News in Brief

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IV, Issue 1166, 9 December 1904, Page 1

News in Brief

I'resbyteriau "At Homo" in Foresters' Hall to-night.

Firing for Livosoy's rase bowl com. mences on tho local range to-morrow.

Tendors close on Monday for roinoval of shop mid bakehouse fioru Waitekauri to Waikiuo,

Tho proposed excursion to Rotorua for (lie Pncroa school children has been postponed until early in the New Year. A Maori boy won the writing competition held in connection with the Christmas carnival a*. Wanganui.,

Tho Mayor of Milwaukee is roported to have accepted an invitation to make the trip from that city to fit, Lou's in a sub•wine boat and return in an airship. Tho Wellington Ohambor of Comtnorao passed a resolution protesting emphati' cally against the Shops and Oflioes Act,

Cricket fixtures for to-morrow areSuburbs v. City, on tho local ground; and West soniors journey to Waikino to play tho local club there.

At Sydney, Alice Carroll, a woman dealt with nt the Central Court,' said she had not spent Christmas out of gaol for ten years.

Mrs McKinley, who is in better physical condition than for many years, habitually refers to tho assassination of her husband as "thnt dreadful deed," She seldom meets any of her friends without speaking of the Buffalo tragedy that desolated her life.

A woman died recently in England (according to St. James's Budget) alter swallowing a quite innocuous draught, but which she believed to ba prnssio aoid Her imogination killed her.

Theio is (writes a Wellington correspondent) an indication of a " slock-off" in the commercial world. Merchants say that orders are not coming in freely from their travellers, snd that promissory notes require renewal iu increased proportion, About six months ago a seal swam into Fuponga harbour, in the Nelson proyinco, and has remained there ever since, Men engaged in working at the wharf have mado a pet of the animal, and it will submitto bo strolled. Every day at high water it scrambles up on the deck of a stranded scow to sun itsolf, ■