News in Brief.

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IV, Issue 1105, 28 September 1904, Page 1

News in Brief.

A drunk, who wng arrested nl Woodville, was tiod into his trap and driven to tho lock-up.

A meeting of tho Waihi Suburbs Crickot Club will bo hold at the Central Hotel ou Friday evening next. Tho Austral Guads Bund gavo thoic final recital hero last night, and left this morning at 8 o'clock,

To-night in tho Academy of Musio tbo Waihi Workors' Co-oporativo Society hold their second annual social.

Tho proceeds of tho four recitals given by the Austral Guards Band horo amounted to rather over £BO.

A mooting of tho Federal Bind Bazaar Committeo will bo hold in tho Music Hall at 7.30 to-morrow evening.

An interesting and enjoyable dance, tendered by Mrs H. E, Meyor (o tho mombers of tho Waihi Fro Brigade was hold in tho Waihi Hall last mght, A foaturo of tho .{few Plymouth. Exhibition in December will bo a great ofiopping competition of oighl events, for which £6O is being given in prizo money. In a year and a-halt no fowor than 90 children left a Hawiso's Hay school owibg to the migration of their parents. A similar minibor cniuo to tho sohool.

A. co-respondent of a Southern paper wants to know whother, in the ovont of " no-liconse, no-liquor" becoming law, car-pcntoi-s will bo allowed to uso spirit levels.

A. petition to tho ilouso of )Represonta" lives, praying that a referendum bo taken on tho question loaaohold yorsus freehold tenure, is being circulated and signed in Mastorton,

An enterprising Australian, attracted no doubt by tlio stuoko trouble agitation, has arrived in Wellington with au automatic coal stoker and smoko consumer which lie has patontod.

The collections at tho hospital ground yesterday afternoon during tho Austral Guards' Baud recital amounted to £9 Bs, This, with tho Government subsidy will augment tho funds of the institution by over MO,

Tho oxecutivo ot the Mow Plymouth Industrial Exhibition, which is to opon on December 2G, has mado arrangements with the building contractors to eroct (and afterwards remove) buildings containing 40,000 ft of spaco. l'horo is ovory pros* pect that tho spaco will all bo taken ap, "The play's the thing" is a quotation that does not always fit tho experience of llnso who speculate in thoatrical niunagomont, as was shown in the'Melbouruo Insolvency Court, the otlior day, a dentist ad< mining having lost £2OOO in seven wooks as tho result of n theatrical venture.

General Stocssol, tho commanderjof tho Russian garrison at Port Arthnr, is a Swiss, His father is still living at Wulfmgon, in tho canton of Zurich. Gcuoral titoessel ontcred tho Russian army 1-1 yoars ago, and beenmo a naturalised subject of tho Czar, His promotiou has boon vory rapid,