News in Brief.

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IV, Issue 1114, 8 October 1904, Page 1

News in Brief.

The local cricket season was opened this aftornoou.

Shooting matches aro proceeding this afternoon at the local tango.

Tlio Sydney Detective Office has received information from Melbourne that a nuuibor of Union Bank £1 notes havo been converted into 110 notes and are in circulation.

Boads must bo bad up the north, A vVlmngnrei papor reports that a settler found an eel on the road, the amphibian having ovidently confused tho roadway with tho bed of the creek!

As indicating tho advance of tho poultry export from New Zealand, ono firm is inquiring from tho Government Departmen; how it may obtain £6OOO woithof poultry per month for export.

As showing the extent to which the "shouting" eystcm is carried on in tho colony, a witness at the Magistrate's Court, Napisr, meutiohod that a party of flvo " shouted " nil round in the space of a quarter of an hour

What is understood to be tho world's' raoard rainfall in twenly.four hours fell on the Blackball Iknges t about 629 miles north-west of Brisbane, in February, 1893, when 35 inches vero recorded.

A bill is lo bo iutroducod into (ha Anieri* can .Seimto by one of the representatives of California, offering tho sum of £30,000 to any one who can discover a means of foretelling tho weather,

" You are nil assassins, vampires, hypocrites, liars, and brigands," said a man it Rennes to tho judge and jury who had sentenced him to penal sorvitude for 20 years,

A mooting of subscribers of the Waihi Public Library will be hold at Mr Wall-* nutt's office on Monday evening next, at 7.110, for tho purpose of nominating throe represontntivos lo act as tho managament committee.

Mr Seddon says that as a result of the Royal visit, threo years ago the authorities in England wero inquiring into tho working of the cadet movement, and it would nut bo long bofore it was started in the Old Country.

])r Makgill, in his annual report, says tho provision of cheap sanitary homes for tho poor will do more to rid tho colony of tuberculosis than the' iriost elabonito provision of sanatoria, and will lessen the infant mortality more effectually thsu any number of nursing homes.

M. Zalenko, the Russian journalise who is touring New Zealand, being intcrviovod in flhristcburch, said:—'\la for liquor legislation, tho sale of liquor is controlled by the State with us, and tho rovanue tborefrum. to tho extent of some two million roubles per annum, is speut in building theatres, libraries, anil houses for the peoplo, under tho toutrol of committees,