General News.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 118, 22 October 1901, Page 3

General News.

Russia is mobilising the Cossacks in the Ural, Orenburg and Semitetchenslk provinces. Wadh's Worm FiG3 are most tfective and not unpleasant; children thrive after taking them. Price Is A. nBW War Office Board, to be anlogous to the Board ef the Admiralty, lias been constituted by Earl Roberts. Some uneasiness is felt at the nonfflival of the Monowai, which was due it Hobart froru New Zealand on Friday last. The Devohport dockyard authorities Uve been instructed to build a battle•hip 425 ft in length and 16,500 tons in displacement. The Waimate Workers' Industrial Union of Workers was registered 'ndor the Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1900 on October 12th The steamer Scotia has arrived at Ifaemantte after laying the Gape «b!e. A start was m ide with' laying the ghora end on Saturday. Five bundred Filipinos attacked tiArneriomi at river, killing 10 men and wounding 24. The Filipino* were subaequeetly routed, >na 100 of them killed. Last week there were four bankrapts in the colony—a tinsmith at Opunake, a cycle agent and a labourer it Wanganui, and a boarding house keeper of Invercargill. Haucer, an Anarchist editor, of Berlin, New Hampshire, has been wotenced ts four months' imprisonment for justifying the shotting of President McKiuley, by Czolgosz.

The Pjeinier has received * cable torn the Agent-General stating that both the submarine boats ordered bj toe New Zealand Government have irtived safely «t Malta <m the outWard trip.

When the new Payment of Members Bill passes the House, which it is ttpected to do, our legislators will be fa receipt of payment for their j Itborioua services equal to £l9 a week (or the duration of the session. k sensation has been caused in America by President Boosevelt inviting the negro president of the Unlfinity of reekegee to dine with him. This is the first time a negro has dined Mthe White House. The coal which is to furnish the Discovery for her explorations in the Antarctic has been ordered from the Westport Company. The Teasel will bs filled with Westport coal in about the middle of November. Mr Alexander Wilson, of New South 'Wales, has submitted to the War Office a scheme for an Imperial horse breeding estate in Australia. He propoaes. to utilise 6000 square miles of the Northern Territory, at an outlay of £670,000, and promises great results after tbo-aobemehaa been in operation six yean.

In a communication received bv Mr Harton from theGoveraor general, tha Indiw Famine ComnlUtet conveys its thanks (or the splendid generosity of tbacolonies, Mptelallv oithe people of New South W*l« and New Zealand.

TMe week's Gazette contains notice el »n application for a provisional paUnt for improvements in acetylene gaa lamoe. The inventors are Messrs 0. A. Wileoo, journalist of Wairaate, ana 0. H. Gilby, accountant, of Christchurch.

A general meeting of the Walmate Amateur Athletic Club will be held on Monday evening next. The club is now very strong, and the sports meeting on November 28th promises to be one of the best ever held in Wairaate. The French newspaner Drapeau states that General Combes, with 1100 men, had several, fighr.s with revolted natives on the Ivory Coast of West Africa. Seventy were killed and 200 wounded. Eeinforoementa are asked for. The American Consul at Constan-. tinople finding that Miss Stone's captors were the tools of the late Macedonian Committee, refuses to oav. the ransom, and insists upon the Bulgarian Government arresting the instigators of the captors.

The American naval estimates for 1903 total 99,000.000 dollars They provide for the construction of three battleships,- two armoured cruisers and the spending of 20,000,000 dollars in docks and shipyards. Anti Imperialistic newspapers denounce the naval programme.

At CqUrfc yesterday, before Mr W. Coltman, J.P.. a first offender was charged with being found drunk in Queen street on Saturday night, also with resisting the police in the execution of their duty. Evidence was given by Constables Christie and O'Halloran and by accused and Charles Christmas for the defence. A fine of 5s was inflicted in the first case and 10s in the second.

Yesterday Mr W. Quirm lost a valuable draught mare, which dropped dead while ploughing oh Mr Qninn's property through the Gorge. On being opened she was found to be full of bots. The man who opened the mare has opened dozens, and he never saw a worse ca«e. A number of horses in the district are suffering from bots, and farmers would do well to take precautions.

Lord George Hamilton, in a letter to Mr Baird, member of the House of Commons for Central Glasgow, in exphupig the msona why the Indian Government placed • large order for locomotives in Germany,' expressed the hope that British firms would expand their power* of production A firm in Hanover had tendered 25 per cent lower and ofiered to deliver, in half the time compared with the time required by British firms. According to observations taken in Wellington, rain fell on seventeen days during September. The highest fall for any one day was 1.67 inches, the total for the month being 5.319 inches, as against 4.259 inches on fourteen days in September, 1900. In Waimate observations taken by Mr W. S. Hamilton showed that rain fell seven times, a total of 1.52 inches falling. The greatest fall was on September 25th, when 0.52 inch fell.

A Beater's message states that Ibn Stsehid, Ameer of Nejd, bribed the Vali of Bassorah to cooperate in Bn attack on Maraboukh, Sheik of Keweyt. Ibu Rashid moved 10,000 troops to the vicinity of Koweyt, British intervention preventing Turkish co operation. Ibu Raschid informed the Sultan of ihe plot. The Sultan recalled the Vali, and requested Ibu Raschid to return. All is now quiet, though the British war-ships remain in the vicinity.

At last week's meeting of the Canterbury Land Board the followin g applications for land weregrantpd:— Jane Buchanan, 4, Block VIII., Morven township, 2 acre 3, lease in perpetuity ; S. W. Buchanan, 6, Block VII., Morven township, 1 acre, lease in perpetuity. Transfer of mortgage, James Henderson to National Mortgage Company. Elephant Hill, was agreed to. Applications for extension of time for payment of rents were favourably dealt with. The Commissioner of Crown Lands laid before the Board a schedule of lessees owing two or more payments, and it was resolved that all who were not being otherwise dealt with should be required to state, by October 31st, when they will pay, otherwise the Board will consider as to the forfeiture of their interests. The New Zealand Trade Review points out Jthat some of the steamers trading between England and this colony carry some cargo from German and American ports at lower rates than similar corgo from British ports, Ah example given given is the case of pianos, whith are brought from Germany at 31s 4s to 333 lOd per tonwhile British pianos have to pay 55s per ton. As a piano in case weighs a ton and a half, this gives the German makers an advantage of £1 17s per piano. One result of this unequal freight tariff is that the impottation of German pianos is increasing at a rapid rate. In 1891 there were imported 1013 British pianos and 705 German; in 1900,1057 British and 2430 German. " So much for our patriotic efforts to conserve British trade." The average invoice value of British pianos last year was about £26, oi German, about JJ2O.

THE ARIADNB CASE. Kerry and Frek» were remanded from Sydney to Carirtohurch in the omtody of Detective McGrSth and Constable McLeod, who prodoced the original warrant* and identified the aaoused. When charged with casting aw*y in company with ethers, the yacht Ariadne, accused declared that they were innocent of the charge. Detective Goulder deposed that when he arrested the accused he took possession of Freke's portmanteau. Amongst the contents was » book containing what purported to be s conversation between Freke and Captain Mumford ia reference to the alleged blackmail of T. 0. Kerry, relating to the wreck of the Ariadne Freke said, " Yes, that is trae, and the whole of it is in my own band-writing." Aftefwards he denied the writing. Amongst Kerry's effects; witness found some letters and a packet of papers marked •* Mumford's papers.; don't -open till you ipeaob.. London,'.' • AlsS a ; day' book referring --to the payment of £IU fo'Captain Mumford 1 in various sums.