News in Brief.

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume V, Issue 1405, 16 August 1905, Page 1

News in Brief.

Skatiiig rink opens iii (ho Aoadomy of ' Musio to-night, . > , : Tho Waibi footballers play Tauranga at Waihi on Saturday. Thero'wore 57 informal voting papers at the recent election of the Wellington Education Board, Anybody requiring a suit of clothes would do well to inspect Mr J. A. Williams' now stock of English tweeds and worsteds, Tho annual meeting of members of tho • Waihi Hnok KaoingClub will be hold in : tho olub-room at the Eob Eoy Holol to* night at 7 o'clock, Despite tho unfavourable state of tho weather last night there was a good attendance at the Co.-Op's annual social, and the evening was voted a most enjoyable one. Au ex-Wellington resident, writing from Kobe, Japan, under date the 30th of June, to a friend in Wellington, siys there is no wirnowsobtainable. "You hear more about it in Wellington than wo do here," says the writer," Most of .the nows cones from abroad; in faot, tho war is rarely mentioned here," In the Chdstohurch Magistrate's Court a witness said he had identified oertain ; ducks as belonging to him, How d'd you identify them?"- asked counsel for the defence, "liy tho earmark." "And whore was the earmark ?" pursued counsel. "On tho wing," replied witness, solemnly. A numbor of automatio lamp-lighters have been obt lined by the Masterton ' Borough Council, and arc being fitted up in various parts of tho town. They are controlled oy clock-work mechanism, and • can bo set to light and extinguish lamps to which they are attached at any hour, : They require winding about onco a week, The initial cost is thirty shillings each.