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Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 129, 1 June 1901, Page 1

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« More Skirmishing1 reported. Another British convoy attacked. The Criminal Sessions proceeding". ' "The Fencing Master" at the Opera' House. i Teachers' Salaries Commission sat to-day. H.M.s. Pylades is now due hero from Sydney. Botha and his men. arc reported to be in a hopeless position. The funeral of the Johnston children ■will take place to-morrow. De la Rev's commando repulsed by Colonel Dixon. Heavy casualty list. The street crossings in Queen-street Were in a very bad state this morning. Beatson's column dispersed Trich- ■ ardt's commando on the Delagoa railway. '. Northern and West Coast, native coni tingents will arrive here this evening, en route to Rotorua. i The Island schooner Maungaroa, ■ bound J'rom AuckUfnd to Rarotonga, . is given up for lost, being long overdue. The English and Canadian mails by the R.M.s. Aorangi from Vancouver - will arrive here, from Sydney by the S.S. Waikare on Monday morning. Mr A. Thompson, secretary of the '. Pon.sonby Cruising Club, was present- . Ed with a gold watch last evening by the members of the club. ; Under the new Municipal Act, Borough Councils have the right to regulate the closing of billiard . salrous. Wangsnui is moving in the matter. The police locked a man up for • drunkenness at Gisborne the other day. On searching him at the police station they found upon him a bank draft for £700. "If those who support me and my party do me a good turn, I will do them a good turn, or perish in the attempt," said the Premier at Otaki the other day. The Newmarket Borough Council are obtaining 600 feet of new fire hose for the use of the Fire Brigade, owing to the present supply of fire appliances being inadequate. In leaving the Masterton Hospital, says an exchange, a patient wrote in the book, kept for the purpose, the • following:—"To praise this hospital would be like painting the lily." The "Marlboroug-h Express" states that a boarder at the Club Hotel (Blenheim) saved his tooth brush from the ° fire the other morning, but left a roll of bank notes to burn. Much, grief has been expressed by the natives o-f Rarotonga at the news of the murder of the Rev. J. Chalmers by the . natives of New Guinea. Mr Chalmers ; was a missionary at Rarotonga for ten years. In Hawke's Bay considerable diffi- , culty is being experienced in getting the right class of horses for South African remounts. The price paid for those already purchased ranges from. . £14 to £22. The Hon. J. Carroll left Gisborne for Auckland to-day.' -His'health'has im- . proved. He states that he thinks the - Royal party might be induced to make ; •! a detour of Poverty Bay while on their way to Wellington. The "Wang-anui Herald urges the claims of Lieutenant-Colonel Sommerville. to consideration by the Government when appointing a Commandant of the Forces to replace Colonel Penton, who retires shortly. Lieutenant" J. B. N. Osborne, recently invalided from South Africa, has been appointed A.D.C. to Lord Ranfurly, Governor of New Zealand. Lieutenant Osborne is the young-est son of Mr P. H. Osborne, Currandooley, near Bungendore. Mr Jackson Palmer, M.H.K., has been nominated as the General Assembly member of the Auckland University College Council. His nomination is the only one received for that appointment. He was nominated by Major Harris, M.L.C., and P. Lawry, M.H.R. "Bicycles have closed up more than one big coachbuilding factory in America," an employer told the Conciliation Board at Christchurch. He also stated the cycling had interfered with, the trade in Canterbury more than in any other part of the colony—probably owing to Canterbury's excellent roads. An excellent and faithful copy of the picture in the Art. Gallery illustrating the famous "Ballad of «Sir Patrick Spence " is on view in the window of • the Tonson Gariick Co., Queen-street. The picture is the work of Miss Anna Bock, a very promising young Auckland artist. The finances of the Thames Borough Council are reported as being in a very satisfactory condition. The water supply account has a credit balance of £1358 16/3, the hospital and charitable . aid account £65 11/, and the public library rate account £46 9/S The' general account has a debit of only £264 16/2. It is stated that at Pretoria the other day the nurses intended having a dance for the soldiers and themselves. so one of them went to ask General Kitchener if he would allow them to dance in a certain hall. He replied, • "No, run away, this is no time for dancing. We have a war, and that is occupyingl all our time." News from Coromandel states that Mr Holgate, of Auckland, managingdirector of the New Four-in-Hand Gold Mining Company, had a narrow escape of losing his life in the mine, Coromandel, while walking through one of the levels The covering of the winze had been removed, and Mr Holgatc dropped into the opening. Fortunately he caught hold of the edge of tjie winze as he fell, and so escaped dropping to the bottom of the winze, which is 50 feet deep. i Auction sale of unredeemed pledges by' Arthur and Gorrie, Monday next. Economy in its broadest and fullest sense more than realised. Novelty silks for blouse wear, stripes and I plain colours, every shade, 1/11J yd.— , Smith and Caughey's.—Ad. McCullag-h and Gower: Special display of New Zealand made clan tsv* taDS, Duchess of York, Duchess of ' Cornwall famous Gordon Highlander tartim, popular Black Watch, etc, etc., serge to match, for coats; imported plaids, 1/9s. to 0/9.—Ad.