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Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 212, 7 September 1899, Page 1

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* Great war preparations. .City Council meets to-night. British Cabinet meets to-morrow. Troops on the Transvaal frontier. Political crisis in New Soulh Wales. Strong British force ready for the Cape. A British ultimatum to the Boers is probable. Boers are procrastinating till the rainy season sets in. The Dreyfus court martial is tending to a sensational ending-. Tlie .Auckland Free Public Library has now been open 19 years. A tender has been accepted for the electric installation at Kotorua. A tender has been accepted .for the electrical installation at Kotorna, Natives of Swaziland threaten to attack the Boers in case o£ war. The Victorian Legislative Council ] rejected the Women Suffrage Bill. i A long discussion took place on the Loan Bill in the House last night. ] The Transvaal has sent a supply :of Mauser rifles to the Orange Free j State. Railways formed the chief subject of discussion in Parliament last night. The Austral Meat Company, with! a capital of £100,000, has been formed in London. Large financial concerns in the | Transvaal have sent their oifiee bocks to Capetown. "Mr Chamberlain carriies fire in I one hand and water in the other."— I A Transvaal legislator. The dedication service in connection with Knox Church, Parnell, takes place this evening. The British First Army Corps has been warned that it will'probably be ~required for South Africa. The man who makes provei-bs Is a philosopher, but the man who constructs Maxims is a grin-maker. nel to Ivawakawa (the point of divergence of the Central and Stratford routes) within two years. "Of all the main trunk railway lines the North Island Trunk should1 take precedence."—The Premier. The Premier says the Northern end of the Main Trunk railway should be continued from Toro-o-Tarao tunA new verb—"trolleyed"—is coming into use in New York. It is shorter land easier to say than "run over by) a trolleyed car and killed." The British warship Melpomene, which left Mauritius lately to search for the s.s. Waikato, ha's returned without sighting the disabled steamer. Landlady: "I'm always forgetting —do you take cream in your coffee, Mr Spluds?" Mr Spluds (a pessimistic boarder): "Very seldom in this house, madam." At Opitonui on Monday night, in Lanigan's section of the Kauri Freehold Gold Estates mine, Thomas Warner sustained serious injuries by a fall: of earth. Mr C. J. Parr in his address to the v Ponsonby ratepayers last evening* :. urged that the Freeman's Bay 'recla-t.^ , lf" I mation should be secured ns a rccß^*:^, i tion ground for the ward. j A strong protest was raised in the House of Representatives last even- • ing against the proposal to send to , England for a chief librarian for the Parliamentary library at a salary of £ 400 a, year. Mr Joseph Malms, temperance re*, former, on arrival at Wellington yesterday, was met at the railway station by a representative gathering of temperance workers, clergymen, and legislators. He was heartily welcomed by the Mayor. Mr W .Crowther, M.H.E., told the Premier last night he would be satisfied if the Premier would give his ' assurance that the North Island Main. Trunk railway would be finished fto - the Kawakawa junction in two years, a distance of only about nine miles. Two warehouses are to be erected ; on a block of land having a frontage of 100 ft. to Darby-street and 45ft. to Elliott-street, for Mr Herbert Thompson. The buildings will be of brick, four floors. The contractors are Ferguson and Malcolm. When completed the buiildings will cost over £5,000. . The Rev. Father Kehoe, of St. John:. *■■: the Baptist Church, Parnell, is having a painting executed for the end •.; wall of the church, the artist being1 > « M Herr Dittmer, of Dusseldorf, Germany. The picture is 22ft. in height,, by 30ft. in width, the subject being"The Transfiguration of our Lord," and it is painted in, the style of the old Italian fresco work. Beautiful spring.—Best springs on; carts at Turner's on Friday.—(Ad.) Things will buzz next Friday at Turner's Carriage Sale. —(Ad.)