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Auckland Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 257, 1 November 1887, Page 1

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_* Melbourne Cup Day.' Other two suicides. Parliament has re-assembled. Read the Financial Statement. Races at Ellerslie next week. ' A lot of "speelcrs" have readied Auckland. Where the carcase is, there shall the eagles gather. Wesleyau Home Mission annual meeting to-nighfc. "Te Whiti's Chant" to be sung in St. John's Church, Ponsonby. English mail arrived per s.s. Hauroto afa Wellington from Sydney. The M ayor of Parnell signs the requisi«. tion for Mr George to be his successor. Entertainments to-night at the Agricultural Hall, Opera House, and St. James's Hall. Also a grand Salvation tea at the Temperance Hall, in welcoming Commissioner Howard. , f At the opening of the Dioceeari Synod to-,-. morrow, Bishop Cowie will notice the. progress of the diocese during the last 18 years. . i The population of Great Britain is increasing at the rate of 1,000 a day. Nils Jacobsen has been committed for trial on the charge of murder, committed u<3 Little River, Canterbury. Sir John Hall has returned to Wellington from Sydney in time to be present at the reassembling of Parliament. , i Edward Bassett was found dead in his' garden at Hokitika yesterday, having bursna blood vessel. . • Messrs Ashoroffc and Company, electric light contractors, ai*e so busy all Wellington that they cannot reach Auckland before the 12th inst. . ■ A London company has ordered three hundred cars to be run by electricity in- , , stead of horse-power. Stewart and Co., sawmillers, are suing Wellington City Council for £94,000: damages for loss of foreshore rights through., reclamation works. ' Of the eight sub-Commissioners appointed in Dublin under the new Land Act, four are Presbyterians. A man named O'Brien, charged with wife desertion, was brought back to Wei-, lington from Sydney yesterday. ' This is All Saints' Day. In some Scottish, households last nighb they " held their Hallowe'en " in the unhallowed style of tha olden daye. Parnell Borough Council has resolved to impound all collarless dogs in future. If they could impound the larrikins also ita would be well. The Dublin University has conferred the degrees of Master of Arts and JDoctorship of Science on Professor McCoy* of -Melbourne. Joseph William Jones, a married man residing at Aramoho, near Wancjanui, has been arrested on the charge of criminally assaulting a little girl. Mr George Young, of Mbutit Lofley, South Australia, is to marry the daughter of the Eight Hon. C. T. Ritchie, President!; of the Local Government Board, London. Lord High Executioner Garrarcl has been! severely bitten by a big Newfoundland dog that he was "collaring"' for being unregistered. •A' ddg catcher's iifili is not ai happy one! ■ M That is.the last novel I shall ever read," said a gentleman, throwing the book dowa ; in disgust. "What's the matter, dear?": inquired his wife, " dbesn't it endhappily V i " No, they were married," ! " What is the great need of the hour?".; exclaimed a lecturer on " The Ameliora- \ tion of the Evils of Humanity." To which-: an inebriated auditor responded : "A ni-j night key with an e-e-electric light on the! end of it."