News in Brief

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume V, Issue 1323, 11 May 1905, Page 1

News in Brief

The Fire Brigade soeial takes place ibis ''Wt day week. "^SjS A bay mare impoanded by the Botoagh ' M ranger will, if not olaimei and expenses Ji paid, be sold on Wednesday next, g|| A smoke concert will be tendered to Mr, h'M Peroy G. Morgan, director of the School < : M of Mines, on Saturday evening next. '\M The membership of the HawkeV Bay:rff|l| branches of the New Zealand Farmers' : -WM Union has increased daring thsW year from 210 to 668. ! A four-roomed hoas» contaiaiag Orion'i-lti range and a well-fenced bsUf-acre seotioir is offered -for sale (oheap) by Messrs,V ;? 4t|i Orchard and Ar«cott. , ( :M The first Oup match of the season 1 under the auspices of the WaihiEugby -'rM Union, will be played in Kyburn's pad. dock on Saturday afternoon next, '■■; ; : W One of the oldest natives in the colony diod at Tanrangihi Pa, near Nukumaru, a : '<s& few days ago, in the person of flarat* '--•''s£ HineUahu, at the age of about lOO.yers. •'ill The Waibi Quadrille Assembly.'linder 4|i| the auspices of Messrs, Sharkey, Von ' "^ : i Rotter and Christian, will be held in the ;,# Academy of Music to-morrow (Friday) evening, > '-} M A Taibape settler, who |ho!ds 16" acre*'» : -M of land.about half-a-mile from Taihape, on : 'M the lease in perpetuity system, wa9 re- '-'JM oently offered 1700 for his interest, but -■■■. :i M refused, as he wanted £IOOO. i Si There is every likelihood of the next fire'. Si brigade demonstration being held in Christ- ■ ;*| churoh during the International Exhibi- ■■■'■■■M tion, in 1907. The matter will be decided MM nnd the details arranged at the conference '■'■sM to be held next year at Nelson, :-^M The -North Otagc Times is informed 3l that some senseless individual is trying to ' !$& frighten the timid at night by arraying '• m himself in a long ooatr, wfaioh he suddenly Sfm opens, displaying the tracings of a skele--.vsf| ton,' and the ominous words, "Are you %1 prepared to meet your doom ?" in luminous iff phosphorus. ' -."M Admiral Togo and Generals Kuroki and "H Oh are all members of tbo Presbyterian os| Churoh. -Vice-Admiral Uria is a Prosby- ?m terian elder. General Serrata, the commander of the forces of Japan in her last v ;• ip war with China, was also a Presbyterian .' I|f elder, and up to the time of his death was :: 'ik president of the Tokio Y.M.10. , • -VJI