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Auckland Star, Volume XXIV, Issue 289, 6 December 1893, Page 1

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Breezy weather. Very serious floods. Last night of Bland Holt. 11 Heresy hunt" last nighb. 'Frisco mail due to-morrow. Waikato escftpod die deluge. Further details of the floods. Great damage in Hawke'9 Bay. Drowuing accidents in the South. Professor Tyndall, tcientisb, is dead. John Morley, Chief Secretary for Ireland, is ill. Supreme Court criminal sessions closed to-day. Supreme Courb civil sessions open tomorrow. Dredger No. 121 has returned here from Melbourne. The Colonial Treasurer, Mr Ward, is still in Auckland. People's Popular Conceit in Sb. James's Hall this evening. Auckland Hospital and Charitable Aid Board met to-day. Rev. S. J. Neill's case referred to tha Presbyterian Assembly. Sensational attempt to escape from Pentridge prison (Victoria). Examination of Maori students ftt Wesley College, Three Kings, to-day. Mr Taylor, manager for Messrs Brown and Campbell, is very ill at present. There are signs of a brisk revival of tha whaling industry in the South Pacific. Entries for the North Shore Amateur Athletic Club's carnival close on Saturday next. The Empire Minstrels open at the Opera House on Saturday next. Chas. Hugo is with them. Cheap prices are announced. The now railway time-table from Auckland to Tarukenga, near Rotorua, U regarded as most unsatisfactory at) Rotorua. The Auckland Harbour Board propose to send Dredger No. 121 away again, while there is urgent necessity for dredging Auckland Harbour. The Queensland Government Geologisb cannot be spared at present to visit New Zealand toreporton the Reef ton and Thames eoldfields' deep levels. One of the charges of " heresy " made against the Rev. S. J. Neill by hia Presbyterian flock ac the Thames, is thas he eaid Solomon was a " much-married " roan. Mr Edward Stowe, comedian with the Empire Minstrels, was leading man with Haverly for years in America. He will produce some of his new comicalities oa Saturday night at the Opera House. At the Otago Weeleyan district meeting a resolution was carried as a recommendation to the Conference, that the Conference lecture be discontinued, or that Jiscuasioa upon it be allowed in open conference. The Dunedin University Council has decided to make arrangements ab once for instruction and examination iv political economy, to oiler the Macandrew scholarship for competition, and invite applications for the lectureship. The New Zealand Railway Commissioners have accepted the tender of the Taupiti Extended Coal Company for the Auckland section of railways, and that of J. J. Crauf for the Kaihu Valley and Whangarei sections, and Newmarket workshops. Mr Thos. Gumming, an old settler of Invercargill, and for a long time connected with the Southland Agricultural and Pastoral Association, died ou Monday in a field ab Weeti Plains. He bad been treated for some months past ior heart disease. ; The first two verses of Scripture read ab the" heresy-hunt "meeting of the Auck-X land Presbytery last evening, were ratheKw significant: "Speak thon the things whicb|| become sound doctrine. Let aged men bs sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience." & The old convict hulk Success, says a* Sydney paper, is to be shown at Auckland this summer. Provided the slimy old ruio doesn't founder with her load of guilt somewhere in the Taaman Sea, she should mako a sensation iv a province where the old legiron variety of civilisation never peaetrated. A new Ma'aonic Lodge, under the Ne\r Zealand Constitution, wa# consecrated at Chrietchurch lash night by Brother Hulberfc, Grand Superintendent of Canterbury, and the officers ot the Grand Lodge of New Zealand. The lodge is titled "The Cbrisbchurch Lodge, No. 91," and is formed from among the Scotch Masons of Chrisbchurcb. An a meeting of the Invercargill branch ot the New Zoaland Alliance last night, it wafr resolved that the large number of men returned to Parliament pledged to repealtbe Liquor Act of last session, expresses the demand of a vast majority of the people that the Act should be repealed before it can come into force; therefore an extraordinary session of Parliament be imediately summoned in order that the will of the people may uofc be thwarted by effluxion of time. Wool-loading is very brisk at present; ab Sydney, and every day pees some vessel, sail or eteam, added to the season's home-ward-bound fleet. An interesting start was made from Sydney for London by three of the sailers one day lately, and the ship Illawarra, that had left there the day befora, was still in sight of South Head, co that four ships—the Bay of Bengal, Mount Stewart, Torridon, and the Illawarra—all for London, left the coast almost) in a cluster. Last week the Oronbes made a start. They all are steering for th« February-March sales, and are con fid en b of being i" time. With lnok (says a Sydney paper), some of them should be home in 80 days.