News in Brief

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume V, Issue 1349, 10 June 1905, Page 1

News in Brief

kiedertafel concert next Thursday. } Tenders oloso oil Monday for bnildinq premises in Rosemont' Road (or W. G. Bh'otbolt. ■ • . . ' Mr E. G. B. Moss, M.H.R. for Ohine- '".I muri, will address his constituents at , Waikirio on Tuesday evening. >1 Tbo Rev Ifr Thompson, in an address on temperance and prohibition at Dunedin, said there wero thirty sly-grog shops in, Ashburton. ! , ' 1 . The Right Rov, Monsighor O'Reilly, of 1 the Thames, arrived in Waihi to-day, and „ < will assist in the services -at St. Joseph's Church to-morrow, Whitsnnday, The total quantity of coal obtained from J the Soddonville State Coalsmine up to the 31st March, 1905, was 40,093 tons, and from Port Elizabeth Stato Coal-mino, *! 91,272 tons, making a total of 131,865 tons.""" '• . The advent of the oil Liunoh has added W much to the comfort and convenience of * -tho pooplo j'n Pelorus Sound, Almost every settlement hai one or two little motor-boats, and the latest retnrn shows that the total number in the Sound ib about 00. /

A rather unusual sight was witnessed by the passengers on the' KWerdale-Wnikaia eoa'ch (says the Mataura Ensign), it being i ' that of a woman mounted man fashion on' horseback (surrounded by dogs)sjoitag as a drover of sheep along tho main road. , Dr Henri de Rotjischild has offered two ■r j prizes-one of 1250 and another of £l2O ' -for tho best papers written in Frenoh on tho "Rational Food for Man." Ths ■ awards will be mado next year,.and the essays have to be handed in before next Now Year's Day. . ? A German professor of gymnastics main- • tains tnat deep yawning, practised as a :< regular exercise, is tho cheapest and surest rod to perfect health. The expansion of the, breast-bones and the stretching of the arms which accompany a whole-hearted yawn, together with the filling of the 111 ngs, form a splendid daily exercise. , ' A witness who was present at the Supreme Court in Christohurch Inst week, and who heard the prisoner Allandale address ,tho jury, says that though he has heard a good many addresses by counsel he has never heard one which excelled that given - '■:* by Allftiidale, who hos spent over 20 years of his life in gaol.—Timaru Pod. - ; Says the Gisborno Hiraldlnstances • are frequently given of tho intelligence of » 'tho Postal Deparlmont officials iu safely ; delivering at their proper destination 1 lottera- imperfectly addressed. One snoh occurred this morning, when a letter ad- ' dressod to "Big Charlie, Gisborne," > promptly reached tho addresseo for whom it was intended;