News in Brief

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume V, Issue 1311, 27 April 1905, Page 1

News in Brief

The Land Commission aita in Auckland next week. \ There are 15,738 nameaon the Auckland municipal roll. '' • • - t Cricket social in the Academy of Music : to-morrow night. Increasing the old age pension allowance to 10a a week would entail a cost of £50,000. • ■ Tenders for building new iprinting office close at Haszaad ' and Haszard's Office at - noon on Saturday. The shooting season for native and im- . ported game opens on Monday next and closes on July 31st. The Free Lance hints that a lady lec» - turer has been engaged at £SOO per annum to advocate the claims of " the trade." '=;■ The tour of the British team in New South Wales resulted v in a profit to-the: New South Wales Rugby Union of/ £451 lis 6d. . 17 1 It was stated at a meeting last week that the damage done by the earthquake last year had, cost the Wellington City Council more than £I2OO. An Auckland advocate of no-lioence declared at a recent meeting cha*i he would rather marry his daughter to a negro with , a white heart than a publican ! A contemporary &98erts that owing to the state of his health the Premier will not be able to participate in the coming political contest, and will leave the colony some time before the general election. A recommendation is to be made in Wellington that legislation be obtained to provide that Mayors shall be elected for two years, and that half tbe members of the councils shall retire'annually. Mips Margaret Dowling, the New Zealand youDg lady who married Prince Cbica, leader of the Independent Albania Party, ia tbe daughter of a former butcher at Hokitika. She has a Bister iD' the Wellington district, who is married to a trainer and owner of racehorses. The air is thick with rumours of impending changes in the Government service. One is to the effect that General B&bington, Commandant of the Forces, will not remain in New Zealand to complete Ma term of engagement with tbe Co'onial Government. It is said that the safest place in tbe world is tbe deck of a ship. The boast is not unjustifiable. Out of the enormous passenger service to and from the British ! Isles only fifty-aeyen persons lost their lives through the wreck of a British vessel last year. a It is stated that the Japanese and tha English aro {he only naval powers which have had nerve to carry out night manoeuvres at sea absolutely without lights, save those of electtic bulbs in a box towed astern by a wire, and visible only to men in tho bow of the following ships, who can watch them for signals. At Darlington a quarryman and bis wife have been awarded £SO as damages against an inspector of tbe National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children and a police officer for having unlawfully entered the plaintiffs' house to see if their children were properly cared for. Through the reprinting in a Christchurch evening newspaper of a,paragraph from »n American journal an old colonist named James Alexander Wilson, now residing ia Dunedin, but whose rdal name is James Travis, got information of a legacy of 90.000 dollars, - estimated to be worth now £35,000 or £4O 000.