News in Brief

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IV, Issue 1161, 3 December 1904, Page 1

News in Brief

1 Opening of the Baptist Church toraotrow. Special services, L'lio Tnu -angft Agricultural, and Pastoral annual show takes pluco on Thursday noxt- " Tho lnclemont Wragge" predicts a drought commencing during the middloof December, and'extending lo next winter. TheAngliean Mission of tho Good Shepherd hopes soon to establish a creohe, where working mothers could leave their children during tho day, Since October tho Dunedin GovorJu ment poultry dopot has passed on to the cool stores 156,000 eggs, and handled quite four times that number,

It is understood that after next session Mr, Itigg will resign his position as a member of tho Legislative Council and contost onoof the Wellington sonts.

'I hroe years ago tho valuation of tho borough of Timarn stood nt .£48,000, whilo last year it racked £'57,000, and this year it is oxpeetocl to reach £60,000, Tho Hokitika Times says a West Coast Bands' Association has bon formed, and that tho first contest will tako placo either at Greytiiouth or Hokitika on IVay,24 next (Empire Day),

• In tho l i , hMS'®|Wnsation cßß|gSod'-i fray Brown v. the Diamond DfilliriglJompany, a claim for £225 for alleged wrongful dismissal from omploymont, judgment' was givon for tho full amount claimed and costs.

Professor McAlistor told the students of Guy's Hospital lately that he had discovered in the British Musoum a hair restorer invented by a King of Egypt, llio ingredients nro onlves' foot and dogs' claws boiled in oil.

A missionary who has returned to tho United States from Jerusalem says that Dowio has flooded tho Holy City with circulars announcing that he will enter it riding on a white donkey, and will make tho groatost proclamation evoc heard on oartli.

Red popper was put by some" joker" in tho pipes of the organ in a village church near Birmingham. When the bellows wero started the red popper wob blown into tho church, causing the congregation to snchzo so violently that tho service had to be abruptly abaudoned. "It'san ill wind blows nobody good" is briefly illustrated in tho confiscation by tho Auckland Customs authorities of pirated copyright works. Eight.books thus confiscated have just beon donated by Mr, Rose, Collector of Customs, to thoWaihi Hospital,