News in Brief.

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IV, Issue 1076, 25 August 1904, Page 1

News in Brief.

Tho population of Now bouth Wales is now 1,445,728, Tho Frioudly Societies' Ball in tho Academy of Music to-morrow night. Mr S, Adams, draper, intimates that his sale will continuo for a fow days longer, It is alleged that applications of tho X-rays will removo marks left on tho skia by small pox. A now -Russian cruiser is to be built by public subscription. It will be named the Admiral Rlakaroff. It is roported from different parts of Hawko's Bay that travellers in search of work aro numorous, Colonel Owon, commandant of tho military school of instruction of Now Zealand, arrived in Waihi last night. A correspondent of the Lyttelton Tinini statoa that a numbor of horses in tha A. .>• burton district are suffering from iulluonza, Tho Tempornnco Party did woll in the New South Wales elections. Out of 90 candidates elected, 50 were supported by thoin. being mado" for King tempered steel, and is fashioned on traditional lines. Bottles aro now made of papor pulp in America, They aro impregnated in a waterproof substhnce, and will stand a heavy pressure. Twenty-ono nationalities ilguroiutho consus returns from Hongkong, Tho, total population is 220,000, of whom only 8000 are white. There aro over 15.0C0 people in London alono who mako a living by writing books and contributing articles to magazines and papers, Mr, W. Cunningham, who is included fin tho Auckland football team to play Taranaki in Saturday, left by ooach this morning for Auckland, A wild looking wan, in tattoi'e and rags, has recently been seen moro than once in tho Martinborough district.' Somo people think it is Ellis, who is wantod for murdor. A private letter receivod .'in lnvercar! gill by a friend of Sandow, the Strong Man, states that he is suffering from muscular rheumatism, and that ho fears he will be unable to give further displays. Chinese girls are to be employed in San Pradcisco as telephone operators, There aro so many Chinese inhabitants using tho telophone that operators who speak I the languago arc in daumnd. A correspondent of a Christchurch contemporary, writing from Durban recently, says:—"Somo people talked three or font months ago of the approaching boom, but tho boom has turnod out a dismal failure, and things aro going from bad to worse all over South Africa, Recontly, at Cambridgo, Mr. H, W. Northorolt, S.M., was presented with a pair of gloves by Constablo MoNamara, there having been a clean sheot on the ■ provioue court day. They were not white kid, but sensible brown ones, lined with wool. A member of a travelling oompany who were stranded in tho back blocks of New South Wales hit upon a novel way of ' getting back to Sydney. Ho sent a letter to his wife, and shortly aftor was arrested for wifo desertion, and forwarded to Sydney. Imio there tho wife rofusedto appear agai; bin. With regr.i;o tho ingenuous addition made by tho London Times to the daily "hatches, matches, and despatches" list, wo aro glad (says the Globe) to seo that the new " botrothal" sootion haß already boon taken to its bosom by the fond public. Poople now telk of" Hatches, catohos, matches, and despatohos,"