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Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IV, Issue 1134, 1 November 1904, Page 2

Mr E, Crowe, Inspector of Public Schools, is H present on a \ to this district. 'l'liij miirniiij» lis preceded to Waikinu mm Waitekauu, and returns this nfterucon.

ficv, Father iJacMillan, who is taking Father Brodie's place during the bitter's abtenco from Waihi, arrived l«"ra lint evening and is staying at St. Joseph's Presbytery.

At the Police Court this morning ltrg« inald May Atkinson was charged beforo Mr. 3. E Slovin, J.l 1 ., with lading to obey an order of the Court, in; tho nutter of providing for tho mnin tcnanc.- r>f his wife. Ho was remanded lo the Thames,

_ On Sunday next tho Wesloyan Sunday School anniversary services take placo in the Academy of Music, when special hymns will bi rendered by the scholars assisted by a large ohcir and orchestra at each service. Special addresses will be given, and tho services will bo bright and homely.

The Coromandel Hospital has 253 subscribers uudtr tho uew regime, It provides that auyono subscribing Otlpor week is entitled to medictil attendance and niidicino for himself and members of his family under 18 years of age; other members of a family to be admitted to benefit upon payment of Gd por week for two fep'alo members or 0110 malo and 0110 female over IS.

In our advortiaing pages Mossrs J, ami S. Roberts intimate that Oct. 31st was the free day in connection with their great sale of crockery and fancy goods, and rosiest all patrons of tho data in question to return their receipt tickets, when the money they havo spout on that dato will bo returned.

On Saturday noxt tho Uo volunteor companies, No. 3 Ohinemtiri and tho Waihi Rifles, will firo for tho bolt presumed by Mr CJ.Sinmdetf. Tho ranges will bo 200, 500, and GOO yards, seven shots at oacli distance, Tho No. 3 Compnny will also shoot in tho class competitions,"" A" class competing for Mr Marriott's trophy; "B" class for tho trophy presented by HetheringtonmidOo,; and "C" class for tropin presented by tho Colonial Ammunition Compnny and Mr J. Say,

The following teams havo been selected to representtlw Ohinemtiri No, 3, Company at the rille match to bo fired at KatiLati on King's Birthday, November 9di First to'iiu; Capt, Jackson, Lieut. Ready, I't, Clarlt, Corp. Comes, Pt. Morrison, Pt, Samson, L. Corp. Weir. Second team: L, Corp. Mageo, Sorgt. Gardinor, Major Konrick, Lieut. Gilmour, I't, Parslow, rt, W. Corncs, Corp. Corner. Emergencies: Pt. Drallin, Pt. Bonner, L, Corp, Green, I't. Moore, Pt. Imrd.

Tho following sums liavo been placed upon the Pnblio Work# Estimntos for ronds and bridges in tho Ohiooiuiiri dinIriotHikutaia to Waihi, 1351; Wniiekauri to Qoldon Cross, £141: Waihito WhiiDßßfliatii, £'46; l'aoroa to To Arohn, £l4; Paoroa to Waitoa, 1100; Notlicrtcn Roads, J)177; Kornata Crook Road, .£434; Wuitawhotaßoad, deviation, £200; Hikutnia to Marotolo, £150; Mackaytown to Pahu, m; Waiukauri to Jubilee, £100; l'aoroa to To Aroha bridge (on account), £600; Alpha to Komnta £100; (Hill track), Williams' Camp, £100; Ford Bond to Mackaytown, £100; Mangakino truck, £100; Rotokohu to Kornngahake, £IOO, Waihi to county boundary, £175, Tho composition of sausages has boon an exciting topic in Melbourne owing to revolutions by the public analyst as to tho uso of broad, oatmeal, and flour as a matter of custom, and of boric acid as a preservative. Mr Bent, who says he bus boon dovoted to sausages, has doolared himself off them for the future. Mr Roid is olso a connoisseur, but has made no declaration as to what ho will do with tho Molbourno-mndo articlo after this. A number of sausago-makors and chefs liavo boon interviewed, Somo of thorn assert that they have never before beard of boric fieid having been used. They, however, stuto that, if preservatives are employed, it must be only with sausages supplied to iho poorer olaases of people. Bioad is used, ihey say, and to counterbalance the excess of fat somo makors add oatmeal and Hour to giyo weight.

Tho attention of burgesses is directed to tho borough notico in connection with tho water supply. Tho names of the streots along which tho wntei nnins aro laid arc mentioned, and rosidonts living within a hundred yards of tho mains aro entitlod to lmvo connections made up to their fonm if thoy are going to toko tho water. Residents in tho wator area who aro within a huudrod yards of water main will be called on lo pay a wator rate not exceeding hulf tho water consumer's rate, whether thoy take tho wator or not, It is thoroforo obviously in the intorcst# of all who are so situated that tho connection should bo luitdo. Tho wator consumor'a rateie limited by law to 10s por annum on properties not oxceoding tho voluo ol £2OB, It is probable that tho annual rato charged will be oven less than 10s. In any ease 10s is not much to pay for a supply of 120 gallons per day for each person ovor M years of ago nil the year round. Tbo " Ironmonger" of ,Soptombor 17th saysAt a meoting hoL-i at tho Cutlers' Hall, Shollield, on September Hth, unlor tho auspices of tho Colonial Iron and Coal fields Construction Co., Ltd., Mr Farmor King (chairman of tho company), said that Oil tho least of tho North i'sUd, New Zealand, near tho I,'atca River, there oxists a deposit of ironsand—principally, on tho beach and in certain localities a littlo distime# inland—oxteoding for many miles along the Beaboard. By an olodriuiil process, which obviates tho necessity of having to work tho iron in a concreto form, the Colonial Iron and Coal Fiolds Co claim to bo able lo tnukopig iron in Nbw Zealand, and import it into Sheffield at a price lower than tho Swedish articlo. Many attempts, said tho speaker, have been made during tho p'ist tliiity or forty years to mako ironswd a oommerciel commodity, but thoy had failed, The difficulty had been to reduce tho sand to concrete iron, This had to a largo extent boon overooma by Messrs Whitburn and Andorson, (direotor and consulting engineer of tho 1 company rospeclinljJ.nnd bo felt confident that a practical solution of the prob' lem had been found, An electrical plant capable of turning out 1000 tons of iron per week, would shortly bs imtilltd,

The quarterly meeting of the Waihi Miners' and Workers' Union will bo held in the Union Hall on Saturday, sth iut.

Tho Amorican Tlicuttoscopo entertain l mont, which appears in Waihi this week for one night only, should bo woll worth attending, Tho Australian and Now Zonland papers are unanimous in their pr-iiso of tho merits of the tlteatreseopc, and tho company appear to havo attracted crowded houses wherever they have shown, A Queensland journal says:— "Tho machino certainly marks an advance on anything seen here. Tho minutest ot tho (k-tnils depicted nvo dearly brought out, and tho flickering reduced lo a mini • mum. The pictnros sro exceedingly varied and very good," Tho cntertainmcnt'lakes phico in 1110 Academy of Music ou Thursday ovoniug next.

"[Quiet weddings," says tho Wairoi Guardian, "arc difficult affairs to negotiate, Otto such was arranged ktelv not a thousaud miles from Wairoa, but lyiforUinnieb for tho chief actors m tho ina'.riuiuitinl line, the moveiuonts of tho happy couplo became public property. Tho news travelled Inst, quito as fast as ill news usually does. the road spread the glad tidings thatjoveryono in tho vil - lages on routo to Napier had to asscmblo at the hotels and drink tho health of tho brido and bridegroom. On arrival Mohaka tho word " Wcleomo" was posted up everywhere (tho thirsty ones always welcome a man with a tendency to shout), and tho crowd was so large, and its "copnm" co unusually hot, that it, cost llip Widegrosm aoinbthing over bofuro tho last "shim 1 " was paid for, This ocoii'.rod at every liutel on tho road, crowds waiting to wcloomo the bridegroom, who Intl to pay doiriy for tho sudden possession of so much connubial felicity. His only nopo is'hiu, lio may soon meet tho wag who spread the news and havo it final setth meut of accounts with liitn,