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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIII, Issue 150, 26 June 1902, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Bishop.\Cowie is dead. - World-wide Sympathy for the King. .The banks were, .all closed to-day. Intercession Services ''in the churches to-day. - ,* The late Bischop Cowie will be given a military liineral on Saturday. President Roosevelt has sent;; a sympathetic message to the King.. Large losses will be made in conneotion with, the Coronation insurances. The funeral of the late Hon. S. E.ShrinasM takes place to-morrow-afternoon. Lighting struck a church fa Spain, according to our cables; and killed 25 people and 35 were injured. - The King's illness on the eve of the Coronation, is regarded as a bad omen by the Indian troops in London. The distribution of food and of money orders Up to 5/ to the Sydney poor commenced yesterday. A man jumped from an upstairs window of the Victoria Hotel, Auckland, last night, and was killed. Mr Barton, Mr Seddon and the colonial Agents-General have sent messages \ of condolence to the-; Royal Family. It is stated that if the operation had not .been performed on the King on Tuesday he would have died in a few hours. Gisborne held high holiday to-day on the occasion of the opening of the first section of the railway in the direction, of Karaka. The Commonwealth and State eele* brations in Melbourne proceed-, fag to-day in spite of the postponement of the Coronation. •'■'*.. A bulletin issued in London At 2 p.m. yesterday stated that the King had passed a comfortable morning, and that his condition so iar waf satisfactory. > '. Mr H. W. Brabant, S.M-, ah& Lieut.Col- Banks were amongst the passengers who ■arrived ■at Cmehunga from New Plymouth by the s.s. Rdtoiti this morning. " Inspector Cullen has received a telegram front Wellington announcing the arrest of a man narped WilHahi. Wells, alias West, on the charge oj£ having stolen a of jevVel_eif£ at Auckland. ,\' ''■'■■ / v J Captain Rose, another of the Huddart Parker Company's eommande__,; has been appointed to a vacancy* in \ the Melbourne pilot §er vice, sjihilar to that to which Captain was appointed a few days .ago. The Representation have concluded their labours att-Wel-lington, and prepared their report for presentation to the GOveirhor. , After being signed by His Excellency it will be gazetted and distributed throughout the colony. At the HaWke's Bay Gun Club's meeting at Napier yesterday'the Open. ' | Winter Handicap, of■'.. 125 soys, was Vtfonby Mr C. H. Gorrick, a wellknown New South Wales shot, who 'killed 42 birds without a miss. Mr, Alexander took second place with 40 birds.'.. , ■> ■ , The Auckland police have arrested •.*a''fß^-_i?.; : roa, charges of vagrancy and< opiumrsmdking fn a Chinege den in Wakefieldstreet. This is the first occasion on Which a European has been charged . here with opiumrsmoldrig, .which ia how an offence against the law. * - Our Hamilton correspondent wires: "The following tenders have been received by the Borough Council in . connection with the water supply— .Pipes, etc., Briscoe and Co. £2222,' - Porter and Co. £2149 (accepted). Pumping plant—Porter and Co. £299, Chambers and Son £ 244 (accepted)." .^rSmythies,.manager of the Wanganui Gasworks, has been selected by the Masterton Borough Council - to give an expert report on the gasworks there for a fee of 50 guineas. If reconstruction is found necessary ■ it will probably entail an expenditure / of another £7000, which will require a:vote of the ratepayers. In the course of an address (says the Patea "Star") /the' Rev. T. •G; Hammond (Wesleyan missionary, fa ; Taranaki) referred in glowing terms to :the noble work that' was being done by the Native Minister (the Hon. J. Carroll) amongst the Maoris. He was going about in his own way, but, nevertheless, he was working a remarkable change for good amongst his people. Yesterday's "Waikato Argus" says: "We are informed that on Monday, night a man -was relieved of about £120 in Te Kuiti.' He cashed a drafs for that amount during the afternoon, intending to leave for California the following jnormng. On, awaking, however, he was surprised to .find that the money had disappeared. Needless to say, his departure from the colony ; is postponed for some time, if not indefinitely.'' . ~-_..' Mr George Forbes (says an Eng*lish paper) is. an inventor who has the courag-e of his opinions. Unlike the inventor of a bullet-proof jacket, who disappeared when the Duke of Wellington proposed to test the patent on the person of the patentee, Mr Forbes obtained permission fnom the War Office to try his range-finder in actual warfare, and he recently returned to London from the front, after taking part in several skirmishes in Cape Colony. His rangpfinder has won the approval not only of General French, to whose corps-V he was attached, but of Tommy At-, kins, who soon became an adept in the use of the instrument.