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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 230, 26 September 1903, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Avondale races, third day. ...■■• Mr Sheridan as Mrs Dooley to-night, Birkenhead is to have a public pound. ''New Magdslene" at thp Opera House. Trams will run to Onehunga Wharf from Monday next. Northern Company's new steamer Rarawa due to-day. The s.s. Zealandia rescued the American barquentine Aurora. The court-martial on 25 officers implicated in the Nish (Servian) plot has begun. The dredge Wh&kairiro has reached Thursday Island en route for New Zealand. Mr Chamberlain. looks to his resignation effecting the early success of hia policy. ■ ■ '■■ . Professor Brown gave a highly-inter-esting- popular lecture on "The Weather" last evening. The torpedo-destroyer . Charger is aslibrc on a sunken rock at Lochness, in the Hebrides. She is muoli damaged. The Messageries steamer Polynesian, which recently stranded at Marseilles, has been rent 20ft under the waterline. Question of abolition of wards will probably be considered at the meeting of the Grey, Lynn Council Monday night. Mr Bedford brought forward a NoConfidence motion to the Imprest Supply Bill, and was defeated by 45 votes to 19. • . .... Yielding to Mr. Seddon's pressure the Admiralty state that the Antarctic expedition will return to New Zealand, probably Lyttelton. ... The "Financial Times" says the breakup of the drought in Australia, and the adoption of a policy of retrenchment with economical administration, justify a hopeful view of an Australian revival." The "Morning Post" lauds Sir E. Barton's patriotic-statesmanship, and says Mr. Deakin is a worthy successor. The Government, it adds. comprises the ablest administrators and debaters in the Commomyealtli.■ •' ' ;V •.. ' , Summer Season.—Everything- new, novel and up-to-date in dainty wearing apparel at McCullagh and. Gower's, 'the popular drapers; ' inspection invited; millinery a specialty. —Ad. Delightfully cool—*Wie new cellular hat; also Panamas. Tuscans, and straws, just opened.—Postles and Palmer, tailors and mercers, -The Strand, Queenstreet.—Ad. ■