News in Brief

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume V, Issue 1330, 19 May 1905, Page 1

News in Brief

Football fixture for to-morrow is'Mataura v. Waitete. ~ ■ •

lTbeFire Brigade opening sooial takes pace m the Academy of Music to-night, :

A branch of the St. John's Ambulance Association has been formed in Tauranga. The anniversary of the Primitive Methodist Sunday-school is to be celebrated by special services on Sunday—in the morn. ,mg at the church, and in the afternoon and ovening at the Academy of Music

The proposal to form fa Prospecting Association to teat the main Tokatea Keef is being most favourably received by the inhabitants of Coromandel, and a measure of support is assured in Auckland.—Mai/. The Govsrnment has reduced the price' Of water supplied from the Government water races in Otago and Westland to ldi per slmce-lmad of water for a working s week of 48 hours from the Ist of May,

It is stated that a Blenheim boy, who took part in the Boer war as a trooper, and subsequently found himself aboard a collier bound for Japan, is now reoeiving good pay and holding a commission in the Japanese army.. A report having been reoeived on the boring operations for petroleum at New Plymouth, the Hon. the Minister of Mines bus offered to contribute the sum of £BOO if the bore'is continued for a further depth of 300 ft below the present depth of 2102 ft.

The young ladies of Tauranga have formed a .Hookey Club, and the first game. played Let week, endsd without any aooiJeuts of a serious nature, although several went home with bruised limbs, and one reoeived the full force of her opponent's oudgol in the mouth.