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Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 163, 12 July 1899, Page 1

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Cold breezes. \ Tutanekai daily expected. \ Stormy weather approaching. I Gale on the Australian coast. Steamship collision at Melbourne. Auckland Board of Education met to-day. The Ngunguru Coal Co. has gone into liquidation. 1 Mission yacht Southern Cross sails for Melanesia to-morrow. I A splendid number of the "Gra« ! phic" is published to-day. I Public meeting re Federation in the jY.M.C.A. Eooms this evening. I The Agent-General is still looking j out for a balneologist for Rotorua. ! The Premier gave evidence before the Marine Commission yesterday. | Barque aKthleen Hilda has arrived from Lyttelton with a cargo of grain. A settler has been burned to death at Port Charles, Coromandel Peninsula. Immense quantities of war stores are being sent from London to South Africa. | Mr W. R. Holmes has been appointed liquidator of- the Ngrwiguru Coal Company. A pearling lugger is missing from Port Darwin, on the Northern coast of Australia. The telluride gold find at Wortupa is causing great excitement in South Australia. A powder magazine exploded in; Magatoland and killed five Boer artillerymen. The Australian colonies are likely to co-operate in sending a contingent to the Transvaal. Transvaal Uitlanders disapprove of the Cape Premier's satisfaction with! "plausible reforms." She: "He is sixty and she is twentytwo. Think of it!" He: "Yes; bofcK have my sympathy." The Australian cricketers had scored 179 with six wickets down.1 in the second innings against Midlands. A.: "Whait do you think of C! -?" B.: "He is the! kind of man that Hie more I think of him the less I think of him." The "Graphic" drawing and pictorial puzzles close to-night, but coupons which arrive to-morrow by-■post" will be received. On Monday morning the Te Arohai. mountain was capped with snow, while a white frost covered the lowlying country. While playing in a football matcK at Kihikihi on Saturday, a young man named Short had the misfortune to break his leg*. An attempt is to be made to introduce mallard .duck from Wellington into' the Auckland district for the benefit of sportsmen. ' , . H.M.s. Mildura, during her stay «fs Tauranga, gave a searchlight, exhibition. The light was seen at Whangamata, over. 20 miles distant..; ~ . ; Charge JNuree Lep^ land' Hospital, was a pa'jsscrigerw'xntf s.s. Elingamite for Sydne^: oil '"#■ month's well deserved holiday. Tomkins: "Gibson is very careful about his children, isn't he?" Jenkins::! "Yes; he's trying to bring them up in' the way he should have gone." The Auckland ' Acclimatisation Society has shipped by the s.s. Elingamite to Sydney 35,000 rainbow trout ova for the N.S.W Fisheries Department. During the progress of the Te Aroha-Morrinsville football match on: Saturday last A. Lipsey had the misfortune to break his arm just above the wrist. The Native Land Court will open asitting at the Thames on the 25th inst. A large number of appeal cases concerning Ohinemuri native lands are to be heard. • ■ ■ •'• -• It is pro-nosed by a business firm,to purchase White Island, Bay of Plenty,,, and work the sulphur deposits there--on. There are said to be many thousands of tons of sulphur available oil the island. •'..-. Beeson's Island, at the entrance to Coromandel harbour, has been sold by Mr S. P. Parker to Mr John Law-: son for £1500. The island is .about 600 acres in extent, and is a'good sheep rim. ,' . . Family Doctor: "You must let +he: baby have one cow's milk to drink, e^ery day." "Very well, if you,say po," doctor," said the perplexed young mother, "but I really don't see how he is going" to hold it all." Mr T. A. Dunlop has resigned hi« seat on the Thames Meat and Millc Inspection Committee, as a protest against the action of the "Borouffhi-' Council in appointing Mr F. Trembath, who is a milk vendor, as one ol its representatives on the committed. Boys' well-finished suits from 2/11, at Kemp's stocktaking sale.—(Ad.) Men's shirks and Underwear greiatl# reduced at Kemp's stocktaking sale.—* (Ad.) Men's umbrellas and mackintoshes below cost at Kemp's stocktaking sale. UAd-> '."'-■•;■ ..''.•-■■■■■' :