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Auckland Star, Volume XXIV, Issue 303, 22 December 1893, Page 1

TABLE TALK. HomdA- preparations. Holidays next week. Country visitors in town. Public school picnics to-day. Public schools have " broken up." Excursions and picnics next week, School-teachers' holidays commenced. Waitemata County Council met to-day^ Brett's Auckland Almanac for 1894 »S 1 Direct steamer- Maori King has gone. °Three years' drought in the Giberfi Fire 'in Argyle-streeb, Ponsonby, thia" morning. • __ _ Christmas decorations in tha mOp windows. , , _ .... . S.s. Richmond arrived from Tahiti and Rarotonga. , ~... . ~ , Governor Fitzroy arrived in Auckland this day 1843. , _ L ».; ' Wi Pere's election for the Eastern Maori electoral is assured. The baby mystery on the s.s. Te Anau has been cleared up. The City Engineer's salary has been in« creased to £400 a year.. • ■ Auckland schools championship sports 10 the Domain to-morrow. Pepene Eketone is leading for the Western Maori electorate. Auckland Trotting Club Race Meeting atPotter's Paddock to-morrow. The City Council increased the salaries of it. officials by a total of £183 last night. A Gazette notice fixes January 31 as the date for the payment of the income tax. A cheap shilling's worth, Brett's Auckland - Alamanac for 1894, with complete diary. Mr F. J. Moss, British resident,in tha Cook group, has arrived here from Rarobonga. The new Mayor, Mr J. J. Holland, presided over the City Council meeting last evening for the first; time. H. E. Kenny is appointed Recorder of the Native Land Courb for the North Island Recorder's District. No less than 532 passengers for New Zealand will arrive here from Sydney by the steamers Tasmania aud Robomabana on Sunday. The Public Trustee gives notice to claim unoccupied sections in Coal Creek and Collingwood (Nelson), Archill (Auckland), and Clyde (Wairoa). The Auckland Free Public Library and Art Gallery will be closed on Christmas Day, Boxing Day, New Year's Day, and the 2nd of January. The opposition steamers Tasmania and Rotomahana, from Sydney, are to be worked in this porb on Christmas Day, by special permission of the authorities. Ex-Mayor Crowther has added his fink to the Auckland Mayors' gold chain of office, which was worn last night by Mr Holland ab tho City Council meeting. «.' The Waikomiti Cemetery is worked at a loss," said Mayor Holland ab the City Council meeting last ovening. "Long. may ib be so!" fervently ejaculated Cr. Farrell. The regulations for the Swinburn Special Settlement appear in the " Gazette;" also the amended regulations for trout, perch, and tench fishing in the southern acclimiti* sation districts. The City Council last evening agreed rathe diversion of Manning-street, in the Karangahape ward. The offer of the Eden Terrace Road Board of £75 re the formation of this road was accepted. Miss Margaret Craigie, thothird daughter of Mr Richard Craieie, a respected farmer near Henley, has disappeared under circumstances which suggest that she has been drowned ab the Taieri Ferry. The election of Mr Thos. English sa Mayor of Newton having caused a vacancy in the Newton Borough Council, nominations of candidates for the vacant seat will be received up to noon on January 2nd. The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Aorangi, which lefb Wellington yesterday for London via Rio, took away 745 tons of dairy produce (butter and cheese), the largesb shipment of dairy produce which has left the colony in one bottom. Ab the Harbour Board meeting yesterday, two requests for increase in salaries were received from Board officials, and were referred to bhe special Committee for consideration. The present salaries of the ' officials were voted in globo till the end of . February. A decree made by the Governor-General of the Netherlands, East India, prohibiting fishing for pearl shells, mobher of pearl, and brepang in the territorial waters of the Dutch colonies is published in the "Gazette." The penalty ia a fine, or imprisonment up to two years. At bhe annual meeting of the Commercial Travellers' Association held at Dunedin yesterday the report showed that the clubroom had proved a success. • There are 147 members of the Association, and 53 club membors. The pormanent fund was added to during the year, and it now stands a; £794 2s lOd. In connection with the anniversary of Devonporb Congregational Church, we are requested to state thab, in addition to those mentioned in Wednesday's- issue as having contributed to the enjoyment of the evening, the names of Misses Harvey and Patterson and Mr Thomas were inadvertently omitted. For reliable and cheap kid gloves try ■: Smith and Caughey, Queen-Btreet. Sunshades in immense variety.—(Advt.) Splendid display of Christmas eakest chocolates and confectionery of every do Bcripbion at Stillwell's, Parnell.—(Advt.) " Amongsb the prettiest windows this year "' must rank those of Mr Stillwell'6, the ' Parnell confectioner, whose display of ' chocolates, Christmas cakes and confer tionery and other toothsome dainties, mueb draw a considerable share of attention,—.' (Advt.) Wildman and Lyell are making a special ' display of Christmas and New Year cards booklets, children's books, ladies' bags* leather and fancy goods, in their Queen* street shop this (Friday) evening.—(Advt.)"

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