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Auckland Star, Volume XXV, Issue 300, 17 December 1894, Page 1

TABLE TALK, " ■ • ■'-- Close and oppressive weather. Christmas approaching. The Japanese are raising another loan. S.s. Manapouri has arrived from Sydney.' " The Rivals ' ab bhe Opera House to* night. Schools break up for Christmas holiday, this week. The Upolu arrived from the Islands this morning. . Rev. John McNeill's Mission begins on Wednesday first.Popular moonlight concert on the harbour this evening. Prizes won at the Ponsonby Regatta will be distributed to-night. • {Trench marines are occupying Tamatave, and the Hovas are in flight. ' Professor Carrollo's picnic to Mobutapi? on Saturday was a greab success. A strike leader in America has been senc tenced to six months' imprisonment. The Spanish Chamber has carried a too* tion reducing the import duty on wool. Christmas Tree ab Sb. Thomas' Church, Union-street, this afternoon and evening. Lord Rosebery advises the Independent Labour party to coalesce with the Liberals. H. H. Dacre won bhe President's Cup ab the Wellington Amateur Swimming Club's sports. . The death is announced of Mrs Mason, widow of the late Rev. Peter Mason, ab.the age of 73. On Saturday bhe Australians closed their first innings against the Englishmen for 586 runs. The Upolu brings us tbe news of the death of Mr Robeib Louis Stevenson, the celebrated novelisb. .' i Brown has won the Bicycle Championship of New South Wales, covering the five miles in 13min 42 4-sth sec. The Tramway Company is making rather extensive preparations in its rolling stock for the summer traffic. Tbe esbates of 23 persons who perished in the Wairarapa disaster aro in bho hands of bhe Public Trustee for administration. The, annual performance of the "Messiah " will be given by tho Choral Society in their hall to-morrow evening. The box plan of "The Rivals," to be produced this evening in tho Opera House by the University Dramatic Club, is almost full. ••.'-■-• ...... The Newton Band, under Bandmaster West, played a series of orchestral selections in Albert Park on Saturday afternoon. The operatives in Newfoundland are in a state of semi-starvation, and the employers have no monoy owing to' tho financial crisis. A movement is on foot to shut the warehouses and places of business in bhe city on Monday, Tuesday and' Wednesday next wook. , Charge of perjury, againsb Abraham Bow- ', den is being heard to-day before Mr Justice Conolly and a special jury at the Supreme Courb. V It is reported that the Rev. Mr Isitt will " leave New Zealand for America early next year to study temper&nce matters in tho States.; - ? Auckland beab Parnell by five wickets ia tho Domain on Saturday. This is the firefi . timojthi-.sea's6h.thac ParnelLJ-aa meb -Witut, a reverse. ■ • < ..""'■,< ... Mr Wm. Errington, civil engineer, died, yesterday ab the age of 62 ab the residence of his son in-law, the Hon. Wm. McCullough, M.L.C. The Christmas tree aud sale of work m connection with the Wesleyan Church, Birkenhead,, opens in tho schoolroom, Birkenhead, to-morrow. , A somewhat Uncommon accident occurred ab Potter's Padc__k on Saturday in the Bulky trotting race, four of the riders being thrown from their machines. ';,.', The Rev- 0. R. Hewlett, has been appointed to Sb. Peter's, Onehunga, and-baa accordingly resigned the incumbency .of ; Sb. Stephen's Church, Opotiki. The appearance of a large fire atthe North Shore which was noticeable on Saturday evening, was due to the burning off of some scrub ab O'Neill's Poinb. . ; Mr A. J. Mundella addressing his,constituents said thab he had done his duby in regard.to the Loan and Mercantile, Company, and feared no man's censure.. The yacht Doris struck on the Bean Rock , lighthouse reef yesterday afternoon and sunk. The water i being shallow all on board gob safely ashore on the rock. The Porte has consented to the British, Russian and French consuls being ap- ( pointed a commission of inquiry bo investigate the recenb outrages by Turkish soldiers. The remains of Mrs Schlichting, of Greymouth, missing since tho 28bb September, have been found in bhe bush near Rubber-1 glen. It is supposed that she died of exhaustion. ...-.> The coal exporb from Westporb for the . week ended Saturday, was 3,502 tons, owhich 3,105 tons were from the Weltport? Coal Company, and 397 tons from the Cardiff Company. Ab the inquesb on an elderly man named J. Allison, found dead in Christchurch, a ' verdict was returned that death resulted from serous apoplexy accelerated by excessive drinking. The residence of Mr Courb in HackettBbreeb .caughb fire on Saburday evening, bub • the Brigade speedily appearing on the scone tbe flames were extinguished before much damage had been done. - • Mr David Gouk and party returned from the Wairarapa on Saburday, and reported , thab they found ib impossible to do anything in the way of salvago ab the wreck, which continues in the same position as before. The chief of the Salvation Army in New Zealand,;polonel Bailey, took his farewell, of the Auckland contingent of the Army tithe Albert-street and Newton Barracks. This evening, he, with the officers of the division and soldiers, welcomes Commissioner Coombes, General Booth's Australian^ representative. Aba conference of thirty - seven loca. bodies, school committees and societies held - on Saturday in Christchurch under ths auspices of tbe Canterbury Progressive Liberal Association, ib was agreed that the constitution of the Board of Governors of the Canterbury College was extremely unsatisfactory, as there was no representative of the people of Canterbury on ib. After many suggestions had been made, a committee was appointed to draft a scheme ofc alterations in the constitution of the Board.

Smith and Cauphey invite attention to a special purchase of over 4,000 yards plain and fancy silks, suitable for dresses, bloußes,' and trimuoine purposes, much below or-dinary-prices—(Advt.) The auccosa of the day 1 " The Chimes Gavotte." Encored wherever performed. Price, one shilling and sixpence, at Eady's, Queen-street.—(Advt.) CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAB CARDS. *•& ffl.™!fSti l ? riihß"indNewYe"Card'- la'»* STAE AJtD GRAPHIC OIFICE AUOKLAJS'D

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