News in Brief.

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IV, Issue 1060, 6 August 1904, Page 1

News in Brief.

Tho Auckland City Council is talking of raising a loan of £IOO,OOO for street improvements,

The fourth annual Wailii Hospital ball last night was a splendid success, over three hundred pople being present,

It is said that last year there was a docreaso in tho consumption of whisky in England to tho extent of 1,600,000 gallons.

It is believed to be unlikely that tho industrial exhibition under consideration by the Govornmont will be held before 1906-7,

Tho ihird round for tho trophy present-, ed by iho Rov. Father Brodie to tho Waihi Rifles is taking place this afternoon at tho local range.

"" There are nineteen Chinese living in one Chinese gardener's cottage at the Hull, Wellington, The matter is to be referred to tho Health Department,

Tho bridal dress of tho assassinated Queen Draga of Servia, a marvellous and costly speoimon of nativo workmanship, has been sold to an English waxworki show for JE3200.

I am a total abstainer aud never touch flitch of tobacco."— Thus mi applicant for the position of firik assistant master at tlio Gisborno school, flo was not t-ho chosen ono, Steps aro boing taken"to|establisli a cottago hospital in the Bay of Islands county, where tho want of such im institution has been loiir felt. Tho [hospital will in all probability bo ercctod at cither Mmigonui township or Kaitaia,

Last wcok a man practising with a pea rifle in Ins back yard in Mastertou missed tho taiget, and the bullet went through tho window of a house 100 yard? distant. In duo course ho appeared before the Court and two J.P.s fined him one shilling!

Word has boon rcceiyod by the Thames Borough Council that Mr Carnegie has authorised payinonts to the extont of .£2OOO for the erection of library buildings at Thames, and that ho will remit that amount in instalments of £SOO each ai needed from tim'e to time during the process of construction,

It is understood that a test case is to be brought by tho Labour Department against the butchers who have the contract for slaughtering at the Tiimiu municipal abattoir, to determino whether or not abattoirs come within tho meaning of the Factories Act, This will be the first case of tho kind in tho colony. Tho Japanese soldier is, as a rule, it must be remembered, an educated man. He reads diligently, and follows the movements of tho world. It seems tho rule for him to keep a diary, pnd eaeh night when march has ceasod, you soo hundreds of men lying on tho ground around their camp fires writing the daily record for their children's children to read.—Daily Mail war correspondent,