THE WAIMATE ADVERTISER TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1901.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 139, 10 December 1901, Page 2

THE WAIMATE ADVERTISER TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1901.

The German Budget shows a deficit of £8,945,000. The Premier denies that he will be accompanied to London by military escorts. A meeting of the Waimate High School Board of Governors will be held in |he Courthouse this evening. The quarterly meeting of the Waimate Traders’ Association called for last evening lapsed for want of a quorum. The British Government is enquiring into Mr Arthur Lynch’s past. Mr Lynch, in a letter to the Press, denies that he is a dynamiter or adventurer. He admits that he played a certain role in South Africa.

The Federal Postal and Telegraph Rates Bill provides for 6d telegrams in town and suburbs, 9d to other portions of the State, and Is for interstate messages.

When a Columbian gunboat was about to bombard Colon, the British cruiser Tribune threatened to blow her into splinters unless foreign residents were allowed to retire.

The Sydney Board of Health is hopeful that the plague will not break out. No bubonic rats have been caught since November 26th. The plague patient is convalescent.

The Australian cricket team in the first test match is as follows :—Darling, Hill, Jones, Trumble, McLeod,' Laver, Noble, Kelly, Trumper, Howell, Gregory ; Poidevin twelfth man. The rain has done a lot of good out country, late as it was. With the warm ■vwpather all cereals are shooting as much as could be expected, and turnips and rape are in their element. A junior clerk in tie D.I.C. Christ* church was sent to the bank witl) about £3OO on Tuesday, and has not been seen yet. He is supposed to have cleared out with another young fellow out of a tobacconist’s shop, . The town was quite busy yesterday a number of farmers doing the marketing they were unable to do on Saturday. All around could be heard appreciation of the rain that had fallen and was falling. A deputation of Queensland members urged Mr Barton to reinstate the duty on timber used for butter boxes, urging that suitable timber sufficient for all demands could be obtained in Queensland. Mr Baiton promised consideration of the roqnest. At n special meeting of the Wairaato School Committee on Saturday it was resolved to close the school from yesterday instead of keeping it open till Thursday. This was done so as to set the schoolboys free for strawberry : picking.

The appointment of Gaptain H. 0, Barclay to the command of the Wai* mate Rifles is gazetted, his commission to date from October 21 last. The resignation of Captain Bourn from the position of Adjutant also appears in the Gazette.

A now iron crossing has replaced the rickety wooden one at the corner of John and High streets. This is a boon and a blessing to men, and also to the Borough Council, for a broken neck at this spot on a dark night was more than a possibility, it was a probability. Mr Gage Secretary fer the United States Treasury, reports a surplus of £16,191,2:16. He urges the establishment of complete mail services to Europe, Asia, Australia, and South America, constituting the backbone of an American system of sea communication.

A meeting of the Waimate Amateur Dramatic Company was held in the Oddfellows’ Hall last evening, Mr Pitcaithly presiding. It was decided to make a presentation to Miss Clarke, an 'enthusiastic member of the society, and who is to be married shortly. We are informed by the postal authorities that until further notice all insufficiently prepaid newspapers for the United Kingdom will not be sent by way of San Francisco or Suez, bi.l will be kept back for the first direct steamer. Unless newspapers are fully prepaid the Department cannot guarantee to forward them by the quickest route. The New Zealand Times says : Messrs Mooihouse, Macdonald and Dick, who have been out lately capturing deer calves for the Wellington Acclimatisation Society, managed to secure fourteen— the largest number on record for one season. The animals will be reared on Mr W. Martin’* estate at Martinborough. and subsequently liberated in various districts. The Oriental Importing Co. of Christchurch have Instructed Mr F, A. Butterfield to sell a large portion of a stock of drapery, clothing, boots and shoes in Waimate. The sale will commence on Saturday next at on? o’clock in the Oddfellows’ Hall, and will be continued on Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons. The goods are to be sold without reserve, and inspection is invited on each 'morning before the sale. A Chinaman named Ah Tie, 'an inmate of Seacliff Asylum, was killed on Friday morning by another patient of the institution. The patient stole a stake from the garden and brained the Chinaman. Both were refractory patients, the Chinaman for repeatedly running away, his assailant (for suicidal tendencies. Hitherto the man had been quite harmles s. At the inquest, a verdict was turned that death was caused by blows inflicted by an insane patient. At the present time mails and their speed are much before the p li&s, A Waimate business man’s experience may be interesting. He sent by letter an order to a Home flrrm by the mail leaving on September 25th and the goods were sent from London before 29th October, the invoice reaching him in exactly ten weeks and on e

day from the posting ot the order. This he thinks a record both in mail delivering and promptitude on th part of the English firm. €

COSTLY DOQ3. At the Auckland Police Court on Friday Thomas Deacon, hotelkeeper, of Birkenhead, was fined £5 and coats for being the owner of three dogs that furiously attacked Joseph Whalen. Defendant had already paid Whalen’s expenses, given him £3O, and undertaken to provide him with a homo pending complete recovery. Two of the dogs had been destroyed. The hospital surgeon stated when Whalen was admitted, his ears were gone ; his nose badly lorn, his body covered with lacerated wounds. THE HALL CASE.' At the Auckland Suipremo Court, before Mr Justice Conolly, Kate Emily Hall was granted a decree nisi dissolving her marriage with Thomas Hall, on the grounds set forth in section 4 of the Divorce Act, 1898, which allows o t application for a divorce where a respondent has been imprisoned for, upwards of seven years for attempting the life of the petitioner. This ie a sequel to the celebrated Tlmarn poisoning case of 1886, when Hall, after a protracted trial, was sentenced to penal servitude for life.

THE KEBMADEC ISLANDS. The Rev. H. Van Staveren, of "Wellington, who baa just returned frsm the Kermadec Island®, which he visited in the Hinetnoa, is not favour* ably impressed with that portion of New Zealand’s possessions. He says that the whole of the islands are not

Worth twopence. A few oranges and kumaras can be grown there, and goats thrive OQ tho islands, but the locality is not an ideal place of residence. The historic 801 l family, -who have made heroic efiarts to develop the islands and make a home there, have at last given up the attempt, and returned to Auckland in tho ilinamoa. Tho heads of the family have resided in this sea-washed wilderness for twenty-three years, and reared six children. There now remains on Sunday Island, one of the group, a man named Cameron and his wife (a Maori chieftainess from Rotorua) and their baby child. While the Hinemoa was at the Kermadecs terriffio volcanic eruptions were taking place at Curtis Island, Which Mr Van Stavoren describes as a veritable inferno, and which he was not sorry to see the last of, OUR MINISTERS OF RELIGION. There were in March last in Now Zealand 946 ministers of the Gospel authorised to perform the marriage ceremony. Of this total dl l belonged to the Church of England. 203 were Presbyterians, 155 Roman Catholics, and lid Wesloyans. The only others to roach double figure? were ; Primitive Methodists, 31; Baptists, 24; Congregationalists, 20; Cnurch of Christ," 13; and Lutherans, 10. Besides the regular clergy, there were 221 Salvation Army ohi'ors, 52 missionaries. 45 preachers, 17 evangelists, and 11 Mormon missionaries. THE DREDGING INDUSTRY. During tho four weeks ending November 30uh the Otago dredges recovered 6180nzs Tdwts 2grs of gold. The Pactolus dredge was on top with 3350z5, the Royal Maori being next with 2740z5, Electric 2440z5, Golden Run 2030z5. The famous Hartley and Riley recovered 65ozs 12dwta for the three weeks the dredge was working. The Hartley and Riley Company has so far paid in dividends £8 17s 6d, the Golden Gate Company being next with £5 14s, and tho Golden Treasure third with £5 Is Gd. Tho following other companies have paid more than £1 iu dividends . Clyde, £4 Os 6d; Enterprise, £3 16s 6d; Empire, £1 13s 6d; Matan, £1 TBs 6d; Otago, £1 9s 6d; Electric, £1 6s ; Golden Run, £1 6s ; Magnetic. £1 Is ; and Cromwell, £l. THE ONION SHIPPING, COMPANY. Mr James Mills, manager of the Union Shipping Company, is a passenger from London by the Moana. Mr Mills states that whilst in England he arranged contracts for two new steamers for the Union Company—one of 4590 tons for the intercolonial trade and one of 8500 tons for the New Zealand-Calcutta trade. He hopes soon to put the Vancouver service on better lines. The Union Company intend to mane a vigorous effort to develops tho Aus-tralian-Canadian trade. He nas arranged with the Canadian-Pacific Railway to sand an experienced I passenger agent to Australia, who will make Sydney his headquarters. Mr Mills, interviewed regarding the Vancouver mail service, said that he had opened negotiations with the Canadian Government, and would have to do the same with the Federal Government. IE successful, tho Union Company would build three 8000 • ton sixteen • knot steamers. Whether the line would again make Auckland or soma other New Zealand port, the first port of call depended on the company securing the Now Zealand and Australian mail contract. It was, however, very probable that Fiji or Samoa would be made a calling place. lie was very favourably impressed with the prospects of trade between Australia and Canada. SOUTH AFRICAN TRADE. The Minister of Industries and Commerce has reosived an interim rsport from Mr Gow, the Goverumen-j Trade Commissioner, who left the colony some time since with tna object of fostering trade abroad. Mr Gow, writing from Durban on the IBth October, informs the Minister that he had been closely occupied in prosecuting his enquiries into the conditions of a South African market for New Zealand products, and iu furnishing information to large numbers of enquirers. His observation lead him to the emphatic conclusion that South Africa offers an unlimited fiad for New Zealand enterprise. It is admitted on ©very hand, he reports that the country is crying aloud for batter and cheaper food, and if the demand has been great in the past it I must necessarily be far greater in tho future. In conclusion Mr Gow says that tho need for direct, regular and suitable shipping facilities from New Zealand to South African ports is being forcibly impressed upon him, and as that is a matter of precedent importance in the development of trade relations with that country, he forwards reports from certain firms for the Minister’s information. He is convincsd that it is otny in London that any definite shipping arrangements can be made. TARANAKI IRON-SAND. Writing on Ist November the special correspondent of the New Zealand Times in London says There is not yet anything definite to chronicle about Messrs Cadman and Smith’s negotiations. I understand, however, that Mr Cadman has had several offers, which he had not considered quite good enough. He is now considering a promising scheme, and it seems likely he and the capitalists concerned may come to termi shortly. A Scotch firm is also showing considerable ' interest in the matter. Tho lengthy negotiations seem likely to prove prejudicial to Mr Mr Cadmans health if they are much longer protracted, as he struck me as looking far from strong at our interview a a couple of days ago. A competitor to the Tarauaki iron-sand is announced this week viz., the French island of Gaudeloupe, in the West Indies. Vast beds of iron-sand have been known to exist along the coast of the island, but for some reason or another up to the present it was considered against the policy of the Government to have them worked. A concession has, however, now been granted to the president of the Chamber ef Commerce at Point-a-pitre. The sand is very pure magnetic iron sand, free from impurities, and yielding about 67 per cent of irpn. The iron gives a very superior quality of steel. Practically unlimited quantities can be furnished, and vessels can.be loaded very speedily and safely. j* .1 J l_ _L: i _