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Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 206, 11 September 1901, Page 1

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'Fri.co mail arrived. City loan proposals poll to-day. hnglish nihil of August 10 to hand. Sonoma passed through from America. General Sir Neville Lyttelton now commands in Natal. _ Miss Goldman, the Anarchist lecturer, has been arrested in Chicago. Czplgosy, the man who shot McKinley, is confined in an underground cell. The President's assailant is likely to get a sentence, which will practically mean "life." Kind Lady: Poor fellow, have you got no friends? Hap Hazard: No, mum; I hain't got nobody but relatives. The Auckland Board of Conciliation held a sitting in committee today in order to consider their recommendations iv the plumbers' industrial dispute. The House of Representatives spent the whole of yesterday and last, night in diiseussing the Dunedin "Stai-iC breach of privilege in publishing evidence given before the Mines Committee. The mail steamer Sonoma was delayed on her present passage to the, colonies owing to having a "scratch" crew of firemen on board. Her old crew left her at San Francisco, where there is a strike, of engineers, firemen and sailors now on. Capt. Perriam. well known in New Zealand as tile commander of the ship Nelson, and formerly of the Crusader, lately made a record passage from Melbourne to Callao. The Nelson left Melbourne on May 23, and reached the Peruvian port on July' 6th. after a very smart passage of 44 days. The breaking up of the roadway for the electric tram rails is now proceeding in College Hill Road, and by the end of next week the workmen will have reached the Three. Lamps. Flate laying is going on as far as Patteson-street. The heavy rails for the turn at Hobson-street corner have been bent by an American machine to the required curve. An old settler of Sandymount, Otago, Mr William Robertson, #sen., who died lately at his residence, Sandfly Bay, was in his 90th year, having been born \n 1812. He had been a resident of Sandymount since the early sixties, when he and his sons purchased a block of land over 500 acres in extent. He was a wonderfully hale old man until very recent years, and lived somewhat on the lines of a Scottish laird. He sleeps on his own land, where he established a private cemetery on the death of his wife, about 17 years ago. Another veteran (says the Taranaki "Herald") has answered the "last post" in the person of Peter Dutton, who saw service with the 70th Regiment in India before coming on to New Zealand. On the outbreak of the Mutiny, he was with his regiment at Peshawar, and witnessed the execution of the -ringleaders of the mutinous 55fh Native Infantry, when Sir Sydney Cotton had" "30 men blown from the cannon's mouth. The 70th left India for New Zealand in 1861, landing in Auckland .on June 19th of same year. After going through the Waikato campaign under General Cameron, they came on to Taranaki, taking part in the second outbreak, 1863-7. Special novelties in spring and summer dress and silk fabrics, milli-. nery, prints, delaines, French muslins, etc., etc.. ex Otarama. now in harbour.—Smith and Caughey, Ltd.—. Ad. , " ;'■/ Ex Otarama now in harbour: an exceptionally heavy shipment of all new goods for spring.—Smith and Caughey, Ltd.—Ad.