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Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 74, 29 March 1899, Page 1

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Governor at the Thames. ~ -C The I'rt'inier is in Wellington! General Booth is an Wellington. Easter 'Graphic' published to-day. ! Volunteers go into camp to-morrow night. i The Filipinos are burning the towns in the track of their, retreat. , j The Northern Club proposes giving a ball to the Governor next month. The Sir George Grey Memorial Committee now has nearly £400 in hand. The Filipinos entrenchments near Manila are described; as strong ones. The Newfoundland seal fishery yield this season is a very large one. Three American officers were killed in the PluJippines in the recent lighting. , < . A Maori woman has been badly gored by a stag at Tokaanu, Lake Taupo. Twenty-eight American soldiers have been killed and 216 wounded in the PhilJipmes. A workman's arm was torn off at the New Zealand ' Talisman mine at Karangahak'e yesterday. This year's maize crop on the Opouria'o 1 blcck, Whakatane, is expected to amount to about 80,000 bushels. Between twenty and thirty ciaim3 for compensation, arising out of the Rakaia railway accident, have already been received. A continuation of the finely illustrated record of the Governor's trip through the province is one of the features of this week's 'Graphic' On Good Friday and Easter Monday the Z*sew Zealand and Australia a cable will be open in the morning 8.30 to ciear; evening 6.30 to clear. A young engineer named Walter Osborne was thrown from his horse in Bichmond, Christehureh on Saturday, and .had his skull fractured. He died yesterday afternoon. Knox Chuch at Waimate was broken into on Monday night and the money in the Sunday school box, about 13/^ •stolen. A broken skeleton key was found in the vestry door. The -New Zealand Rugby Union, finding that most of the unions are against tho proposal to send a team to play the Englishmen hi Australia, or to be represented in an Australasian team, have decided not to take any further steps in the matter. Genera] .Booth; with several Salvation Army officers, left Christehureh by tho Eotomahana for Wellington last night, after a series of successful meetings. He has not been in good health during his stay in Christchtirch, but has so far carried out hu programme in full. At the Crown Lands Office yesterday the following lands. werfc disposed of by ballot:—Section 2, Block 13,.Whakatane S.D., 9 acres, lease in perpetuity, E. McGongan; lot 23, Taneatua (Opouriao), 1 acre, lease in perpetuity; E. Geoghan; section 38, Block 9; Waoku, 50 acres, L. H. Bourke, lease in perpetuity.' - : . ':,: ' .;^ J Mr James Muir,-who : has'ljeefl^iafp*" pointed by the Government to the charge of the 'Postmaster' sulphur baths, has arrived in Eotorua. Mr Muir for .some time had charge of the Seatoun hydropathic establishment rear Wellington, and has had considerable experience of medical andother ' bath treatments' at Orieff, Moffatt, Matlock, Ilkley, and Other leading -hydropathic centres in the Old Country. In a recent issue we published a paragraph from a Wellington paper making an inquiry as to what had become oi the Maori King's flag 4Aotearca, 1 which was captured in 4863 by the colonial troops. The fia^*> which was a large white silk one over 20 feet long, with the letters 'Aotearoa' on it, was captured by the Flying Column under Captain Jackson at the Wairoa ranges near Hutiiia from the Maoris. We are informed by a member of the expedition whic& captured it that the flag is liow believed to be in the possession of the' relatives of one of the officers of the column. -f'v '