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Auckland Star, Volume XXIV, Issue 90, 18 April 1893, Page 1

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Heavt rain. Wintry weather. Days growing short. 41 Faust up to Date." 'Frisco mail this week. Socialist riots in Belgian. New bill at the Opera House, Manapouri for Sydney to-night. Outward 'Frisco mail on Saturday. Monowai left Sydney for Auckland. \ Schools Committees annual meetings noxt^ Monday. . / Mr Lonnen plays Mephistophelea in f"Faust Up To Date." " Irish Home Rule debate closes in the House of Commons to-day. S.s. Taieri has arrived here from the South with a large grain cargo. The Rev. T. G. Carr left here yesterday for Wellington, via the West Coast The direct s.s. Mamari has just been despatched from London for Auckland. Auckland University College Council and the professors are at loggerheads. Inspector Hickson and his force are expected back here from the Urewera country shortly. Lord Glasgow and party will attend 44 Faust Up To Date " ab the Opera House to-night. An Indiana man sued bis barber for 5,000d01. " for carelessly trimming hia moustache." The members of tbe Auckland Coursing Club will meet this evening at the British Hotel, Queen-street. There were 2,140 visitors at the Auckland Art Gallery last week. Last Sunday 500 people visited the Gallery. The R.M.s. Monowai, which lefb Sydney yesterday for Auckland, has £10,000 specie on board for San Francisco. It is suggested thab a monument should be erected in the Waikato to the memory of the late Mr J. McNicol, auctioneer. The Rev. L. H. Outram's exciting story, the " Locum Tenens," specially illustrated, appears in the •' Graphic " to-morrow. Mr Morpeth, who succeeds Mr Edgar as Registrar of tbe Native Lands Court ia Auckland,has arrived here from the South. The s.B. Waiotahi saw nothing of any disabled vessel on her return trip from MongonuL Was the 4< dismasted veasel " a myth 2 At a meeting at Dunedin lasb nighb of the two poultry, pigeon, and doc societies, it was decided to amalgamate and form one society. There are expected to be nearly two thousand natives assembled ab the Maori Parliament at Waipatu, near Napier, in a day or two. We have to acknowledge receipt of Messrs McEwan and Co.'s London monthly' market report and shipping circular for tho month of February, According to the "British Medical Journal" there are tens of thousands of indigent outcasts in England suffering from leprosy. Mournful, if true. There have been atone, iron, and bronze acres. This is the Sewerage, for from that source, directly or indirectly, spring mosb of the physical evils of the day. Suggestions come high in France. Ib appears thab M. Oberndceffer was paid 2,000,000!. for merely suggesting the Panama lottery. Happy thought. A very large group of the firemen delegates at Wanganui forms tbe front page of this week's *• Graphic." Ib is a mag* nificenb picture of a fine aeb of men. Miss Frances Willard says |hat few by* pocritical phrases are more common on the lips of women than this, •• I would on no account have my name in a newspaper." Two watches alleged to be parb of the missing jewellery in connection with the Wellington watch robbery have been discovered in Auckland by Detective Chrystal. "We wonder," says a contemporary, "how many men are in lunatic asylums who ought not to be," Can't say, but a very large number are nob in who ought to be. The heir to the Austrian throne, when ha becomes Emperor, will govern nine countries, bear 18 titles as dukes, one as archduke, two as grand dukes and also 33 other titles. Mr W. Field, captain of the Auckland Salvage Cofps, left here to-day for a holiday. During his absence Mr Charles Smith, foreman, will take charge of the Salvage Corps. Lieut.-Col. Goring and Mrs Goring left here yesterday for the South, by way of the Manukau, en route to England. They will leave Wanganui in the s.s. Star of England for London. Mr Sydney Philips (son of Mr P. A. j Philips, of Auckland) of the firm of Philips and Pyke, of Wellington, has left Wellington for Auckland, en route for the Chicago Exhibition. The third master of the Easb Christchurch school, Mr Cbas. Craddock, who is well known in football, cricket, and rowing circles, died ab Christchurch yesterday from the effects of a bicycle accident witb which he met on April 9th. Mr R. White, who ia well-known in Auckland rowing circles, and lately captain of the City Rowing Club, leaves Auckland to-morrow for the Waikato in order to take over the Whatawhata Hotel, on the Waipa. He has secured the license to this hostelry. A draughts contest for £8 a-side and the championship of Dunedin, the besb out of twenty games, was commenced st Dunedin last night between D. A. Brodie and G. Boreman. Five games were played, two of which were won by, Brodie and one by Boreman, and two were drawn. It has been suggested thab a memorial! tablet should be added to the others com* memorating Wesleyan Missionaries in that Pitt-street Wesleyan Church in memory oi the Rev. J. H. Bumby, who was drowned at tbe entrance to the Auckland Harbour in June, 1840, by the upeetting of a cano* with 20 natives. Ab the Supreme Courb ab Duneditf the case of Gray v. Miller, an action fo» the dissolution of partnership and £309 damages, was commenced. It, was alleged by the plain tiff that he had been induced to join the defendant in a sheep farm by fraudulent representation. These allegations were denied, bub before the defend was entered upon the case was settled, tteSl defendant to pay in three years the £3SB which the plaintiff pub into the partnership, The sum of £100 waa cabled to Sydney yesterday by Auckland Presbyterians for the New Hebrides relief fund. On Sunday collections amounting to over £60 wers made in the Auckland and suburban churches in aid of this fund. The following were amongst the collections :—Devonport Church, £4 48; Devonport Sunday-school, £116s 6d; St. Luke's Church, £14 10s • St. Andrew's Church, £6 lis 2d; Sb.' Andrew's Sunday-school, £2 ls 6d ; Sb. David's Church, £15; Sb. David's Sunday", school, £1; Onehunga Church, £5. It will surprise the ordinary Englishman to learn thab there are two places in tha empire where a quarrel is raging upon tho point whether English or French is the national language. This is a perennial dispute in Manitoba, where the French-Cana-dian elemenb has hitherto been so strong (hat the proceedings of the local Legislature have been published in parallel columns of French and English; and now the same question has arisen in Jersey. The decadence of French is so great in the island that many of the politicians cannot aakd themealvea understood ie ib.