News in Brief.
Hospital ball tonight. The Waihi junior football reps, play Karangahako junior ropH. on tho local ! resorvo to-morrow. Thoro tiro over 19,000 volunteers in the colony, and so'nio 10,000 cadets, the Ministor of Defenco says. I Tenders will be received by Mr E, Simnis, architee. for alterations and addi* lions to two shops in tho main street, Tho charitable inßitutions of the colony I get a little over £IO,OOO a year for the maintenance of old-age pensioners, it is rumoured that 140,000 is to bo 'subscribed to establish the now evening paper in Wellington, and that it will be run on independent lines. Mr Tanner, of "Tanner's Ark" fame, paid a visit to the sccno of the stranding of his last ark, which he set fire to ps it safeguard to provent it being currLi, u nl to sea, The annual election of officers of the Waihi Millers' and Workers' Union will be held in the Union Hall to-morrow, commencing at 9 a.m., and closing at 9,80 p.m. Mr Withoford told the House on Wed* nosday that a bolt of gold was running from Waihi right down to Hawko's Bay, and said the Government ought to open it up. Mr Hascldcn, Stipendiary Magistrate at Chrislchurch, ruled tho other day, regarding a claim for medical oxponses that it was obligatory upon a medical man to set out tho details of his claim. Mr Alf, Warbriek, the weil.known Botorua guide, states that tho' lakes, rivers, and streams about JRotorua are teeming with trout, and everything points 1 to a good spawning season. An Invercargill Borough Councillor has resigned his Beat as a protest against the continuous heaping up of tho overdraft, the immediate reason being tho expenditure of £4OO on a house for tho abattoir inspector, whoso salary is £BOO, A German scientist, who has lived for many years in Japan, declares that in tho next generation tho Japaneso people will cease to be small in size, and that already in girtli and hoight they aro ap* proachiug tho size of Europeans. He attributes this to tho adoption of European habits, Tho Minister for Defence has approved of an allowance of Is 6d per day to members of tho mounted corps whorr ordored out for an all-day parade as escort guard of honor, etc, This will bo in addi4 lion to tho allowanco of 2s Od per man at present granted for attendance at daylight parades, making 4s in all,
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Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IV, Issue 1059, 5 August 1904, Page 1
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410News in Brief. Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IV, Issue 1059, 5 August 1904, Page 1
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