News in Brief.

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IV, Issue 1112, 6 October 1904, Page 1

News in Brief.

Maori Water Carnival at Motutapu on Labour Day, 12th iust, The Hibernian social Inst night was a great success, oyer 200 being present, Mooting to-night ot the ladies' commit teo of (ho Inderal Band Bazaar at 7.30. Tho Waihi Federal Band played out in Main-street lust night in the presenco of a large number of people. An impounded horse, unless claimed ' and expenses paid, will be sold by auofcion at the pound on Wednesday, 12th iust, For writing the words" sly grog-soller'' on a blacksmith's buildings, a Tapanui youth was lined 10s, with lis costs (says Mataura Ensign).

\vu Ting fang (Ng Choy) and his colleague Sum, have completed the revision of China's criminal code. Tho barbarous method of torluriug by" lingchi" (slioing process) is abolishod, and in future dccapi» talion will bo substituted, Mr Warden Bush said at tho last sitting of the Thames Warden's Court that where applications are made for mining areas on private property the consent of the offflers must be first obtained. Lady Hunkct will visit Melbourne for the Melbourne Cup soason. She will be the gafcafc at Molboiuno of Sir Reginald Talbot (State Govornor of Victoria) and Lady Talbot, Her ladyship will leavo Wellington on the 22nd inst,, and expects to bo absent from New Zealand about a mouth, An erroneous impression appears to be abroad as 1) tho necessity for registering' tho birth of a child which dies very soon after birth. The Ucgistrav-General I wishes it to ho known tint, even though j a child biciUhca for only ono Djinule, its birth must be registered.

As indicating tho amount of worn which falls to tho Iqt of a pott health ollicer of a busy pot, 20,000 persons' passed through Dr, Pollen's hands in tho course of his examination of oversea arrivals at Wellington list year.

Madame Louise, a Shanklin palmist, told a man tint he was about to tako legal proceedings, in which he would be successful. It all pinio true, He was a disguised police-sergeant, and charged Madame Louise at tho Ityde Police Court. She was fined (is. ■

Who can say that the Maori is not enterprising ? A family started a temporary dining-room in connection with the Native Land Court at Mvamii (East Coast), and did a thriving business, their takings amounting to from £il to & 5 some days.

One of the students in tho summer school at Harvard this year is a preacher SH years old, while another is a Congregational minister 74 yoars old, and two others are over 60 years of age. Thia will remind some roadera of the genllem&n who went to Oxford at 7C, in ordor, as the undergraduates maliciously stated, to bo ablo to have " 8.A." upon his tombstone

"Will you givo your evidence in English or Maori ?" was asked the parties (natives) to a caso at tho Thames Police Court on Tuesday. "In English," responded tho male. " And you ?" (thus to the other, a . female)" I would givo my evidence in r English," she replied,*" bu|the suMjons { was in Maori." It \vi& pointed Wthat' this did not n::t*tor, whereupon both parties made uso of bettor English than is usually heard in similar cases whero tho parlies nro pakclias,