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Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 307, 29 December 1891, Page 1

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Star Summary to-morrow. Chinese missions in peril. Gladstone is S2 to-day. Wairarapa arrived from South. R'.M.s. Rimutaka has arris'ed ab Wellington from London. "Auckland Trotting Club Meeting at Potter's Paddock to-morrow. Zalineki, the inventor of the" dynamite gun, haa become insane. Steamor Industry is'now' e?i' route from Java to Auckland, sugar-laden. Kowalski Concert Company is the besb that has been in Auckland for years. The death is announced of Mr Clery, Secretary of the Freemasons in London. ; The Premier returned to Wellington, from Auckland, via Wanganui, last night. Another new pearling ketch is how here from the Thames, en route to Torres Straits. The head of the New York police announces that he'will'arrest the principals in knocking-out contests. ■ An announcement elsewhere states fchab the s.s. Despatch runs oft every afternoon to the Russian warship Djighit on excursion trips. The Onehunga annual regatta is announced to tako place on February 20th nexb. The programme of events is published. The total number of prisoners in Her Majesty's Prison, Auckland, for the week ending December 26th, was 106 males and 19 females. Prince Christian, grandson of tho Queen, was shot in the eye while out shooting with the Duke of Connaughtand Prince Henry of Battenburg at Osborne. A Wellington telegram states fchafc Chas. Neville, the painter, who was injured while out camping on Christmas night by a rock falling on him, is progressing favourably. Middleton and McGuire, two escapees from Milford, who were captured on Christ-*, mas Day, were brought up at. Invercargill Police Court yesterday and remanded till the fifth of January. Yesterday was hold as a general holiday I at-New Plymouth, instead of Saturday., There were local races. The weather was very fine, and tho people congregated in [ largo numbers on the racecourse. j Influenza is prevalent among the natives at SeaolitF and at the Maori kainga ab I Waikouaiti (Otago). Information was received on the 23rd of the sudden death, ab the latter place, of Teati te Whai, who is supposed to have been 105 years of age. The weather ab Dunedin yesterday was again broken, showers ' falling ab in- ; tervals. About eight o'clock an extraordinarily heavy shower fell, the drops being like splashes rather than drops, and in less . than five minutes the street channels were flowing full. It is "stated that the Czar is likely to . banish Sergius owing to his alleged tyranny in Moscow, though it is believed that the real motive is that the Czar is suspicious of his ambitious designs. Other accounts state that Sergius is reforming the rotten administration. On the occasion of Presidenb Montt's pardon to Balmaceda's minor official*, vasb crowds attended the proclamation, ,and the; ceremony was attended with great enthusiasm. All the foreign representatives, with the exception of Mr Egan, the U.S. Minister,-were present. Advices have beon received from England that the Shaw, Savill and Albion Company have decided to load ships direct from Hamburg to New Zealand, Tho barque I Hudson will be tho first vessel to inaugurate this trade, and was to sail at the end of November for Wellington and Dunedin. At the annual meeting of the Commercial Travellers' Association ab Dunedin reference was again made to the question of giving travellers the same privilege as seamen in the matter of recording their votes ab elections. Tho difficulty appears to be in sretting the definition of traveller. Eight seamen of the s.s. Otaraina were sent to fraol for two months at the Lyttelton Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday, for disobeying orders during a gale on the passage, from Port Chalmers. The men's defence was that they had no confidence in the boatswain under whom they had to work. The house steward of the Hospital thanks Miss Florence and Master George AbbotD ] for a parcel of books ; Mrs H. Nashelski for j picture books and toys for use in children's i ward ; Mrs Herrold, Renmera, for grapes and flowers'; Mrs Crosthwaite, Ramarama, for parcel of magazines ; Mr Holmes for fruit; and Mr W. Burton for 77 books for use of patients. A gumdigger named Davidson, while returning to his camp lato on Satui'day night, at Dargavillc, was knocked down and robbed of £1, near Corcoran's Hotel. Kβ was much cut and bruised about the heed and throat. This and several other cases of larceny from the person, of money and jewellery are attributed: to a gang of "spielers'' from Auckland. ■- ■■' - Other remedies may relieve—X. D.C. alone efiecte a permanent cure. All chemists. -(Advt.)