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Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 139, 13 June 1891, Page 1

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Hugos to-night." Frosty moraines. Fiji steamer arrived. 'Frisco mail due Thurify. \ " Frenchmen maseacred in Central AfricaInteresting football matches this, aftei noon. Amy Vaughan's Amazons at City .Hal. to-night. 1 Sir George Grey goes to Wellington on Monday. " Ali Baba " in Abbott's Opera House thi3 afternoon. ; - Madame Cora opens in the City Hall on Monday evening. I Tip University College Council meets on - Mofflay, at 3.15 p.m. Druids' social at St. George's Hall on Wednesday evening next. Rev. Thos. Spurgeon at Ponsonby Baptisb Church to-morrow morning and evening. Another enjoyable dance in connection with the Mascotto socials was held in the Foresters' Hall, Newton, last evening. Mr Walrond, secretary to His Excellency the Governor, returned last night from his Island trip by the s.s. Taupo from Fiji. The Committee of the Ponsonby "A. Home" have postponed tho date of tha next dance to Friday week, 26th inst.

Mr H. Hookham, of Chris-church, has awarded the unfinished game in the Auck-land-Wellington chess tourney to Wellington.

Rev. J. Berry announces that he will deliver his lecture on " Christian Socialism " at St John's Wesleyan Church, Ponsonby, -0-mo.row evening.

Eight boxes of gold (6,7850z) were brought up from the Thames yesterday evening by the s,s. Rotomahana lor the Bankof New Zealand.

Governmenb want Auckland Education Board to take over the native schools ab less than £5 per head per annum, but the Board doesn't see it.

The proposed new N.R.S.N. Company steamer for the Kaipara river trade is to cost between £5,000 and £6,000, and will probably be built in Auckland. The Phoanix Fire Assurance Company's business will be carried on in Owen and Graham's premises, Queen-street, when the necessary alterations are completed. Hukerenui North, Hukerenui -South, Hukerenui East and Hukerenui Central, all want schools, but the Board of Education is intent on the amalgamation principle.

All who took parb in the Queen's Birthday gathering are invited to spend a social evening in the Drill-shed on Monday. June 22nd, when amusements will be provided.

At the Board of Education meeting yesterday Mr Grant brought in a motion to limit the length of each member's speech to .three minutes, bub the Board would have none o' it.

Tho whole of the choice nursery stock of C. 8. McDonald, Newmarket, will be offered for sale by auction on the ground on - Wednesday and Thursday next by AleX. Aitken, the tenancy having expired.

• An ex-school teacher, writing f?om Hukercnui to tho Board of Education, withers up the unoffending school inspectors by referring to them as useless lumber, and calls'" on the Government to retrench them, ""

Mr,J. E. March, superintendent of village settlements, gave an address in tho Oddfellows' Hall at Christchurch last night on the subject of "Land Available for Settlement in the North Island." There is every,probab.-lity of an association being formed to send delegates to select land. At a conference at Dunedin of delegates from three suburban boroughs — South Dunedin, St. Kilda, and Caversham —interested in tha encroachments of sea at St. "Clair' and Ocean Beach, it was resolved to engage Mr G. M. Barr to report on the subject, with the remedy and its cost. A Chinaman, named Ah Woi, ab Timaru was {.committed for trial yesterday for a series of larcenies. He was employed as a fo-_.-aboub ab the Criterion Hotel for the Jdstjtvvelve months, and had accumulated a vafifejiy of goods, to the total value of about) £40, nearly all from the hotel. At a meeting at Christchurch last night, representing tho City Council, the trada . societies, and fch3 citizens, and presided '■ over'by the Mayor, a committee was appointed to get up a demonstration in aid o£ the fund for a memorial to the late Mr S. D. Parnell, the originator of the eight hoars' system. - The Auckland Board of Education yesterday made the following school appointments : — NgaV uawahia, Mr H. J. S- Ellis (head-teacher); Whakatane, Mr F. H. Hpfpe (subject to approval of Newmarket Committee/; Remuera, Mr A. C. Hall (assistant). Jlr W. H. Whitehead, a song lecturer antt, ; evangelist from England, bearing letters from Rev. Garrett, Sir Wilfrid Lawson, Sir Charles Halle, and others, will sipg and preach the Gospel to-morrow ;afternoon ,in Grafton Road Church, and evening in Pitt-street Wesleyan Church.