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Auckland Star, Volume XXIV, Issue 140, 15 June 1893, Page 1

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ipBISCO mail arrived. Star Summary to-day. Weather line and cold. Mail news budget to-day. Fillis'circus is a very fine show ' B.M.s. Monowai passed through Outward 'Prico mail on Saturday Important news to hand from Samoa S.s. Maori King arrived from London S.s. Upolu arrived from Samoa and Tonga. a"v War is now said to be inevitable in Samoa. Singular marino casualty reported from "The Premier left for Wellington this afternoon. FillU1 circus and menagerie matinee this afternoon. Steamer Richmond is duo here from tha Islands to-morrow. Assaults and robberies arc said to be frequent in Wellington, A Ballance Memorial Fund Committee has been formed in Auckland. Baron Yon Pilsach, ox - President of Samoa, passed through hero for Sydney by the R.Ms. Monowai. ■ ■ The brigantiiie Saucy Jack is ashoro on the New South Wales coast, and all hands are believed to bo lost, News from the Hervey Group states that trade is brisk there at present, and that Island produce is coming forward freely ac Rarotonga. Madamo Antoinette Sterling will give two concerts in Auckland at the Opera House on the 27th and 28th June (Tuesday and Wednesday). • The Row George Brown arrived from Tonga by the s.s. Upolu last evening, and left hero for Sydney by the s.s. Monowai early this morning. The Norwegian barque Ephialtes, which arrived here yesterday from Lyttelton, made the passage up in 3£ days—the fastest on record tot a sailor. ; Mr Pope, Inspector of Native Schools, irrivod here from the South yesterday. He goes hence to tho Waikato and Bay of Plenty districts, and then up north. [ At the Auckland Crown Lands Office yesterday 3,641 acres of second-class surveyed rural lands were opened for sale or selection, chiefly in tho Bay of Islands and Hokianga districts. | "Suicide while labouring under mental depression "• was the verdict returned at the inquest at the Hospital on the body of tho unfortunate girl Mabel Helander. The girl had swallowed the heads of 99 wax matches. The R.M.s., Monowai, which arrived from San Francisco last evening, brought mails of the following dates :—London, May 13th; New York, May 20th; San Franc'nco, May 25th ; Honolulu, June Ist; Apia, JW Bth. Tho ainual ball to be held in connection with tho'Jity Rowing Club eventuates tomoirow evjning in tho Choral Hall. Tram 3 are annourp,ed to leave Pohsonby and Novvmarket at 7 p.m., and a 'bus will leave from l Ja;holi Tho KM,^ Alameda arrived at Honolulu at 'ly.m. on May 31st from Sydney via Auckland arid the 8-S> Miowera arrived ab HonoluluW Voiiie to Vancouver from Sydney. oyr une i sb a t 7 a , m . The result of tho voyon was about a day in favour of tbo Alamed Tha Hon.\ir Seddon has informed Captain Whitney that he is desirous that tha local industr^of the Colonial Ammunition Company slioy bo carried on satisfactorily and successful! an d that he will give tho question of thOo U ppiy o f ammunition for tho colony his f tumble consideration. At the ResioV Magistrate's Court ab Christchurch yesi^day, the decieion was given in the case\ rO ught against' Captain Allman, of the s=amor Rotomahana, of carrying five salooAp asS engers in excess of the numbers alk%i by the steamer's certificate. The in&jstrate held that the case was not seriou3,l }U t that the law had been broken, and aim o f £5 and costs was imposed. ; \