News in Brief

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume V, Issue 1331, 20 May 1905, Page 1

News in Brief

v. » .1 Tbe Fire Brigade's social last night was ' } a pronounced aucoeis. l • ; The recent munioipal elections' Id Wellington cost about £250, Since December last; the colony has inorased its population by 7482. Free exhibition of pictures at Woodham's art gallery, Mam-street, to-night. The Wftihi Liedertaf el's grand concert in ■. aid of toe hospital funds will be held on June 16 th, ' • Although 486,590 marriages took place in Japan last year it is stated that.not one bride was over 22 years old, . I Attention is drawn to a notification by the English and Foreign Pianp Agency, appearing on our fourth page.

The first annual show of the Waihi Poultry and Canary Society will beheld on the 14th and 15th July, Gisborne lumpers are. making claim for payment at tbe rate of 4s 2d per hour for work done on Sundays after five p,m, ' Two Ormondville (Hawke's Bay) boys have been fined 5s and coita for riding on the back of a sheep until it was exhausted. It is stated that Mr L. M. Isitt will bo invited to contest a Canterbury country seat in the Independent-Progressive interest. Speoial trains for the Governor-General of Australia are to be discontinued, as Lord Notthoote has no desire to involve the Government in expense. Counterfeit L money is said to have been used lately in Auckland, > It Is said to have been brought over by Sydney swindlers. Waihi people should be on the look-out. One reason'given in Melbourno for the large expenditure of football clubs on boots for members is that a great many are worn out on the umpires,—Sydney Bulletin,

Anniversary services in connection with , the Primitive Mothodist Ohuroh Sunday School will be held in the Ohurch tb-mor-row at 11a.m,, and at the Academy of <; Music at 3 and 7 p.m. It is stated that an important scheme affecting the permanent and volunteer forces of the colony will see the light before much time has elapsed. The new regula-. tioDB are now in course of revision. The Paeroa ladies haye formed'a golf club and expect to commence operations shortly. The promoters are,Mesdames ' '• Moresby,H.Bush,Brunikilland MlbsA, Gibbons, who have created a good deal of enthusiam in the venture.

The Onslow Borough Council hasjdecided to prosecute an enterprising bosiness \ ' man in Wellington unless he erases advertisements which he has printed on the rocks, fenoee, and telegraph ,poles in various parts of tne borough. , - Mr Donne, who was Commissioner for this colony at the St. Louis Exposition, saw the international Rugby game betwoen , England and Scotland. He has no hesitation in saying that on the form shown a New Zealand representative team would have beaten either, team easily. An enthusiastic football supporter of one of the Waihi Cluba, upon hearing of Mr. V. Morgan's' appointment to the position of director of the Waihi Sohool of .-_ Mineß, promptly telegraphed to Mr Mor* gan: " Congratulations on appointment. . Hope yon will play for our olub." The Mayor of Dunedin, replying to an invitation by Father Hays to take the chair at his meeting in that city, said : " I Bhall be pleased to act. I understand that,ycur lecture is neither political, sectarian nor partisan, aud that you appeal to the people's nature to practice self, control or self-prohibition as a remedy for drunkenness." . ' i .-