News In Brief

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume VII, Issue 2050, 23 September 1907, Page 1

News In Brief

Tlio Russian royal yacht Standart hafs 3oen refloated. Tho Franco-Canadian commercial treaty, has been signed.

Two children have died at Orange, and one at Mount Victoria, N.S.W., from eating hemlock plant.

Mr. John Burns has inspected tho Bothcl labour colony at Biolefield, Germany, and the Krupp works. A report shows tlmt the imports of Australian leather into. South Africa liavo increased in value from £26,700 in 1904 to £58,000 last year.

A large crowd, including many leadng cricketers, gave an enthuhiastio farewell to the Marylebone team at St. I'ancras station on Friday.

The London Corporation purpose to entertain the Kaiser in November at Guildhall, and present an address of welcome in a gold casket.

Eleven vessels, laden with fish, were stranded during a gale in Newfoundland, and five lives wero lost. The gale did enormous damage to fishing property.

Prank Wertheim, who shot Wolff Joel at Johannesburg on March 18th, 1898, ha'i been arrested in Paris on an English extradition warrant, on a charge of attempting to blackmail Solly Joel to the extent of £16,000. The total amount paid under the Victorian Old Age Pensions Act for the financial year 1906-7 was £187,792, and tho amount received from relatives of pensioners on account of orders of the Court'was £4079. The toal number of pensioners in Juno was 10,732, and the cost of administration was £1899.

In reply to an inquiry by a ■Wellington pressman as to when the police department intended making another raid on " two-up schools" in the Empire City, Chief Detective McGrath declared that there was no such thing in oxistcnco there at present. " HVe'vo cleaned the whole lot of them out."

Acoording to Mr. Pirani, there iB ox'taut in American eclk il circles a story of a little girl who was handed over to the matron of her school to be washed

becauso Bhe really needed it. The matron found she could not undress the child without damaging its clothing, and > the mother' was sent for. Her horror wnh patent. "What," she said, "bath' my little girl? Why, she's sowed up for the winter I!' A land sale of suburban residentialsitoi at Hastings, Hawke's Bay, took place a day or two ago, whon record. prices for that class of property were obtained. Nineteen and a-quarter acres were disposed of for a total of £5338, or an averago of abou £2BO per aero. Sixsections slightly over an acre in extent, close to the business part of the town, brought ovor £IOOO an acre. j - The International Congress of Mlneri

at Salzburg urges State ocqnitlilon of tbe ones and tbe prohibition of female libour in the mines, wbioh is steadily increasing, Enula intends to fortify VladlMilock on a colossal ioalo, and also to croato a port at Nioholaovelf, and conitroot huge barracks at Khabarovsk, the total cost to be <88,700, COO. Aoiblegram from Fork Darwin states that tbe leinen btiogs news that cholera Is raging in many patta of Japan, and alio that thfie has " been great storms and

floods, 1700 persons being drowned at Fukuohingame, Many peop'e were buried under the landslide!,, while Yokohama experienced the greateit floods from 40 years!