New Zealand.

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IV, Issue 1045, 20 July 1904, Page 3

New Zealand.

f A Strange Coincidence r Wanoanoi, this day, ' By a atrnngo coincidence tho Premier [ received yesterday a cablo message from [ Lord and Lady Ranfurly inquiring after his : health, Tho cablo from the ex-flovornor was despatched from Fiji, and that from Lndy Ranfurly from London,

Dunedin Gas Works •-iiNKniN, this day, Mr Chesuey Lugate has reported on the City Corporation gas works at great longth. Ho has made a number of recommendations, including o»u suggesting the abandonment of tho manufacture of car* burettcd water gas (which costs more than coal gas), and tho erection of now works, to oost about £BO,OOO. Determine! Suicide Gkiioiine, this day An old resident of this district, named Thomas Scrivener, staggered inloa>ioigh-> hour's : rosidence at midnight with his throat cut; and whilst tho latter was gotting a light Scrivener further gashod hiiif self with a razor, and succumbed, Shipping' Auokiand, this dai Arrived: Imlralcnia, from Loudon, Melbourne, and Sydney. Sailed: Ganymede, barque for Kaipara, and Sydney.

The Railway Strike CujiiSTonmicii, this day, Nineteen men aro involved in the strike on tho Cheviot lino- The dinner time had been cut down to half an hour, and upon refusing to return to work they woro dis' missed,