General News.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 191, 20 August 1901, Page 3

General News.

X cable from Rome states that Mon-ugnor Kelly has been consecrated the Vatican as Coadjutor. Bishop of Sydney. The Waimate Hospital is fairly full ijust now, nine females and three males undergoing treatment at the present time. A prisoner named Fdvvard Wilson from Shelley Bay, Wellington Harbour, on Friday afternoon, and is ’still at large. Last year the amount paid for old •*ge pensions was £197,292. and this jeav it is estimated that £215,060 will he sufficient to meet all claims. The Duka of York opened the Jfantzbui'g Town Hall- Chiefs of Natal and Zululand presented the Puiko and Duchess with an address. The census returns show the popu*a lion of Waimate Borough to be 662 in des and 697 fenia <■, a total Of 135 Land of the County 6218 males *na 2435 females, a total of 5653.

An epidemic of influenza is raging inSVaimate, the number of Cases being >ei-y la rge. The coldness of tba season j<, no doubt, to a large extent, answerable for this.

Negotiations have beefi resumed fcstwe-n the Government and the Wsidugton- Manawatu Railway Company for the purchase af the latter a lino.

The steel workers tm strike in America now number 57,000. On the 'other hand 243,000 are working in 'trust mills, and the trust has A-eOpeaeet Several mills.

A great hurricane in the Gulf States ■of America destroyed two levees at Hew Orleans, and did much damage ■otherwise. The city was inundated and fifteen persons wore drowned. Jho town of Mobile is isolated. The London Daily Mail announces that the Calamet and Hecla companies 'and the amalgamated Copper Companies of America and Rothschilds in Europe have signed a billion dollar , trust to control both continents.

A court-martial reprimanded Lieutenant Speak, who was in charge of the watch on duty when the torpedo*deatroyer Viper foundered in a fog. The Court found that the lieutenant had made a miscalculation and had ieken insufficient precautions.

The British warship teftrus has been 'despatched to Panama. The Icarus it a sloop of 970 ions, and has no doubt djeen despatched in connection with the diplomatic rupture which has 'occurred between the Republics of Venezuela and Colombia. The Ameri‘ean warships lowa and Ranger are : also proceeding to Panama.

'The Roman Empire, nigh forgotten, Once exercised a mighty sway, But Hke some buildings old and rotten, Was left to crumble and decay. Vhe human body needs attention,

In order to long life assure, •Tor coughs and colds we’ve but to mention, W. E. Wooda’ Great Pepperment Care.

A Bill authorising the construction “of a pier at Bear Haven for the purpose ■of accomodating steamers traversing the Atlantic in fty days, was read a. second time in the House of Lords-, after passing the House of Commons. The Bill has created a commotion in Liverpool, where it is regarded as foreshadowing turbine steamers run by foreigners, although it was stated in the House of XaOrds that the vessels were building in Britain. The New South Wales team played the first mft'Ch of their New Zealandtour on Saturday at Wellington,■when they met the local representative team. After a fast, open and exciting game the home team won by seventeen points to sixteen. The visitors are •described as a light active team, good at attacking but not strong in defence. “On Saturday the Canterbury team played Otago in Dunedin and won by three points to nil. On Monday morning, before Messrs W. Petit and C. V, Clarke, J’s.P,, ■George Johnson was with drunkenness and pleaded guilty. He was convicted, and ordered to come up for sentence when called upon, oh the condition that he had a prohibition ■order taken against himself for Waitaki and Timaru districts. This, was accordingly granted. Or. H. Graham pleaded guilty to allowing his chimney o be on Are, and Was fined ss.

AMERICAN LOCOMOTIVES DISCARDED. In view of recent discussions-, it is interesting to note' in " Engineering” lhat the Japanese railway companies, With few exceptions, have discarded American locomotives in favour of those of British manufacture. It is only by tone or two or the smaller. railway companies that orders for locomotives ate stall placed to the baited States, and for two reason* —cheapness and despatch. During 1900 thirty locomotives were ordered from British factories •H order for tWeoty-foUr of them, Valued *t£M,OOQ, heing placed in November* ITwo of the four sleeping-oars: which are U nee «• the QoTsnuaeat railway earns

t from England, and two from the ( Uirited States. The former, so our , contemporary says, are found to be much better, and to give greater sa Lfao ion. THE COLONY’S DWELLINGS. There were, on the 31st March last, ■ 164,612 dwellinghtfuses id the colony of , New Zealand, of which number 10,830.

■ were unoccupied. There were also occupied as dwellings 6116 teats, while of the houses 13,263 were of one room only. IMPORTATION OF BIG GAME. The Otago Acclimatisation Society' has decided to Vote £lO6 towards the f cost of the proposal that the Government ■ should import big game, and has recommended wapiti and chamois as the most suitable. It was reported at a

meeting of the Society yesterday that not one h -ad of pheasant introduced recently in the Tokotnariro district couldhe seen, their destruction being put down to stoats and weasels, OUR GOLD PRODUCTION. The yield of gold is increasing. The; quantity and vfelue exp irtad for the half year e >ded .Tune 306 h last was 217,478 z, valued at £3')4,888, being an increase of 38,1750 z, Wlhrd at. £llbo2f», over the first half bt ■«.,«& y*at 1900, and afe com-

pared'With the first half of the year 1891, when the quantity of gold exported for the .year was 389,558 >z, valued £1,513,173, being the highest Tor 2fc year 9 previously. The export shows an increase of 24,3470 z, value £94,389, and it is not unreasonable therefore to expect that the yield for the present year will equal, if not exceed, that for the year 1899. •BRITISH DEFENCEThe Naval Works Bill, asking for four

and a "half millions beyond the Bill o 1893, was reu.d a second time by 178 votes to 82, The Bill includes a million for the breakwater at Malta-, t»nd a million for the 'extension of the Royal D nkyards at Keyham; also for addi tioaal coaling facilities at Gibraltar, Malta and H-ng Kong. Captain Pietyman, a Civil Lord of the Admiralty,, explained that the Hong Kong Dockyards would net be transferred to the mainland, a rearrangement having placed 34J acres adjoining ! he p escnt site at the disposal of the Admiral y. The Military Works Bill, providing for further barracks at port defences, was read a second time by 162 votes against 83.