News in Brief

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume V, Issue 1297, 10 April 1905, Page 1

News in Brief

Annual meeting of Waihi Rugby Union at Meyer's Hotel to-motrow night, Mr> W. MiCullough is mentioned ut a likely candidate .for tbe Tbamei seat at the coming elections. The annual meeting of the Suburbs Football Club takes place in the Central Hotel at 7.30 o'clock this ovening. The annual general meeting of the Waihi Club will be held'on Thursday evening next, at the Club Boom, si 7.30. _ A now conundrum from Dunedio, "Why is small change so scare? in Dunedin ?" "Because all the coppers (policemen) have been run in." It is rumoured that Mr W. H, Herries will be opposed for the Bay of Plenty teat by the Hon. James MoGowan, Minister for Mines. It is expected that a large number of candidates will, contest the twelve seats of the Auokland City Council at the municipal elections. In the shooting match on Saturday— Waihi v, Paeroa-Private J. Parslow, the veteran shot, put on a score of 98 out ot a possible 105. Owing to. tho increase of drunkenness at Timaru of late, the Stipendiary Magistrate has notified his intention to increase the fines for this offence, ■'• In tbe shooting match at the looal range on Saturday, the Paetoa Volunteer Company's team were defeated by (wo points by the No. 3 Uhinemuri Bifles, Dengue fever, whioh is raging in Brisbane, ie said by a former resident, now at Thames, to be not unlike the severe form of influenza prevalent in New Zealand. lheonly country:which does not use the red cross as the; emblem of her hospital corps is Turkey, which is allowed to use the red orescent in its place, in deterrence tA her soldiers' religious'susceptibilities, With tbo exception of a few foreign batteries, purchased on tbe recommenda* of a gmetal officer now at Salisbury (says the Army mid Navy Gatdk\ we shall si ill for Borne time, be using the guns that were condemned during the South African war. " I don't believe in independence," said Mr C. 3. Izard during the Wellington campaign. "I have no time," he continned, " for what you call an Independent Liberal, an Independent Conservative, or an independent what-vou-will. A* a very yuuLg man I thought I was independent, bat I soon afterwards found that it was impossible to be independent. Tou must. be on one side."