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Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume V, Issue 1369, 4 July 1905, Page 2

Mr WiOlmitt. sharobrokor nnri land agent, notifies in this issue that he Ims several properties worthy of inspi ction for Sfilo, at reduced prices dud on easy terms, within the Borough, Mr William 0. FitzGcrald, chemist, intimates that offices for any profession of bnsinofs will bo Imiil to suit tho tenant on iho first floor of a building about to bo erected by liiin nfctlio corner of Msiufliid Haszaid Btrctts.

Mrs Alpha, box 411, Wellington, intimates to tbo public- of Wnilii, that women who nro martyrs to headaches mul ir.tr nal'disordors may be cured by Dr, McGill's pastile treatment, The treatment and frco phauipkt will bo furnished by Mr Win, G. FitzGcrald, chtwist, Main-street, Our tempoivmca friends will regret lo learn thai (ho Gov, Father Hays has written lo tho Very llcv. Father Brodk',of this town, in reply to a'communication, stHing lliat owing to hi? tornporanco tour in the South having taken much longer than he expected, it will bo impossible for him to visit, Waibi.

At tho usual fortnightly meeting of tho Ancient Order of Foresters last night the balance-sheet for tho quarter ending Juno 19lb was read, ami showed n credit bianco of £lOl Is 8:1.' Threo delrga'rs were appointed to join tho othor societies in having a Friendly Societies' ball. Tho meeting was very onthueiastio, the motions being keenly contcs-ted. M:. Wbitobousc, o(bioscope limo wn in Waihi ye6tcnliy, unci booltcd tho Acad rmy for two nights, tho dates being tho 31st of July and tho let ot August, Since liia last vi'it ho has considerably augmented his repertoiro of living scenes, securing everything obtainable of special interest, alto tho services of" Kershaw," illusionist, who is n conjurer of groat ability, Full particulars will be advertised in a liter issue.

Yesterday evening ft shocking accident occurred through the explosion of a small piece of dynamite. A little bov, the youngest son of Mr, (j. A, Alexander, head fitlor at the Waihi Company's engineering shop, was handling a piece "of dynnoiiio, when it suddonly exploded. Tho thumb and the first and second (inner of his right hand weio shattered, end the third finger below iho first joint and the top of tho next fingor were also shattered, The nnfortnnalo lad was nt once taken to the hospital, whore his injuries were attended to Oil inquiring this afternoon wo lia r n that the little follow is (bin;; as well au-an ba expected,

In lust night's issue (says tho Wellington Post of Thursday la 4) there whs reprinted from tho London Chronicle a pirngiaph stating that Lord Plunked was "the latest Irish landlord to dispose ol his property to his tenants unkv Mr Wyndham's Land Act" Th'u paragraph was tho first intimation ol tho sale tea* His Excellency received, but he assumes that the informal inn is correct. Before soiling fcr New Zealand Lord Phmket lift an open order for tho disposal or two of his small estates-one near Cork and the other now .Mormghaii—auil he ut under tho impression that tbeMonaghtu Estate is tho ono tlmt lies been sold. Under the Land Ackreforred to, Government has power to acquire cerlaiu properlies in Ireland ind band thorn over b tenants on loasos with right of purohase, Savornl estates in Ireland have ahoady beonJe^hvjtiHntlu^vav^^^^^

P«{, teforring to the celebration of Mr, Seddon's birthday, savs -"Few men surelyor.tcrcd Parliament under greater disadvantages orwith faiuter prospects of a oonsp : c«ous career than tho young man who, as hu rominded his hourers on Hot unlay night, was first olectod for Ilolii'ika in Septeuibar, 1879, and throiiiili nil Iho vicissitudes of polities ling bcon honoured with the confidence of that cons.itucncy ever Binee. At that time his eonlidonoo in himself scorned to his fcliowmombeis very ill justified, and servo;! but to omphnsiio tho obvious dofectn under which ho laboured, For that session and for some lime aftoriva.'ds his efforts lo shim, in Parliament often ciuisid a smile, but ho has long outlivod the memory of lii 3 early gauchevios, ho has conquered thorn and put thorn behind him, and. for twelve ye ira, for good and for evil, he has exercised such tin absoluio mastery over tho assembly which oneo despised him as could hardly bo surpassed in any country still retaining t>bo forma of constitutional government."

A little before 8 o'clock !a4 night a Gro occurred iu tho eastern Miburus, resulting in tho dosmioLjii ola ttoioomod lvsidonco owned and occupied by Mrs. Dovclin, The (ire hisjadc, with their usual smartness, wore at Ihe scene ot tho tiro, though over half a inilo from tho Btalicn, within iivo or six minutes after tho first clang nf tho firo station boll, Unfortunately tho outbreak occurred fully six minuteo before tho station bell rang out thoa'arm, A small boll situated near the Company's battery was rung promptly, but it was not howl in tho town, The houso was in mills by the time tho water began to play on tho llamos, It appears that Mrs Dovclia had lelt tho house at 7 o'clock, leaving a lire burning on top of a culoni'il oven, and was at ilio moment uf the outhivak vot'ivning to her home. Nothing was saved from'the buildin", and incii:tlc-d in (lie loss wen; (wo .£1 notes, two hnlf-aovoroigim and about 10j in silver, which Mrs, Dovclin had previously pluced in a drawer. It is surmised that a piece of burning wood fell from tha firo on io the floor, mid thus cuisod tho oonllagrnticn, Tho building was iusurctt in tho Now Zealand ollico for £BO, and tho furniture and efisctJ iu tin mat offioj for £4O,