News in Brief

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume V, Issue 1459, 18 October 1905, Page 1

News in Brief

—•— i i , sMm St Joseph's Ohuroh bazaar opeoa in the/-'» Aoademy of MusloJonight., *' s * Wi The New Zealand footballers Glpucester Oity to morrow. J >, * J&jM The death is announced of IJr. 0. J.'rji Ellicott, ex Bishop of Gloucester. ' ,*$M Russian troops are about to the northorn half of gagbahen. , ' {3J Mr J, Dixon Ward addressed and enthusiasts open air meeting last ■'al if mght, , yi i •¥, Cardinal Moran celebrated the 75th M adversary of his birthday on Baturday,/vJ loth September. , The Eleotoral Bill which has been \)| passed by the Tasmantan Assombly em- r if bodies the Hare system of voting. * i\M The Tasmaman Government has granted ft seven-years' lease of Macquarie Island $» to Mr Joseph Hatch, oflnvercargill, New M Zealand. <, ipM, T u hor , e \*l 1 lar ß ß attendance at the IM liiberal and Labour League's concert and 1M dance in the Miners' Dnion Hall,last ?&{> evening , . r^f£ Wireless communication has been estabhshed botween the Eiffel Tower and ,# Chalons,, Verdun, St. Menohoold, "and the" fSH eastern frontier of France. * iM The Pbrte has reiterated its refusal to lm •ooept the Powers' fiuancial .control of m Macedonia, on the ground that interference Jm would affect the administration of the *M empire. , t ,j ti f '*s ap. * i f if*Experiments with the steerabfe balloon X on Saturday showed it was. possible f\lh to reconnoitre the military between A$ lon and Nancy. The balloons travelled *M 22 miles an hour. „ , i \M t ) ;fi For Wio purpose of demonstrating the - > < skill of British workmen, a Stookport bricklayer has issued a challenge for the \i- x bricking championship of the world IHe ifo undertakes to lay two thousand bricks in K"h oight hours. % The Council of the Russian Empire, tiv'ty the Crar's command, has eaepended the, Aj bulk of its legislative labours and returned /| Wis which were awaiting consideration to ' j*"the Ministerial department for intio- ti&l duction in the Duma f) \ Concerning " the co tof war,", con 3 **< * temporary quotos» Kcint/item . ' Complete in the ordnance faolory, a 12m, ty $} Mark IX. gun costs $800," sail Mr. vjs Pretymau m the House of Commons, % "The inner A tube, the only part subject .S I to great wear from firlbg, costs illOO '* Ci ================== %\l