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—*. In tho Academy of Music to-morrow "Esther," tlio beautiful cantata, will bo given.
"Religions formalities cau no moro make a Christian than a fashionable tailor's well-out suit can make a inau,"-Kov J. Pattullo.
The earthquake which was experioncsd at New Zonhnd on tho 9th August was very plainly recorded in West Australia on tho seismograph at the Perth Observatory,
It is stated that souio'Thauies residents are to be summoned to Rive ovidenco in tho Seddou Taylor libel case—some as to Mi Taylor's contention of cowardice; others to refute it.
A commencement has now boen mado ay the Public Works Department to construct tho largo railway bridge ovorlhe Waitckauri vivor, on tho Waihi uido of Waikino,
Mr Samuol T, Whitohouse, seuetaiy J the Thames Land, Building and Investment Socioly, notifies by advertisement that he will be in Waihi' to-morrow on business in connection with his. Soofety. As tho rosult of tho investigation of tho alleged plot against Lord Milnor, in connection with which three supposed Anar> ohists wero arrested at Johannesburg last mouth, one of the men has been deported. l'adorowski. Hie long-haired violinist, is said to bo so open-handed that ho is frequently tbo victim of unscrupulous beggars. His people havo to oxorcise the greatest vigilance to prevent him from impoverishing himsolf. On tho bursting of the monsoon at Lucknow, gutters and ditches woro flooded. shook of fishes being afterwards found in tho water. It is supposed that they were sucked up at sea by the fiorco wind and showered down ovor the city.
An Austrian astronomer maintains that tho moon controls the rain. His theory is that when the moon is moving north there aro years of drought. There is plenty of rain when tho moon is moving south. Tho wet periods last nine years, and the dry eight years.
A young man at Stratford was lilting a box containing groceries into a cart whon a roouso jumped from the box right dowu his throat, He drovo to a doctor's Bur«i fiery, whor a strong emetic was. given to him, but without effect. ♦For several hoars tho man suffered considerable diet comfort, but ho is now well again, " We should ondoavour to koop this Court as freo as possible frpm ceremonial," obscrvod Mr Haseldon, tho Christchurch S.M., tho other morning, while ovor. ruling a technical objection that a case had not been laid in tho proper manner, "This is tho peoplo's Court, and we should not try to ape tho ceromonial procedure of tho biglior Court,"
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Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IV, Issue 1086, 6 September 1904, Page 1
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420News in Brief. Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IV, Issue 1086, 6 September 1904, Page 1
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