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Auckland Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 50, 29 February 1896, Page 1

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Refkeshin-g rain. • . Picnics bo-day. Changs of weather, . 'Cyclists' opening run to-day; Wesleyau Conference nexb week, West End Bowing Club's trial foura today. W'esleyon Conference delegates in Auckland. Fishing excursion to Rakino Island to* morrow. New Zealand Natives Association picnic at Mctmtupu bo-duy. The Auckland aaddlera held their picnic at Pir.«j Island to-day. The ketch Reliance, of Lyfcfcolton, has been wrecked ub Wellington. The Orlando is expected to arrive in Auckland on tho 12th of next) month. Special earvicea to morrow in the Mothodiet; Church, Pitb and Vincent streets. The Governor leaves for Rotorua and tho Urewera country on Monday morning. Another very-amusing porformance waa given in tho City llali lasfi evening by Kennedy, mesmerist. Leprosy ia said to ba spreading a!; Samoa, there being now thirteen lepers in Apia and surrounding districts, who minglo freely with other people. The residents of Onehunga and Mangere will sea by our advertising columns that amoonlight excursion is to be ran by fcha s..e. Weka on Wednesday noxb. A little girl was nearly drowned yesterday ab the North Shore. She- was swept ouD of tho babhing enclosure by the currency and was rescued after some difficulty. Mr W. Foster, at Tubuila, Samoa, has finished a 102 feet boat to the order of Saleaumua, and has now laid the keel of« steam launch, 43 feov long, for Pagopago. Monday will ba generally observed as a holiday ab the Thames, the occasion bains; the Miners' Union Demonstration Day, taking the form of an excursion and demon' abrasion ab Coromandel. One of tho island towns (Iliili) on Tubuila, Samoa, about four milea from Leone, feaa juafc completed building a Tory large Protestanb Church: Tha building ii of stone. The limo and sand had to ba carried a distancee of four miles. The death is announced of Mr T. F. King, of Waimato North, Bay of Islands, grandson of one of the old miseioaaries who came to tho colony with tho Rev. Samuel M&rsden 80 years ago. The cause of Mr King's death was typhoid fever. The Helping Hand Mission Kali is nowone of the prettiest and cosies!; halls ia tha city. Its has been painted both inaide and outside, which will add considerably to its attractiveness. There will be special spaakersab all the services on Sunday. :% The fireb of a aeries ot meetings for 18969 in connection with the Tabernacle Band of Hope, will take place on Tuesday next. Buuyan's " Pilgrirn'a Progress." will ba illustrated with beautiful limelight pictures by Mr C. Cooper, and by musical selections. An accident occurred in Kyber Pass yesterday afternoon, through a pony tittacheii to a carriage (tumbling and falling. The occupanb of the trap waa thrown out oa the road, and one of the shafts of the vehicle was broken. Tha driver escaped with a Severe shaking. The master of the Island schooner Oscar: Robinson., of Sydney, states that he found, a wholesale slaughter going on at Malayca, Solomon Isla'nda 'it between: tha,coastaliand the bush village?. Two or three raids had been made on the coast men from tha hills, and in one instance a village of 200 natives was cleared out. Tha natives ot Wairokai, VPaissisai, Solomon Islands, who have baen apprised of the removal of some of their countrymen to Fiji by H.M.b. Ringdove in connection with the murders of the captain and mate of the schooner Narovo, hava decided to effect reprisals on any white men who Lcay visit their locality. Misa R. W. McKerrow, tirsb assistant ab the Prince Albert College, has passed tha M.A. degree with honours in English and Latin. Messrs A. B. Chappell, VV. J. Frewin and A. W. Gray, pupils ab tha College, have passed the matriculation examination, and F. S. Newbold, another student, has passed the Junior Civil Service examination. Owing to the rough waather at Apia, Samoa, lately, somo valuable wreckage has been uncovered. A body of Samoane camo across the rudder of tha U.S. Nipsic, which, after a considerable amount oE trouble, was brought ashore. The fiad is roughly estimated to be worth $2&), having a largo amount of copper and brass in its construction.