General News.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 278, 4 November 1902, Page 3

General News.

Trooper J. Goldatone of the Coronation Contingent returned home on Saturday last. An outbreak of plague in the Chinese quarter of the city is reported from San Fransisco.

Mr A. Hazleton, telegraphist at Waimate Post office, is taking his annual fortnight’s furlough.

The Russian Minister of Finance has dismissed 200 Siberian and Manchurian officials for malversation. At the A. and P. Show on Friday next post entries will bo received for the driving competition.

Friday afternoon next, Show Day, has been substituted as the weekly half-holiday for Thursday.

The boot and shoe factories in Canada have been consolidated into a trust with a capital of 8,000,000 dollars.

The relief ship Morning which is to take supplies to the Antartic ship Discovery, is expected to arrive in Lyttleton shortly.

The Pacific cable from Vancouver to Australia has been completed, an all-red ” line being thus established between Australia and England. The Montreal Chamber |of Commerce refused to assist inthe formation of a Canadian branch of the Navy League, alleging that Canada is in no need of a navy.

Mr Chamberlain has telegraphed to the “ British Australasian ” that want of time will prevent his visiting Australia on the present occasion.

Sir E. Barton intends to ask' Mr Chamberlain to extend bis visit to Australia, but he is not sanguine that Mr Chamberlain will be able to accept the invitation.

News from Madrid states that a sudden fire in the Castleton forest caused a panic among 10,000 pilgrims who were ascending a mountain. A terrible stampede took place, and many pilgrims foil over a precipice. The Kaffir dockers at Capetown have struck, owing to a reduction in daily wages to 3s fid. The shipping trade is paralysed. The nigger is evidently taking lessons from his white brothers.

Mr J, Watt, manager of the Balclutha Water Gas Company, who is at present in Waimate, has asked that a special meeting of the Council bo called to enable him to refute statements in regard to his water gas, which be considers incorrect.

In connection with the Colombian revolution news has been received that after heavy losses on both sides, General Uribe, with 1500 men, capitulated, undertaking to secure the surrender of the revolutionary bands, At the Trinity College Musical Examinations held in Timaru last Wednesday, the following pupils of Mrs Owen passed :—Senior, Misses O. Cameron and A. Miller; junior. Miss Ivy Nicol; P re P ftr Miss Turner and Master WTTmTTman.

The American Board of Naval Construction has decided that it will be better to supply armoured cruisers with superiority of battery powers than ft slight superiority of speed. Admirt-.i Melville complains that the adoption of this course will render the American cruisers inferior to British cruisers of the Drake-class.

Owing to tho scarcity and dearness of fodder and meat the directors of the Sydney Zoo are offering the surplus animal-! und birds for sale, including three lions and three leopirds at £Hj each ; Zebra bulls at J 025, and apair of ostriches at JGIOO.

The Rov. T. Fee, ot Oamaru, is to speak on No-license matters to-morrow evening Mr S. Borehatn, who had an encounter with Mr Fee on the liquor question, in Oamaru the other evenin', will be present and will address the meeting.

At Timaru Show a yearling c°t owned by Mr E. Evans and sired by Mr J. T. Rodgers’ Welcome Willie was first in hia class, beating a large entry. This victory must be all the more gratifying to the owner of Wei come Willie, as the colt beat stock by such well-known sires as Captain Russell and Royal Stuart. Six foreigners have been arrested in connection with the recent Bank of England note forgeries, and charged at Bow street. The evidence disclosed that they are also connected with similar swindles for which five arrests were m ids in March last. Jacob Schmidt, the chief forger, turned King’s evidence.

This evening in the Oddfellows’ Hall, Major Serry, well known all over the Anstralasian colonies in connection with kinernitograph matters, will appear with his Biorama Company, Besides the beat machine and pictures procurable the company includes au orchestra of string and brass instruments. The proceeds will be in aid of the Army’s Self Denial Fund.

Messrs R. W. Hutt and Co., tailors and clothiers, desire to thank their numerous patrons for the support given them since commencing business. They have just opened a splendid range of new season’s goods, which they will sell at prices that must suit 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. Nominations for the office of Councillors to represent the various ridings of the Waimate County are due to-morrow, and the election will take place on Wednesday, November 12. Rumours of opposition to the present members come from more than one riding. We would suggest that candidates should address public meetings, giving their views on County matters generally.

Ths Colombian Government are resenting America’s action in policing the railways for the protection of foreigners during the insurrection ; object to alienate land for the canal, but offer a 100 years’ lease, and demand an annual payment of 600,000 dollars. Anew Bank of New Zealand note came into circulation last week. The front is the same as the old green notes used fourteen or fifteen years ago, but is coloured pink. The back of the note is similar to that which is now used. At the Police Court yesterday John Turvey was fined £l, or in default seven days’ imprisonment for using obscene language. J. Kirkman, Emma McEvoy and Alex Thomson were charged with failing to send their children to schoel regularly. Mr E, T. George, Truant Officer, and Mr G. Pitcaithly, Headmaster of Waimate District High School, proved the charges and defendants were each fined 2. John Hendry did not appear to answer a similar charge, and was fined 4s. The charge against W. Sole was dismissed, as » medical certificate of unfitness for school was produced. Messrs W. Ooltman and E. J. Atwill, J.P.’s, were on the Bench. Mr Henry Hughes, patent agent 183, Hereford street, OhristcHurch, reports the following applications from the Government Gazette, accepted by the Patent Office to 30th ult.H. McLeod, gold dredging; J. Hylard, guns; W. Riddell, butter printers ; Incandescent Gas Syndicate, gas burners ; C. Bristow, tiowsor stretcher; Flameless Gaslight Co., gas lighting ; T. Phillpotl, non-refillable bottles ; H. Banks, table cricket; L. Adamson, perambulators; G. Westinghouse, vessel linings; IV Tudehope and another, ventilator ; D. Healey, “ holdall” ; J. Anderson, printing roller ; F. Whitney, wool scouring machine ; D. Duncan, can-body-machines; T. Lowe, coke manufacturer ; J. Wiens, sweeping brushes ; W. Maddern, oreroasting furnace; Toledo Glass Co., shaping glass; W. Forbss, course recorder for ships; Clancy Whitlead Co., whitelead manufacture; C. Basley, cash railway ; J. M. PhilHpps. windmills. Hr Hughes’ firm has been established for twenty years, and handles the bulk of the New Zealand patent business. Send for valuable handbook, “ Advice to Inventors,” 183 Hereford street, Christchurch. Telegrams, Hughes, Patents, Christchurch

A CURIOUS COMPLICATION. The case of the dispute in the drapery trade which came before the Arbitration Court at Dunedin had an unusual termination. The Drapers Assistants’ Union cited the master drapers and clothiers, the matters in dispute being closing at 9 p.m. on Saturday and increased wages. Four witnesses were called, one of whom supported the demands in part only, while the other three disapproved of them. Under the circumstances the Court declined to interfere. A SENSIBLE ARRANGEMENT. In coneequence of the losses through beasts being condemned et Christchurch and in the suburbs, the butchers have decided in a body to purchase no fat cattle at Addington market unless the vendors guarantee them sound or contribute to an insurance fund. The fund will be maintained by both vendor and butcher paying 1* for each beast into the hands of the secretary of the Yards Company. A similar arrangement holds good with fat pigs at 3d per head. The auctioneers have agreed to fall in with the butchers’ ideas, and the new arrangement comes into force next Wednesday. THE NEW HEBRIDES. The Governor of New Caledonia, on being interviewed; declared that there was a strong feeling not only in the archipelago itself, but among French residents, in favour of the annexation of the Now Hebrides to France. Ha expressed strong disapproval of the renewal of the transportation of convicts to New Caledonia. Nearly all the residents were opposed to it, and Australia need have no fear in the matter. Sit E. Barton states that the assent of France has been secured io the appointment of ft Land Court to deal with disputes relating to land ithe New Hebrides. Only the detail remain to be settled. There is •" need, ho says, to apprehend Frei c ; i preponderance in the islands, or to b . alarmed at the suggested French annexation,