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Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 55, 6 March 1900, Page 1

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Rough Riders on the water. • -, Hot lighting' in .Northern Cape Colony. Auckland Harbour Board meets tomorrow. Touching- farewell to the Fourth Contingent. The Boer entrenchments at Pretoria are being-extended. Seven nurses left Dunedin en route for South Africa yesterday. British • troops are being sent into Zululancl to intercept the Boers.The case against Daley may come before the Supreme Court to-morrow. Close on 150 passengers left here for Sydney by the s.s. Westralia last evening. | The City water supply is to be shut i off from G p.m. to (5 a.m. after tomorrow. There are about SO men of the Fifth ■Contingent in camp at Potter's Paddock, Epsom. There were only four full days' full rations in Ladysmith when the town was relieved. . The .■ Governor (Lord Hanfurly) and Lady Ea-nf urly will visit Onehunga, to. morrow afternoon. ,:'••' Atthebegining of this week there were 166 male and 10 female prisoners in Mt, : Eden Gaol. Colonel's Brabant's force scored a victory over the Boers in Northern Cape Colony on Sunday. Ninety troop horses were shipped to Wellington last evening- with, the Auckland Rough Eiders. . . . . The Hon. J. Carroll (Native Minister) leaves for Gisborne by the s.s. Elingamite this evening. Earl Beauchamp, Governor of New South Wales, left here for Sydney by. the s.s. Westralia, last evening. Victorians and Tasmanians have been again doing good work near Colesberg, a,t the Orange Error. Major Maxwell and 11P0 men seized a mountain in face r'*>- heavy Boer fire on Sunday, near lvr irecht. The Vaudeville Company in eonneca--tion with Tussaud's Waxworks ar» nightly drawing-crowded houses. The s.s. Eotokino, with the Bough' Eiders on board, is expected to reach Wellington early on Thursday morning. Boers destro3red a bridge beyond Ladysmith, preventing pursuit. There are. no Boers within 30 miles of Ladysmith. A consignment of. 13 tons of copper ore from Kawau Island was shipped to Sydney by the s.s. Westralia last evening. The Premier and the Hon. J. G. Ward left for. Wellington last evening, sailing from Onehunga in the Government steamer Hinemoa. The transport steamer Gyinerie, which is to convey the ■ ourth . Contingent to South Africa, is due in New Zealand in a few days. Almost every part of vacant property has been engaged for the purpose of. erecting refreshment stalls, etc., at the Ngaruawahia Begatta. .An excursion train has been arranged to convey passengers from Thames, King Country, antt Auckland stations to the Ngaruawahia Begatta. .-: ; ; v~; -■ J . The .. name ,of Mr Walter Bob-son; ■, was omitted from- the list of those •who-- attended -the luncheon at .the Bough Eiders' camp on Sunday. ;; ... : ' The Misses Paterson, of the Ngaruawahia Bowing Cmb, intend takjng part in the Ladies' Pair Oar Eace at the Auckland Eegatta on March 10. Amongst the military veterans present at the send-off to the Eough' Eiders yesterday: afternoon were two wearers Of the New Zealand Cross. Colonel Pole-Penton, officer commanding the New Zealand forces, was in command of the military proceedings at the ,send-off.'_ to the Eough Eiders yesterday, afternoon. ; r In our list of veterans presentat the send-off of the Eough Eiders, yesterday, the name of Dr. Bakewell, who served as Staff-Assistant Surgeon in' the Crimea, was accidentally omitted. The question of forming a cavalry corps in. Waipu has been discussed, freely there lately. The men ;of the Waipu district are noted for their fine . physique, and have no rivals as horsemen. ' ■■','.*' ' : ' Upon receipt of the news of the capture of Cronje's army, flags were hoisted at Kohukohu, Hokianga, and two nine-pounders were kept firing;', every few minutes as a token of satisfaction. The scene in the .harbour at. the-send-off to the Eough Eiders yesterday a.fternoon, with the turn-out of steamers and yachts, Is said to have: eclipsed the last demonstration of the sort at Wellington. Two members of the Eough Eiders' Contingent who missed their passages by the troop steamer..Eotokino yesterday afternoon, left i from ■ Onehung-a during .the evening in the s.s. Hinemoa for Wellington. Three new and very clever performers appeared at the City Hall last evening, and they will doubtless draw crowded houses to the -"Gaiety" for. some time to cornel A most' attractive programme will be presented tonight. : '. ' ■ v When the new jui'y'was sworn in at the Slipreme Court to-day, Albert Hughes, of Onehunga, was relieved from attendance. 'Constable McNamara. who served the summons, said Hughe? had lost two of his family, and he was now 7-sick himself. -. '■ '■'■''. • ; ,Mr Tayloiy one: of the': oldest' and most inspected residents.'of Ngunguruin the North, died lately. With the exception of a- very, short interval after the Waikato war,.when he went to Waikato with a survey ■-■ party, hfi resided in Ngunguru for'; about- forty. years. • The Marlborough "Express" states that an eleven-year-old boy named Hillier Cheek' was amongst the successful'candidates (senior pass) at fhe Trinity: Hall examinations in musical knowledge heldat Blenheim lately. The "Express" says the feat, was a remarkable one; he, obtained' higher marks than any Auckland candidate. Hillier Cheek is a grandson of Mrs Cato, of St. Mary's Boad, Ponsonby. A telegram from Wellington states that to-day. Mr Thos. W. McKenzie celebrates his own birthday, and also the anniversary of his landing on. the shore of Wellington Harbour CO years ago.; Mr McKenzie and the late Mr E. Tdcehurst were the first party of pioneer settlers to sleep ashore in Port Nicholson (March 6, 1840). Mr McKenzie is the oldest New . Zealandmade Oddfellow, and the oldest-made Freemason. He is the ojdest; living New Zgajand journal^ ;--"'^-^^._,