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Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 295, 12 December 1891, Page 1

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eather. -_i r this afternoon. in Brazil. Wen- South Wales politics rowdy. ... . Big JJuildfog So«ety defalcations in.Melb °S_n- discovered New Zealand'this d ll„flmy City Hall concert, tbi A B ve"r e v severe thunderstorm passed over R Th r rDulfe Sr of y Devonshire has rallied azain from his illness. . Q„ nn ] B . Read the nemstory in to-night a SuppleV « Wis She Wife or Widow ? "SJcklaS brSh of New Zealand Journal^ts'lnstitute meets this evening. Sunday evening service for the people ab 8 mi. the City Hall. Open to all. Ail Star Minstrels perform -toniglKn the Opera,Houso for the lasb ti The Public school, Remuera, intend holding "55 breakiog-np picnic on Saturday " The Hon. Mr Seddon has' returned to WeWngtbn by the s.s. Rotorua, from tho S °Tbo Auckland Tandem Club held a dinner at tho St. Heller's Bay Hotel lasb "'.'lithree public schools at Oamaru have been,closed Giving to the prevalence of iD A He message says £800 in gold and cheques were stolen from Due counter in Glynn's bank, London. , Mr J. A. Drummond, eheuiisfc, late ot Queen-street, lias opened' an " all night pharmacy at S3. Victoria-street. "Christian Communism" wnl be the subject of the Rev. D. McNicoll's address at the V.M.C. A. to-morrow afternoon.^ The collier Drumblain, from Cardiff to Adelaide, has gone on the rocks in the Bristol Channel. The crow wero saved. _ Nino more London underwriters resign their connection with Lloyd's in consequence of losses, and some alarm is ielt. Adolph Albert, banker, of Jorlitz, a, townin Silesia, Germany, has absconded. His liabilities aro two million marks. Ono ■ depositor alone loses SOO,OOO. The harvest in the Riveriua (N.S.W.) is nearly completed. Though tho yields are hardly as good as last year, the bulk of train is much better in quality. °MriPeacock, .X-M.H..R., of Auckland, had an interview with tho Minister of Mines, at Wellington, yesterday. He returns to Auckland by the Te Anau. Special services will be held to-morrow in thel'itt-street Wesleyan Chapel, and the offertpry will bo applied to the cost of cleaning and repainting the cbapel, etc. The influenza epidemic is decreasing at Christchurch, though thero are some severe easestof relapse. It has attacked a large number of horses in tho Amberley district. A native child about three or four years of age was accidentally dro.vned in the Obau! channel, Rotorua, yesterday. The body was fouud about four hours after the child had been missing from its home. Mr..G. McCullagh baa sold his farm ab Ohaupo to Mrs Wm. Martyn, widow of Mr W. Martyn, an old Waikato identity, who died in' Western Australia. Mrs Martyn comea'to New Zealand with a family of sons to reside. As may be seen by our advertising columns, the pupils of the Marist Brothers' High .School, Pitt-street, are to give a dramatic entertainment next Friday evening. The proceeds are to be devoted to tha Christmas prize fund. The: proprietor of the Musical Budget, whichhas been in existence for live years, is about to remove to new premises opposite tlio City Hall in Queen-street, and from to-night intends holding a clearingout sale of his stock of music under cost. A moonlight excursion and sacred concert ii connection with the Grafton Road Wesleyan Church is to bo held on the evoniri'g of Friday, December 18th. The p.s. Britannia will leave the Queen-street Wharf at 7.50 p.m., and call at the North Shore 1 . The annual meeting of the Christchurch Regatta Club was held last nighc. It was decided to hold the regatta at Lake Forsyth on February 16th. The programme adopted is the. same as that of the lasb regatta. Second money is to be added to all tho events. In the Dunedin Supreme Court the jury gave a verdict for the plaintiff for £150 in the case Robertson v. Abbott, in which damages wero claimed for the loss of plaintiff's son through tlio scaffolding erected by the defendant giving way. Several law points were reserved. Thirty-six members of tbe To Awamutu Mounted Kiflo Company, in command of Captain Bruce, are in camp for the annual i week's drill on the old mission property, | close in to Te Awamutu. Maior Goring | and Adjutant-Lieutenant'Grant were there early in the week inspecting the corps. A destructive bush fire has been raging for the last few days in tho vicinity of To Rauu and Rangiaohia (Waikato). For three days and nights Mr Johns and his lamily were kept on the alert for the safety c-Uhe homestead. On Wednesday it gob into the Rotorangi swamp, and swept) across the country in that direction. Messrs Mears aud Co , booksellers, etc., notify that they ore ottering books suitable for presents and libraries, desks, workboxes, albums, church services, etc., ab very low prices in order to still further reduce their stock. They have also just received most of the new annual volumes, which are being offered at published prices. in connection with tho annual sports of the Beresford-street Public School, tho time for entries for tho old boys' races has been extended until Tuesday, the 15th inst., at neon. Messrs Cotter and Speighb have kindly undertaken the duty of handicapping tho competitors over 18. Entries cannot be received later than the date named. Lasf evening tho Northern Steamship Company's steamer Waiotahi left on a two days "Suing, excursion outside on the coast, with tho directors of the Company and others on board. Tho programme includes hapuku and shark fishing off the oreafc Barrier, Mokohinau, and Whangarei Reads. ■ To-morrow evening an address will be given afc the Holping Hand Mission, Freemans Bay. by Mv E _ formerly well-known to many, in Auckland as a . commercial traveller for a large solt goods firmim Melbourne, who is making a brief visit to this city. An open-air meeting led by tho band of tho Mission is also announced at 6 o'clock in Hobson-street. ihe mogt violent thunderstorm ever experienced in Maslcrton raged fo.- an hour yesterday afternoon. The'lightning was very viv lc l, and rain descended in torrente,.Hooding the streets and doing considerable damage. A ball of fire ran a.ong the wires and exploded in the telegtaph office, fusing the instruments, but fortunately the operator was absent, -he atmosphere was tilled with a strono--u phuric odour, and the storm was sumciontly alarming to stop the proceedings m the District Court for some time. Ao\ c ry serious damage is reported.