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Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 76, 1 April 1899, Page 1

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Volunteers in camp. .: . *V ■ Splendid holiday weather. , , ; General Booth has arrived. i Oyster season opened to-day. Excursions and picnics next Monday, Eaces at Ellerslie on Easter Mon* . day. i Native game shooting season opened to-day. I Amended volunteer regulations are gazetted. . ' There are now three British warships at Samoa. . General Booth speaks at the Opera - House to-morrow. j New Zealand Government offers : troops for Samoa. r 'The Silence of Dean MaitlandV at ." the Opera House. • ; .M.H.S. Mildura will most likely go from here to Samoa. A steamboat disaster has occurred ■ on the Mississippi Biver. Volunteer sham-fight around Bemu-r era and Orakei on Monday. : , ; The services of the Auckland volunteers have been offered for S:imoa. : The Governor is expected to visit the • . volunteer encampment on Monday.. • The German'press can't understand, the reason for the bombardment at Samoa. y The Sunday evening evangelistic services will in future be held in the City Hall. • ■ . A railway accident, caused by a cow on-the line, occurred near Hamilton, yesterday. " There are nearly 900 volunteers in ■' camp at Epsom, and about 300 af. Devonport. Sir George Grey memorial concert,, on Easter Tuesday evening in the Choral Hall. ' > - ', H.M.S.. Tauranga has joined^ the British^warships Porpoise and;Royal--ist at Samoa. During February the arrivals fromoutside the colony numbered 1635, and the departures 1753. - The appointment of Mr George -Don-; net as Consular-Agent of France, at. Auckland, is gazetted. Alterations in the scale, of fares, J rates, and charges upon the Government railways are gazetted. The Bayfield Mission- Hall mission services will be conducted to-m6rroiVBr by the Eev. E. Best and Mr. E. C* VVhitham. In another column fee Auckland ■ Banjo, Guitar, and Mandolin Club an- ■ riounce. another of -their■ e^oyable.'■' concerts for Monday, April 10th, at the • * Opera House. - , THe Welling-ton Easter encampment." r ■■- at Johnspnville is attended ibs: $QQ men. The physique of the mounted - men was generally admired. The day, * was spent in drill and outpost duty. Mr McNaughton has opened a firstclass shaving saloon just a few doors a,bbve. the Tonsoh Garlick .Company,' Queen street, the feature of the feusi- • ,. ness being a toilet club, which offers * many advantages to the public. .T.he_3-7th anniversary of Pitt-street;, Wesley an Sunday School will. be celebriated to-morrow, Easter Sunday. TEe preachers axe the vltevs. Jam«ss Milne, P. G. Chapman and '■W.'-.«f: WiUiaro% The Koiree and public meeting takev place 'on ,Wedneiiaay, i .ii,ext. ~ . ' Chrysanthemum growers are re- y minded that the time for receiving entries,for the show, which opens on the 13th April, will close next Thiirs-, day. The show promises to-be one. of" the best held, by the society:^ The! committee are 'working hard to make" it a" great success. On. Thursday Mast Mr, C.Westpfahl,; who is severing his connection witli" Messrs Sargood, Son and |Ewen, t«> start business on his own account, was presented by the employees, with a handsomely fitted morocco travelliniU case. The presentation was made by Mr Tewsley, in the absence of Mr Finlayson, who, in a few aippropriate remarks, referred to Mr Westpf&hl's good qualities and the regret they all felt-in his leaving t.kem, and theirhopes for his' future success. ~ . r