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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 280, 24 November 1903, Page 1

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Parliament still sitting. Criminal session resumed. Westralia left for Sydney. Harbour Board met this afternoon. "Elijah" by the Choral Society tonight. Musgrove Shakespearian Company; left by the Zealandia. , t The number of dogs registered In Par* nell up to date is 407. Sunday morning tram proposals ap-» proved at Newmarket last nightFormal business was transacted at the Parnell Borough Council last night. The English team defeated New South Wales by an innings and ten.' runs. , Lord Milner stayed with Mr Chamberlain when he was at Home in October. A packed house bade an enthusiastic farewell to the Shakespeare Company: last night"Not fit for pigs," but "fit for a fowl house." was the description of the local fire brigade by a Parnell Councillor lasfe night. The Parnell Council has decided td offer £30 for the valuation of the Council's property during the year 1904-5. ' * ~ ' < Efforts are being made to form * society in Wellington' to increase the interest in the cultivation of rosesSeveral leading growers are moving in the matter. The yacht Kia Ora's departure from. Gisborne for London has been delayed. It is understood that comraunieaticms are passing between Mr Buckeridge and , the Marine Department. Mr Bonwr Lβ ap Iwan, who has been* "spying put the land" with a. view to the transference of the Welsh settlers: from Patagonia to South Africa, has sailed for the latter colonies on his return to South America. A witness whose patience had become' exhausted under cross-examination by, the Crown Prosecutor in the Supreme Court yesterday suddenly exclaimed:! ■"'There's no need for you to rake up» my future career against me." Two sensational suicides are reported! from Sydney. Mr Fitzsimons, chief paymaster, Railway Department, shotl himself while in the Botanical Gardens, and a man named Ryan jumped from the cliffs at the South Head. It is announced that the six students from South Africa holding scholarshipsunder the terms of the will of the late Right Hon. C. J. Rhodes have been Hilotted quarters at Oriel, Wadham, Trinity, Merton, and Keble Colleges, Ox« ford. A Rotterdam firm has 1 contracted Jot the transportation from Newcastle-on-Tyne to Durban of the new floating dot-k, which is now on the sea. Two tugs and a crew of fifteen are being used, and 1800 tons of coal have beert taken, on board the dock, from which; the tugs supply themselves through' pipes, without interrupting the voyage. In answer to a letter forwarded; by Mr T. K. D r o.nne, ■Superintendent of the Tourist Department, to the director of the Louisiana Exhibition, Mr F; J. V. Skiff replies that only pamphlets and literature on New Zealand will be admitted into the United States duty free. Anything to be -sold at the Exposition Aviil be dutiable in the ordinary, manner.