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Auckland Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 65, 18 March 1887, Page 1

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Beautiful autumn weather. Very successful holiday yofterday. "Flash " notes and coins in Wellington. Look out for them in Auckland soon. More Volunteer disclosures promised soon. News from Tonga shows the Free Church triumphant. Butcher and baker and candle • stick maker rejoicing. King George has practically suppressed Wesleyoniem. Thus Tonga ehowe the bright example of a Free Church in a Free State ! Five hundred excursioniats went to Henderson yesterday. There has been abundant rainfall at Mauritius, and the sugar crop promises well. Windy Wellington I Three ovuutq at yesterday's rogatla hud to bo postponed on account of the Drefzo. It is reported that Mr N. G. Barnett will shortly leave Auckland for Sydney. & large meteor fell into the Boa near Wellington on Wednesday night, causing a great hissing noise. Shares in the Federal Insurance Company are being allotted in London. It is evident that with reference to the Italian Six Hundred at Maesowab, "some one had blundered." General Zene, the commander of the Italian forces in Africa, has been recalled. The greatest1 deproo of cold we have yet had this season .Tbe thermometer fell 10 degrees during the night, and at 7.30 this morning registered 60degs. Mr Downe, of South Australia, with his wife and niece, is to bo presented to the Queen to-day. A fish hawkor waa fined £5 at Chrietehurch yesterdiy, for exposing for sale barracouta and flatfish under legal Bize. It is rumoured that an Auckland syndicate has been formed to purchase tho Honui Ironsand Works, Taranaki. The Shaw-Lillywhite cricket team, and: Victorian Eleven are playing a match Sr. I::ra v. Non-Smokers. The latter have :i.a ;u -Lii for the loss of two wickets. Mr Downer intenis to raise the Deceased Wife's Sister question ac the Imperial Conference. There ie a mild sort of lunatic in Otago who sends, at regular intervals, a £1 note to the Board of Education. An Interprovincial Dog Show opened at Christchurch yesterday—there being 224 entries and the quality of the exhibits good. The Australian section of the London Chamber of Commerce has declined to adopt the motions submitted reaped ing subvention to a cheap cable service and the withdrawal of the mail eudsidies. John Jackson, the "old soldier" whom through mistaken kindness the Wellington Benevolent Committee helped off to Grtymouth last week, has been brought bacß and sentenced to four months' imprisonment for robbing his landlord at Masterton. From return of rateable property tinder the Charitable Aid Board, it appears that there is a decrease in the capital value in the United Otago District in the country of £1,427, compared with previous year. In the borough of Dunedin there is an increase of £23,4G0. Yesterday, at the Autumn Athletic Sports at Invercargill, A. C. Willmott, of Christchurch, won the Mile Bicycle easily,' conceding 100 yards to his opponent, 'jlho Twenty-tive Mile Bicycle itace. for the championship of New Zealand was also won by Wilmott by about 22') yards. Time— 1 hour 36min. 18 l-sth.«eo. At Wellington, evidence is still being led in tbe case in which damages are claimed from Timaru Harbour Board for the loss oi ■ tho ship Lyttelton through alleged carelessness of a Board servant. A Wellington paper, with tbe cool cheek characteristic oi tbe Empire City, cays the reason why H.M.S. Kelson did cot go to Lyttelton or Dunedin was that it was hot thought advisable to risk a vessel like the Nelson, which represents about £600,00.0, in_Lyttoltonor Port Chalmers, there not being sufficient water for her. An information has beea laid against Frank W. Wilmott, manager of the Wellington Opera House, charging him with making a false declaration in a claim for enrolment, to the effect that he had resided within the Te Aro electoral district for the,' previous ten months.