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Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 189, 9 August 1895, Page 1

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Terrible shipwreck. Great loss of life. Football to-morrow. Steamer Catterthun losb. On New South Wales Coasb. Something like the Wairarapa disaster.' Monowai from Sydney to-day. Outward 'Frisco mail to-morrow. Mysterious cattle disease in the Waikato. Several ladies missing in the Catterthun wreck. Foreigners aro insulted everywhere la China. A singular row amongst diggers is reported from Reefton. Tho Hon. E. Mitchelson arrives here from Wellington to-night. Auckland and Wanganui footballers meet at Epsom to-morrow. Prospecting for silver and gold is going on at Maungatautari, Waikato. The greatesb libertineß, says Mr Bernard Shaw, are the most particular in choosing a wife. An Auckland team of footballers play Tauranga at Tauranga to-morrow afternoon. Boston is fco have sterilised school books. The books aro simply baked to kill disease germs. The average depth of all oceans is supposed to be between 2,000 and 3,000 fathoms. . >* Senor Canovas, the Prime Minister of>' Jj£ Spain, began Ufa as a. subordinate railway employee. Chaplains were first appointed " to pray wibh the House daily" during the Lone Parliament. • There are said to be 536 lady physiciana ,c •> practising medicine in the cities of the * United States. The Wanganui team of footballers average 128t slb in weight, and the Auckland men list 131b. Women seem to be forging ahead in. Canada. In Ontario they are allowed to plead as barristers. According to the English Lord ChieE Justice the habit of taking Bnuff is eminently judicial. Meeting of the new Commitbee of tha Eight Hours Demonstration in the Foresters' Hall to-night ab 7.30. There were about twenty applications for relief yesterday before the Committee of the Auckland Charitable Aid Board. The Gazette contains an intimation of the purchase under the Land ;for Settlements Act of the Maruwenua Estate, Otago, containing 11,150 acres. The cervices of the Rev. J. R. Hindes Evangelist of the Primitive Methodist Church, aro well attended. He conducts his meetings largely on the lines of the old Metbodistß' revivals. A meeting of the Newmarkeb Borough Council was held, lasb evening, the Mayor (Mr Clayton) presiding. There was no business of importance before the meeting, and there was uo correspondence to deal with. At the Educational Conference to-day, a resolution was carried thab an amendment! bo made in bhe School Committee Elecbions Act, so as to provide that no one under 21 years of age should be allowed to vote ab bcnool Committee elections. The estimated population of the colony SSk iUc De 3, ofch ' oxclusi™ *>i Maoris, was 305,365 males, 334,110 females, an increase ot only 350 on tho preceding quarter. The excess of births over deaths was 2,675, bufr the los 3 by departure was 2,324. The question whether a stepfather, whose wife has deserted him, is compelled to support a child of her former husband (from whom she was divorced and who is still living), was decided at Wellington yesberday by Mr Martin, S.M., in tho affirmative. There was a large muster of the "A" Battery of Artillery ab the monthly inspection parade of the corps ab the Drill-shed lasb evening. After inspection by the Colonel, the Company were put through a course of movements in cavalry dismounted drill, and the corps subsequently had a march oub.