News in Brief

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IV, Issue 1136, 3 November 1904, Page 1

News in Brief

Mr. Kelly, manager of the New Zealand Clothing Factory, Auokland, was a visitor' here yesterday. Hoi left again this morning. \ : :s-' : ..:■ ■ A social under the auspices of St.Joseph's • Churoh will be hold in'the' 1 Academy of Musio to-morrow (Frigay) week. ':'&,;■ '■"■•' The Amorican Theatrescope Company oxhibit to-night in the Academy of Music. From all accounts the entertainment is good and well worth seeing. ' A pioturo post-card of amain' street in. Manchester, packed with people, boows that more than 50 per coot, of the, male porJostrians had their hands in their pookets. "Keep the'command of tho sea as you value national life. With it you can do everything. Without it you will be speedily blotted out of the list of nations." —Admiral Colomb, I At a recent concert in Warsaw the hall wbb suddenly invaded by spiders, which, attracted by the sound of a violin, came from cracks and crannies in the building. Tho other audionce left. As an effectual means of preventing fowls from flying, a number of farmers in tho Wyndham distriot have resorted to the practise of cutting one of the wings of chickonß at the second joint, The operation is porformed when the birds are two or throe days old, Japan, with a population of 47,000,000, has over 4,300,000 pupils in her elementary sohools, or 91 in every 1000. Russia, with a population of 130,000,000, has actually fewer scholars in hor elementary sohools—--4,193,574, or 32 per thousand, A mutiny whiou broke out among the prisoners of the gaol at Szabadka, in Hungary, was suppressed by afire brigade. They turned a hose on to the prisoners through a window, as the door had beeti barricaded againßMhe warders. The cold water soon cooled the mutineers' spirits.