General News.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 170, 25 February 1902, Page 3

General News.

Marlin, the Australian cyclist, nas 3n ilod on his New Zealand tour. The jubilee of His Holiness the Pope -vas inaugurated at St. Peter s in tne -presence of 70,0000 people*. Tire South Canterbury Dairy Fucto.ry _%t Tunaru mad-’-R start on oatiiud’iy, about 800 gallons of milk coming forward. , , , . h is expected that there will bo about 350 competitors at the New Zealand Pig 3 Association meeting this week, as against' 180 last year. °Fight girls have been murdered in San Francisco. They were butchered mi a similar- manner to that of tho victims of “ Jack the Kipper ” in London. Mr Barton has intimated that Par■kmicnt will bo amicd to vote fundi to -e al a Federal team to Bisley. The emu will consist of eight members of the defence forces. Frank Morifti'ty, arrested on Satur- ' -lav niuht for. begging in the streets, iippsHi'od'before Mr W. ooilman, UP., yesterday morning, and was sentenced ;o seven"days in Timaru gaol. The Trades and' Labour Council at ■•Dpr-V-’din, in viow of the Millers’ Trust, 'luveVesolvqd to urge the Premier to introduce a Food Trust Bill early in next session of Parliament. The Budget Committee of the Reichstpv* drastically reduced the estimate for his German espeditioilary force to China, manifesting strong fooling ogainst . the formation of a colonial 'army. At a m?ting of the Christehureh Amateur Athletic Association it was d-ic.dod that if Simpson could get leave of absence, to send him to Englaed with Smith of Auckland to represent the colony. At the Waimate Bowling Club is. arranging for hue rinks to go to plat 7 ■■Pha-iiix (Oamavu) Club in Oamaru on Thursday, March Clh, all members are .•requested to, put in as much practice as possible. Thirty-two persons who had been buried at Schemakha by the icc.nit 3*rih"n,.ike v/ere extracted from the -jins nlive. One thousand bodies have b*en recovered. Five thousand people perished altogether. The Berlin prsas comments that Russia’s first answer to the AngloJapanese and American policy in refer;,nca to China, is to veto an evtra:;rdinary credit of 00,000,000 rouolos Ur warships of a new type. Two boxes o! gold, valued at T40.G22 va-iived at Wellington on Friday last l>v tba Haupiri from tho "West Const, .'.unsigned to the National Bank. This vmkTwell for tho Coast dredging and j:h?r gold'mihir.g industries. We learn, from a passenger on vosterday's express that the Westralia was reported to have gone ashore at ' die Bluff. She. is not appreciably damaged, and will bo brought back to Port Chalmers for inspection. Thu Canterbury Farmers’ Co-opera-tive Association notify fanners that they are buying all descriptions of .viieat, oats and barley, giving thu higiiust prices obtainable iu the local ' market. They desire farmers to obtain tboir quotations before selling elsewhere. Technical Classes Associations throughout the colony are beginning *o make a move with regard to the winter classes. It is to be hoped that !h« Waimate Association will show a tittle more energy this year than last , and start the classes in the school or in any other available building. Thu Northern Steamship Company’s Paerou, when entering Whakatane Heads with passengers at- 6 o’clock on , Saturday morning, broke her steering gear and ran on to the rocks striking amidships. After an anxious time the incoming tide floated her off. One of her boiler tubes burst nud the boiler Tiftsd. Most of the passengers were landed in an open boat. The steamer has beou beached. Tho farewell to Mr T. E Taylor, who ia leaving Christchurch for England, took the form of a prohibition ;1 uaoiistratiori, at which the Rev. F, ,W. Hitt outlined the plan for tho om.ing campaign. He said that the following speakers were- coining, to-b-ilp in tba .crusade:—Mr John G. Woolley, Miss Florence Balgarine, Mrs Harrison Lee, Mr Smedley (now in Lidia), and Mr John Vale, of India.