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Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 36, 11 February 1904, Page 1

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Bravo, Japan! British Consols BGA. Siege of Port Arthur. Supreme Court proceeding. Avondale Show to-morrow. Russian fleet "battled up." Circus to-night at Onehunga. Sheep fair at Otahuhu to-day. Grey Lynn Fire Brigade resigned.. Japap victorious all along the line. Port Arthur may have to capitulate. Trades and Labour Council met last night. Veterans' Home Art Union drawn this morning. Two locomotives collided in Wellington yards. Remarkable escape from burial aliver-ia Wairarapa. Minister for Lands arrives in Auckland on Friday. Bush contract let in Xorth invoMna £40,000 wages. Total yield to date from N.Z. Grown Mines £554,270. Local wheat market firming as a result of the news of war. Governor. Premier and party Chatham Islands to-morrow. discipline was perfect sad their shooting remarkable. Early relaxation of quarantine restrictions in Australia anticipated. Penrose Rifle Range compensation case heard to-day. Claim £7274. ■'Sacerdotalism is a bogey I don* feai " said Dnan Fitc-hett last night. Coalition between Mr Deakin and Mr Reid suspected by Australian Labour Party. X.Z. Crown Mines Trust has got £4201 worth of gold from 2810 tons of quartz. A little friction between British, and French is discountenanced at headquarters. Tender accepted by Government for bridge over Ohinemuri River on PaeroaWaihi railway. Tom Roberts' picture of opening of Commonwealth Parliament to be presented to King. Natives at Hastings yesterday present* ed address of loyalty* to the "King and! his representatives. Public inquiry into dismissal of an engine-driver by City Council asked by, Trades and Labour Council. Bishop of Melanesia hopes to invite the General Synod to meet at Norfolk Island next triennial session. Commercial reciprocity between America. Australia, and New Zealand predicted by Sir Joseph Ward. Dunedin Chamber of Commerce claims representation of Chambers of Commerce on (secondary school boards for encouragement of technical education. Question of the Church in New Zealand's taking, over the Bishop of London's jurisdiction in the Pacific has been left to the Bench of Bishops to deal with. Duuedin music teachers have decided to establish society' teachers, similar to I Auckland body, and take steps for the federation of musical bodies in New , Zealand. Dnnedin music teachers hav.e deplored withdrawal of railway concessions to music pupils as inimical to cause of music and cause of loss to teachers. They have decided to memorialise the Government on the matter, and to ask the combined assistance of music teachers throughout the colony.