General News.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 156, 23 January 1902, Page 3

General News.

Mr J. Sym.in is making an extensive adduin-j to his bakehouse. Yesterday was the first anniversary •of itv., cli;;iii of Queen Victoria. An international regatta will be held at Co; kin Tiny. Australia is iuvited to send au eight-oar crew. Tiio shops ia tlis main street are being rapidly completed, the painter and ghzier being at present ia possession.

Sir Clements Markham is again appealing for £IO,OOO to equip a tmibr to follow the Discovery Antarctic expedition during the Summer.

There are 593 doctors practising their profession in various parts of this colony. This gives an average of about 1300 people to each doctor. In Waiinate during Dumber rain foil on twonty-ona days, a total uf 5.? inches being recorded. The hcavi'r" -•!.ill was on the 22nd, when o.6Sin toil The British Admirality has invited tenders for ten torpedo-destroyers of hft-ivior framing and improved proteaMon, anda speed of twonty.five knots an hour.

The hStudhoimo Mounted Eifles fire 'the final imteb for "i, Binney's cup to-Jay. -jjcoopv.- 'Civomey, who won the clip pre.:,!, 1 -.:'! by himself,ia giving ■it back to bo shot for.

The Isthmian Canal Commission unanimously recommend the acceptance of the Pinama Company's offer, •and declare that the situation is altered since the Nicaraguan scherno had been approved. M. Etienne, member of tlio Chamber : of Deputies for Oran, Algeria, states that Italy has recognised Morocco to be within the French sphere of influence. Ho urges M. De'.casso, Minister Foreign Affairs, to obtain similar admissions by other Powers.

The success which has attended the tree planting operations as carried out by the prisoners at Waiotapu, is lookod ■upon by tho Minister of Justice as a strong reason in favour of setting up in the country of a large penal establishment, the inmates of which would be •engaged in gardening and f&rmiug. At Auckland on Thursday the Arbitration Court gave judgment in a. cfi<2 in wiiich a girl sought to recover £IOO compensation from her employer under the Workers' Compensation for AcciJoiuo Act for injuries recurved while working a lolly-catting macbins, by which she lost thres lingers of her right hand- The Court held that the claimant had been guilty of contributory negligence, and awarded her 2a p«r w*ok, according to.the schedule of the Act, with nominal costs. Bishop Lsnihan of Auckland preached on Sunday evening in St. Patrick's Cathedral on the subject of uiked marriages, and enjoined on his p3opla the rigid necessity of conforming to the Roman Catholic Church's commands in this respect. He gave instances where several generations iii family circles had ab3olutely lost the_ faith through mixed marriages. Ee-~ ferring to the cablegram in reference i to the decree to be read in Roman I Catholic Churches throughout the j Commonwealth, the Bishop aiatfd tbd>t Ithis decree had been 'formulated sixteen lyeai-3 ago in Sydney at a Conference ■at which the Bishops of Australasia Biad assisted ; and in every church and ftbapel in Australia and .N«w Zealand W hud b>'9u read evt>ry year tunce that ■me. The Bishop read oopiousextracsa Bum the decree.

The Amevioan Senate's Commerce Committee favours a general subsidy if 1,720 000 dollars and a mail subsidy •>f 4,700.000 dollars, and recommends fortnightly mail services with Samoa. New Zealand, and Australia. The Committee lays stress on early securing a superiority of service in thro Pacific.

A family of Zingari, or gipsies, consisting of one man, two women, and a child, arrived in Rotorua a fow days ago, says the Hot Lakes Chranicle. Tbey travel in tho usual caravan, and have commenced , business in palmistry and other of tho occult arta. Tho Maoris are rather taken with the idea, and part freely with. their silver with which to cross the bauds.

SHOOTING NATIVE BIRDS.

An important decision was given bj Mr Cruickshank, S.M. at Kaitangata, in a case in which a man was charged with killing native game out of season. Mr Finch, for the defendant, sub milted that at present it ia no offence to kill native game in New Zealand. In support of this contention he pointed out that at common law it was not an off'.'iice to kill native game, and that section 17 of the Animals Protection Act, 1880,'which made it an ofience to do so, had been repealed by section 5 of the amending Act of 1900 and had not boon re-enacted, as it ought to havo been. Tho Magistrate (Mr Cruickshank) upheld the contention and dismissed the information. This means that there ia no protection for ducks, etc., at present.