General News.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 162, 6 February 1902, Page 3

General News.

The W.aim.ate Bowling Oiub pb,y a six rink match ha Tim.aru to-day, tho team to bo picked on me way up, Tha British Admirably has ordered a now submarine boat 109 feet lung, to be the largest r.nd fmoit in tho world.

Vorws.p.rt-9, iho G n m?;a Boaiau-.t organ, publishes a secret State paper, outlining a new Bill increasing the number of Gorman cruisors on foreign sorvica.

In tccerdfinso with our suggestion in Ifict Issue. tha Postmaster (Air G. B. Cooper) yesterday inspected sites on tha outskirts of the Borough, with a view tc recommending that postal pillar boxes be placed thoreau. A young man who htw basn Kissing for several days was found in «h® riverbed yesterday, suffering from F.oifindicted v/mauda, and now lies i.u the Hospital in a precarious acnduioc. Ask Fon It! That new Catalogu" ' of ISG pages, giving tho names oi nil bongs. Id moos, Piocua. Studies, etc., et>tu pest vrea—Eegg and Co,. Titaaru.,.

In connection with the Coronation, He Barton has been requested to attend it, cnufaronca of tha Premiere of Australia. Canada, Now Ze-ffaud. Cape Colony and Natal, to diumm matters of Imperial iuoerc.as, including trade relations and defence.

Tho footpath from Queen street to the school goto is lu a vary rough state, in fact it is one of tha worst ia the borough. In pi ■.cos. ii it were a road, the atones would be broken, but nothing seems to be dona. The footpath is certainly one Urns ehould ba asphalted.

Excursionists to Tioiara to dsr nre requested to call at JDgg's muc o warehouse (next Theatre) for & copy ot their 1902 pock'A oalendar and ah-.j 6iy musical requisites they may want. Before Mv J. Sinclair. J.P., yeeterday morning, G cor us Lindsay was charged whh drunkonuasß v.uff fined sa, in default 2.1 boura’ iimrironua :•)!;. The fine was paid. Thomas K •rriaa pleaded guilty to a s’mil tr charge and was convic/.od and discharged with a severe cau bn.

The annual school cronrrion taken place to-day to Tim am, and if 'he day is fine a Urg > number of oxcurafauh's will no doubt raako Bn journey. Toe committee have mado crrangomouls to hive refreshments on sale au Carolina Bay, and an enjoyable day’s eating should be sp-Hiti, Tin* train leaves ut 8.25 B.Qi, IKSTS3AD o? 3-30 fta previously announaed.

The Premier of Queensland, In referring to the status oi tho Praiui or 3 at tho Coronation, nail that ha would refuse to accept conditions which really a mounted to going and.or Ms Barton's patronage, and bn would sooner go under Mr IS--lonhi patronage. Ha ballevaa that Ms Scldon, ii'nu what ha had done for tho Mother Country, is mom onr-uied to special recognition than Mr Barton.

In consequence of fi violent gala covonty steamers are wo&thor-bounu n: t!-e. mouth of tho Tiiaeuea. The Os tend packet Kavto HcntLU-jt was disabled, bus attar drifting about for many hours was brought to Ost-end all well. A Gbvtaua bar-quo foundered wiih all hands »t tho Sciliy Isles. The Orizaba was thirty hours Ute in reaching Ply mouth, fcJUa exn;<rb)no3d a heavy gale in the Bay of Biscay, in Am trice, the storm dislocated the rail ways and teiographs bsrws -n tho Great Lakes and tho Atlantic, and tho snow blocked railways and trains in New York State.

Stone’s Directory for Otago rmi Southland and County fee 1902 has just reuc-icd this olli'ie, *md as usual, i. is an excolk-nt pr i.iuctmn. It includes street and ccur.try di,•->.• torios of all Otago cud Southland and WMmats Coniuy, dicoetorias of trades, municipal, county, official, judicial, educational and other mattnrs, and the information sapplird will be fonud useful by all. An account of tho Con-fititm-ion, Law Courts, General and Local Government, and a digest of the Acts passed kut session r.ro also found within its pages and tnuko it invaluable to busiuosa men and farmers. The price at which it is published ia very moderate and ehou’d enaura its v/ido distribution.

Two hundred and ton Japaueio infantry, while practising in tho snow in Northern Nippon, lost their way. They burned haversacks and tho stocks of rifles to obtain warmth, but all perished except twenty-.one who wore rescued iu the hut stage of oxhaustiouThe Press Eeys : —A. most exiraordinary scene was witnessed in Colombo ' street North on Saturday. A gemieman, driving a small pony in a poaycarl stopped to talk to a friend, who was in ebarga of a largo and ferocious bulldog. Suddenly the dog flew at the pony and dragged it to the ground, ivid then attempted to tsar It to pieces, The dog was only pulled oil with difficulty by its owner and a number of other people. The an hr created quite a sensation in the neighbourhood, «nd A large crowd collected to watch the procaodings. It Is a mistake to suppose that wild ducks cau bo shot out of season in consequence of tho recent docieion of a southern magistrate. Counsel in a similar Maatsrton caso had applied for a re-hearing in tho case in which & young man was convicted of shooting ducks out of season, basing hie application on the ground of tho differing decision of tho southern magistrate ia question. Subsequently be intimated that ha would not proceed with tho application, aa be considered tho decision of the southern magistrate was wrong, Mr James, S.M., said ho had carefully considered tho matter, aad had come to the conclusion that his action in convicting was right. The section of tho Animals Protection Act which was repealed was not reenacted in words, but in tho amending Act a close season was absolutely declared. A returned trooper writes to the Christchurch Press as follows :—No-, turned members of the earlier- contingents may be interested to know i that they can obtain their magazine Lso-Enfield service rifles if they apply to the Defence storekeeper, Wellington, stating the factory number of the rifle, and also their name, initials, regimental number, or other distinguishing marks, if there be any, on the butt, I gained this information from a returned comrade then in the Defence Office, .Wellington, and on application to Mr J. O'Sullivan, the Defence storekeeper, I received ray rifle from the forwarding ogent in Christchurch without delay and without personal'

Tli3 Duke of Connaught command.i SO.OOO troops at tho coronation. The Colonial Premiers will ha quartered at the Hotel Cecil, THE YIELD OP GRAIN. On October Sint last the areas -Sn crop in tho various girainu were as follows: —Wheat, 16(}.502 acres ; onta, 410,224 acres; n,nd barley, 25.114 acres. fdlnco then tb® dry woathar has or.uaed a portion of theca areas, estimated r.t —wheat, 3,100 aoroa ; oats, 4.300 acres ; and barley, 1 690 acres—to bo fed off by stitch. At an estimated avers"® yield c' 25 buriitj.'s, 34 bushels and 2S bushels,. for the, throe gr&i m respectively, tho yield ihiu .season is ■timAt-cd iff! : Wheat., 4,035,350 bushels ; oats, 15,801,4).C bwahols ; and barley, 742,192 bushels. THE HARTLEY AND RILEY CO. Tho Hartley r„vul Biley Co.'a hah.noesho«t for tho year ended Due cm bar 31st, 1001, shows that the total oxponditura for tha half-year, from June SOtls to jCwerabor slat. to hovo been £’2.773 0s Id, including u batr.ncc of £1.302 17s lid from the preceding halt. Tao value of gold won for lbs sift me idrs was £2.550 Is.Td, which, wi'-h iutei’ais £’)s 2) 3d, leaves s. further haiiuoo of £2OO 2s 81 to bo ctsvrtec forward. Triecompiny have z M ervo fund yt £1,500. sl'-o £713 17s 4d in the lir.uk, and mnJry creditors £325. Tae total quantity of gold produced sines re.'Htrtuhs, which wifi be live pure nest July, is 2 'vVdOoK I2lwt Hi'c, vamed at £71,1143 7a 101. The toad cvpendituro sinca registration is £IS,4'JI Os lid, and tho total dividoccU paid £57,637 AOs.