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Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 33, 9 February 1891, Page 1

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More labour troubles. Phonograph to-nighb. Coal found afc Puhipuhi. Terrible floods in China. R.M.s. Arawa ab Hobarfc. Chilian rebellion still active. Parnell enlarging his demands. Manapouri arrived from South. Rebellion in Servia its reported. Harbour Board elections to-day. Supreme Court Civil Sittings on. Athletic Carnival very successful. Mararoa from Sydney to-morrow. Butchers meet to-night re picnic. Bluntly mining inquiry on to-day. Heavy rains in Waikato Saturday. Mount Tarawera still intensely hot. Regatta prize presentation to-night. Late Sir W. Fitzberberb was aged 82. Another Sydney cashier gone wrong. Sailor crushed to death at Melbourne. Wellington entering the Island trad*. Ship Leading Wind is being surveyed. Auckland won Championship banner. Sir George Grey is resting at Rotorua. Auckland still keeps ahead in shipping. Lord Onslow's Urewera trip postponed. Three thousand Cardiff coalheavers idle. Proposed Island steamer for Wellington* Saturday's rain damaged Waikato crops. Another " bound house " case at Supreme Conrt. Sir George Grey attends Federative Conference. . . . . More records beaten in the Domaic on Saturday. Native Lands Court jusfc concluded at Ngaruawahia. Barque Essex discharging here from New York. Mr Vale benefits at the City Hall tomorrow evening. By an avalanche in the canton of Glarue, Switzerland, 22 persons were killed. China is about to issue a seven million 4£ per cent, loan with a minimum ot 95. The United States Congress has voted £1,000,000 towards the Chicago World's Fair. Body of a native child killed by Tarawera eruption in 1886 has been found ab the Wairoa. Lord Sheffield is arranging for an English cricketing team to visit Australia in the autumn. A serious Arnaut rising has taken place in Old Servia, and. troops have been despatched to quell it. The port ot Iquique has been blockaded by the Chilian insurgents, and the town will probably be bombarded. Terrible floods have again been experienced in ten districts in China, and thousands of people have bean drowned. Zabertouche, a clerk in the Sydney' Pension.Department, has been suspended. Hie defalcations are believed to amounc to between £7,000 and £10,000. The principal clauses in the new cable agreement have been cabled to Australia for submission to the Postal Conference, which meets in Sydney on the 26th instant;. Two of the new Australian cruisers, the Boomerang and the Karrakatta, are being equipped at Chatham Dockyard. The Katoomba, Mildura, and Wallaroo will not) be ready before April. Messrs Jas. Learoyd and Sons, woollen manufacturers; of Hiiddorsfield, England, have suspended payment. The Habu'.tiea qf. the firsa are stated to be £-70,000. Two other firms, are mentioned as in financial difficulties. In the United States Senate a resolution attacking the Free Coinage Supply Bill was ruled out of order. The BHI was only carried on a narrow majority, and the general impression is that free coinage will be smothered. The 11. M.S. s. Arawa, from London, arrived at Hobdrt at five o'clock on Saturday atternoon, and sailed at noon yesterday for New Zealand. She brings 35 passengers for Australian ports, and has 74 for New Zealand. Air Parnell claims the right to the nomination of the majority of the candidates in Ireland at the general elections. Over hfty of the followere of Mr Gladstone, who are dissatisfied with Mr Parnoll, fear thab the letter's retirement is a subterfuge, and will be only temporary. A little boy, seven years of age, named, Honeywill, waa drowned in the Hokitika River yesterday afternoon. He was sitting on a pile fishing, and fell into 16 feet of• water. There was a strong current, and the body has not been found. • A fearful accident happened in Melbourne harbour on Saturday. Two of the crew of the steamer Elingamite were in a boat alongside their vessel, when a passing steamer jammed them against it. One man was crushed into a shapeless mass, while his companion, though nob killed, waa seriously injured.