News in Brief.

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IV, Issue 1058, 4 August 1904, Page 1

News in Brief.

Hospital Ball on Friday evening next. Over 800 deaths from consumption Occurred in the colony last year, Government paid in subsidies last year to hospitals and charitable institutions tho sum of 195,577, Three Jnpaneso at Singleton, New South Wales, kavo been purchasing! horses for their Government. Two girls who escaped from the Redruth Jleformatory, Victoria, on||July 2nd, wore, found 45 milos away. Ninety-five per cont. of tho eggs in the l'rairio. State incubator, on exhibition at the Poultry Show, produced healthy ohio' kens, A man named Frano Grubisie,- an Austrian, while crossing a river on wire at Waitewheta, foil into tho (water and was drowned. It is stated that over £4OO was subsoiijud at a meeting in Wellington towards tho establishment of a co?operative Socialist newspaper in New Zealand, " Doing business without advertising, 1 ' saysahumoristst, "is like winking at a' girl in the dark; you know what you aro doing, but nobody else does," .Peter Ward, one of Auckland's repro* sentativo footballers, is ut present coacht ing the Karangabako reps, in view of the forthcoming inter'union matches. The football match played at Taihapo on Saturday resulted (says the local paper) in a big discussion at night, and in sever* al instances blows were exchanged. The snow on tho hills this morning was quite an unusual sight, It was to bo seen on tho tops of the trees in tho|bush behind Hollis', whero wo havo nover seen it before, Mr Pao Otoni, of Hwlso's 33ay, has jus' passed his examination as a mechanical onginoer, at Auckland, being ono of the first Maoris to successfully go through tho necessary ordeal. It is statod thcro aro 137 known casos of tuberculosis ia Wellington, a fourth of tho patients being indigent people, Tho Public Health Department intend to use every effort to stomp tho disease out of tho colony, A comteinporary, commenting on a penalty imposed in Masterton in connection with a recent pea-rifle case 1 remarks! "It is this kind of "lenient" treatment that is offering n premium for tho iudis* criminate uso of the pea-Trifle." Tho Russian Government spend moro money on their Press consors thati on their schools, Lust year 83 papers were suspended for various periods, and 26 wero forbidden to accept all advertisement?, while 259 editors wore told they could have a short vacation in Siberia if they continued their mothods of reviving various public questions. A letter receivod in Napier gives the following description of Mrs. Donnelly's Court dross, which tho writer says was " all black; plumes, veil and gloves. Tho dress was composed of sequin net and jet trimmings and chiffon frills, rfho carried a bouquet of pink carnations and orchids, a present from Lady Ranfurly, She woro'no jewellery. A tiki round her neck, and a chicftainess comb in hor hair. Sho looked vory stately."