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Auckland Star, Volume XXVIII, Issue 74, 31 March 1897, Page 1

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Fighting in Albania. S.s. Richmond lefb for Fiji. ' "Graphic " published to-day. , "Lights of London " again to-night. Further Panama prosecutions are author* ised. H.M.B. Royalist is in the Calliope Dock. Women's National Council is still sitting ab Christchurch. The Spaniards have scored victories ia Cuba and the Phillipines. Colonel Vasßos has -declared open war againab bhe Powers in Crete. Don't miss the opening chapters of "Dr. Ave'rill's Secret "in bo-nighb'a Stab. ' The Melaneaian Mission yacht Southern Cross lelb for the Western Pacific to-day. To-day. is the 33rd anniversary of bho attack on Orakaa Pa, in the Waikato War, 1864, The rainfall at Gisborne from Saturday at five p.m. till Sunday ab nine a.m. was 5.78 inches. - Road "The Decline of Love-making " and " The Premier's New Idea " in .the " Graphic." " < Mr J. L. Wilson has been re-eleobed President of bho Auckland V.M.C.A, for bho ensuing yoar. Picture of the delegates to the late Wesleyan Conference in Wellington in this week's "Graphic." ;,.-'" " ©r. Averill's Socret." Read the new story under the above title which begins on page 6 to-night. Mr George Rignold met with a .slight accident in the sensational diving scene ia " The Lights of London " last night. The Women's National Council at Christchurch has carried a resolution in favour of a universal system of old age pensions. Ruddy, a gumdigger who was found in a whare at Henderson in an unconscious state bhe other day, diod in the Hospital yesberday. ! General Joseph 0. Selby, the noted Confederate General, died at his country home, eight miles from Adrian, Missouri, February 13th, a victim to pneumonia. The Auckland Harbour Board has decided to put up Mr Gouk's sheer-legs on tbe Railway Wharf in order to lifb heavy weighss from the London steamers, chiefly machinery. At the annual meeting of the Ngunguru Goal Company yesberday afternoon Messrs E. W. Alison and E. Ford were elected directors and Mr Goulstone was re-ap-pointed auditor to the Company. Count Armand de Carbin, known as Carkilmany, the opera singer, fell, dead ab the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, on bhe night of February 10th, while singing a role in the opera of " Martha." Tho man Salter, who was found lying ia a wounded state on the footpath in Short \ land-street on Suuday, is still in the Hospital in a low state. The police have not yet discovered how he came by hie injuries. s& Mr Gardiner, a member of the British Rayal Society's expedition to the Ellice Group, in tho Central Pacific, has come to the conclusion that Charles Darwin's theory as to the origin of coral reefs is untenable. The ballot for tbe five perpetual lease sections in the Opeuriao block, near Whakatane, Bay ef Plenty, was bold today. There were 92 applications and only four of/them were disqualified by the Crown Lands Board. Ib is more than likely., that the Torrens Land Act, now in force .in Australia, will also become the law in California. The present Legislature are discussing it, and a majority of the membera are said to favour its enactment. It is understood bhab the reason no volunteer encampment will be held ab Easter is the fear of unsettled weabher, but the Defence Department intend to hold one close to each of the four centres.before the cad of the year. A man named Alfred Wheeler has been missing from Gisborne since Thursday last. On thab day, Wheeler, who was employed at the Taruhe'ru Freezing Works, came to town for bhe purpose of voting at the licensing election and has not been Been since. He is about 40 yeara of age. Mrs Annie Besanb was expected bo arrive in the United States during March, and will deliver lectures on Theosophy in all the principal cities. She has been invited by the American section of the Theosophical Society for that purpose. Esoteric Buddhism' has fairly entered tbe field against Christianity. Thab was an excellenb answer, Admiral Jouett once remarked, an able seaman gave to a landlubber visitor on a man-of-war who asked, " What do you sailorß do ?" " Well," responded the jolly tar, •* we does aboub what we please until we are told to do something elee, and then we does thab puttyd quick." Dr. Whiston, a friend to the great Sir Isaac Newton, and an astronomer of high repute, professed to believe thab hell is, or will be, located on a comet. He said : " According to my calculations this theory (his queerhell belief), which belongs to me, and me alone, locates hell, the awful prisonhouse of the damned, in the fiery nucleus of some (perhaps yet undiscovered) comeb of unthinkable size." Queen Liliokolani, of the Hawaiian Islands, still remains in Washington, and is attracting attention. Her secretary, Julias Palmer, has issued a manifesto in which be says that the ex-Queen was compelled by force to resign, that the letter of abdication is nob worth the paper it is written on, and was forced from the reluctant hands of her dusky majeßty by "scoundrels and deceivers," as he characterises the present administration of the Islands. He fears Bhe may be assassinated. - Mr J. Sbichbury, ab the Harbour Board meeting yesterday, moved in the direction of getting tho City Council to extend tha present sewer in Freeman's Bay seawards. He Baid the place was a perfect pest bole and was responsible for several cases of typhoid fever. Mr Devore said Mr Sfeichbury's proposal to saddle the Board with balf tho cost, about £5,000, was nob fair. He thought tho question of liability should first be ascertained. The Finance aad Legal Committee will consider the matter. A few days ago Mr T. F. Cheeseman, curator of tho Auckland Museum, accompanied by Mra Cheeseman, arrived at Hikurangi, near Whangarei, and explored the limestone iccks, and several caves were closely examines, to find, if possible, remains of the moa. Next day the party journeyed to Jordan, and at Mr Sutherland's farm a large number of moa bones were displayed for inspection. The skeletons of five birds could be distinguished, and tbey had been found in one spot. It appears that Mr Sutherland's boys, in excavating a soda spring, came across the skeletons all in a cluster around the spring. On exploring the remainder of tho limestone rocks Mr Cheeseman was successful in finding a number of moa bones, though nob a complete specimen, and also the bones ef a native rat now extinct. Our collection of dress fabrics comprises a choice selection of special and exclusive novelties. Ladies should inspect.—Smith and Caugbey.—(Advt.)