News in Brief.

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IV, Issue 1033, 6 July 1904, Page 1

News in Brief.

The English footballers nro playing 'Northern District, at Maitland, to-day. A Foxton rcsidont won (ho second prise ;02000 ir. Tattorsnll's sweep on ths Victorian Grand National Hurdles, Tho pump at the Waihi Company's No, 5 shaft was raising water this morning at (ho rate of 1850 gallons por minute, H.M.s. Lizard is to be dismantled at S,ydi. ;j shortly, whon sho will bofittodout as a hulk lor service on ths station, A mooting of the local branch of the Liberal und Lnbour Federation of New Zealand will bo held in Meyer's Hall to* night. The railway returns show an increase of 141,959 in the passongera carlied on Government lines during May, as compared with tho corresponding period of last yoa,i, Colonel Lovcday. commandor of the New Zealand Cadets, pays a visit to Waihi shortly for the purpose of inspects ing the local cadets. The Campbell Staluo Fund"sfbi!ictei) : liavo accepted a tender for a bronze atntuu of John Logan Campbell at a cost of £llBO, Tho cominitteo have ±'1067 in hand.

The stage of tho now theatre at Paeroa is tho largest in tho provinco outsido of Auckland, Tho atigo is forty foot deep (three feet deoper tlmn in tho Auckhiid Opera House) and forty feet wide, . . At the Kugby Union mooting lust- night it was decidci! to wire to tho Auckland Referees' Association, asking thorn to send a referco for tho final Cup match, Suburbs v. City, on Saturday next. An exchange says tho name of the transport Taihoka Maru, upon which an explosion occurred, possesses a title which, road by a Maori, might bo regarded as a prediction. "Taihoa lift Maru "means " By-and-bye there will bo slaughter,"

In dealing with a oaso of shop lifting, at Diuiedin, Mr Graham, S.M., commented in strong tonus on tho practico of shop-* keepers displaying their wares outsido their premises, The practico was most pernicious, and should bo stopped by law.

Tho Northern Timber Workers' Union have asked the Minister of Lands to set aside blocks of lands in sawmiOing districts to enable sawmill workers who may bse employment through tho cutting out of the timber, to wako homes for themselves.

Someone is sanguino of tapping a payable petroleum flow in Taranaki, Ex. tensive boring operations aro proceeding at Jloturoa, where one bore lias roaclied a depth of 710 feet. The indications of oil met with are said to bo of a most encouraging character.

In tho arbitralian caso, Mining In* spcctor versus Waihi Goldminiug Com' pany, in connection with the Company's No. 5 pump, proceeding at tho Waihi Court to-day, llio principal witnesses for tin company aro Messrs. Ashley Hunter, engineer, and Frauk Rich, manager of tho Woodstook mine, Karongahako,