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Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 156, 2 July 1892, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Damp weather.

Influenza cases numerous. s More amall-.pox in Sydney. Faction-fighting in Dublin. Eucalyptus in great demand. Football matches this afternoon. Cholera is still spreading in Russia. S.s. Ovalau is due here from Fiji on Mon»J day. Debate on the Financial Statement next week. ' Civil sittings of the Supreme Court on Monday. • ; MrSnazelle closes his Auckland, Beason next week. The schooner Spray, well-known here,.ia I ashore at Napier. -; I The Home Rulers are fighting amongab j themselves in Ireland. Entertainments in Opera House _ and Lorne-sfcreet Hall this evening. The beer duty collected in the colony during last month was £4,169. The missing schooner Louie, Lyttelton to Auckland, is now given up for losb. Presbyterian New Hebrides Mission protest against Kanaka labour system. Next Monday is the anniversary of the 'Declaration of American Independence, 1776, ■ . • I The English Athletic Championship i meeting took place in London this afternoon. In the Bay of Islands Coal Company's I mine, the miners have found the workings I upstanding in McLeod's old level. 1 Madame Goldenstedt gives her farewell concert in Abbott's Cpeva House on Friday the 15th inst., prior to her departure for Europe. Charlie Hugo, well-known here, ia organising a new Minstrel Company ia Melbourne, and will tour Now Zealand shortly. Mr J. Burke will appear at the Opera Houso entertainment this evening in hia Irish sketches. He is a big1 favourite with the boys. The Devonporfa Borough Council has received 32 applications for the position o£ borough waterworks engineer, many being from Australia. The Auckland Amateur Opera Club will), produce " B.M,s. Pinafore" early next month in the Opera House. The rehearsals are proceeding very satisfactorily. The Ovide Musin Concert Company are. meeting with tremendous success in their tour from New Plymouth to Wellington. People are turned away every night. The Puev. Mr Chew announces that ha will give another of his series of special discourses at the Beresford-atreet Congregational Church to-morrow evening. Captain Mclntosh, of the U.S.S. Com- t pany'ss.s. Wairarapa, left last evening for Rotorua for the sake of his health. He has* just recovered from a severe attack of in- 1 fluenza. The special jurors summoned to attend the Supreme Court on Monday next for the case Austin v. Onehuuga Borough Council, are notified in another column that they are discharged. A team of horses bolted with & waggon at Cambridge yesterday "and ran into and smashed a buggy which Mrs Aylward was driving. ,The lady was stunned, bub not seriously injured. The Customs revenue collected in the colony last month amounted to £115,033, the estimate being £131,250. The total revenue for the first quarter of this financial year was £377,511. ... ; ; ; ,; f Last evening the U3ual weekly "drill of" the Auckland Naval -Artillery Volunteers was held in the Drill-shed. There was an excellent muster," Capt. Parker and Lieub. Smith being in command. At a stock sale held by Mr J. McNicol ab Tamahere this week medium draughb horses, £5 to £12 15s ; cows in milk, from £4 to £4 17s 6d ; calves, £2 each ; a pen of mixed sexes, £2 15s; two-year-old steers, £3. ' . Popular service for the people to-morrow aveuing ab the United Methodist Frea Church, Pitt.and Vincent streets ; sacred solos, duets, anthems, etc., and address'by Rev. E. 0. Perry, " The Blind Men's Request. " A little boy named Malcolm Ferguson, son of Mr Thos.. Ferguson, jun., of Penrose, was run over by a cart in Seafield View Road yesterday afternoon and had: his right thigh broken. He is .in the Hospital. The Government have withdrawn the notice _of appeal against the decision in three cases at Grey mouth in which the Receiver of Gold Revenue sued for arrears of rent, and in which the Warden gave judgment for tho defendants. On her maiden cruise to the islands jusfa completed, the Melanesian mission auxiliary screw yacht.Southern Cross, by her strange appearance, caused surprise and alarm ab / first; in more.than one island she was taken by natives for a man-of-war. The drag meet of the Papakura hounds was held at Tamahere on Thursday, and was well attended. A drag had been laid. acrosH fine hunting ground on the estate of Mr W. M. Douglas, who hospitably entertained all those attending the hunt. At a meeting ol tho shareholders of the Now Zealand Native Land Settlement Company, held, in Auckland yesterday, arrangements were approved for the final, winding up of the Company. Mr G. S. Kissling was appointed solo liquidator. Two sailors, deserters from the German warship Bussard, Joseph Fitzlops and Win. Gunson, were each, sentenced to three months' hard labour in Mount Eden ab Whangarei yesterday for stealing gum and obtaining goods under false pretences. A man named George Frame, over 70 years of age, was killed. at Napier lasb evening. While passing over a railway crossing heAvas caught by the cowcatcher of a train and thrown aside, with such severe injuries to hia head that he died soon after. Ab an anti-liquor meeting at Sydenham (Christchurch) last night, the principle of local option re hotel licenses was affirmed, and it was resolved, " That the liquor traffic was a prolific source of crime, pauperism, and social evils, endangering the welfare of the colony." " ■ An officer of the Defence Department is now in Auckland, surveying the harbonr with the steam launch and boats from Fort Caubley. The harbour has already been surveyed so many times thab there is nothing left to survey. Nice work for the dead of winter ! On Thursday a large number of intending milk suppliers of the new Kihikihi (Waikato) creamery, met Messrs Reynolds and Farley on tho factory ground, when the following prices were offered and accepted for the coming season's milk : —For September, October," November and December, 2gd per gallon ; for January, February, and March, 2M; for April and May, 3d psr gallon. There was a good muster of stock at> Mr John McNicol's Ccittle sale at Ohaupo, on Tuesday, when tho following prices were obtained :—Dairy cows, £3 17s 6d to £5 183 6d • one to two-year-old calves, mixed sexes, 29s to 40s ; three-year-old steers, in fresh condition, £4 10s; one to two-year-old steers, rough quality, 20s to 40s; empty, cows, 30s to 44s ; fat cows, £4 10s to £& 15a ; fab steers, £5 to £5 17s 6d; lpngwool ,lambs, 5s 9d; crossbred lambs, *4a 3d £ fculled BWgs,.2s £d to4a id Wpt,