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Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 308, 30 December 1891, Page 1

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Stab Summary. Lynch law again in America. Richmond in from the Islands. - Hauroto arrived from Sydney. To-morrow night is Hogmanay. Kassian warship Djighib leaves on Satur* Numerous excursions for New Year's Last night of Kowalski Goncerb ComP A" "Spanish loan has been successfully floated. 'Frisco and Sydney mail-boats due on Frid ay. Rev. W. J. Mayers at Choral Hall this The Victorian Parliament was prorogued yesterday. More than usual number of sailing vessel 3 in port at present. Half-yearly water rates are due and payable before the 31?t insC. One hundred passengers arrived here from Sydney per s.s. Hauroto. Sir W. A. White was visiting his daughter in Berlin when he died. Mr F. J. Mops, British Resident at Rarotonga, arrived here from the Islands this morning. Gharies Hemus notifies that his photographic show rooms will be open on New Year's Eve. Police-Sergeant Carlyon arrived here yesterday from Gisborne, being transferred to Dargaville. A largo number of summonses are about to issue from the Uity Council offices for rates over due. Mr J. E. Pago, who is at present on a visit to Auckland, is Town Clerk and nob Mayor of Wellington. Mr and Mrs 11. B. Morton and Mr and Mrs J. B. Giltilian have returned from Sydney by the Hauroto. Weddel's London Circular complains of the quality of New Zealand frozen which it asserts is even lower than lasb year, while on the other hand the Australian and River Plate has improved. Last evening tho final entertainment) of a scries given by fche great Allied Show Company waa given in Abbott's Opera House to a fjood audience. An excellent programme was submitted, and the various songs, dancee, and acrobatic feats were very successful. Tho Rev. W. S. Salter, Wesleyan minister, formerly of Auckland, is leaving Norfolk Island, and sails in the Pitcairn about February. He accepts circuit; work again. He had one year's leave of absence by the Wesleyan Conference^ The barque Inverurie, from Santos, called at Otago Heads yesterday, and was ordered to proceed to Napier. She reported that the captain had diedon November ,11th from yellow fever, and thab several of the craw had also sufiered, bub were recovering. Prince Christian was not shooting, bub simply advising his son, when the shofc from the Duke of Connaught's gun glanced off a tree and struck him in the eye at Osborne. He is progressing fairly well, bub will not be removed from Osborne for several weeks. ; There was a gGod attendance of members of fche Auckland Lodge of Druids at the Cook-street Hall lasb evening, D.P. Bro. A. Kidd presiding. After a good deal of correspondence had becii dealt with officers were nominated for fche nexc term, and as there are a number of candidates for each position, great interest should be taken, in the resuib of tho elections nexb lodgo nitrht. Hingawaia, the Maori constable ab Rotorua, when at Galatea a few days ago, pluckily captured a native after au exciting chase on horseback, and brought him a prisoner to Rotorua. The prisoner, whose name is Tukairangi Hoki, has been wanted by the police for two years for house-break-ing ab Taupo. Ke took refuge in the Urewera country, where he had remained in safety until venturing to spend his Christmas with his Galatea friends.