News in Brief

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IV, Issue 1160, 2 December 1904, Page 1

News in Brief

♦ On December 15th the Paoro3 school children arc to bo taken for a trip to Eotorua. Tea is very cheap in China; in ono provinco of tho empiro the boat can be obtained at l;|d per pound,' insido a l,u-go eel which was captured at Maslorton a low days ago was found a wbolo trout about Ift in longlh, A warrant, like a judgment, nover dies, A man has just been arrested onasix-yoar-old warrant for deserting his wife and cbildron ac Tirao.ru. Mixture of text by a bashful curate on occasion of his first sermon:—"And im•nodiatolythe cock wopt, and Peter went out and crow bitterly." Tho opening chapter of a new serial story ontitlcd " A Wasted Love," from the pen of tho popular fiction writer, Charles Garvico, appoars in to-day's issue. On the last voyage of tho Mokoia from Auckland to Sydney two women without Ijckets were discovered on board, They woro allowed to go ashoro on arrival at Sydney, Tho Novi Krai, a Port Arthur newspaper, has made the following announcement:— "Wo shall now only appear at irregular intervals, as our pressmen bolt whenevor there is a bombardment, "Tho flagstaff on tho tower of the Wellington Town Hall is a stick of Oregon pine 50 fcot in lwigth, It rises 28 foet above tho tower, lo that 22 foot of it are embedded in masonry, Tho members of St, Joseph's branch of tho Hibernian Society entertain tho parishioners of St, Joseph' 3 Church at a social ovening in tho school-room to-night, They promiso a good musical programme^ A prosperous Paris burglar, who broke* into a lady's houso and stolo her imitation diamonds, which woro worth about £lO, dropped from his pocket a purse containj £uo. TII3 lady is quito satisfied with tho exchange " I wish to say now in regard to this Court that I imi goiag to mnko it more than over a Court of equity, If I have got discretion I am going to use it."—Dr. McArthur during tho hearing of a civil casoin the Magistrate's Court at Welling* ton. In tho Supremo Court, Brisbane, Al 1 Sizes, an hoielkoopor, was charged with mixing nicotine with liquor and also with having tho adulleratod liquor for sale. He was found guilty on tho lattor count. Tho Chiof -Justice said, taking into consideration the prisoner's advanced age, he would not send him to goal, but would fine him 1200,