News in Brief.

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IV, Issue 1056, 2 August 1904, Page 1

News in Brief.

Annual ball in connection with the Waihi Hospital will be hold on Friday , evening noxt, Mrs Henry Wilde, a very old resident of Coromaodel, died at tho Auckland Hospital on Saturday, The British football loom will visit Eotorua after tboir match agaiußt Avck* land on August 20th, An Australian band will probably coino over to Auckland to compoto in tho band contest m February, "Esther,theßoautifulQueen,"will be given by tho Wesloyan Church choir to* morrow (Wednesday) evening, A special bank'holiday will bo observed in Wellington on the day of the BritishNow Zoaland match on August 13th, Mr. J, J, Craig, tho Chairman of Directors of tho Waihi Extended Gold Mining Company, arrivod in Waihi to* day. The Friendly Socioties' mooting in con. nection with the Waihi Hospital Confer-" orioe will l)e il beli,,tojhjghfein Meyer's At the BritislnNew Zealand match at Wellington there will be accomodation in tho grandstand ana seats for 1200 people, and on tho ground for 20,000. There are 290 flaxuiills in the colony, employing ovor 5000 hands, and during nino months of the year produoing 350,000 tons, aggregating fully one million in money, Tho Kaipara, which has arrived at Dunedin from London, passed twenty-five bergs of various sizos, besides floating lumps, hardly big enough toaspiroto the dignity of bergs. Lecturing at Hamilton, Mr. Cleuion' Wrnggo said that between 1908 and 1912 increased volcanic activity was to bo oxpectod, Eotorua would, he said, bo undoubtedly affected, As a result of the nowa reaching Aucklaud yesterday in rogard to the reef in the Extended mine being again intersected great excitement prevailed, and the scone lit tho Stock Exchange at the noon call was reminiscont of tho boom period, Among the items in the' Unauthorised Expenditure Account,' laid before Parliament, the other day, was "Payment to Imporial Government for claims for loot, ing in South Africa by tho Eighth- and and Tenth Contingents, 12016s Bd," The Auckland Bu<;by Union have decided to orect for the footbnll match a temporary stand on tho eastern sido of the ground at Epsom, which, with tho ono already up, will give extra seating accommodation for 1700 people. Tho charge to theso stands has been fixed at Is. A special meeting Ohinomuri County Council was hold on Friday, to consider applications for tbo position of engineer, Thtro were 17 applications from all over tho colony, and the final decision was postponed until tho ardinary meeting of the Council this day week. Tho Rev H, E. Dewsbury said at Christchurch tho other day:-" Newspapers were not run on sentimental linos, They were business concerns, and they gavo just what they were paid for. If people paid for only an inch of spaco to announce a church mooting, what right had they to gruuiblo beoauso a column and a-half was not devoted to reporting it?"