News in Brief

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume V, Issue 1471, 1 November 1905, Page 1

News in Brief

I me «ew iootbauen play ,< • % Surrey to-day. • 's% Judgo Ward will roilre on a pension of * H £6OO per annnm bb from April Ist, 1906. , V# Bookmakers will not be permitted to do,' I $ business at Ellerslie next Saturday. 'I .; On the Supplementary Estimates thew * '/< *1 is a vote of £250 for additions to tho 'i/* Waihi Courthouse. * >Vjs Willis, oi land scandal fame, has been W* remanded from Durban to Sydney on a Ms ohargo of falsß pretences. ' , * V' Extensive damage has been done by *7 Bros in the sugar fields of MnrnlhnJah > < and Lismoro district", New South Wales. v flelson-giown new potatoos have made / their appearanco m the Wellington mar- ] < kot, and aro beiag totalled at 3}d per lb. '\ ! A. H, Jones, the engine-driver tyho was injured by falling off his engine when ' 1 leaving the Auckland station on Wedneg. v ' V*> I day last, is progressing favourably towards rl - v, rccovory. / ( ' y The fresh demands on bohalf of the German navy, and the heavy costs in- ' ,< "i currod by tho native raisings in Africa, are' v '{ expected to necessitate new taxation totalling from 7i to 10 million pounds. , ' -,f Tho Japanese naval oxperts have decided * tf that in future tho battleships shall have 'a £ displacement of 22,000 tons, 'a speed of 24 '' knots, and be armed with 4.12 gnn. The '' ' cruisers are to havo a displacement of 6000 * , tons and a speed of 25 knots. , ■■ , Tho fnnds of the Salvation Army have , V" benefited to the amount of £9476 by the , * self domal week. The division totals are xt \ as follows:—Wellington, £3176, Dunedin, '' '- £2400, Ohrißtohu'oh, £2028, Auckland. £1873, total, £9476. Waihi contributed M, t „ .) Iks annual leport of the Begistrar of L " Friondly Societies and Trades Unions, c \ Now South Wales, shows that at the end' r , of last joir tboro wore 152 societies in' 1 V exigence, with a total membership of «■ ,V« 79,815. Tho assets were over £69,000. ' « >'• ' ■ > *W