News in Brief.

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IV, Issue 1097, 19 September 1904, Page 1

News in Brief.

The Federal Band Bazaar opons on Thursday next. The Waihi Grand Junction invito ten'' dors for excavating a battery site. Tho Black Family of Musioians appear here on Wednesday evening next. Tlo Austral Guards' Band open for a short season in Waihi on Sunday afternoon next. Karangahake junior footballers beat the Waihi juniors at Mackaytown on Satur* day by threo points to nil. A general meeting of the Waihi Horticultural Society will be held tomorrow night at Mr Benge's residence, Tho annual meeting of tho Waih Cricket Association will be hold in Pillirig's , Hotel on Friday eyoning next at 7.30.' -k '' Veterans' Homo financial condition is said be far from satisfactory, and efforts iro to bo made to iucrcaso the revenue. Tho Waihi Australian Association football representatives woro defeated by tho Auckland representatives by 64 points t0,,. , 34 *•'■'■' • ■ ..... (*-*v v . - : .'.-. --- -*•-■•■ >■ •^^m^- ,^ i Tho fancy dress football match, whioh was to have taken place on Saturday, had to bo postponed owing to tho in* clemonoy of tho weather. A meeting in connection with the Waihi Workers' 00-operativo social and dancowill be hold in the Miners' Union Hall on Wednesday afternoon. Mr Carnegio gives a bonus of 10 per cent upon their yoarly wages to all employees upon tho Skibo estates who are total abstainers from intoxicating drink. Messrs. J. M. and J. Mowbray, the well-known stock ond eharebrokers, land and estate agents, of Auckland, have in this issue an announcement concerning their business, j Mrs Harrison Loo, tho woll-known teiuporanco advocate, has arrived in Australia from England. Sho will probably corno on to New Zealand aftor visiting the ohiof oentreß of population in Victoria, Mr Rutherford, M.H.8., remarked in the Houbo that " sheep would do more for (he colony than all the politicians who over livod in tho colony, from Stafford to Qroy, Soddon and Ward, down to 'Sydenham' Taylor," Ono of tho latest acquisitions at the St. Louis Exhibition is a vonerablo Indian tortoise, in a groovo of whose back a palm treo sprout is flourishing. Scientists aro waiting to see what will happen whon the roots begin to spread. Eulalio Eigaud, a Parisian girl ivho was jilted in April last, has attempted suicido five times since. She jumped into the Bsino, cut her throat, .threw herself beforo en electric tramcar, took poison, and turned on tho gas in her bedroom, Sho still lives, Mr McGowan says that should a mining school bo established in connection with Auckland University it will still be necessary to conlinno tho district schools, Tho Government aro prepared to consider the subsidising of schools in Otago and other parts of the colony. When tho edict wont forth in tho St Louis 'inhibition that tho F lipi'io porformors ,vcro to wear trousers, thu natives sought thoir huts in Bulky rebellion, and remained in sulky seclusion for a long time, Thoy havo bound thonißclvoß by oath not to wear tho offensive garments, Things in Tasmania aro apparently in a vory bad state at present, there being a lar&o number ol men out of work, and no prospect of any improvmeent in the near future All the young men who can do so aro making their way to Now Zoaland in tho hopo of bottering thomselves, A lady in tho North Island writing to a Goraldine friend describes tho recent earthquake thus:—We had quito a sovoro eartuquako last Tuesday, Baby quito enjoyed it; he stood on a chair and was swayed backwards and forwards, and whon it was ovor ho said' More, mummie,'