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Auckland Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 29, 4 February 1896, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Cooler breeze. Harbour Board meb today. Board of Education met to-day. Rotomahana for Sydney to-day. Turkey is going in for a bier loan. S.B. Manapouri went Soubh to-day. Chambers sitting at the Supreme Court to-day. 11 Blue-Eyed Susan " ab the Opera House to-night. The Medical Congress is in session at Dunedin. A sensational murder is reported from Noumea. Newton Fishing Club's excursion takes place, to-morrow. Wi Maihi fee Kangikaheke, the celebrated Rotorua chief, is dead. The drowning of a German explorer is reported from Hew Guinea. Several cases of typhoid fever ara reported from Graf ton lload. Captain Hewson, of the s.s. Waitoa, has been drowned at Wairoa South. The Hubt River overflowed its banks yes* berday, having been flooded by rain. A treat for the children—" Cinderella " matinee at the Opera House on Saturday. Messrs Samuel Cochrane and Son sold yesterday a cottage ab Ngaruawahia for ' £50. The Cabineb re-arrangements will nob be settled till the Ministers return to Wellington. There are a large number of typhoid fever cases in the Auckland Hospital ab present. A young man namad John McDougall, aged 27 years, was drowned while' bathing in a dam ab MoLota. " Waimarie," the name of the Northern S.S. Company's new Thames steamer, ia the Maori for " auieb water "or " lucky." " : The Auckland" barque Royal Tar has juab made a clipper passage of 70 hours from Melbourne to Newcastle—steamer time. Aboub 3,600 names have been recently added to the Christchursh electoral roll, which now contains Borne 17,000 names. Ab Dunedin yesterday Fred T. Home was charged with embezzling £100 from the Dunedin Finance and Loan Company and remanded. Mr Blomfield notifies in another column that his classes for landscape painting and sketching from nature will begin again on Tuesday, 11th insb. An angler at Oxford, now Tirau, on the Auckland—Rotorua line, caught sixteen trout in the local streams lately as. the result of one day's fishing. Last month produce, principally wool and mutton, valued at £133.407 was shipped from Poverty Bay. This is the largest amount on record for any single month. Telegraphic communication is now established bebween Awsinui and Capa Maria Van Diemon lighthouse, in the far North. Bub why are nob ," passing steamera " reported ? A verdict of death from natural causes was returned yesterday afternoon on the body of the infant George B. O'Sbannessy, boarded out under the Infants' Life Protection Act. The Government are acquiring from the natives the Moerangi block of native land, near Whakarewarewa and also one of th« Okoheriko blocks, lying aboub fa miles Eoubb of Rotorua. . ■■>~.-■ In connection with the 2£-rater yacht race on Saturday, the owners of the Mabel-; which finished fourth, have protested against the Mizpah and Rarere, the first) and second boats, on the ground that they are over the rating. At the inquest] touching the death of William Martin, killed by a tramcar at Dunedin on Saturday night, the jury returned a verdicb that death was accidental, and that there was no blama attachable to anyoae. The Chief Surveyor has been requested by the Government to define the boundaries of the Waitakerei Domain whenever one of the survey staff can be spared to do bo. This is in response to a request from the Auckland City Council. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is calling the attention of the City Council to the desirability of fixing stopping placeß for trams and other public vehicles in this city, similar to the procedure in Southern cities. \ The 161b fish caughb in the Ngongotaha stream, Rotorua, and Benb bo Mr Cheoseman, Auckland Museum, has been found to be a true brown trout. Mr Cheeaeman thinks the fish of this size feed en koura and inanga in Lake Rotorua. The new telegraph line from Awanui to Cape Maria Van Diemea lighthouse i 3 about 62 miles long. Old iron rails have been used for posts. From Awanui the line goes to Ohora store and thence to Parengarenga and Capa Maria Van Diomen. The man Robert McMillan, who haa been admitted to the Hospital from Helensville, will probably lose bis right band. He was pile driviug, when the ram, weighing about a ton, fell on hie hand, crushing ib frightfully. He is a married man with a large family. Complaints have been made to the City Council of the inconvenience caused to the public on certain days by licensed 'buses being taken off the routes endorsed on the licenses. The Town Clerk j has called the attention of /bus owners to I the matter.