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Auckland Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 89, 16 April 1896, Page 1

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! Stab, summary. 7 Chrysanbhemum Show. Outward mail on Saturday. Richmond for the Islands to-day. 7 Railway accident near Danevirke. Fatal colliery explosion in England. S.s. Tasmania left Sydney for Auckland? German soldiers are being imported inttt the Transvaal. The Spaniards are still having badfortuba in the Cuban war. Three inspectors of alcoholic Hqnor hava been appointed by the Government. The May Queen mine has been succesßfully placed on the London market. A considerable sum was netted by the Brnnnerton Fund Sports yesterday. Mr Mark Cohen has been unanimously ■' elected chairman of the Otago Education Board. '.'....--..-. The Alburnia mine has been registered in London—£lo,ooo cash to local shareholders. The Rev. S. Ingle has been appointed by the Bishop of Waiapu as Anglican minister at Rotorua. • Mr Ernesb Eugster intends to stand as a candidate for Auckland ab the ensuing general elections. French officials from-Tahiti left for Sydney last evening by the 8.8. Waihora',; en route to France. Coffee, the principal crop in the Cook*, , Islands, is ripening fast, and picking has already commenced. The Union S.S. Company intend sending . a steamer to Tahiti and Rarotonga from Auckland about the end of this month. M. Papinaud, Coventor of Tahiti and French Oceania, left for Sydney by the 8.8. Waihora lasb evening en route to France. By the s.b. Waihora for Sydney yesterday, the National Bank shipped four boxes of gold bullion for England, valued at £5.450. The Society of Arts exhibition, to be opened,by His Excellency bhe Governor ou the 22nd, shows every prospect of being a pronounced success. -0 A Christchurch gentleman has purchased for the Canterbury Museum £100 worth of Maori curios, recently secured by Mr D. Bowman in the Wanganui district. The Governmenb have forwarded a quantity of chewing fescue seed to Rotorua for the purpose of testine its suitability for the pumice land in tho neighbourhood. A new geyser has appeared near tha Utuhinu Creek, ab Rotorua. It ejects water 40fb high every quarber of an hour, and is so methodical and regular that ib has been christened " Young Faithful." The natives of Rarotonga have an old saying, " Rake c kai ke," as much as to say, " Eat all yon have; to-morrow will look after itself." With theee islanders, bheir wants are almosb spontaneously provided. • Father Kreijomborg, of the Roman Catholic Mission at Rotorua, removes to Waihi, on Lake Taupo (the settlement of the native chief Te Henheu), and will be . succeeded ab Ohinemutn by the Rev. Father P. Kemp, of Hokianga. < The quantity of grain carried during the last sixteen weeks on the Southland section' of the railways, was 89,721 sacks, be.Dg; ' 43,804 sacl-B Jess than for tho same period last year. The.. faHing-off is accounted for by the late harvest, and by farmers sto'Hhg largely for a rise. Ab the annual meeting of the^Qnehunga Ladies Benevolent Society, the election of officers resulted as follows : —President, Mra Fleming ; secretary and treasurer, Mrs Hutchinson ; Committee, Mesdames Allen, , Browne, Dunwoodie, Rout, Stewart, Burden, Lawry, Lyell, McKenzie, Rhodes, Richardson and Why te ; .auditor, Mr C. C. Fleming. * From Mangaia (Cook Islands) ib ia reported tp "To Torea," of Rarotonga, that the Ariki'a Court at Ivirua has been , reviving the old system, and fining a woman without law or proof of offence. Appeal against the decision has been made to the British Resident. So also with the Ariki's Court at Oneroa, which has fined a European $30 for being intoxicated, while the evidence as to his sobriety waa of the moßt convincing Kind. ' C.A.Livingstone, Plattsvillo, cays : " I , have much pleasure in recommending the i Canadian Healing Oil, from having used ib myself, and having sold ib for some time. In my own case I will say for it that it is tbe best preparation I have ever tried for ' rheumatism."—(Advt.) 24 , Geo. Fowlds' ie showing all the latesb shapes in hard and soft, felt hats and prices j asked are extremely moderate.—(Advt.)