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Auckland Star, Volume XXVIII, Issue 17, 21 January 1897, Page 1

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• — Star Summary. Richmond left for toe Islands. Terrible earthquake in Afghanistan. A Spanish gunboat has been blown up i* Cuba. Tho German warehip Buseard came on? of the Calliope Dock today. Outward 'Frisco mail leaves here by thf Alameda on Saturday afternoon. An engagement between Dervishes and Italian troops is expected in the Soudan. The Union S.S. Company intend building a new steamer for the West Coast trade. The now Governor of Tahiti, Mr G _bri<_, left for Tahiti by the e.s. Richmond last evening. Mr A. B. Donald and Mr ©oorge Dunwetb left for Rarotonga by the, e.s. Richmond last evening. Mr G. Wilka. of Clara Lea Farm, Feilding, hat. patented a new insecticide for orchards. The Auckland Swimming Club's Carnival takes place next Saturday in the Calliope Dock. The new steamer Kia Ora, now on the coast, is to-day out 2_.3 days from Glasgow for Auckland under sail. '* The Queen of Coolgardie " will be pro* duced on Saturday night ab the Opera House by Mr George Darrell. At a conference of local bodies in Dutiedin it was decided to continue Wednesday as the shops' half-holiday. Lord Braaeey's yacht Sunbeam had a narrow escape through striking on a sunken rock in George Sound, West Coast. Au English mail, which loft London on December 11th, will arrive here from Sydney by the X.M.a. Alameda to-morrow evening. The Native Land Court resumed at the Supreme Court Buildings to-day, when the Orakei and Opanake blocks were further dealt with. At a meeting of the Liberty League, Dunedin, it was decided to nominate a complete ticket for the licensing committee at the approaching election. A team of seven shots from the W*aihi Rifle Club will attend the New Zealand Rifle Association 'a meeting to be held at the North Shore, commencing on February 14th. , Tbe Taranaki Chamber of Commerce has decided to urge the Government to find an adequate amount for the expenses of sending a flax expert to Great Britain and America. Argument was to have been taken ab Wellington yesterday, in Captain Stuart's appeal against the Ruapehu judgment, bub the matter was by consent postponed indefinitely. The general public are not subscribing ab all liberally to the funds of the Auckland Anniversary Regatta, and the Committee in consequence will find it difficult to make both ends meet. It is stated that one of the petty officers in the torpedo branch of the service at the North Shore is to be retired, in consequence of some friction which has occurred at the torpedo aheda at the North Head. The Theosophical Crusaders spoke at the Thames Academy of. Music last evening. They returned here to-day, and bold a meeting in Auckland this evening, when Mrs Tingley will give a popular address in " Occultism." . The Auckland Sailors' Home has been well patronised by tho eeafaring community durieg the holidays;' and has had more visitors than for some years past. There is a good demand for seamen ab present and at improved wages. Rear-Admiral Harry H. Raweon, C.8., who has been appointed to tbe command of the Niger Expedition, is the Naval Commander in-Chief of the Cape of Good Hope and west coast of Africa. His flagship ia the St. George, 12 guns, 10,000 bona, a twin-screw cruiser of tbe first class. Mr Rotherham and Mr Jackson, of the railway locomotive service, have returned from a tour of the northern branches of the railway, and have gone to Wellington. Changes in the staff of the goods and traffic branch at Auckland are being made. Mr Adams, one of the Southern cadets recently transferred here, is likely to be sent to Dargaville. It is said that tbe demand for new buildings both for business premises and private residences is decreasing, and that the cost of erection is being considerably increased by the rise in the price of labour and building materials. Some of tbe large new buildings being erected in Auckland are drawing towards completionThe following lata awards have been made in connection with the Aucklano] Industrial Exhibition : — Pure neatsfoob oil, Messrs P. Bnck and Co., special gold award; patent ice chest, Messrs P. Bock and Co. (agents), special gold award ; patent hammock chairs, Messrs P. Bock and Co., special gold award ; hair restoratives and wash, Madame Nielson, special gold award. By the steamer Birfcspate at Sydney something was lately learnb from that important French possession in Oceania, Wallis Island. There are 4,000 native inhabitants, who produce large quantities of copra, but the island is only now recover* ing from the effects of the 1895 drought. There are four European traders on the island, and five Catholic missionaries. When the mail left Wallis Island Bishop Lanauze was on a visit there. Persona?. 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