News in Brief

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IV, Issue 1135, 2 November 1904, Page 1

News in Brief

Mr Hutnphroy Oxonhain's mire Acrasia was the winner yesterday of the Melbourne Cup, ■ The American Thontresoope Company open in the Academy of Music toimorrow 'light. The liabilities of the Napier Borough Council, including overdraft, amount to £124,000. \ The Premier states that the colony is being uiado a damping ground for consumptives. During tho running for the Melbourne Cup yesterday tho New Zealand horse Wairiki badly fractvrcd its shoulder, An attempt is being made to swo him for si ud purpose?, An American lumberman, anxious to viit the exhibition at St.'Louis, is going there on a log 16ft lons by 24ina in diameter. He will float with tho current 250 miles down the river, _ To prevent a cow flicking her tail as she was milked, Paul CafErey, a New Jersey dairyman, tied a lump of lead onto tho offending tail. He is now in the hospital with a broken jaw, So devoted was a young Milan musician to practising on tho 'cello tha», the constant pressure of the instrument on his leg led to bone disease. The limb had to be amputated, and death resulted from tho shock. A Brussels student, disappointed at having failed in his examination, made a bonfire of all his books. This did not satisfy him, so he set his college on fire. One of tho rooms was entirely destroyed, When a clergyman declared in New Albany (Indiana) church that it was the duty of till women to marry, Miss Ssltoa Biss rose and hissed bim. Sho has been sentenced to six mouths' imprisonment for blasphemy. Whon -fnliiis Hoerner, a traveller in photographs for a Vienna firm, was arrested for embezzlement, and seventeen of his intended wives, to each of whom li 9 had given sn engagement ring, came to the stttion to see him off. The rings were all said to liavo been stolen by Hoerner. Thoro is apparently a scarcity of surveyors in tho colony, The Commissioner of Cra<vti Lauds in Marlborough atatod at the last meeting of the Land Board that ho had applied to all tho chief survoyora of tho colony for additional surveyors, but without success, so that the delay in surveying Innd in Iho Marlborough district was unavoidable.