News in Brief.

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IV, Issue 1073, 22 August 1904, Page 1

News in Brief.

The total population of the colony on Juno 30 was estimated at 897,657. Tho British toam left by special train for Rotorua at oight o'clock on Saturday night. The Friendly Societies' Ball will bo held in the Academy of Musio on Friday, 26th inst. It was estimated that over 22,000 people wero present at the British-Auckland football match on Saturday. _ The Rev. (J. M. jßuarangi, 'Maori mission priest, will address a public mooting at 7.80 this eyening, On Wednesday evening the cantata "Esther," will be given by tho Weßleyan choir in tho Aoadomy of Musio. Tenders are invited by tho Tamaki Saw! mill Company for laying and packing about 120 chains of bush tramway. Evory man, woman and chulin ! v,v Zealand sen 3s 70 letters a year. This is a.world's record, and a triumph for penny postage, A goneral mooting of the Waihi Horti" cultural Sooioty will bo held in tho room at tho back of Meyer's Hall to-morrow night at 7.30. t'omo of the Waihi visitors to Auokland returned yesterday morning, and others early this morning. Tho latter camo by boat last night, There are no fewer than four old ago pensioners over 100 years of age in the colony-one at Havolock, ono at Ash» burton, ono at Masterton, and ono at Inyorcargill. Judge Dcnniston has decided on appeal that a brower who manufactures in a pro hibition district cannot supply beer in that district, although ho talios tho order in an oflico outside tho bounds. There is in Southland a champion firei wood chopper with an extensive backing, eager for a trial. He will undortake in eight hours to fell his own trees, and cut oight cords of firewood into 6ft lengths, 'also to stack it. The Waihi footballers who witnossod tho British-Auckland match on Saturday apeak in great praiie of tho play of Seeling, Nicholson and Cunningham, and thoir admiration for Bush, the British back, is unbounded, A Kansas paper has mado a calculation as to the income of Mr J, D. Rockfollor, the Standard oil king. It works out as follows:—Annual income, 19,600,000; monthly income, £800,000; daily income, £82,876; hourly income, £1860; inoome every minute, 120 16s; incomo evory second, Bs. Thus a contemporary;-Get back to nature, and take a short cut, It is found that a euro for appendicitis is to wa'k oa all fours for 20 minutes four times a day, II is olaimed that certain muscles around the vermiform appendix are brought into play and strengtlianed by this attitude. This is also a new euro for dyspepsia. It has also beon found that going naked in all sorts of climates is good for lung trouble. It seems to bo only a question of timo when we will abandon houses and clothes, and bark good morning to oaob other from holes in the ground,