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Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 34, 10 February 1892, Page 1

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Earl Glasgow our new Governor, Imperial Parliament opened. Manapouri left for Sydney. Presbyterian Assembly sitting, Te Anau arrived from Sydney. Rowdy elections in the Argentine. , jj Queen Victoria was married this day 1840. Stratford route meeting very satisfactory. Mrs Gladstone has recovered from the influenza. H.M.s. Swinger is to bo sold by auction ' in London. Watchmakers and jewellers' annual picnic to-day. The Western Australian loan averaged £99 2s, in London. : Harvest festival in St. Andrew's Churcb| Epsom, to-morrow evening. The annual meeting of the •' A " Battery is advertised to be held at the Drill-shed to-morrow night. Mr W. H. Kissling has been elected president of the Northern Club in place of Sir F. Whitaker. Mr Musgrove has purchased the opera of ««Blue-eyed Susan," in which Miss .Stewart is now appearing, for Australia. i Harvard College, one of the University schools in the United Sates, supports- the idea of Pan-Britannic contests. ' Tho Catholics of Canada have been prohibited from sending their children to schools which Protestant children attend. The Berlin correspondent of a London paper says the pension scheme instituted by Prince Bismarck is a doubtful success. " In the world's broad field of battle, In the conflict of real life," Advertising is the secret Of achievement in the strife. ;■ Mr David Gray, of Peterhead, has deter* mined to despatch one whaler to the Ant- . arctic Ocean in August, and possibly; two. McKinley, one of the seamen belonging > to the U.S. cruiser Baltimore, who was ■ injured in Valparaiso, claims £8,000 from . Chili. ,-.. i ,; " When to marry, and whom to marry " will be considered phrenologically at the i Wesley Hall by Dr. Burnaby on Friday evening. A saloon ticket by one of the Union Company's steamers has been lost, and is advertised for. It is useless to anyone bub the owner. i The " World" says the Queen has con-*, sen ted to the body of the late Bake of Clarence and Avondale being interred at Sandringham. - Mr Storey, M.P., obtained a verdict for £50 in a libel action brought against the " Sunderland Post," arising out of the Silk-1 stone evictions. The return of General Booth will be celebrated by two dinners in London, to be attended by 5,000 of his followers, and by one in Birmingham. A meeting of professional runners and others interested will be held at the Edin-. burgh Castle Hotel, Symondsstreet, on Friday next at 8 p.m. Lord Uarrington is a candidate for the West St. Pancras seat in the London? County Council. He mets with a warm reception at his first address to the electors. The body of the late C. H. Spurgeon was > escorted by a procession, from the Victoria Station to the Metropolitan .Tabernacle (London), where religious services have begun. Mr Alfred Collier bequeathed the Australian musical rights in "The Mountebank" to Miss Nellie Stewart, who has made arrangements with Mr W. S. Gilbert for the right to use his libretto. : A New Zealand cabinetmaker, has a man working for him 'named Perterze Zrncbzzkowskelowski, and when a fellow workman is sawing through a kauri knob he thinks somebody is calling him. Mrs Rochforfc, an old resident of Auckland, is dead. She was a daughter of the late Mr Alexander Shepherd, at one time Colonial Treasurer, and was a sister of Lady Whitaker and Lady O'Rorke. Census Taker (to cross-looking old maid): " How old are you, madame?" Old Maid (angrily) : " Three hundred years old;" Census Taker (after glancing at her critically) : " Well, madame, you look it." One of the most appalling features in the recent great fire at New York was the collapse of the interior of the hotel just as the occupants were aroused. It is feared that most of those missing fell into the flames. Mr Chaplin, Minister of Agriculture, has prohibited the import of Dutch cattle into London, and closed the stock markets of London to German cattle on the ground that they are infected with foot and mouth disease. An insurance agent of Wandsworth, named Carvagna, has been arrested in England, in connection with the Anarchists of Walsall. He explained that bo far as he knew, the bombs were intended to destroy ' rabbits in Australia. « . ■'■ It is likely that a considerable percentage of the wool from the Bluff lost in the barque Star of Erin will be recovered. Nearly all the tallow is already ashore. The wool in the Star of Erin, wrecked at Waipapa Poinb, was insured in Lloyds. The United States Commission on Immigration report that 60 per cent of the immigrants have their tickets prepaid by relatives. British criminals are systematical) Jr sent over under encouragement of the Imperial Government.- <The Commission advises that preventive measures should be taken to put a stop to it. -.