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Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 108, 8 May 1901, Page 1

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New Mayor installed. Dr. Campbell in ollice. Great excitement in -Melbourne. Outward 'Frisco mail next Monday. The Boers under De la Key have oace more eluded the British. Steamers Taviuni and Hauroto for tktj .Sou Hi Sea Islands to-day. ?>!)G foreigners have been captured (luring the Transvaal war. A Russian officer has been shot dead by a Gernian« soldier at Taku. The American cruiser Brooklyn cornea across to Auckland from Melbourne. Major Robin and his returned troopers were welcomed home at Dunedin today. At the beginning of this week there were 163 male and 18 female pVisoners in Mount Eden gaol. The Wovernnieni Assessment Court to consider objections to rating valuations sits at Auckland next Wednesday. The Duke of York shook hands with .' 3(J00 people ar the reception in Melbourne yesterday and received fortyseven addresses. The last open-air band performance of the season will be given in the Albert Park to-morrow evening by the Devon- ■ port Brass Band. During the March quarter of this year • the! deposits in the Auckland Savings ' Bank totalled £151,39« 0/4, and the withdrawals £143,010 0/1. Tf you want to know; all about the Ophir in which, the Duke of York is coming to New Zealand get this week's number of the "Graphic."' Mr Norman Matheaon met with a very painful accident at Omaha the other day. When chopping some firewood he accidentally cut his foot severely ou,t.he instep with an axe. ' At Aratapu a storekeeper named Chick, living on the gumflelds, has been fined £5 and costs by Mr T. Hutchison, S.M.. for selling spirits without a lieensu. A second information was withdrawn.