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Auckland Star, Volume XXV, Issue 244, 12 October 1894, Page 1

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Public Works Statement. Enjoyable spring weather. Cricket matches to morpvr. Government estimates published. Bowling season opens to-morrow. Circus matinee to-morrow afternoon. Great storm raging off Newfoundland. Boating season will shortly be opened. ■ S.s. Ovalau lefb for Tonga. Samoa and, Fiji. R.M.a. Maripoßa wenb od bo Sydney lasb evening. The Chinese are reported to have ropulsed the Japanese. The Licensing Bill will mosb probably ba dropped for this session. , New coal find at Kawakawa. Great excitement in tbe township. Government proposeto spend £45,000 oo the Otago Central Railway. The and of the session is near; Parlia» menb met ab 11 a.m. bo day. * ' H. M.s. Rapid-s departure for Sydney has been postponed till next week. Jennie Leo is advertising in Melbourne for a " full dramatic company." £43,150 is provided in the Estimates for development of public gold fields. Sb. George's Rowing Club open the season to-morrow with a procession of boats. The Bum of £12,000 is on the Estimates for the Whangarei-Kamo railway extension.' The sum of £10,000 is proposed to be spent in harbour defences by the Government. The Great Powers have decided not to interfere with Japan in her march on • Pekin. The total appropriation proposed in the Public YVorks Estimates amounts tc £940,163. The Government propose to spend £6,750----on a main northern road from' Wark worth to Awanui. ■ One thousand pounds is proposedto be i spent on the improvement of the Mount • Eden Gaol. The City and Waitemata Rowing Clubs have been amalgamated, and now form one strong club. Howick will have its wharf at last. There is a sum of £1,500 on the Estimates for the work. The first election for senators and reps. ' under the Hawaiian Republic will take place on October 29. The boys Gould, Russell and Worth, who lefb Waikouaiti in a fisherman's boat, have ' turned up at Milton. Latest advices from Nelson state that Captain iNewby, of tha Helen Denny, ie progressing satisfactorily. , It may be that the reason Methuselah lived so long was that aome young woman ; bad married him for his money. The sum of £17,000 is proposed to be , spent, according to the Estimates, on tha . completion of the Rotorua Railway. The astronomer, Sir Robert Ball, em- ' phauically declares that he believes Mars is ' inhabited by some sort of creatures. Every workman in Japan wears on his cap and on his back an inscription giving bis business and his employer's name. r Punctuation was first used in literature, in the year 1520. Before tb-j-fc time worda-andsent-enceßwereputtogcbherl.ke.hiß. The German steel barque G.N. Wilcox, 1,407 tons, was totally wrecked at MolokaiHawaiian Islands, on the 18th September. ', Pullman! the railway millionaire, wag ' once;a:po.or.boy t with a.penny in' his pocket; ' And at the outset lie hadn't even a pockeft. Railways.in Holland are so carefully • managed -hat bhe accidental deaths on then:., avera^-bhly oho'ay^r for thbei-birecoun- ' try. " Bishop and Miss Cowie called on MrAnnie Besant on Wednesday, and she. breakfasted at Bishops-Court) yesterday - morning. The Corporation Salt Water Baths in Lower Customs-street show an annual loss. . Last year the loss was £25, in 1893 £45 anc in 1892 £35. • The Samoan natives are now busy making copra, which many of them openly stated they intend buying ammunition witb, for another war. Weasels are becoming very numerous in , North Canterbury, and complaints of their depredations are frequent. A farmer at Kaiapoi had five lambs killed by thorn od Wednesday. The old man James Watson, who was recently robbed and assaulted in Rutland- , street, waa taken bo the District Hospital yesterday for treatment. He is in a pro* . carious condition. The Treasurer of the Women's Home, Parnell, begs to acknowledge the following , sums received in September :—Mts Cowie, £1; J. H., Kohu Kohu, Hokranga, second subscription, 10s 6d ; X., 2s 6d. " Palmerston Times " says:—"A6eal in ' a dying condition was discovered on. tho beach near Foxton on Sunday by Mr W. Collins. Ib is possible bhe carcase may be exhibited at Palmerston." Whab a treat! The American barque Lottie Moore lost a man overboard on her' last passage from Auckland to New York, a Swede named George Newin. He fell from the main-top-gallant-yard into the sea and was drowned. The jubilee of the London Missionary Society's work in Samoa was celebrated at Malua, near Apia, a few days ago by a big native religious gathering. The Samoans contributed a collection amounting to 3,000 dollars. A handsome yacht, 41fb over all, wibh a beam of 9ft and a draught of sft, builb by Mr R. Logan ab bhe North Shore for the King of Tonga, was shipped down to Tonga by the B.s. Ovalau lasb night. Mr Logan wenb down with the yachb, in order to have everything properly fitted up. Two of Maoriland's principal cities have been theatrically boycotted (says an Exchange). Brough and Boucicaulb passed Auckland by, as terms could not be arranged for A bbott's Opera House, and the Royal Comic Opera Company (Williamson's) gave Wellington the "cut out." At a meeting of the Coolgardie Prospecting Syndicate Committee of Management yesterday afbernoon, Mr J. C. Firth presiding, it was decided to send the prospecting party off to Australia next Tuesday. The accounts showed the amount paid in to be £813 with another £109 regarded as certain. As a variation on the ordinary form or death notice the following from the Inverness " Courier" is worth a place:—"My mother died ab Roseheath, Hilton, on Sunday nighb. Funeral at Tomashurich Cemetery on Wednesday, 15th August, ab 1 o'clock. All friends are invited. X—— M .'' Theie ia no sentiment aboub that announcement. The Melbourne "Argu3" saya :—" It ia ab once impossible and improper to hide from ourselves the gravity of the presenfe posibioo of bhe colony. In tho language of soberness ib may be said bbab we have no modern record of a country suffering a reversal of fortune so sudden and bo complete as bhat which has befallen Victoria." Miss Maud Ellicotb, the new prima donna at.the London Savoy, was "found/ is seems, by Mr Clement Scott during hi. recent perambulabion around the worldThe gifted young lady ib a native of Cal cutta, where she has passed tbe most pari of her lite, and it was while performing in an amateur Bhow of " lolantbe " in that) city that Mr Scott came across her.