News in Brief

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IV, Issue 1146, 16 November 1904, Page 1

News in Brief

Liedertafel concert on Friday 1 evening next.

About a million messages are sen', over •He world's tolegraph lines overy twentyfour hours.

Salvation Army music'l melange tomorrow (Thuraday) night in the Academy of Music.

The Tarawera falls have already been visitod bv a number of tourists and Eoto« rtu townspeople.

Hundreds of trees were uprooted in a north-westerly gale which recently raged over the Canterbury district,

The Tainaki Sawmill Company invite tenders for hauling 500,000 feot of sawn kauri timber from tho Companys', Katikati miil to Waihi over a tramline, A relief fund started by the ActingLord Mayor of Melbourne soon after the foundering of the Huddart-Parkerstaamer Nemesis, has reached the sum of £8159,

At the Palrnerston North oourt a teacher was charged with assaulting a pupil by striking him with a strap. As the punishment was inflicted for an offence committed out of school hours the master was y fined Is and costs. / " Don't go to Rotorua to see the Maori, remarked tho Bishop of Auckland at Ohristohuroh, "Rotorua is a shame and adisgraeo to us; tho Maori there has bpen debauched and oorrapted by the paltehd."

A large area of land which was about to bo out up for settlement ia damaged by Lake Tarawera bursting its bounds, thousands of ajroes boing submerged, but it is hoped that most of the water will drain off after the first rush has subsided.

Tho population cf China has always been a subject of dispute 'among statisticians. The Chinese Government has now, however, completed a census, the returns of.whioh show that ihe Chinese Empire is peopled by 426,000,000 persons.

During October, there was noTa"?ingle occupant of tho Ashburton police cells. The witchhonse books show that this is a record for tho time the station has been open—over 80 vears.

Tho Chief Justice of Victoria, in the Divorce Court recently, recommended that husbands who deserted their wives should be locked upon an indeterminate sentence, as sonn as divorce proceedings were completed, and compelled to work for the support of their wives.

The now moderator of tho Presbyterian Assembly of Victoria, speaking about union of the Protestant Church, said beforo it could be efleoted it was absolutely necessary that people belonging to the Churches concornod should be of one soul in the matter. There wore great difficulties in the way, but thoy might be met,