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Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 103, 2 May 1900, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

I More plague in Australia. j "Graphic' published to-day. .Xo need for scare in Auckland. Premier goes South this afternoon, i .Races at Avondale this afternoon. San Francisco mail is clue here vex* Tuesday. | Wellington E.G. autumn meeting I proceeding-. ! _ See the war pictures in the "Graph/ |ie" this week. j Auckland made oatmeal and rolled oats is in great demand. To-day was devoted to rat-poisoning in the borough of Devonport. S.s. Waihora has arrived from Sydney, and is in quarantine at Motuihi. ! "The Uelle. of .New York" will be ! repeated at vhe Opera House this even* ins;. . A carter named Chas. Jury was accidentally killed at Ellerslie last evening. j Bullion to the value of £24,550 was: shipped to Sydney yesterday in the Wfjstralja. The Wellington Corporation has re« dnced its rates from 2s Gel in the £ to ■ 3s s|d in the £. The ejection of three jne.mbers of The Mount Eden Road Board was proceeding- to-day. > Text Saturday afternoon there will be another matinee; periorniiUHv ux ■ "The Geiska." at the Opera House. The Governor presided at the meet* ing this afternoon in connection with the proposal to establish a School for Maori Girls in Auckland; j Magnificent pictures of the Auok*j land veterans entertained 'by Lord jKant'urly at Government House are'among the attractions of this week's ''Graphic." The Police Court sitting to-day was held in.: the office of. the Auckland Hospital and Charitable Aid Board, owing to repairs going- on in the Police Courtroom. We are advised by cablegram from Melbourne that Mr George Withers, superintendent of the. Peninsular and Oriental S.N. Co., has died after a short illness. The Co-operative Terminating '. Building Society last night granted . appropriations amounting to- £1200 .making..£2o,ooo allotted to members, in three years. . An order was made in "the Magistrate's Court this morning ordering • that Masefield's cottages, at the corner * of Swanson and Albert streets, be \. pulled down before 10 a.m. on' Monday.,; At next, meeting of the Devonport • Borough Council the Mayor (Mr J; C. ! Macky) will move that the Borough : Council .undertake the removal, of rub- - bish from houses,. free, of expense ; to :. the householders.' The, Agent-General reports to the -' Government geologist that an analysis ■". of samples of -quicksand., and grey clay \ from Ashburtpn indicates that .the , sand is likely to be of considerable service for the .manufacture of glass. ■ I A prominent pro-Boer in Bedruth has been publicly tarxed in the principal street. ,-,Tp;e.. was aileg€dvtp'.*htiye ! stated that e^esy i» the ' Transvaal' ought to be r-ur to pieces. The tarring ceremony was 1 perforjnecJ by an ex^pldie^ in the presence of a large number of;people. . < One Sunday "recently, in an Ashburton church, a, lady'member, of the ; congregation was gkinJeing at theannual balance-sheet, wtiich had been, distributed through the seats. The clergyman,'who-had just commenced his sermon, noticed the action, and asked tije lady to desist. This she immediately did, 'but the preacher said he was unable to proce^jL with his discourse, and, after giving^ut a, hymn, clpsed the service. Mr M4rtin Heaney had a narrow escape o\ being gored to death, by a bull one day last -week (says the Cromwell, Ota.go, "Times"). While crossing* ' a. paddock the bull attacked him and knocked him down. Fortunately his son was not'far away at the time, and he rushed to iihxs father's assistance .' and beat the infuriated animal off. Had help riot been so promptly given Mr Heaney must-have been killed, as . the bull ripped his coat and vest to ■ pieces. The animal was afterwards ' shot. v: ■;': ' It is stated .that a dredge-master from Otagb has gone to Canada to; take control of a dredge' on one of the rivers there. He is getting his passage paid, half wages on the voyage. ; and is to receive £7 a week when he takes up his duties—which have been, graphically described as consisting in walking around wrth his coat on, and his hands:in his pockets*, giving a look over all the work. A one-time Otago dredge-master, at present earning £5 a-week in Australia, is being ottered £6 a week to return to 2fe.w Zealand. The Marlborough "Express," referring- to the volunteer camp at Rich.mond at Easter, states that one.'pi the biggest squabbles that has ever taken place at the Easter.encampments occurred on tlie Sunday evening. , The trouble arose over the question of leave, some being told it was not necessary. to ( obtajji leaTO, while others went away without thinking they had,to apply. Some of the Nelson men created a disturbance at church time,- and a ■ picket was formed, and 41 arrests made. After a time about the sama number gathered in front of the gate? of the camp, and they were also placed, under arrest. There was great excite-, ment, exception being taken to the refusal to recognise leave of absence.