News in Brief

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume V, Issue 1250, 14 February 1905, Page 1

News in Brief

_—<, — Tlio number of books hi tlio possession of our public library is 1241. ' , The Waihi Jookoy Club's privileges will be sold by auction on Saturday next, at 2 p.m.

To-day is St. Valentine's Day. The custom of sending valentines on this day appears to bo almost obsolete, The first annual show of the Waihi Horticultural and Industrial Society will be held in the Academy oi Music on Saturday next.

A mcelinn of the Waibi chartered branoh of tho Liberal and Labour Federation of New Zealand will bo held in the new Miners' Hall on Friday evening next, at 8 o'clock

The by-election for Boas (N.8.W.) re* suited in the. return of Mr Hindmarsb, Ministerialist, who defeated Mr M-u ■ rr, Independent, by 121 votes. While some boys were playing in an empty house at Carlton (Melbourne) they oamo aoross a complete coiners's plant in tho basement. The police are watohing another house in the looality, The Thames Drainage Board has de« cidod not to entertain the appeals of certain companies against the assessments! and consequently the Warden will now be appealed to for a decision as to the fair., noss and equity of the levies,

Tho subscriptions collected in Nelson towards the building of a hospital for oonsnmptivea havo amounted to £550. The Hospital Board has resolved to push on the work ns soon as it knows whatamount will be available to complete the building,

Awi nesa in Mr Justice Kidley's court at London was unable to answer a question because, ho said,«l have not the memory of an angel." Mr Justice Bidley: "I do not know that an angel has a good memory." Counsel;: " The reoording angel

The American Steel Trust pay Mr A; G. Day, a labourer, £4200 a year for his work as a "roller." This salary may seem ridiculaus to pay a labourer, but as this gentleman is the best steol rail roller in America he ia in a position to demand and obtain his own prioe,

Mr Ell, M.H.R,., gave that muoh ma'liKned person, the Crown tenant, a bad character at Christohurcb recently. " The people of New Zealand," he said, "have borrowed money to buy farms for the Crown tenants, and as soon as they are in possession the tenants turn and rend the handfl that helped them, for they refuse to consent to periodical re-valuation of thpir holdings,"