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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIII, Issue 77, 2 April 1902, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Heavy rainfall. Tenth Contingenters left for t We£. lington to-day. . M - . The King has offered a £100 cups for an international yacht race. The Trades and Labour Councils.' Conference resumed this morning. Horses for South Africa' .'will' bc| purchased to-morrow at Remuera. The mail steamer Sonoma leaves^ here for San Francisco next Saturday. Seventy-five persons have been; killed by a mine explosion at Tenressee. The Republic of Colombia is well* to sell to America, her lights in the Panama Canal. The AVaitekauri G.M. Co. yielded £4300 -worth of gold for the four, weeks ending March 22. His Excellency the Governor is ex-> peeted to arrive in Auckland on Sat-< urday morning- next by the s.s. Tu-< tanekai. The New Zealjmd Contingent for, the King's Coronation will include 12 men from each of the South African; contingents. Mr Lee, late inspector of schools, has been elected a member of the Wellington Education Board by a substantial majority. - ilr Charles Hanson, manager of the Northern Steamship Co., was a passenger to New Plymouth by. the Ngapuhi yesterday. The last three nights of "The Rose .of Persia" at the Opera House are announced. On Saturday night! "Eiorodora" will be revived. Mr Blomfield, storekeeper, was brought into the Whangarei Hospitalfrom Hikurangi on Monday, haying been badly crushed by a log rolling on him.The Rev. R. JF. Macnicol has resigned the active pastorate of St. James* Presbyterian Ckurch (to which he was inducted 33 years ago), owing! to ill-health. During the year ended March 31 the Customs duties collected at the! port of Wellington amounted to £509,713, as against £.'503,093 for the previous year. ' - : - . ■ Between 200 and 300 applications have been received by the New Zealand Education Department for thei 20 teacherships in the Boer concentration camps. Mr Paul Hansen, of the Electric; Tramways Co., left last evening for, Christehurch in connection with the! proposals to provide that city withi electric ti^amways. During the year ended March 31 relief was granted by the Wellington Benevolent Trustees to 433 persons, the total number of rations granted: being 51,951, of an average value of 3*d each. , 3 "it is estimated that the Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth Contingents will deplete New Zealand to the extent! of 4000 horses, in addition to which! a special shipment of 700 horses is now being collected by Imperial re*, 'mctnrt' officers for South AfHca. '-"j; ' Tile Mangere Boat? Board has been! informed that some steamer lately} collided with the bridge over the Manukau at Mangere. It was decided! to make enquiries of-the Onehimga harbmir master and to secure am engineer's services to report as to the damage. . ' .. , Two men named Joseph Martin and Herbert Edmonds were working on' Mr".Gibbons' new sawmill shed jat Kopu yesterday afternoon when a sud* den jsquall of wihd struck the) radcters on which they were at work and blew, them over. Both men were thrown; down violently. , Edmonds was noti much hurt, but Martin had his back sprajned, his arm and head injured* and is now in the Thames.Hospital. Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace, who came out with the Royal party to Auckland last year, wrote to Ih\ J. L« Campbell' shortly after returning tot England, asking him to send, a goods photo, or photos, of Auckland. " Dr. Campbell sent several, and has nowi received an answer from Sir Donald! thanking him. Sir Donald states hi* book chi the Royal tour is now. in! hand. .'-''■ ' Mrs Cabb Robinson, of W Taihi, died! at the Thames Hospital yesterday as; the result of swallowing a small plum! stone, which had ulcerated the lining^ of the stomach. She underwent am operation at the hospital, but gradu.-* ally became worse and died. She wasl the only daughter of Mr Robert! Henry, 'of Waihi, and had only been; married about four weeks to Mr Cabb( Robin son> son of the late Mr Ebenezeu Robinson... .'':.'.. . ' A somewhat sensational and dangerous method of leaving their vessel .was adopted by two sailors attached to the American ship Elwell '(says the Melbourne "Argus"). Whilst the vessel was being towed down the river, to the bay the men; jumped overboard and swam ashore. The reason given for,this desperate act is that the vessel was shorthanded, and the men were deter* mined not to go- to sea in her until her full complement was made up. Mr Northcroft^ S.M. (says a Waikato paper) made some very caustic comments upon the evidence given, by witnesses in the sly-grog cases; ati Te Awamutu. He said the King Country produced the greatest lot of liars he has had to do with in all his experience as a magistrate. If Ananias were present in the' King Country he would be taken as a paragon of veracity. He thought the King Country contained the sweepings of New Zealand —he felt tempted to say the world—so far as accomplished liars wera concerned. He did not intend Ms remarks to apply to the general body of settlers in the King Country, but to those who had come before him in connection with these cases during the last two years. ' Milne and Choyce have just opened a job parcel of ladies' tnree-qnarter length jackets, latest shades, and smartly trimmed with braidings, applique and velvet collars and pipings, at 19/6, 21/, 33/6, 25/6, and 29/6. Se* windows. —(Advt.)