General News.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 147, 31 December 1901, Page 2

General News.

There will be no issue of the Advertiser on Thursday next. At Melbourne on Saturday, Sutherland, the New Zealand crack, was second in the oue mile iotercolouutl eycie race. Italy has adopted acetylene gas as the best lighthouse illutninanV It is visible at a greater distance than the electric light. The Cruiser Good Hope, the gift of Cape Colony to trie Imperial .Navy, has betn built on the Clyde, and has arrived at Portsmouth. The representative cricket match, Otago'v Canterbury, was concluded at Christolnirch on Saturday, Otago winning by 122 runs. Ear! Eoberts, at the King's command has issued an order abolishing gold laced trousers, gold sashes and belts throughout the British Army. News has been received that a large force of Bolomen attacked an American detachment at Samaar, in the Philippines, killing seven and wounding seven. Messrs A. Tyrel and Co., makers of the well-known have J issued their nicely-got up amidal wall calendar, and we have to thank theui ' for a copy of it. 7 ' Messrs H. and. A. Price ratify that they will oontinue the carrying business of their late father, Mr A. Price. Both are lads, and their pluck "merit? ?:. good share of-rjjji', jviju,.: ~ Ghristmar jtas''-gqiio, bra thft rain yi still with us, and it mews dftomii.-'Vj • td continue its vuit till nftf.rfchu hoii*-ivs/ In that respect.U vulVx be a„ •;«,,..._.-,. >y> na thernotherii -laws wo rP'i J i',b;,i;j i:> ths comic papers. ' Disastrous bu<?b. ■ n.rr=& ata rr<<Wr?£. iv. both New S>mh n ■■)■■>. YictoVis,, Great n'roas of ii •.'••■: boui destroyed. Shipping ,-uo7i< t'»v'.n:a.-it i> being impeded bwin; to ibe densitv ei! the stnoke. _ ' Wild! cherries are so plentiful in iho Wairoa (Ha'wkes Bay)' district that they are b-iing ; used,' to fned pig-i. At; Heinga, Povertv 8,ry... eneMes" are rotting owing t:, iho difficulty of getting them to a market. The Premier bas an off-iEjJto; the War Office to -fill in the Sixth and i:oren,.h Contingents. About 100 men are required. These will be chosen from the men excluded fiom the Eighth, and will go with tl.at Contingent. That the new rifle served out to the New Zealand volunteers is a good One was evidenced by the fact that in a company match on Boxing Day the Timaru Port Guards averaged 86.4 points at 300, 500 and 600 yards, while the top score was 99. The strawberry ■ sea*on is just about over, only a few pounds going away now. This year, though a great quantity of fruit was sent away, it did not nearly reach the total of other years. The, raspberry' crop is in good order this year, and considerable quantities go each dav bv rail. :■■■■ l'. . ' - /.- • : ■ : 1 ' -'■ ; .. :' .' '""■'■■' ' • I *■= '.. '■,.,, .; ■ill'.-- , ■ ■> • , ■;.,, . .i.i ' ....= . ;■ •.,■ ,;. ;. ■ '■■ <>.,»;■•'■ •.-.••! ;-■.•• ' ..,.,. .:...; '.::"< u .. ■'■:.•!" ■ ' '.. >■ . ;■- , ■ i ■ ■. ; . ~.»:, " £ A ' ' '' iar. .:cn?,i ni .u. ■ ■ >. ;.■ \ . 'A .-■■■ ;:.-, •'■'-;,•■; > Vn'm\ iVW hc:.;S i-S "•"•■ :•('•:>■. '.-I.- ,').h?(t b«J,.j; ? , ; ' ' . '.' ,T:au,!>6V'. Mv 3 i;V. :■' '.;..■ • d.- L •'' I%m, -.-.ikS |. : .■■ !■'.:>■.n.„n, ti,< ~;,-.» ~ 4vr, was,•■".;■: -'■■ ■•'fcor< •'■»'-T'.r.-tl- i->:-:$o f:-r "f.hm *£?%s*■* ci.*;r;h:- y,is r,-i\--t-.} awxiy m J^auarv. .oj^o/pi^^rlL{i: ;-. -,! ■:■■.)■ ; ; ¥■'■■

Timara. Complaints were received from Waihaorunga and Pentland Hills •atations re accommodation, and the secretary was instructed to call the ■attention of Constable Christie to the < •matter. Mr George Kilworth was ■elected treasurer vice Mr T. Brown, •resigned. After Sealing with several "questions of imporsance to workers, a •vote of thanks was passed to Mr "Hazleton for kindly acting as treasurer ■pro tern, and to Mr Boreham for his -energy in the interests of the union. 'Some new members joined the union, -and a vote of thanks to the chairman "having been passed, the meeting •closed. A LONG-PILAYED HONOUR. Those whom the King delighteth to honour have in China to wait long for 'their reward a Canton corres'pondent.) Li Hung Chang's latest promotion can only be recorded on his tomb. He has now been created a •marquis, and posturahously named '"Liternry and Honest." He has further been appointed senior tutor to the Chinese caremony cares nothing for the facts that there is no • 'heir apparent and that the man himself is dead.

"NOT bigoted;"

• In Timaru thd other dav a prohibitionist who lives not fifty miles 'from Waimate. was seated in an hotel, quietly enjoying a good lunch. There was no one sitting quite near him, so •the glass of beer at his right must toave belonged te him. Enter a jovial Waimateite. "Hello, Tomkins, old ■man, shake. Thought you were a ramping Prohib. You sly dog !" "So i am a prohibitionist, my friends," returned Tomkins furtively, pulling "the pin out of the 'blue ribbon on the lapel of his oosit, "but I'm not bigoted."

WILLIAM TELL TO DATE

Mr Tom Clark Smith is a resident :in the State of Kansas, and is cele"brated throughout the said State for ;bia skill with the rifle ; bnt a few weeks ago he surpassed himself at a public performance at Wichite. He stood in •a position with an apple on hia head, • and a gun pointed over hia shoulder. Carefully sighting the gun he pulled •the trigger. The bullet struck the trigger of another guu plaoed thirty feet behind him; the second weapon '•having been fired in this novol fashion, -discharged its bullet nt the trigger of a third gun thirty feet in front of the marksman. The shot from the third 'rifle struck the trigger of a fourth gun • at the back and a little higher than the -second; and, finally, the shot from the fourth gun went through the apple on '.\Mr Smith's head. We might remark '.tbft? *h : s'\'*'<*■*. /-uis. M:&n story, otherm'ocUss ton a o: it would give iMwid."