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Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 117, 18 May 1892, Page 1

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" Dr. Bill " to-night. Stab Summary to-morrow. Outward mail on Saturday. Hon. John Martin, M.L.C., is dead. Myra Kemble Company have arrived. Hon. Mr Cadman has gone to Rotorua. S.s. Manapouri arrived from the South. The Staleybridge strikers have resumed work. R.M.s. Monowai arrives from Sydney on Friday. Knights of Labour at Newmarket this evening. . TJiero is a general rise in INew Zealand. Beouritioß. The Minister of Lands has left Lyttelton for the South. The entire coastline of the globe is aboub 126,000 miles. Rev. G. C. Grubb, travelling evangelist, ia in Auckland. Only one couple in 11,500 live to celebrate their diamond wedding. Hone Heke, the young Ngapubi chief, ia in Auckland at presonr. The Wellington Operatic Society are rahearsing "Rip Van Winkle." The agricultural capital of England haa more than doubled since 1840. Aboub 300 deaths from accidental poison« ing occur in England every year. Tho population a London increases at about the rate of 100,000 per annum. An average man of 50 has spent 6,000 days, or nearly twenty years, in sleep. One pound weight of cork will eupport in tbo water a man weighing 140 pounds. Paradoxical. —The miner's hope is at its height when he finds that " all is ore." There are 123.000 bachelors and 18,000 marriageable girls in New South Wales. One of the smallest coins in use is the new cuatro-real gold piece of Guatemala. General Eooth is evidently determined to shunt some of his " lambs " out to New Zealand. Schooner Welcome from Brisbane, and barque Killarney from Newcastle, have arrived hero.

In Scotland it is eaid that to rock the em>j>-« cradle will ensure the coming of occupants for it. Between the years 1590 and 1680 no less than 3,400 women were burned in Scotland for witchcrafb. The Auckland Amateur Opera Club held their first rehearsal of " H.M.s. Pinafore" on Monday evening. " They did nob want greab speakers in the House, but men who would always vote right."—C. S. Parnell. Nearly six hundred volumes of new books for the Lending branch of the Free Library (value f 200) are to band. • "Equality means," says a French writer, "a desire to be oqualwith your superiois, and superior to your equal?." The Bank of New Zealand imported 25,000 sovereigns by tho Hauroto from Sydney to Wellington last week. '■ University College Debating Society meets to-morrow evening, when papers will be read on several literary subjects. ' A Japanese has invented an instrument for throwing a cloud of dust into the eyes of a foe, causing temporary blindness. A pentloman named Crompton Roberta recently died in England worth £274,147, his life having been insured for £100.000. "Interviewing" is nothing new; ifc existed in Gas^r'e time, for did not greati; Julius ask, •' Who is it In the press that calls f • . . ' Mr L. Ehrenfried has given to Courh Robin Hood, A.0.F., of Panmure, the nse of the Panmure Hall for 52 nights in tha year for 999 years. ■ The large 6toel sh[ip Columba, Captain Bull, well-known here, has just arrived at London from Auckland, after a rather long passage of 118 days. j The fastest regular train in the world ia run between Hamburg and Berlin, Germany, making fifty-two and one-third miles por hour, including stops. It is proposed to celebrate this year ia Auckland tho arrival here of the Scottish pioneer settlers by the ships Duchess of Argyle and Jane Gifford from Glasgow in 1842. "Selecb men who won't be afraid to stand by the sido of the people and take their share of whatever peril and danger they aelc the people to undergo."—C. S. Parxkll. A Parisian lady last week, having losb an opera-glass, was lamenting over the matter with her friend, and said she had only lately lost her husband also. It never rains but it pours. Tlio hearing of the cbso against Fred Martin, pork butcher, .of Wellington, for laying totalisator odds throughout the colony on Easter Monday lasb.is proceeding at Wellington. The Premier says that the Government have no reason to believe that any of the staple industries of New Zealand have been injured by their new finance. The contrary is the case. In the Wellington betting cases yesterday, one man, Simmonds, was fined £20 and costs, £4 7s, or in default one month ; and Patterson £10 and costs, £1 Bs, or in default 14 days. The horses attached to the mail coach plying between Waiwera and Devon ports bolted at the North Shore yesterday, bub were stopped on the Beach Road. No damagg was done. 4*rCKristcK*urcrT''Board of Reviewers for Sydenham hava reduced the aggregate value of three hofcelffft' that distvicfi from £4,500 to £2,700, the licenses having, been previdus-lf carpjletff "c "J-aWkWW The Government anticipate (according to a telegram from Wellington) that, despite the reductions, on tho valuations made by the reviewers under the Land and Income Tax Act, the estimate^ of revenue derivable from the now taxation will be fully reached.

Mr Alfred James, who has had a large mining experience in South Africa, bag come to Auckland as the accredited representative of the Cassel Gold Extraction Company (Limited), and has taken up offices in the Arcade Buildings. The Cassel Company is seeking to lessen the loss of sold in this colony. Captains Todd and Cameron, of the U.S.S. Company's steamers Te Anau and Talune, respectively, are at present laid up with rheumatic fever. Captain Spinks, late of the e.s. Wakatipu, has taken Captain Todd's place on the Te Anau. Captain Richardson, late of the Taieri, has' assumed command of the Rotokino. On opening a hapuka, caught off tha steamer Mana as she lay in Fitzroy Bay, Wellington, lately, the upper portion of a pearl shirt etud was found. It is of pointed oval thape, and several persons who have seen it are almost certain that it belonged to Pilot Sims, who was drowned through his boat capsizing about three years ago. Sir W. F. D. Jervois condemns the New Zealand Government. The Wellington " Tiraos " asks :—" What are the attacks of disappointed men like Sir Win, Jervois and Mr Fortescuo worth ? New Zealandors will also ask themselves whether a re* fusal to provide billets for gentlemen liko , these is often to be followed by our having to endure their patronage, lectures, and' criticisms. It is possible that ifa may occur to some colonists that, if we are to have much of this sort of thing, we might as well provide sour own Governors andi our own Secretaries, and our own Aidea-dt*' camps."