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Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 304, 23 December 1891, Page 1

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Russian warship arrived. Jingoism rifle in America. Manapouri lefb for Sydney. H.M.S. Tauranga still in dock. Increases in Cifcy Council salaries. Hon. Cadman gone to Coromandel. Regatta Committee meets this evening. Kowalski Concert Company opens Christ* mas night. There were fourteen warebips in Sydney Harbour last week. Auckland Harbour Board debentures have fallen £2 in London. Liverpool has refused to confer the freedom of the city on Mr Gladstone. The ship lolanthe, from Brisbane to Newcastle, is missing. She is now-82 daya out. Mr Walter Bentley," the actor, is a passenger by the Talune from Melbourne for the Blufi. Free exhibition of photographic work in Hemus' studio on Christmas Eve. Greab attractions. Harris, a millionaire, was run over and killed on the railway at Parramatta (N.S.W.), yesterday. "Found drowned " was the verdict returned at the inquest on the late Frank Hearling, wharf turncock. A fire at Locherbie estate yesterday ds« stroyed a fine plantation of pines on Kura« nui Hill, being a homestead plantation over 12 years old. The English Unionist press eulogise the late Duke of Devonshire, and deplore the necessity for the transfer of Lord Hartington to the House of Lords. Mr Hastings, M.P. for Worcester, who is charged with obtaining a large sum of money by fraud, has been remanded in London, bail being refused. Mr Gledhill, son of Mr Geo. Gledhill, of this city, has received an appointment aa shorthand writer on the staff of Sir J. B. Thurston, the Governor at Fiji. Mrs J. McKinnon asks us to thank the public through Mr J. McQuarrie and others for their kindness to her during hei? trial occasioned by the death of her bus* band. Yesterday afternoon, at four o'clock, & boy named Frederick Arthur Mumford, aged eight years, was found drowned, near the logs at the reclamation in Freeman's Bay. H.M.s. Cordelia has returned to Sydney from the Islands. She has had a busy time of it in the New Hebrides the gunboat Goldfinch attending her on the cruise as a despatch vessel. The nominations of W. McLean and F. H. D. Bell for the vacant seat for the city of Wellington were lodged with the returning officer yesterday. The nominations da not close till the 7th prox. The committee of the Chess Congress are requested to attend a meeting to-morrowr night at Robson's Rooms at 7.30 p.m. to make final arrangements for the Interprovincial Chess Tournament). A misprint occurred in Mr Napier's letfcee published in our issue of yesterday: The word "hissing" was erroneously printed " missing." Tho phrase should have read, "hissing venom," and not "missing venom." A little boy three years and seven months, old, son of Mr Donald Craig, gardener, who is now employed in laying* out tho Hospital reserves, fell down a well yesterday on Major George's farm s and was drowned. The Newcastle "Herald" says it ia rumoured that a cargo of potatoes by the schooner St. Kilda, from Wanganui, New Zealand, was discharged into the sea, this step being , taken in preference to paying duty on the shipment. Mr Harrison's survey of Smith's application, Waitetuna River, Raglan, has been stopped by Hakopa and other natives on the ground of encroachment upon their lands. These they hold were returned to them by the Compensation Court. Yesterday a two-storey house in Tutchenstreet, Wellington, owned by H. Baker, and occupied by Hicks, was completely destroyed by fire, while a five-roomed house adjoining, owned by Pilot Shilling, and occupied by Hewstone, waa gutted. Buckland's wharf at the Tanaaki is re-, ported to be in a most dilapidated and dangerous condition. The Harbour Board yesterday decided to caution the public against the use of this wharf, and also the Sb. Helier's wharf, which is in a leaser degree dangerous. A Japanese warship, the Hi-yei, has arrived at Sydney from Japan on a cruise to the principal Australian ports. Inclusive of cadets, the vessel has a crew of 360 on board. It is intended, to go on to Melbourne, thence to New Caledonia, New Guinea, and Japan. At Christchurch yesterday Mr Justice Denniston decided, in. re bankruptcy of John Mann, and tho proof debt of Sam Garfortb, that a creditor holding as security a life insurance policy over the life of a bankrupt need not ralue such security in proving against the estate. Mr Robinson, principal warden in the Mount Edon Gaol is about to retire on compensation. The late chief warden Mr Flannery, will resume duties once more in his old position. Senior Warden Charlea Russell also retires on compensation, and contemplates going into business in South Canterbury. The surveying gunboat Dart arrived ato Sydney on the 10th" inst. from the New Hebrides Group. She reports that when;, surveying off Efateand Epi, the , chiefs came oft and asked to be placed under British protection, they fearing a French annexation of the islands. A letter waa forwarded by the chiefs to her Majesty to this effect. The natives of these islands are very friendly, and assisted the men of the Dart in the survey work. Probably the largest number of warshipe that ever assembled in Port Jackson was at Sydney last week. There were in Farm Cove the Japanese warship Hi-Yei; Lord Charles Scott's flagship the belted cruiser Orlando, the most formidable ship on this side of tho line; and her Majesty's ships Royalist, Rapid, Coidelia, Wallaroo, Mildura, Dart, Boomerang, Karrakatta, Goldfinch, Ringdove, Curacoa, and Lizard. We have seen nothing nicer or more useful for Christmas presents to gentlemen than those beautiful braces shown by Geo. Fowlds, Victoria Arcade.—(Advt.) Try X.D.C. Money refunded if no cure. Trial package free. All chemists.—(Advt.)