News in Brief.

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IV, Issue 1121, 17 October 1904, Page 1

News in Brief.

Murmur won the Cauliield Cup. St. Joseph's Church Bamr opens on Wednesday evening, St, John's Mies' Guild sooial in Academy o! Music on 28th inst, Tug-of-war contest at bazaar abandoned. Pulling the lazy stick substituted! There will be & mock padiament at Y.M.I.C. on Wednesday night. The selections given ,by the Federal Band in Main'street on Saturday night were greatly appreciated. Tbo iVaihi school in to have an assistant appointed at the end of the year in lieu of two pupil teaohcrs. ' It is announcod in a Japanese paper that pictorial post cards are to be issued there as souvenirs of tho war. The New South Wales Eifle Association meeting commenced on Saturday. Tho entries total 613, a dscreaso as compared with last ye.tr. colony to have amateurs administering tho law."—Mr Taylor on the honorary magistracy. The Canadian Parliament has appro• printed £'6oo to tho Salvation Army to ■ aid that body in carrying on its work among prisoners. Two hundred and forty Indian oimols have been bought by thn Transvaal Government at a cost of f4O oach for transport work in the colony, Mr Madden has opened at the Town Hall, Melbourne, an excellent exhibition of purely Australian manufacturers' products. Ho and Mr Bent advooated home industry. A clause has been inserted in the Mining Bill authorising the issne of prospering warrants giving tbo holder the right to prospect for any specified mineral, Among the latest fads of the American "summer girla" are sun-burned initials on their arms. Initials are cut from black court plaster and affixed to the arm, Tho sun will do the rost, leaving tho letters in pink and white on the sunburned skiti, The turbine steamer Loongana is to leave Melbourne for on her trial trip on October 11th, Thereafter alio will make three trios per week, and will, it is expected, run from wharf to wharf in 15 hours, Her berthing accommodation for the oponing trip ij being rapidly taken up.