News in Brief.

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IV, Issue 1034, 7 July 1904, Page 1

News in Brief.

I There tiro 9700 houses in the City of Wellington. Yesterday the English Footballors defeated Northern Districts, (N.S.W.) by 17 points to 8. Wellington lias a much larger total of subscribers or connections than any othor to'opliono exobango iu the colony. The by-laws of the Karori (Wellington) Bori.-ugh Council prohibit the oreotion of dwci.ing of less size than 26ft by 26ft, The Waihi Minors'and Workers' Union anmi il reunion and danco will be held tomorrow evening in the Aoadomy of Music. The Ngapara correspondent of the Oamaru Mail suggests that a fund for tho widows and families of the Japanese slain in battle should be raised in the colony. Lord Pluukot has intimated that he will be ploased to accept tbo position of patron of tho Navy Loaguc in New Zealand, Tho lakes, rivers, and stroams about Botoraa arc simply teeming with trout, and everything points to a good spawning A poll taken at Mauku on' Saturday on the question of rating on tho unimproved value resulted as follows:—For, 23; against, 49; informal, !. When tho personal effects of the late David McNeil, who was killed in a drey accident at Hillond (Olago) some month* ago, wero being sold, deceased's will was found in tho pocket of an old vest, Tho Hokilika Guardian says in a Lord Plunkot, tbo noff Governor, is a cousin of tho Speaker of tho Houso of Representatives) the Hon, Arthur Guinness, member for Greyuiouth, Tho Pelorus Guardian says there is in New Zealand one paper to about overy 3800 inhabitants. In Victoria the proportion is about one in 30,000, and in New South Wales ono in 38,000. The tender of Mr P, D, Hunter, late o { Waitckauri, has bean accepted by Mr Wedev Spragg, managing director of the N.Z. Dairy Association, for thb oreotion of a creamery at Ohaupo, Madame Paderewski, wife of the eminent pianist, who will shortly visit Now Zealand, is a Polish Countess,' and the musician's second wife, M. Padcrewski's first wife, to whom he was married at tho age of nineteen, died at the birth of their only son. This son, who was always an invalid, died some three years ago.