General News.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 115, 15 October 1901, Page 3

General News.

» The Daily Telegraph’s St. Petersburg correspondent wires that -General Kroptakia has started for Central Asia. The last gazette contains the names of 60 deceased New Zealand soldiers whose estates have been placed in probate. You can depend on ridding your (Children of worms With wade,s worm figs, the wonderful worm worriers, Price Is. The new creamery at Morven is now finished and ready to commence operations. An addition to the school is being proceeded with. The registration of the Waimate. branch of the New Zealand Workers’ industrial Union of Workers is can- ! celled as from Thursday last. At the end of September 1,414,000 gross tons of merchant shipping were in the coarse of'construction at British yards, establishing a record. At the Police Court to-morrow morning several cases of riding 1 bicycles on footpaths, -or riding with- ‘ out lights, will be dealt with. ■ Abdur Rahman’s chain of forts in northern Afghanistan are fitted .with •electric saat-chlights. Habibullah is -reinforcing the frontier as a precaution against Russia. Yesterday, before Mr W. Petit, J.P., J. Wilson, who was arrested at mid-. , night on Saturday, was charged with having been-drunk, and was fined 10s, •r in default 48 hours’ imprisonment. ' The evidence given at the enquiry; into the loss of the Cobra showed that her engines ware somewhat heavier ithan were in accordance with the vessel's design. A privrfte cablegram -received from Home-stated that Mr A. E. Trott has -bean engaged to act as coach to the Hawke’s Bay Cricket Association, ;and that ha is now on his way out by the Waiwera.

The cycling Toai face from Warmamboel to Melbourne, 165 miles was won by Niva a local rider, Ralsten, the New Zealander, from scratch finished fifth, making the fastest time, ■ShraßJiec. During last week there were six bankruptcies in the colony—a fruit trader at Auckland, a farmer at Tara--dale, Napier, a slaughterman at Petona, a miner at Granity Creek, Westport,a storekeeper at St. Andrews, >and a miner at Riverton. The last twe days have been very -hot. The crops round the country are look ng fairly well, but rain is badly needed. Many farmers are carting water from the creeks adjacent to their holdings, and stock is in many «ises'driveu a considerable distance.

f£ ha opening of the tennis season will take place on Thursday afternco i om the Waimate courts, the annual Meeting being held before the com■mancwasiit ot me games. Like other sports in town, tennis seenas to have a prosperous season before it. The Royal Exchange has been grained for an exhibition of the colonial natural products and minerals which we e recently exhibited at the Glasgow E ih-biUoa, and will probably b# opened in February or Marcn. Besides the Australian States it is expected that Canada will be represented. Last week . a horse belonging to Air J. F. Douglas, valued at about -jBIOO, was found dead. 0« the horse being opened it was found that its stomach was riddled with bots. Mr Douglas has two other horses ill suffering, it is thought, from the same complaint.

The crops in the Redcliff district are looking well and even throughout, but should the rain not ccmie soon tha outlook will not be so promising, The continued drought has been severs en ewes and lambs all over that district, a great mortality among the latter having to be recorded owing to the ewes having no milk. On many farms on the flat and all over the Merino Downs the feed has just started to come away, but it will not come very far without rain. Mr Allsopp, a well-known civil engiueer of Sydney was conducting experiments at a foundry et Newcastle with a new turbine, which is calculated to drive ft steamship sixty miles an hour, with a speed of 15,000 revolutions and a pressure of 1201 b. The turbine had just reached 10,000 revolutions when the outer casing burst, and the fragments flew in all directions. Mr All-opp was struck on the left temple and instantaneously killed. His assistant and twenty workmen had remarkable escapes.

On Friday evening, in the Makikihi schoolroom, a concert and dance were held under the auspices of the Church of England. The programme presented was much appreciated by the large audience. The following contributed to the programme ;-r-Songs, Misses Boyd, Thompson, Merry apd Mcllwrick, Mrs Shaw, and Messrs P. Coates and T. Hardy; quartette, the Misses Cartwright and Messrs Coates and Shaw; piano solos. Misses Lindsay, Simmons and Childs; gramaphone selections, Mr A. Carter; dialogue, the Misses Simmons. A dance was held after the concert, and proved most enjoyable.

THE ARIADNE CASE.

George Mumtord, wiling master of the Ariadne, who wae remanded on Wednesday last on a charge of casting *w»y the vessel near' Waitaki, on March 24th, appeared ' before the Magistrate at Christchurch on Saturday on , three additional charges—casing away the ship in concert with Freke; having at Bpdney, with Kerry the owner, and Freke, formed a common intention to oast away the ship; and at Sydney, with this other two, of conspiring to defraud, the underwriter!. Mr Bishop, the Magistrate, doubled the former bail, miking accused's personal bond £4OO, and two securities of £2OO each. Chief detective MoGfftfch Slid Constable McLeod (Chrietohuwb) left tor Sydney hy tho Tainoe on Saturday night to bring bwk Kerry and Ffeke.