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Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 185, 6 August 1900, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

—■ '- ■ ♦—- —~, ...:::■.'. '-:}-, .) 'Frisco mail gone. , _„■/-. ' ■'■'..■ . A• ■ Further surrenders of Boe<">,./ ~ . R.M.s: Mariposa passed through. The Boers are using soft-nosed bullets. There are So,OOO Boxers close tc Tientsin. ■> . , r , 'Over 3000 BAers have surrendered y to General Hunter! _ ' -i Auckland footballers defeated Obil* emuri reps by sto nil. A very heavy rain cloud broke: over this district yesterday. Another, terrible massacre of .Chin< ese converts is ', ; The Shahoorfr Persia has abandoned his intended visit to England. 7..,. Boers have derailed and burned a \ tnun flying the American flag. - The British "Legation in Pekin was j reported to, be safe on August 1. - :.. ; The Auckland Racing CluV'has made a profit, of. '£ 3,690 for .the past year. General. Hamilton has touted the ' Boers from the.,',JS&galiesburgj Mouh- ■>: tains. ■ . i .: .'-• U Mr Wmi Holmes;: shipbuilder, ol Devpnpoii, was"found'dead' in bed. y€&< f terday. , ,' ' , : : Three invalided Auckland rtroGpers , arrived here fjom South Africa last evening.;- ' ...-•, ■'.' ,■'..": ' ■'..;*■ jyJ^.' ■ .»;:,.' The R.M.s; Mariposai.. has, £ 350,00,0 of gold on board ivpm Sydney- iot America. .'"■ :■.-:' . •",'■" : -,' M The Fourth and Fifth Coritmgenta have arrived at Maiekingi en. route to ; . Pretoria. ' * ■ ; . Mr Eichard Hpbbs left for the Soutti1 Sea Islands by.the .s.s. Ovalau on Sat' tu'day night. ' , Sixteen British.and four. Japatiese warships are stationed in the vicinity, of Shanghai. • ' ; - . ' * , . ~:'V .'Li'Hurig CHang says j|hat;no message can go to the Legations owing to iho / ■, Allies advancing.. , '~■"''■■'. -" v'^ A" Christchurch'lawyer's-clerk has been arrested, oh a charge of attempt " '•;:; :to murder his wife. ■ , .. Very high seas were experienced on .-, J,v the coast on Saturday, " The s.s. iWaio- v<: tahi sustained some slight damage. Two pro-European'members, of the , ■ Tsung-li-Yamen inPekinhavebeenbeheaded at the irijstigation of Li .Hung The Bay of Plenty "Times" says that Mrs H. E/ Bennett has- sftld her fine property of 300 acres at*Te ;: ;Euke,"; known as "Norwood," to Mr'Robertson, of JMangere' (Auckland), for =£1800. ■ . ; • : ' •' : -'-'''"i -' : ■•■■. ?' " During, the fight. ai.Prieska,, a Briiish gunner was .hit in the left breast ■ by a, Boer bullet. It went clean through a pack of cards, barring the very last, which- was the ace' of spades. 'That saved his body and earthly existence. ■ - ' A 'nunlber of'cattle belonging to Maoris; in the. Bay of ' Plenty■ district have died 'of late, it is "alleg-ed? through. ■ beiiig allowed to wander in the maize fields and. pick up, decaying corn coba which have been overlooked by those gathering the corn., .. ,■. V. V n: . . Here's a graphic extract, from'a soldier's letter despatched about the tin.-* of Buller's northward marcli:"-!-"We i are• once more 'on the move', ''and. it's ■ /\~; ;the same,old thing; shots for breSlc fast, shell for dinner, pom-pom for tea, and a d d good trenching iot supper—with, no tents or blankets."' -~ ■ News, from Maritzburg&'(Natal)' states that an Indian employed by a monumental mason there committed suicide recently^ in. an ingenious man* ... ner.',He propped lip a large slab of , stone .with a hammer, and lying under* N neath it, knocked away the f support. The stone fell upbnhim, crushing him to death,' v. '■ j ,*■>■< ■' In connection with the Central rail* way route, it is pointed out that,of 759,043 i acres of, land, which will.,be found within; a ten-mile;:radiusi.of,:the • L , line '-from < Taihape to Taumaranui, . % 523,461 acres either belong to the Crown or have been, alienated, leaving ,* only •235,582 in possession of the orig- ' inal owners, the natives. > There returned to Taunmga a' few days ago, by'the s.s.-Waitangi, from the^Mercury^Bay.-gumfields, 'some-30 ,//, Tauranga natives -escoxling the body. of a lad named Henare Him, aged 13 (broiher-in-law of the young chief Ngamanu Tupaea). The corpse waa : conveyed across Tauranga Harbour, and received at the village at'Mata- .' pihi with the customarys firing'of guns. The deceased lad was' off high ;; < rank, andbeing'telated to tfe Whakatane and Rangitaiki tribes, there will ■'"'""■..' '"■.'".••■•;■,',/:',/ -'':,'.'-. ' ' Amongst' the . passengers who arrived at the Cape lately from Pretoria was Mr Joseph Rosenthal, who ha 3 been at the front as correspondent^for •: the "Illustrated Lb»doh j'vNyj^B^"|,' : and ;. for a >; cinematpgraph; cdmpajiy./ ', Ha ; was one of 'the first to enter Pretoria, driving thither with his-photographic Apparatus as early as eight o'clock in ,'v. '■;* '-til the morning that the city surrendered. Indeed, he was so early, that on parsing under the railway bridge' he-.wa3 fired upon;byithe Boers, .and"had to ( , beat a hasty; retreat. 'Subsequently an officer arrived from Lord Roberts, carrying a flag of truce, and Mr Rosen* thai followed: close. upon»Ms;heels,' and' was present ( at the hoisting of the flag. According to ■ the - London "Daily Telegraph,V/Mr <William Allan, on the 15th' June,' asked' the number, of- days v Her Majesty's <ship Europa took ■to steaan to Australia, and what was her average speed during tlie voyage and consumption of fuel per day, and if the heat between decks was insupport- '■"' able to the crew. Mr Goschen, in his reply, said there was no reason to suppose that thes heat between decks was greater than iisual in the Reel Sea. Mr Allan: "Is it not true ihat the men could not live between the , decks during the passage,,arid;that on! account of' the heat the, ship is called 'Her Majesty's, ship Hell?'," (Laugh* ter.) Mr Goschen: "I loiow nothing! about'thaV'^ ''■jv.'"'" v .