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Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 221, 19 September 1888, Page 1

TABLE TALE.

Prestidigitateue non est. .' * ; ; Professor Canaris hp« not arrived. Sir Wm, Fox is in Chrisiichurch. " -V, Feast of Tabernacles to-morrow. , Councillor Laßoche back from his travels . The Mayor and Councillor Grey off today, r': V,' r'*.S.:' '■ ■*• .-,; *,-*■ , ■-~. : MrF. Lawry, M.H.RI, atObahuhuon . Monday; next. . , ,* , ' -'< . _ ... *. ' ' -Mr Meadows, from Londpn,.is stayingab • .the.:Star*'Hotel. ■'-*■■ '' ■» <- ; v . ..,•.•-. ..-„, ; .Ski Frederick Whitaker,,is ,to,preside ,at> f the Savage Club meeting* .to-mpnpw* night. , Yet -another ABcklahder,iis -in .the siield with, a patent lire, kiudier., ~ '~ ', , :,/;,;; :H;:I;;Paiton; kaiiri gum.caryer. of Auck- ; - [ land, hub .'.;applied, for /letters patent for ... I ''Th^Eureka Fire Kindlier.",-..'. ; , An American has applied'for a patent I for "An Automatic Fire Kindler." A match > is attached to an alarm clock which rubs the matchon a rough surface, thus causing.. , ignition the fuel. ..■•*-. . .. ; A.sonof Mr A. J. jßurns, of Dunedin, ~,.-*■ has obtained a doctor's degree at the Edinburgh University examination. - ; -' The" end; of the .-.present month onght t0,.. see the new Wellington Opera House opened. ~,*„ , ' How are the , mighty ; fallen.! , Poet 1 Bracken is to pilot the Maori Hakav Troupe. • . * ~ . ...., r; * • , *"*.'. *Mr T.; Kennedy Macdohald, {the well- ' known auctioneer, has consented to contest . the Wellihgtoh Mayoralty. . The direct steamer ; Doric, > which : has r arrived at Hobart,;,has 194 jiasg'engers for New Zealand. She was. .to le&ve for . this colony at noon, to-day.,. Thor culvert being constructed in' the : gully on the' south? side of Newton RdaS, % close to the Eden Terrace boundary,via . progressing; steaddyi and will be a decided < improvement. E. T; Firtb,* electrician, and H. H. Green- '■■ way, analytical chemist,»both of Auckljarid,. • have applied for letters patent for the '^Austral Multicarbon Battery.-' ' • • It is stated in Home papers tjiat^ Dr. Pearson^-Bishop of -N.S:W., • who is now. in England, hasi become'hope- ; lesslyinfeahe. ■'■'*' '<:■:■ '■ '"•* "' '"■■■'v '.1" '■':"''■■'.■■■■' The local bodies of New Zealand have, during thO year ending 31st March last, > contributed no-less than.£loo,ooo td charitable relief. Is this a cause or ah effect of the. "depression." ' ~ A miner named Delaney has been killed ■' at his claim, Waitahuna,Gtago, by a fall ; of.earth.; * *,„;, v"',',- ' '.'*>\*. "'*'*■" ■ ' " Berry, the 'Hangman in England, oh his own statetiient, has hanged 123 men in his professional capacity. • ' ■■" The Dunedin Protection League' /celebrated the passing of the tariff by .a.ba nquet to the city member^ las't'highti' when ' about 80 guests were present.1 - ' Archdeacon Stock claims the credit of in-.. troducihg frogs into New 'Zealand.' 'He ' says tha.t twenty-two years ago he broughb ' some frogs to 'Wellington. ' • ■•; - ' _. Ch-fld—Does the Lord take the papers ? ;; Mother-~No, my child.* Whyi; do you ask ?'; Child—Oh, I thought He didn'tat takes our 4 minister so long, to tell Hini about things. V j Dr. Fitchett, M;H:R m has ihaiiged his opinion ;as to the .number, of) meipbers of, the House, and ho has given Tiotico to his '■ constituents that, should an opportunity jPirieei hei* would vote for the pre* gent number, '• *' .!^^tT!K?isfijli\irch last hight,|agl6vo match I was arranged between *Laing;and Ellis for £25 a-side, to take place within threa weeks. -_■ , ..'. - ; : .*.*• * : slgnatius Donnelly, the Cryptogramma,rian, says :" The English papers of to : day are standing guard; witb^ journalistic - : bludgeons, oyer the rotten carcase of the national delusion." That is, they;are all . trying to sftye Shakspere-Bacon;! - ■ It is gazetted,that Walter,.Greenshields, ; ., patent1 agent, Auckland, .has applied;on , . behalf of Stephen Gilbert, chemist, of the r..,,.,;.. saihe place, to register the word " Meleuca " ' as a trade mark for medicine for throat and:.. lung;diseases. ; :, • -', v Twenty-three miles per hour is the regis- - fcered speed of tbo new steamer, City of f New York. This is about equal to that > ' attained by the localferry boats when they > ; are not; driven at half-speeSi " Rule,;/ Britannia!" * ':'^. ■- ' ■•: ; . 1 It.is generally believed that;.the.-escaped! prisoner Jonathan Roberts .-has left 'the! r S colony. ; The police have-fallen.: across a: I fresh piece of evidence which adds force to. j tho surmise, i; Jt is . kn<)whi, fthat» a * near! ! relation of Roberts booked a passage by one j lof the Union Steamship Company's ; steamers to Melbourne. He himself did not I.use the'ticket, bub it was collected on board j the boat, and the question is—from whom ? ! Isabel Margaret Nelson, who : from her '■ 58 years' connection, with, the De Thierry*. .' family, was.''associated ' with' the" early< history of New Zealand, died on Monday last. The Baron de Thierry and his retainers landed at Hoki-tnga in 1837, "and decoased followed the changing fortunes of tha family since then with a'cdnstdhcy.'and de-: votion similar to that shown .by.FldraMacdonald for '' the Young Pretender," Chirle»l Edward Stuart. .''' ' . y .. An interesting experiment was recently,; made by a Dr. Dufand in reference, to the * relative powe^.^Jtuiui/iginafcion in the two sexesT'"^ gave to 100 of 'his-hospital ;pa-* I tientsa dose of sweetened water, and shortly/ v [ afterwards. ,eftter,edj,ftheifftoh.'? appA'i'ieiftly greatly.agitated, saying hchfid by 'misfaj;* administered a powerful emetic. In a few* minutes ifour-fifths Of the subjects ■ were affected by the supposed emetic, 'and were' mainly men, while ail; thos^r v n6t.>affecfced; were woirieri. : ■"."'.■". "/:■'.' ...-:■■■■■■■ ,:"i::,; 1 Country customers should look out for, jA. E. Fenton's price list-of-drapery and clothing in this paper to-jnofrow night.--' (Advt.) '■• ' .' ■ ■ ' Concrete information free."—Wilson&Go —A*«