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Auckland Star, Volume XX, Issue 58, 9 March 1889, Page 1

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War preparations. , Great Britain active. V Seventy new war vessels. ~ ." Herald " printers' picnic to-day. Ironclad Sultan wrecked at Malta. South Franklin Show next Tuesday. Polo match at the Columbia to-night. risk Jubilee Singers open on Monday week. ■'■'{ Great Barrier excursion stands postponed till Easter. . Licensing contest) at Arch Hill next Wednesday. Railway excursion to South Franklin Show arranged. Rev. J. S. Hill on " Science and Revelation " to-morrow afternoon. Mr George Aldridge on il Religion and Science " to-morrow nightly • Bread is called the " staff of life " because it is always needed. Choral Society orchestra will not be required on TueSdJiyJ'next. Joshua Johns, strawberry jam manufacturer, is a bankrupt. "v<> Tenders are invited for re-building the . west wing of Sunnyaide Asylum. Professor Moss is fitting up the old Baptist Chapel as a gymnasium. " ;, New Church of the Assumption at Onehunga will be opened to-morrow. The Wellington Club give \ a farewell dinner to the Governor this evening. Hibernian procession to and sports at the Domain on Monday week-—not Saturday. Mr Aitken Connell proposes to establish a cemetery on the western side of Cox's Creek. The twenty-five miles bicycle championship of Auckland will be run on Tuesday, April 9ch. Mr E. Hamlin, M.H.R., meets his constituents at Papakura on Monday even-, ing. ' ■ - To Tuki, the secretary of Te Kooti, leffa for YVaikato yesterday, and was granted a free railway pass. • Owing to the excited state of the Uriwera natives, gold prospecting in their country lias had to be postponed. Searle has received a letter from O'Connor inviting the champion to arrange a match either in America or England. Mr E. W. Mills ha.= been elected Chairman, and Mr D. T. Stewart Vice-Chair-man, of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce. Te Kooti was very nervous during his trip through tiie settled part of Waikato. He was suffering from asthma and a hacking cough. A man whose name is unknown, but.who is believed to have come from the North, fell dead while harvesting at Tuapeka, Otago. Annual United Harvest Festival of the Wesleyan Churches in the Manukau district will be held on Tuesday next in the Otahuhu Public Hal). New South Wales Parliament has adjourned until April 3, to enable Ministers to offer themselves to their constituents for re-election. The " Gaulois," of a recent date, attacks the President's wife for allowing Madame Dieulafoy to attend her last ball dressed in man's clothes. ■ ... ; The Austrian Admiralty will increase their war'flotilla (two monitors) on the Upper Danube by ten similar vessels worked by 600 men. The Prussian Government has ordered from a Solingen manufacturer 20,000, and Italy 60,000 sabres, the whole to be delivered within twelve months. Third annual meeting of the New Zealand Alliance at V.M.C. Association Rooms on Tuesday next. The Council meeting commences at two o'clock. / Hop-growing1 is on the decline in England, the area devoted to that crop this year being 8 per cent, less than'last. Small fruib culture is increasing, also market gardening. Invitations were issued by Sydney Taiwhanga to both branches of the Legislature to attend the meeting of the Maori Parliament ab Waitangi, to be held next week. The Canterbury Acclimatisation Society yesterday fixed the dates for opening and closing the shooting season as follows :— Native game, March 30th to June 30th j pheasants and quail, May Ist to June 30th ; hares, March 30th to July 31st. Rev. E. H. ;Gulliver is to preach at St. Paul's Church to-morrow- (Sunday) evening from the text—" Who is this man that blaaphemeth?" There is evidently something in store for those who have been criticising the lectures on "Religion and Science." With reference to the statement thab Auckland contractors for the Onehunga Courthouse were debarred from using local timber, a Wellington Press Association' telegram informs us that the Government state that there is a special provision in the specifications for use of local timber under certain conditions. A meeting of consignees at Christchurch yesterday passed resolutions in favour of the work of Customs examiners being done there instead of at Lyttelton, reduction of railway rates between the two placets, and calling the attention of the Government to. the arbitrary measures adopted in respect of debateable'questicSnsi respecting interpretation of Customs Tariff. ■