News in Brief

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume V, Issue 1446, 3 October 1905, Page 1

News in Brief

, The New Ze«l»nd footballeri play < Middlrsox to-day. The crioket tmon opens in Waihi on '- jSitutdv next, when the Englishmen piny 'the oolodhli, , . " A go as you-please air about the place. It ought to be closed."—Dr MacGregor on the toss (West Coast) Hospital. .' West's famous picturcf, eombinod with' whichistheßrescians,opon their'season here on Thursday evening in the Academy. ' ; ■ Applications (or tho nrdenet for the Waihi Hospital will be received by tho secretary (Mr Max D. King) up till ' Thursdoy, S'h insl. , A meeting of the Pride ol Waihi Lodge ' will be hold to-moirow (Wednesday) evenmg At the conclusion of the business a social will be beld. ■

, The secretary (Mr ST, Whitehonse) of ' the Thames Land, Building, and Investment Society, will pay his usual visit here 10-monow (Wcdnisday).

a meeting'of the drill hall commute* , '• o the Waibi Tolnnteers will be held in' '' Mr Evan Morgan's rooms, Main-street. .' to-mottow eyoning at 7.80, "William Mailer, ex-aecounlant of the Union Steamship Company, Sydney, wat \ fonnd shot dead in his home on unday ' N ander circumstanoos pointing to snioide. '

A mcvoraent iB afoot in Liverpool to erect spinning mills at a coat of a million end a-half sterling, to recover a portion of the trade which tho shipcanal has diverted to Monchceter.

The New Zealand Shipping Company's report for the year ended June 80th shorn a profit of i' 54,406. A dividend of 5 pet coot, has bcoD declared, and bai been carried forward. ' '

Fraueo, oh behalf of Itoßßia, has prolestod against Japan toutencing Russian prisoners to imprisonment at criminals for attempting to osoape, the attempts ' ,< bemgtreatedinßussiaasa disciplinary ' offence. Tho Premier stales that if school' bosks for pupils of the primary schools art supplied free, as is done in some countries, j this would involve a largo initial expense ' -probably, say about i'OO.OOO-and'an ,*' anntnl expenditure afterwards of Jb'fiOOO to M 10,000 to replace worn-out bocks; and to ', ' l keep the books up-to-date, '■..■•., i'; The Bishop of Tasmania, in an address< on Sooialism on Saturday at Sydney, dedared that Socialism was not necessarily antagonistic to Christianity, bat favoured ' ' equality and opportunity for'all. The Primate, who (resided,, said ho agreed with what was broad and general in the address, but not with the argnmonts about Socialism,. < ,