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Auckland Star, Volume XXIV, Issue 141, 16 June 1893, Page 1

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Beautiful weather. Outward mail to-morrow, S.s. Taviuni left for Fiji. Destructive firo laat night. Fiiiis' circus is drawing woll. Mariposa Irora Sydney to-day. Great flood in New South Wales. Labour disputes all over the world. Sir George Grey speaks this evening. Queen's Perry Hotel partly destroyed by Cre. The German elections aro now proceeding Robert Tobiu Bush is appointed assayor of gold. S.s. Richmond arrived from Tahiti and Karotonga to-day. City Rowing Club's annual ball in ths Choral Hall to-night. The Peninsula Naval Volunteers (Dunedin) have been disbanded. The election of A. D. Willis, as member for VVanganui, is gazetted. Mr Jackson Palmwr, M.H.R., speaks ab Birkonhead this ovenitig. Damages by last night' 3 fire in Vulcan Lauo are estimated ab £5,000. Forty inaaatss of the Dunedin Industrial School are Buffering from measloe. Sale of Unredeemed Pledges at Esam and Arthur's, Monday, 11 a.m.—(Advt.) • Melanoaiau Mission yacht iB expected horo to-morrow from Norfolk Island. An American cable reports that a Minnesota doctor has been roasted to death by Indians. The appointment of Arthur Graham as Bub-iieutpnaut of tho Ponsonby Navala it gazetted. MrT, Thompson, M.H.R., will address the city elecrore iti the City Hall to-morrow (Saturday) night. The shipwrecked crew of tho Sydney brigantine Saucy Jack aro safe, according to to-day's cables. Robert Smolt Bush, R.M., is appointed Jutlgo of the Assessment Court for the town district of Helensville. It is statod that Mr H. Vogel, eldest son of Sir J. Vogol, v.iil staud for Wellington City at the general election. Lecture by Mr Arthur Field-Wolrige on "Historical Buildings of London" in tho Public Hall, Onehuugo, to-night. At Sir George Groy'a speaeli in. the City Flail to-night the dress circle will be reserved for ladies and their escorts* Poire Eoihei is appointed asseeser of the Native Land Coitfb and Resident Magistrate's Couri; for the district of Waiapu, Tho taudev of Messrs T. and S. Morrin and Co. (£5,356) has been accepted for tho supply of material for the Devon port waterworks;. Mr Patrick Nolan, lato of ftbe "Herald'1 staff, left Auckland yesterday/ for Wellington to join tha staff of the "• New Zealand Timett.'" Sir Georga Grey has invited the Premier and members of the Union Parliament to bo present at the City Hall at 8 o'clock this evening. It has been decided at Dunedin toform a Parliamentary-}. Union, without party government, the work being prepared by a council of members. Wiiiiam Jamos Butler is appointed Judge of tho Native Lend Court, and Trust Commissioner voder the Native Lands Frauds Prevention Act, ISSI. The regulations for the preventing of collisions at sea, made by order of Her Majesty in Council, on the 30th of January, 1893, are published in this week's GazaUo. Tho Gisborne town schools have been closed for ten days oa account of the measles epidemic. Yesterday the attendance was only about half the number on the roll. The Rev. W. S. Potter, who has been conducting services at Hobson villa and Kuaotuuu, has returned and will resume the series of sermons on social subjects on Sunday evening. A meeting of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce was held to-day, in order to bring under the notice of the Auckland M'e.H.R. the requirements of this provincial district. ' His Excellency the Governor, Admiral Bowdeu-Smith, and the officers and men of : tho H.M.s. Orlando, along with the local volunteers, attend church parade at Wellington on Sunday. Gerhard Mueller, Commissioner of • Crown Lands at Auckland, is appointed ! to execute leases and receire rents under the Thermal Springs District Act, 1881, : viccß. S. Bush, B.M. " At the Auckland Crown Lands Office ; yesterday 355 acres of land at Heretaonga were sold to A. E. Jeffcots at ss'an acre, and a block of 262 acres ab Pakiri was sold to . E. Stensneas at 9s an acre. A recital of sacrsd music was given lasb evening in Holy Trinity Church, Devonporb, by'TConibsrs of the choir and others. There was s good attendance. The choir sang aereral anthems, etc., and solos were given . by a huinbor of vocalists. , Albert Young and John McLean were committed for trial at Hawera (Taranaki) yesterday on a charge of stealing cattle from Reed. Young was also committed on a charge of stealing cattle from Glenn. Other chargos are proceeding; A grand outburss of thermal action occurred at Oraheikorako, near Lake . Tanpo. lately. Ova of the springs burab into ,111 active gsyucr, throwing a column of water to a great height in the air. Tha geyser plays 6 times in fcbe 24 hours, In the claim brought by Chas. B. Stone r against John Buckhmd at tboR.M. Conrb \ yesterday afternoon to recover £26 11s 6d, amount of a dishonoured promissory note, Mr Bush, tho 11. M., gave judgment for tbe amount, claimed less the £0 Us 4d credited 1 and cocoa 30s. A meeting of tho Libnral party of WaaRanv; was helci in the Wanganui Ondfallows' Hell last, nighb, about 250 being > preHoofc. The meeting resolved to form an executive of theLibpral partyat Vvanganui, Mr Willie, the new member, being elected ■ president, together with thres vice-preai-denia, , The apnlication of tbe trustees of the Duntdln Hospital for a grant of £1,500 towards tho completion of a new wing Iwa been refused by tha Minister in oharM. Tho requoßt of the Dunedin Ladies Guild 1 to build a new children's ward, the ladws undertaking to collect subscriptions, was considered, and ib was decided to obtain tha views of tho medical staff. The Otago Education Board have adopted a resolution requesting inspectors to mane ; the examinations in arithmetic and grammar as simple aud uUmentary as is consistenb with a fair interpretation of the standard, and suggesting to the Minister of Education the advisability of amending tho regulations, so as to do away with all individual pass examinations, except m the highei standards.