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Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IV, Issue 1070, 18 August 1904, Page 2

Mr, S, Luko has bcon oloc'od without opposition to tho position of Chairman of the Education Hoard. The following players will represent the lima Football Club against Suburbs of Waibi or. Saturday next:—Maremare, Morelm, Tenili, Hehutai, Eimiango, Iri, Ern. Kapn, Heiliei, Kupara, Hoori, Haini, Hamiora, Tiuroti, Rawiri, It is reckoned that one-third of the ordinary shareholders m English brewing companies are women, Of titled Indies there arc 464. Of rank and file there nrc between 30,000 and 40,000 The amount of money invested by thorn in these shares is a little over a million, The clergy, however, beat the women, for these hold £1,600,000 worth of brewery shares.

In acknowledging- receipt ot a.inedal from South Africa for her son, a Roofton mother, writing to tho Nelson Defence Department, aaysj:— '■ My son, like many others, failed to approciato this modal a's ho otborwiso would have dono had the Chinese not been allowed to occupy a country that Britiahors suffered ami endured so much to win,"

At llangiora a farmer sued a contractor for the purchase monoy of five tons of wlioiu straw chaff. Defendant refused to pay on tho ground that the chaff contained so much wheat as to bo clangorous to stock, throe horses having died after eating it, The Magistrate gavo judgment for defendant owing to tho excessive quantity of wheat in tho samples submitted to the Court.

In a enso heard on Monday at tho Thames Maeistrato's Court, in which tho Public Trustee sued a Chinaman for rent, tho latter pleaded that ho could not understand English, and after somo discussion tho case was adjourned so that the per* vices ol an interpreter should he obtained. Tho defendant, however, knew enough of English 10 say that ho was agreeable to nil interpreter being employed if Mr, Miller, who appeared for (he plaintiff, paid the oosts incurred,

Yesterday a poll of the doctors was taken in connection with tho proposal for instituting umnici, 1 gasworks in Waihi, and resulted in the carried by a large majority, tho voting being 170 l'or and 17 Against. One volo was informal. The wrotched stato of the weather was no doubt the cause of Iho small number of votes recorded. The poll closed at 7 p in. and the result was announced by tho Eo< turning Officer, Mr. W. M. Wal'hiutt, fivo minutes later. In contrast to former polls in Waihi, at tho timo the poll was declared there were only livo pooplo m tho vicinity of the polling booth,

Liont.-Colonol Owon, Commandant of tho School of Instruction of Now Zealand, arrived in Waihi last ovoning, His visit here will extend till to-morrow, during which a portion of his timo will be given to tho officers and non-coms, of the two local corps in matters pertaining to the higher branches of military instruction. Tho Waihi District lligli School Corn* mitteo lmvo allowed tho officers tho uso in the evenings of the school for holding instruction classes in theoretical military tactics,

The North Canterbury Hospital Bonrd has ndoplod plans, by on 6 of tho members, for wooden " shelters" lor consuiuplives to 1)3 used in" camps" at Bottle Lata. Each shelter is 10ft by Bft, with wooden wallsßft high, and rubboroid roof, tho front opon, and tho whole shnltar placed on skids, Tho amateur architect says the shelters will havoainplo ventilation which would seem to go without saying, if tho front is opon, A dining'-room for each caujp-(a camp for each sex is proposed)—will bo similarly construct* ed, but larger, 30ft by 16ft, The Board has accopted the plans but Ims to put thorn asido, having no monoy to spond upon such erections,

Mr. F, R. Marriott jeweller, Main, street, intimates to Hie public of Waihi, that in addition to carrying a lanjo stock of jewellery of the most approved quality and latest designs, ho has imported a largo assortment, spocially selected, of spectacles, folder frames, and louses by the Dost makers. In conncclion with these ho statos that ho has secured tho 'atost approved test caso for ascertaining detects of the eyesight. Mr. Marriott also intimates that no charge will bo liiado for testing the eyesight, and glaspcs will bo supplied at tho lowest possiblo figure, Anyono suffering from defective sight will find it an advantage to call upon Mr Marriott, who is making a specialty o f this department of his bujincss.

Tho Journal of tho Department of Labour for August, reports as follows regarding the labour market in Auckland : Building trades: Very quiet; tradesmen not fully employed, but improvement is expected with spring sonson. Tho engineering trades aro much tho same as last month, The boot trade is quiet; all hands not in full employment, Tho clothing trade is very busy, and requiring more hands. Retail trado (general) is stoady, Saddlory is qniot; workers in somo instances not in full employment, Coacbbuilding is steady and prospects good, owing to electric tram car building, The supply of unskilled labour is in excess of demand, Thoso applying arc mostly now arrivals, and men leaving country work-gum digging llaxmilling° otc. —owing to the weather, During tho month 81 persons, having 88 dependents, wero forwarded to work,

A letter publishod in tho Manchester "_Dospatcli "gives nn appalling- description of tho stato of St. Louis since tho opening of tho Exhibition, Li| (o th o World's Fair at Chiongo, it has attracted all tho cleverest and most unscrupulous American " crooks" of both sexes. Tho newspapers are full every day of stories of visitors who disappear unaccountably, and of others who have had unploasant experiences, flioro uvo splendidly organised bunds of robbora and murdoroiH who employ tho usual devices to get the pleasure seeking stranger into their nets, and the man who escapes from thoir clutches with his life may bear tho loss of his money with equanmity. It is uselesH of course to expect the American police to trouble themselves about such trifles, A shrug of tliosliotildws is thoir only responso to a complaint. Again, tho charges at the hotels aro ruinously high, The buildings theiui'olvcs are flinisily constructor boxes, with rooms that roHcmblo lockers. The meals provide] aro wretchedly poor. The waitcia serve in thoir shirt-sleeves, smoking and chewing and spitting nil the while over the heads of tho dinero, though with such wondcil'ul accuracy that accidents foldom occur, The correspondent uddH that tho only safe way for a stranger to see tho town is to join tho Salvation Army, and accompany them iu their peregrinations,

The ways of tho Bigiiaturo-hnntors for petitions aro not always characterised by ovcr-scrupulousueaa. The Goro Standard rccoul an instanco where a canvasser (or signatures to a politton against tho formation of a now county ia representing that tho document ho presents is in favour of tho proposal, ami by this moans is securing a numbor o( signatures that otherwise would not bo obtainod,

A snowballing performance in Dan* novirko resulted in a quarrel during which a pane of glass was brokon. Tho out como ol tho affair was that a young man named Jas, Robeislon was brought bofovo tho Court- Uo was sentenced to 14 days' hard labour for using bad language, and was fined JOs or 14 days' imprisonment for damaging 'ho window, tho amount of tho damage, ss, also to be paid, Thrco mombers of tho Honso of Roproscntnlivcß spent their Sunday night m a round of the Chinese quarters of Wellington, with a view of getting first hand information for tho forthcoming debate on the Gaming md Lotteries Act Amendment Bill, They wore accompanied by a sergeant of pohco and a Chinese missionary, They saw something of tho insido of Chinese life, but tho modesty of the Celestials, as well as the European patrons of the fantan and pak ah pu establishments, naturally prevented thorn irom seeing much of tho gamble,

Judging by tho skcichos forwarded to Homo illustrated papers by their special en'tespondoats, the troops engaged in tho Thibetan campaign hud anything but a delightful holiday. For instance, in reconnoitring the Karo Pass, some 49 miles from Gyangtso, on Ibo road to Lhassa, a party of Sikh Mounted Infantry, had a narrow escape from a Thibetan 'pooby trap, This consisted of a mass of carefully balanced rocks and stones placed on tho heights above tho puss, which wore released and shot down tho hillside when our men were passing bolow, Fortunately no one was hurt,

Included i<i tha amusing incidents attendant on the quako at Giaborna was that of a gentlonian who was cnjoyiiif; it shavo in a Napior Imirdressor's shop. The pictures ami the furnishings began to move, ahd tho patient called the attention of his harbor to tho fact, Shortly after-: wards everything was moving, and the harbor waited to lionrnj more. He loft the face of his customer liberally lathered with soap, Tho force of tho shook shaL tcred souio shaving utensils on to tho gentleman's lap and he, 100, thought it was time to go. His appearance on the Btrcot mantled in tho towel of tho harbor was one of the earthquake's most humorous oll'ects.