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Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 208, 2 September 1899, Page 1

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j Outward mail Monday, •j Georgia Magnet season closes to* • night. ■ ' ,; , The Transvaal Volksraad is holding, a secret session. , ; Boer women are forming themselves into rifle clubs. : Auckland B. v. Tauranga footballers i at Epsom to-day. i K.M.s. Mariposa leaves here for San 'Francisco on Monday. Cruel Parliamentary joke on the Hon. W. McCullough. Auckland footballers met Otago at Dunedin this, afternoon. B Change of programme at "Tha Gaiety," City. Hall, to-night. Another tramway car has been dynamited in Cleveland, Ohio. "Portugal has behaved like a frightened baby."—General Joubert. The Mahlstick Club Exhibition in Victoria Arcade concludes tonight. The Board of Conciliation is now considering its report in the butchers'dispute. Kruger is about to confer with Britain's representative near Orange Free State border. Britain will disallow the American treaty with Jamaica if it interferes with Canada.. William Carroll has been sent to gaol for ten years for the manslaughter of his wife. The City Council got a great scare last night as the result of the hoax over the 'Frisco mail service. The third term of the 17th session of the Auckland University College will commence on Monday nest, September 4. A vigorous debate on the subject of the Assets Realisation Board's properties took place in the House yesterday afternoon. General Joubert, Commander of the Transvaal Forces, says there will not be war if Great Britain does not ask further concessions. Thames Naval Volunteers, undei?"-Lt.-Commander Potts, arrive here from the Thames to-night on a visit, and will attend church parade ta> morrow. A Maori named Whetu committed for trial at Whakatane on a charge ■ of shooting at another native, near Ruatoki, Urewera Country, left Tauranga last night for Auckland under, charge of Constable Wainhouse. The Kaiapoi signalman found the other day in a wine bottle on the beach a slip of paper bearing the inscription, "S.s. Waikato struck Great Barrier." Upon being examined at the police station the document was found to be a hoax. Mrs Robert Louis Stevenson, whose.: health is completely recovered by, af: long sojourn in Madeira, has lately been in London with* her son, Mr Lloyd Osbourne, and his wife. Tho; family were booked to return to America on the Kaiser Frederick, which was to leave London on August 27. Mrs Stevenson intends to make her borne in California. ' It is said that the naval authorities Onffefie Australian Station are^'tabbo- :v" ing" Auckland as the result of tho desertions from warships ilirhich visit this port. The quarterly rifle practice of some crews is being done at Christchurchthis year instead of Auckland as hitherto, and the ships of the squadron, under'the instructions of the Admiral, appear to be avoiding this/ port. v At the Board of Conciliation meeting in the butchers' dispute yester-; day afternoon some sad puns were perpetrated. Mr Knight made some remarks, whereupon Mr Moody said: "Oh, we're travelling on to where there is no Knight." The Rev. Mr .Collins, Chairman, chipped in.with, "I suppose, when you feel Moody, you sing Sankey." And then the Board1 adjourned. The American "whaling barque Charles W. Morgan, which visited Auckland some years ago, arrived atHakodate, Japan, lately with 1260 pounds, sperm oil and 65 pounds of ambergris. She had a very successful season. Captain Smith reported that on May 3, while the second- offi* cer's boat was fast to Ja large sperm , Whale, the line was foufed in the boat, which was drawn under water, and before .assistance reached the crew a seaman named Martin Cosgrove, aged 25, a native of Hartford, Conn., was drowned. ' XSale of unredeemed pledges from . Central Loan Offlce by Arthur < aad Gorrie on Monday next.