General News.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 126, 9 November 1901, Page 3

General News.

l Keuter's message states that Li a? Cbang is dying The Shah of Persia has declined isia's offer of a thousand Cossacks palace guards. 'he final results of the P.ttea ition are an follows ; Mr Hiselden, Qvotes.; Mr Heslop, 1719 votes. Phe King has issued a proclamation it the Eo.yal Title shall include the fds"British Dominions beyond the 13." h Hon. J. A. Bonar, member of the j«lative C >c.ncil, who was seiz id by iponletic stroke oi Wedaß3day, di ;d Thursday alternoen. the Government proposes granting engion to Mr Sidnay Weetman, of department of Land 3 and Survey, E3OB 6s 8d per annum, commencing b March Ist, 1902.

I toe member* of the English -cricket o are in active practice at Adelaide, aremucbout of form aftertheir trip, sir first mutch, that against South itralia begins to day. Tie barque Antioco Accame was 1 by auction on Wednesday, to a dicate of ten residents in the [hbourbool o£ the place where the aded vessel lies. The price was 80. Of the Wairuate candidates who forwent examination at Dunedin i ivemty some few weeks ago, the iyone successful was Mr W. Thomas >o passed bis second term ezaminao. The numbor of sheep in the colony April ,50th of this year was 233,099, as compared with ,355,195 last. yea*. The number of 'tiers increased from 18,357.' to '.360. ■ . ■* It ia intended to apply to the Court appeal for leave to appeal to the ivy Council in the cases of Gibson y free and the New Zealand Flour illera' Association v tue Timftru MillI Compasj.

The y*»*c book for 1901, has reached this (,^c " : .V' is as usual well got »P- includes within its bulk of statistic*, .thj census returns for April last.. This is the tont.li yaw of the publication of the ye;u book, and its price is still tli« modjrate one of Is.,

The Nor h Canterbury Education Board li:is decided to request tho .Minister of Education to provide for tho disbit balance which will bo shown on -the Board's maintenance account at the end of the present year, as the capitation is insufficient. At present the Board's overdraft is approximately £2OOO.

The following will represent Waimate in the cricket match to-day against the.Terauka team: Cooper, Fisher, Goldstone (2), Griffin. Park, Hutchinson, Rout, Bradshaw, Stewart, and Thomas (2). Play will commence at 10 o'olock and as a splendid wicket has been prepared an interesting gam.' should result. The Wellington Post says it is cur rently reported in Southland that th.Hon T. Y. Duncan will, in the course of the next few weeks, resign his ofiice as Minister for Lands, and be sue by mt McNab, the member for Mataura. The North O-ugo Times, however, declares that both Mr Duncan and the Premier deny the rumour. A desperate attempt was made to rob the Kensington Park branch of the London and South Western Bank. After business houus a man named Lnnscomb, armed with a revolver, killed M>- Crawley, the cashier, and wounded Mr Booch, clerk. The latter seized Lanscomb by the tlvoat, and, during a trem ndous struggle, the robber shot himself dead.

An O.drtr in- Council definss Eul Roberts' duties and responsibilities: Mr Brodriok retains the position which ie essential to the Parliamentary system, and Earl Roberts will exercise control over the Adjutant General, of Mooilisation and Military Intelli gence, the Military Secretary, and supervision of other officers on the headquarters staff. The representiv:? of the syndicate which purchased the barque Amioco Accame went on board and furled the sails and made all taut. The barque has from 13ft to 15ft of water, and does not appear to h ive b-idd )d herself more than a foot in the sand. As the water ebbs a id flows very slowly, the holes in her bottom are not thought to be very large, and with fine weather the syndicate anticipate having the barque in port in a week.

DISHONEST PENSIONEER. At the Westport M igistrates' Court on Thursday before Mr Hawkins, S.M., Gsorge White, charged with wilfully and unlawfully miking false statements with intent to secure a larger pension than he was entitled to, wis convicted and fined £5 and costs 16s. William White", similarly charged was convicted and fined £3 and los costs, and his pension was cancelled.

NEW ZEALAND'S RELIGIONS. Rjturns prepared by tlia liigintrarGeneral show that at tha last census the adherents of the principal religions organisations in tin colony nomb9n>d as follows :—Gluirch of England, 314.024; Presb.ytonans, 17G.503 ; Roman Catholics, .103,903 ; We-sloyao M.ittiodists, 71.034; Baptists 16,035; Primitive M-thodists, 10.143; idivn io-i Army, 7999; Gongie outionalists, 6099.