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Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 200, 22 August 1904, Page 1

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The great victory. Thirteen points to nil. More about.the match. Moana. arrived from Sydney. Three Westport shops burned. Mararoa for Sydney to-night. Supreme Court —Civil Sittings. Yesterday was Citizen Sunday. Continual fighting at Port Arthur. Japanese repulse reported at Chifu. Auckland Institute lecture to-night. Japs said to be milking for Mukden. Tremendous bombardment of Port Arthur. t. , Panic on the American wheat market in London. Paderewski leaves for Auckland o_ Wedensday. Russian cruiser Novik driven ashore by Japanese. Wellington heat Canterbury by six pnints to three. Negotiations for Anglo - Austria™ arbitration treaty. Bedeil-Sivwright says the game was hard, hut not rough. The Russian cruiser Diana is at th* French port of Saigon. Auckland visibly rejoiced for t\vci days over the football victory. The "Westport Coal Company's output last week was 6585 tons locwt. The Governor was cordially received at Dunedin, Ashburlon and Timaru. Incoming ships had hard work vita the gale on Saturday and yesterday. ' Bedell-Sivwright and his men sail-to-night. They will get a great send-off. Another splendid performance of '•'Martha" was given on Saturday night. British team return from Rotorua just in time to get the Sydney boat ai, 10 o'clock. German naval attache was picked up from a junk by the Japanese and sent to Kiao-chau. Hundreds of children at Bristol (England) are suffering from an epidemic of milk poisoning. Sutherland was sentenced to oneyear's imprisonment for breach of the bankruptcy law. Mr Hall-Jones refused to establish! an Appeal Court to deal with the grievances of asylum attendants. Dunedin recorded only -to births in July against 113 in Wellington, 107 in Christchurch, and 150 in Auckland. Dr. Parkes had a narrow escape from having his. motor car caught between two tramcars on Saturday afternoon. The weekly return of the Mount Eden Gaol shows the total number of prisoners to be 170 males and 10 fe- | males. I Cabled reports indicate that New Zealand butter is rising in favour in London, while Australian is regarded as having deteriorated. Of the 42 prisoners classed as "discharged" from Mount Eden Gaol, 22 regained absolute freedom, ten were i sent to Waiotapu, and ten to Waipa. The withdrawal to Odessa of the [Russian transports, which were to ] have accompanied the Baltic Squadron, !is takeft to signify that that fleet wilt not sail.for the Far East. ;*" ~A.i- ihe annual meeting of the South Canterbury Dairy Company it was stated that the total sale of butter and milk amounted in value to £21,700, giving a profit for the year of £964. Copies of the "Star" containing a full account of the great football match were selling in the town and suburbs as the crowd were returning from Alexandra Park on Saturday. A Greymouth telegram states that one-third of the miners in the Brunncr and Tyneside coal mines were thrown out of work at noon on Saturday. Tha labour market, there is already congested, ..'..'."••

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The "Staris" special telephone between the office and football ground on Saturday enabled us to post our bulletins showing the progress of the match fully a quarter of an hour ahead of any other announcements. The Wellington City Council lias accepted the tender oi Mr H. Fielder (Wellington) at £672 for furnishing t-he council c-haiaber of the new towa hail. A tender was also accepted for 350U chairs for the town hall at 6/l_ each. All the pretty C.B. corsets shown on C.B. stands are "genuine corsets/ not pasted on for effect.—Ad.