News in Brief.

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IV, Issue 1050, 26 July 1904, Page 1

News in Brief.

_—»_.— There are 226 men working on the Paeroa Waihi railway line, Elsewhere Mr, S, Adams advertises a great clearauco sale of drapery, otc, Long engagements are rather expensive in llussia. An engaged man is expected to send a present to his fiancee eiory day, Teacher:' What is the longest word in tho English language?' Smart boy: ' Smiles,' sir; there is a mile betwoen each 's.' A woman has died from blood poisoning at Palterndorf, Lower Austria in oonse- . ijuence of poulticing a cut linger vrith a cobwob, During the recent visit of H,M,S, Euryalis (the new flagship on the Australian station) to Melbourne she was visited by \ 35,640 people ■' He is one of tho very few hsadß of Departments, who, since the Government took office, will ipeak his mind fe&rlcsily,"—Mr Bollard onDr, Macgregor, Thcro is evidently money in medicind Tho estate of the lato Sir Henry Thompson, Baft., the eminent surgeon, it ens tcred at £226,5982 i fid, jS&Iho first railway,. with. four. British locomotives, was opened'botwoonMio *"" and Yokohama in 1872; to-day tho railway mileage is 4469, with 1469 loco* motives. Lion-tauiors frequently perfume themselves with lavender. Thoro is, it is said, no record of a lion ever having attaoked a trainer who had takon tho precaution of using this perfume. Tho Government is considering tho (juostiou of imposing an export duty on greenstone, which is being sent out of the colony in considerable quantities, Mr D. D, Hyde, Government poultry npert, states that the annual value of the poultry industry in America is 300,000.000 dollarso-or 00,000,000, dollars in excess , of the value of the cotton crop, The Government is considering the question of shortening the hours of work and increasing tho wages of asyhim attendtnts, and tho question of setting up Ap' peal Boards to enquire into and report on complaints from attendants, At the conclusion of an informal function at Hawera His Excellency remarked that ho had written to Lord Eanfurly saying that bo had begun as he (Lord Eanfurly) had dono, but did not know if ho could sustain, tho public responsibilities so well, At tho Municipal Conference tho tow o clerk of Stratford said that the police had not during tbo past fivo years helped hi ß borough in enforcing its by-laws in the manner tho Council would like, Dele* gates from other parts of the colony spoke in a similar strain, f A new subject of instruction—the enamelling of melal—is to be included in • the syllabus of tho Wellington Technical School. Tbo process of enamelling enables many rich and varied effects to bo secured in metal, and will naturally bo of considerable interest. Tho Minister for Railways contemplates arranging at an early date an alteration in tho issue of singlo tiekets throughout the wholo systom of our railways, He purposes giving the holders of singlo tickets for stations boyond tho suburban area ono month within which to complote their journey, Land tonuro of an unusual kind was mentioned at tho last meeting of the Timaru Land Board by Mr T, Humphries, Commissioner of Crown Lands, who instanced a leaso without a fixed term given by tbo Nolson Provincial Council. "Itwas,"said Mr Humphries, "akind of|leaso extending through all oternity, and beating the 999 years' leaso hollow."