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Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 55, 7 March 1899, Page 1

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Govei'nor in Auckland. Supreme Court proceeding. J Terrible explosion iv France. j Forty persons blown to pieces at ! Toulon. I The Vancouver mail arrived at Wel- .' lington last evening. 'The Sign of the Cross' again at the Opera House this "evening-. A large Maori gathering is proceeding at Pakirikiri,.near Gisborne. The Governor and party arrived at Onehunga last night from Wellington. The Waitekauri mine has yielded - £6,018 -worth of gold for the past month. The Governor and party leave for ! the North to-morrow, calling first at ; Kaipara. A Northern storekeeper has been sent to gaol for six months for selling arms to Maoris. A young woman is reported to have ' disappeared from the s.s. Pukaki near Welington Heads. An Order-in-Council has been issued . prohibiting the export of rock oysters ' from New Zealand. Special precautions are to be taken '' to prevent attack on Queen Victoria on her forthcoming visit to Nice. Old Grinder—'Don't eat all your ~ candy at once, my boy. v- Save some.* The Xid —'I can't. My brother's big- ; ger'n I am.' Lady Prendergast (wife of the Chief Justice), whose death is announced, has been an invalid for some considerable time. \ At the Supreme Court to-day a young man named Connell was sentenced to four years' imprisonment, for forgery. . * The floral exhibits, at the Ladies' . Benevolent Society's Carnival will h( : ";■ judged in two classes, professionals . and amateur. Seven Northern residents, charged, with selling arms to natives, were admitted to probation for twelve months ; and ordered to pay costs. : ,' Mrs Hartbroque-r-'Our daughter has eloped with the coachman.' Hart- ," broque —'That's too bad. He was the ~ best coachman I ever had.' !'..; .'■,;;. 'I asked her if she thought she could i learn to love me. She said she couldn't, *■, because she was already studying ■ Spanish and learning to swim.' .> Messrs Gabriel Lewis and Co; sell : by auction to-morrow, at Surrey Gres- > cent, near Arch Hill, Mrs N. E. Bur- * ton's valuable household furniture. t i The soldier-boy returninghome ;• First stacks his arms away,,. ' And then he quickly places them Around his fiancee. 'I understand that .our friend now < rejoices in the title of colonel.' 'Yes,' replied Major Mott, rather disparagingly; 'but he had to go to war to get::,. it.'' : ■ ■■ 'I suffered nearly all night from in-: soninia,' said the drummer. Til bet* you two dollars,' roared the country.: landlord, 'that they ain't one of 'eia: ih my house.' 'What makes you think you were ■ defeated by fraud?' 'I paid for; 163 ; .votes, and the, books show that I got a 1 totstl'bf only 155. Our election system ■ is simply rotten.' The Right Rev. the Moderator of Assembly (Rev. D. J. Steele, M.A.)--will address the annual gathering of the Presbyterian City Mission at* Devonport to-night. ' A young man charged at the Sup-; reme Court to-day with impropriety' towards a girl under 16 was discharged because in the meantime he had married the girl. . Traveller —'Ah, Miss Society, if you "want to see nature at its best, ■ you \ should take a trip through the pine, woods of Norway.' Miss Society— j 'Wouldn't it be grand? And Ijdp so* dote on pineapple.' ' *' At the Supreme Court Criminal Ses-; sions now proceeding no less than twenty prisoners pleaded guilty to the \ charges preferred against theni. The services of a common jury were not < required until nearly mid-day torday; St. Patrick's Cathedral Choit give v a grand Sacred Concert to-night in the' Cathedral, in- honour of Bishop Leni- ■ ian, who leaves shortly ior Europe.; Admission is free, collection towards f the Bishop's testimonial. A specially.: choice programme has been prepared.; The Tauranga paper announces-the-death of a celebrated Maori tohunga. • 'One of the greatest and most feared ,,, of the fraternity loiown in this partof the colony has just expired at Ms.; settlement near Eotorua. This tangata-r makutu (worker of witchcraft) -was. named Te Toketoke, and some years, ago resided near Tauranga^ when hewas the dread of the whole countryside, and if any native "shuffled off this mortal coil" with undue celerity, : Ms demise was at.once attributed to- " the mana of Te Toketoke.' . •-, -. . '.■;-,:

Electoral. '.- mHE CITY OF AUCKLAND. J- ELECTION OF COUNCILLOR; .;::.. EXTRAORDINARY VACANCY. • KARANGAHAPE WARD. Notice is hereby given that the undermentioned Candidates, having been duly nominated for the office of Councillor for the Karangahape Ward, in the said city, to fill the vacancy caused by .the; resignation of. Councillor John Trenwith:PATTERSON, JOHN / 1 SALMON, ROBERT • A Poll will take place for the Election of one Councillor for the- saiu Karangahape Ward at the Polling Booth, St. Benedict's Hall, East-street, in 'the said city, on THURSDAY, the 16th day of March, 1899,-between the hours of 9' a.m. and 6 p.m. 7 T. USSHER, f ■ Returning Officer. " 192, Queen-street, March 6, 1599. _499 ' TT'ARANGAHAPE WARD^ An Adjourned Meeting of the Supporters of Mr R. Salmon will be held" on WEDNESDAY EVENING at 7.30. p.m., in the Foresters' Hall, Karangahape Road. j FREDERIC KENDERDINE, | Hon. Sec. v ! • ' Meetings. A UCKLAND ACCLIMATISATIONJ\. SOCIETY. r , , , ,- The Annual General Meeting of thai Members of the Auckland Acclimatise.-^ tion Society will be held in the Museum Buildings, Princes-street, on WEDNESDAY, March S, at 2 p.m. BUSINESS:. .. To consider the draft of proposed new rules for the Society, to receive the Annual Report and Audited Fhaa. cial Statement, and to Elect a' \ President and Council for the Ciw« x rent Yfiar. . . ••.■ ; ■.... -~: ■'. ; . ■; •. ,i :.,' T. F. CHEESEMAN, j ~--..- ... Secretary, j