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General News.

Tim Wainmte Football Club open the season in the Park to-day.

Congress has granted the widow of the I ale President McKinley a pension of aOOU dollars. The Duke of Manchester lias settled with his creditors by the payment of 12s tkl in the £.

The Leyland line has been awarded £II,OOO for salving the Etruria, which recently broke down in the mid-Atlan-

The King has invited King Lewinika the enlightened paramount chief of llarotseland. to attend the Coronation. Russia has warned China that any broach of the Manchurian Convention will relieve Russia from her engagement.

At Palmerston Court a baker was charged wi|h selling short-weight and failing to stamp his bread, He was lined ill on each charge. The Waimate Quadrille Assembly holds its first extended dance to-night, and by all .accounts it should be most enjoyable. Mr T. G. Lilico, M.K.C.V.S., addresses a meeting of the Farmers’ Union on Saturday on ■' Diseases of stock."

Owing to the uncertain condition of the New Zealand market, a linn of millers at Invercargill has cabled a large order for Manitoban wheat to Canada,

The Key. J. Dukes, Wcslejan minister, who lias been transferred from Hawera to Kaiapoi, was farewellcd on Monday evening and present.' ! with a purse of sovereigns, and otln tokens of esteem’.

Mr Frick, an American iron magnate, has formed a steel trust of IMO, 000,000, as a rival to Mr Pierpont Morgan’s trust. The new trust controls many mills in the eastern, western and central districts.

At a meeting of the Painters’ Union it was received to ask the Trades and Labour Council to call a mass meeting of workers to consider what steps should bo taken to mitigate the great increase in the price of bread.

Members of the Federal Parliament state that the Ministry will be amongst the guests at the dinner to be given by the Federal Steamship Company at the Australia Hotel on Saturday night, in honour of the Prepnior of New Zealand.

Thirteen hundred and ninety-eight out of 2610 Queensland sugar growers have registered as employers of white labour, enabling them to get the bonus. It is estimated that the bonus this year will amount to about .0100,000.

His Worship the Mayor (Mr J. Manchester) has received a letter from Mr H. G. Ell, M.H.R., asking him to preside at Monday’s meeting, when Mr Ell will lecture on “ Stale Hank ” and “ Referendum.” Mr Manchester has Weeded to the request and will take the chair, Major Mailer, who recently gave evidence - before the Philippine Atrocities Commission, insists that the American and European troops in China committed similar acts to those of the Bush Yeldt Carbineers in South Africa, withou tany pretext being made and that they summarily shot mutilators dead.

The Federal Parliament h a vibg refused to vote the money, a movement hat been started to raise, by subscription, the sura of JI2OOO, the amount necessary to send a team to Eisley. Tasmania find South Ausr tralia have already guaranteed their quotas. A well-.knnwn Victorian has donated TCQO to the fund.

Prohibitionists will be pleased to hear that at the Gisborne Supreme Court a. man was charged with ‘ administering a noxiousthing, to wit, beer, to a small boy.” He was however acquitted. Perhaps the bench did not look on spirituous liquors as coming under the “Noxious Weeds Ac(,” Daw is dry anti needs moisture tself occasionally. ’ - .

I At the High School ilo.nl mining ; on Tuesday evening, nmnu lit E- a.ur-i.- ' ising took place. One member, in . asking lor an alteration in the minutes, so as not m necessitate turning back I to a former resolution, said the Hoard j might ail “pass out ” in a few years, j and i 1 if; resolution would bo ambiguous. ! Another remarked, “Yis. we might not always be here.” I>r. J3arclay.. who ought to know, created some laughter by remarking cheerfully, “ That’s a dead certainty.” This so tickled the Hoard’s humour that it was several minutes before they recovered their equilibrium. .

Tito Government, following out the policy of preserving the seals on and about the coasts of New Zealand, have , extended the peiiod of the close season to June 30th, 1904, By the Sea Fisheries Act of 1894 any person who kills or catches, or attempts to do either, is liable to a fine of £SOO, and nn additional fine of .£2O for each animal, while the ship or boat used in 'Cfjtv. process is forfeit to the King. Persons selling skins of seals illegally caught are liable to a fine of £2O. The prohibition applies not only to the coasts of New Zealand, but also, to the Auckland, Campbell. Antipodes, Bounty, Snares. Solanders, Chatham, and Kermadec Islands.

Yesterday morning, as our reporter came down the main street he observed a young bricklayer tossing a heavy 7 pole over the fence at Jones’ new buildings near the Union Bank. The President of the Caledonian Society and three members were present. Thinking it was a caber competition and seent’ng “ copy.” the scribe got out his notebook, just in time to hear a bricklayer.inside delivering a curtain lecture in regard to a square the pole had fallen on. One would have thought he himself had been struck. After a few moments the President of the Scots had to blushingly walk away. Is there no law in the land, that a respected official is actually compelled to blush in the public street ? I

The “ Microbe,/ bringing cough or cold, Has now a busy season, And bound to get a lasting hold Unless we list to reason. Neglect may bring us to tire grave, That’s positive and sure, But every danger we can brave With Wood’s Great Peppcimlnt Cure.

With the introduction of up-to-date labour-saving machinery and increased facility for a large ■ output. Messrs Marriott Marriott, of London, have plecea a : 'feiano kpn the market winch Eegg a§P Cq(, next theatre, tto selllfot .£&7 10s. This is tbeLfeulft of uftihg tljfe new American piano machinery, and is undoubtedly the and best for the iuoney —Advt, ‘ Messrs Pi. W. Huw. and G0../tailors and clothiers, deaira to thanlff their numerous patrons m»r the support given them since comrAncing business. They have just opened tasplendid range of new season’s goods, wftiich they will sell at prices that must suit the times.

given then g business. They have ndid range of new sea i they will sell at prici the times. Also, a nice assortment of gentlemen’s hats, shirts, ties, and underwear at prices that are sure to command a ready sale. Advt,

Synopsis of New Advertisements.

Court Foresters’ Pride— Meeting of adult and juvenile lodges on Monday. Guinness and LeCren, Limited—Sale of pigs at Stndhnlme Junction. Found—Breaking in side rein. W. J. Bailey—Six quarter acre sections for sale.

New Zealand Hallways—Excursion fares to Christchurch for departure of Tenth Contingent.

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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 191, 17 April 1902, Page 3

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General News. Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 191, 17 April 1902, Page 3

General News. Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 191, 17 April 1902, Page 3

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