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Auckland Star, Volume VII, Issue 1863, 5 February 1876, Page 2

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(Prom our <ro Correspondent.) ■'';, 7 Thisday. Receptiq' of Sir Julius. The Vovel Reiption Committee are in a fog as to the mostjuitable way in which to receive Sir JuliujVogel when he arrives^ The big wigs are jmewhat annoyed that the initiation and maigernent of the aifair was taken clean out ctheir hands. The present committee are ealesfc enough, and there are sufficient names own to make the thing a great success nonatter what form it may assume, but tha is not a man amongst them who undefcands carrying out'a thing of the kind sue*sfially. Scarcity of "W;er —A Ship in Danger. Water is beghiDg to run short, despite the publication notices by the City" Star? veyor, that peoj must only use the water for domestic imposes. People will still water gardens al work machinery with the water. j „ ■ T,he ship Jci Milton had a .narrow squeak from goi aground at Pipitea point to-day. When Je was' anchored with only about 20 fathonpf chain paid out, her sails were spread 01A0 dry. A light breeze filled them andras gently setting the ship ' on shore, untiljr danger was casually ob- V served by the lot, who set off in a boat, and dropped anher anchor, with plenty of chain paid out.J Street Trarfays.—A Dipsomaniac Through Bomnformality the BtreeWiramway isoheme flinng up for a fe^ d»y»

longer, and Charlie O'ltfeil is very unhappy thereat. Geo. Pound, a clever, and well known sign and carriage painter, has been drinking himself to death on the quiet, and was arrested to-day on a charge of lunacy. The last time he waa on the spree, he tried to cut his throat.