General News.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 116, 17 October 1901, Page 3

General News.

Mr Marconi has succeeded in sending wireless messages 350 miles. The Duke aud Duchess of Cornwall are visiting the Niagara Falls. You can depend on ridding your children of worms with wade,s worm figs, rha wonderful worm worriers, Price Is.

Maggio, an Anarohist, has been arrested in Silver City, New Mexico, on a-charge of conspiring against ttua late President Mc Kinley. In the Oddfellows' Hall to-morrow evening, the Maiden Melodist Coinpanv will give an entertainment m aid of the Salvation Army Self Denial Fund.

A general meeting of the Waimate Amateur Athletic Club wilt ba held in the Oddfellows' Hall this evening commencing at 8 o'clock. All members are requested to attend.

The Times Constantinople correspondent states that the Sultan is convinced that 'Great Britain will not occupy Xowey in the Persian Gulf or permit another Power to do so. During the week ended Monday* returns have been reported from fiftyseven dredges, the total yield being 14440 E 12dwt 18gr, or an average of twenty-five oz. A Turkish officer has been arrested at Tunis on a charge 'of swindling. The French pres 3 assert that the Porte sent him to raise Arabs in Southern Algeria in the event of war. Sir Thomas Lipton offers to match the Shamrock -against either the Constft-etioo or Columbia next year., and challenges America in 1903 with the Shamrock if no other challenger comes forward.

A well known Continental balloonist, Count Vauex.fcas started to cro& the Mediterranean from Toulon to Algiers. The journey is expected io take four days. The baltoon was sighted fifty miles 'from •Marsefcfles. During the excavations for works of the Auckland Gas Company, on the western side of Freeman's Bay, an interesting discovery was made, the trunk nf a tree being found under. 35ffc of-sandstone and 20ft of solid clay The WaimateCounty Farmers' Association hold a 'general meeting on Saturday next to deceive a "report of the delegates from the Provincial Conference, and to arrange for lectures on farm topics.

As a result of the Federal Tariff we (Gore Ensign) understood that a wellknown firm of'millers in this province, which exports large quantities of ■oatmeal, is seriously considering the advisableness of dismantling its mill here and re-erecting it somewhere in Australia, to escape the prohibitive duty on-dateme&l. Dunedin keeps holiday on Monday, November 11th, for the King's Birthday. The Christchurch City Council will ask the Government to make Friday, the Bth, the birthday holiday at Christchurch, as that is the people's day at the show. It would be well if the day of Wairnate's holiday were decided at once.

The Wellington Trades Council has received a letter from the Minister of Defence informing it that all saddlery for military purposes "will be obtained in the colony for the future, that no more saddlery will be imported free of dufcv, and that all boots, clothing, and small arms ammunition would be be procured, asiat as possible, within the colony.

A cricket match will be played today between teams representing year's eleven of the Waimate Cricket Club and the test of the Cliib. Play will commence at three o'clock sharp. The following will represent the'eleven:—Studholme (2), Fisher, Bradshaw, Park, Stewart, G-oidstone, Fergusson, Hamilton, Trumbull and Trott.

The tendency to raise the prices of the common necessaries of life would seem not to be confined to New Zealand. In Sydney, according to the Mail, the bakers have fixed a minimum price for bread in responße to the improved conditions of their employees, and consequently increased cost •of of their operations, and now the master butchers are proposing a minimum -price for meat. In this case it is not the man but the elements that have created the need, for the drought first thinned oat the herds-, and now that bounteous rains have brought back the productiveness of the soil the growers Want their stock for breeding purposes. As things go- butchers' meat in Sydney is reaching English retail prices, ecd the '"Wild rabbit" man is driving a great trade in the poorer quarters and the suburbs in consequence. ..

the F garo affirms, is a neoktaoa of fortyfive pearls, a doz*m of which are black. The price U £17,600 Americana especially keen pearl-hunters, and they will pay "from £4OOO to £12,000 for a collar without a murmur. In consequence df continued demand, a necklace which fifteen years ago was worth £4OO, will to-day fetch from £I2OO to £1600."

T HE NEW ZEALAND DEATH ROLL A return presented to Parliament gives the names of 109 officers and men belonging to the New Zealand Contingent who have been killed in action and died of wounds, of disease, or by accident in the war in South Afrioa. fcAIfcOURA WHALERS. The Kaikoura whalers had varying fortunes last wenk (twys the Star). They got fait to the largest whale seen there for about a quarter of a century. Jackson's crew got fast to an " express train" monstar—one of eight that were seen in tho bay. Jim Norton very dexterously got two irons into the whale and it was lanced twice without success. Then the monster made off, with the boat in tow, like a streak of lightning. In a trice he the boat nearly gunwale under and almost full of water, though leaping out of the sea occasionally. Tne boat was in imminent danger of being dragged down when the whale sounded, and tho helmsman was reluctantly compellel to cut the line. Norton jumped overboard, swimming to the pick-up boat. Later in the day Jackson's crew got fast to another whstle, which they captured. It is - estimated to produce five tuns of oil and yield a fair quan'ity of boue.

CABINET RECONSTRUCTION. Rumours of impending Ministerial changes have been common enough during the past few mont is 'says the Lyttelton Times), but our Wellington correspondent's lat«st message is rather more definite than most of the recent lobby gossip We are not prepared to affirm that the Cabinet is to be reconstructed, but there are very cogent reasons why Mr Seddon should make a re-arrangomenfc of portfolios. The Minister ref'.rred to in our correspondent's message is the Hon. T. Y. Duncan, an eariest and soli! poitician, bin by no means a sacceisful Cabinet Mioister The land question is now, as it has been, for many years, the moit important issue before the country, and the success, if not the existence,, of the Liberal Ministry depends upon a progressive legislative policy and a vigorous adminia. tration of the law. Neither nature nor education hai fi.itsd Mr Duncan for the post to which he was appointed on the retirementof the lata Sir John McKsnzie, and the Government is ieally living now on the reputation which the dead land reform*!' gained 'for it.