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Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 185, 6 August 1900, Page 4

The outward 'Frisco mail steamer Mariposa arrived from Sydney yesterday morning after a run of 3 days 19 hours 29 minutes. ' After landing mails at Motuihi she came up the harbour and commenced loading for 'Frisco from the hulks. The vessel had a fair number of through passengers, and more joined here. The steamer has a cargo of tin, hides and general produce, and in her storeroom has £350,000 in specie for San Francisco. She resumed her voyage this afternoon. ;•:"./■

Sympathetic reference to the death of the Duke of Edinburgh and the assassination of King Humbert of Italy was made in several of the churches yesterday. At St. Matthew's Church the organist, Mr A. Towsey, played the "Dead March" in "Saul" as a tribute of respect to the dead, the congregation all standing. In- St. Alban's ' Church, Mount Roskill Road, at the request of the Rev. F. Latter, the congregation sang "God Save the Queen," and Miss Paton, the organist, played the "Dead March" in "Saul." The Rev. W. J. Williams, in the Pitt-street Wesleyan Church, made special reference to' the death of1 the Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and the murder of the King of Italy.

The Mayor of Auckland has received a communication from Mr E. Hawtrey Cowey, of Durban, Natal, S.A., who is at present in Tasmania, asking if purchasing markets are obtainable in the Auckland district for maize, flour, produce, frozen meat and timber. Mr Cowey states that he is touring the colonies on business and he wishes to communicate with growers, manufacturers, merchants and others who may be desirous of opening up or extending their trade with South Africa; The Mayor has replied advising Mr Cowey to pay a visit to Auckland.

..At the annual meeting of the Dunedin Chamber of Commerce, the retiring President, in the course of his address, reviewed the state of trade, pointing- out that prosperity had reached a point neyer touched before. Both in imports and exports Otago showed the highest rates of increase for the year. Referring to the dredging" industry, he said the value of gold saved during the past 18 months amounted to £255,000, exclusive of the private dredge owners' returns, which cannot be far short of £120,000. Working-expenses absorbed. £131,000 of the yield to public companies, leaving the sum of £154----000 for distribution among, shaVeholders, or a return at the rate of 10 per cent, per anmim on the total amount paid up to date, with a producing" power of only a fourth of-the quantity that will be available when the dredges, the capital of which is now paid up, are built. Mr D. E. Xheorain was elected president, and Mr John Wright vice-president,

A boy named .William Sullivan, aged 9, was killed at Rochester, New South Wales, on Wednesday last, through falling from a cart into which he had jumped for the purpose of getting a' ride to school. One of the wheels passed over his head,, smashing his skull.

A West Maitland telegram of Tuesday last, published by the Sydney "Morning Herald," states: — "This afternoon-Mr ,John Foreman, a wellknown resident of Haworth, was gored by a bull, which was supposed to he very quiet. He was killed instantaneously. The body was torn almost into two parts, and was completely disembowelled. The police, arrived on the scene, and after sewing the severed parts of the body together removed-it to the residence of deceased."

Au American lady residing in New York, writing- to a friend in Auckland, says, "I must say that for journalism your New Zealand papers take the premium. Our English friend has read your papers (the "Graphic" and "Star") and says they are superior to either the English or American newspapers." Mr Niccol will move at the Harbour Board meeting on Tuesday, "That the names of Messrs C. C. Dacre and A". Alison be placed upon the Works and Tariff Committee."

Mr Forrest, Premier of West Australia, has cabled to Mr Seddon:—"l thank you for your kind congratulation*, which I most sincerely appreciate. The pronouncement in favour of federation has been most decisive, and will be accepted by all in the best possible spirit. We will heartily join with our fellow colonists in promoting the advancement of the Commonwealth."

Mr Frank Edgcumbe, Government surveyor, had a narrow escape last week in the' King Country. During the night a tree crashed through the tent in which he and two others were sleeping. A branch struck Eclgecumbe on- the thigh, and was then driven several feet into the ground. Edgecumbe -was not seriously injured.

The Feilding "Star" reports a trial of the road machine recently acquired by,-the Manchester Road Board. The machine was drawn by four horses, and quickly demonstrated its utility as a labour-saving machine. It was in, charge of two men, one attending to the team and the other directing the machine. Passing up one side of the street and down the other, the machine removed and threw back a strip of turf On each side, and again travelling over the same work left the road with a fine crown from which the water can easily drain. In the words .of a councillor, "the machine did the work while a man would be looking for his tools." If necessary, the machine can be set to throw the earth and metal back into the centre of the road where it can be spread.

At the Onehunga Police Court this morning, before Dr. W. E. Close Erson, J.P., Charles Moore, charged on the information of Constable Macnamara with having been drunk in Queenstreet whilst in charge of a horse, was convicted and fined 20/ and costs. John Duncan, charged with having been drunk, was fined 10/ and costs.

When the Gisborne members of the Fourth Contingent reached Wellington, two of the horses, which the men themselves had' supplied (says the Poverty Bay "Herald") were condemned, and this district was put to the expense of purchasing two others, which were bought in Wellington. Trooper Aston Rodgers, whose horse was one of those condemned, states that the animal he was supplied with was not nearly so good as his own, ■which he had brought .from Gisborne. It died on the voyage, and he was given another old "screw," which, he was heartily ashamed to ride. Rodgers' chagrin can be imagined when it is stated that on the arrival of the Fifth Contingent he found his horse in the possession of one of the Ser-geant-Majors, having been repur-* chased in Wellington with Imperial funds, and experience had proved it to be one of the best horses they had.

Mr John Kenneth Inglis, a New Zealander, who has won the Edinburgh tfniversity' Scholarship of £100_ for eight years and one of the National Science Scholarships of £76 for two years, entered Christ's College at the beginning of 18S7, and continued as a student there till the end -of 1893. From -ihe first he gave brilliant promise and attracted the attention of his tutors by his exceptional ability. For his general proficiency in all subjects he was awarded a special free exhibition, equal to the Somes scholarship, by the governing body of the College. In 1893 he became a student at Canterbury College, and that year .won the junior University Scholarship. In 189G he won the Senior University Scholarship for mathematics, and the following year secured his B.A. degree. In 1898 'he took his B.Sc. degree, and the same year his M.A. degree with first-class honours in mathematics and mathematical physics.

The Paris museum of frauds is an established fact, as much a sight place as the Morgue. Clever and curious are the things there to be seen. A roll of cloth with a can in one end shows the elaborate method taken by. distillers in the country to escape the douane at the city walls. Another interesting piece is a skin of a dog. This has. been cleverly fitted over a bright black and tan pup and covered hundreds of dollars' worth of valuable laces wrapped about the dog's body and sent over the border from Italy. It is supposed that the revenue thieves smuggled in thousands of dollars' in this way before they were detected by an accident. A gendarme's dog engaged, the brute in a fight and the outer skin came off. The dog was followed and its owner was arrested.

The Oceanic S.S. Co. advertise that, as stated in our issue of Tuesday last, the first of the new, mail steamers, the s.s. Sonoma, will' leave San Francisco on October 31, arriving here on November 19.. She will be followed by the Sierra, leaving on November 21, and the Ventura on December 12, thenceforward every twenty-one days.

Mr C. B. Kingswell (of Messrs G. W. Binney and Sons), representing the Auckland Woolbrokers' Association, left for Christchurch this afternoon in the s.s. Takapuna to attend a conference of the Woolbrokers' Associations of New Zealand.

An extraordinary freak of nature is exhibited in the window of Mr. C. Hesketh, seedsmian, Queen-street, 'it is an egg of ordinary size inside an egg of abnormal proportions (fully as large, as a goose egg), laid by one of Mr. J. 11. Priestly's langshans at Mt. Albert.. The inner egg is intact, but the outer shell is broken. It contained both yolk aiid, white.

The funeral of the late Mrs. Tremain, who'died suddenly on Friday morning, took place at Waikumete Cemetery yesterday. There was a- very large attendance of the public, and the hearse was preceded by the Salvation Army Band of 42 members as far as the corner of Symonds-street and New North Road. Mrs. Tremain, although not a Salvationist, worked hard for the Army for. a number of years, and was alwaj's a good friend to its members. A memorial service was held in the barracks last evening.

Mr P. C. Odium, a son of Mr and Mrs Odium, of Wood-street, Ponsonby, who passed his examination in dentistry at the last sitting of the Board of Examination in Dunedin, left for America in the mail steamer Mariposa to-day. He intends learning all up-to-date methods in the home of dentistry, after which' he will return to his native place at Auckland. Mr Odium is well known in local musical circles.

Yesterday morftsig Mr William Holmes, the well-lfjfcown ship builder of Beach Road, Deqfcnport, was found dead in his bed. On Thursday last he had had an attack of paralysis, losing- the use of his left side, leg-, and hand for about two hours. He recovered from this, however, and went to bed on Saturday evening apparently in his usual health, borne four years ago he had an attack ot a similar nature. As Dr. Lang declined to give a certificate, Dr. Mc\rthur, coroner, decided to hoJd an inquest this afternoon at Devonport. Mr Holmes was a resident of ]\oitn Shore for over thirty years, and he and his brother were very well known in shipbuilding circles. He built some of the boats that ran to the Thames in the early clays, one of them being the p.s. Enterprise. He also built the s.s. Clyde, the Fiji Government steamer. A large number of small coasters were also from his yard

- The special services in connection with the opening of the new Congregational Church at Mount Eden were continued yesterday, when the congregations were large at each service The Rev. Hugh Kelly, M.A., preached in the morning, while in the evening •the' Rev. W. Day, minister of the church, officiated. In the afternoon a children's service was conducted by the Rev. J. G. Chapman.. On Tuesday evening next a performance of Mendelssohn's "Elijah" will be given.

New Zealand theatregoers have in prospect, a rich dramatic feast if events shape themselves as at present proposed. One of the objects of Mr Tom Pollard's present trip to Sydney is an endeavour on his part to arrange with Mr J. C. Williamson to send across to this colony Miss Nance O'Neil, the American actress, and her su jporting company, which includes Mr Kingston, the English actor. Miss O'Neil has been classed by the leading Australian dailies as the finest actress that has visited Australia, and some even profess to regard her as an equal of Sarah Bernhardt in some of her more tragic pieces. The idea is that Miss O'Neill shall take up the Pollard dates for this year throughout New Zealand from September or October onwards, the -Pollards meantime to pay their long-promised visit to Australia. Mr Tom Pollard returns by the Mokoia.

Pig-farming is receiving in the Tquranga, Te Puke and surrounding districts (says the Opotiki "Herald") far more attention during the last year or two than was the case formerly. During the present- season Messrs Wilkins Bros., of Pongakawa, have kjilled 78 head, 68 of which were sent to Auckland, and they have be.sides 4G others in their fattening yards, some being ready and the balance almost so. When these latter are disposed of Messrs Wilkins will still have over 100 head left. From the above it will be seen that when all are disposed of the total will be close,on 230 animals. .Other settlers are also going into this branch of farming on an extensive scale. .

The Brett Printing- Company have executed to the order of Messrs T.. H. Hall and Co., agents for the celebrated Green's bacon and hams, a striking and novel coloured show card showing a faithful representation of one of Green's sides of bacon on a dark brown background with bold and well defined lettering at top, bottom and across, forming in all a very effective advertisement and reflecting credit on the artistic department of the Brett Printing Company.

At the Birkehhead Wesleyan Church on Thursday evening next the Rev. W. Ready will deliver his lecture "From London Streets to Pulpit, or the Story of ~My Life." The proceeds will go to the Sunday School Building Fund. An advertisement appears in another column announcing the first of a series of popular citizens' concerts, to take place in the Choral Hall on Wednesday next. Full particulars will appear shortly. Boys' sailor suits 3/6, tweed KB. suits 5/6, serge knickers 1/9, jerseys, all colours, 2/6, at Geo. ~ Fowlds'. —Ad. Daley's bankrupt stock: 6000 yards of superior flannelettes from 2|d toBJd per yard, worth 4fd and 11 £d; also 500, white quilts, at 2/9, 3/9, and 4/9. — D.S.C.—(Ad.)

Just arrived: Special line of oak extension tables, now selling at 39/6, spot cash.—Tonson Garlick Co.—(Ad.)

Stocktaking Reductions. Buy your hard hats, soft felts, and evening caps from-lovely stock at Geo. Fowlds'.—Ad.

Monday and Tuesday: Half-price for dress remnants. Smith & Caughey's clearance fair.—(Ad.)

Balance of our mantels, jackets and waterproofs will be further reduced. Maids' silk-lined reefer jackets. 5/11 and 6/11. Seduced from 11/6.—D.S.C. -(Ad.)

Blue serge suits 18/6, covert coats 15/, men's tweed overcoats 19/6, bush rugs 2/6,' trousers 4/11.—At Geo. Fowlds'.— (Ad.)

Half-price tables of remnants Smith & Caughey's dress department, for two days, Monday and Tuesday.—(Ad.)

Re C. G- Daley, 21 cases of general drapery. The pick of the whole bonded stock of 10,000 for sale.—D.S.C—Ad.

My Lady's Chance—Black kid gloves, 2/11; silk squares from 1/6;' silk ties, 6d; bows, 3d; perfumes less than cost; at Geo. Fowlds'. —(Ad.)

Surprise is expressed every day at the low prices Aye are selling dining chairs at only 3/6, 4/6. and 4/9 each.— Tonson Garlick Company.—(Ad.)

Dress materials from Daley's stock, 2/11, 3/11, 4/11 to 8/11, the full dress length; also prints and muslin, 25 per. cent below present values. —D.S.C.— . (Ad.) .

Stocktaking Prices. Men's working shirts, 1/; underflannels, 1/11; youths' long trouser suits, 12/6; trousers, 2/11.—At Geo. Fowlds'.—(Ad.)

Price list in Daley's bankrupt estate: Men's tennis shirts, 2/9, worth 4/9; -white dress shirts, 3/9, worth 5/6; men's sox, 4 pairs for 1/; men's hard felt hats, 1/; men's mole trousers, 4/11, worth 7/6; boys' w.hite moles, soiled, 1/6, worth 4/6; boys' knicker -trousers, lined throughout, 1/6. — D.S.C.—(Ad.)

Closing days of the great fair. All remnants and oddments at half-price. —Smith & Caughey's dress department. —(Ad.)

Stocktaking Prices. Merino pants and singlets, 1/; white shirts, 2/11;, Charley's aunts, 2/6; cardigan jackets, 2/11.—At Geo. Fowlds'.—(Ad.)

Ladies' underclothing, from best makers, will be sold at a reduction of 6/8 in the £. Standard makes of corsets will be greatly reduced.—D.S.C.— (Ad.)

Ends and remnants accumulated during the great clearance fair at half-price on Monday and Tuesday.— Smith & Caughey's dress department. —(Ad.)