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Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 4415, 8 July 1884, Page 3

The annual meeting of the Newmarket Hall and Literary Institute subscribers was held last evening, Mr Ci. Buhop in tbo chair. The secretary (Mr W. Dinnison) read the minutes of last meeting, -which were confirmed, He also read the balanceshowing tho receipts to be £17S 11s, Expenditure : Debt on hall. £51 5b (in foil); books, £21, 12s 10d; furniture, €4 15s ; management, £47 16s 2d ; balance in hand, £53 2s. Tho balance-sheot was unanimously adopted. The old Committee of Management were ro elected, viz., Messrs G. Bishop, J. Taite, W. Morgan, J.Webber, and W. Dinnison, At a meeting of the Committee held afterward?, Mr Bishop was elected Chaiiman, Mr Morgan Treasurer, and Mr W. Dinnison Secretary.

A pamphlet of 32 closely-printed pages on a Vburning question" Oi the day, published at the popular price of a penny.ought to command a ready sale and prove a powerful electioneering weapon at the present time. Such a pamphlet is " The Electors' War Cry," which has been published by Mr N. G. Lennox, QueenStreet, by " A Voice From the People, and may be had from all tho local bookseller?. The "War Cry" is " Tax the Land and spare tho People, and the brochureis an impassioned appeal to the electors to support only those candidates who will pledge themselves to voto for tho appropriation of the " unearned increment." We commend the publication to the perusal of all who take an intelligent interest in the land question.

Unfortunate speculation in s"rip appears to have been tho cause of the suicide of Loopold Beit, whoso death under peculiar circumstances was rccordod in our last issue. In evidence taken at the inquest today it was stated that tho deceased came to the colony twenty-two years ago with a largo fortune. He was employed as a clerk, but went in for extonsive speculation in scrip until he had lost between £100 and £600. People, it was said, laughed and joked with him about it, and, being a man of irritable tomperamont, this probably led to his self-destruction. A report of the coroner's inquest is published in another column.

A lad named Bowden, resident in Ponsonby, and employed at Mr B. Keane's lime-kiln in that district, met with a painful accident this morning, which may involve the loss of one or more fingers. He wus busied about some of the machinery when his right hand was caught in one of the cog-wheels and the fingers terribly lacerated and torn before he could be released. Dr. Knight having been sent for, dressed the wounded member, affixed a compress upon it, and had the young sufferer removed to the Hospital, where it . waß found necessary to amputate the injured hand, the operation being porformed by Drs. Haines and Bond. His father works at Vickery's foundry. CATARRH OF THE BLADDER.-stjimi* «{«■ •ton luflauniutlou all Kidney anil «lmU«r Coiui'lalnb, cuml by