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Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 82, 8 April 1891, Page 1

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I Moist again. Westerly gale. More Indian troubles. Native rising in Burmah. Bad weather on West Coast. Wainui for Islands to-night. Tabernacle concert to-night. No Sydney steamer this week. Kakanui inquiry is proceeding:. Italy and America may arbitrate. Another Island outrage reported. Northern Club ball very enjoyable. Census papers should be in in a week. Frozen Meab Conference at Wellington. Tabernacle entertainment this evening. Pastor Birch had an enthusiastic meet* ing. No sign of bootmakers' strike being settled. Annual picnic of Orphanges at Motutapn postponed. Gun-cotton explosion inquiry is proceeding at Wellington. " Chiselling" in one act. Devonport Hall to-morrow night. S.s. Maori due here from Melbourne tomorrow to load frozen meat. Rev. W. Tebbs, of Auckland, has arrived in England in good health. Solonion Islanders are again at their littls games of murder and cannibalism. Auckland Yacht Club will not hold a . " rescue " competition this season. Sir Walter Buller's two sons are now on their way out from Home to practise law ia Wellington. The Bank of New Zealand at Hokitika shipped away yesterday 5,6310z of gold valued at £22,525. Captain Edwin telegraphed yesterday afternoon : —N. to W. and S. W. gale <**>n. Glass further fall, but rising after 10 hours from now. Entries for the Chrysanthemum Show, to be held next week, close at 5 o'clock on Friday, 10th, at Wildman and Lyell's, Victoria Arcade. ; C. S. Metham, one of the crow of tha : R.M.s. Rimutaka, was yesterday at Dune- : din fined £3 10s, or 14 days, for smuggling;. sJlb of tobacco, ; Messrs J. W. Brown and C. H. Manr.ill,;, of Wellington, have purchased a 3,C00-' acre block of land, in the Dargaville dig-! trict, from Mr E. Mitchelson, M.H.R. Last month the " King Country " natives brought inco Kihikihi, Waikato, 10,000 rabbit skins, for which they received the usual Government bonus of 3d per skin—a total of £125. A. shock of earthquake lasting several seconds was felt in the Masterton district at thirty-six minutes past four yesterday afternoon. The direction appeared to ba from north to south. A joker at the Auckland Yachb_ Club meeting last evening, in a discussion re Home and colonial yachting, sadly remarked that at Home the yachtsmen generally found the weather blow " considerable," but out here the yachtsmen did all the hard blowing themselves. As the Newton Congregational School-: i room is otherwise occupied to-morrow ] ■ evening, the practice of pieces to be sung at the Band of Hope gathering on Queen's i Birthday, will be held in the Wesley Hall, . Karangahape Road, instead of Newton Congregational, as previously announced.' A special notice appears ejsewhere. Two firemen of the steamer Bayley were [ arrested at Timaru last night on a charga of robbing a man named Wyatt, on board; the steamer, of £30, and several articles of, ' clothing ; and one for stealing a bulldog' from a resident of Timaru. It took tha 1 full force of police to arrest them, the; prisoners and their friende offering a determined resistance. , The polling for the Wellington Commit-: ' tee of the Public Service Association for ' Wellington district resulted in the election of Mr H. XV. Robinson, R.M., as Chairman, 1 and Messrs 'W. Pollen, J."-W.'Davies, S. Allport, F. F. O'Neill, H. McCardell, J. H. Davies, E. F. Warren, H. J. Knowles, S. Costall, and E. J. Greville as members of tho Committee. Mr H. Thompson was elected unopposed to the office as Secretary and Treasurer. Some clothes have been found on the , banks of tho Clutha River, Otago, about ■ half a mile from Balclutha, which have ; been identified by a swagger as those of his mate, whose name he could only give as " Mick." Ib is supposed the man has been drowned. In the vest pocket were a watch and chain, in the coat a flask of whisky, a pipe, two purses, some tobacco and cigars.