “it resolves itself into ‘ Water or no 9 water.”' Councillor Coltman at 9 Wednesday night's meeting. 9 The Rev. Father Regnault left 9 Wiiniato on Thursday afternoon for 9 Christchurch. He returns to day. 9 The Rev. Father O’Connell goes to 9 Halcataramea to day to conduct Sun--9 -dav service there.

Tinse ever popular entertainers, the Jib -.do:) Jubilee singers, will he in 'VLimute fur .Saturday, August 31st, aii.l Ferry, “The Human Frog,” m kos his appearance in Waimato on ?lie 4th- September. Mr A. G. C. Glass. O’-ganisiug secretary of the New Zealand Farmers' Union, was in town on Thursday, wsking final arrangements with the pi-cjiflent and Secretary of the Far-w.-rs' Association for to-day's meet- % i g.

The Malanrn Ensign sfdes that so Siv.ro have lv-on the eif-cts of the 3,i0 v lying for such a prolonged period up-in the hills in parts of the Wirikaia district, that sheep are starving, and ami are actually eating the wool off each other’s backs.

Eight tin plate mills in Ohio, and ■employing 8900, are ordered to be •<1 suiantled and removed to Oven. The mills at McKuoport are similarly threatened. Many cities have offered tlia sloe! trust money, land and veins don of taxes to bring the mills to (heir locality. The London Daily Telegraph’s New York correspondent states that a sen•sui'inal discovery has been mi-do that ton Customs bave been defrauded of millions of dollars for years. Large •silk importers bribed the Customs’ examiners to overlook consignments, especially Japanese. ■lt needs Lord Byron’s brilliant pen, His clever, brainy head, To tell ns how and why and when Home people are not dead. B.u since he’s gone we’ll tel! the way, How good health to assure, And colds and hacking coughs allay. Take Woods’ Great Peppermint Care.

Bp-aking on the rating on unimproved land value?, the Premier •si d it had been argued that the now bads would heavily affect raC ’C.ourses and athletic grounds. In his opinion th ;re was too much rncecourse m this ’colony— too much sport, and too much pleasure. This is one of the dangers which beset this young colony. The new committee or the Rowling Club are “bustlers.” Oti Thursday, the President might have been seen reino mg the exuberant growth of the micro virpa fence with a slasher, the Vice-president was paring out *• corns” of cocksfoot from the green, and sub stunting a heal-.by growth of turf, assi-r-ed by the commutes, while others •clipped the hedge ami did a g-mcral clean up. This augurs well for the success of the club’s incoming season.

The following team has boon picked to represent South Canterbury in the hockey match against Canterbury G 'oikeeper, Stock (Ashburton) ; threeqmner back-?, A. Millicbamp (Adoburton), Smith (Ashburton); half backs E Lafle (Timaru), Hardy (Bakaia) 11-aley (Waimate); forwards. H. M ilicliamp, (Ashburton). Suirgess (Kikaia), A. Lane (Timaru), Berry (W aim ate), and White (Ashburton). The match will be played at Timaru ■on Thursday next. In the recent pupil teacher examinatiou at Timaru, the following from jfchia district passed:—First year, maximum marks 670, Barbara Bat-tray (candidate), 359. Second year, maximum 710. Grace Turner, Waimate District High School. 517. Fourth year, maximum 850 for females and 800 for males, Margaret Anderson, Waimate District High School, 473; Katie Palmer, Esk Valley, 465, and John Stewart, Waimate District School. GlB, Grace Turner and John Stewart passed with -Credit in their respective years. The Waimate Temperance choir held a general meeting in the Primitive Methodist Church on Thursday ■evening, Mr C. Manchester, the leader, presiding. Miss Strong was appointed organist and Mr E. Wilson secretary. It was resolved to accept the generous -oflVr of the trustees, of the use of the Primitive Methodist Church for practices, and it was announced that thi copies of Hogle’s Temperance Melodics ordered would arrive in time for the first practice, on Thursday next, which would bo held in preparation for Mr Wooley’s meeting on the 30th inst. Mr G. W, Wooley, who is advertised to lecture on August 30th, in the Oddfellows’ Hail, is an American, and world renowned as an orator. By profession a lawyer, Mr Wooley is popularly known as “ The silver tongued orator of America,” and is Visiting New Zealand for the benefit of his health. In his candidature for the presidency of America against McKinley and Bryan, lie scored halt a million votes. In his own country Mr Wooley is considered one of the greatest and most eloquent speakers of tbe age. being likened, on account of his gift of language and fluency of expression, to the late Mr Gladstone. The success of his Waimate meeting is assured ; the opportunity of hearing such a man is too seldom offered to be missed.

VANCOUVER MAIL SERVICE. Mr Barton, in the course of an interview informed Mr David Mills, of the Union Steam Ship Company, that the Commonwealth was not at pre eut in a position to deal with the question of a subsidy to the Vancouver line, more especially as the existing contract with New South Wales bad still two years to run. However ho would bj gad to receive all possible information on the subject. FORESTRY DEPARTMENT. A return of forest trees planted to March 31st, 1900, under the New Zealand State Forest Act, laid on the table of the House of Representatives yester4ay, eh9W«d that the area planted in

Auckland was 2867 acres at a coit of £58583 ; Wellington, 79 acres, at a cost of £317 ; Marlborough, 124 acres, costing £■>93 ; Canterbury, 13,971 acr-S, costing £37,233 ; Otago, 1289 acres, costing £9392; Southland, 6J acres, costing £196. During the present year it is pr-p sed to expend £6OO in the Audi*, land district, £2338 in Canterbury, £BOO in Otego, and £75 in Southland.