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Auckland Star, Volume XXI, Issue 194, 18 August 1890, Page 1

TABLE TALE.

Showeey weabher again. Arawata sailed for Fiji. »' The Flying Scud " to-night. Guatemala and Honduras mean to fight. It.M.S. Mariposa arrived and gone again. Wainui due to-morrow from Samoa'and Tonga. "Prince Ferdinand has returned to Sofia from Austria. Russia is arranging for a railway loan of fifteen millions. Ponsonby Naval Artillery parade for inspection to-nighb. Auckland wharf labourers hold a Union meeting to-night. "The Flying Scud" at the Opera House is well worth seeing. Tho price of silver has increased to 4s 4d por ounce ab Home. ■ Auckland shipwrights meet at the Tern* perance Hall to-night. The cholera has* broken out at Cairo, bufc I at present bhere is nothing serious. Cases of whisky at night are often followed by cases of headache u6xb morning. It is probable that the Indian rupee will be recognised in London as valued at Is Bd. Arrangements have been completed for s f tho colonial tour of Wirth's Wild West : Show. Heavy gales havo been experienced in England lately, and the crops have suffered severely; There is a fair trade demand for New Zealand hemp in London,, quotations being unchanged. The Earl of Jersey has been created a Knight of bhe Grand Cross of Sb. Michael .-. and Sb. George. ' Professor Brown lectures at the Auckland Institute this evening en "John •Dalton and his Work."-,. "t .' Mr D'Orsay Ogden, the well-known actor, has returned here from' 'Frisco by the R.M.S. Mariposa. Robbers derailed a brain in Baltimore or. the Ohio Railway tU.S.) killing:thre6 persons and injuring many. Many of tho bishops and peers and old Anglican friends will attend bhe funeral of Cardinal Newman in London. j Mr R. L. Stevenson is expected in London in October, to settle up his affairs prior to settling permanently iri Samoa. Star of Auckland Lodge, 26, 1.0.0. F.» A.C., celobrabe their anniversary by a bal > in St. George's Hall on September 3rd. A public meebing to protest against the - admission of Chinese into bhe colony will be held in Wellington to-morrow evening. Signs of early spring are* apparent.' Oaks are already showing leaf, and iri warm situations.peaches are in blossom. General Ezeta with the Guatemala troops has again defeated the rebels; Honduras has massed, ben thousand troops on : the Guatemalan frontier. . At a meeting of tho shareholders of the New Zealand Antimony Company a resolution was carried removing Sir WalterBuller from the directorate. The Kaikoura's direct mail was distributed yesterday morning, bub the San Francisco mail of a fortnight's later data was delivered on Saturday nighb. ■■::'•' The Duke of Clarence has had a second attack of fever, and ib is believed thab the disease : is the result of the Indian tour, - from which heonly recently returned. " ~A. Kanaka labourer, belonging■vto Fiji, ■ believed to be insane, was brought down from..Honolulu■''b'y.d^J^-l|_J-Bp-''M._ripo_^_4if. ri .'... 1 sent pri to Piji by the s.e.: Arawata yesterday*';. . Mr A. Warrington left London land on July 18th per R.M.s. Culsco, and Mr W. A. Frith sailed on the sbhprox. by > theß.M.s. Ballarat for Auckland, via' Au_« J ' •' tralia. ■'■ : ' 'V ■ ''."'■'■ '■■■ ' •'"- 1 " : \ The new Roman Catholic Church in Man- ' chesber-street, North; Christchurch, waa ■ consecrated yesterday morning by Arch-; bishop Redwood, and dedicated to St. V Mary. A Mr Lysarb, of Ponsonby, had a narrow , escape from drowning on Saturday after- '• rioon off Home Bay through hi3;dingy filling. He was rescued by MrDufaur, who pub off in a boat. = Miss Sheehan, cyie of the r ; officers; of* the a - Guard of Honour, Sty, Patrlck's'GathedraljV. was yesterday presented, with a handsome i- . photograph album and; a eulogistic address from the other members.-i .. .-. ■*~', The Directors' Liability Bill was.the last , measure squeezed through both Houses in ■< "London.; The amendinohts'inake by tbe ; .'.' /: .-. ,; House of Lords, . which ib was thought would kill the measure, were modified. The' Argentine Minister of Financebaa agreed to afresh paper issue. The premium oh gold has receded to 172. The examina.-. tion ofthe books, sfcows 'that the Natibhal Bank has len bto th c ■'; f rien ds of Presidenb ; : v Celman a;sum of 30,000,000.d011ar5.. In the House of Commons Sir A. J. Balfour, Chief Secretary :for Ireland, ;in reply'■ to a question, stated that the potato famine in ireland had come on the Government unexpectedly, but he thought thab the Poor Law of Ireland sufficiently provided for tho ■:>■■ 'distress.;:/' . ":'■:':■' x i\ '■■ :,/ ' ' The London "Economist" discredits tho •• rumours that the United States Government are arranging with ?ah American '.>■; silver mining'company to prevent the increase of output. The UnibedStates-Go- - vernment is' purchasing; silver, at 115 eehtsJ Americahstocksare small. ; '■/-. ? Australian : wheat, ex warehouse, is ' •quoted in London ab 38s 6d 'to 395; Off-.' coast cargoes are quoted at tho same price. Australian wheat, c:: ship, is quotocl at 5Ss to 38s bd; New Zealand* Tong-berri-d, "ex' : warehouse, 38a 8d to 395. -The. wheat markeb is,firm and steady. ■■■.■■.■. . .. :■ ■ , Two Melbourne men, T..'H. Wilson and Fredeech: Wilson, wore ? Dun-' edin on Saturday.nighb,for the robbery o£ £100 from the Dunedin Savings Bank.- One of theni asked for,: change, when his com-! ; panion slipped; round to the sjde door and ;> knocking there attracted the; manager's attention while the other secured the cash-. :• box from th©; desk iat the counter, and 1 bolted. '■■~- * i ; . i Our White Shirts at 3s 6d; Boys' Tweed - Suits, 4s 6d, up to size 8; Merinp Soxj 5d ~ per. pair, are '.the, besb value ever offered in , the city. - Come and sue them at Fowlds'.— (Advt.) • . ' Dotnob be "a ponriy wise anda pound foolish," bub, ask for and buy Brown,; Barretb and Co.'s genuine pepper. Ibia ; cleaner and cheaper than the adulterated' ' stuff sold as pepper. To make sure of get-" ■ ting our manufacture, ask for bins. Every; tin bears our guarantee.—Brown j Barrett, and Co., Coffee and Spice Manufacture...-— (Advt.) ' ; *