General News.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 135, 30 November 1901, Page 2

General News.

The quarter’s Subscription to the Advertiser is now due. The Discovery has arrived in Lyttelton. Hull’s Biograph and Concert Co. appear in the Oddfellows’ Hall on Friday night next. The matron of the Waimate Hospital wishes to thank Mrs Binney for tho very nice basket of fruit she so kindly sent to the institution.

Mr R. E. Boyd has opened out, during this week, eleven packages of new drapery h t the Xnaas trade and invites inspection of these choice goods. Mr H. Franklin reminds the publlo that Xmas is just at hand. Ha hae just received, ex Tongariro, a shipment of new and fresh Xmas and New Year cnrds calculated to suit all tastes all pockets.

Some wantonly mischievous persons have been digging their bootheela inta the clay cricket pitch in Victoria Park when it is wet and otherwise making it unfit for play. A watch is now being kept, and such unsportsmanlike conduct will meet its reward. To-day the Oamaru First Eleven visit Waimate to try conclusions with the local club, who will be repre* sented by tlje following: Studholme, Thomas, Fisher, Park, Bradshaw, Rout, Goldstcne, Stewart, Cooper, Hamilton and Fergusaon, Play start* at 10 sharp, and a very interesting game is expected.

The Waimate Dramatie Club will repeat “ Tno Magistrate " on Tuesday evening next, and those who were unfortunately unable to be present on Show night will* have an opportunity of seeing this exceedingly amusing comedy. Anyone who has not set |> “ The Magistrate ” should make a point of being at the Oddfellows’ Hall on Tuesday night, add they will wtainly not wgret it.

A sitting of the Waitaki Licensing Bench will be held on Thursday next at noon.

Twenty Hour men were killed and twenty-five injured by a boiler ex ‘plosion it. an injector factory ai Detroit.

Cheviot advices state that a sdgh shock of earthquake was felt at 2.48 p.m. on Wednesday, and a few tremors during Wednesday night. There has been fierce fighting in Colombia. The total losses ou both sides number 150. A body of American marines has landed at Panama to ensure through traffic. At Court on Thursday morning, before Mr W. Petit, J.P.. Wm. Ksnnatd virastsh urged with di .cho-gi >g firearms near a public ro .d and find 10s. with costs, 12s.

The Now South Wales Rugby Union has invited the Mew Zealand and Queensland Unions to attend a Conference in Sydney in February during ths fourth teat cricket mutch.

Colonel W. S. -Sparkes has hoisted the British rnd Egyptian fl igs at Bahr-el Ghazni, in the Soudan. :Io was successful in inducin.; tr.e loci! Sultan to accept British o'ot w.ion

The Wesleyan District Synod at. "Wellington passed a resolution urging members of the 'church to discoimten ance gambling, and that the Govern laent be asked to introduce a Bill making theiotalisator illegal. Mr W. P. Watson, genery.l manager of the "New Zealand CoM and Oil Company, has received from the Government a bonus of £SOOO for the first hundred thousand gallons o' oil produced from shale oil as a result of operations at Orepuki.

Several canes of commuting a nuisance in the public street have been reported of late, and the police have determined to put each 'practice* down With a strong hand. The Justices, also, on Wednesday expressed the same determination.

At a meeting of the Levels County Council on Wednesday, it was resolved to make formal application to the Roads and Bridges Depart,moot for the appointment of a Commission to deal with die claims against the three neighbouring counties, Waimate. Geraldine and Mackenzie. Colonel A. F. Montanara, Com manding the Southern Nigeria Battalion, commands un expedition of 1500 men who are starting from Lagos, in West Africa, to attack Acus. on the Cross river, with the ohj»c: of suppressing slavery and destroying a fSdeh town in the interior.

Another alleged mins suiting cure has been unearthed. At a meeting oi the Wreatea Company shareholders rknaftibectors and Mr Thomson, one of the shareholder?, were appointed a committee to canvas for subscriptions for the purpose of forming a trust fund to proceed against the alleged suiters. Mr Allison, manager of the Brunner raiue, has received an official notification from the Government that they will take possession of the GreymouthPoiut Elizabeth Coal Civek railway. The conditions of agreement hud not been complied with, and the Government refused farther concessions. The Public Hevitli Department finds that there is a mild epidemic of scarlet fever all over the colony at present. The Department Ins now far-reaching powers to compel the enforcement of precaution?* and wnl use them should any neglect on the part of local authorities ba brought o uder its nc-iice.

A diver from San Francisco lias iocntsd las steamer Rio de Janeiro, v.luch \vs:i wivcSed t«t the entrance to GoM-m Gi-.to iu February last. Ttu ’Government is endeavouring to recover treasure end document* belonging to Mr K. Wiiduun. kte American Consulgeneral for Hongkong, who was amongst those drowned. Daring the past year 207 aliens (230 men end 37 women) received letters of naturalisation in New Zealand. Those new subjects were returned as coming from seventeen different lands, the .largest contributors being : Germ ny, 83; Norway and Sweden, 50; Den■mark, 49 ; France, 13; and United Slates, 12.

The strawberry crops are not turning ■out so well as was expected a few weeks ago, and the season will be a very short one this year. Some growers expect to finish next went and all will ■b'j finished shortly after. Prices being realised for dessert strawberries are low and most of the growers prefer to put their frhit into barrels for jam ■rather'than pickFuem for dessert. On Wednesday, before the Rov. George Barclay and Mr W. Petit, J a.P. Theodore Mowbray charged with drunkenness, was fined 10s, or default 48 hours’ imprisonment. For committing a grossly indecent act in Main street William Partridge was fined £1 with costs 4s. The justices intimated that farther cases would be severely dealt with. Tho fines were .paid iu both cases. John Black, an.is Johu Hamilton, alias McPherson, was charged with the theft of goods valued at 30s at Waimate in March last and sentenced, to two months in Dyttelton gaol. The Paris correspondent of the Times states that the French Go ■'varnment are unable to pub .an M. Voyrcu’s report on Chinese ail lira because ha accuses kdiea belonging to the Foreign Legations, directly they were relieved, of pillaging the richest shops in Pekin, and concealing at the Legations loads of silk, laces, ivory Wjrk, and jewellery. All nations are involved. The late French Minister to China, denies that ladies belonging to the Legations pillaged, though two hdies had joined in the looting of Pekin.

“THE KING’S COLONIALS.”

The King h as consented to the formation of a mounted corps with a machine-gun battery, ambulance and signallers, composed of colonials who are in London, conferring the title of “ King’s Colonials ” on the new corps. Colonel Willoughby Wallace is commander, and Captain R. R. Tliomp son, of the First Australian Horse, •adjutant. Mr Brodrick and Earl Roberts have approved of the corps.

INTERNATIONAL SAILING RACE

The Columbia has beaten Shamrock IL, but Britain may win the longer international Bailing-race now in pro. cress, from New York to Yokohama, round the Cape of Good Hopo. The rival vessels are the British barque Brilliant, of 8600 tons, the largest sailing Jihip that ore-: entered New York harbour, and the American barque Acme, of about 3000 tans. Both of (the barques are new and are the first of a great fleet which the Standard Oil Company is buildirg on the Clyde and in the Maine. The British ship is to carry 1,750,000 jgaUoos of oil, and the Aowneam

1,500,000 gallons. The race will occupy about 150 clays, and is regard ’d an settling, to snnia extent, the merits of British and Yankee builders. The international interest is h.-ightened by ihe fact that the Acme is commanded by a wMI known Mnaricdu skipper, while the Brilliant is sailed by Captain Colioshaw. who has a great reputation ou the Clyde.

trade with south Africa. The New Zealand Times has the following ; With reference to trade with South Africa, a Wellington firm has lately bad several inquiries fm ■jutter, bn_ finds that the shipping arrangem iVu.a at present existing are a serious,hindrance to negotiations. n c toe service is so irregular. An inquiry into the qu -si,ion h o b r *en m.ffi. through a Dunedin firm, which has received a reply that Australian houses are gu irantoeing delivery at Soutli African ports. This naturally gives them a great advantage ove r New Zealand shippers, who cannot, under any circum-tances, as the service is at pres-nt, make contracts forward for any gu •.rautoed monthly shipments or wh.it-jv.jr 'deliveries may be ivquirod. AUSTRALIA AND FIJI. R ‘presentab ves c-f fifty seven mercantile firms and stooping companies in Sydney have forward si a petition to Mr Kingston, stating that they view with alarm the most certain destruction of Jr. id f hetw-'eii Sydney and Fiji and the other INoifie hhnds if the Federal tariff is adopted, and they a-,k him to take into special consider anon t.io trade of the Common wealth with the islands, and place ou the free list such products ns copra, cocoauuts, bananas, peanuts, pineapples, beclie de mer. v;! oiil'i, p atari sh-fit and turtle shell. I’he petition reminds Mr Kingston that recently when New Zealand Was trying to being ab tut tile fedet atiou of Fjt with New Z.ailaud, tinGovermuJut strongly prol.slrd 10 .Mr Chambi.-.rlaiu tigaiu-t me movement. It would, therefore, appear to be inconsistent for the federal Government to now so tax Iho products of Fiji that trade must uu doubtffily bo forced to Mew Zealand, aud lost to tho Commoow"n ,| b