NEWS IN BRIEF.

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IX, Issue 2572, 8 June 1909, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Norway seoeded '(aimivomry) 1905. "Tho Frolics" at tbe Academy oh Friday night. Applications for mining claims still I rolling in. ! A reward is offered for the return • of a gold bangle. An effort is being mado to establish ii. gymnasium in Waihi. Retired footballers v. Waihi representatives Saturday next. Haywards' r Mures and Entertainers, Wednesday evening. Yesterday was tho anniversary of the death of Edwin Booth (1893). Sir J. E. Millars, bom Bth June (1892), died August 13 (1896). Yesterday was the anniversary of tho passing of the first Reform Bill (1832.) lUuslratod lecture, "Fiji and tho Fijians" in tho Wesley Church to-night by Rev. Poole. Next Court day a batch of footpath 'cycle riders will bo up "before the Magistrate. Pictures and musical entertainment at the Academy Theatre to-morrow evening. Costume Comedy Concert Company, " The Frolics," appeal' at the Academy iTlioatro on Friday and Saturday evenI iug next. I Mr. A. Auckland, of the Central Hotel, is selling off his largo stock of wines, spirits, and ales at greatly reduced prices. Thero are said to bo over twenty cinematograph shows travelling in the North Island at the present time. A Carterton man says be has made £IOO more this season than last, and with tho same number of cows. _ . John O'Brien, from whose -mouth four sound teeth were extracted by an employee of the Hygenic Institute, Glasgow, was awarded £6O damages against tbe Institute.

Tlio post office in King Edward VII. Land (opened when the Shackelton expedition was despatched to the Antarctic) is gazetted as closed. The leading cycle dealers of Timaru have decided to raise the price of repairs as from Juno 1, this action being necessitated through the latest award affecting their trade. Queensland is trying the experiment of making railways in advance of settlement, and it is claimed that the system is doing good already. The people follow the railways. Rather than disclose the fact that she wore a wig, a woman whose hair accidentally oaught lire at a friend's house in Marseilles allowed her face, and neck to bo badly scorched before she tried to extinguish the flames,. ll is interesting to note that of thoso whu have signed the petition for a ■military pension for New Zealand field service, the youngest aire is given !is 61 years, quite a number are over 70, one 83, one 92, and one 09.

The utlior dii.v al Feikliiig, while indications were decidedly gloomy, ut man <vas overheard asking an elderly lady whoihcr she thought it was "Fowlds" or "Millar'' that was coming up. "1 don't know, but by the look of things 1 should say it was the whole Cabinet,' 1 «as her ready response.

A labourer at Tenali, India, in the Daccan, noticed something half buried in the foolpalh, endeavoured to rciu-ru it. and was blown to pieces. It is believed thai a bomb had been placed on the footpath to test ils efficiency.

The tiamoan (.iovornuiont has given notice to the owners of the wreck of Hie Adler, which ha* been lying on » reef at Apia since 1888, thai it bo removed within three months, After the expiry of this torm the Government will have the wreck removed at ihe owners' expense,