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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIII, Issue 8, 10 January 1902, Page 1

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"Star" Summary to-day. More captures of Boers. Outward 'Frisco mail to-morrow. Botha has reinforced De Wet at Bethlehem. It is reported that Italy intendsoccupying Tripoli. A boy named Johnson has be.__ drowned at Waiheke. The Auckland city loan of £.5,00 G. has been fully subscribed. The Waihi miners repudiate Mr O'Keefe's remarks on Judge Cooper. "The Tyranny of Tears" for the second and last time at the Opci\_ House to-night. The publicity of the Chines* Court's return to Pekin is regarded as revolutionary. The City Council have decided totake expert opinion on the question of a permanent water supply fori Auckland. Friends and well wishers of the Rev. Father Moore meet him in the Hibernian Hall on Sunday next at 3 p.m. to wish him farewell. Mr. Ambrose Millar, Vice-Consul for the Netherlands, requc s persons of Dutch descent to hand in their names and addresses at his office in Fort-street. Some 550 men are employed in the conK.z-uction of the Auckland electric tramways, and in about two months it is expected that there will be about 1000 men at work. The colours of the 58th Regiment, the first to unfurled in New Zealand, which have been in the Supreme Court for many years, are to be removed to the Library. The manager of the Costley Home. Epsom, desires to thank Messrs Hull and Woods for parcels of magazines and illustrated papers sent for distribution among the inmates. The Official Gazette in the "ChurchChronicle," published at Wellington, states: "It is the desire of the Bishop of the province that no clergyman be married within three, years of hi? ordination to the diaconate." . The Auckland Engineers are requested to parade on Monday evening at the Drill Hall, with arms and accoutrements. The company will hold firing practice at the Mount Eden range to-morrow afternoon. The Welilington . Accilimaitisation Society has decided to ask the Government to open the season for deer stalking in the Wellington district from March 1 to April 30, but to rei strict the number of heads to be taken by each licensee to three. At a sale of Crown mining land. in Klondyke, a man named Dawson purchased a claim on Gold Bottom for a dollar. He immediately began digging, and next day struck a rich streak. Before the week was ended he had been offered _o,ooodol. for the figure.' A tin trunk belonging to a jewellery traveller slipped out of a sling while being put on board the Takapuna at New \Kymouth the other night, and dropping into the sea, sank out of sight. The trunk was recovered by a diver next day, and when opened the contents were found to consist of several hundreds of gold and silver watches, the value of which, according to the "Taranak! Herald," was estimated at between £2000 and £3000. A York.paper says: "With a desire, to avenge the death of his only son,, who was shot by Boers last year* the Rev. R. E. Barr is about to leave for South Africa to join the British! Army. For the last two years he has been rector of Protestant Episcopal churches in Whatcom and Fair Haven (America). His son was killed in an engagement in which the Boers greatly outnumbered the British. The Boers, it is alleged, showed extreme cruelty to the British." The following from the London; "Daily Express" gives some idea of the manner in which the reports of the Cheviot 'earthquake ,were presented to the British public:—"Riven disappears. Earthquake panic in.New, Zealand; -Severe earthquakes have! occurred in the Cheviot County. South Island, New Zealand. A river, disappeared into a fissure, which, closing as suddenly as it opened, threw the water hundreds of feet in_ the air. A large area of the country has been desolated, and the people are fleeing in panic." At the recent Educational Conference, Mr Murray (says the Taranaki "Herald"), in opposing a motion to establish a death benefit fnnd, raised a laugh by vehemently remarking: "I'll allow, no company to bury me!" A little earlier in the session Mr Worley also shook the members up, when, in explaining a certain benefit fund system, /het remarked that the first man to die drew £50. It was some time before it dawned on him what was amusing members, whom he then still further convulsed by getting up to explain that he "did not°mean that the dead man drew £50." On the same subject a little later on, Mr Holmes' objection to a certain scheme was that "if he died he got nothing." An interesting discovery was made at one of the camps of prisoners of war in the Cape Peninsula a few days ago (says the Capetown correspondent of the London "Daily Ms(il"). One of. the prisoners wa3 missing when the roll was called. He was of Continental extraction, l A search was made for him all over«the' camp, but without result until someone began to tear up the floor of the hut, when, sure enough, there was the missing man, concealed under the boards. Further researches resulted in thp discovery on his person of complete designs for the wrecking of trains, and the ingenuity of the invention lies in the fact that it makes use of the pilot engine as part of the machinery necessary to a-comprish the purpose', Whether the inventive individual will be permitted to patent his device has nol. been made known*