THIS WEEK'S GRAPHIC.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 195, 17 August 1900, Page 4

THIS WEEK'S GRAPHIC.

OVER FORTY PICTURES. ,

AUCKLAND-THAMES FOOTBALL'

MATCH,

SPLENDID CHINESE PICTURES.

The "Graphic", this week contains c, series of instantaneous photogravures of the" foQtball match played* last Sat* urday between Auckland and Thames,:

No' match this season has excited so much interest in Auckland, and the result has been most popular here. Footballers will therefore, welcome the mementoes of the: battle :which the "Graphic's" pages present this week. The number containsi a', full-page picture of the recent -terrible accident hear Opotiki, in which eighreen'MaOtis lost theifc.lives'.■"•' -"'■"-"- ";';--> - ' fJ'ff-fJ-'

The third: series of street' snapshots which under the title of "Caught'on the Hop "have excited no" small interest, and amusement in Auckland, shows a number of prominent citizens, all unconscious of the. 'attention paid" them by the wily snap-shooter; • . The Chinese views for the week in--* ■elude pictures in and about Hpngv kong,; Macao, Kpwlooh. Tientsin, ;an^ Pekin. There is1 a full-page-'engravinjjf of an execution at Kowloon, witt; views of the harbour after a typhdoiThe events of the present war art' illustrated; by several striking^ pic* tures, one.-of th,e taking of the Taktf forts being conspicuous. > ■ ">. The .devastation wrought by one' of those hurricanes which visit the Par cine,islands is graphically shown in a number of photogravures Of Jiei-afu, VavaU, after the.typhoon of April last. Among the groups! given in the number is one of; the. Transvaal, invalid s who recently arrived at Wellingtori from the Cape, another of the new Mandolin Club, Auckland, and smaller ones of the Canterbury Lawn Tennis Club and Victoria Colleffe Lawn Tennis Club.

The reading matter includes serial and complete stories by the best authors, notes, sketches, topics-of the week, current comment, minor matters, musical and* dramatic notes, social news, special ladies' pages, London and. colonial fashions, children's pages, and notes on every variety of sport; "■'■ ..