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Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 116, 17 May 1901, Page 1

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De Wet in Cape Colony. A Boxer force defeated. St. Petersburg prisons are full. Part of a Boer commando captured. Henry Johnston committed for trial.Johnston case at the Police Court to-day. The City Abattoirs are pronounced insanitary. Northern Steamship Co.'s anuual meeting to-day. The Boers have been driven frorat Kroonstad to Vrede. The Mayor's allowance has been ■$ fixed at £300 per annum. Auckland School Cadet Corps held a battalion para/ie this afternoon. The Hon. J. G. Ward left Melbourne yesterday on his return to New Zealand. Mr Joachim, general manager of the Westport Coal Co., is on a visit to Auckland. His Worship the Mayor will declare a. public holiday on Friday next, Victoria Day. , The. receipts of the Royal 'Reception Committee have reached a total of" £1187 15/7. :, ■'; Councillor. Alfred Kidd is to assist the Mayor in the, detail work of the City Council. F. C. Endean.. (misprinted Dean yesr terday) of Auckland, passed the, phoj> mocy examination.. .. , i , At the inquest on Mrs Clara AVoodr head, the jury returned a verdict of death from heart failure. The charge of arson •in connection with the Waikino fire resulted in aocused being- committed for trial. •■ ! Old age pensions in the past finan^ cial year absorbed. £196;T506, -against £157,094 in the previous year. ■■:. ...,■ During last year the Imperial G 6*' - mernment paid £211,663 to New.Zea* land for South African contingents. , ; Mr Alfred- EMd acts as: associate with Dr. J. Logan Campbell, the Mayor, in- order to relieve the latter • of routine work, ' • >- - Ai the annual meeting of shareholders .in -the Northern S.S. Co. this afternoon. the usual half-yearly divi- ' dend of 3J per cent, was-declared, r The National Drink. Bill of the United Kingdom for 1900 amounted't? £160,891,718, equal to an expenditure per head of £ 3 18/8, or £19 13/4 per family of five' persons. ; A choir of 150 picked singers, ac? compaiii^ by a select bancl'of 40 fter- ' '. f. ormexs;>' Will sing the National Anthem when the -Royal party reaches^ the reception platform. Chief Detective Chrystal, of. Christ-: church, is to be one of the members of the detective; force which w)lli accompany the-;Dttke of CprawaH, and York tirongh'New Zealand. '~': ■•V^'",' ; . -A strike occurred bn.board,the* In; dramayo yesterday, the- stoljers, refusing , to . proceed,.,w^ith . the,, yoya^gf from Auclsland. to Wellington Mntil thjevfull.coinplenaent h,ad been, shipped; : The..Alliance and Victoria Insurance Companies paid over io the dirt'ciors jiSlTfheVß^tice.Woollen' Coinpaiiy '']'£•%s£*" 072 insui;a)i<?e On the miJJs destroyed, after deducting the yattie bf salvage. The total insurance was , . '>• As policeman, -recently appointed ['■• on the:force,-made the startlitfgVidiscQvery that a jeweller's shop 'Wi]qd<>w was broken. Examining it clbsely, im ext . claimed, "Begorra, this is.more sayrious than I -thought it was| _t'B broke on both:sides!"* : / , / : ■->*■'On Tuesday last, the giant geyser Waimangu, at Itetomahana, threw' up boiling ■water ana mud to an estimate; ed height of over i four hundred feeti Four eruptions took place Within two hours.iand- tlie mass of mud-charged wafer thrown up was enormous. Mr Norman Banks was injured at the meet of the Walkato hounds at Oambrjidge on : Wednesd'aj', through Ms horse falling and kicking. him, Mr Banks \yas rendered •uncouficioiis, and was taiten to Mr Eicharcl Eey-r nolids' residence, and attended to by Dr .Coates, of Auckland. He is .now getting on well. » Dress . materials. Dre?s (w^eds, special value, 1/6 J. 2/11, 3/11: all-wool faced Sedan and Amazon cloths. l/;;,J, i/Ui, 2/0, 2/11 totf/H: fiiezes, tartans, etc., in great variety.—McCullag'u and Gfower.-^Ad. ; /" Royal Visit. To I avoid disappointment ladies are invited to place their orders for millinery as early as ,conyenient.—Smith and Caughey, Limited. -Ad. , , -\