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Auckland Star, Volume XX, Issue 95, 23 April 1889, Page 1

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Pokeke v. Grafton. Match this afternoon. ■ Result in late edition. • Dr. Tennent is dead. Port Darwin line is restored. * Shocking murder at Gisborne. Waihora arrived from Sydney. Volunteers got back at 10 a.m. to-day. Sir George Grey is recruiting at Waiwera. j Foot race at the Zealandia Rink this evening. ' Tabernacle Sunday-school soiree this evening. There are 141 males and 20 females in Mount Eden Gaol. Governor promised to lay the foundation stone of the Costley refuge to-morrow. . : The Colonial Sugar Company have ad . vanced their sugar syrups at Sydney by £1. per ton. ; . Read the new serial story in the ** Friend" this week — "A House of Secrets." " Erl King's Daughter" and " Revenge " in rehearsal by the Choral Society nexb Tuesday. Is dancing wicked ? Read the answer in an illustrated article in " The Friend " jusb published. Kate Brewer, who was badly burned through her clothes catchiDg fire, has died at Wellington. The Eiffel Tower is the highest monument in the world. It is well illustrated in the " Family Friend " this-week. Lord Knutsford, Secretary' of State for the Colonies, has issued a warning to emi-. grants about to leave for Brazil. Rev. Charles Spurgeon, who left by the Mariposa yesterday, was presented by the congregation with an inlaid table top. Her Majesty Queeh Victoria forwarded a wreath of primroses to Hughenden on the anniversary of the' Earl of Beaconsfield'a death. Smarty : --When would a fellow rather take a kick than give one ?" De Luny: "I pass." Smarty: "When he has the gout!".'-, Mr W. L. Rees, of Gisborne, is trying to arrange in England for a series of small experimental settlements in the various colonies. ** So old Brown is dead, eh ? Well, well! Did he leave anything ?" " Yes. It broke his heart to do it, but he has left everything." Mr T. B. Hannaford lost no time in seizing the Governor for an inspection of his windmill plans. An interview was granted this forenoon. The name of Captain M. Yates, Mayor of Onehunga, was. omitted from the list of guests present on the platform at the reception of the Governor. A boat belonging to the abandoned ship Atlanta has been found floating about on tho Atlantic Ocean. The Atlanta lias 600. Danish emigrants on board. An up-country man bought a Roman; candle to go to bed by. He says : "You can bet your sweet life I'll lick the man who loaded it if I can find him." Puffingand blowing are often considered? as synonymous terms. You will discover a difference, however, if, instead of puffing a: man up, you should blow him up. When a lady who has been taking music lessons for the past eight years, hangs back; and blushes and says she really can't play, don't insist on it. The chances are that she can't. Impecunious Lover : fl Be mine, Amanda, and you will be treated like an angel." Maiden : " Yes, I suppose so. Nothing to eat and less to wear. No, X thank you." In a letter to one of the London daily papers, Mr Chamberlain declares that he has exhausted all efforts to effect a reunion of parties, and that future advances must come separately. M. Spuller, of Foreign Affairs? in France, in a circular issued to thg diplomatic agents abroad, urges them to assemble French subjects for a National f£'te on May 5 Mi, the occasion being the centenary of the opening of the StatesGeneral. ;. A committee of the House of Commons, appointed to inquire into the grain question, have recommended that greater uniformity should be adopted in the system of saving grain by weight, and have also advised that farmers should be sounded respecting the compulsory sale of wheat by weight. " Oh, Pat, and what do you think will, ba your feelings on the Day of Judgment when you meet Mrs Mahoney and the pig yott stole from her face to face V " Does your reverence think the pie will be there V* " Ay, indeed, will he, and what will ye say then ?" "I shall say, your reverence; "Mrs Mahoney, dear, here's the pig that I. borrowed of ye, and I'm mighty glad to have this opportanety of restoring him."