News in Brief.

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IV, Issue 1035, 8 July 1904, Page 1

News in Brief.

Mr H, W. Northcroft, S.JJ., left Wfti'J _ I early this morning for Auckland. The lodo in the No. 2 lovel of the Wailii Grand Junction miuo has, it is reported) again disappeared. It is understood that the Licensing Bill will make its appoaranco at a. tolerably oarly stage of the session. The March returns of gold from South African minos wai at the rate of nearly £Ij,OOO,QUO per annum. The question as to what system of lighting should bo adopted for the new municipal chambers is still in abeyance, It is rumoured that Sir George Clarke, one of the finest administrators Britain possesses, after lord Crouier, is to succeed Lord Milner at Pretoria, The final of the local Cup football fix* lures will be played between Suburbs and My to-morrow. An Auckland referee will have charge of the game. A West Coast parson advertisod a special sermon from the stranded steamer Tor* ganten. Ho drew a huge crowd, and dealt with Paul's ancient shipwreck. A theatre-goer, whilo witnessing the performance of "The Christian" at the Opera House in Wellington, was relieved of a purse containing 30 sovereigns. A Maori boy who fell into ono of tho boiling pools at Whakarowji.ewa eoaii three weeks ago sucoumbed to his* injuries on Saturday, after undergoing much suffering. Waihi Minors and Workers' annual roumon, whioh will take tho form of danoiog interapened with musical items, will tnko place to-night in the Academy of Music, ' " I think Charitablo Aid Boards should be done away with, and that the Hospital Irusiees, elected directly by the people, should handle the whole business."—The Hon A, Baldey (Olago). f thirty .seven hotels have been closed in the North Melbonrno district, owing to the local option poll. A commission has been appointed to determine the amount o compensation to be paid to the owners of the hotels thus closed, A Melbourne paper says that out of somo three thousand police reports of robbery, either from tho person or from pfacesa which liavb boon outsted up iu sinco tbo beginning of this YGBr t '' it is quite safo to say that not 3 per cent have been detected,"

For the vacant seats on tho Board of Mixtion tho retiring members, Messrs R, Hobbs (ohaiirman), L, J, Bagnall, *ud p. Dye, oiler tbomaelves for re-election, and aro opposed by Mgbsm Gerald L Poaoocke 1 SWi'l'w N ' Andrew *nd J, D, McKenzie (ffhangnvci, Mr E, Buckeridgo'a billiard tournament, as eneli succesaivo game is played, ii croalmg considerable interest to frequenters of his rooms at the Waihi Hotel, Last night, the two crack players, Messrs Memo and Tryson, in tho tournainont, met, when tho latter ,vas defeated, introduced tllfrlady to a friend, who ried her a couple o( years ago, Second thoughts induce! the first acquaintance and the lady to believe that tbey had mado a mistake, and this is how they remedied it,