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Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 159, 7 July 1899, Page 1

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Ready for war. Terrible floods in Texas. Sydney volunteers for Africa. Transvaal troubles increasing. ! 11.M.5. Mildura is at'Taurang-a. British troops for the Transvaal. | Steamer Upolu arrived from Fiji. , I English soldiers are being- sent to I the Cape. J Destructive fire in Vincent-street . last night. Sir Alexander Armstrong, Arctic ex- • l plorer, is dead. Excursion steamer Waikare from Sydney this afternoon. ' Another mysterious Queensland tragedy is reported by cable. Two hundred and fifty people drowned in floods in America. Auckland Yacht Club smoke concert in' the ■Freemasons' Hall to-morrow night. 13,000 volunteers are being sent to reinforce the American army in the Philippines. - Benefit concert and dance to Mrs Muir ane^ orphans at St. Benedict's Hall to-nigjht. . Lecture o\i "Mountaineering in the Southern Alps" in the V.M.C.A. Rooms this evening. ■, , The Tasmanian Assembly has pass:ed a resolution in favour of womanhood suffrage. . Entries for the Suburban Poultry Show close to-morrow night at the Foresters' i Hall. • -A meeting--to form an., Auckland branch of the Liberal and Labour Federation of New Zealand is' to be held'this eA'ening. ■ <-. "■ The s.s. Mokoia took away from Dunedin yesterday a- good deal of cargo to be transferred to .the s.s. Kendall Castle, which leaves Melbourne for Capetown direct. ■' Messrs John .Burns, Joseph James Kinsey, and thp Hon. Richard Oliver,. M.L.C., have been appointed to act as Consuls ofrvßelgium ~ at' Auckland,: Chr.istchurqh,' and Dunedin, respectively. :- -.-*; ~,.v . , .„/■/, >/.;/i. " An old/man named Carringtbir.>waß admitted to the hospital 'last evening suffering from a broken l§g. He was a passenger from,;oisborne;,b^ the s.s. Flora, ;»nd sustained iiie-ft. ingtErgi through slipping, on a-- door mafek/S" '5 The appointments I of/*csupßrihten--dents .of mercantile • raaxihev#at vthe • four *chief -.ports of the colony, '&re* gastfitte^ M^S.rs ,W., D.. Reid/ 'G&S©^ 'Smith, and O#?*J&r'l?leini»g!.? afe^gazetted examiners of'master's and mates for the colony. ■ ■," * • ' •.',■ j Yesterday Mr K. j. Feltus.*sent a petitiqn to ithe^ Premier for presentation to Parliament, praying that he be awarded the land grant of eighty acres due to,his late father, ColourSergeant George Feltus, of H.M. 58th llegiment. Mr Greville, who has been lecturing in the Waikato on the subject of the dairy industry, requests us to state' that he did not represent himself any-r where us a Government expert, but on the contrary said he was not a Government expert. The-mutes-' which were taken down to Suva by the s.s. Upolu from this port arrived in good condition. The first officer received a kick in the chest from one of the animals, his watch, which was doubled up, breaking the force of the blow. The attention of teachers and others is directed to an announcement regarding a course of Saturday lectures on electricity and mag-netism, the second of which is to be delivered by Professor Brown to-morrow morningat 11 o'clock, at the University College Buildings. The Napier "Daily Telegraph" reports that Mr. A. McHardy recently purchased from *Mr Sinclair, of Pal-' merston, the costly Highland costume brought out from Home by Mr Mas-sey-Watson, who recently passed through the Bankruptcy Court. The costume, tog-ether with sword, dirk, skene dhu, and brooches, cost £500 in Edinburgh. Notwitstanding the advance in .the price of wool, we are giving axtra good value in all wool dress fabrics, 1/0A to 4/11; 550 yards new twill dress materials, all shades, 1/8$; worth 2/3. —Smith and Caughey. —(Ad.) :