News in Brief

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IV, Issue 1156, 28 November 1904, Page 1

News in Brief

The Wuibi Hack Racing Club's Bpring meeting on Saturday was an unqualified success, lhe opening chapter of |a now serial stoty entitled," A Woman's Soul," appears, in to-day's issue. Tho Tauranga Agricultural and Pas* toral Association hold their tenth annual )how on Thursday, Bth December, Tho Waihi Grand Junction Gold Com* pany invite tenders for the supply of 1000' feot of split puriri or totara. Dr Valentine states there are 100 eases of consumption in Wellington, and no less than 30 of them are indigent poor who have no proper place of abode, One Japanese newspaper has got the length of publishing the programme of the fireworks which will be set off at T6kio when Port Arthur falls, On the return of the Rev. Earee.to Mastorton from a visit to Eng* land, a reception was got up in his honour, and a oheque for £l7O placed in bis hands. Westralia's population continues to incense stoalily amounting to 241,637, exclusivo of aboriginals. The inoreaso for September was 1323, and the increase for the twelve months 16,084, A settlor in tho Exetahuna district has discovered that the oil of the burr (known as "biddi-bid") is a splendid thing upon which to rear calves, He intends sub. mitting a sample of tho oil to the Agricultural Department for analysis,

The South African troopors' memorial to be orectoi at Wanganui is to cost £3OO, towards which ifilos has still to be raißed, It will consist of an obelisk of ted granite standing on a solid foundation, and rising to a tctal height of 29ft Bin. A machine for which farmers are understood to have been looking for years past, a wild oats separator, was oxhibited at the Christchnrch Show. It is claimed for the machine, which has been patented by an Oamaru man, that it successfully separates wild oats and rough seed from good oats or other grain.

Tho Federal Parlinmont spends £137,546 a year in running itself, There aie five other Australian Parliaments which ran the country for that much less before the federal business started. What they lose in cash thoy gain in dignity, or something.

One thing that struok me, writes a correspondent who recently paid a visit to tho "other side," all eyes are eagerly turned to New Zealand, " Ah," thoy say, " New Zeland's the place-bettor wages, no droughts, hotter laws and better people, no poverty like we know it, and no initnotality, and good land to go on. What more can a man want?"