WAIHI NEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 106, 4 May 1904, Page 8

WAIHI NEWS.

« tßy Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) WAIHI, Tuesday. FAREWELL TO MR RITCHIE.' Mr J. S. Ritchie, secretary of the Wait Fire Brigade, who is about to leave ft I New Guinea, was rendered a tostimouk (lust (Veiling by Foreman Henderson, o I liohalf of the memljors of th" brigade. M ! Ritchie proceeds to Woodlurl: Island. NoGuinea, win-re he takes up a position in gold-mining battery. He has been empioj jcd in the Silver-toil battery here for a nun ber of years, and during his residence hei I has made a large number of friends. wh< | though regretthig bis departure, are pla Ito le-ai- of his advancement. Mr .Tame Whybrow has been appointed his successc as secretary of the Fire Brigade. j MAYORAL INSTALLATION. , I The installation of Mr Thomas Gilniot .as Mayor of Waihi will take place to-nioi row in the Miners' Hall, nt noon. MR lILRRIES, M.H.R. ! Mr W. 11. Herries. M.H.R.. will arriv •| in Waihi on Wednesday evening, and wi ■ remain here over Thursday. OBITUARY. : I regret to repon the death of Mrs Isr • bella Thornton, who passed away at tb I residence of her daughter. Mrs W. Dnnba 1 ! Silverton road. Waihi, yesterday, at tl ' | age of 71. A QUEENSLAND VISITOR. Mr W. Maxwell, of Queensland, is on brief visit to Waihi. Mr Maxwell was foi raerly nu old identity of the Thames, an for the past nine years has represent!' Burke in the Queensland Parliament. Th ; visitor tills afternoon, under the guidauc jif Mr Gilmour. visited the uudergrouu i workings of the Waihi mine. THE SHOOTING SEABON. This afternoon Mr W. M. Jackson re turned from a shooting expedition in th Piako district. He was with three othc sportsmen of the Thames—Messrs Clenfioi Kendrick. and McCallum. The quartett secrffcd (<4 brace of grey ducks and riv I brace of teal, making a total bag for a da I and a-half's actual shooting of CO brace. j For Children's Hacking Ccugh at Nigh' I Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. l/«