News in Brief

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume V, Issue 1417, 30 August 1905, Page 1

News in Brief

,—* — Friendly Societies' annual ball next Friday oyening, Cuncer ,was responsible for oightoen deaths in the colony last month, and. phthsis for seventeen, The visiting hockoy .team; left this morning for Tauranga. A' number of friends assembled to see them off. During July Ist, 1903, to June 30tb, 1905, there were ten convictions at Port | Chalmers for playing football on Sundays; _ Two sectio.is witb dwellings thereon,' ; situated atßulltown, will be sold by public '; auction on Wednesday, 6th September. , The ladies' hookey olub match betweon Tnuranga and Waihi yesterday afternoon resulted in a deoisivo yictory for the visitors, If tho Worker's estimato is oorreor, fully soven hundred out of a thousand oarpentors in Brisbane are unemployed, 1 and only about a dozen out of eighty bricklayers are at present able to secarc work. On March 31 last the finger-print 00l- ' lection consisted of tho prints of 4200 offenders. During the year 72 persons claiming to be first offenders were, by means of their finger-prints, idbntified as previously convioted,—Police report. Acovfciin father who is fond of putting: 1 his boys through nature] history, examinai tions is often surprised at their mental ability. He asked thorn to toll him •'what, animal is satisfied with the -least amount of nourishment." "The moth!" one of them shouted, confidently. "It eats nothing but holes,"