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Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume V, Issue 1227, 19 January 1905, Page 2

Early on Tuesday morning a buggy house and oat-buildings in Bridge-street, Te Aroba, the property of T. Stanly, buicber, were destroyed by firp.

The secretary of the Hospital acknowledges a donation of £2 from the borough employees' annual social fund, per Mr. J. Lang.

The members of the No. 3 Ohinemur 1 Rifles will fire the ?econd round for R. E* Williams' shield on Saturday afternoon at the local range. The ranges are 500 and 700 yards. We are pleased to l6arn that the lad Roycrofr, who was shot in the abdomen with a pea rifle, and who is being treated in the 'hospital, is making some progress towards recovery.

In another column Messrs G. and C, Dunstan and H. Manning request all per sons having cattle or horses running on land occupied by them to remove them or arrange for grazing

Tenders are invited for the lease of the Hotel as from 13th of March next. Particulars in connection therewith are notified in our advertising columns, The shareholders of the Waihi South Gold Mining Company are notified by anadvertiseinent appearing elsewhere that a call of t.vopence per share on the issued capital of the company has been made. At, the close of the. commission of inquiry yesterday Mr. Short, commissioner, accompanied by the Mayor and Town Clerk, was taken lor a drive round the town and suburbs.

During a fire in New York, in which twelve persons were killed and more than fifty injured, a baby boy was born in the tenement. The mother and the new-born child wKre rescued in the very nick of time, before the flames reached the room in which they were lying.

Mr. Wm. Hume, general produce deale r » intimates to thepnblic of Waihi that huv' ing sub-let his former business premises in Main-street, known as the City Market, he has removed into premises in Rose* mont Road, next to the Post Office. A kindergarten school in connection with Miss Walker's private school will be commenced at there-opening of the classes at the end of this month. A teacher has fceen specially engaged for the work. Particulars will be given in a future issue.

Our Karangahake correspondent writes that s man named Gosper met with a painful accident yssterday. He was engaged in loading logs on to a dray, and accidentally got the second finger of his right hand jammed between a stone and one of the logs. The end of the finger was split and badly crushed, completely destroying the nail. His injury was attended to by Mr H, E. Crease, the local chemist*

The senior representative cricket match, Waihi v. Thames, has been postponed on account of the inability of at least three parts of the team to get away. The junior fixture will, however, be played, the coach leaying Waihi at 4.30 a.m. on Saturday forPaeroa. Emergencies are not fled that two of tbe picked players cannot get away.

Lady Ranfurly has been most unfortunate; on the score of health since her return%"to the Mother Country (writes a London correspondent). Ever since her arrival she teems never to have been really well. Her many friends in New Zealand will regret to hear that she is once more prostrate with influenza, which keeps her a close prisoner within her London residence.

This is how the Traey City (Tenn) Times reports a wedding:—"Lewis Rollings and Miss Pearl Cox, after several months of heart to heart conversation on the perfumed avenue of love, passed under the roseate archway of Hymen, where soul meets soul on waves of ecstatic feel* ings." At the Primitive Methodist Conference on Tuesday the report of the contingent fund was received, showing an income ot £lB 19s 6d, and a balance in hand of £2 16* lOd, The balance-sheet of the home mission fund showed an income for the year ot £563 ss. Tbe report of membership showed the number of members to be 2536, an incrence of 87 for the year Mr. M. Lak9, of Wellington, was appointed delegate to the English conference, and Mr. J. W. Roberts viee-«delegate.

"My wife 13 an uneducated woman " explained a man, at the Chris-church Court, who was charge 3 with having assaulted his wife. "She doesn't kjow what the meaning of ber action at Court i«." The woman satisfied the Bench thashe vaj educated enough to know that her husband had beaten her with a poker, bruising her face and bodv. The man was sentenced to 14 days' imprisonment.

A remarkable case is occupying the attention of the United States Courts. Miss Ellen Humphries, after some correspondence, catne all the way from Nebraska to New Jersey to marry a man. George W. Ho'igltn-1, who was a grey-headed man of 70 years, instead of the young man represented by a photograph sent to her. She declared she bad been deceived, and refused to marry Mr Hoagland, Miss Humphries is suing for 5000dul.

The Waihi Federal Band will give one of their popular recitals on Sunday noon next in Hollis' paddock, when a collection will be made in aid of the contest fund. As it is the desire that our band should attend these contests, and thus gain more experience and musical knowledge, it is requested that all who patronise the recital will contribute, and thus help the band iti their good work. The public are requested not to pick tbp florrs or damage the shrubs, as it is ody on these conditions that Mr. Hollis lets thn band have the use of his grounds. At the conclusion yesterday afternoon of the commission of inquiry in connection with the claim of the Tauranga County Council iiqainst the Waihi Borough Council for £SOO towards the maintenance of the Waih' Kutikati main road, from a point commencing at the Ohiqeruuri County bounday on to Bowentown, Mr. Short, the presiding Commissioner, intimated that he would visit and inspect the roa.i in question to day In accordance with his decision- a party, copsisiing of Irimself, fclfe Mayor (Mr*,T. Gilmour) Mr Morpeth (Town Clerk), Mr. McArtHnjfs (Enginser), Mr. Thomas Boyd injg the Tauranga County Council) ar.d Cr* Donaldson, lift in a buggy afc 9 o'clock, this morning#or the Bowerftowa crossing for the purpoi* of ejuaxuning en "* -it * = ' {■ '

Two cßses of,;choice fruit have been received at the Hospital, tha donor being a visitor froru Tauranga.

Yesterday, a man named Hunt, employed an Mr Rovcroft's timber contract in Walms!ey's bush, met with a painful accident. He and his mate were cross-cut-ting a log, and while clearing away the debris under the log the teeth of the saw caught his hand, inflicting six separate cuts, commencing at the wrist and terminating at the knuckles of his band. One of the cuts severed the main artery at the back of the haDd, from which the blood streamed in great quantities. His mate accompanied him into town to Dr Slater's, a distance of two or three miles, the doctor secured and tied the artery. The man was faint and weak from the loss of blood, and would have bled to death but for the intervention of the doctor.