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Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume V, Issue 1217, 7 January 1905, Page 2

The hall yearly mooting of St. Josephs branch of the H.A.0.8.5. will be held on Tuesday evening next at 8 o'olook. The business will be tbo election and installation of officers. During tho past three weeks the gold returns from tho Auckland distriot mines reached a total of £11,046 10s 9d, the comparative smallness of the output being duo to several returns (including that of the Waihi Company) not having come to hand yet, Tho figures for the three weeks are as follows :-Ohinemnri, £2800; Thames, £4976 Is 31; Coroinandel, £3270 9s 6d; total, £11,046 10a 9d. Mr W. Shirt, chief clerk.of tho Department of Roads, Wellington, has boon appointed arbitrator by tho Government, to settlo tbo claims made by the Tauranga County Council against the Waihi Borough Council, Tuesday, tho 17th inst, has been fixed as tho day for holding the inquiry at Wftihi, to decido tho question as to what proportion, if any, tho Waihi Borough should contribute towards the maintenance of the Bowontown-Katikati-Waihi main roads. A well-known identity of a oertain town in the Ohinemuri County, who gets hiß living by doing odd jobs, was presented by an employer with a ll hard-hitter" as a Christmas-box, A few days afterwards the hat was caught by a gust of wind and disappeared from the owner's bead into tho back yard of a dealer. The following

,0 back yard of n dealer. .jo following nay the hat was to bo scon in ft window of the dealer, adorned with a ticket upon which wbb marked in plain ligurea 6/6 i

At a speoinj meeting of the Bay of Plont;' Licensing Bench, Colonel Robortj, S.M,, ohairm/in, presiding, to ileal with an application by tho owners of the Grand Hotel to have tho lioonse transferred from a six-rootncd house to ono of thirty-two rooms, plans of the new hotel, bo erected forthwith, were laid bofore the mooting and approvod of. This was tho only business done at the mooting. Tho pltiiiß Rub|»iltod were quite in order and met with tho entire approval of the Bench, with tho oxcoption of ono room, which was pointed out by Mr J. A. Brown. The room was bo situated that no provision (or a liro cscapo eonld bo offootivoly made.

To-morrow's local church lerviccs a r e advurlised as follows;-Tho liov, J Hmiihorn will ollicinto at tho Primitive Mmlmiliiit (Jhnrcli ut 11am ami 7 pm. Ills siilijort in Iho ovcning will bo "Tho Mmi Hint (iod Noods," Morning and "LNinini; imrvicoii nt tho Presbyterian Church will bo conducted by tho Rev. J. I'fitliilk Tho Ilev. Edwin Cox will con ilnot lio'h juorriiiiß findevoning sorvicoß at tho Wmiliiy Ohiiroh. At tho Church of filirlotMri'oHlor'nsubjcohvill bo "Things thai will endure," Pastor Perry will preach at tho Baptist Church at 11 a.m and 7 p.m. The subject at the morninq mooting of tho Y M.1.0. will be" Mo Root Downward and Bur Fruit Upward/'

Tho Waihi branch ot the New Zealand Clothing Factory is closed to-day owing to the death yesterday.of one ofthoprincipiila of the firm, Mr Bendix Hallonstein.

We have received tho follnwinn from tho librarian of the Wellington Public Library: —" I am instructed by tho Library Committee io convoy to yon tho thanks of the Wellington City Council for your kindness in supplying a oopy of your paper during the past year." Ono of !ho incidents of tho visit if the Porluguoto Sovereigns to King Edward and Queen Alexandra at Windsor, which impressed everyone even more than the Inl'! of the great stnlo banquets, with ifli'ir display o( fiibuously vuluublo gold plate, was (says the Daily Mail) that nf Queen Alexandru itnil Queen Amelia walking from tho oasilc, attended by a single squiro, and passing up and down the main wrei'tof the royal borough, intent on doing a little shopping liko ordinary folk. Needless to say, thoir desiro i'or quietnoss was scrupuonsly respected, and there was no doinom stration.

Mr. H. D, Morpeth, Town Clerk of Waihi, received seasonable greetings from the Town Clerk and office staff of the Borough of Greyinouth in the form of a very artistic card, The following appears in the toxt of the souvoiiir:—' 11 Wo take advantage of Iho occasion to express a hopo that during the coming year a' Municipal and County Service Institute' will be formed in New Zealand, with ihe ob» jeet of improving tho status of Municipal and County officers by advocating security of tenure of ollice, establishing a superannuation and guarantee fund, and organizing a genernl intoreliango of thought in the matter of municipal and ooimty lifo and progress in this colony," Writing to hi3friends in London, an employee of the Van Ityn Gold Mining Company in South Africa gives a striking picture of tho lifo of tho Chinese coolies, whom he describes as " not altogether a success, The following are extracts from the letter: -At' - tithes they (the coolios) refuse to go down a shaft till they are horsewhipped Only a fortnight ago I thought that thoro would be at least two hundred 'chows' killed, as they had a fight between thomselves, About halfpast ten p.m. the mmo-hootots wont, and we wore all called out to separato tbem, which was a hard task, so we got the assistance of tho Kaffirs, and at last we succeeded in quieting them. Bui the 1 chows' aro not altogether finished wilh the niggers, and I expect that thoro will always be troublo. So that shows you what class of men they are," / Tho _ reports from Port Arthur show that this was ono of tho most business-liko bombardments in military history. Tho, 193,722 sholle that were sent liko a hur* ricano into Strassburg in 1870 pounded a third of till city into heaps of rubbish, but did, by comparison, ridiculously little damage to lifo and limb, Bolfort had a similar tale. Dr. .Russell, describing one of the three bombardments oi Vardun, declared that tho investing forco 'might just as well have bombarded it with cherrystones, D-iriug the siege of Paris 25,000 projectilos wore fired into Forts Noisy, Rosny, and Nogeut in tho four days preceding Now Year's Day, 1871. Tho total result was a vast dual of noise, thirty deaths, and a hundred non-fatal injuries. Only four persons wero killed and ton wounded by the 16,000 to 18000 shells that fell in and about Fort Vanres, and tho 10,000 projectiles that wero dropped into Paris during a sieg/i of 23 days only accounted for a total casualty list of 107 killed and wounded. Thoro ■ wa< a tremendous din and uproar when | the American tleot bombarded Matanzas I (Cuba). Toub of ammunition and tons of ( thousand of dollars wero expended in the noisy display; and the net result was—the docking of tho tail of ono Spanish maymule 1 Twelve thousand shells wero thrown into Ladysmith during tho Anglo-Boer war, Thoy did little damngo to the pUce, and i killed only Sfi porsons and wounded 188. . In a siego, hunger and disease arc worso enemies than hurtling shells. It is, perhaps, tho compirativo bloodlessness of bombaidmentsttp to tho present war which has giyen rise to the legend that it takes a ton of metal to kill a man.