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Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume V, Issue 1500, 6 December 1905, Page 2

Mr' B, Holmes,. Roneral storokoepor, ail verMsea aprice list in this issue.', ' -Teprters are invited by ihe Thames Jockey Club for til 'rights md privileges at. the stfmmor meeting, to be held on 26;1i aad 27th December, Particulars tnay bo seen in the advertisement, 'Crowded meetings wore addressed by tho two candidates last night, Mr Foster, Liberal candidate, occupying the Aoademy of Musio, .and Mr Herries,-the Opposition onndidate, npealsihg (it the Wftihi Miners' Unioji Hull, ; : ( '■'! The following will represont the City Cricket Club in thoir match with Suburbs Cricket Club at .Worth's paddock on' Saturday wxt: McKay; Howell, Morgan, Pi'RCOolio, Newaiok, Murriou, Cornihn'iite, Goodwin, Bnrnell, Barron, Oave, Emergency i lrein,: alio tiniofor receiving acceptances .fori l ite summer meeting of the Thames Jockey Club has been extended 1 to Friday, 15th, Dcceiiibw. ■ Aco'eptoncos will bo received, up io 8 p.m. on that day by Mr. H.' B. Masaoy, 10 Hifili-a'rot-t, Auoklnodi: or by tho secretary, Mr. William H, Potts, box 7, post officoi Thames, >

-Probably v«y (#<v, if any, wlio listonad to Mv John McLindon during hi.l 'cello rcO'tMa as Miss Msclachlan's concert on Monday ovoning hivi any idea of tlw value, of (be inslrument'ho was playing on, It is oiio of twenty-font or: twenty-five now in existence, and was mado by tho famous 'cello and :, violin : uiftlter Stiaaf, end is dated 1720, of one hundred and eightyfive years agoi It is ; valued at from JISOO to i2oooi There appears to be Borne confusion aa to fie generalbook post; reflations, applying to both printed and comnieroiai papers. According to tho regulations a book-paoket may bo posted either without, a cover, in which case it must not be fastened in imy-way; or in a cover, en* tircly open at one or both ends, so as to I admit of the contents being easily with-. I drawn, for examination, If an enve-1 lopo;. bo used, it must- be entirely opened ntono end, or the flap (timed in» I 'side: .Small slits cuts in the end of closed, envelopes are not regarded as leaving a packet open : for inspection. Fur tbo greater security of iho contents, howovor, it may be';tied at iho onds with string, but the string must be easy to untie. According to a refloat cable American footba'l was responfiblo during tho past five years for no fewer than 45 draths and hundreds of 'serious injuries, l'he 45 , players killed were generally found boneAth ii iimsa of other players, kicked on the head or stomach, and , internally injured' to a mortal degree. Sixteen died ua a result of . i.iternal injuries, four from broken neoks, six from coriciissioii of tho brain, eight train broken,baoks,thr6e from parfiljsia, two from ho:ii't failure, one from lockjaw, one from blood-poisoning, one from a out received in a game, ono frond hemorrhage, and two from meningitis induced by spinal injuries sufferod in play. "

c'"/: ■ • A presentation for a notable not of bravery was mode recently at Kalgoorlio ((Vent • Australia), whon a lpmer named Edward Niohols was presented with a fjold watch and chaiti, and a ehtquo for 150. Sorno months at;o n bidor, tiamuel Bentloy, was working in a Btope on the 1200-ft ' level, (ind after assisting in obarging n round of holes with dynamito, : was in tho apt of retiring-to tbo lovel below for snfoty, wheftf one;of the charged boles exploded. Nichols, .who; was. >' few ;foet further diiwn'tbttnJßc'ntlflj; was portly sheltorod from, the fdroe of tho, explosion, and was not injured. ' He called out to flnd if anyone was hurt, and, bearing bis injurod comrade call for help, ha courage- • ously groped his way back, arid, rolling a big atone off Bontloy, suoceoded at ibe peril of his life in gelling his fatnlly injured comrado down to tho lovol from ' ihe stope. •. ■ i ' List night St. Joseph's branch of.tho H.A,O'BiS, changed: tjidr place of meet; '• irig'from.tbo oohvont" soboolroom 'to the old ohurcb, Main-street. The opening of the new. meeting room riat celebrated by : holvliog a sooi.al evening, :a large number of members and |ady friends being "prosebt. : The usual business of tho sooiety was first •iransiotod/ One new member wan initiat- ' ed, and thieo .proposed., The delogates 1 on the Hospital Coniofosoo reported as to I resolutions at - last Conforerieo mooting. ; After Bouio discussion, it was resolved ! that as tho members would require to doi vote all their osergics to making the ! '(Hibernian annual sports on St. • Patriok's • Day a- success, the-Society take part ; in no othe:' athlalio sports meetings, I A committee was appointed to draw tip a i. preliminary spotts trogrammej.and aubmit it to next meeting. Aftcijthe meeling 1 blos;da progressive ouohre tournament waß commenced, and resulted in .Miss MoMahori winning tbe ladjoß- and Mr'E; 'Hooker;;, the. gQUtleipen'fi. Tho prize for the ladies was: beftuiifal bird tbp Fatbor ' Brodio, containing a oanary presented by : Bro. A; fieid, arid for (ha genjlomeh a . beautiful framed pictuw presented by Bto. M, Piaaunj. , Thoro was also a email : billiard table in a leprnor of the baU.' Dun • ing the evening songs wero given' by: Miss ' A. Power,yMossts Irvine, ; 'J?aul, BayleßS, Lynch, Forum, Rov. father Brodio, and i duet by Mr. and • Mrs, Ganely.: Mrs, Budd and Mr. Christian kindiy played the 1 acoompaniments-, A vontriliquial act bj j Mr. J. Kennedy eausod much laughter Lightrefreshments were handed round, ' ,nd the evening cloned with a set of lancers, Lt the conclusion, P. P. Bro', Collins rentned thanks to all who had assisted in omributing to the jiucooss of the ovoring; nnd stated that as now they wore not iterferinp with sobpbl work, they intonded o frocjunntly hold such social ovonings.