News in Brief.

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume V, Issue 1318, 5 May 1905, Page 1

News in Brief.

The opening night of St. John's Church Bazaar was a pronounced success.

A gonoral meeting of tho Waihi Foot. ball Club will bo held in PilJings hotel tonight at 7.30. '

It was m 1884, twenty-one years ago this month, that tbs Salvation Army first appeared in New Zealand.

Miss Irene McCarthy, of Pscros, has been appointed as pupil teacher at the Waihi Publio School,

We understand that Mr W.J. Napier, ot Auckland /has been invited to delivera political address in Waihi.

Mr Welcher offers for sale £IOOO worth of jewellery. Sale takes place to-morrow (Saturday) afternoon at 2 o'clock.

Two women, arrested on the Palmerston Worth raoecourse for betting with a bookmaker, W er 9 taken boforo the stewards and warned off the course.

A feature of the side shows at St. John's onuroh Buow last night was Madame ■tolays waxworks. They were an immense success.

Ab the outcome of dismissal of Dr Butement by the Masterton Hospital ■trustees, the matron and nursing staff have now reigned in a body.

A movement has been started in Gis. borne to erect a memorial from the women of New Zealand to the late Mrs Sievwright, who wai so closely identified with wouitm s interests,

Four of the accused conserned in the noting id Main street last Saturday night P Wed guilty, and each were fined M with costs. The charge against Johns for a similar offenoe was dismissed.

Last week, the Borough solicitor of Gisborno was fined 10s and costs 7s for riding his bioyclo without lights alter sun. f', rh fS.M. said that defondont could hardly plead ignorance of the law, and as JSorongb rolidtor he suggested he should set a better example.

A dead-beat was telling his pitiful story o a null shop-keeper In Adelaide-road the other afternoon. " It's simply impossible, he said, "for mo to find bread for my family." " Samo hero," smartly an. Bwered the shopkoepor; "I've sot to work for it.—Wellington Lance. Through the agency of Mr T. E. Donne, at present in England, the Tourist Department has placed an order with the famous Donlton Company for twenty porcelain baths for the Government Sanatorium at Botorua. There have been many comp aims about tbe state of some of the baths at Uoiorua,

A Canterbury schoolmaslor says that be would advise sharp, intelligent lads to prepare for entering the sohool toaohing profession in New Zealand now, as he believes that tho prospects of the profession aro improving greatly, and by the timo thoy havo reached their prime, there will bo positions available well worth occupying.