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Auckland Star, Volume XII, Issue 31, 6 February 1891, Page 1

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Athletic Sports on. S.s. Taupo left for Fiji. S.s. Ifauroto cone South. "Frisco mail dates altered again. South Australian loan a failure. Busy tourist season at Rotorua. More news of the Assaye wreck. Very little hopo for the Kakanui. Hinemoa searches Campbell Island. Rear-Admiral Denison is at Rotorua, Coal-boring at NortLcote suggested. Splendid weather for Athletic Sports. Last two nights of Harvey Minstrels. Harbour Board elections on Monday. H.M.s. Cnracoa had a pleasant cruise. Typhoid fever prevalent at Wellington. Northern Chief arrived from Newcastle. Huntly colliery inquiry still proceeding. Wellington man died from a katipo bite. Now Hospital Commissioners appointed. Special programme Moa Minstrels tonight. A Chatham Islander saw the Assaye'a rockets. Sir George Grey is sobering the Rotoruanatives. Fresh butter is very scarce in the local market. Gladstone's Religious Disabilities Bill reijected. Germany intends to have a World's Fair in 1397. Sir George Grey visited vVhakarewarewa yesterday. A fourth of Venice's population are paupers. London unions want the city to run the> street cars. The Sultan of Turkey ia the possessor of 1,100 wives. Watch less what people say than whab' they don't say. St. Petersburg is promised a 500-mila electric railway. A cafe in Berlin has adopted the sign of "The Merry Microbe." Alexander 111. is one of the greatest old book collectors in Europe* If a woman can deceive another woman. she can succeed at anything. Seven thousand gold claims have been marked off in Mashonaland. One's best friends will be found to walkonly on the sunny side of the street. A manufacturers' federation of boot and shoemakers in England is established. It is a question whether the tree that) brought forth good fruit was a family tree. Dom Pedro has nearly completed his Portuguese translation of the "Arabian Nights." Jurors summoned to attend the Supreme Court on Monday next will not be required. Wanganui residents have arranged to welcome back and banquet Mr Premier Ballance. It is reported that Prince Bandouin, of Belgium, died of small-pox, and not o. pneumonia. Germany is building eleven battle-ships, with an aggregate displacement of seventy thousand tons. ... " The Curacoa'" ' ' "~ , ~~ f -T>l' QB- Wedne Sir R. Hondura.* the Falkl, The i Otahuhu. Otahuhu t 1 M,' Afcamee °,",® ori ' c ' in the. Banl r M n /\? f 6 alterations JM° f confirmed.! Wjo dee, General f ry ._ his Dositioi aWe rsee, vWI German German corps. The Attcv'ney-General of -, c ,„ Wales hnq .declined to file a Bu ( *>' Captain Rossi for disturbing the the Go'ulbonrn Cathedral. v Mr Justice North has refused to gra injunction restraining the London dc committee from imposing the new tariff . connection with owners discharging their own vessels. The katipo spider is well-known as a venomous creature. A wire from Wellington says that Malcolm Fraser, an expressman, died there yesterday from the effects of a bite on the wrist from a katipo spider. Ib is understood that tbe Hon. Mr Wrigley, of Canterbury, has forfeited his seat as a member of the Legislative Council, owing to his absence from two sessions of Parliament without leave. The following are the current Sydney quotations for the principal silver mining shares at Broken Hill: —Proprietary, £11 17s 6d ; British, £3 5s ; Central, £4 12s ; North, £1; South, £4 17s; Block No. 14, £6 15s; Block No. 105, £14 17a ; Junction, £2 3s. Baron de Worms has declined to say whether the French Government would, equalise the restrictions upon British subjects and foreigners in New Hebrides, until bhe text of the Federal Council resolutions was received. The Government have received no further information from the, Agent-General as to the arrangements he is making for the conversion afc an early date of the remaining New Zealand loans on which a high rate of • interest is boing paid, but it is understood ) that Sir F. D. Bell is still negotiating in tha , isatter. ! Mr Bruce, candidate for Egmont, addressed the Manaia electors on Wednesday night. He declared himself strongly opposed to the present Government. He said he had been requested to stand by a large number of electors, but even now he was willing to retire in favour of a local candidate, j

Look in Wanteds for excellent chance tosecure sound building materials at a nominal cost.—Hay, Hardinge-st.—(Advt.)

What is nicer, this hot weather than a cup of Arthur Nathan's Tea ? Delicious and invigorating. Any grocer will supply it at 2s and 2s 6d per lb.—(Advt.)

Do not be "a penny wise and a pound foolish," but ask for and buy Brown, Barrett and Co.'s genuine pepper. It U cleaner and cheaper than the adulterated stuff sold as pepper. To make sure of getting our manufacture, ask for tin 3. Every fcin bears our guarantee. —Brown, Barrett, and Co., Coffee and Spice Manufacturers.— (Advt. )