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Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 85, 12 April 1899, Page 8

. The Conciliation Board sat in Committee yesterday afternoon and this' mOrning considering the dispute in the carting trade. This afternoon the Board again met. It is expected the finding will be made public tomorrow afternoon.

Mr G .Brown, second assistant at Parneil school, writes stating that Jiisp\ey.;lep,c. befftrje>th.e B&awi ,_$ Education inquiry was incorrectly reported. He did not say,' as stated in the report, that 'if anything the satisfactory condition of tjie schpoj: , ; w^ due to the personality of the assistant teachers more than to the management of the headmaster,' nor state that perhaps more power, was wanted. In his evidence he said that 'he had no complaint to make in reference to Mr- Scott's management of the school.'

We again remind our readers of the grand farewell Concert to the Key. A. Mitchell, to be held this evening in the Choral Hall. A splendid programme has been arranged, inclu-. ding contributions by Auckland's leading musical talent. As, the Rev. A. Atitchell has on many dccasions generously given his assistance to the musical societies and local institutions of Auckland, it is hoped the public will show their gratitude by assembling in large numbers to his farewell concert. For the convenience of those who reside in the suburbs trams and buses will leave for all parts immediately at the close of the concert.

Owing, to the great demand for ' Fragrant Vanity Fair ' Cigarettes, the American Tobacco Company had to cable the manufacturers, The American Tobacco Company, New York, for a million and a half of the ' Fragrant Vanity "Fair' Cigarettes, to be sent across by express train from NewYork to San Francisco at great expense, so that they would catch the _ Alameda,' leaving there on March 22ud. They arrived to-day.

The Auckland Gas Company, Ltd., notify by advertisement that the price of gas coke has been reduced to 20/ per ton at the gas works, thus making it the cheapest as well as the cleanest fuel in the market. —(Ad.)