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Auckland Star, Volume XXI, Issue 162, 11 July 1890, Page 1

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Star Summary to-morrow. Kauri gum market is weak. Mr James Smith, solicitor, contests Brae. s eat. Concert in St. Matthew's Schoolroom tonight. Remuera Social last evening was a grea fc success. The Free Library is to be kept open till ten p.m. in future. Dr. Peters, the German explorer, has arrived at Zanzibar. Eleventh change of programme at Wirth'a Circus this evening. Entertainment in St. Sepulchre's Schoolroom this evening. Many pretty girls at the Remuera Social Union's dance last evening. Continuous rain has greatly damaged the English crops. Wheat is 6d dearer. The Adelaide Ministers' Association is agitating for the rights of citizenship. The Argentine financial crisis still continues ab Buenos Ayres and Monte Video. The Burns Club will give an entertainment on behalf of the Blind Fund shortly. In the British House of Commons the Bankruptcy Bill has been read a third time. The English money market is firmer. Three months bills are quoted at 3§ per cent. The Uruguay State has decreed forced currency of National Bank notes for six months. A Bulgarian girl fired a shot at M. Stambouloff, Premier, but missed him, a couple of days ago. A committee has been formed in London to work the Amalgamated Australian Coast Trades Meat Trade. The charge of rioting against John Williams, the London Socialist, waß not proved, and he was discharged. The_ Independent Order of Oddfellows, A.0., is the only order in Australasia possessing a financial surplus. . The Auckland Rugby Union will again admit ladies free to the football ground and grand-stand, as in the past. The London wool market is firm. It is probable that 70,000 bales will be withdrawn from the present series. A Mr Weston, of London, isj charged with forging the name of Wertheimer to a Cheque endorsed by Lady Dunlo. VT The late Constable Cotter's in the police force are raising a subscription for his widow and young family. \ The President of the Argentine Rtoublic is asking the House of Duputies to aufcorise the issue of 100,000 dollars' worth of totes. Two million people are threateneoWith famine in Galicia (Hungary), a severe fernhaving destroyed 2,000 square mild of crops. \ * Mr Williams has been appointed toihe London branch of the National InsurC,Company, and left Dunedin for Home fc terday. - T[ The South African Railway Bill has bei defeated, and it is expected the Govern ment will either resign or appeal to tin country; . • 1 H.M.B. Swinger leaves Sydney shortll on a cruise of several months to the Neva Hebrides, and on returning to Sydney wi_| be paid out of commission. ; '*| *wa." burned to: death ys_te-41 day" near Naseay?*fOtagb) i&fonghy his; \ Waggon, loaded withykerosene, catching;! fire. '. ' ' .'"y A public meeting at Christchurch, pre- ' sided over by Bishop Julius, has affirmed; the necessity for the earlier closing of retail shops and for the change of markeb-day to Friday. The total quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is 2,416,000 quarters, and for the Continent 632,000 quarters. The American visible supply is estimated at 19,648,000 bushels. By the s.s. Clansman last night there arrived Constable Carr, who has been transferred from KawakaAva to this city, also Constable Reilly, en route from Whangaroa to Whakatane, where he has been stationed. I'm the European cloud of war; I'm never out of sight; I don't know what they keep me for— ■ . They never have an"ght. But I'm forever on the list; .-. y ■ At every passing hap .They tell me I'd be sadly missed , If I were not on tap. Ludwig Lounes, first mate of the barque Brunette, Wbangaroa to Sydney, lately, who was drowned, met his death through the jib .filling jußt as he was liberating the sheet from the anchor stock, and jerking him overboard. , The Agents-General are urging the British Chancellor of the Exchequer to give an early answer to the request of the colonies that the Imperial Government should contribute to the cable subsidy and share the guarantee. The Belgian Government have advanced one million sterling for the purposes of the Congo Free State, on condition that in ten years Belgium may annex the Congo, and that King. Leopold 11. bequeaths his individual right to the State. The Sydney current quotations for the principal silver mining shares are :—Broken Hill Proprietary, £12 15s ; British, £2 15s; Central, £8:1956 d ; North, 19s; South, 5s 6d ; Block No.' 14, £6 4s ; Bloc.k No. 10, £9 7s ; Junctions, £3 6s. The usual fortnightly meeting of the UniversitylDebating Society takes place tonight, wheji the subject of "Australasian Federation! from New Zealand's Stamdpoint" will be discussed, Messrs Burton and Baumiß being the openers. A seaman of the British ship Lumberman's Lassie, which arrived at Aratapn (Kaipara) from Melbourne last week, was killed instantaneously by falling onto the deck; forty feet below, from the maintopsail yard; where he was furling the maintopsail. vy. : " Aw, I heah that Chawley LittlesensVwas, aw> expelled from the KnickerbpckawClub." Braneless: "Yaas; one of ouah membaby doncherknow, went, aw, into the club-room and found, aw, the fellah thinkin'." Dudesby: "Bah Jove! What a bweak 1".., He'll nfe'or the pangs of hunger know Who_n the field or garden delves To live*, but prosperous Avill grow, For God helps those Who help themselves. The man who needs a loaf of bread, Andftakes it from the baker's shelf, And is found out, has cause to dread. God help the man Avho helps himself. The captain of the Tarawera (which reached Sydney yesterday from Dunedin) reports that on Wednesday morning a steerage named John Fitzsimmonds, xjfbo embarked at Lyttelton, wag missed. the passengers were mustered and the ship searched, but no traca of the man could be found. It is presumed that he jumped or fell overboard. The MS.W. Legislative Council haypassed the Divorce Bill, and subsequently tAvo protests, signed by six members of the Council, fwere entered on the Journals of the Coui§3il> reflecting on the action of tho Lieutenant-Governor, Sir Alfred Stephen, who wa4- accused of" sending a letter of thianks from Government House to the supporting the measure; before ithe final stage was reached, _ The proteata were oroaoged. )'■"" ■ . A - iv. . -Vy