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Auckland Star, Volume XVII, Issue 207, 3 September 1886, Page 1

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-—* Earthquakes and eruptions. Tempest and " heavy wet." Tharne3 steamer dolaycd. St. Leon's Circus disabled at Cambridge. Still contradictory accounts from Kimborley. Direct steamer Arawa has reached England. Good sign for peace-Consuls have rieen to 1002. Burglar's Advertisement — Goods care-«. fully removed. Talk about womon being flighty—look at bank cashiers. There were only four days last month on which rain did not fall in Eunedin. That "unemployed' aissault case has been settled out of Court. " Les Cloches " at the Opera House once more to-night. Mr Lowthor Broad declines the appointment of Resident Magistrate at Wellington. Yesterday the barometer reached the lowest point it has done this winter in New Zealand. Mr F. J. Wilson ib gazetted eolicitor in the Public Trustee's office. Heavy rains havß fallen at Blenhoim, and floods were feared yesterday. Lieutenant A. P. Douglas has been appointed secretary to the Military Council. The New South Wales Government intend to proceed with the Income Tax Bill. Women's rights ! A candidate for one of the South Dunedin' wards was proposed and seconded by female ratepayers. The new time-table is not vet introduced on American railways, and the faster mail service cannot be arranged for a time. A German inventor is building at a cost of £25,000 a baloon 500 feet in length, to be operated by steam. He is very sanguine of success, and has been offered £30,000 for his patent. The brutal game again lln a football match yesterday between Auckland Drapers and Thames United Second, a player named McCallum kicked another in the back and got his own leg broken. Jas. Gribble, who has lived in Auckland district since 1846, has just died, leaving a widow and eleven children. He was well known on Thames goldfield as a mine manager. After the thirty years' war in : 1650, Berlin had only 6,000 inhabitants, and inlß6l, 528,000. In 25 years these last figuros have been more than doubled, an unprecedented fact in contemporaneous European history. Yesterday a ploughing match in connection Atith the Whangarei Farmers' Club took place in Jackson's paddock, near Whangarei Railway Station. Dr. E. Pariuly Brown declares that the excessive use of salt is one of the main factors in the destruction of human teeth. In Wisconsin, the Lutheran Church outnumbers all other Protestant churches combined, having upwards of 90,000 communicants. A grammarian would, no doubt, define Adam's original position as "first person singular." '".-.. Ralph Ramsden, son of tho manager x>f Wellington Woollen Factory, got his left arm badly lacerated by the machinery yesterday. John Wright Hingston, W. Atkinson, and L. C. Goffe have been appointed Rangers under the Animals Protection Act, 1880, in Auckland district. A Government Gazette just issued contains the regulations under the New Zealand State Forests Act, 1885. They tetl us that the good die young, and yet insurance statistics make it out that clergymen live for an average of 65 years. What are we to think ?