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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 272, 14 November 1903, Page 1

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— ". Ventura left for 'Frisco. Second clay of M.C.C. v. Victoria. Sierra expected on Monday morning. A slight fire at Newmarket last night. . : Last .performance of • "Twelfth Night." , 'Frisco mail contract renewed for three years. • Legislative Council threw . out the Ee< . ferendum Bill. Infernal machine received by Armenians in London. - "It Is Never Too Late To Mend" by . the Dampier Company to-night. Lady Banfurly leaves New Zealand ; by the lonic from Wellington this afternoon. The anniversary of the Central Mission Sunday School'takes place in the Albertstreet Hall to-morrow. The negotiations with Major Taylor at Sydney have been successfully completed. He sails in the Sonoma on November 19, • and competes in the Sydney £ 1000 race. The "Daily Mail" states that Port Royal, Jamaica, will be abandoned as a naval base next year. It becomes a purely military station, and additional . batteries are being erected. An infernal machine, timed to explode, was received somewhat prematurely at ; the headquarters of the* Armenian Com- [ mittee of Huechakists in London while the members were assembled. At the inquest on Miss Hickman, the i lady doctor whose disappearance created . a sensation recently, a verdict of death from morphia, self-administered, while temporarily insane, was returned. The truthfulness of the German officer, Bilsen's, satirical novel of military life was upheld by the other officers . in cross-examination, and it is urged '. that the publication of the facts was an act of patriotism.