BY THE WAY.

Mataura Ensign, Issue 842, 19 January 1901, Page 2

BY THE WAY.

I.ij'lit and airy. More rain wanted. The rise in wool aeeeptable ne«-;. Clutlin sly mo» sellers fared expensive music hefoie Mr S'r.itfor.l, S.M., yesterday. The modest sum of Cl'la lur'is a luxury to he indulged in as infre.|iieiilh ic, possible. The Mayor has invited the Imperial troop, sent out for the Commonwealth eelehratiuos lo visit (Jure.

As their stay io this colony is limibd strielly to t.-n days it \> improbable they will be able lo : .j)enil more than a week in Gore, American joekeys on Ihitish eourse- 1,0,t year earned elose on t'lO.OOd.

The Standard Oil Company has seemed privileges for petroleum mining ,ner im mouse, tmets of country in ll'Miuiiiniii. the price paid the (i.oernment beim: £ KMI.IHHI. Two American iiimy doutois in Cuba lime "ivcn their lives to prove that inos.juitos are active nticnts in spre.olin ( : yellow fever. Tliey were hiiten and died.

The Glasgow Exhibition promises Id Ik- a smoother of intcriiiitiuiml friction. The example, .sot li.v Kussia lihs been followed by rruiicc, and 100 French linns have applied for space. Another of Iho-e p linful domestic tragedies, apparently due 1,, the madness of powrly, is icporicd fiom Cambridge, England. A mother In'st murdered Iter three children and then committed suicide.

NtalMics carefully compiled by the Chin.j:., 'Times-Herald' show that. theic have l«.-i on an av-rage 10,01111 murders a year in the United Stales dining the last decade One lenth of these took place in Texas.

No less than ±43 tons of butler were shipped from Melbourne, to London during one week recently.

'J'lic Seildon Government's victory at tiie lastgrneial e'eeiion pale, into imiguilicaiice beside that of the lioud Government in Newloundland, where .Ministerialists iiritrcd :i" Ollt Of ."li M'llis.

American jmpers contain slalcnicnls e.ibhd from England that the guecn's health is failing.

At !culy(N.S.W.)ii young woman whilst scrubbing ii Moor struck her lien I a-ainsta door, breaking the bridge of her nose. In Ibitiimiilion of the brain set in and cm ~1 her death.

A l'crtli telegram in || u . Sydney pipers slab's: A miner, John Collins'! who a short tune back won L'.'li") in a >wrop, and tlaic upon stinted to drink overmuch, hanged liim .self in his camp at the Lake View"aiva on Saturday afternoon.

Jhe lot in of oath taken by tin- members < f the sixth contingent dedans that they will serve willnn or without the colony 'until lawfully discharged.

lieliind'.s total immunity from ittivtliir—in ihe shape of a Miakc has been so remark" able (siy.s'Coiiiitiy |,if e ') that ||„. „,,, H . Hr . ance of two talc ly in County Wicklow lia , crealeil (jiute a stir among na'uralislt. |i j-i thought that the smikcs, which weie unite harmless, came across the Channel with a consignment of shrubs.

1 rooper Crump of the lirst New Zealand contingent, had had a sad experience in con neetioii with his return to the colony He •"lived in l'almerstou today (says' the ' ■imes'j in lime lor his lather's funcai; which takes place to-morrow.

All the suvivors of those who were Klmw . bound ul luzdeluau (Southern Kussia) have IjeCII rescued. '

Out- tiiilJi.jn poi-Kon-. hav« been vaccitmlc.l mi New Wk during tin- month, ..win,- to the SIIIHIIpuX epld.Mlic. Mr I). Barron, Commi.-sioncr <,f Clown 1.iui.1.-iHt I.,vii, il i : .ill. has been appointed to ;«rfMrJ|.SKi Wlls Cn llul L!, r !S >unc. in. Mr John Gray, chief surveyor at Uunedm, succeeds Mr Barron at Inve.car-

Tb.iL.mx.ll 01«>rvaU,ry, near Boston, in limn Mar., lastui~ seventy minutes. Despite Willi?,„, O'Brien and the J,eaeue' v.rule.it campaign several loyalists I ave been reelected l„r llubliu munieip.litv .l„|,n Clancy, an extieme ami British i-un-liduU* was i-«-|i-c-tt>tl.

AlvoH. o,shi..r of the l-irst National Bank of New oik, admitted heavy embezzlements from that instil lit ion. and was sentenced to l.t year., penal servil'..de.

Militiuy balloonist; have crn.-sod fro... lie, In. to Sweden.

Sixteen thousand S|nnish dc-rler; .luring the war with A.ncriea !,:„, heen pardoned on' the occasion of t|„. niarrugc of the Princess Asinriiis.

A quantity „f ami diphthciia seium Ht Milan lm-liiulc heeame rmi<aiiiiiiHlcd during p■epm-Htioi., and produced several deaths from hick-jaw. Tln<"> hundred tubes were .nimcdi.itely withdrawn from the doilois.