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Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 132, 4 June 1895, Page 1

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Whit Toesday.- ---; Garrison ball to-morrow night. Darrell season closed last nighb. \ •' Fuller's concert to-morrow evening. .• The Tarawera left ior Sydney this aftac* • noon." ' v \" '■-■■; -.: '■':■"' ..-.\v:f «» v ' Ponsonby School Committee election de* clared void. \ ,■ ."'" The Hon. J. McKenziestill continues to be seriously ill.'• '', ',.; • " , ; : » Concert in aid of the Parnell Convenb ; funds this evening. ,• A large area of country is now being put down in wheat in the South. : Mr C. E. Jones* lectures to-night in tho City Hall on the "Mormons^" ;■ ■"■■'■"■ i The second; term of the "Auckland University commenced yesterday. (An Insurers'. Probectiou Association hasi' been, formed at New Plymouth.v ' ■ The oil find at New Plymouth^ appears to be of very considerable value.' ,; ?■'• ' There was •a. vlarge attendance at Mrs Bagot Birch's'concert last night. 7 ■'■ The second; of the Maritanaßocial reunions will beheld on Wednesday hexb. The virtue of anti-fcoxin in diphtheria i« being prjoved in aevoral cases in the colony. The remains of the late Rev. A. Carrick were; interred this- afternoon ao Purewa '■ Cemetery. .: .' ' ■ •.■■..■.,'■•■";■■ The Hospital and Charitable Aid Board and the Honorary Medical Staff will hold a ' conference. The • VTimea.."■ thinks it difficult to believe in; the reality of;the federation movemenb , in Australia. . ' The Wellington Harbour Board is con- > templating increasing the wharfage ao« corntnodation. The case of alleged child murder ab Wiatoo, continues to attract great attraction in the South. * ; Constable.Kelly, who was recently m« jured through a fall from his horse, is pro* greasing favourably.; A short bufc sharp earthquake shock was felb'ab;two o'clock yesterday afternoon ab Wellington and Nehion. A concert and eale of work in connection with St. Peter's Working Guild,'will be held at Onehunga to-morrow evening. The s.e. Tongariro sailed from Plymouth on Saturday for .Wellington and Lybtelton with 9^ paseengers and 2,400 tons of cargo. ' Profeeaor Thomas delivered the annual Presidential address >at the Auckland Institute lasb night. The subject was •' Life and Crystals." At a meeting of the House Committee of the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board' yesterday there was a long discussion of an animated nature., ,; During the last month 1,503 persons arrived in the colony, and 2,359 left. The figures for the same month lasfc year wera 1,386 and 2,499. \ . ". The Society for the Protection, pf Women! and Children ,1, held its monthly meeting yesterday afternoon and a good deal of business was transacted^ * * A meeting was held yesterday afternoon in Wellington to arrange preliminaries for the reception' of the Hon. J. G. Ward on hia return to the colony. The Ponsonby Naval Artillery has received 65 passes in gunnery and submarine mining—the largest number of passes ever ■ received by any .Company in New Zealand.. ;: . The directors of the * Union .Shipping Company have presented Messrs Kendall,! \ Johnston, and Dunlop, officers who,were on board the Wairarapa, with £25 each, in recognition of their gallant services. ■■■. , i ( ~;, Jq.bhe,, Christchurch jpivorce Goiirb yes« iterd^^a ;decreelnm v :waß^granted injthe ■case( ol; James,* V.'James"and> Davis (husband's petition).■ 'A.'decree nisi,:yvas. ialap':,v ?■' granted in*, the basesof Trotb v. Trotb , ( (wife's petition). ' . As an outcome of the revolting disclosures made during the progress of the trial of Oscar, Wilde and hia accomplice, Alfred Taylor, the police have issued warn-' ings to 200 persons suspected of being concerned in similar abominable practices. '~