News in Brief.

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume VIII, Issue 2346, 8 September 1908, Page 1

News in Brief.

Hospital Trustees meeting last evening. The Merrymakers appear. at the Academy on Thursday night. Ihe Singer Sewing Machine Company are having a display of fancy art work at their Waihi depot. r-heridan's pantomime "Oindarella" 'o-Dight and Wednesday night at the Academy of Music. Tenders are invited by the County Engineer for the construction of water supply for Waikino, A- meeting of Mr. Armstrong's support tors will be held in rooms nest to Pilling's Hotel on Wednesday evening. A national Aerial .Navy League has been formed in Germany to conduct* propaganda in favour ofan.imperial fleet of airships. A general revival of prosperity is reported in America;' Mills and faotories are re-openjog, and in some placet the demand for labour'is greater than the supply, '. Much interest was excited by the appearance of a flotilla of fifteen torpedo craft in the metropolitan reaches of the Thames. Boine of the vessels steamed '- up as far as London Bridge. Reputed to be tho longest in the world) a steel bridge, two: miles) in length, for railway traffic, has just been completed at a cost of £400,000 across the Columbia river at Vancouver, Washington, U S.A. * The Alpine village of Bonaduz, situated in a fertile plateau 2160 feet high, near Coire, has been deßtroyei by fire, only five of 110 houses and the church and V; the Hotel Oberalp, whence the tourists fled, being saved, A Swiss named Althaus, who was disturbed by a comrade's snores, rose from bed and shot him dead, and then went -. quietly to sleep. A Berne jury took a lenient view of the case, and Althaus was only sentenced to six years 1 imprison* raent. Birmingham Guardians decided'that all aged poor over 70 who are at present in receipt of outdoor relief, and who had exercised any sort of thrift or had been respectable citizens in the parish during a number of years, should be granted 5s each per week from January Ist next. Woods' Gwat Peppermint Gun for Oonghi and Cold* never »»il» li M indlili. Of the prisoners who .were sent to New Zealand gaols during 1907 no fewer than 212 males and 22 females were to read and write, and 88 males and 16 females could only w rite. Forty males and one female were credited with " superior education;" and, 4668 males and 534 feiia'es were able to read and write. The Denton Hat is stocked only by S. Hetheringtou, Thames, Te Aroha, 'anil "Waihi. It is guaranteed solid value. 10s 6d; hard and soft fur felt. The possibility of tea being a causo of . lunacy !b mentioned in the report of the » ■:' Commissioners in Lunacy for Scotland , For 1907. The Commissioners think that • " perhaps excessive daily infusions, or rather decootions, of tea may; have an unsettling effect on subjects, mentally.an-,, .„-.- stable from birth, at adolescence, or at "■•% the climacteric," ■':?