News in Brief

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume V, Issue 1415, 28 August 1905, Page 1

News in Brief

Mataura H.-dofoatcd Wailii" Saturday by 9 points to 3, „^| In the Australian football match Waihi '""" versus Auckland, the home team were . victorious by 46 points to 40. v The Taamanian Assombly hßs read i A second time tho Local Option Bill, »od referred it to b select committee. * h Ladies' hockey match, Tauranga v. Waihi, takes place to-morrow afternoon in > Word's paddock. . The Taylor-Carrington Company open in the Academy of flfnsic to night with a tour aet drama entitled " Is she Guiltless." Moats Orchard and Arsoott soil by public auotion to-morrow (Tuesday) at 'll a.m., 14head of mixed ooUIe and 18 pigs, Tho Sydney City Council ha« approved oithesehemeofslpresumption.anda Bill will be submitted to Parliament, Mi-sKM. FitzGeiald, confidential ' tjpiste, intimates that she will undertake any workjm connection with shorthand and typewriting. The smokesconcert hold in connection with the offioial opening of the new Minor,' Union Hall on Saturday WM attonded by ovor 200 people. In the police report it is stated that during tho year there has been an increaseof 800 m the total number of porsoni~ ' charged with drunkenness, as compared ,' with the preceding year. ' 1 • r fi h !u fi ™, new - buildia g in connection f with the Whangarei manuil training and, i. toohmcalsohool was opened by Mr Luke, chairman of the Auckland Education Hoard, ou .Saturday, in the presonce of other represenhtivos of the Board, local and educational bodies, and a large gather- , ing. Tho classes are to commence 'today. , - ■ A drinking saloon in Los Angeles,/Sonlh Uhlmnia, has the following notico ifl tho window:— If Your Wife Drives You to Drink, This is the PJaco to Get it, \ Step right in, The manager of the Auckland Austrahan Football 'Association,' Mr Mc- - 6uiro, whoa proposing a toast at the moke concert on Saturday night, said thati next season Now Zealand hoped to send a team to Australia. From the play he had seen that day he felt sure that Waihi would be well represented in the team ' selected. * At a recont political mooting in Melbourne, Mr Thomas Bent, tho State Premior, sot' off lOgood reply to an inter- ' joctor, who "heckled" him for eayin°, ,< " I took ofl my hat to a Mr Bent's . K reply was to the point, and characteristic of the man. He replied, "I did say so, and I will say to you more, that I will always tako off my hat to a cow, because she' is tho most valuable animal Victoria i possesses,"