News in Brief

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume VI, Issue 1849, 26 January 1907, Page 1

News in Brief

The nun of ,1677 was*sponHn .wllevingtsl deatitnteAuetrgllanaia'lhei'SfiiFranpiiM.il disaster, ; ' ' ' :,i ■ '■' u 7sgi .Tho Fetloral lroo6ip*a-for ; were 1 £6,888,691, and' the'' expenditar^sl Sir Joseph .Ward leaves Auokiatid v fo'ry *i Bydnoy, en route to England, on afternoon, - , -■■ '•.'','Vr^ls [ Asumof«2Bo at Hastings, and £2(30 at [North towards the Homeßule : fdnd.*v.'" M At Melbourne on ThD«day.jtHerei»Vsi good oompetition ■ for market was firm for all descriptions. [ ':f^| , A dark'oheatnni horse ; has be'fo jm.'w§ pounded and if not aud expenses '£& paia it will be sold on Wednesday 80th" ■& Inst. • ! : y;vs A sharp frost,- BeVere in its ©motjOtt i. - young potato crops, was experienced. ?■ wound Ngaiw, •■ Taranaki, ; on Sunday: ■, morning, ',•! .■,;.■; There are thirty,plague patients} In ; Post Douglas (Queensland) hospital. A A mostly drawn from the cane cuttW-'.K oampsi .•. :j j.■ ..! fi . I .'■ v, No few than 156 applications were )«o. : '^ oeived for the; position'of master (id ;- matron of the Ohiro Bonovolebt Home, ' Wellington, , . vA fioroe fight- has ooourred among|the".''•«, iblaokß noar Milaog, South Aaßtealia. One "■ had his skull smashed in, and died, His ■ ; ,■ assailant has been arrested, * Tho South Canterbury Hospital Boatd 'A has let.a ooniraot for the ereoiion of a new ■-K operating theatre at the Timaru Hospitalr : ■;= Tho theatre is to out 1760,. • ■ V Mr Devlin, M.P„ the} Home Bulo envoy, will arrive In Waihi b'ythe 6#m, : : train on Monday, and will be iay,ited;to dinner by the committee at the Mob Boy - : Hotel, ..:.;,/_' The following New Zealandors have ■": beonaddedtotheQueenslandPeabaOpmv \A. mission;-Messrs Baiison, lukin (Wei* lingtoi-), Oatr, Kirstr (Anokiarid), and ' Crookton (Ohriatchurob), The Canadians have enthnsiastioally rooiprooatel Mr Eli Hoot's ftiendlinoss and (sympathy, and is especially gratifiod at his frank recognition of Canada's national equality with tho Onitod SUes.

Counoillor Haokoey, the now Mayor of Stoke-on-Trent, is a teototallor, and has annouDoed that, ioßtead of giving refreßh. mems on Mayor's. Bnndayj ho iptends lo give £25 to provide boots for needy otaildron and £lO to the town's slok nursing fund, ■ . ; • a

Mr Ooghb, Agflht-Qahflval 'or MW., has bad an iutotview ia London with tbo Commissioner of Customp, who hits arranged that Australian leather shall no longer be stopped for analysis, the Cus. toma charging doty on the quantities o( sugar as stated in export certificates.

Mr Donovan, the Irish envoy, delivered an eloquent address ontbeflome Rule question before a large audience in tbo Victoria Theatre, Weslport, on Than-, day night, and at the opnoluMoh was accorded a hearty vote of thanks, i resolution of sympathy, moved by Mi Oolvio, M,H,B„ was unanimously oari'lel

In coDneotion with ihe'Qenxian Frinoe Builow's chief appeal is addressed '. to the eleotora who wore indifferent at tbe former elootionß. There were - four mil ion absentious from voting in 1908, largely in the country divisions, K the. .; presont weather persists bis hopes in that direotion will be adversely affeoted. It is stated by the Bay of Plenty Tims that an inquiry is about to be held as the " result of a protest made to the Minister ~. > for Health and Tourist Resorts Depart- . moot regarding the ioadequaey of the nursing staff of the Botorua Sanatorium, - more particularly in eonneotion with the troatmont'of one of Te Fake's esteoined . eettlerß who reoently died there,,, ~.: