General News.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 145, 24 December 1901, Page 2

General News.

- Inhere will ba no issue of the Advektiseb on Thursday next. The Canada Cycle and-Motor. Co, have a notice in another column. The Waiusate Band will play a number of selections io, ' tiie hospital grounds tp-morrow afternoon. Messrs Guinness *nd LeCren,' Ltd., have for sale the good-will of the lease in perpetuity of 43 acres at Kapua. Manchester Bros. * and Goldsmith are selling an exoellent assortment cf Christmas cards at 100 for le, 50 for 6d, Bingle • cards from one penny to 4s 6d.—Advt.

Service will be held at St. Augustine's .Church' tomorrow. The choitf boys Will appear in surplices for the first time at the morning service. List evening, as is customer? on the night before Christmas eve, the butchers of the town had their shops dressed and lighted up. All presented a very fine appearance, that of Messrs Cameron Bros, being particularly nice.

" Lord Brassey suggests -a Scheme fotf providing a naval reserve of 100,000 men at a cost of i£2,000,0Q0. He advocates 100 school ships.for training apprentices, and the subsidising of shipowners to train officers 'for the Naval Reserve.

Mr Redmond, speaking at Dublin, defied Mr Wyndham to use coeroion. Tfeere were plenty 'ready to share Mr Conor O'Kellys fate. Ireland wafc never better equipped for a final fight with England. The more menacing and dangerous the movement the more .American mas3'es would help them.

There were SO gas Works in the" colony on March 31 last, employing 572 hands and paying £70,388 yearly as wages. . These works produce annually 786.531.150 cubic feet of gßs valued at £245,000. It is to bo hoped that at next return Waimate will have' added another to the number .of vbecolony's gas works.' ■■■-• Mr H. Middleton has read the following telegram from Mr J McCorley, Mayor *of I£aitangata:—"Understand Waimate contemplates adopting Watt's water ga3. Strongly advise' using every effort to secure it. Our experience in Balclutha proves it to J be haif cheaper than kerosene, and to fjive three times the light. Usersconsider it faultless."

Yesterday afternoon a horse belonging to Mr Manchester was standing in a gig at the tail way station when it became frightened by the whisle of tha engine. round to bolt it upset the gig, and still striving to get away turned over and over. It was finally caught and held down, but nob before it had broken one shaft of tho gig and cut its own leg on the step. We have to acknowledge the receipt of Messrs Mills, Dick and Co's annual almanac and directory for 1902 from Mr H. Franklin. This useful publication is almost too weli known to need description, 'ontaining as it does a calendar, tables of distances, farnlhints, a summary of leading Jaws, adirectory of people in Otago and South Canterbury, and a vast quantity of other information, no one should be without it.

In another column will be seen an advertisement ef a magic washing fluid, which is guaranteed to oleaii clothes, "wiudows etc., and is good? either for washing the hands and feet, or for using in the bath, or as a hair wash. Agencies are being formed throughout the district, and judging by the demand in Timaru, Geraldine and Ternuka, this necessary household article should meet a ready sale here. It is on sale at the Wnimate Co-op.

In another column Mr S. J. Adams makes an announcement re his timber coal and firewood' business. After January Ist next, Mr Adams will reduce the price of rough timber in the yards by 6d per 100 ft. This reduction should tueyt with the approval of thot>e about to build, and Mr Adams be rewarded by largely increased Bales* Another announcement is that after the Baiiio date Ivaitangatn coal will be raised iu price Id per bag; Readers are advised to look at tho advt. for other important announcements. — Advt.

During 1900 the people of- New' Zealand partially satisfied their longing for sweat things b.v consuming among other things 3,803,395 lbs ot jam and 179,532 lbs of fruit preserved in soma other way. Bottled fruife totalled 84,500' lbs, valued at £950. This great quantity was manufactured in 13 factories in the colony, which gave employment to 85 males and S'i leinaleß, reeeiviug £BO7I as wages for chat year. The valuo of the materials used in the fruit preserving and jairk making works was £40,40-1, which wasincreased by passing through the factories to £58,092.

The Agricultural Department are issuing tuonthlly reports of theoondition of the fruit trees and plants in the various districts. In the report for Deoernbor the following sent by the Horticultural Society finds a place :—Waimate Apples, gooseberries * Heavy. Cherries, quinces, raspberries, walnuts: Fair. Cherries* pears: Average. Bed, white, andblackcurrants, plums, plums (Jupanese)t Good. Gooseberries .* Heavy. Nectarines, peaches: Short. Apricots* r nieces, raspberries* walnuts: Fain rttrawborries : Aromise well. General qemarks : All fruit is badly in want of am. Peaches attacked by leaf-curl.

BRITAIN AND TURKEY. Mabaroukh, Sheik of Koweytj ha 8" been summoned to Constantinople to make obeisanoe to the Sultan. The Sultan's emissary cot being allowed to' land at Koweyt, Iburascbid, Ameer of Nejd, at Turkey's instigation, collected an army. Mabaroukh has appealed for British protection and offered to abdicate in favor of his eon. The 1 British cruiser Pommone; and gunboat* Redbreast, are at Koweyt; also the Russian cruiser Yaryag, which made a sudden appearance later, and created a great impression. The commander of the Varyvag visited the Sultan at Muskat, and the Russian doctors enquired in regard to the healthiness of Ormuz and Kisam. The Times insists that it is necessary that drastio steps should be taken to enforce ths ; " status quo " in the Persian Gulf, or* if this is opposed, to sweep away the Sultan of Turkey's shadowy suzerainty* -