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Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 72, 26 March 1891, Page 1

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Holidays again. Easter has come. Star mail summary. Governor has returned. Bootmakers on strike. Weather breezy and cool. Two mail-boats to-morrow. No Star issued to-morrow. Sheffield Handicap to-morrow. S.s. Hauroto for South to-night. Burns Club social this evening. Newfoundlanders want separation. Educational Conference to bo hold. Caledonian Society's social to-night. Richmond expected from the Islands. Queensland shearers being arrested. 'Frisco mail expected to-morrow night. Sir George Grey nominated, for Newton. Annual picnic Artillery Band to-morrow* R.M.s. Rimutaka arrived at Wellington. Mora Sydney capital coming into Auckland. Hon. J. G. Ward was ab Fire Brigade Conference. Postmaster-General met Chamber of Com. merce to-day. Reported sensational plotamongstQueensland shearers. Mr W. W. Collins will deliver Sunday evening rationalistic lectures. Governor's party, not forgetting tho " war correspondents," are back again. Mr Carr, retiring member of the Board of Education, attended every meeting last* j ear. Admiral and Lady Scott, and Lord and Lady Onslow have had sittings at Mr Hemus' studio. The dwelling-house of Mr John Appleton, at Otoroa, Opotiki, was burned down yea* terday. There was no insurance. Lovatt and Payne's tender, £925, was accepted yesterday for building the new Truant School in Chapel-street. Messrs Sharlund and Co., Kempthorno, Prosser and Co., and Young and Co. will close on Friday, Saturday, and Monday. The practices for the annual gathering of Bands of Hope commence this evening in the Newton Congregational School-room. Mr Jas. Muir, teacher at Papakura Valley, who has for a long time been in tha service of the Board of Education, resigned last week. To-day the Hon. Mr Reeves leaves Wellington for Christchurch. He will return to the seat of Government immediately after the Easter holidays. The following appointments were authorised by the Board of Education yesterday : Ohinewai, Mr K. A. Fletcher; Te Kowhia, Miss B. li. Sandes ; Ngahinapouri, Mr H. J. Walter. We notice by last San Francisco papers to hand by the mail that xMrF. H. Williamson, son of Mr C. Williamson, of this city, has been admitted to practise law in the Supreme Court there. It is expected that the Wellington city volunteers to the number of 290 will attend the Easter Encampment at Palmerston North, where it is estimated the number undor canvas will be 1,300. Mr T. McEwin announces that he will provide a good lunch for competitors and' spectators at the Military Sports on Saturday at Potter's Paddock under the grandstand, at the price of two shillings. The contract for the first hundred feet of the pier at New Brighton, Canterbury, was signed yesterday. The price is £420. The remaining 300 feet is to be constructed as the calls made on the shareholders come in. A cyclonic gale was met with by the three masted schooner Waratah on her recent passage from Mauritius to Melbourne. The wind blow with hurricane rehomence for IS hours and the schooner was hove-to all the time. Mr Rice, secretary to the Board of Education, gave an explanation yesterday of the letter written to the Tauranga Committee regarding Mr Grant's candidature for a school there, that was considered entirely satisfactory by the Board. A cash-box containing £30 was missed from the Junction Hotel, Halswell, Canterbury, and yesterday morning Detective O'Connor arrested a respectably connected young man, William Marshall McDowall, on tbe charge of having committed tho robbery. The operations which have been carried on at the sunken steamer Centennial ia Sydney Harbour for some time past are still going on. It is thought that the plan of raising will succeed, and the purchaser of the sunken steamer will be warmly congratulated should it do so. At a meeting of the Wellington Education Board, a committee was appointed to consider Dr. Newman's resolution, "That for science lessons there shall be taught chemistry appropriate to the manufactures of the district, and in the country schools the chemistry of agriculture." The Chinese merchants of Sydney last) week gave a banquet at Quong Tart's rooms, King-street, to Mr Way Lee, one of the best known and most successful merchants in South Australia, who is at presenb on a visit to Sydney. Some 50 in all, including several well-known residents of Sydney, sat down. The Commissioners who are inquiring into the working of the Public Trust Office find it necessary to take the evidence of agents and others outride of Wellington* l and are communicating with the Government, asking- whether such persons are to be to Wellington, or wHetfief the" powers'"of the Cttmmfijstdii shall be enlarged to enable evidence to be taken elsewhere. A new steamer has just been put on the New Zealand line for the frozen meat trade, and is said to bo the largest vessel yet built for the mutton trade. Her name is the Hawke's Bay, and she was built by Messrs Dodfords, on the Tyno. This ship has been built for a London company, and ia now on her maideu voyage to the colonies from London for Tyser and Co. " The loss of the Sydnoy schooner Annie Cochrane, 50 tons, ia reported. The vessel went ashore on the "M " Reef whilst on a voyage from Maryborough to Thursday Island with timber, and subsequently , foundered in 16 fathoms of water, Capt. • Vemboss, the master, and the crew of the vessel landed safely at the Claremonb Islands, and were rescued by a passing vessel and taken to Cooktown. A wire was received at Sydney last week 1 by the Secretary to the Marine Board • from Harrington as follows :—" Portions of wreck, deck part of soft wooden vessel, 1 drove ashore between Crowdy and Manning Heads. On part of the deck is a steam winch, the weight of which caused tbe deck i to capsize, the winch being underneath. The wreckage has nob been long in the water. It appears to be a deckhouse about 24 feet each way." The Dunedin temperance party, last night, decided that the platform of the ■ moderate party would not suit, and it was ; resolved to nominate Messrs A. C. Begg, A. : Barr, A. C. Broad, J. Wright, and the Rev, W. Ready as prohibition candidates for the ; coming licensing elections. It was decided to issue a circular, requesting supporters o£ temperance to intimate to such grocers as held bottle licenses that they could nob ■ support them so long as they held those . licenses.