General News.
A meeting of pigeon fanciers, to have been held on Saturday evßoing, unavoidably, lapsed. The "Waimate Rifles nre a match at "Waimate on Thursday with the Timaru City Rifles. 'The Waimate Bines' mwtef parade is on Wednesday. There will also ba a nrtreh ou^'
France his ordered her largest iW Haas armoured 'cruise! at* a cost of £1,000,000.
The British cruiser Amphitrite, sixteen guns, 11,000 tons, is whore in Suez Bay.
America is firmly supporting Britain and Japan in favour of an open door to Manchuria.
to the Ontario manufacturers' sample rooms in London. A party of senators are to view :thirt.ten site* in New South Wales for the Federal capital. The Commonwealth revanue, if hased on the pa*t three months, will yield over £10,000,000. The inhabitants of the Danish West Indies are allowed two years in which fo declare their allegiance to America. Yesterday morning Messrs J. Sinclair wd E. 7. Atwill, to hear ovidoncein a case to be brought 'before the Dunedin Court.
The Deuka triba looted a British convoy which wa3 obtaining rubber sou'h of Khartoum, killing Lieutenant Soott Barbour, of the Egyptian Army. The postmaster at ( ohe7iot reports a very heavy shock of earthquake at -i 55 on Saturday morning, with loud booming, aud a slight one a minute later.
The improvements round town are progressing. Now that the vacant corner is getting on towards completion Queen street is resuming its wonted appearanc3.
A slight ehowor fell on Sunday evening and freshened up things after the few days' heat. Not even the most confirmed pessimist has a chance 'So grumble at the weathor we are gotting.
The New South Wales Government have decided to send Mr Hanna, Commissioner of "Roads, to Wellington, to aiudy the system of road construcsion in'New Zealand with a view to its introduction here.
It is reported at Peshawur that Eabibullah, the Ameer of Afghanistin, is completely under the influence of Hadda Mullah, who did all in his ojwor to embroil Afghanistan in 1897. Hadila is now fomenting political unrest.
Tlv3 " Daily Mail" states thai tho ]?ntisb Government in withdrawing the garrison from Wei-bai-wei, but are retaining civil administration there. Tho Gorman sphere interferes with .u utility from a military aspect.
A. meeting of the Borough Finaofl9 Committee was h*ld last evening 'to .judder tho question of a water snpoly it was decided te approach soveral Government Departments to see if money uld be raised there, and also to write to lirterton to find out how tho Lan was raised h«ro.
The Masterton Star is responsible for the following:—A poor old lady, in hor seventies, aad very feeble, hobbled through tha streets of Blasterton recently without assistance just to do a little bit of shopping. She is an oldnye pensioner, and her brothers are worth £IOO,OOO 1
It has been decided to start the iiiih test match between England and Australia on February 23th ■iriHtoad of March Ist. Barnes is p.till under treatment, but hopes to participate in the nszt test match on the 14th inst. Saunders goes to Sydney so that his bowling may be utilised in the test match.
It's the same everywhere, time tells 'the story, and 99 times out of every 100 the demand is for the Brinsmead piano, because they ar<) built to last, not for 5 or 10 years, but for a lifetime.' Their tone appeals to the ear, their durability and price to your pocket, their direct appeal is to you. Why ■£Q]xt it ? Interview them at Begg's, nosi Theatre....
Mr Jackson-Palmer, M.H.R., who '.hi applied for a commission in the >Ti)ith Contingent, addressed a meeting :>f his constituents on Friday night. A motion by which the meeting pledged it-itdt to support him at the general ek-ctiou was carried by one vote Mr Palmer said he would obtain the wirihas of the roßfc of bis constituents before deciding.
The team to fire against the Timaru' City Rifles on Thursday afternoon jiaxt '8 as follows : —Lieutenants Hurst iiiid Jackson, Colour-Sergeant Stevenson, Kergeants J. and B. Smith and Mh'ts, Lanoe-CorpoJals Wi!son and I'Tico!, Privates Bennington and Wilce. •ilruergencies: Corporal Collett and Private Dash. The match will be iirbCi en the local range, the visitors giving by the morning train. The .oO.'J magazine rifie will be used.
Tho monthly- report on the fruit crop in Waimate district is as follows: —Apples: Heavy crop. Apricots : Average. Cherries: Good. White ron'ants.: Goad. Eed currants: Good. Black currants: Good. GooseMonies: Heavy. Nectarines: Fair. Fair. Pews: Good. Plums: Good. Plums (Japanese): Good. Quinces: Fair. Baupberries ,* Heavy. Tomatoes: Good. Walnuts: Good. General remarks: Splendid show of fruit all through the district. Mr Humphrey Berkeley, a prominent Fijian resident, now on a visit to Auckland, says that as black labour cannot be done without in. the group it in impossible for them so federate with Australia. He ssys that, in view of New Zealand's assistanos to the Empire, the present would be an opportune time for liter to press for the federation or annexation of the group, and obtaining,what wduld undoubtedly prove a'booo to both colonies.!; ; , if - ' J r 1 - 1 r
Under the lease in perpetuity system, 22,507 leases have been surrendered or forfeited to date. A return just to hand from the Government Printer, which was called for last year by Mr McNab, shows bow they have boon disposed of ; 512 have not been reEselected at all, 40 have bean sold for cash, 616 have been occupied with the right of purchase, and 887 have bean lot on lease in perpetuity. The remainder have been lot as small grazing runs, pastoral runs, eto.
STBIKE CF BEER DRINKERS. A beer strike is in progress at Bokewopd (says the Ballarat correspondent of the Melbourne Argus), in consequence of the refusal of the local botelkeepers to reduce the price from 6d to 4d per pint and 3d per glass. This determination was arrived at at a meeting held in the open air on Saturday night. A secretary was appointed to take the names of the strikers, and from forty to fifty were ourolled, each of whom did without his Saturday night beer,
THE DEMANDS OF LABOUR. The Westland Trades and Labour Council have resolved to ask the Government to place a rovalty on gold, the proceeds to be applied to the Rick and accident fund for miners; also, to urpre the appointment of a Legislative Councillor to reprosonttho West Ooast miners. Other resolutions were passed affirming the desirability of making rating on unimproved values compulsory and of reducing the ago at which old age pensions begin to sixty years in case 3 where persona worked for ten years underground. It vvas also recommended that persons incapacitated from earning their jiving should receive a pension equal to the old age pensions.
PHGNETIO SPELLING. A back-blooks er— r—paper, decrying the use of phonetic spelling, shows ita knowladge > of tho subject by rendering the lines—- " Swiftly wa'k over the v/aatern wavo, Spirit of Night," As " Swiftle waok ovve&ha westo'cn weiy, spiritav nait 1"
Th. 6 man who could claim to bo sober and wriie such gibberish in a leading article ought to take on woodchopping by tho day. He has clearly missed his vocation. such pervertors of the truth, phonetic spoiling is bound to arrive in time. Our present orthography is far too clumsy and involves too much " memory work." Given a few simple rules, phon&tic spoiling would present not the slightest difficulty to anyone. Then "though" would bo ,£ tho," •'scheme" would be"skeem," and " light " would ba " lyt." Once wo got used to it, phonetic spelling would come as a boon and a blessing *o men, especially when they were in tho childhood's happy days stage, and education would be shorn of half Us errors.
THE FARMERS' UNION. of tho Farmers' Union in the North and South Islands waited on the .annual meeting of tho Underwriters' Association at Welling, ton, on Thursday, and placed before the Association the question of a reduction of fire rates on farmers' buildings. They stated that several schemes had been submitted and would cava to be taken into consideration unless the existing companies saw their y/sy to make a substantial reduction in the rat?.3 which tho deputation alleged were too high, and ware so regulatod in order to mabi up losses by. large fires in the cities. The decision of tha associat : on is to be communicated in a few days. The representatives aho waited bn the Hon. J. McGowan, official hoed oi tho Valuation Department, on land valuation matters. Mr McGowan intimated that his endeavour was to rnat9 values of lauds an level as possible. If an amendment Bill wits brought down he would recommend that one assessor should be elected by local bodies in a similar manner to that by which representatives of Harbour and Charitable Aid. Boards were elected. He could not give a rebate on the lands revenue which was derived from wool, and which the deputation alleged had dacruased in value owing to the low prices of wool. The only way he could do it would be to revalue tho whole district, and he did not think any seriouß fall in values had yet taken place owing to the low prico of wool. He expressed a hopo that under the Now Valuation Act there v/ould be less friction than under the previous statue.
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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 164, 11 February 1902, Page 3
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