News in Brief.

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IV, Issue 1089, 9 September 1904, Page 1

News in Brief.

Epsom Handicap wiil be nm at Sydney tomorrow.

\Vaibi junior rep?, play Katikati at Waihi to-morrow. The year 5665 of tho Jewish era coinmenoes tomorrow.

Waihi senior reps. v._Eotorua at (ho latter place 10-uiorrow. The third tarm of the Waihi School of Mines commences to-day.

latorostiug shooting competitions will be resumed at the range tomorrow. Mr Bort Powor will roteree tho KatikatiWaihi junior rep, match to-morrow.

At tho annual meeting of tho Waihi Jockey Club last night thoro was a roprei Bentative attendance,

The local representative football team loft for Eotorua this morning under tho management of Mr E, MoWhirtor. Lieut.-Colonol Pirio, who has been en: gngod hero in examining the officers and 110.1 corns ot tho two local volunteer corps, concludes his visit this afternoon.

An experienced dairy farmer who has worked his herJ nt a profit, says tho Government "must bo careful not to legislato the butter industry out of existence."

A telephone girl has been writing a volume of pooms. We had often wonJorod (says tho Bystandor) how these young ladies ocoupied themselves during business hours,

Tho installation of the plunger pump at tho 750 lovel of tho Grand Junctiou mine has boon complotod, and everything is iu rcadinoss for pumping, which will erablo tho mino to go ahead, and intersect tho reefin tho No. 3 lovol,

Tho African Review soys that in tho Transvaal anl the Orange River Colony, if tho present rata of inter-marriage between Britons aud Boers is kept up, within twenty yoarff tho two races will bo so welded together as to be indistinguishable.

The St. James's Gazette professes to hayo discovered tho original of tho Bev, Elijah Dowie, of Ziou City, in the character of tho King in " Huckleberry Finn." The Gazette avers that Mark Twain, in n spirit of truo prophooy, foresaw tho advent of Elijah 11.

Kuropatkin's failure as a prophet roininds a contemporary of a certain boaßtful man who went to shoot a bear. But the beat not the betier of tho fight and a race am sued. When tho man noired tho camp with the bear closo at his hoels ho yelled out, "I'm bringing him homo alivo."

A reporter on tho Oiago Daily Times, who has lately mado enquiries into tho working of prohibition in tho Chalmers doctorate, is convinced that a considerable consumption of liquor is going on, and that the amount of liquor consumed privately in homes or in soruo rendezvous in tho Iwelvo months has considerably increased!