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Auckland Star, Volume XXI, Issue 269, 14 November 1890, Page 1

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Beaviifvl weather again. More Irish evictions. Elections close at hand. Tarawera left for South. Agricultural Show opened. Wairarapa sailed for Sydney. Terrible wreck of a British warship. New programme at the Bellringsrs. Fire at Ponsonby early this morning. Another sob ia born unto the Onslows. All Saints' sale of work is very succesß' , i. Dn. Wallis addresses Auckland electors to-night. ,> Baptist Union service in the Tabernacle ; to-night. The Rev. Dr. Barry has been appointed Canon of Windsor. The New South Wales Parliament is 9 charming assembly. Sir George Grey first arrived in New Zealand ]ÜBb 45 years ago. Auckland Cifcy general account finances are in a very healthy state. Mr E. Hamliti addresses Franklin? electors at the Mauku to-nipht. Monnti Eden and Epsom Lawn Tennis' Club season opens to-morrow. Baptist Union members "excurse' ,, to Takapuna to-morrow afternoon. S.s. Hinemoa leaves Wellington to-night for Kermadec Islands via Onehunga. . Mr B. L. Stevenson 13 expected in Eng- - land soon from Samoa on a short visit. Cap*. Cook took possession of New Zea* land in the name of England this day 1769. H.M.s. Serpent has been totally wrecked; on tho coast of Spain, with great loss of life. Professor Carrollo's picnic to pupils and ■ friends takee place at Motutapu to-morrow. :, The directors of the New Zealand Estates Company have now granted special settlements. Sieain communication is shortly to : be established between Auckland and Noumea. Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations' "Afc Homo"'"' in the V.M.C.A. to-night. Nominations for Mayor closo at noon on Monday, and nob Saturday, as stated in error yesterday. The Wellington "Post" bas some fun over the Kaihau expedition at Secretary Lewie , expense. Service of Song, "Our Father's Care," in Pitt and Edwin streets Primitive Methodisti Church to-night. Mr Haddon-Chambera , play, "The Idler," has been produced with eucc93s at the Lyceum in New York. Northern Steamship Company are now having a new steamer built at Paisley (Scotland) for the Bay of Plenty trade. At Akuaku, Poverty Bay, three children bathing in the surf were carried out by the , drawback and only rescued in an insensible condition. The members of the "A" Battery are warned to attend at the Mount Eden Range to-morrow at 2 p.nu for independent and volley firing. The University Lawn Tennis Club purpose opening their ground for play an • 3 p.m. to-morrow, provided the weather • proves fine enough. y The suddea death is announced ab Lonn don of the Rev. Alexander Efannay, -who was one of the delegates to the Victorian' (.Congregational Jubilee.- . I ■.-.'. *■ teWUo's: plan of tfab Puirclough antl May season, commencing ou Monday, 17t£i v instant, at the Opera House, «n opened at Wildman's yesterday, and is filling up" rapidly. The members of the Sunday-schooF Union Exhibition Committee are Summoned to attend the Drill-shed aft half-past eighb! tomorrow morning , , to confer with regard to allotment of space, etc. The Rev. Dn. Jeffries, formerly Chairman of the New Bouth Wales Congregational. Union, who accepted the pastorate of the new college, Hampstead, England, haa teen warmly welcomed by the congregation. At the Intercolonial Charity Conference at Melbourne, it was resolved to memorialise the various colonial Legislatures, asking , that the exieting affiliation laws should ba so amended as to assimilate them with the English Act of 1876.' Mr William Morris, the poet, haa abandoned the Socialist League because of the "no-rent" provision in the general strike manifesto having been adopted, and aleo owing to the League denouncing Mr H. Champion. The London «• Standard " is indignant at the New Zealand Government concealing the bankruptcy of the New Plymouth Harbour Board for a whole year, and considers it ought at least to accept the obligation of the debb of £60,000. At a meeting of Wellington Unionists favourable to-the establishing of a special ■ settlement the proposals received from the Government were discussed, and ib was resolved to form an association, to be known as the Union Special Settlement? Association. George Rigalsford, aged 16, son of a Wellington butcher, was thrown from a horse on the Nghauranga Road last night. His head, arms, and legs were badly battered about. It is feared he is suffering, from concussion of the brain, as he bas not yet recovered consciousness It is reported that Delaney, the Irish Invincible, who has just been released from gaol at Home, will shortly sail for Australia. Delaney was one of those sentenced to' death for complicity in the Phcenix Park murders, bub whose sentence was commuted to penal servitude. The native medicine of the noble Maori generally kills the unfortunate patient. News haa iust been received at Gisborne of a case of this kind in the district. A Maori d was ill, whereupon his loviag wife ministered a dose of medicine made froni thQiutu. Ho died a few hours afterwards. The London Association of Shipowners and Brokers, representing a million tons, have joined the shipping federation. They include the following shipping companies : —P. and 0., Orient, Currie and Co., and Shaw, Savill, and Albion Co. The federation now numbers six and a-half million tone. addition to the sum of £14,000 already cabled to the Australian strikers, MrG. Skipton, Secretary of the Trades and Labour Council, had intended to send si further sum of £300, and by votes of Firemen, Seamen and Dockers' Unions hoped, within the next six months, to have remitted £50,000. At the inquiry, at Sydney yesterday, into the circumstances connected with the wreck of the steamer Alberta, bound from Japan to Melbourne, with a cargo of coal, the Marine Board found that the accidenfi was due to wrongful neglect or default onthe part of Captain Nelson, by navigating too close inshore without taking proper and sufficient precautions to asertain his true position. The captain has been cited to show cause why his certificate should not be suspended. '~ The Auckland Swimming Club, which had such a successful season last summer; formally commence active work for the coming season to-morrow afternoon. The Club is showing signs of increased activity r this year, and when Professor Parmelt arrives from the Waikato he is expected to find plenty of pupils. The opening to. . morrow afternoon is ia tho EYeshtrftkK