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Auckland Star, Volume XXVIII, Issue 228, 1 October 1897, Page 1

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: Outward mail to-morrow. | Alameda from Sydney to-day. ■ Casualty to two British war vessels. | S.s. Upolu left for the South Sea : Islands. ! The Emperor of Germany is going to : Jerusalem. ! ( There will be no cricket on the Cricket ; Ground to-morrow. ! The Premier was interviewed by a numI her of deputations last night. Serious charges against the police were made in the House last night. The Auckland Ladies' Cycling Chife I opens the season to-morrow with a run. i Australasian Athletic Championship j Meeting commences at Sydney to-morrow. j Labour Day is to be observed as a holiday at all Government offices in the colony. Tom Sullivan, the ex-Auckland sculler, has challenged another English sculler to a race. Mr George Fisher, M.H.R,, announces himself as a candidate for the Wellington Mayoralty. M. Arnaud, Inspector of French colonies in the Pacific, left for Tahiti l>y the s.s. Upolu this morning. No less than 98 shocks of earthquake were counted at Taupo between 7.44 and 10.2.5 o'clock on Wednesday evening. The Gazette contains regulations under the Conciliation Board Act respecting the reference of causes to the Arbitration Court. Tlie Northern Bowling Association has a balance of £00, against which £20 or £30 has to be paid for prizes at the late tournament. At Dunedin yesterday the licensee of the Gladstone Hotel was lined £1 and costs for failing to admit the police without unnecessary delay. The Rev. G. Burgess, of Beresford-street Congregational Church, farewells next Sunday and leaves next Tuesday for Chmtchurch. Some alterations in railway rates aro gazetted, principallyaflectingChristchurch, Lyttelton, and the New Plymouth Breakwater lines; also goods iii Class F and frozen meat. Mr Fred. Cramond, of the local staff of the Union Steamship Company, left to-day for Tahiti by the s.s. Upolu, having been appointed resident agent for the Company at the French town of Papeete. A son of Mr J. H. Upton was thrown off his bicycle on Wednesday evening, in Ponsor.by Road, through a dog rushing in front of his machine. He fell cm his head and was unconscious for a time, but Li now better. In the case in which Captain Wait, of the Wanganui Panes, sued the Collector of Customs for a rebate of Customs duty paid on uniforms imported by the corps, His Honor Sir James Prendergasl reserved his decision. The usual fortnightly social gathering of the members of the Caledonian Society was held last evening in the Foresters' Hall, Karangahape Road, when there was a good attendance. Musical items were interspersed with the dances. A young man named Alfred Davis was committed for trial at Blenheim yesterday on a charge of forging the name of an hoteikeeper at Wairau Valley to a telegram. The defence was that the affair was the outcome of a practical joke. At the inquest at Gleeson's Hotel, Lower Hobson-street, yesterday afternoon, before Dr. Philson, Coroner, on the body of the man Henry Shepherd, found floating in the harbour on Wednesday, an open verdict was returned. George Shepherd, a son of deceased, identified the body as that of his father. The deceased had been about 20 years in the colony, and was 43 years of age. Vanilla and coffee are two crops which are being energetically attended to in the Society and Cook Groups, South Sea Islands. A recent visitor to Earotonga says that the cofVee grown there is the finest he has tasted. Vanilla grown on Tahiti and other neighbouring islands fetches 11s per pound at the present time, but it is doubtful if this price will continue. The following is a significant "' cheap labour " advertisement from a recent number of the Sydney " Morning Herald " :— " Gey lon cheap labourers, such as domestic servants, watchers, garden keepers, nurses, ladies' attendants, clerks, and conductors, etc., could be supplied to the farmers and other residents in Australian colonies. Correspondence invited. Wickramanayaka and Co., Colombo, Ceylon." Sale by Arthur and Gorrie of unredeemed pledges on Monday next.