News in Brief.

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IV, Issue 1064, 11 August 1904, Page 1

News in Brief.

* The English football team boat Otago yesterday by 14 points to 8, There were no loss than 380 applications for too position of junior olork in a Wellington ofUce* A|St Petersburg correspondent estimates that the war is costiug .Russia £191,520 (1,800,000 roubles) a day, The dividends paid by West Australian gold mining companies for the five oxpirod months of this year total £808.071. The hookey match advertised for next Saturday has been postponed, thoAuokt land team being unable to visit Waihi. The Swiss Government has passed a law prohibiting parous afflicting their offspring with fantastio and absurd Chris, tmn names, In the drive in tho Extended uiiuo mora quartz was intersectod after lysine through what was considered to the footwall, . " ,? ood "'''"j™ makes good boobkeew lng, says Mr Eforries, "and in thisdlrectiou the Opposition is doing work which is of the greatest benefit to tho colony," „ Mr Olement 1,. Wragge, tho Anatcalian astronomer, loft Auckland on Thursday for tho Islands. Prom there he goes to America and Britain on a lecturing tour, Tho children of the schools in Sweden are credited with planting 500,000 forest roes annual y. As showing the cost to he country having to import timber, our Motherland pays a bill of .025,000,000. Mr E. Cartwright, manager of tho Talis-, man mine at Karangahake, is severing his connoceion with tho company, and is to bo entertained at Karaugahako boforo his departure, Mr W. A. Mcleod, formerly aciislant direotorof the Thames School of Mines, and ior the past few years diroctor of the Charters To,vera School of Minos, Queensland, has beon appointed manager of one j of the prmoipal gold mines in that colony. Concrete may be mado impervious to walor by tho application of linseed oil, which is absorbed by tho concroto, filling tho pores and forming a fjum on tho surt laoo.—Enginooring and Mining Journal, Now York. Jiu-jitsu, the Japanese system of physical training, has "caught on" in the United Statos, So impressed is President Roosevelt with tho Japanese soience of selLdefenco that ho has recommended that it bo taught at West Point and Annapolis. The Auokland gold rotunn for the past threo weeks total 154,439 2s Bd, an in) oreaso over the two proceeding threewaeklj periods The returns are as follows:—Ohinemuri, 161,362 12s 'd'SSn' ,1 1582 , 103 M i Ooromandei; £1524 0s Id; total, 164,439 2s Bd,