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Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 51, 1 March 1901, Page 1

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'Frisco mail due to-night. Indian troops are at Invercargill. "] Criminal sessions still proceeding. Seventh Contingent arilling at Wellington. British arc hemming; in Steyn and Dc Wet. ■ A battle is imminent near the Orange Eiver. £00 of De Wet's followers were captured on Saturday. Federation Commission will open in Auckland next Monday. A report, that Botha had surrendered is declared to be unofficial, . Mr Francis 11. D. Bell is appointed Consul for Denmark at Wellington. This is the twenty-fifth year of the Auckland Scripture Gift Association. The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall are to arrive at Auckland on June 11. Mr Justice Cooper was entertained at a dinner at the Northern Club last night. The executive of the Imperial Troops' Reception Committee met tliis afternoon. The annual meeting of the Auelc« land Agricultural Association was held this afternoon. The sly grog-selling charges against John Ormsby, of Otorohanga, are to be heard before, a jury. New Zealanders shelled P>oers south of Zeerust, compelled them to retire", and captured some of their cattle. A matinee performance of "What Happened to Jones"' will be given at the Opera. House to-morrow afternoon. The appointment is gazetted of Mr Thomas Gordon Lilico, M.R.C.V.S., as temporary veterinary stirgeon to the Government. Joseph Maynell was sentenced to seven years' hard labour tit the Supreme Court to-day for an indecent assault upon his two daughters. A simple sailor got into trouble at Christ church last week by accepting a change of clothes with a deserter from H.M.s. Mildura. He had great trouble in perstiading the police he was not a genuine man-o'-warsman. . Mr G. Rice, the popular sacristan of St. Patrick's Cathedral, has resigned that position, and his resignation has been accepted with regret. Air Rice was sacristan to the late Monsignor McDonald at Panmu're and Howick for many'years. Some idea of the magnitude which the sheep raising and selling industry has attained at Palmerston North may be gathered from the fact that.so,ooo sheep were yarded last week. The majority of the sheep were locally ownd and were mostly Eomneys. and Lin coins. A Sydney paper says:—"A half-for-gotten story is that of the telling of the late Queen's fortune by a Gipsy woman .whom she encountered near Balmoral, and who foretold that Victoria's death would be presaged by the 'falling of the Great Stone.' It is well known that for a long time the Queen took thfe to refer to Gladstone, but now comes the news that thvee weeks before, the Queen's'death there fell flat the largest remaining stone of the famous Druidical circle at Stone* . lieng-e.".' ■ ..'■_ „._,.....•./. : V ;; \- -•--:.■;-■;-•:--vt^*#»:Trooper Porter, who left Gisborne: last week for South Africa, has the love of adventure strongly developed, comes of a good fighting strain, tint! is a "fire eater" by choice, i-These three characteristics probably account > for the fact of his joining the Armed Constabulary in ISB4 at the age of sixteen. He served in that body till the time of its disbanding1, and. then enlisted with the Permanent Artillery, and was stationed in Auckland foi? some time. Then afterwards he served,in the Cuban war against the Spaniards, and was in the Jameson raid in the Transvaal. Still proceeding: Bradstreet'g drapery sale, Karangahep Road. Ladies' blouses, 1/1 lj, usual price 3/11". A large lot of remnants very, cheap.—(Ad.)