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Auckland Star, Volume XX, Issue 59, 11 March 1889, Page 1

...... yan^^r.^.^^^.^^^MMlmamm lIMMIM^W—I TABLE TALK. Weteke is dead. Supremo Court criminal sessions. Loss on Cambridge fire, £10,000. Auckland Naval Artillery in camp. ■ Fisk singers open next Monday. Little Sisters of the Poor require acow» The weavers' strike in Paris has ended.V/ Testimonial and address to Mr G.M. Reid to-day. Fisk Jubilee singers are at Gisborne ab pro sent. Destructive bush and grass fires in Canter" bury. Professor Moss opens his city gymnasium to-night. 'Te Awamutu library site is vested in th local Town Board. ; Russia obtains the conversion of a loan of 700,000,000 francs. It has been decided to extend the telegraph wires to Lichfield. Railway goods traffic last year increased by nearly 150,000 tons. Her Majesty Queen Victoria has arrived at Biarritz, in France. The Governor will be entertained afc a farewell luncheon on Saturday. An uneasy feeling, resulting from the situation in Servia, is increasing in Vienna. The prospect of saving H.M.s. Sultan' which went ashore afc Malta, is improv" ing. The French Government has officially refused to give any support to the Panama Canal. Auckland polo representatives have postponed their departure for the South'till . next month. \ Hamilton sent a telegram of sympathy to Cambridge, in connection with the fire on Saturday. The French Cabinet has decided to re* peal the order proclaiming the Due d'Aumale an exile. Polo representatives defeated the allcomers at the Columbia Rink on Saturday night by 6 to 0. •.>'.■ Bluejackets from the men-of-war engage in rifle practice at .the Mount Eden range every morning. It is stated that there are three cases of typhoid fever, all in the business part of West Hamilton. Alexander Chapman, a, resident of Rawene, Hokianga, for sixty years, has:, died at the age of 88. Rev. Thomas Spurgeon delivered the address afc the evangelistic service in the City Hall last evening. The Rev. Father Sh'eehy, of Tasmania, is at present in Auckland on his way home from a trip to Europe. At Harbour Springs, Michigan, there is a factory^which turns out 7,500,000 white birch toothpicks a day. At the annualdemonstration of the Newcastle miners it was stated that £20,000 was lost during the strike. "San Francisco by Gaslight ■" to-night ab the Young Men's Christian Association Rooms by Miss Ackermann. There are 3,009 Roman Catholic parochial schools in the United States^ with an enrolment of 511,000 pupils. ■ •■:•.., The Harbour Board is being .memorialised to assist in the* .erection" of a wharf afe the reef at Lake Beach. ~ The Urewera natives who had come down to Poverty Bay to meet Te Kooti are quietly returning to their settlements. Bishop Cowie preached at St. Mary's Pro-cathedral yesterday morning for the first time since his return from Dunedin. The Rev. E. Hampden-Cook, of the Thames Congregational Church, has declined a call to the Congregational Church at Gisborne. The Crawford - Hunter Company of Scottish Vocalists have been performing at the Theatre Royal, Wellington, under the patronage of the Caledonian Society. Mr Blame, Secretary of State, discredits the information that an engagement between Germans and Americans at Samoa could have taken place. The Rev. C. E. Ward preached his fare] well sermons yesterday at the Franklin Road Primitive Methodist Church, to good 1 congregations. The New South Wales Government have cabled Home stating that the deficit is the same as when the previous Parkes Government took office. Tawhiao passed through Hamilton on Thursday on his way to Hukanui. He is going to the Mercer sports, of which he is one of the patrons. He is aboutjjo take up his permanent residence at Pukekawa. Rev. Mr Read, chaplain of the Opal, preached to a crowded congregation at St. Matthew's last night. The solo in the anthem was admirably sung by Mra Morrin. The Czar has ordered a searching inquiry into the .action taken by Atehinoff, the Cossack leader,,,in attempting to form a settlement in Sargolla, at Tajurah Bay. At a meeting of the Eighty Club, Earl Spencer said that at the right time he be« lieved that Mr Gladstone would be. prepared to submit a policy giving Ireland tb.B power to govern hersSlfr T MSi '"'"" <""■'■"■ Inconsequence of adverse. criticism, the directors of the .Quay,le (Thames)-Mining Company in London propose to wind up", as they are dissatisfied with the value of the property. Governor Jervois will lay the foundation stone of the Dunedin Exhibition building on the 20th inst. He will be at that data passing through Dunedin on his way to meet Lord Onslow. *: . ~' A Woman's League has been formed in New Orleans. One of its objects .is to look in a large and practical way after the interests of women—as to how they are treated in asylums, prisons, stores, station houses, etc. At the usual reception at Wellington Government House to-morrow, a valuable silver casket is .to be presented to Lady Jervois, as a token of the esteem in which she is held by the women of New Zealand, who are the subscribers. The presence of mind of an impecunious lover was illustrated recently at a bazaar, where there was a small stand for the sale of watch charms. " Oh, George," she said, "buy me a charm." "Sarah," answered he, " you have too many already." Mrs Gubbins (after brief application of • slipper to her youngest but one) : "Now, you see, Jonnny, I have had to punish you. What text in "the Bible does the punishment remind you of ?" Johnny (trying to sit down): "That it's more fun to give than to receive !" The last surviving granddaughter of the renowned Flora Macdonald has just died in Cheltenham, aged 82. She was the child of Flora's son, Colonel John Macdonald, and, inherited both her grandmother's name and her Jacobite tendencies, remaininga devoted Stuart sympathiser to the last. Messrs Tole, surveyors, have got the work of surveying the Wharepupunga block, consisting of 160,000 acres in tho King Country. Messrs Edward, John and William Tolo have arrived by train from Auckland, and parties will be at once or ganised and commence tho survey this week. Country customers ahowld look out for A, B, Fenton's price Hat of drapery and olothing in, this papeij fco*morrovy night,-* i Advfe.)