News in Brief

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IV, Issue 1158, 30 November 1904, Page 1

News in Brief

TheOliinemuri-County Council meets to-morrow afternoon, A parado of the Wnihi Rifles is called for to-morrow at 8,30 p.m in Moyer's Hall A meeting of the Suburbs Cricket Club takes place to-night at the Central Hotel at 7 o'clock. Good grazing may bo had on the Mount Stewart, property, Katikati, on application to Mr B, Blakenoy. Mr It, Gooch advertises that ho has for sale a fruiterer and greengrocer's buiiness in-Main-streot, Tho visiting Masons from Tauranga, who attonded a second Masonio (unction j in Paovoa last night, left for Tauranga this morning. ! The cost of administering old age pensions for the colony last year was 13655 per',year. This is loss than the cost for the previous year. About 100 applications have been re J ceived for tho position of oity inspeotor in Cbristchurch. One of tho applicants is a woman, There are 247 European old age pensioners in the Thames district and 4 Maoris, They draw per annum £4276. In tho North Island tho amount is only exceedod by Auckland, Napier and' Wellington,

At the last mooting of the Ooromartdel County Council, Councillors Harrison and Homibrooko wore appointed the Council's representatives on the Thames and Coromandel United Charitable Aid Board. At tho Wanganui Police Court last week Mr fi. L. Stanford, S.M., inflicted a fino of £5 and costs on n man named Hayes for taking a "prohibited" person into a publio house and " shouting" for him. ' , In 1851, said tho Bev. Mr. Bennett, Maori missionary, speaking at Timaru, New Zealand had a population of 100,000 Maoris, with only 1000 of them heathens. Now the Native population has dwindled to 43,000, while at tho very least 8000 of them aro heathens. Dr. McArthur, Wellington S.M., on charges of attempted suicide: "I have mndo it a rule—l don't Know whether it is right or not-and that is, I do not see "how I can punish a man for an act which, had it been successful, he would not have been hero at all." The capital value of the Borough of Thames, with improvements, is £295.785; tho unimproved value of the land is £115,314; tho capital value (land and improvements) is J-274,502 and tho unimproved valuo of tho land (rateable values) £110,268,