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Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 161, 8 July 1895, Page 1

TABLE TALK. - ■ • Ward returned. Enthusiastically welcomed. Sydney steamers arrived. ■ .-"* • Frequent heavy showers, Warrimoo passed through. Fire in Lower Queen-street. ■-~'■;■ English mails to hand to-day. Boron Fire on board ship at—olbourno. Michael Davitt is now in Sydney. • Bluejackets and marines on shore. Ship Forfarshire sailed for London., Grafton won-Football Championship. Pollard's Juveniles in " The Gondoliers " ' to-night. Hon. E; Mitchelson arrived from Wellington. S.s. Mararoa's time from Sydney was 3 dayslß_hrs. Hon. Ward made interesting speeches yesterday. " Hon. J. G. Ward left for Wellington by tho Hinemoa. John Fuller's popular concert at the City Hall to-night. Ladies' orchestral concert in the Choral Holl to-night." An Auckland brewery ib being pub on the London market. ■■■" Maritana" again on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings. R.M.B. Warrimoo's time from Vancouver bo Auckland was 21 days. Steamer Tasmania brought across from Sydney 48 horses for Auckland. H.M.s. Penguin's deepest sounding on the passage across from Sydney was aboub three miles. A special meeting of the members of the Northern Club will be held on Thursday nexb"ab2 o'clock. '' H.M. survey cruiser Penguin, now here; is a vessel of old build, having been launched ab Glasgow in 1876. Kerei Kaibau will remain at Parihaka with Te Wbiti for a year or so. Kerei wi be a full-fledged prophet himself before long. Owing to the very web weather ab the Thames on Saturday,; all the football matches had to be postponed till next Saturday. . Mr D. Nicholson, a miller by trade, was found dead in his bed in Arrowtown (Otago) on Saturday, He had suffered from a violent fib during the nighb. The death is announced of Mrs Thomas, wife of the Rev. B. L. Thomas, Congregational minister ab Mount Eden, ab the early age of 37, from consumption. The funeral took place to-day, ac Waikomiti. A boy named Peter Green, aged twelve, fell over the .Queen-atreeb Wharf yesterday afternoon, but as he could swim he gob on shore again safely,'taking the accident as a joke, and walked home for dry clothes; The-Thames, Naval Artillery Volunteer Corps fired a.carbine match on Saturday for the district belt, which was won by Seaman H. Thompson with a score of 75, Seamau W. Morrison being second with 72. In about two months time a large number of natives from the Lower Waikato will proceed overland to Tarauaki, by way of Awakino, in order to join Te Whibi ab Parihakai whither- a number of Waikato people have already gone; . Both H.M.s. Pyladea and H.M.s. Pen-, gum, now in .this porb, are heavily-rigged vessels, capable; of sailing- well, besides steaming,; The vessels are both.rigged as barques, do a lot of their work under , -The Penguin . somewhab ■ resembles bur old visitor H.M.s. Opal: v.■■ > "Tho Brotherhood of Man, as Taught *by Jesus' Christ," was the subject, of an eloquent: address by theßev. G.* Burgess ■ last evening in the Beresford-street Congregational Church. Mr Burgess, laid stress on the essential equality of all men, and said that in this *. brotherhood there was no primogeniture—"no man lived . unto himself." Electoi "TKTOTICE'OF POLLING DAY. In pursuance of " The. Electoral Act, 1893." I, James Halvday. jun.. Heturning Officer for the Electoral District of City of. Auckland, do hereby give notice that,'by virtue of. a Writ. - bearing date the 4th day of July, 1895. under the hand of the' Clerk of the Writs,*an Election will be held for the return of One qualified - person to serve as member for the said district; and that the latest day for receiving Nominations of Candidates will be the 16th day of July, 1895; and that the: Poll ;«f necessary) will be taken at the several.Polling Places.of tho said District, on the 24th day of July, 1895. . Every man desirous of becoming a candidate must be nominated; by - not less than .two , electors of the District, by a Nomination Paper, as prescribed by Section 75, of "The Electoral Act, 1893," delivered to the Returning Officer on , or before the 16th day of July. 1895. The following are the Polling Places for the Electoral District of City of Auckland. DRILL-SHED. Rutland-street— Principal ST. JAMES'HALL, Wellington-street ST. GEORGE'S HALL, Great North Road ST. SEPULCHRE'S' SCHOOLROOM, ■Symonds-stroefc > PONSONBY HALL,. Jervois Road JAMES HALYDAY, Jun„ Returning Offlcer t Customhouse Buildings, : . • ' JulyS, 1895. mO THE ELECTORS OF AUCKLAND 'CITY. ' Ladies and Gentlemen,— /"•".' A vacancy haying.occurred in the representation of the City of Auckland, owing to the resignation of Sir George Grey, I beg to announce that, at the request of numerous friends, I shall be a Candidate for your suffrages. Yours faithfully. £. * THOMAS THOMPSON. - July 4,1895. ... »_______________________________g ' ■«_■«—■■ ■' i i _.'."" » i m Hoard »»d KesMeiictt. • OARD AND RESIDENCE, batlTand ■ every convenience, terms moderate.—S Gerrish.Duke-atreet. Cambridge. . . OARD AND RESIDENCE—Chatham i Lodge,; Liverpool-street; situation high andhealthy. lovely sea view; close to Symouds- •> street and Domain: bath and every convenience, 'Terhis moderate.— Mrs Anderson. Proprietress^ ___ "'■'■■> -■- ■. '.-■■... ■ W" ANTED"2 or 3 respecbablo Mcn~a"a Boarders, terms 15s per weeki—Apply STAROfflee. *' Educational. TKTEGLECTED EDUCATION.—Frivafea _1 Lessons. Night Sbboql,ls weekly.—W Thompson Stevens Queen-Bt _? d Middletpn-st., Newmarket, Boetolweping. ghortl