News in Brief.

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IV, Issue 1032, 5 July 1904, Page 1

News in Brief.

An epidemic of mumps is raging in , Auckland, The Montgomery Entertainers conf eluded their season hero last night, First half-yearly meeting of "the looal branch of the Hibernian Society to-nighti The sum of £'3oo has been collected towards thu cost of erecting a Trades Hall •in Auckland, Lit Moss is urging the Minister for Lands to state when the fteehold of the Pa r roa township is to be sold, A Wiihi business as a going concern ii offered for sale, Particulars may be ob* tained from Mr 0, J, Saunders, Mr S. T, Whitehouse, secretary of tho Thames Laud, Building and Investment Society, {.ays his usual periodical visit to Waihi to-morrow, A meeting of the local branch of tho Liberal and Labour Federation of -lew Zealand will bo held in Myer's Hall to-morrow night, Tho attendance at the Coromandel High School is not good, and a hint has been given by tho local papor that if it docs not improve tho school will be closed. Tho captain of the English football team now touring Australia, says that while he expects to win ovcry match in Australia, ho is not at all so confident about the prospects of tho team in New Zealand. Mr Baumo has givon notice of hislba' tion to introduce a Savings Bank Proms Bill, the object of which is to enablo savings banks in tho Auckland provincial district to dispose of part of their profits to certain educational anil other institution, amongst which is tho Auckland Uniycrsity College, Tho patent lottor stamping machine, tho invention of Mr E, Moss, of Christchurch, which got out of gear when last on trial in Wellington, has been Bet up onco more in tho portico of the Goneral Post Office, to undergo further trial, At Middlomarsh last week, W. D. Mason, J,l',, chairman of tho local school comt mitteo, was cliargod with failing to send his children to school tho required number of times prescribed by tho Aot. There wore two informations, and a fino of 2s on each was imposed.