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Orders re Samoa awaited. 'Star' mail Summary to-day. Despatches expected for Apia. Auckland Chrysanthemum Show to- ■ day. I S.s. Hawke's Bay arrived from Lon- | don. I Outward San Francisco mail next ; Monday. i Steamer Upolu arrived from Fiji j '■ last night. 'Forty-nine' again at the Opera ' House to-night. National Council of Women met again this afternoon. The Hon. A. J. Cachnan, Minister for ' j Mines, is in Auckland. i A fatal railway shunting- accident I has occurred at New Plymouth. Mr and Mrs J. H. Witheford left here for Sydney by the It.M.S. Ala- , meda last evening. | Madame Melba is described by a. ■-, ' Philadelphia pressman as The golden-M throated thrush of the Elysian fields.' $r Strangles in horses are said to be*'* prevalent at Tauranga. A telegram has been sent to the Government on! the subject. A shipment of about 750 tons of* water-pipes for the Auckland City Council has arrived here from London by the s.s. Hawke's Bay. The Minister of Lands, the Hon. tT. :gfe » MacKenzie, was presented with a gold H* sovereign case and match-box by his colleagues at Wellington, prior to his ' departure for London. The 'Whakatane Times' reports that a Maori named Tiiruwhenua met with his death lately at the Waimana, J near Whakatane, by falling from his horse. The accident happened about 11 o'clock in the morning, and lie expired at 6 o'clock in the evening. After being sunk in Port Jackson and voyaging to the Old Country, the - old-time convict ship Success, is, ac- ' cording to a recent British newspaper, ' still on exhibition. She is last heard ' of as being at Leith, Scotland, where from all accounts she forms a most \ interesting object to Sandy. ''$ Recently Mr Kibblewhite, a resident ' .'! of Petone, Wellington, felt a stinging : sensation in his leg, and discovered a small katipo spider there, while later V investigation showed that the insect had bitten him in four places. A doc- ■ tor ,was called in, but the patient is since reported to be in a serious state. " The Standing Committee of the Anglican Church, Diocese of Auckland, has appointed the Rev. E. J.\ McFarland, 8.A., as assistant diocesan ". missionary, in the home mission dis- - tricts; and the Rev. E. C. Budd, • 8.T.5., as chaplain to the hospital, gaol, Costley Home, and lunatic asylum. , ;• An accident occurred-in Symonds- \ - . street yesterday afternoon, Mr and ■ > Mrs John McLean,'" of Union-street,-»i ■ being injured. They were returning r from OneHunga in a trap, yvhen the , horse slipped, and they were thrown, put. Mrs McLean sustained a broken.] ; collar-bone, and Mr McLean was bad's' ; ly shaken and bruised. Dr. Lindsay : attended to their injuries^ '"" '.','." "-Several of the, large native boats' burned by -the:tforces in Samoa-were built in Auckland.' The largest boat. r destroyed was one burned at Satupuala, at Aana,-Upolu, by H.M.S. Por-5 poise. It was 156 ft long, 15ft wide,; pulling 44 oars on each side, with: steps for six masts, and seating room for'3oo men. It was built of kauri, ■and as said to have cost nearly £2,000.