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Auckland Star, Volume XX, Issue 180, 31 July 1889, Page 1

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Wellington sensations. .T^ Typhoid and stonewalling. t ? : Flax trade still improving. Direct steamer Arawa at Wellington. Dr. Bake we) lon "Athletics" this evening. The Trust Funds Bill has passed its final stage. The coal man knows the weigh to' wealth. Whangarei now boasts two banking institutions. Juvenile fancy dress ball this evening in the Choral Hall. Doran's Popular Concerb Company visift Onehunga to-night. : It is said that mermaids tie up their hair with a marine band. Rev. G. H. S. Walpole will leave Aackland in about a fortnischt. A fight will probably be arranged between Mitchell and Slavrn. Meeting of Association football playereJ at tho Imperial Hotel to-night. The electrician i 3 a good soldier. Hβ" knows how to charge a battery. *;-'■ ; : The " Payne " family will provide " pleasure " at the Ponsonby Hall to-night. In addition to typhoid there are numerong " cases of scarlet fever in Wellington justf now. The barque Wallsgate's missing boafi has turned up safe after being a week ab sea. Captain Saville, A.D.C., was slightly better yesterday, but the fever is still severe. Benjamin Edwards, ten years old, was killed by falling from a bridge at Hamilton yesterday. The Government have been petitioned from Dunedin to appoint an "Inspector of Reservoirs." A maiden desirous of a swaying figure - can easily attain the same by brisk exercise with a swinging gait. It has been ascertained that Lord Cran-. ley is suffering from an attack of fever, bufrj at present it is not severe. There are at present twenty boarders atf; the Sailors' Home, and additional accom-: modation has been provided. j Pugilists may nob be philanthropists,; yet they are all of the opinion that it is : better to give than to receive. If Edison would only invent something to make men honest what a heap of legaL trouble he would save himself. In the restaurant—Gus—ls that a West-j phalia ham you eating ? Fritz—No, iti came from Maine ; it is an East failure. j Samoa has applied for a bay at the! Dunedin Exhibition in which will be shown?; textile fabrics, weapons, curiosities, etc. j The members of the "A" Battery are warned to attend an inspection parade tomorrow evening, at 7.30,"in the Drill-shed. • It is expected that Mr Justice Richmond>| will come to Auckland to take up the September criminal sittings of the Supreme Court. The defence set up to the charge of threatening to shoot a woman preferred' against ex-Inspector Bullen was " practical! joking." Baron de Worms, in answer to a question; in the House of Commons, said that natural!-! sation in one colony did not apply in; another. The amalgamation of the old firm ot BT."i Matson and Co., of Christchurch, with the! National Mortgage and Agency Company' is announced. The Dervishes have resumed their march northward, and Colonel Wodehouee,' witty Anglo-Egyptian troops, is following hard* upon their track. Tho John Leydon whose name was men-; tioned in last night's issue in connection 1 with the Aurora Hotel, is not the aucv tioneer of that name. The return polo match between the Hamilton and Cambridge Rinking Clubs came off on Monday night, and resulted in a draw of three goals each. There has been another conviction for; sly grog-selling in the "teetotal" settle-; ment of Waipu. This makes the eleventh during the past six months. j The steeplechaser Orangeman was sold afe Christchurch yesterday to settle a ship account, and fetched 80 guineas, Jj; Rae being the purchaser. ,Tbe superintendent of the Allahabad Central Gaol notifies that it is intended to exhibit the" work of prisoners, such as*. carpets, etc., at the Dunedin Exhibition. ■ The President of the Dunedin Exhibition intends to write to Sir W. J. Clarke, asking for the loan of the statue of the Queen in the Melbourne Public Library, he being the. donor of it. Mr F. W. Matthews' new sawmill afo Tatarariki, Wairoa, will, it is expected, start cutting next week. It will be under the immediate management of Mr Chas. Matthews. A rehearsal of the Ladies' Orchestra will be held in the Choral Hall on Saturday next, August 3, at 11 a.m., in connection with the concert in aid of the Young Men's Christian Association. Are you reading " True as Steel ?" If nob, procure a copy of the " Family Friend " ab once, and commence it. First chapters in' this week's issue. AU booksellers, news agents and runners. ""-' ' Mr P. Kepgh, the well-known member of the native football team, is the subject of an illustrated biographical sketch in the " Family Friend " this week. The popular weekly budget is now ready. Mr J. C. Firth intends to have his new work, "Nation Making," gob upontha hnea of Max O'Rell's "Jonathazi and his Continent," and issued in London in the same sort of half-crown edition . • An interesting article on Hj?J Sopranos " (with a diagram showing the ran Je of some of the greatest voices in the world) appears in the current issue of th» «W*ont akindoflysenteric attack ab present prevalent in Wellington, has now recovered. Mr Lou*hrey and other members have suffered in the same manner. Mr J. L. Holland, Secretary of the Arfr Socieby, has been appointed to proceed ta Dunedin to represent our local artists and amateurs in connection with the art section ot the Dunedin Exhibition.

Web weather sbill prevents the pumps being able to clear the Kawakawa coal mines of water, but the manager trusts with the aid of fine weather to be able to successfully cope with the water difficulty. Sir H. Parkes apologised last night in the N.S.W. Legislative Assembly for his hasty action on the .Paymenb of Members Bill, and now says he desires to approach the subject in a calm and temperate manner. A Masonic Union meeting, held at Christchurch last night, adopted a circular from, the central executive, and it was resolved to issue a copy to all the lodges here, also requesting them to elect delegates to attend the conference in September. The celebrated lecture of the late J. B, Gougb, " Man and his Masters," will be delivered at the Temperance Hall to-mor-row evening. Mr J . Knott has committed it to memory, and the delivery of it ab Wairoa South was so much appreciated he has been asked to repeat it there. It is especially interesting to young men.