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Auckland Star, Issue 153, 1 July 1887, Page 1

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Milder weather.: Another legal quibble. New trial in tho arson case. Political matters continue active. Sir George Grey has not yet started fori the South. ; Mr Ballance will not be in Auckland for thrco weeks yet. Tho now boundaries of tho electorates have not yet been published. No; bub the privileged few are said to bo in possession of tho facts, and are making good use of them. And the '-wire-pullers" in Wellington are humbugging tho Representation Com-! missioned so as to cause further delay and! increase tho advantage'gained'by their' frionds. j Looks very like it ! It is now stated j that tho new boundaries will not be made i luiown till Monday next. j Men who pcrtinaoiously pry into things j —burglars. * I There seeing to bo a gang of these gentry | in 'Wellington at present, for several petty ' burglaries are reported every night. j Christchurch Criminal Calendar includes tori charges against twelve prisoners. Luck's all! Pastor Spurgeon lectures on "Luck"atthoY.M.C.A. Hall to-night. , • Kinking in the City Hall; Rinkle at the Agricultural; and music at the '• . M. Lutan, editor of the "Journal' de Medccine de Paris," says that Pasteur's treatment for hydrophobia is not only useless but dangerous. Severe drought in England. Effect of tho Jubilee rejoicings ! Most people are very "drouthy" after a heavy wet. Oh, but this is no joking matter. The agriculturists in soveral counties are threatened with serious loss. So much tiie better for New Zealand, which may get a better price for her wheat. It's an ill wind that blows nobody good ! John Webbo, arrested as a lunatic ab I Tauranga, has died in gaol there. j Healthy sign—The value of freehold pro-1 perty is rapidly rising in Greymouth dis-1 trict, nnd rents ore also going up. i That's tho result of the West Coast) Railway works going on. Evidently the country isn't going to " bust" just yet. Tho house in which Tom Paine was born at Thetford, Norfolk, 29th January, 1737,' and in which the earlier years of his life wero passed, is about to be pulled down. At Katiknti on Wednesday, the daughter of Canon Johnston, aged 14, was badly burned through her clothes catching fire while washing. - Ho who rides behind another does nob. saddle when he pleases. Tho Agnew family, who havo some grievance against the Government, are likely to get into trouble. 1 saw that they were interrupting tho Premier's meeting at Dunedin. More than that. On several occasions lately they accosted Sir Robert Stout, and became so offensive that he had to claim the protection of the police. I have just read a story in which " the red sun was sinking behind the western hill." ~„v That is all right. If the blue sun had lxsen setting behind the eastern hills ib would have neen different. - Still fighting in Afghanistan ; rebels and loyalists both claim the victory. Sliows that tho trouble is by no means ended. Sir Geo. Grey and Mr Ballance are both expected to give electioneering addresses at Thames." There are about 400 thieves in Sydney ab the present time, .CJan anyone tell how many there are in New Zealand ? Somebody whispers—" only eighty-one I" Report from Rome has it that six or seven miles of untrodden catacombs have been discovered under tho Eternal City. Speight and Co., the Dunedin brewers, gave a keg of Jubilee beer to the Hospital, and another to tho Benevolent Institution.

The use of cocoa in the United States has increased sixfold since 18(50, while that of tea and coffee has only doubled. Why should people never write secrets with a quill jion ?—Because it might split. A Justice of tho Peace in n West Virginia village recently fined n fisherman heavily for insisting in tho course of a trial before the sapient magistrate that the moon had something to do with the ebb and flow of tides.

A scientist mentions, as a remarkable physical fact, that a peach, near, or apple gravitates into a dealer's basket with the rosy side up. One of the youngest murderers on record is a sovoiv>ar-old lad at Cliarleatown, S.C., who calmly a fork into his baby sister's head, becn_ «r tho child cried and ho wanted to quiet it. "S The St. Petersburg V c.™ -iosti says that it is not astonishing that . •>, Maharajah Dhuleep Singh now nt Moscow, and robbed by tho British Government should seek consolation in Russian hospitality. England, tho refuge of all Russia's political criminals, can say nothing to Russia for entertaining tho princely victim of English ill-treatment." It is said that the Maharajah makes no secret at Moscow of his intention to place himself nt the disposal of Russia in Central Asia. An Austrian baron has given EIO,OOO to the "Imperial Institute. Tho Duke 'of Norfolk, Earl-Marshal of England, subscribes I_fi,oQo .towards ; the local Jnbileo fund, LToO for tho general fund, L 250 for tho .Imperial Institute, and grants land valued at L 4,000 for recreation grounds to tho working classes on the occasion.