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Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 242, 13 October 1888, Page 1

TABLE TALE.

'Fetsco mail duo. :Jf Cable communication still interrupted. Beresford-street anniversary services to" morrow. Swimming ' Club has been formed .in Auckland. Hospital crowded, and typhoid season approaching. I Tariffic to Hokianga has increased considerably of late. Anniversary of Mount Eden Baptist Church bo-morrow. ..• _ Unqualified teachers to be weeded out by the Board of Education. Operations to be resumed in the Deep Level Cross mine shortly. Diamond officers entertained at dinner at. i bhe Auckland Club yesterday. Hugh Gibson, carter and horse-dealer, has filed a petition in bankruptcy. Steamer Glaucns on her way from Melbourne to Kaipara to load timber. Inquest on George Herbert Ludlow, who . shot himself, proceeding this afternoon. There are 24 factories in the United! States manufacturing: starch from corn. Auckland Yacht Club cruise to Home Bay, Motutapu, on Prince of Wales Birthday. Ralph Wilson and Samuel Sarah won a schoolboys' chess tournament at Paparqa. Captain Charles Clarke, of Port Chalmers, and formerly of the East Lothian, is dead. Dr. James Martineau advises the English Unitarians to adopt the Presbyterian; : polity. ..... , No thirsting souls at Court this morning. The inebriates were conspicuous by their absence. Levels of Wyndbam - -street between Hobson and Nelson streets are to be iked immediately. . J The rigid seclusion of the ladies of their ,7, families by the Chinese aristocracy has been broken through. The total sum received by Sir Morell Mac- .;. kenzio for his services to the late Emperor 7 of Germany was £15,000. Directors of the South British defrayed the cost of their own photographs,which, appear in the Board-room. - * Senior and junior football cups presented to Grafton and Selwyn Clubs respectively by Mrs Brigham this afternoon. ....•.,'. Mr Pond's agricultural chemistry class, will be inaugurated next Wednesday 7,7 evening at Wellesley-street school. Payments to the extent of £250,000 on account of the Kauri Company bush pur- 7 chases have been made this week. Rowena took ten tons of seed potatoes, .'■';. ' advanced by the Government to the village ■ settlers, on her last trip to Hokianga. Dunedin Chamber of Commerce passed a vote of thanks to the Hon. R. Campbell for . his action in regard to the Dock Trust loan. : Measurements are said to have shown the thickness of the human hair to vary, from the 250bh to the 600bhparfcsf an inch. , The duration of life _3 five 'limes the duration of growth. Thus in man growth is complete about 20, iv the horse at 5, in the ox at 4, in the dog at 2. . .'-*-. Mr Robinson, drawing master to th®'^ Board of Education, is visiting' tha country' schools, and giving them instruction in ,' technical drawing. ' f ''. Out of every four farms in (Illinois threeare mortgaged, and the loss.of the Illinois.' ; - farmers in the last five years is estimated ''' by the official reports at £10,000.000. Li Hung Chang has issued a proclama- I tion forbidding the English cotton-weaving j factory that has been established ab Shang- j hai to interfere with Chinese industry. | Mr. J. Marshall intends leaving for 1 Sydney by mail steamer Alameda due to- tj morrow, for the purpose of seeing Pearl j Shell and Necklet fulfil their engagements j at the V.R.C. Meeting. • 7J