News in Brief.

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IV, Issue 1084, 3 September 1904, Page 1

News in Brief.

A boy at Christjhureb wns fined tivo shillings and costs for throwing snowballs at dctonceless ladies,

A special and important meeting of tho Waihi Miners' and Workers' Union is advortieod to tako place to-uight in Union Hall.

Tenders aro invited for an oight-rooined dwelling, For particulars apply to Masses Ilaszard and Haszard, engineers, Main .' treet.

The Coroumndcl Hospital has reached n linancinl crisis, and it is fearod that unless funds aro forthcoming tho institution will have to close down.

No fewer than BDOO sheets of foolscap woro used in taking tho evidence in'a long-drawn Nativo Land Court case in tho Bay of Plenty district.

The dance in connection with tho fifth anniversary of tho Waihi 1,0, Kecabitcs last night was a great success, there belli;; a vory large attendance.

To-day tho competition amongst tho members of tho No, 3 Ohincmuri Riilo Volunteers for Captain Jackson's trophy was commenced at tho local range.

A novel method of preparing a floor for dancing was adopted in Napier tho other day. A motor oar was run ropoatedly over tho floor, and in that way a capital surface was obtained,

Thero is a backwash from South Africa, Tho a.s. Marathon, which reached Melbourne the other day, brougnt a largo nninber of passongors roturning from that land of blighted hopes,

A Now Zealander who went to Canada to go on tho land writes to tho Otaki Mail: "I am glad to have come to this placo for tho experience, but will be glad to be back in New Zealand,"

At tho Wellington Magistrate's Court, judgment was givou for sixpence, and costs 19s, Tho dofondant had been sued for ono guinoa, and had paid that amount less sixpence, and without iosts, into Court.

An exchange understands that "owing to tho largo demands made on his lime through businoßß engagements, Mr T, E, Taylor will not seek re-election to Parliament at the end of his presont term," Tho Now Zealand Times records tho fact that the pupils (boys aud girls) of the upper standards of the Borhampore school wero interested spectator of the proceedings in tho House of Koprcsontatives on a recont afternoon, .

When Field-Marshall Oyama left Tokio for tho front early .last month a baDd on the railway platform almost drownod tho cheering with which hundreds of Japanese sent him on his way, by a vigorous performance of" Auld Lang Syne." Tho Bay of Plenty Times notifies tbo approach of spring, and gently reproaches its borough oflicials at tho same tirno, by reminding thorn that tho cows havo takon to grazing on the wharf and the tram linos, so luxuriant is tho crop of grass. According to tho Labor Department the scarcity of errand boys, which has been marked of late, is duo to tho prosperity ot the colony, parents being able to afford to keoy thoir boys longer at school and to placo thorn in the way of learning a trado