News in Brief

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IV, Issue 1150, 21 November 1904, Page 1

News in Brief

Tlio Hospital Trustees havo granted Dr. (inmiiess six montha' leavo of absence. Woods-Williamson Company open tonight with "The Garden of Lies."

The excavation of the Waihi Grand J unction battery site is progressing aatislastorily,

The snni of £6287 was oolloeted in New Zealand by the Salvation Army during S£ em " WBek ' Thi »»ro increase of ±1067 on last jear. Auckland raised 11742 for the Salvation Army self-denial fund. Wellington mS ohig , l,^) vith »l; Danodin, £2121; and Christchurch, 11845. Pmlorcwski, who gives a farewell recital ftt the Choral Hall, Auckland, on November 24ih, has acocptod an offer to give 55 reoitals in America for £60,000. •

Working costs at the Great Fingall 'nine, Western Mistulin, averaged 16s 10d per torn This is mid to be a splendid' record, considering the country in which in-wnine is situated. ,

The 'State fa lts# wilhlu^ ? tnt Brown Hill (KalgooHie) electorate i B ■ being urged to pewit of the exploitation of low-grade ores' by prospectors and tributen.. It is claimed that the heavy oharreg made by private millownen absorb tbo profit likolj to result from the treatment. '

A brutal wrestling match took plaoo at Wirihs' circus in Melbourne recently. One of the Indian wrestlers almost throttled his opponent (a young Australian), using unfair treatment, and left him senseless in tho arena. The spectators rushed the ring, and the Indian narrowly esoaped with his life,

A boy named Francis Mcfoon, at Omaha, Nebraska, was attacked with lookjaw and was apparently doomed. Dr McCann hud him removed to ihe chill* room of a neighbouring brewory, whero the temperature was below freezing point, His convulsions immediately decreed in severity and frequency, and next morning ho was able to open his mouth and take nourishment.

Surprise has been expressed that » portion of the Baltic fleet should have beon allowed to pass through the Suez Canal. It is not generally known that by a convention, signed on October 26th, 1888, tho canal was exempted from blockade, and vessels of all nations, whether armed or not, are to be allowed to pass through it in peace or war.