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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIII, Issue 273, 17 November 1902, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Electric tramways opened. Ventnor wreck inquiry resumed. Supreme Court criminal spssioiia opened to-day. The Auckland Anglican fjiynod ia now in session. A fatal railway accident/ occurred on Saturday evening- at EUerslie. At the end of last wee& tnere were 177 male prisoners and ,12 females in Mount J£aen gaol. An Anarchist has isoade an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Jung Leopold of ±$elgiun>_ The Antarctic relief vessel Mornr ing (an auxiliary screw barque) has arrived at Lytteit/tin from London after a passage of, 130 days. i Tlie steamer Mararoa, whi<fe arrived yesterday fW>m the South, saw nothing of tha Elingainite's missing, boat on hex passage up from. Gisborne. i A Norwegian ship has been abandoned waterlogged in the North Atlantic- Thirteen of the crew were urowned, and the rest have been landed on the Cornwall coast. Dr. Wi Maui Pomare, Native Health. Officer, has lately been touring the Itay a£ Islands ajid adjacent districts in the North, addressing the Maoris on health matters. Recently he addressed a gathering of over 500 .of the Ngapuhi tribe at Kaikohe. Mr Donne, secretary for the Industries and Commerce Department, dustries and Commerce Department^ informs us' that the s.s. Devon will be the next steamer for South Africa under contract to the New Zealand Government, and that she will leave New Zealand during the first weekia December. "Professor" Morey, describing, himself as a clairvoyant, wae fined 40/ and costs at Wangamii on Saturday for fortune-telling. The prosecution was the result of an expose by two prominent citizens, who consulted him and published the interview in the Wanganui "Herald," in which "Professor" Morey^s clairvoyancy was characterised as unadulterated humbug, from beginning to end. The death is announced, of Mr A. E. Dunn, formerly of Straban, County; Tyrone, Ireland, who arrived here in the first iron vessel which arrived in. Auckland Harbour (the ship Martaban), on the Bth October,-1856. The deceased was one of the oldest publicans on the Thames and Ohinemuri goldfields. Returning to Auckland, he carried oji the business of the old Wellington Hotel and also the Market Hotel, from which he retired some ten years ago. He leaves a wife, two sons and two daughters. Last week a party, of visitors from Eotorua had an exciting experience at Waimangu geyser, Rotomahana. They were within a hundred yards on the windward side, when an immense eruption took place. The party started to run, but were completely overwhelmed with the shower of Kiu*d and stooes, Mr and Mrs Burston .being struck down with stones and the whole party saturated with mud. Mr Eurston was struck on this shouJder and was badly bruised; Mrs Uurston was struck on the back, the stone cutting through her c/iothing.