General News.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 20, 17 July 1900, Page 2

General News.

The s.s. Tanpo, with a cargo of coal aboard, is ashore at Greymouih. Hartley and Biley's return for th» week is 831oes. A o&ucus of the Government Parky will bo held ta-daj, to eon<jid*»r the Ministers' Salaries Bill, which is nox, wholly agreed with by souae m»tubera. The coal famine in Christchurch is now very acute and thera ia great difficulty in obtaining cren tho •mallest of suppliaa for hou»ahold use. | Stephtnson, the prisoner who escaped from Wellington gaol was recaptured in Saundars JLana, Tinakori Road. He wai sentonoed to six months' extra imprisonment. j The Americans arc producing paper • cigars as an article of commerce, and, what is more, are being b&oked, up by connoisseur* of the fragrant weed. The cigars are prepared from sheets of paper which have been soaked in tobacco juice, and then pressed and cut into requisite shape by means of •pecinilj constructed mnohinery.

The Governor will shortly maks a Tisit to the tsnd of the North Island Trunk Kailway to see the viaduct works and some of the oountry which will be opened up by the railway. Colonial Advertising Agency, 202, Herefoid street, ChristchurQh, for everything connected with advertising throughout the colony, Christchurch Advertising Agents for this paper. — Advt. There is trouble in the Ministerial caujp in Waihemo over the choioe of a candidate. The Government, co it is said, took the quastiGn of choice into their own hands, with the result that their is wide-spread dissatisfaction aud a large number of secessions. Mrs Dewey insisted upon precedence being accorded to her in Washington before the wives of Cabinet Ministers ; and she even demanded priority over »hs wife of the Supreme* Oourt Chief Justice ; and the result has naturally been the creation of friction. Now that winter has set in, you will want a pair of warm slippers. Call at Berry's and get a pair for Is. Barry's is the cheapest place for boots, shoes and slippers. Repairs a specially at Berry's, in corner shop, lately occupied by Colletfc Bros. A man named Richard Boss, a join«r liviug at Wellington, aged 56 5 ears, was found daad in his house with a revolver bullet wound through his bead. Ha had boon au invalid for several yeara and, it is supposed, took his own lifo in a fit of mental aberration occasioned by pain. New Zealand athlete's at the front In cricket, football, or the hunt ; He shines in any sport or gamo, His prowess has a world wide fame. But training lms its usual ills, As over heat that causes chills ; Then don't delay, get health secure, By taking Woods' Great Peppermint cure. According to a Blenhiem paper, an unrehearsed incident was witnessed at a recent performance in that town. A man with je3s manners than presumption was addressing himself in an objectionable style to the occupants of tho stage, when one of the company jumped over the footlights and unceremoniously ejected him from the ball. It is not everyone who is aware that a Bank of England nots is not of tho same thickness all through. Th« paper is thicker in the left hand corner to enable it to retain the keener impression of the vignette there ; and it is also considerably thicker beneath the figures at the ends. Counterfeit notes are invariably of one thickness only throughout. Returns hav<* been laid before Parliament showing that during 1898 tha British Empire as a whole yieldsd about ona third of the world's output of gold, more than one quarter of the salt, ona-ninth of the silver, and sevenelevenths nt the tin. Of coal the yield was 220,000,000 metric tons, only about on 9 fifteenth of whioh waa contnbut»d by minas outside tha United Kingdom. The employment of women is extending in Japan in most unlikely directions. According to the Yokohama correspondent of the Daily Mail they are to bo seen engaged with male coolie in road making, stevedore work, and steamer coaling. On some parts of the coast women ♦•yen earn their living as divers, and are &aid to be particularly bold and skilful. The Premier has received a cable from Sir A. Milner dated Capetown, July 13th :—": — " I regret to report that the following members of the New Zealand Contingents died of enteric fever at Geriniston, on July 11th — Troopers Keith and Gorrie, Auckland No. 1 Company First Contingent ; C. E. Wiggons, of Nsw Plymouth, No. 1 Company Third Contingent; Lance Corporal C. B. Tesswill, Kaikoura, No. 1 Company Third Contingent. Messrs Black aud Stumbles, the contractors for the Tiuaaru Harbour Extension Works, are making rapid progress with tha work. The first operation was the laying of a tramline from the quarry to the harbour, and two miles of ibis is now ready for laying the rails. The s.s. Aotea, is bringing these, and when she arrives the work of laying will b© commenced a* once. The first stone will probably be thrown over in about two months. Sixty men and twenty teams are employed on the w.ork. On Friday afternoon Mr H. Eyre Kenny gave judgment in the case of the police y. Porter, defendant being charged with unlawfully keeping open | the Wanganui Oddfellows' Hall on a recent Sunday evening for the transaction of business, Defendant w,as the manager of the Kinematograph Company, aud gave an entertainment on the date ir> question. The Magistrate held that the Hall was a "Bouse" within the meaning of section 16 of the Polioe Offences Aot, and fined him Is and costs. It was a test case. An English residont in the Black Forest lately obtained permission to inspect a workshop, and was surprised ann am u bed, whtm he took not* of the* eharaoto* of the nick-nacks being turned out by the workpeople. There wer<* paper-knives, pincushions, cigarholders, raatch-boxea, «to. The iiuished items were inscribed " mad* from wood grown at Ladysmith :" others had tho changes rung on them of "The Moddec," "Kimberly," " Paardeberg," " Mafeking, and even ! «' Pretoria." The timber, needless to | iay, grew in the Black Forest. These i shams, it appears, are to be shipped to England for sale. Tuwioarft cures ootsghs, eold=, incipient consumption ; jjive thit wonderf ai remedy a trial. Tassionra has become a hoqiehold remedy throughout the colony for diseaies of throat and lungs. No home «hould be without thia invaluable remedy, which gave* many lives. Foj outward application use Witohes' Oil.

The PiCDjier has received the 3 following cablegram from the Agent- I General, dated July 13, 7 p.m. : — " " There is increasing anxiety about,; China, chiefly owing to the absence | of news from Sir Robert Hart. The j opinion of the expert* is that, if he is 1 living and at liberty, ha would get 1 through a massage from Pekin. Th« ' Chmesa are surrounding Tientsin' { showing unexpected fighting power, « owing to the presence of large bodies * of Li Hung Chang's old army, which v is armed and drilled in European I fashion. The ether Chinese are not i so formidable to the allied troops There is no proper generalship, and ,; hope* mainly rest on Japanese help.