General News.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 100, 10 September 1901, Page 2

General News.

Colombia has accepted America's offer to mediate in tho difficulty with Venezuela. Towns (Australian) won the world's sculling championship,feeatingGaudaur | by four lengths. A notification in this week's Gazette deolares measles to be an infectious disease under the Public Health Act. A public trial of the County Council's road grader Will be held this morning at some street in the borough. Yon can depend on ridding your children of worms with wade,» worm figs, the wonderful worm worriers, Prieeis. The training of carrier pigeons for Army purposes has been relinquished, and those kept at Alderahot have been sold by auction. Great Britain and Persia have signed a convention to construct a three*wire telegraph from Kaehan'to British Beluohistan. The Russian Government is spending fifteen millions sterling in buying grain to relieve the famine among the peasantry in the western and southern provinces. -In the Auokland province 3867 acres of land have been planted with forest tree* during the last year, at a cost of £B6BB, or within * fraction of 48 per tote,

Last evening the social committee of the Waimate Hockey Olab met and arranged mattejw in connection with th club's ■ooial on September 18th. It was decided to hold the social in the Oddfellows' Hall. An opal miner named Tomlinson baa been arrested at White Cliffe, charged with the mail coach robbery. All the property has been recovered, £7OO worth being found in the man's room and the rest buried. President IfcEinley, speaking a* Buffalo, said that America must increase her mercantile marine, build the Isthmian Canal, construct the Pacific cable and pursue a poliey ef commercial reciprocity. Water is very scarce just now, wells and tanks being dry all over the borough. The present spell of dry weather will go a long way towards convinoiDg people that Waimate wants , a water supply, and wants it badly.

On Saturday before Messrs Manshester and Sinclair J. Fs, on the application of his wife a prohibition fM-der was granted against Gustave STalk; on Constable Christie's application an order was granted agaiast B. Williams. A meeting of those interested in the formation of an Amateur Atbletie Association in Waimate will be held in St. Augustine's schoolroom on Friday evening. The nead for each an association has been long felt, and judging by the enthusiasm that is being shown a strong association will be formed here. To-night the Waimate Quadrille Assembly will wind up the season with a Boeial in the Oddfellows' Hall. The coinrnittee have spared do efforts to make this evening's function a thorough success and a fitting close to the many enjoyable gatherings promoted by this Assembly during the paifc winter. The British bull dog rulea the wave, Undaunted tar is he. And angry billows (oft bis grave) Oau't turn him from the sea. The hardships of a sailor's life He can so well endure, When coughs and colds are always rife. With Woods' Great Peppermint Oure. A meeting of the committee of the Waimate branch of tbe New Zealand Farmers' Union was held on Saturday* Mr J. F. Douglas presiding. After routine work, it was decided that the secretary should advertise a general meeting of the branch for September 21st, all intending members to band in their names before September 18 th. There was a roar of laughter when Major Bteward assured the Hous« ( with becoming gravity, that any member of Parliament who gave evidence before a committee of the House was boand to tell the truth. The mirth excited by this single remark astonished Major Steward, who was in deadly earnest. It also seemed to astonish the Premier. " I was struck," said Mr Seddon, "by tbe levity with which this statement was received/* " Tes, that struck me," exclaimed lit Fisher. On Friday last at Trinity Wesleyan Church, Dunedin, Miss H. Petit, of Waimate, was married to Mr J. H. H. Hutton, son of Mr E. C. Hut ton, of Dunedin. The marriage ceremony was performed by the Rot. P. W. Fairclough, and Mr .E. Hutton, brother to the bridegroom, acted as best man. The church was filled with friends of the bride and bridegroom, and the young eouple received very many costly present* from all over tin colony. Miss Petit will be very greatly miased in musical circles in Waimate.

In some quarters it is considered that the r<iftiHftl of Colonel Henry to accept the position of Commandant of the New Zealand Forces, and the possible appointment of * New Zealand officer to that position, will materially affect the proposed change* in the Officers Commanding Volunteer Districts. For tome time past talk in volunteer and military circle* has been busy- with the chances of a eeitain returned New Zealand offieer in con* nection with the position of Com* mandant, bnt those who profess to Le in the inner circle hint at some other officer being more likely to obtain that post.

Prior to his departure from Dun* edin Mr J. Q. Woollej stated that it was extremely improbable he would be able to visit New Zealand again before-next election. He said that he had been strongly urged to spend six months in the colony, but he was .too busy a man to think of being away from home for such a lengthened period, for, including travelling, it would make a big bole in the year. Ha expressed himself as much gratified with tbt success of his Dunedin cam* paign, and said be was oarry.ng away with him the most favourable impressions of New Zealand. His health was so unsatisfactory that he bad abandoned the idea of visiting Balclutba, and interviewing the prominent representatives of the "no license " party there. Synopsis of lei idrertisftments. Canterbury Farmers' Co-op.—Entries for Stud holm* stock s.lr; Adtertiß3& Office—Seven well-bound volume* for tale. Athletics—Meeting to form Amateur Athletic Aißce>atipn on Friday evening. National Mortgage and Agency Com* pariy—Fntries for Stodholme ea>. A. Philip—Funeral notice.