News in Brief

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume V, Issue 1335, 25 May 1905, Page 1

News in Brief

St Joseph's Church social takes plaoo in tho Academy of kusio to-morrow (Friday) ovening,

The West Coast band contest com-, inonoed at Groymouih on Tuesday. Two hundred bandsmen are cqrnpetins;.

At the Mastorton Eegistry Office the marriage of Tim Lee (laundry expert) to Miss Mabel Stone, of Nelson, was solemnised,

The Hutt County Couicil, Wellington, has decided not to inoroase the daily rate of wages for ordinary permanent paid workmen beyond 7s,

A batch of eight Chinese, seven of tbem being strangers to tho colony, arrived at Wellington by tho Moorakion Wednesday last week from Sydney,

It is probable that telephenio •ommunication will soon be established beiweorr Auckland and tho Waikato. The Department is considering tho matter.

Mr C, J, Parr, solicitor, in response to a requisition signed by 3000 electors, has resolved to contest the new electorate of Auckland City West at the coming elections,

Analyses of stone takon from various parts of the Hautaki peninsula art shortly to bo made in London, and the Mineß Department has docided to publish tho results.

Mr Tisi'sll, agont of the British and Foreign Bible Society, will give a lecture on "Through Persia with Bible and Camera," in the Baptist (tab {bis evening,

Tondeva for general aupplics to the Waihi Hospital for the ensuing twelvo months will oe received by the seasetary, Mr Max D, King, up to the 2nd of next month,

■Steps are being taken in Dunedin to form a State Schools' Defonco League on linos similar to those upon which an organisation was recently established in Wellington, with tho object of maintaining ibo ptesent system of free, secular, and complscry education iu the: primary schools of the colony,

A oomplicatlfln has arisen with respect to the holiday in honor of the Piince of Wales' Birthday, June 3rd. This year the anniversary falls on a Satnrdsy, and several grocers and others are bound under tho award of the Arbitration Court, to give thoir employees a holiday. Under tho circumstances this is moat incon. venient,