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Auckland Star, Volume XXI, Issue 103, 2 May 1890, Page 1

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Light-rain showers. Silver is quoted in London at 3s 10£ d. • t Prices at the London wool sales remain unchanged. 11 Woman against Woman " at the Opera House to-night. ■ Retrenchment Bcheme adopted for the, Public Library. Mr Varley evangelises ab the Public Hall to-nighb. Customs returns afc this port yesterday totalled £1,143 16s 4d. Mr J. C. Sutherland will play at the Academy of Arfc tonight. • A cargo of Australian wheat has been sold in London at 363 .•.•■•. Two severe shocks of earthquake were experienced at Quaenstown yesterday morning. . . - Arrangements are being made for the . abolition of the passport system in Alsace. Dunedin Tailoresses' Union has voted £25 par week to assist the Auckland Btrikers. The Rev. (r. H. Preston was inducted as incumbent of St. Mary's Church, Parnell, last night. , Mwanga has placed Uganda exclusively within the influence of the British East) Africa Company. The City Council' propose to take the .whole question of fire insurance into con- , sideration shortly. Meeting of fruitgrowers at the Chamber of Commerce this afternoon to discuss the fruitgrowing industry. Sfe George's Rowing Club will hold a social gathering in St. George's Hall, ton, on the 23rd inst. The Takapuna Jockey Club propose to hold their Winter Meeting on the Queen's; Birthday, the 24th mat. Jagger and Parker's application for use of surplus water at Edgecumbe's Creek for a f ellmongery has been declined. Some fine views of the exhibits at the late , Chrysanthemum Show; have been secured by Mr Josiah Martin, photographer. Messrs M. M. Kirkbride and W. F. Massey have been elected to fill the two . vacancies in the Mangere Road Board. Mr Owen Curran McGee was the only, person nominated to fill one of the three, vacancies in the Otahuhu Road Board, and! , was elected. ■; The Mount Cricket Club will con- :1 tinue their last Saturday's match to-morrow, afternoon, on the Chesterfield Paddock, commencing at 2.30. < :, . A special meeting of the City Council, . will be held on Thursday evening next to take into consideration the whole question of'properby assessment, ; Orders were given for the solQiers to remain in the barracks on May Ist, in readiness to put down any disorder that might . arise in the labour demonstration. . Sir Walterßuller visited the Art Gallery and Public Library yesterday in with Sir William Fox, by whom he was shown the many treasures collected. j ; The Art Gallery project is succeeding. well at Dunedin. ( The Mayor, and Mr; James Smith each k gave £25, ; tional pictures have been promised. Allan, second -class .oi&cer on . H. M. si Egeria, accused of taking part in , , the mutiny ampng $xq men, has been sentenced to five years'penal servitude. ■ X ■■-:■•■'■ Thei following was received Edwin at 4 p.m. yesterday.: v ,. Expect north! to east and south-east gale, with rain.after.. , 12 hours from now. Glass further falL" Messrs Penay and Hegmafa, a firm in Blenheim, New Zealand, have made a pre- / sent of a quantity of frozen mutton and .butter to Sir Hi A.; Isaacs, Lord Mayor of a London. , To-night a deputation from the Wellington Knights of Labour will confer with the Committee appointed to make arrange- 1 ments fer the formation of a co-operative butchery. ; ;

The Colonial Treasurer of New South Wales stated in the House of Assembly yesterday aft6rnooh that for the first four| rnqnths of the year a surplus of £128,000 ..' was shown. . ■ George White, alias Clifford, alias Boss, has been committed for trial at Christ* church on a charge of stealing a li&rsfe, the; property of Thomas Lamont, of Tomer ton,' near Rakaia. • The Premier of Queensland has asked Sir Harry Norman to request Admiral Lord-, Scbtt to thoroughly survey Torres Straits,* as ib is feared there may be other unknown rocks there. As will be seen by an advertisement ia another column, Mr F. Lawry will address; ? the Franklin North electors to-morrow , ; (Saturday) night in the Mangere Hall; and ! *: on Tuesday in the Ellerslie school. The Agents-General have, through the, jagency of Sir A. Blyth (South Australia); I forwarded cablegrams to their respective I colonies disclosing Mr Raikes's proposal for. a reduction of colonial postal rates. A John Burns and Michael Davitb; will' deliver addresses at the labour demonstration on Sunday, in favour of legislation J fixing eight hours as a day's work. The' organised unions are opposed to this step. The following are the current quotations; for the principal silver mining shares: Broken Hill Proprietary, £13 15s ; British, £3 18e; Central, £ll;Nortb,£l 6s; South,' £6 6s; Block 14, £515s ; Block 10, £3 3s ;j Junctions, £6 5a 6d. ■ Complaints are general at Gisborne about; the. excessive charges for bringing cases: before the Commission under the Native! Land Act of last session. Many, persona p, . are withholding in the hope thafe Parliament! will during the coming session reduce the j charges. > . The meteorological returns for March, show the total rainfall in inches as follows:; —Auckland, 2-632; Wellington, 2:230;! Lincoln, Canterbury, 1*983; Dunedin, 3 - 282. The number of days of rain were r Auckland, 8; Wellington, 13; Lincoln, Canterbury, 11; Dunedin,-12. - In the House of Commons yesterday the Deceased Wife's Sister Bill passed the second reading* by a majority of sixtyseven. Speaking during the debate Sir James Ferguson said that the agitation in Adelaide in favour of the Bill was entirely fictitious,.and was contrary, to t;:a-whole religious opinion of the colony. . Simpson, a distant .relative of the late Mr I>avid Berry, the New; South Wales millionaire, has lodged caveae against probate being granted to Mr John Hay, on the ground that at the time of making the will the testator was nob in a, sound abate of mind., Under the doceaaed'a will the Coolangatta estato -uraa left to Mr' , " Hay. • ■ ■- ■' Do not be "a penny wise and a pound J foolish," but ask for and buy Brown, Barrett, and Co.'s genuine pepper. It ia cleaner and cheaper than the adulterated stuff gold as pepper. To make sure of getting our manufacture, ask lor tins. Every tin bears our guarantee. —Brown, BswetA , , and Co., Coffee and Spice Maauiao4vsr«s.--r (Advt.)