NEWS IN BRIEF

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IX, Issue 2571, 7 June 1909, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF

fI } A -highwayman and his victim, a , ('ufit-oms olhcial, wore found clasped to-, | gother in the River Inn, near • Imiß- * ill'lick, into which lliey had fallen during | a fitnigglo. I The Irouch War Minibter lias decidJ nd, says the Paris Matin, to organise a • competition for aerial eruisors capnblo of a speed of over thirty miles an hour. "Tho editor if. sick of the'job, tho 6taft' refuso to and no money is coming in; therefore expect nothing from us." is the startling announcement which grcoted readers of tho Soliloswiger Woclie lately, when tho Inst number of tho paper appeared. In a lecture before the ltoyal Society of Arts, llr, John Ferguson, C.M.G., ; proprietor of the Coylon Observor, estimated that tho tea, harvest of Coyloii would reach 36,000,000 toiw in 19M. The recommendations as to'tlw use of the natural voice at divine service, which wore made by the Bishop of Birmingham to his rural deans, havo aroused great interest, and it- is probable that lliey will be largely adopted by the clergy, By converting milk into a hard, boiiy material a new industry has he«ii created in Hamburg. The substanco is called " galiath," and is odorless, not inilammablc, and will take anv colour and a high polish."

| Ono of tho local rabbit merchants recently 6 ont. way from tho Ualduthn railway stntion no lees than 'IB,OOO rabbits in lildays. This frays tho Free' I'rt'ss) provides food for reflection, Keorgo Mernlield, who had Ihrasliod his children with the buckle end of a hi rap. kicked one of them with hit* bobnailed boots until the child fainted, thrown the same bov into a tub of cold water, and kept another shut up all night in a cupboard in which ho could not. lie down, has been sentenced to throw months' hard labour at Watford, England. An alarming outbreak of cerebrospinal meningitis him hrokon uul in I'nrk us well us in eonio parts of t.lw provinces. SoWicrs r are the. priiicipsil sufferers J;ul in Paris, it hax attacked •school children and workmen. InstrucI lions have been i-sited hy (ho sanitary "iitlioritics as to (he bM precautions the (I kmc, and the isolation »l all the patients lia.s been ordered. In answer to the charge (hat women ,"'ink of Imperial (niestions. M r I'orbes-Kobi'ilson, speaking at, Newc.ftlc, said that il there had not been women voters in Zoiilmid wl* might not have had the oiler ol a Dreadnought. A German inventor hat managed to replace the needle in the phonograph with a jet of compressed air which follows the record without, friction, mid thus do'js away with the uimlcnMnt i era (clung and buzzing which have nlllicted the instrument.. A Masleiioii merchant,, speaking to ;i Wairarapa Daily Times reporter, staled that though nothing definite was known, (here was a rumour afloat in Wellington to the effect that lea and sugar would again he uiadc sulijcd lo duty during the coming Parliament. Hie convict, lease K.vstcm in (.ieorgia, the abuses of which have been mercilessly exposed hy a, commit,tc of the Legislature, liais been abolished, The convicts arc being transferred from private stoekadiv- to the counlies'in which the crimes were committed, and will work on public roads, The couvm I; in Hie camps hailed the change with, and prayer, A Catholic missionary lather, who had contracted sleeping sickness during the course .of his labour,i in Central Africa, was seized with a fresh attack in the I.uzcmbourg tfiinlens, mid lias succumbed to the disease at. the Pasteur Institute. There are now H patienU in various stages of t,lw sickness undergoing treatment at the institute.