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Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IV, Issue 1136, 3 November 1904, Page 2

The following oricket team will represent West against Waikino, at Waihi, on Saturday :-Donobuo, Lang, Meyor, Ryan, Graham, Rowe, Wilson, Oamoron, Oartor, Power, Gable, Buffet.

Tho secretary of the Weilii Suburbs Cricket Club begs to acknowledge with thauks rocoipt of half a gnitioa donation to tho Club from Mr. J. Langford, manager of the Waihi Glaciate fold Mining Company (vice presiildTit). ; ".■ The anniversary'services o( the Wealoyan Sunday SehoolVill bo held on Miday nest, when special hymns will be rendered by the scholars, agisted by tho choir #'nd large orchestra. The hymns , consist., "qf anniversary goms, including solosijuSts and quartettes, and weliV'fo t n . 6 stfodwd of previous apiifvoisßriep. ~«*§,■ i<

i)Ve |ire tho local postmaster that Wednesday, 9th November (King's Binhdny) will Be obsorvod as a holiday. Tho telegraph dflioe will open from 7 to/8 p,in, The post office will open from 7to 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Bth, and a delivery ofall classes of map matter will bo made ovor tho countor. All mails usually despatched will be nwdeupat7.Bo a.m. on 9th, Tbore will be no dolivory by tho letter carriers. It was mentioned in the Magistrate's Court at Ghristcbuich that proceedings against a debtor had not been pushed at a certain time because the man was then drinking heavily. "As long as a man is drinking his creditors let him go," commented Mr Haselden, H.M., " and when ho gets honest employment and saves a little they crush him. That's the way ihoy bolp him to drink."

Mi. Evan Morgan, who i'b the proprietor of the oldest established tailoring business in Wuihi, intimates to the public that ho bus removed to new and couimodius premises a few doors abovo the National Bank. Mr. Morgan's stock includes a recent importation of latest pattorns in tweeds from tho loading vraro* houscß of New Zealand, and respectfully invites an Inspection of his goods, The, following will represent City in their mulch with the Suburb* Club on Saturday:—City I: Armstrong, Rice, Walker, McKay (captain), H. Rea, S Eea, Johnstone, Smith, Burnell, Cave, Barron; emergoney, Kerr. City II: Hearne, Ford, J. Eea, Forstor, Young, E. Walkor (captain), Brown, Hewaton, Kerr, Taylor, Brookes; emergencies: Dawson, Stanbury, J, Dormie, A. Taylor, McKinley. The Bonior matoh will be played on the Becroation Reserve and the junior in Worth's paddock.

On our first page Mr P. R. Marriott, jowollor and optician, in nn announcement of his first annual sale, intimates that ho has made great reductions of prioos, and suggests to tho public that it will be nnnecessary to go rut of the town for goods that can bo purchased cheaper hore. Special Attention is drawn to that portion o! stock suitablo for Christmas presents. All goods aro. marked in plain figures, and a special discount of 5s in tho £ will bo allowod for cash. Tho time of the sale will oxtend ovor ft low days only, At the public meeting held at Nelson in commemoration of Trafalgar Day, tho table on tho platform was covered with tho Union Jack, and by it stood a portrait of Lord Nelson, end upon it was a walkingnsliok madefiom tho oak of tho Victory, tho head of the stick boing made from a copper bolt of tho samo ship There was also ou tho table on autograph of Lord Nelson dated flth October, 1602, signed Nelson and Bronto,

Cosaacks wore enco seen by a Japanoso officer in Manchuria using liorsos of difl'oront colours for signalling purposes. " Ono day in a fight," ho writes, " wo saw (loßsackj on a mountain, They had horses of different colours, and (hoy wore reporting our movements with theso in tho following way:—When womovod southwards ono of thorn rode on a horse of a certain colour, while whon we movod north ho rodo a horao of another, colour, But wo found it out, shot those horses, and stopped the signals." f .

Tho departuro this morning by tho coach of Mrs Meyer's littlo daughter Aroha was the outcotno of an animated scone on tho Waihi Hotol vorandah, As tho coach drow up the whole of tho staff and n number of the lodgers assembled to soo tho child, in whom everybody in thohouso has taken a kindly interest, eff, Thoro was much kissing, in which joined, from tho boots upwards,"- finishing up with the genial S. Moses of commercial fame. Tho child leavos for Syduoy on Mondcy next, under the caro of a maid. Sho is to stop with Mrs, Myer's peoplo i Sydney for an indefinite period. The position of Mayor of Wollingto would appear to bo almost as risky a one to hold as that of a Minister of tho Crown in Russia (says the Nnw Zealand Times). The other day flis Worship the Mayor, Mr, Aitken, was tho recipient of a threatening letter warning him that bis lifo was in danger becauso of tho preference shown to Nowtown ovor Thorndon with regard to the electrio tramway service, Somo tirno ago anothor (perhaps tho samo) discontented citizen sent Mr, Aitken a formidable looking knife, bearing tho inscription: "For the Mayor to commit suicide with."

Mr W.'Banka announces that on Saturday nostra will in Main-street, Waihi, «s pork butohor, and solicits ut share of Biipport,, Tho City Cricket Club wishos to acknowledge with thanks the receipt, of £1 from Mrs Pilling, a vicepresident of (ho Club.

Members of Court Wuihi, A.0.F., uro hotificd that the mooting night has been changed from Thursday to Monday, and that-in cousequonjjo: t-hbro will bo no meeting to-night,

The death has occurred nt I)j.Hhl )j .Hh of Charles Silent, inventor of dm chain principje as applied to bieyoles. He was also the first workrusn to engage in ihe molar oar industry. Sargent, who was 83 years of age, was very poor, it being duo to the generosity of fncids in raising a subscription on bis behalf that ho was sayed from dyiflg of hunger.

The fact that ws have a local mamifachirer of lollies, who uses nothing but pure cano sugar in tbo manufacture of his goods, should bo a boon to those who indulge in swoots, ami the public may rely, wo think, on tho assurance of the manufacturer as to the purity of tho goods, The " Wairarapa Daily Times" says that the ennstabio and defectives who have been camped on tho Tc Awaito Ranges for some months past, on the lookout for the man El-is, alia- M'.'Kfw.ia, w h o is "wanted" in connection with tho Te Awaito murder, Imvo now been withdrawn, It is understood that tho7 came across what wore supposed to bu truces of Ellis in tho fliiidc of camps, oaiup-fw, etc., and on one occasion they found a cow which had beon shot. Tho courso of the bullet was traced, and the bullet itself was recovered and proved to be tVi. from a 'BO3 rifl«, which is a similar typo of weapon to that which M'Korzie was known tp hnvo possessed. It was by a bullet from a '303 riilo that the victim of'tho Te Awaito murder was shot. l : is beiievi'.d in. son:'! quarters that Ellis is still in tho locality in which search' has bom m-idn for h'uu, while others are of opinion tbt ho has gone to some othor mow reuw.o and less accessible hiding place.

We Benin rctv.ind our renders of tho visit hero to-night of the American Company's tliootrescope. They appear for odd ni«ht only, nud the reputation tho company bring with tlii'iii should attract a largo audience. lVior to their visit to consecutive weeks in Melbourne, oi;;ht in New Zoalnncl, tho coiupuiiy showed, fur 13 Adelaide, six in lkisbane, six in Sriluoy, 5 weeks in Brolton Hill and Charters To.wors, Since their tour of the colony began thoy have boon in Christchurch, Wollington and Duncdin, in each of which towns tlio entertainers wore favoured with big houses. It is claimed by tho proprietor, Mr Spouotir, tlitit tho inachiiio, tho thontroacope, is superior to any kind of picture depicting maohines yol introduced into the colony, and this is ondorsod by the. newspaper roports in the towns tho company have visited.