News in Brief.

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IV, Issue 1045, 20 July 1904, Page 1

News in Brief.

a j The now Borough Clmmbors aro rnpidly .„ Hearing completion. 3 f Ssveral earth shocks woro folt at Roto* , run ou Suudiiy lust, Wakunga has not been active for Dearly a fortnight, s Tho annual prosenta'tion of medals iu connection with the Waihi Cricket Aesociation will take placo this ovomng. Mr A, E. Hislop, of Wellington, has iu Ins possession a pieco of silk tapestry said to havo been worked by the hands of' Mary Queen of Scots. A correspondent, in writing to the Weimato Witnoss, thus describes the hoodlums of that township:- 11 Men in years but with the brains of unfledged rabbits," "When we want a new school now, wo bavo to crawl on our hands and knees to tho Education Department to ask for it," ) said the chairman of tho Can'orbu-/ Education Board. v On Thursday last a poll was takouat g -3!o Aroha for tho proposal to borrow £4OOO s&fTofthfl oloctrio lighting, of the and resulted in the proposal boing carried by 145 to 14. J A Nolson man combines business and domestic annoucemoms in tho following notice:-"Birth; Lock, on July 6th, at Victoria Avenue, Nolson, the wife of W. Lock, universal provider and complete furnisher, of a son," Tho Municipal Conference has recommenced that in tho ovont of a tie at a' ■ inumoipal or mayoral election tho return, ing officer shall publicly decide the quest [ tion by drawing lots, Chopping is increasing in popularity ut a sport in the North Island. The number of clubs affiliated to the New Zea. land Axemen's Association has increased J from five in 1901-2, to 19 in 1908-4. Information to hand per the medium of private letters indicates a big osodua of soitlers from tho Transvaal within the noxt few months, Canada and New Zealand are to be tho destinations, " Show mo a man who belongs to a Volun. teor Fire Brigade, and you show mo one who, however bad he may be otherwise, has one magnificent redeeming feature, that of unsolfishness."—Speaker at a fire brigade banquet at Wanganui. Tho Wellington Hospital Trustees have decided that the medical officer should troat at the hospital under certain coa* ditions members of football teams injured by accident, tho union in roturnto arrangn annually a "hospital benefit "match. Aucklanders will, no doubt, bo pleased with tho description of thoir city given by a soulhorn paper whioh says it is " the haunt of tho the home of' the garrotter, and tho happy hunting ground of tho cheerful burglar," The following announcement was published in London a few weeks ago concerning a. recent will:-"The Venerable John Palmer, >f Norfolk Island, and of Auckland, Now Zealand, Archdeacon of South Melanesia, since 1894, and formori jlv missionary in Melanesia, estate in tho * Unitod Kingdom proved at 12 2s 6d." He had two canuios presentod to him, mid, after having had thorn a few weeks, ho called ono Wheeler and the other Wilson. His friends woro piyzled as to the reason of these names having been solootod and sought to know why, His reply was that ho had called them Wheeler and Wilsou because they woro not Singers, ices proiritian prohibit? A correspondent of tl. ' ihbunon Mail writes : " I think tha: .!io way things aro going on in our town is a thorough disgrace! Iu placo of seven hotel?, there are, I behove, fully ono hundred sly grog shops, and what I saw on a reoont Saturday night in tho street was disgracoiul, for I saw no loss than 30 drunlwn mon."