News in Brief

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IV, Issue 1140, 8 November 1904, Page 1

News in Brief

To-morrow (King's Birthday)'sporti will be held here by the Waihi'Federal^Barid.' The Catholic social takes plaoe in the Academy of ilusio on Friday evening' next, ' : /,/;;;,•■ The Solvation Army's Biorama 06m* pany's entertainment in (he Academy of Music to-morrow night. Municipal hoooars l do not seem to be particularly sought after iu New Plymouth, for the Town Clerk has received no nominations for a vacancy on the Council. A teaoher was one day trying to impress upon her class that people should not do anything in seoret that they would be ashamed to do in public, whon a Utile boy ejaculated'" How about having 1 a batol". In the Whangaroi Court, while a member of tho local bar was plying a native witness with questions as to his property, the magistrate raised a laugh by remarking thai the witnoss was going through a good training for him to be an old ace pensioner. "' According to the reports reoelred in Sydney by the French steamer Paoifique a huge shark, mo,isuring 12ft in length, wbb recently oaught in Noumea harbour, and upon being opened was found; to contain a portion of the head of a European woman. 1 Pdople get-up some strange challenges bore and there, In the Levin paper one P. WaldroD challenges one Thos. Burnie to pull him with a Btiok for £lO or any part thereof, providing tin feet are placed in blocks and one man to be pulled clean , off the floor.