News in Brief.

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IV, Issue 1047, 22 July 1904, Page 1

News in Brief.

The Australian Football Club ploy *' Waitckuri to-morrow at Waiteliaini. Tho second [jientcsfc luistako in busincE3 » is negligence. The greatest is . ness. _ The Waihi Australian Football AsßOcialion meet Auckland at Waihi to-morrow 5 weok, 30th inet. Ten candidates at the recent elections iii Victoria failed to poll enough to save ilioir deposits of 100, Gcorgo Fisher, M.H.R., has reappeared in Parliament, but, so far, has not taken putt in,tho proceedings, | To-morrow tho members of the Waihi Rifles compete in tho second round for the Roy, Father Brodie's trophy, It was stated in tho House of Commons recently that 30 members of tho Irish Nationalist party had served terms of hard , labour in prison, To-fnight in thoAcadcniyof Musio Ori j and Fisco's Twentieth Century Wonder workers and Merrymakers give their initial performance, The opening chapter of a capital serial story, ontitlod "Tho Queen of the Isle," will appear in to-morrow's (Saturday) ifsuo, Tho difforenco between the boss and the bossed is tho difference between the ability that can conceivo idoas and the ability that can only carry thorn out, Spain has more hunchbacks than any other country, In some of tho villages of the Sierra Modena soven per cent, of the people aro doformed in this way. Information has been received atThamca of tho death in tho Transvaal of Mr Harry Dunn, who was formerly employed in the local Telegraph Department as operator. At tho inquest on a man who shot him* solf in a suburb of London, it was stated that tho bullet, after passing through his head, had struck trie wall and rebounded into his pocket, A Methodist Church in Auokland, with a view to providing an alternative to the streets and other ploces of resort On Sat* urday nights, has organised a series of free concerts, "Night carousals don't suit me wheu they fall near Sunday."— Councillor Foster, jocularly, on boing proposed to represent the Counoil at the School of Minss dinner on Saturday, 80th inst. Tho oensus is taken every year in China, and tho inhabitants are enumerated in ft curious manner, Tho oldest master of every ten houses has to count the families and make a list, which is sent to the Imi pcrial tax house. Recently Carl Olzen died in the Rook* wood Asylum, Victoria, Ho wes entered up in tho books at 106 years old, It is stated that ho camo to Australia from* Holland 100 years ago. Until recently his mental faculties wero sound, •(-Tho Health Department is engaged upon experiments with "dried milk,' One hundredweight of tho dried milk has been Bent to the Cambridge Sanatorium, ■ and the result of this experiment will be mado the subject of a special report, "You can't boat buttonholing Ministers when you want anything," says Mr. Hemes. "No matter how just a cause you may have, if you don't make it known -and keep on making it known-it stands a poor show of meeting with pro> per recognition in this world," "Tell tlu mother of an anaemic girl that hor das '>tor needs fresh air and oxerciso, and; : are regarded as a fool," says Mr. F. A. Hornibrook, a Cristchurch physical instructor, " Tell her what is noeded-is Bunkum's Blue Bobs for Billiousnoss, and you at onoo become a friond of tho family,"