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Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 85, 12 April 1899, Page 1

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'Frisco mail arrived. ' r-'B Fighting- in Samoa. \ ; Three officers killed at Samoa. \ ; Disastrous engagement reported. Anglo-American force ambuscaded near Apia. : Mail number of the 'Graphic' pub- * . lished to-day. • •:• ; More desperate fighting is reported ! in the Philippines. Lieut. Freeman, of H.M.s. Tauranga, killed at Samoa. ' European forces at Samoa have lost seven officers and men. K.M.s. Alameda arrived from San Francisco this niorning. ' -.-■"!; British and American officers killed • at Samoa were decapitated. Chrysanthemum Societ3-'s Show '■ ! opens in the Choral Hall to-morrow. The Hon. A. J. Cadman arrived from .' ' Wellington in the s.s. Takapuna \ to- _ ■ day. ; .' } The mail steamer Alameda brings 1 war news from Samoa up to the 6th iust. . . ' . " The Feilding Gas Company pays a , dividend of 4 per cent, and carries . forward £34. British and American warships are , still operating against Mataafa's forces in Samoa. .;...- ---i The British Government has sent j ' further instructions to the British , Consul at Samoa. 3 . The Suez Canal reduces the distance from England to India nearly , 4,000 miles for ships. ■ • A monster sewing machine, weighing 3} tons, is in use in Leeds. It. sews leather belting., . \7 ■', ■ Cdal is dearer in South Africa than in any other part of .the world. "Itis in China. The Hindoos were the first to use playing cards, though they were previously known in China. Two wounded American' sailorshave been brought to Auckland by, : the mail steamer from Samoa. ' Potatoes are natives to Pern, and' the, Spaniards discovered them. From Spain they passed to Italy and* Belgium. :. : .■ : - > Lieutenant Lansdale and Ensign' Monaghan, of the American, warship Philadelphia, have been killed atSamoa. The appointment of the Chief Jus-: tiee as Acting-Governor during Lord: Banfurly's absence from the colony is gazetted. " . • ' ! • The Warrimoo's colonial mails from Wellington on 2nd March arrived ia London on the Morning of "the 9th,. four days late. -Lords Wolseley, Roberts, and Kit-! ehener never allow a staff officer whof. has made a mistake the Opportunity of making, another. Hence their sue-' cess; '."".'"''. i ' Some' new automatic machiiies Qn the penny-in-the-slbt principle will distribute -fruit, biscuits, medicines,* haberdashery; ; periodicals, and r . gro«. eery.'"" -- '■ .- ■_■■•■■ ■■;' •' .■ . '■'_■ '• Two hangmen's ropes aifd a whit«. cap used for the execution of $om» notorious criminals were offered" f of sale in London auction room aid rea« , lised 20/.' 7-j ■"_ . 7, :':.__._. y__. , 7 Adelaide advisfeg tliat the. PotF I)af--win line.is interrupted beyond Daly Waters • and Katherihe since 6.50 p.m. yesterday. Cable traffic is diverted via Western. Australia. : The "Hon. John McKenzie was not expected in Auckland until Sunday next. He has, however, altered his plans, and has wired to an Auckland Member as follows: 'Hope to have a day' or two in Auckland and expect to arrive-there Friday morning.' - The Rev. Ev W. Jackson, of St: , Modan's Established Church, Falkirk; Scotland, has resigned his charge, and announced his intention of going to New Zealand. He has been for many years a member and good friend of the Scottish Temperance League. ; The export Of butter from New Zealand fot the year ending March 31 was £430,414, against £429*407 in 1898; cheese, £ 100,870, against £154,144; frozen beef, £i 01,618, against £957,332; lamb, £494,666* against i£74,406; mutton; £839,067, against ';£ 588,437. Owing to last week's issue of the containing pictures" of the "Auckland volunteer contingent for Samoa ' having been exhausted; and the demand for the engravings quite unsatisfied,! they' are' republished in this number of the 'Graphic' with a; splendid assortment of Other illustrations. ' . ; ,- - The Victoria College, Wellington, makes a start on Monday next. The Council has decided to appoint a lecturer on political! economy, an, addition to the subjects for whifch the professors were obtained, and passed resolutions once" more urging their claim to a suitable site for a building, Mount Cook by preference^. . A general meeting, of theC.'Younjg 7. People's Christian Temperance, IJnion. wag".held last iji' a class-rooift. of the Pitt-street Wesleyan Church. The' Social Committee reported the arrangements they had made for the social io be held in the Central,^Mission Hall on Tuesday, April 25th; The arrangements, were approved. Mr. Wilcox to act as chairman. The meeting closed with the singing of the temperance Doxolbgy. --.-„;.. At the Dunedin Police .Court yesterterday Charles and Mary Banwell, husband and wife, were committed for trial on several charges of stealing goods, and on other charges were sentenced to three months' imprisonment. '. Bail was . fixed for the .husband in the case in which he was committed. The Court presented the appearance .of a -fancy goods shop by the articles found in-the house of the accused, which the.wife is charged with . stealing and the husband with being implicated. The articles ranged from fancy glassware to two . go-carts. The couple have nine children. Smith and Caughey are showing all the newest shades in their noted make of velveteens, Is 4id, twill Is lljd, 2s 8d and 3s 3d per yard; black, all prices from Is o£d to 4s 6d; corduroy velveteen, very special value, Is 3£d.— (Ad-> * • .. . '/.■ ."