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Auckland Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 108, 9 May 1896, Page 1

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Star Summary on Thursday next. Parliament) meet* on June 11th. V Outward 'Frisco mail naxfe Saturday. ■S.B. Takapuna duo at the Manukau&t7 p.m. Church announcements in our business columns. ' Schooner Ysabal lefts for the Islands ihit morning, Rugby Ufiion football maidies commenced this afternoon. ■ •■■■ Mr John Fuller's limelight concert at the City Hall on Tuesday night nexb. Six raeidents of Onehunga are in the Hospital suffering; from typhoid fever. Ht. George'n Rowing Club dance afc bha Choral Hall on Wednesday night next. Mr Giles' Business Training College an« nouncementg appear in another column. The Australian Eleven play the firsfc match of their .English tour on Monday next. .' , ..:■,*;;..' ■■■•■ The kauri gum cargo.of the barque R. A. C. Smith, for New York, is valued at about" £18,400. ; ... . The Thames Brunnerten Relief Fund now •stands-at £241 la 4d, with four other lisU yet to coma in. ' , A'romhinjj reports are coming from Tai tapu, Collingwoed, as to the discovery of auriferous stone. :-.-'..'.' . VV'na. Parker, gumdigger, of Komokorikf, Kaipara, filed a petition yesterday to br adjudged a bankrupt. Onehunga Firs Brigade conceit at Onehung4 Public Ball on Monday night in did of the Brunner Relief Fund. Mrs Harris (Jenny Wren) lectures at the Opera House to-morrow evening ab 7.30 oa "God, Man and the Devil." Macnab'a Gardens, at the Lower Hufefc, comprising 34 acres, were *old by auction ia Wellington yesterday for, £5j200. The Rev. R. Ferguson will lecture on " Tha'Tower of Babel "in Onehunga Pres* byterian Church to-merrow evsniog. The bunedin electorate has 16,944 males and 19,01b femalee. Dunedin and immediate suburbs have a population of 46,176. Mr McKean will play a fiat* obligato, and Miss Wheeler is announced to sing afc the Helping Hand Mission to-morrow evening. .:, ■ • -■ .., -■ ~ - %v. Mrs Falconer, wife of Captain Falconer, of .the Torpedo Corps, died ab Wellington on Thursday, after a long and painful illness, aeed 32. 'To-aight Mr.Alf Lawton Company at tha Opera House, WaHy Edwards' benefit) ad the City Hall, and combined circuses at tha Agricultural Hall. . ; Mr J. R. Alott.M.A., gives an address ab V.M.C.A. this evening on "The Great Missionary Uprising Among Young Men and Young Women." : Rev. H. R. Dewebary continuei bis Sunday lectures at Wesleyan Grafton Road Church to-morrow evening, the subjecb being "The Heritage »f Illustrious Example." •■■■. . . New regulations are gazetted for examination of masters sad mates. They ara much aiora severe thaa those previously^ in force. The changes take plaeo after lsb. Januarynext. . . Twenty-five city gentlomen ■ have signed a guarantee of £100 each for an ; overdraft of £2,500, tha money to be expended id erecting ft building fer. the Wellington Industrial Sxhibitien. '■■'-*■-. ■ Mr H. Biinbar Johnston, the recently appointed Judge of the Native Liand^ourti, arrives here to-niffht: by thd Takaptina. He presides over the Court which opens att Otorobanga on Tuesday next. ' ,': 5;! l Mr H. W. Nerthferd!^" S;M., lift Ia8(» evening for Whangarei to take up the duties of Mr R. S. Bush, who is at present in tha South as one of the Horbwhenua Cammission. Ha is expected back oa Tuesday morning nexb. • • The largest and choicest stock of drest fabrics.in' tweeds, Amazons, curl cloths, etc., good value for cash only. .Ladies can inspect without being pressed to purchase* ! —Smith and Caughey.— (Advt;)'