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Auckland Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 157, 6 July 1896, Page 1

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Sunny Day. . . A mild winter. S.B. Upolu arrived from Fiji. Te Anau arrived from Sydney. Fatal fire in Wyndbam-street. Borough Councils meet to-night. S.si Waihora from the South to-day. Outward 'Frisco mail on Saturday next). More sharp fighting is reported front Mataboleland. Gladstone denounces (be increase or British armaments. , , A dividend has been declared in tha TTatotabiG.M. Company, Graf ton, City, and Nowtos football team* ecored wins on Saturday. Tbe Egyptian steamer reported to have been loßt in the Red Sea is safe. Mr J. H. Field, the well-known master printer, died yesterday, aged 60 yean. The racehorse Buzzi won tha V.R.O. Grand National Hurdle Race on Saturday. Germany intends to conatrucb a railway from the African Coasb to? Tictorift Nyeoza. The Fiji Governmenk'a despatch steamer Clyde has arrived here from Fiji for; an overhaul. An English mail of London date May 22nd has arrived here from Sydney by way of the South. The JVlornington Tram Compaisy (Dane* din) declared a dividend of 7 per cent, on paid-up capital. The Government are taking a new departure in appointing military cadets at) the forts in the colony. , A requisition to stand for Parliament will be presented to Mr George Fowlds at S6. James's Hall to'-Bighb, A gumdigger named William Marshall kas been found dead in the Domain, cvi* dently from exposure. • • A little lees than 8,000 tona of kauri gum is said to be ample to supply the markets of the world for a y»ar. • . Three halfpence was the total wealth found on the remains of a tnan discovered in tbe Domain on Saturday afternoon. Foul play is suspected at Pomahaka, Otaßo, in connection with the discovery of the body of a woman tiod up in agack. Professor and Madame Davis concluded their Beasoa at tho Opera House on Saturday evening. They intend touring the country districts. t ,

At the opening of the "Door of Hope" in Freeman's Bay on Saturday afternoon between £40 and £50 was subscribed on the " Cstaary " sysbem. Visitor—'Life mueb be very monotonous '• to you. Convict — Yes, aomotimee. Visitor—When does it seem most tiresome to you ? Convict—Just now, for instance. The third term of the Auckland Technical School commences this evening. Nearly seventy parsons enrolled during the last week of the term just completed. Messrs Keith Ramsay aiad W. B Vigors, two of the liquidators of the Colonial Bank of ISiew Zealand arrived in Auckland by the s.s. Gairloch on Saturday, on a short visit. Father—Whab was yonr mother talking about a while ago ? Son—l don't know. Father—Why, you sat and heard it all. - Son—Yea, bub she was talking to the baby. t Mr Ellison, grocer, of Paraell, who was tkrown from bis trap and injured, is now in a fair way of recovery at the. Hospital.1 His face was eeyere.li cutLbu.l^no bpnea were broken." *" ~ ' .-._., " WfiW," said, the camel in the ..circa* parade, "there's some comfort for me, after nil." " What do you mean ?" "Mj hump is pretty bad, bub it might be worse. I don't ride a bicycle." " She has learned all she knows," said the mother of the musical infant prodigy, "in four lessons:" •• Yen," replied the eminent musician ; •' bub think of the hundreds of lessons ib will take her to forget." The annnal accounts of the City of Auckland, the yearly balance-sheets and atatements for the year ending March 31afe last,' together with the auditor's report, hare' bean published and may now be inspected ab the City Council offices. * .Guest (angrily): " Wbab has become oE fcbab waiter I gave my order to 'moafi an :; hour ago t" Head waiter: " I don't know, sab, bub/most likely he's vraibin' on some gent wot tipped him, sah." Ab the Theosophical Society's rooms lasb evening Miss Lilian Edger lectured on " The Purpose of Theouophy," Mr Draffin . presiding. The lecburess maintained bhab Theoeophieal teaching had its bearing on ■ all classes of humanity, belierera and unbelievers. The oldest steamer in fche world is the Industry, which was buiib in 1814, and plied for about 60 years on the Clyde, and' was iiustlly laid np where she now lies. Last year the engine, a side-lever one, with spur-wheel gearing, was taken oufc and placed in Relvinside ■ Park, ab Glasgow. The old beat ia fast breaking up.