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Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 71, 25 March 1891, Page 1

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Weather cleared. Holidays coming. Sydney mail arrived , . Heavy rain last night. Star summary to-morrow. To-day is Annunciation Day. Chilian war still raging bitterly. Governor's party back to morrow. Firemen's Conference again to-day. Chilian rebels being shot wholesale. Austrian warship Saida due ehortly. "Chaos " in the Public Trust office. Newfoundland affairs getting worse. Government expect £100,000 surplus. " King " Tawhiao is at Whatiwhatihoe. Lieutenant-Colonel Shepherd fareweiled« An Irish patriot has " blacked " Tim Heaily's eye. Mission schooner Southern Cross sailed for Melanesia. Welleeley-street School concert last nighfe very successful. Hon. J. O. Ward, Postmaster-General, is back from Sydney. Lifebuoy from lost schooner Rainbow, of Auckland, has been found. An enterprising showman wants to take Te Kooti tfiroueb Australia. More New Bedford whalers are being fitted out for the South Pacific: Insurance Companies offices will be closec? on Fridays Saturday, and Monday next. The City Council offices will be closed on Good Friday to Monday inclusive (Easter holidays). Mr J. J. Dixon, Deputy Registrar of Deeds, bae been notified that his services will terminate at the end of the month. The police authorities are still searching for the man John Milne, who disappeared from the Hospital so mysteriously last) Saturday. i Coastal steamers in port flaw their flags at half-mast to-day for Walter Lomer, the c.c. Rose Casey's fireman, who has died in the Hospital. The manager of the Costley Home thanks the ladies of St. Luke's Presbyterian Church, Remuera, for supply of cake and sandwiches, also Mi , Lumpkin, of Newmarket, for sausage. The Rose Casey will run excursions during the Easter holidays —to Waiwera and Mahurangi Heads en Friday and Saturday, and on Monday to Waiwera. Yesterday, at Dunedin, Captain L. Richardson, of the s.s. Taieri, was married to Miss Grace Irwin. The vessels in thatJ port were gaily decorated with bunting. The valuation of Chrisfechurch, including , the recently added Richmond Ward, hae been finally settled at £199,350. Deducting the Richmond valuation?, £6,155, the amount is £1,487 less than thab of last) year. Yesterday afternoon Mrs Watfc, wife of the Rev. W. Watt, of Tanna, delivered an address on mission work to ladies only in the lecture hall of the Young Men's Christian Association. Mrs Scott West pre« sided. A telegram from Christchurch states that} Mr J. D. Enys, of Caekehill, has sold his station, as he intends to reside permanently in England. Before going home he will visit the Chatham Islands with. Bishop Julius. Mr John Mcßedrnond, for ten year* engineer at the Lunatic Asylum, has been presented by the staff of that institution with a gold albert and Maltese cross, suitably inscribed, on the eve of his departure for America. The presentation was made by Mr Owens. The Wellington City Council has agreed to make a new contract with the Gulchor Company for the electric light, the principal alteration being that in event of the) main supply decreasing, or the extra- water used by the company being required for other purposes, the light must oo driven by steam power. "The charges of breaches of the Land Acb preferred against Mr Coleman Phillipps, of Dry River Station, Wairarapa, were further investigated in the Wellington) Magistrate's Court yesterday, and occupied. the whole day. At five p.m. the case for the Crown closed, and the Court then adjourned until this morning, when Mr Travers, on behalf of the accused, was to address the Court. The drapery store of O. Cummings, in Mataura township (Southland), was destroyed by fire yesterday, with its contents, the post office being saved only by the strenuous efforts of a bucket brigade. The store was not insured, but there was a policy of £500 o,n the stock in the New Zealand office. Cummings estimates big losses at £1.200, having just got in a considerable amount of new stock. For the coming Dunedin licensing elections, active negotiations have been going on between the moderates and prohibition- ■ ists with a view to compromise, and it is believed this will now be arrived at, as the moderates have adopted, as a platform the reduction of the present number of licensed houses, with fair compensation, the compensation to come from increased license fees. Thtij pledge themselves to bring about legislation to give effect to this, means of compensation. Tawhiao, the " Maori EJing," Vfitfr,....» large fallowing, a'mVe'd at Whatiwhatihoe settlement, near Alexandra, from Lower iVaikato, pn Saturday, ; tjQffl&lljj; received by his native' followers there, about 200 in number. In crossing the bridge above Alexandra, Tawhiao was received with a salute of guns. He is inducing the natives to go down the Waikato and settle at his village at Pukekawa. He will take with him the bones of Potatau, and of his own sou Tutawhiao.