News in Brief

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IV, Issue 1162, 5 December 1904, Page 1

News in Brief

"The invention of the devil—party spirit."—Bishop Noligan. , The Prime Minister of England is as fond of billiards (13 he is of golf. Mrs, Maybrick is writiug a book on her experiences during 14 years' imprisonment, Iho Tauranga Agricultural and Pastoral Association's annual show will be held on Thursday next. Thero is a bankrupt Assyrian hawker in Taranaki named Arnin Burke. Another injustice to Ireland. Thero were V9ry large attendances at the opening of the new Baptist Ohuroh in Msin-Bieet yesterday. The Oliinemuri County Council offices aro to bo closed for the Christmas holidays from December 24th till January 9th. Warden Bush's judgment agpinst the Boring Company is to be appealed against. The District Court sits in February. The annual examinations in connection with iho Wuihi School of Mines begin to-day and continue till the 14th inst. 'Considerable interest is being taken by the members of the Waihi Tennis Club in the handicap tournamont match, wbioh has just been opened, Schilling, - the one-armed GermanAmorican, who was here some six years ago, wore out 156 pairs of boots on his way home. So he says, King Edward is very fond of tea, but he takes neither milk nor oream with it. He prefers it neat, although he occasionally has to take it with milk to please his physician, A Wellington gentloman, who has been an involuntary grass widower for two years, picked up a nice little sum over the Moibourne Cap. The facts wore published, and his wifo has como back to say she never really ceased to love him. Tho attack on a volunteer camp in the Christcharch district was rendered successful by tho adoption of a clever ruße. A detachment of the attackers, disguised to represent a theatre party returning home in a carriage, passed the outposts of the defenders unchallenged and reached the camp, whero 70 men capitulated to four,