BY THE WAY.

Mataura Ensign, Issue 1049, 24 June 1902, Page 2

BY THE WAY.

The death is announced from Balclutha of Dr Gibson Smith. The notorious (Queensland bushrangers (Kennil'fs) have been captured. Searle's Hotel, one of the largest in Wellington, has been sold to l'\ McFarland for between .00,000 and .1' 10,000. Sunday was Premier Scddon's fifth-seventh birthday. 11 is colleagues telegraphed congratulations. Mr 11. White, of I'ahncrston North, put up a record in rat extermination in the borouirh rubbish heap last week. No fewer than iiOO rodents were killed by him. Manaia, Taranaki, is described by a resident as a " bachoiors' paradise," all young single men in the town—with a few exceptions. A Uangitikei settler lost 1000 sheep in the recent Hood. Jle has also lost a considerable number of cattle. The Japanese in British Columbia are now sending the ashes of their deceased relatives and friends to Japan by post to be buried. The cost is only 7Ad, and in this way the heavy steamer rates are avoided. The Vanderbilt-Webb Syndicate are applying to the Canadian Government for power to construct a tunnel under the St. Lawrence river at Montreal. When completed, it is stated that it will be the longest tunnel in the world. The weather in New South Wales is bitterly cold, and is playing havoc with the starving stock. Mr Hoot, United States Secretary for War, states that the cost of the war in the Philip pines to date has been thirty-four millions sterling. The Ashburton Uorough Council has been informed by the Postal Department that on receipt of half the cost, iliTo. the cluck for the post oflice tower will lie supplied. People who find the price of beefsteak so high that they arc not able to buy it may get some consolation out o[ the fact that the price of diamonds is likely to go down. - ' Philadelphia Press.' If the claim for the beatification of Joseph Klang, a Chinese Catholic convert, now being put forward at limne, is allowed, Klang will bo the first native Chinaman to become a Roman Catholic saint. Since til" inception of the Tourist Departinent JUII.'JIIO (Is lud has been expended on tourist and health resorts in the colony. In a Chicago cafe movable telephones aio placed upon each table, so that the guests may converse with their friends at a distance while they cat. A Chicago man never stops talking. A number of new factories are being established in Sydney as the result of tin! It is considered probable tint lb: rot; inch - nient in the naval estimates will amount to ■CIO,00(1, spread over all the of I lie Commonwealth.