News in Brief

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IV, Issue 1029, 1 July 1904, Page 1

News in Brief

I St. Joseph'fi Church social to-night in Academy of Music. , Waihi Friendly Societies' Conferoneo social evening in Forestors' Hal! lb-night. Tho frost in Waihi during the past two davs has beon sharper than has been felt iorysars. Montgomery's Company play at Waikino to-mr/ht, and at Waihi to-morrow and '. Mou'lay night. "As tho days lengthen tho cold streng. tbous ihi ß morning moat of the water taps wore frozen, ~v - ; • ThoTauranga bakers have reduced the price- of bread in consequence of tho reduction in the price of flour. The cost of tho British garrison io Couth Africa amounts to £IBO,OOO per week The forco numbers 20,000 of all arms, A company with a capital of £20,000 has been formed to take over severs! r •&** uiokiug businesses in New Zealand. Mr. Montgomery's entertainment was largely attonded last night, the programmo submitted being almost entirely now to Waihi, Tho Agricultural Department has decided io ship a quantity of Whangarei marmalade oranges to London to tost th»' s Homo market. An agitation is on foot in Poverty Bay to form a separate Education Board for the district, which at presont is inoluded in Hawko's Bay. During Lord Eatifilrly's {crib ofjjffioe as Governor over 35,000 people have been.' entertained at Government Houses in Wellington aud Auckland. The Emir of Bokhara, one of Kussia's Central Asian provinces, has given the sum of 1,000,000 roubles (£100,000) for increasing tho Russian fleet. Mr Adams, 'a local resident, deolaros ihnt his milkman this morning measured his milk by the aid of scales, owing to the milk being frozen solid. Next, pleaso, Tho price of beef in tho Sydney shops (says tho Australian Meat Trades Journal; is from 5d to 8d per lb, yet Australian beef is quoted in London wholesale at 2Jd por lb. Mr G, Witty, MRU for Eiccarton, informsd an audience which he addressed tho other evening at Addingioii that he ■ had eomo out to tho colony in an emigrant ship with 2s in his pocket. Tho touring of the Steele-Payno Com* pany, whoso delightful exhibition of bellringing will long bo romombored, has come to mi end. It is understood that Mr, and Mrs, Steele intend making their homo in Auckland, With regard to tho appointment of chief defectives, it is gazetted that all such appointments will bo inado from thedetoc« tive branvli by the selection of those officers whose abilities, energy and gonoral ■ fiitii.*ss qualify them for the position,., A sturdyTp.nperativo labourer, employ ed on tho Malk. Trunk railway construe- < tion works at Taf&ipo, has accomplished a novel feat, Ho s lj3s built dwelling of tho staves which contained cement'used lolhlio heavy pier work on tho railway. An applicant for an old age poußion at tho Magistrate's Court, Wellington, gave his age as being sixtyisovcn years. Ho had no proof to offer, and doubt was oast upon his statement that ho was old enough (65 years) to bo entitled to recoive , tho pension,, whereupon he offered lo v mako asido - ™rof £IOOO with tho Registrar that 1:. .as sixty-tsoven yearj old. The Registrar didn't happen to havo £IOOO handy, so tho bet was not booked.