BY THE WAY.

Mataura Ensign, Issue 856, 21 February 1901, Page 2

BY THE WAY.

Balelutha has again decided to go in for water gus. Somehow water gas sounds the right thing for a prohibition town. At the statutory meeting of the Bluff Harbor Bjard on Tuesday, Mr I. W. Raymond was elected chairman for the year. There has been a great decrease in Germany's home trade, especially in iron manufactories. Fifty per cent, of the Berlin building trades are unemployed. Mobs in Belgrade, incensed at ex-King Milan being interred in Hungary, hooted King Altxander and stoned the palace windows.

In anticipation of the Budge. 1 ,, enornious clearings have been made from bonded stores throughout Great Britain; 150 million pounds of tea have been withdrawn.

Two cases of plague are reported among the suspects in Capetown, also that of a Coolie employed at the docks. A portion of the natives wh struck work at the docks have resumed.

The estate of the late Baron Armstrong, of Elswick, has been sworn at £1,38!1,y4(i. Ho bequeathed £7OOO to charities.

Paatch and Co., wool and grain exporters in Buenos Ayres, have suspended payment with liabilities of half a million steiling. Those injured in the Tempe (N.S.W.) railway accident are making good progress towards recovery. The cause of the accident is still unexplained, and various theories will be submitted to the experts. A large orphan asylum in St. Petersburg is supported by the tax on playing cards. The " closed door " in Madagascar under French rule has caused Great Brilains trade to drop from £158,000 to £32,000 in one year.