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Auckland Star, Volume XXVIII, Issue 5, 5 March 1897, Page 1

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" Hinemoa" again to-riigbb. Intense excitement in Greece. Univoraiby Senate session is over. S.B. Richmond for Fiji this evening. Great ealo in the South of England. •' Boccaccio " again at the Opera Housa to-night. The atoamer Tasmania arrives from tha South on Sunday. Farewell performance of " Hinemoa ' »fc the City Hall to>night. . **- , Garibaldians in Italy offer to aSßist Greece againsb Turkey. Attempts to find gold-bearing re«fs »r» still being made at MangawaL ' Newhaven won fehe Champion Stakes at the V.R.C. Meeting yosterday. Mr Chambers, of the United, States, baa been appointed Chief Justice of' Samoa, i Diplomatic relations have been resumed between Great Britain and Venezuela. Carl Hertz will give a farewell performance ub the City Ball on Monday bight. A New Zealander has won the first prize in Ta.btoruJill'B Australian Cup consultation. The Hon. Mr Cadtnan Yuited fcha Thames School of Mines yesterday afternoon. The Roy. Shirley Baker:aays Tonga has greatly retrograded during the last few yearß. ".'.">■ It is reported at Tonga that the Rev. Shirley W. Baker will again be Premier of Tonga. R. L. Stamford, S.M., has been appointed Regictrar of the Supreme Court, New Plymouth. The grass catewpUlar has done injury te clearings in the Raglan (VVeaii Coa»tf district. . • ' The nQW pumping machinery ah the Kathleen Crown Mine, Coromandel, was started yesterday.' Large consignments of machinery for the Eroldtiolda have arrived here by the steamer Te Koa from London. The: Waikafcq Atnabsur Athletic SBiS Cycling Club came.oub of the recant Bporti with a plight credit balance The" heavy rama have caused freshes in the different creeks of the Wairoa and a large quautioy ot timber has been floated out. In epita of the Quo weather there has been little.copra-making going on in bhe Friendly Island* lafceJy, which in attributed to a scarcity of cocoanuta. The death is announced of Mr C. B. Davis, lato head teacher of the Howick District School. He had been 20 years in the employment of the Auckland Board of Education. _>, , A - • New Zealand war medals have been issued to E. Manual, D. Castro, New Zealand (T&ranaki) Militia ; Henry Homeyer, No. 1 Company, Teranaki Ride Volunteers. « v Since September lasb a' great drought has prevailed in Tonga, but as heavy rain fell on the ret am passage of the Taviuni up to Auckland it was hoped that) tha drought bad broken up. Mr Debbie, late railway manager at •Whangarei, and Mrs Bobbie, wera the recipients of a valedictory social and several handsome presentations or tha evening of Tuesday, 23rd ult. . aA Tho Government pomologist, Mr Pllmer, has lately been inspecting the orchards in tho districts south of Auckland. He goes North in a few days to inspect orchards.at) 1 Whsngarei, Bay of Inlands and Hokianga. Mark Ttrain is living in very moderate lodgings at present, working hard at hid book, in tho hopes that the sale of it-will lift him out of bhe doptihe of poverty in which he finds himself. He sees scarcely any friends, according to an American despatch. . ■ . The Rev. E. M. Cowie, the new diocesan missionary of the Anglican HomejMissibn, gives an account of pari of his firsbjmonth'ff work in the March ianua of the " Church Gazette." Last week he was in tha ftiahurangi district), and on Sunday will be at Fakiri and Omaha. Mr Duncan has taken charge of the Whangarei section of the Auckland railway district, and Messrs Arnold, Btatioa master, Mrlngulone, head riremau, and Mr Ince, also of the Railway Department, are under orders to prepare for new appointments, . ' • Trade with the Friendly Islands, it ia stated, is being diverted from Auckland to Sydney, with thu exception of the business in tiziber and provisions. Goods can, it ia said, be bought cheaper retail in Sydney than in wholesale houses in Auckland, owing fco Sydney being a free port. Mr John G. Bollard, pon of Mr John Bollard, M.H.R., of Avendale, died on Wednesday afternoon at tho early age of 29 years. He was a master of the Princa Albert College, Auckland, where he was very popular amongst the students. The deceased being captain of the Prince Alberb Collegn cad ob corps, be was accorded a military funeral to-day ab Avondale. The American Express Company, to guard against train-robbers, has equipped arsenal cars, which run between New York and Sb. Louis. They- are provided with bullet-proof rooms, iti which nrmed men, firing through loopholes, could repel a largo force. The cars carry large supplies of implements of war, from rapid-firing; Haichkins guns to explosives which could be projected into a parky of raidere in tha event of an attack. Sale unredeemed pledges by Esam and Arthur nexb Monday. " "