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Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 181, 31 July 1895, Page 1

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Financial Statement.' ; v New Customiß. tariff ' . Still snowing in the Soath. iTreasurer'sißudget published to-day./ . Our grain traffic has f alien off greatly. ■ War between Spanish and natives in the Phillipinos. • ; A Herr Zimmermann's concert ab the' City ' : Hall this evening.' ; ' ' '. • "• '■ Oat revenue for the year was over four and aquarter millions. i,; Plans are to be called for. new, stone church for St., Matthew's. * ; /.":.'■ ; Public works are to be aided from revenue to the amount of^£ 150,000. , The vote on the Estimates for the San ',< Francisco mail service is £18,000, .; " Snow fell.at Bombay and in the Wairoa South district yesterday morning. The Financial Statement.Bhowß;thab the people are getting more tempelriate.!-' ;j, r • Land and Income Tar foHthe(colb'ny,haV increased £20,000 for the year 1894-95.■;, /:; Sfc Matthew's '■■? stone church i building - fund is in vested in eighty differenb mortgages. . ;. There are people so good at excuffeslthey commib offences simply for ? the: chance of >: making them. * ' .So far over a third of a. million has been advanced to New Zealand settlers by the Government. " The U.S.S. Company's steamer PoKeraa, due; here on Friday trom Sydney; bias \ ab. ' English mail of SI bags onk board. (A ,\ r ':■:. Doting riiofcher—Tell*me, professor, \is ; my son a deep student ? 'Professor'fdryiy) '! •^-None 'deeper, ma'am ; he's always at tho 'b'obtom. . • '. ■•■• •.' '. '' ■•■■ ' •' Ab the limelighfc service'in the Foresters' :• Hall tonight, Mr Aldridge will tell the story of the struggles ml; England for' reli- • gious liberty. , ■ ■ . If the New Woman^ does nothing more ■ than to stop drinking by men she will have worked the greatest revolution of the age. —Exchange. ' • . ' The bicycle is steadily redneingr the value of.hdraea and Btreetcar'Bhareß and increasing the- value of human beings by ! making them ;more healthy.— American paper. ' .•■■..-; According to Dr. Kukula there are 119 j universities in the world with^ "157,513 ; students. Berlihi'witfr; 7,771;'^ is! the '' largest, and Urbino, with 74, ia the ' smallest. • * .' ', " ' ':, ■: : ■:■■ The com pliiaentaty concert and ball to '■"'■ ■Mr Chas. Moore in * St. George'a Hall, ■' Newton, lasb nighbi'-was pbbrly attended. ! The.concerb programme was of bhe minstrel ' and variety order. ; , ' The number of applications for admisßiqn...' '. to Professor Loisette's instructions course ;■ is so great thabibhaß been found neebssary I to hold two classes, pneio the morning and the other in: the evening. Particulars are advertised. The 'House haß disagreed with the araendmenta made by the ,Gouncil in the Criminal Code Bill reducine'theage bf'con- ,' cent from' 16 ; to 15 years,- t ahd a Comtnibtee, • , consisting of Sir Robert Stout, 8011, and the Premier, was' appointed to 'draw':: up , reaßons. .;■■■■■ ' •■ The idea of utilising Mount Cook,prispn i; fora gaol, as ab present is tho case, hua , been abandoned. Tho. Government; coni-, template using the building as a lunatic , asylum, and, if it be found suitable for that , purpoße,-a-vote for necessary- alterations will bo pub on the-Estimate?. - -Ai--tli9 Board of Educat,*-,?-. ve^jordav afternoon, Mr Muir moved :—" That r!i a'regulation of this Board, Ihab no'<iflarn"r-l female teacher whose husband is alive bo employed by the Auckland Board of Edn- ] cation." Themotion; was 'ljosb by; 5 to 4,, the mover and Messrs Harris, Wriphb and Lambe voting for it.' •: ■■ ' ' ' A correspondent of the North 'Otago'l " Times'' assert? thab numbers of yoang men in Oamsrri have become, addicted to : the opium Mbib, and: he knows'of-tbrea ! who have become total wrecked—physically ' and morallj. : One youjig; nlan haa .-'•' Bquandered^an inheritance' of £800 in 'two:'* years through ;being;a•'deyotee of opium,;: ;5 and is now in an indescribable condition- -