News in Brief

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IV, Issue 1134, 1 November 1904, Page 1

News in Brief

Melbourne Cup run at Flomington to> day, Tho American Thoatrescope opens in tho Academy of Mu«io on Thursday evoning next. The Agricultural Department report shows that New Zealand imported last year over 17 million pounds weight of frcab fruit, valued at £115,517. Several mining areas on the Great Barrier baye been applied for of late, and a good deal of attention is now being paid to tho inland, Last yoar 71 licenses under tho Gaming and Lotteries Act were granted to religions denominations. Of these 17 went to the Church of England, and 58 to the Soman Catholics, Thero is only ono blood purifier and that ;b tho lung; thero is only one genuine tonic and that is fresh air," said Dr. Greenwood during a lecture at Christ* ehuroh. New Zealand is tho only colony in Australasia that has a lord for a Governor. Barring the Governor-Goneral, all the " States have mere baronets or knights for_figure heads. Tho oldest inhabitant of the earth is to bo seeii'at the St Louis Exhibition. It is a giant tortoiso from the Seychelles, weighing 970 H), and it is known to be over 150, but is probably 300 yeare old. A lady appearing in a Southern divorce court, at the suit of her husband, referring to the 00-rospondent, remarked that she " might as well call him her husband." " But he is not your husband," said tho magistrate; "ho is merely the understudy." A youth entered the porter's lodge at the Christchuroh Hospital, took a finger tip from his pooket and asked whother it could bo grafted on the joint from which it had been severed while bo had been [ chopping a piece of wood. In the midst of a stormy discussion a gentleman rose to settle the matter in dis« pnte. Waving his hand majestically, he began:-" Gentlemen, all I want is com. mon sense." " Quite right," interrupted another, and tho meeting broke up. The longest day in London iB hours > at Hamburg, 17{ hours; at 8t Petersburg the longest day has IB hours and the shortest 5; at Tornea, in Finland, the longest day has 21j hours, and the shortest 2| hours, at Spitsbergen the longest is 3[ months. Rudyard Kipling is in hearty agreement with what tho author says about tho value of a good understanding between Franco and England not only because of its'"present usefulness, but also beoauso of the needs of the futuro, i strange caso is being investigated by the polico at Balclutha. Last Sunday woeka single woman at "Waicapeka gave birth to twins. Somo time later in the day she left for Balclutha, three milei away, wb6ro ebo was found by a constable carrying the dead bodies of the infants in a carpet bag. Tho woman was removed ; to a private hospital. v