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Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 153, 29 June 1901, Page 1

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Chilly breezes. Football this afternoon. Parliament opens next Monday. Grand Hotel fire enquiry continued*. Drainage loan poll at Arch Hill today. Steamers Taviuni and Hauroto arrived from the South Sea Islands. Mr G. J. Smith, a former member, is definitely out for the vacant Christohurch seat. The Boers made a determined at- | tack on the town of Richmond, bufc jdid not capture it. The barque John Gambles, bound from Peru to Auckland, has been totally wrecked at Tahiti. The total value of the poultry industry in the United States is now; over £GO,OOO sterling per annum. "One bath is so good that it will cure whether you are ill or not," said one enthusiastic Gisborne native in regard to RotoruaL To-day (St. Peter's Day) is the 32nd anniversary of the consecration of the Most Eev. the Primate (Bishop Cowie) in Westminster Abbey. Mr W. F. Massey, M.H.E. for Franklin, was yesterday presented by his'i' constituents with a handsome marble,% clock and a valuable gold watch and chain. Mr F. Goodwin, secretary to Lieut.Colonel Gudgeon, British Eesident at Rarotonga, was accidentally lolled at Earotonga lately by the explosion of a rocket, The postal service of Japan is thel cheapest in the world. The postage rate for a letter from anywhere to anywhere in Japan is two sen—a lit* tie over a halfpenny. Mr Tom Brown, of Messrs Brown' and Stewart, Auckland, whtf.has been' ill for some time in the Timaru hospital, has now quite recovered, and has left for home. Great preparations are being mad&K*. at Papeete (Tahiti) for the anxiual^Sn French fete there next month. The' festivities will commence on July 13, and will last for four days. The death of Mr Henry Nicholas, am old resident of Rarotonga"'(Gook Islands), is reported from the Islands, per Taviuni. Mr Nicholas was ana* tive of the Auckland district. Constable Finnerty, of the Free* man's Bay .police station, leaves on l Monday next for Sydney, to bring back to Auckland James A. Gorrie, recently arrested there on a charge js^ of larceny. The Mataura Dairy Factory Com* pany has paid out to milk suppliers this season a trifle over £10,090. This is said to be a record milk pay~ merrf for any of the Southland -dairy "'•fj factories in one season. A young man named John Liddiardj^; * residing in Eden Terrace, was throvfti from his ljorse yesterday afternoon, and had his skuli fractured. He was taken to the Hospital, where he now lies in a serious condition. "-•* , The Devonport Young . People's Mutual Improvement Society met last evening. A lecture on "Parody" was delivered to a. crowded house by Mr S. Stephenson, M.A. The lecturer treated his subject in an able and interesting manner, dealing principally with its humorous side, and at the close was accorded a hearty vote of thanks. Mr T. W. Waite, of the Railway Department at Wellington, who is leaving for Christchurch, where he has been appointed traffic manager, was lately entertained at the Club Hotel, Wellington, by a number of his friends. During the evening Mr Waite was presented with a handsome dressing case. The death occurred at Havelock; lately of Mr Thomas Edward Parker, who was in his seventy-first year. Deceased was a native of London, and a shipwright by trade. He landed at . Port Chalmers in the early fifties and settled at Pelorus Sound in 18G2. He had since been in the sawmilling and pastoral industry at Kaiuma. The Auckland Savings Bank's new: building at Devonport is now completed, and will be open for the inspection of the public this evening. Mr Bartley, the architect of the bank, will be in attendance to show visitors over the premises. The Mayor and councillors of the borough have been invited, and the Devonport Brass Band will be present. The fact is referred to -with considerable pleasure by a gentleman who is an admirer of the native race (says an East Coast paper) that during the whole of the three weeks that Maoris have been going to. and from and staying at Rotorua, not a single case has occurred in which the interference of a policeman has been called for. He says: "Let 5500 whites out on a holiday of that sort, and I guarantee there would not be as satis* factory a result." Messrs. Maxwell ("Standard") and Le Sage ("London Daily Telegraph"), two of the English journalists with the Royal party, who made the journey from Rotorua to Wellington by, the Taupo, Wanganui River route, had an excellent view of Mount Ruapehu, and saw the summit of Ngaruhoe. While travelling by coach they occupied box seats. It was a little misty on the river. The correspondents were supplied with full information as to the country which they passed through, and they enjoyed the trip. One of the Gisborne natives who returned from Rotorua the other day being asked what he thought of tha Duke of York said: "There is no flashness about him. He wears the same clothes as myself or any other ordinary person, but the Duke is very frightened of the white people in Auckland. He had a great lot of soldiers and policemen to protect him there. The policemen were like lawyers in the bush, every way you turned you bumped against one, but when the Duke came to Rotorua to meet us Maoris he pushed all the soldiers and policemen aside and told them to stand back, and he came and walked amongst us Maoris without any fear and nobody to protect him."