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Auckland Star, Volume XXIV, Issue 291, 8 December 1893, Page 1

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'Fbisco mail to-day. Mail steamer later than usual. S.B. Taluno left foi the South. Judge's Bay Regatta to-morrow. 5.3. Te Anau arrived from the Soutßfc. Cricket to-morrow, weather permitting; Supreme Court Civil Sessions proceeding. E.M.s. Lizard has lefb Lyttelfcon for the Chatham Inlands. H.M.B. Curacoa leaves Auckland to* morrow for Lyttelton. The late rains have freshened up the pastures around Auckland. The Gear Meat Company declare the usual dividend of 10 per cent. The various sections on the Te Aroha« Paeroa railway are now almost completed. The Alameda's colonial mails of November 4th arrived in London on Wednesday last. The Rev. Father Kehoe, of Te Arohs, ha 3 been appointed parish priest for Tanranga. The Hon. James Mclntyre, Victorian Minister of Lands, arrived in Wellington yesterday. Resident Magistrates in New Zealand are, after March 1 next, to be known aa " Stipendary Magistrates." The natives at Omahu, a settlement down the coast, have been successful in catching a large whale. They expect to make about £200 out of it. The Hon. Mr Ward says that the question of the rival railway routes between Auckland and Wellington will be definitely settied next session. The annual picnic of £b. Luke'ff (Remuera) Presbyterian Sunday - school takes place to morrow. The b.s. Britannia leaves for Motuihi at 8.30 a.m. and 1 p.m. The second athletic carnival of the North Shore Amateur Athletic and 'Cycle Club will be held in the Davponport Domain on Saturday the 23rd inst. Entries will bo received to-morrow evening. Captain Goomes, of the cutter Tokerau, was out in the storm on Monday night. Ho says that in all his experiences on the coast he has nover seen such a rough sea before. The cutter, however, weathered the storm splendidly. The Wellington Wesleyan District Meeting expresses ita hearty appreciation of the able manner in which the editor of the "Methodist" has conducted that journal, and recommends to the Conference the reappointment of the present editor. Mr Hudson, District Railway Manager, has been advised from Wellington that the repairs to the railway line in the flooded portion of the Hawke'a Bay district willbo so far restored that through communication between Wellington and Napier by rail and coach will be possible next week. The Walton Park (Otago) Coal Company has a credit balance of £1,441185, which the directors recommend should be carried forward. The shareholders resolved to write down the capital by one-half (£6,006), and write off a corresponding sum from th<a general plant account. A return of the aboriginal population of New South Wales shows that for the 12 months ending October 15th there has been a decrease of 230 in the number of fullbloods, and an incrense of 135 half-castes* or a net decrease of 95. The total number of aborigines in New South Wal.ei now stands at 7,254, as against 7,349 in 1892. The Queensland Colonial Secretary recently received a reporb from 6be police magistrate of Cooktown to the ftflecb that a fisherman had reported that ca^es of leprosy existed among aboriginals at "Barrow Point. In the case of one man the feet and handa were stated to have been badly eaten away. The reports have not so far been confirmed. The four masted ship Wendur, which arrived at Melbourne lately from Rio, was,, on October 18, in lat. 30deg. S. and lon. 4^-deg. 8., when there were sighted 13 large icebergs, distant about 20 miles. Some of the bergs were fully 500fb in height, and would probably measure in length about one mile and a half on the water-line. The clipper ship Tamar, of the Devibfe and Moore line, arrived ab Sydney last week from Liverpool. There was an extraordinary occurrence jueb after the vessel cleared the Mersey. Sail was being made forward when, to the astonishment of the jacks, three youngster* crawled out of the hollow iron bowsprit, where, in addition to being half-starved, were nearly suffocated. The young water rats were transhipped bo a coaster. Notice.—Sale of unredeemed pledges, jewellery, watches, clothing, etc., at Esnin and Arthur's Mart, Queen-street, from Mr Neumegan's Monte do Pieto loan office, Victoria-street, Monday next ab 11 o'clock. —(Advt.)