News in Brief

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume V, Issue 1356, 19 June 1905, Page 1

News in Brief

Tho Volunteer Fire Brigade social tdkcs plsco on Friday next.

Miss Nollio Stowart, of dramatio fame, is announced to appear in Waihi oh Wednesday week. i

Dr. Bell, the Government geologist, in company with' Mr, Percy G. Morgan, roachod Waihi on Saturday afternoon.

Under tho auspioea of tho Ladies' Guild of St. John's Ohureh a Booial will be held in tho Aoadomy of Music tomorrow night.

The promptness aud skilful handling of the fire appliances by the Firo Brigade yestorday morning averted a serious conflagration in Bosemoht Boad,

" Swoot Nell of Old Drury," to bo staged by Miss Nellio Stowart and her English dramatic company on Wednesday week, should attraot a record house't'or Waihi.

Tho'large number of Druids who' visited To Aroba for the installation of oilicers gavo that town quite a lively appearaip on Saturday night and Sunday morning, • ' \ .

A South Island contemporary calculates that if the promises made by the Premier during the present recess aro carried out he will have to raise several million sterling. v .

Mr Bell, who on his arrival in Waihi on SaturdaJ afternoon wont undprgrouud in the Waihi mine, was impressed with the immensity, and appearance of tho ore bodies he saw.*

'Mr John Chambers, New Zealand attorney for tho Waihi Giand Junction Gold Company, lina been in Waihi for tho past three or four days, on affairs in connection with the Grand (/uuotion mine,

Tho Clinton correspondent of the Clntha Free Press writes that somo o{ the rabbit trappers in tbt'neighourbood havo had a good innings lately,. Three brothers oarned ovor I! 28 for their last fortnight's trapping,

Kepqrt comes from Claudoboys aud district (rates tho Terauka correspondent of j the Ohristohurch Press) that the blight bo disastrous to potatoos of late has attacked cauliflowers and like vegetables with disastrous effect. ,

Tho following are the officera (or the Pride of Waihi Lodge, U.A.0.D,, for the ensuing 'six monthsA.D., Bro. Bobineon ; V.A.D., Bro. H. Manning ; see,, Bro. Box; treae., Bro. Collins; AD.B's, Bros; Wood and Walker; V.A.B's, Bros, Steele and Chapman.

Among.ihose who scanned, the first intelligence of the Russian disaster as given on tho newspaper posters in the morning at Wolliogton, there was ono man (says a contemporary) whose cheeks were wet with tears. He was a Ruseiaii, and he had the sympathy of thoso near by who noticed hisemoiioD.

• Wliilo Mr Lawrence, proprietor of the Excelsior dtning-rooms, was absent at his ' devotions at the Salvation Army Barracks early yesterday morning, a kerosene stove, wbico he lighted just prior to leaving for the barracks, caused a fire in the baok/ room of tho premises, resulting in the whole place beibg guttod. / ,

the Waihou river from To Aroha to . faeroa yesterday, had some, exciting • ' r ' experiences owing to tho willows on the banks frequently swooping over the boat. TLero wero soveral narrow escapes of being draivn overboard, and a few hats ■ were lost.

Says tho Wellington Free lance-. "Tlio Land Commission coats £SOO a week. It ia finding out what everybody kuow before, namely, that as long as the earth euduretb, day mid night, seed.tinJo aud harvest, shall not ceaso, and that tho man who occupies land wants tho freehold, and tho man who 'doesn't own any land and hasn't got grit enough to get any, is " doad agin" anybody elao owning any."