News in Brief

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume V, Issue 1238, 31 January 1905, Page 1

News in Brief

The Waihi Company use about tons of explosives and burn about tons of oandles per month. A special meeting of the Borough Council will be held this evening in connection with the weekly half-boliday. New Zealand poultry sold in the West of England last month were greatly ad* mired, and brought from 3s to 3s 4d each. [ A subscription of £l5O has been received from Mr Andrew Carnegie for the new organ for Trinity Weßleyan Church, Wellington. " Morals," says a writer in the Morning Post, " are very largely a matter of diet. If you underfeed you beget crime—if yon Dverfeed you beget vice." i The New Zealand Times (Wellington) has authority..for the declaration that the Government will ask Parliament next session to spend £500,000. on roads in country districts. Dr Claridge had a narrow escape from a bad fall the other day. He was riding along an embankment, and getting too near to the edge of it the ground gave way, the result being that (both home and rider were precipitated on to the road Beneath. i A letter received in Christohurch last week from a banking authority in London places the value of the orders received in Yorkshire for woollen goods for Japan at £1,500,000, and ° states that crossbreds' values are likely to be maintained as long as the war lasts. " Dingy these buildings are," His Excellency declared referring to the Auckland Technical School. " tumbledown gloomy, and hopelessly cramped. This* pre-historic edifice is utterly unworthy of a prosperous and progressive centre containing something like 70,000 inhabitants. The following notice appears on the sign board of a dairyman, not 100 miles fiom ; Hawera:—" Genuine new milk, cream, and new-laid eggs supplied daily, all from our own cows." Beminds one of the dairyman whose signboard bore the legend:—."Families supplied;" .but that legend was changed after a wag stepped. . into the dairy one day. and gravely ordered a " boy and girl,"