General News.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 111, 5 October 1901, Page 3

General News.

J. S. Butcher sells prime factors batter. Eggs bought. A meeting of the Caledonian Sockty will be held on Batin day evening next at tha Royal Hotel.

Mr Carnegie has added £25,000 to the Glasgow and West of .Scotland- Technical College Building Fond. The atlj timed annual meeting of the Star Cycling Club will he held in the lire Bi igado rooms enMonday evening.

Wadh’s Worm Figs are most effective and not unpleasant ; children thrive after taking them. Price Is On Thursday evening in the Temperance Hall, the Rev. J, Blight will deliver 2 lecture ou Jofe B Gough, orator and reformer.

The quarterly meeting-of the Juvenile Court Foresters’ Pride will be held 0 > Monday evening, a lien a full attendance expected. Lieutenant-Colonel Webb, late in com--7:1 ind of the Otago Volunteer di-urict, h.n taken command of the Canterbury district as from Tuesday last. Another death occurred at the hospital on Thur<id*y, that of Miss M. Fogarty, daughter of Mr John Fogarty, The ‘funeral leav-'e the hospital at 9 a.m. io-day. To-morrow morning, at the Wesleyan Church, the Rev. J. Blight will hold 3'rvice in raemoriam of the late Mr J. Pike. In the evening his text will be “ Broken Cisterns.”

A fire in Vancouver Island colliery imprisoned fiftaen men. Four explosions followed the fire, and hope of rescuing the entombed men is abandoned.

Count Leo Tolstoi denounces the Franco-Russian alliance, and declares that the masses in Russia are unaware of its existence, and do not share the French enthusiasm. In another column may bo seen the padigree of Mr J. T, Rodgers’ “ Welcome Willie,” which is to travel this district thisseaeon. Thepedigre?shows Welcome Willie to be of very pure clydc.'dale strain.

At the Stallion Show at Tahuna Park, Dunedin, on Thursday, there was the finest show of draughts ever seen in Otago. Seventeen competed in the all aged class. Mr M-. Duggan’s Clydebank was highly commended. 6 !For the horse parade to day there are 20 entries ns against nine last year. Two others, Osman and Bonnie Dmd«e, standing this year at Wai'.aki South, would have bsen emered but for the difficulty of getting horse boxes. The steamer Tanglin made the voyage from Singapore to Sydney with oil fuel. The engineers claim that its use saved £lO a day compared with coal. It is cleaner, saves labeur, and the heat in the stoke hold is reduced. On Monday evening, in the Temperance Hal!, the Rev. Spencer will give a lantern lecture* Admission will be free, bub a collection will be taken up in aid of the funds of the British and Foreign Bible Society. All are respectfully invited to attend.

A prolonged drought is existing in Lancashire and Yorkshire. A thousand mill operatives who are out of work, exasperated at the action of a section of the mill-owners in damming streams, demolished weirs and dams, and tried to obstruct the workers. The Soler abduction case was heard at Wanganui on Thursday, Joseph Soler claiming damages for the abduction of his child. The jury awardfd £2OO damages ag oust John • and Mary Tucker, £IOO against W. and Matilda Humphrey, £IOO against T. Hodgson, £3O against John and Mary Coburn, and £5 against Jam. a Dalgleieh. A cricket match was played on Thursday afternoon between a team from the Waimate School and a scratch team f on thh Waimate Cricket Club. The game resulted in a win for the Club by the narrow margin of 6 runs. _ Considering that most of the players w*re without practice good form was shown on both sides. The opening day is to take place next Thursday afternoon with a match President v. Vice - President. As the matches start in a few weeks, practice trill be commenced on Monday evening. Eggs bought . at Suxcbbb’b, Factory tmtter*

A SydaeJ message to tha Melbourne Age "of September 14th states: “ Considerable interest was taken to-day in the first batch of prosecutions under 'the n^w-by-law against expectorating on footpaths. Sixteen peramis were before the Central Police Court, charged with the offence, and in each C'Se a fine of 10s was imposed, in default three days imprisonment.” The funeral of the la f e Mr J- H. Bike will leave the Waimate Hospital to day at 2 p m for the cemetery, calling at the Wesleyan Church. Yesterday afternoon aboi-t fifty Maoris arrived by express from Kaiapoi, Temnka, and Waitak'. pahtt, and camped in Victoria Park. Last evening a tangi was held in the. park, a good number of townspeople attending. Friends are invited to attend the funeral this afternoon.

A meeting of the United Irish League at Dublin applauded a letter from Mi William O’Brien, stating that if the English King visits Ireland the League will arouse a spirit which wdl force the conviction upon him that the people are dis affected to the core. It only needed tne arms and traim-g of the Boers to testify to t e.r hatred of England’s rule, Mr John Eadmond made a defiant and fiery speech.

The Christchurch City Council’s idea >if supplying municipal music was put into p a tice the first time on Thursday evening' The public seemed to appreciate it, as they attended in large numbers, and promenaded nea r the ro lund->, in Victoria Square, where tt>e band was playing, until the programme was finished. These municipal concerts will be giyen on the evening of the half-holi day through >ut the sumrair months. TwO bands are paid by the City Council for supplying music.