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Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 30, 6 February 1899, Page 1

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Schools re-opened. Teachers' holidays over. Italian warship in port. New treaty port opened in>China. Steamer Westralia arrived from the ! South. I Auckland Gas Co.'s annual meeting | io-day. j Another horrible murder is cabled I from Perth. ] Otago has won the Athletic ChamI pionship banner. j Mouth-organ competition at the j waxworks to-night. I Major Lothairc has been slaughterI ing the Congo darkies. ! Serious mortality amongst American, j soldiers -in the Philippines. The 'horse fiend' has stabbed more valuable horses in Christchurch. The steamer Pakeha was loading frozen meat here for London to-day. London has 13,564 policemen, or 19 to every one of its 68S square miles. The New Zealand million loan has been favourably received in London. The murderer of the missionary Fleming in China has been beheaded. Old age pension claims are being investigated in the country districts. The Yen. Archdeacon Clarke arrived here from Napier by the s.s. Westralia yesterday. The Etna, an Italian warship, has arrived here from Fiji on a cruise round the world. ;''■■ The average age at which men marry is 27.7, while the average age at which women marry is 25A years. Ca-pitano Cavallare Giovanni Giovello is the name of the Captain of the Italian cruiser Etna now in this port. Great Britain's Volunteer Force of 240,000 is maintained at a cost of tinder £800,000 a year^-less than £4 a head. Sir E. Grey says the Powers are inclining to an open door policy for neutral markets, the best security for peace. The Auckland Gas Company's profit for the past year is £25,318 2/6, a. dividend of 7/6 per paid up share is declared. The Auckland runner G. Smith secured three firsts and one second at the Amateur Athletic* Championship Meeting at Dunedin. Two hundred and twenty deaths have taken place amongst the American troops in the Philippines, including .43 from small pox. Wins were secured in the senior cricket matches on Saturday afternoon by the Auckland XL, Auckland XV., and United Clubs. A meeting of the Committee of the Auckland Ladies' Benevolent Society's Carnival and Ball will be held in Mrs Sowerby's Hall to-night. The Irish police "on entering a house to arrest a man found the object of their search screwed down in. a coffin, but alive and well. The ship Torrens, just arrived at Adelaide, was badly damaged on an iceberg. The crew kept her afloat rwith. difficulty p^jjr 4000 miles; ■.-" "'*"'"' Dr. Giles* has resigned his seat on tlie New Zealand University Senate; as he cannot conveniently attend the ensuing session at Christchurch. A salute to the port of 21 guns was fired by the Italian cruiser Etna yesterday morning, and was responded to by the Permanent- Force from the guns at Port Cautley. The income of the Emperor of Eussia for one day is £5000, that of the Sultan of Turkey £SCOO, while the President of the United States only gets about £26 a day. Mr Harry Richards and his clever company gave their final performance at Abbott's Opera House, and were very successful, all the performers being loudly applauded by the large audience. Mrs Harrison Lee was in the pulpit at St. John's Wesleyan Church, Ponsonby, yesterday morning, and preached to a large congregation. In the evening she preached in the, Pitt-st. Wesleyan Church. A mathematician has computed the movements of a rider's feet while' operating a bicyle, and has demonstrated that it requires less exertion' to travel 15 miles on a bicycle than to walk three miles. A woman inmate of the penitentiary at Dcs Moines, la,, U.S.A., has the record for a novel suicide. She is credited -with having- swallowed spiders enough to kill her. She died after hours of intense suffering. The gentlemen who came to see papa said I was one of the most intelligent children they ever saw,* said little Jack. 'Indeed,' said the proud mother. 'Did you recite "Little drops of water" for them?' 'No'm. I refused to.' The re-opening services of St. Peter's Presbyterian Church, Great North Poad. which has been .recently removed from Surrey Hills to a position near the Newton West School, took place yesterday, the services being conducted by the ."Revs. J. Milne, Scott. West, and *R. P. Macnicol. The church has been improved and added to considerably, the cost'of the alterations being between £500 and £600. Sam is unwell.—(Advt.) Pair bargains at our cotton and woollen dress counters. We have some wonderful offerings: 6yds double width dress material, 2/6, 2/104, 3/11, 4/11, 5/11 upwards, and 28in wool delaine 2/11 dozen, worth 9/9.—Smith and Caughey.—(Ad.) •