THE Daily Telegraph WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE WASH I MINER TUESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1922. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XX, Issue 6794, 19 December 1922, Page 2

THE Daily Telegraph WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE WASH I MINER

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1922. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Here hLuII the Prana the People's Right maintain Unawod by intiuenc-e ami unbribud by gain Hole Patriot Truth hor glorious precepts draw. Pledged to Religion Libertv and Law

In order that members of the staff may take full advantage of the Christmas vacation, there will bo no publication of the Daily Telegraph on Monday, December 25 (Christmas Day) and Tuesday, December 26 (Boxing Day). Advertisers will therefore please make their arrangements accordingly. A concert, organised by the Hast End School, will be held in the Miners' Onion Hall to-night. A reminder of the event appears in our advertising columns. The last meeting for the year of Pride ot Waihi, No. 20, U,A 0.D., will be held to-morrow evening, at which all brethren are requested to be present. Mr H- Deverell announces elsewhere iliat he has established a daily car service to the Waihi Peach Particulars of the time table appear on our third page. The Waihi mines will close clown for the Christmas and New Year vacation on Thursday next (21st inst.) at midnight, and work will be resumed on Wednesday, January 3rd. In connection witli the tenders recently called for painting a portion ot the Waihi Hospital buildings, that of Mr W. A. Pringle was accepted. The tenders submitted ranged Irom £35 to £‘63. On the Auckland Stock Exchange this morning Waihi shares were in demand at 33s 9d, sellers asking 31s. Grand Junction shares were wanted at 10s 2d. holders declining to quit at Jess than 10s 6d. Mounataium were sought ai 3s Id, but none were offering under 3s 54While dressing a sheep at the Waihi municipal abattoirs yesterday, Mr C. Higgs (jnr.), assistant slaughterman, met with a painful accident. The knife he was using slipped, inflicting a very severe gash in the tight hand, which had to be stitched up. He will probably be unable to resume work for some time, The local weather observer, Mr C. F« Sims, gives the rainfall for Waihi to I a.m. on Sunday as 1 inch, 9 n.m. on Monday '2B ot an inch, and to 9 a.m. this morning as ‘BO ot an inch, making a total fall ot 2TJ inches. The barometer has been very low, but shows signs of rising. An unusual case occupied the attention of the surgery staff at the Auckland Hospital yesterday morning, when an infant child named Darcy Self, whose parents live at Tuakau, was X-rayed for the purpose ot locating an iron staple which ho had swallowed. Tho child’s strange and dangerous “ titbit ” was found, and the doctors were successful in removing the piece of iron without hurting the youngster, who was taken back to his home later in the aftermon | none tho worse and, being so young, none the wiser. A motor-cycle and its rider dashed into the river near tho New Brighton bridge in Christchurch at about 5 o'clock on tiunjay evening (relates the Press), Tho motor cyclist was Arthur Ernest Winterburn, residing at 53 Armagh Street. In swerving to sgoid a motor car a.t the approach of the brjdge, Winterran fns machine into a stone wall, with I,he result that )te and the motorcycle were throw*; pnt.Q the river by the force of the impact. Dr Stevens, of New Brighton was summoned, and it was found that iho motor cyclist had escaped with a severe shaking. An experienced whale-fisher now on a visit to Palmerston North is of opinion jthat Hie industry should cease because of the d Y of the whale becoming extinct, L hundred yparc a »o, with crude n p. pliances, Now Zealand' produced an immense quantity of valuab'c oil." Noy', with tin; must modern equipment and m greased value of the product, 14!) 'whales secured ijj. a year yielded less than worth, A fie;; lof well equipped vessels was vent to New Ze«land from Nora ay a Jew yeers vgo, -Dll l they failed to pa? t iif ;• c way. imps are pn lye ted ; but .lucre iifputpr to save (lie vikalt from