THE Waihi Daily Telegraph. WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE WAIHI MINER SATURDAY, APRIL 15 1905

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume V, Issue 1302, 15 April 1905, Page 2

THE Waihi Daily Telegraph. WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE WAIHI MINER

SATURDAY, APRIL 15 1905

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ld One can imagine the horror of the passengers who do not read tin papors when they descend fron railway trains at refreshment station! on the Government railways to fine the bar now and forever closed.' It is no longer possible to slake one's thirst with alcoholic liquors at any 3 Government railway station in New Zealand. It is an axiom with a large portion of the travelling public in this and other lands, that the .more they travel the more they must refresh. Everyone knows the woman with a large basket of sandwiches and four children, sur- ' rounded by a sea of crumbs, who makes travelling in railway cars a 1 horrid nightmare; and one knows still better tho passenger who considers it essential when on a journey lo buy a bottle of beer wherever it is to be bought, and drink t in the carriage, offering the nearest pro hibitionist a drink after he hag finished. He is to be swept out, and if he wants to imbibe to the discomfort of fellow-passengers, the Government will not be a party to it. Thiß railway-station prohibition should hav« an excellent effect on persons whd supply the wayside sandwich and the cup of tea to the fleeting passengers, and it should make them think more kindly of those who cannot drink scalding tea nor eat steel sandwiches. It will also obviate the rash and struggle that hitherto have happened in the railway bars; and it will make the carriage atmosphere purer. It will be a boon io women passengers who do not want to be offended by the beery breath of men who are always drinking, and will make less frequent the railway revels of strenuous football players who, after wrestling with tho leather, have sometimes wrestled with several drinks. There will be fewer broken windows, and the guards will not have to be expert wrestlers, The passengers who haye on various occasions in the past thrown beer bottles out of the window, to the danger of linemen, will not have any beer bottles to throw in future. l The tendency of the change is for t sobriety, and so tho Government, in upsetting the old custom, relieves a s very great r.urnbwr of people by enr- il tailing the liberties of a few who '' p have not much control when at home } and less when abroad. There are '' evidences that tile adamantine sand. J wich, and the boiling cup of water that has turned pale thiough lookv> nig at a packet of tea, are also lo be w things of the pas', and 'bar a riew era fi: with tho banishment of jj! .he beer. . ~

The Waihi Company advertises for leaders for the excavation of 600 yards of earth at (be Waihi battery. The members of the Waihi Hookey Association hold a praotice match in Worth's paddock on Tuesday afternoon next.,

We again remind electors that the time for receiving nominations for the Mayoralty and Borough Council oloses on Wednesday next, April 19th. A call of one penny per share is adverted elsewhere as having been made upon to shareholders of the Waihi South Goldmining Comoany. The ca'l to payable on Friday, 28th April. Tho Northern Stoamship Company notify that from Wednosday, 19th, to Monday, 24th April, return tickets from Paeroa to Auckland will be issuod at 10a, available for one month,

A meeting of Mr Thomas Gilmonr's supporters in his candidature for the Mayoral election is called for Tuesday ovening next by Mr Goorge P. Martin, oonvener.

Mr. G. Smart, bairdresjer and tobiccon! st, intimates to the public of Waihi that he has commenced a business of his own in promises adjoining the City Mart, Main street, where he will bo pleased to meet old friends. .

Miss Adamson, late of Auckland, in- \ timates that she has commenced business as dressmaker in the premises lately occupied by Nurse Gilmour, Kenny-street; also that accommodation has been made for a few boarders, the latter to be attended j to by Miss Kiddie. Mr Goorge Jackson, who it will be remombered loft Waihi last August to take up a responsible position on the staff of the Nile Valley G.M. Company, Upper Egypt, has sent a collection of rocks from .the neighbourhood of his mine to tho Waihi School of Mines, The collection includes 40 or 50 samplos of dolomitio schist, slate, syenite, otc. These specimens are on view at the sohool at any time whet: the school is open, Tho installation of tho electrio light in the Waihi School of Mines was complotod a few days ago. Thero aro 31 lamps of 16 candle power eaoh, and an outside lamp of 32 candle power, which brilli'autly lights the entrance to the buildiugs, Tho current is supplied by a 3 kilowatt Brush dynamo, driven at 1600 revolutions per minute by a,3| brako hotso power oil engine,' Mr A. MoKay, F.S.S. reporting on a sample of bricks made recently at the Waihi Company's battery from tailings, the tailings being ground inoae of the new tube mills and afterwards treated by the cyanide process, states that in appearance the brick is everything that 'could bo desired. It is stated that by careful treatment cement flags can also bo made, and it appoars that there is no difficulty in the method of manufacture.

This morning Waihi had e flying yisit from Mr. W. H. Hales, EngineK-io-Ohief Of the Public Works Dbpaaiuont. The visitor arrived in Paeroi kt night, and came on to Waikino this morning by train. From this point he travelled to Waihi on the Waihi Gold Mining Company's line. He was accompanied by Mr, J,'j, Hay, engineer in charge of the Waibi-Paeroa railway works, Mr, Hales, we understand, expressed himself as well satisfied with the progress of the work of construe, ting the line. He spent only a vory short time in the town, and left again at littlo after 11 o'clock.

This morning Mr J, J3, Slevin, eecreta* of the tVaibi Minors' Union, received th t following telegram from Mr J, Msckaj execute head of tlio Labour Departmon , Wellington:—"Will you diroct men t have their names pat down wjth Borgear Sheehan, agent of this departmont, ,Vfai ; ried men, and single men aupportin parents, to bavo profr-renco of work, Quit . a number can be takeo for the Nori Island Main Trunk lailway, and also, ' low for the Waihi railway. The latter, c . course, will be for mou to whom it will b most mconveniont to leave their homei 1 Mv Ferguson, of Auckland, has been di i reoted to leave for Waihi on Wednesda j next in order to assist Sergeant Sbeebac and make full arrangements as to th 1 number of men, etc, and where to bo senl I Thi?, I presume, will bo oxactly what i , required," Mr A. W. Mann, postmaster, notifie us that Friday, April 21st (Good Friday , will be observed as a cloeo Inlidny,. Al mails usually despatched on Friday wil bo dosed the previous evoningat 8 o'eloel nnd all receiving boxes will be cleared a 7.30. A delivery of all olasses of mai matfor will be mado over the coiinte: on Thursday evening between 7 nnd 8 On Saturday, April 22, thooflico opem as usual, letter carriers making complete deliveries, in addition to which a delivery will be made over tho counter between 1 andßp.m, Monday, April 24th (Eastei Monday) offices open in all branches (oxcept Money Order and Savings Bank) from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. The morning mails will be despatched as usual, but the mails usually despatched after 10 »,m, will olose at that hour. All receiving boxes will be o'eared at 9,30 a.m, There will be no delivery by letter carriers. The telegraph office will be oponed from 7to 8 p.m. for telegrams only. The Oswald Dramatic Company, which has boon touring the colony with success, have decided to pay us a visit. Wo learn that they have been greeted with full and the verdict has been highly favourable. The date selected is Thursday, April 20th, and the piece chosen is"Theßivcr Mystery," Referring to the piece a contemporary says "The Biver Mystery "was a great sueoess, all who ' performance being of opinion that it was tho best thing yet witnessed in the town. Miss L'Estrango again bora out the fact that in this lady tho company his a star of the first magnitude; her singing of '• Tho Carnival," " Edinboro' Town," aud " love was onco a Little Boy," boing received with colat, and during the evening a special request wits made for" Comin' Thro 1 the Eye" and " Anuio Laurie," to which flho pleasingly responded, and pleaeccl tho audience so mwh that tboy even wantod them oncored. Toe whole production of the piece, under the capable stapo management of Mr J. Martin, was everything that one could look for. Mr H, E, Collins, touring manager, has arrivod in Wfiihi, and has arranged to open in the Academy of Music on Thursday.