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Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 131, 4 June 1901, Page 1

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*. Annual licensing meeting. Criminal session still proceeding. "Fra Diavolo" at the opera House tonigli t. Street decorations are being pushed on with. Faith healer Dowie is doing well in Chicago. Auti-GiU-stian riots have occurred at yuaelpairt. 'ihe Teachers' Salaries Commission sat again to-day. St. Lenedict s {Social Club meets ou VVednesaa v- evening. Ihe iiuers ar_ lighting with the desperation of despair. fanarp lighting between soldiers and workmen at Corunna. The. Hon. J. Carroii, Native Minister, left lor liotorua this morning. The Auckland Choral Society's conceit takes place this evening. A large police detachment will arrive here from tne South on Saturday next. The Teachers' Salaries Commission ask for extension. of time to July 28. Another contingent ol about iSoO natives left lor ivotorua by train this morning. Arbor Day is to be observed as a Government holiday on Wednesday, July 1:2, this year. At the beginning of this week there were 16_> male and 17 female prisoners in Mount Eden gaol. Rotorua township is very lively at present with the large number of Maoris assembled there. The Hons. W. Jennings and W. Kelly, M.L.C.'s, are in town, and will remain till after the Royal visit. Gold to the value of £12,900 was sent ■ forward to Sydney per the s.s. Mararoa from Auckland last evening. A proposal is mooted to send an Australian contingent to participate in tho Coronation ceremony next year. Country and Southern visitors are already arrivingl, here in numbers to witness the Royal reception. The unlurling of the flag at Newton East School takes place on Wed-: nesday afternoon at 2 o'clock. A daughter of Thos. Fitzgerald had her feet badly crushed while sitting on the turntable at the Rotorua railway; yesterday. Mr W. F. Massey, M.H.R. for Franklin, addressed his constituents at Otahuhu last night and received a vote of thanks and confidence. j The Reed memorial fountain has now J been erected in the Albert Park and t will be formally handed over to the I city to-morrow afternoon. The Primate has appointed'the Rev, P. S. Smallfield to be one of his chaplains' in place of the Yen. W. Calder, now, Archdeacon of.Auckland. Mr. J. Rolleston, of the Central Hotel, sent a beautiful wreath of immortelles to the funeral of Mr. and. Mrs. Johnston's children. Over 600 visiting natives arrived at; Rotorua on Sunday, and were welcomed with, the customary "powhiri," or song and dance of welcome. H-M.s. Penguin is expected to come up here from 'Coromandel this week.. After; remaining here for, the -Royal celebrations she will, resume surveying work on\the coast. , Sixteen thousand persons are now, receiving old-age pensions in Victoria, the average payment weekly being 8/ ; per head. This necessitates an appropriation of £335,000 a year. The London Stock Exchange has expressed a strong objection to the proposal of the South Australian Government to sell loan stock over the counter, whenever a likely market offers. At a public meeting, of citizens held yesterday afternoon, it was decided to strongly urge on the City Council the necessity for taking immediate action to secure proper fire appliances for the city. " •' The 29th inst. is the 32nd anniversary of the consecration of Dr. Cowie as Bishop of Auckland in Westminster Abbey. Since then all consecrations of* New Zealand bishops have been held in their various dioceses. The stallion Danger Signal will be sent to Dunedin for the winter show. He will be placed on exhibition for a day at Timaru and for a day at Oamaru , on the way down. Two other Government stallions will be sent for a time to Momohaki. A shark, fully IS feet long, with a girth as big as that of a horse, came right up to the wharf at Geelong a few days ago, and caused great consternation amongst those engaged thereabouts. Attempts to harpoon it failed, for the shark straightened out one hook and got away. "When a man wants «. drink, distance stretches enormously,'' said Mr. H. W, Bishop, S.M., at the Magistrate's Court, Christchurch. The remark, was sjjggfsted by evidence in. a licensing case as to the three miles which makes a man a traveller. A policexnan was roughly handled by some man-of-war "sailors in town last evening, while endeavouring to quieten a bluejacket, who, with others, was making a disturbance in the street. The sailors thought the constable was arresting their comrade, and they interfered and took their man away. The late Mr E. Villars, whose death was announced at Ha\vera, Taranaki, recently, was an old member of the Colonial forces, serving iv Taranaki, Bay of Plenty and Waikato, and was for some time orderly to Sir George Whitmore. He gained tlie conduct and New Zealand war medals. Deceased was nearly 25 years in the police force. "I do not like those words, benefit of the doubt," said His^ Honor Mr. Justice Cooper, at the Supreme Court at Christchurch. when directing the jury in a case, "it is not benefit* of a' doubt, but failure on the Crown's part to prove. If the Crown fail to prove then the accused is entitled to he considered an innocent man." Tn a letter to a Gisborne resident a Pretoria correspondent says: To give you an idea of what a war does, things here are at very good prices—■ Butter, per lb (tinned), 2/3; bread*,* per loaf, *6d; potatoes, bag, £4 to £6; meat, per lb (tough), 1/6; fowls, each 7/6; milk, a bottle, 1/; vegetables, very dear; a cow, £25 to £35. Horses are unprocurable. Owing to the large quantity of milk forthcoming at this part of the season, Messrs Ambury and English intend _• run their Te Awamutu factory durinf June and closing down in July for alterations and additions to roachinerjv It is intended to put in another^ 440----g^lon. Alpha IfYAI separator, p^\J\>. 7- . ■... ... .._".*