News in Brief
Father Hays is to be invited to visit Ihe ;'l Thames, : • ■ ' ;| •"» Chopping and sawing matohes at the ? Aoademy of Mueio to-night. Skating on the ice was indulged in on ' [ the Asbburton domains last week by a ■*' number of enthusiasts, , \ The Devonport and Garrison (Auckland) bands intend to compete at the , Hawera contest next January, Twenty years aqo the total private wealth of New Zealand amounted to , £112,000,000; now it is over $66,000,000. \ Father Hayg is described as i cultured < i speaker, not a noisy orator; |t times humorous, and at times exceedingly' / pathetic. General Booth holds a conference at Melbourne this week with the onief officers of tho Army in New Zealand and Australia. For disturbing the Premier's meeting at Dunedin, and assaulting a man who was going to put him out, an offender was nnod 15 and costs. Mossrs. Kansett and Mason have just ' ' taken over the Strand Eostaurant, Tho new proprietors are making it in every '* way an up-to-date business.
The Pride of tfaihi G.M. Co. notify shareholders that forfeited shares for nonpayment of call will be sold by auction on 21st inst., unless the call be paid before that date.
An auotioa sale of boarding-bouse furniture and effects will take plaoe at Mrs. Cowell's boarding-house to-morrow (Thursday) at 11.30 a.m., Orchard and Arscott being the auctioneers,
Speaking at Ghristchurcb, Father Hays said he considered that any clergyman who dictated to his people is to how they should or should not vote was insulting the intelligence of his people. Wellington -[has a Boup kitchoD, where the hungry may be fed. On an average botween 80 and 90 persons avail themselves of it, Mother Mary Joseph Aufaert controls this charitable Institution, At a meeting of the Acclimatisation Soeiety in Wellington a proposal was made that the brown beat be introduced into the colony. An interested correspondent recommends the Government to buy up Worth's menagerio as inducing to close' settlement.
A man at Gisborne on a recent night could not got a bed, and, strolling into the police watoh-house, spent the night there. Next day he was charged with being illegally on the premises, and bad to pay ten shillings and costs for his aooommodation.
" Mr Massey says that tho Setldon Government have been inflicted on the colony as a punishment for their sins. Ladies and gentlemen, the Seddon Government havo been a blessing in disguise, especially to Mr Massey and his friends."—Mr Beddon at Mosgeil.
At tho Thames School of Minei on Saturday, Harold Baker, on behalf of tho Saturday morning students, presented Mr V. Morgan with a handsome set of military brushes, as a small token of their cateom and appreciation of the interest ho) has always taken in them. ' .'■
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Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume V, Issue 1352, 14 June 1905, Page 1
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