Mostly About People.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 117, 19 October 1901, Page 3

Mostly About People.

Sir J. G. Ward and Mr Hanan go south on Friday to meet General Sir Hector M cdonald at the Bluff.

Mr Lillioo, GoT«rnmmt veterinary surgeon, is in town at present. Mr J. O’Leary h»s s -Id the Emoire Hotel, Waimate, to Mr Harris, of the City Hotel, Danedm, for £6700. Mr Rohi-rt Kilgour, senr., returned to Waimate on Thursday from a trip to .Scotland,

The Washington (1L8.A.) Court sen' tenoed Johann Moat to twelve months’ imprisonment for’ publishing a sedi ious urtii.-le in' his Socialist piper. [Johann' Most was arrea'-rd soon after the assassi’ nation of Mr McKinley, and was discharged, only to bo re-arrestod. He has- for years past "been one of the most prominent figures, in Anarchist circles, b->th in America and Li the Old World. Ah far back a» 1878 Most Was expel «d from Berlin as a dangerous demagogue. He shifted his scene of operations to London, formed ftn Anarchist Association there, und started a paper advocated the wholesale murder Of princes, statesmen, bishops, military 1 officers and lawyers. Yet England was content calmly to ignore the. man until forced to • take action, through his outrageous conduct on the occasion of the murder of the late Czar,, of Russia. Most issued his paper wi b a red border hat day, and commenord his article on the Czar’s dea.h with the wards, ** At last! Triumph I” He was tried for, libelling the dead Czar and for inciting to, murder, and received a sentence of sixteen months* hard labour. \ After serving the term of imprisonment, Moat fled to America, and re-established his paper in New York, whence for many

ye*re he has carried On a* 'campaign •gainst ali for *.B of law and . order. He professes in its most extreme form the Anarchist doctrine that all restraint is , an evil, and tWt the cnly law for a . man is Ms own willj and he has imbued hundreds, .'of* other -desperate 'Shea -Women with these ideas.* The Anmbhht group in New Xo* f vitality • continued Jmm term*;‘ v bf ■ 'lmfMPnmeny'^eemed-,j-^