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Auckland Star, Volume XXIV, Issue 279, 24 November 1893, Page 1

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Candidates' final spoeches. 1 Rotorua railway line opened. ; S.B. Waihora has gone South. Political speeches again to-nighb. , Attempted suicide of a gumdigger. Bland Holt is getting crowded houses.' 11 A Million of Money " is drawing well.* Amateur Athletic Club's Sports in the Domain to-morrow. St. Benedict's 10th entertainment) takes I place in the schoolroom this evening. An Association of Old Soldiers and Navai and Military Land Claimants has beeo formed in Auckland. Laat evening, Dr. Burnaby gave another of his lectures on phrenology in the Wesley Hall, to an appreciative audience. . ' - At the Primitive Methodists' open air meeting, on Saturday night,^addreeses will be delivered on the liquor queetion. ' The Ponsonby Naval Artillery volunteers go across to the North Shore to-morrow for a fortnight's encampment ab Cheltenham Beach. The Ponsonby Bowling Club's pavilion ia now being erected, and will be completed in time for tho opening of the Bowling Green on the 9th prox. One hundred and sixty volumes of new novels and light reading have been added to tho Free Library lending branch and over 100 books to the reference branch. One of the attractions ab tho Athletia Club's Carnival in the Domain to-morrow will be the Indian club exercises to music by the inmates of the Parnoll Orphat. Home. The steamer Ruapehu, which salied from Wellington yesterday for London, included among the cargo shipped in Wellington 480 tons of dairy produce, which is the largest consignment yet sent from New Zealand in any ona»vessel. The Huddart - Parker steamship Tasmania, which is to enter the New Zealand trade, will leave Sydney about Wednesday next for Auckland, Gisborne, Napier, Wellington and Lyttelton. Captain Thomas McGee, and old New Zealand commander, has been appointed to the command of the fine, fast steamship in her now trade. William McAdams was sentenced at the Whangarei Police Courb yesterday to one month's imprisonment, without the option of a fine, for ill-treating a horEe whilst riding in the Hack Race, ab the Agricultural Show, on Wednesday. He was brought down to Auckland by the s.s. Wellington last night, to serve the term ia Mounb Eden Gaol.' Amongst the books purchased by the City Council authorities ab the recent) sale of the lato Judge Gillies' library, for the Auckland Free Public Library, were the Abbotsford edition of Scott's Waverley Novels, twelve volumes, 140 illustrations ; Lodge's Portraits ; and '' The Great Barrier Reef of Australia," by Saville Kemp, splendidly illustrated. Complaints have been made to the Inspector of Factories that in many of fche Queen-street dressmaking and tailoring establishments, etc., the young women and shop-assistants generally have their dinner hour considerably curtailed by their employers, so as to geb the utmost possible work out of them. The practice is a cruel one, and employers should certainly allow their girls the full mid-day hour. Tho Shaw-Savill steamer Arawa, which is at present under charter to Huddart, Parker and Co., left Sydney a few days ago for Vancouver, via Fiji, with over a thousand carcaseß of mutton,' between 200 and 300 tons of butter, and other perishable goods, in addition to a large shipment of wool. Mr Huddart is now building another now ship with a refrigerated hold, and he intends to have one of the holds of the other vessels refrigerated. There ia reason to bolievo that there will be a monthly shipment of 5,000 mutton carcases from Sydney to Vancouver. Sale of Unredeemed Pledges, from Mr M. J. Moore's, at Esam and Arthur's Marb, on Monday next, at 11.—(Advt.) We hold an immense stock of reliable kid gloves, imported from the best makers, prices from Is lid to 6s lid.' Try our " guaranteed " 4 buttoned kid eloveß at 2s 6d, marvellous value.—Smith and Caughey, Queen-street. —(Advt.) No household that values health combined with the pleasure of nice food, should be without Arthur Nathan's "Reliable" Tea. There is a choice of three kinds at 2a per pound—Ceylon, India, or the Blended. —(Advb.) 6