News in Brief

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IV, Issue 1163, 6 December 1904, Page 1

News in Brief

Three coil wines in Australia recently discharged 4600 men, Wanganui, the fifth town in the colony, has a population of 10,520.

Forty-nine seholan hayo entered for tho Rawings seholarflhip thiß year, At tbeClirietclmrch Police Court, a prohibition order was issued against a Iftd of eighteen,

It is understood nil announcement will be made in the courso of a few days of the nppointment of agents for the State Fire Insurance Department,

A former Thnmesite now at Kalgoorlii says he would not recommend any New Zeaiander to come over on tho prospect of (jolting work, unless ho has onough money to lake him back again.

The first prize in Hallonstoln Brothers' (New Zealand Clothing Faetorj) rhyming competition for the school children of the colony was won by Jack Stewart, of Has* tings. The eoaond and third prizes go to Auckland and Mastertou respectively,

Maoris are fond of millinery, but it isn't always Parisian in design. One lady recently went into tho Mania Post Office to (jo some business. Tho remarkablo feature about tho chio hat she wore was that it wns trimmed with coffin decorations. —Waiinate Witness.

The trial and prj<on life of Mrs Maybrick are to bo made tho subject ot a play which will shortly be placed on the stage in Now York. Ono of tho most remark, able features of the play is that Queen Victoria has been introduced as one of the characters,

A London papor says that all of us kmw that women's feet are growing larger, that it is almost impossible now to obtain the ' twos" which so many of our mothers used to wear, and that the women naturally endowed with feet small enough to wear them arfi vanishing off the face of the earth, thanks to-ihe hygienic life of modem girlhood. . "Half tho girls, in the town will come flocking to tho show if we invito tho officers and crew of the warship," remarked tho secretary of the Ohristchurch Horticultural Society. '• Mauy a girl will oonje to sco a uniform who would not come to soe a rose,'' ho added.

" Eight pounds sever, for shooting four ducks," gusped an onlooker at the Thames PolicojCourt on Friday when the penalties were announced in tho case brought against a Pinko resident, " Eight lovely pounds! Why, I'd want oil the blooming ducks on the swamp for that amount, Eight pounds sevon I Well, they were dear ducks and mako no error I"