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Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 201, 23 August 1904, Page 1

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iM.iraroa left for Sydney. Burglary at Mount Eden. Exciting incidents at Shanghai. America and Chinese neutrality. Licensing Election Bill described. British team were delighted with Rotorua. Remuera tram service begins tomorrow. British surprised and captured armed Tibetans. Enthusiastic farewell to the British football team. Russians report severe Japanese defeat at Port Arthur. Supposed Russian warships have been sighted off Cape Colony. Reservists of GO Russian districts and all reserve officers enrolled. Prince Louis is the English royal sponsor of the infant Czarevitch. One German, two British, four French, and eight American warships are at Shanghai. Japs have made a lengthy defence of their seizure of the Russian destroyer Rechitelin. The Auckland Shakespeare Society at V.M.C.A. Hall to-night in "She Stoops to Conquer." The bill for providing a second poll in the case of disputed elections was circulated last night. The Japanese say that if they don't take Port Arthur in three dfiys a long siege will follow. A private house at the corner of Mt. Eden-road was broken into and robbed on Saturday afternoon. Battleship Mars ran aground at Queenstown Harbour, but got off again by means of her engines. There are prospects 'of a Federal Opposition coalition of Labour members with other Anti-Reidites. Mr J. G. Scott, accountant of the Auckland branch of the Bank of New Zealand, died this morning. British team emphasised that the Rotorua match was a "scratch' affair, and not part of the regular programm/e. American Consul has summoned the other consuls to co-operate in the protection of foreign interests at Shanghai. The Japanese destroyer sent to Shanghai to deal with the refugee warships was intercepted by an American destroyer. One carter to another, as late as this morning: '"Was y'out at th' football match Satidv?" "Nao. Workin , ." "Pore fella!" The Japanese justilied their seizure on the grounds of the Chinese incapability of defending neutrality, and the Russian abuse thereof. JJIt. ii. Miura, Director of the Im-pei-ial Government Stud, Japagi, is in Sydney to purchase horses, and to investigate the system of horse-breedisig in that State. , British representatives sang several part songs from the Mararoa, much to ithe delight of the crowd which, had come to bid them farewell. Claude Baker (40), a boxmaker, was ■working at a saw-bench at the Glebe, of Sydney, on Saturday, August 13, when a splinter flew into his eye. and, lolled .him. Lord , Rosebeiy French Treaty on the grojinil in the future be rather 'the the means of avoiding to Morocco. *'-^V''' :i i:'3>-. 1 .-., By the new Electoral Bill ■ employers of labour are compelled' to" afford employees reasonable opportunity of enrolling their names and recording their votes. ,&§!&>. The senl'eritof'Mlf* death passed upon Mary !May McCauley. or Moran, New South Wales, for IHe murder of her infant at Devossifire-street, City, has been commuted to five years' imprisonment, with light labour.

Like Birmingham University, the University of Manchester lias organised a Faculty of Commerce. Two degrees are to be given—*'B. Com.," or Bachelor of Commerce, and "M. Com.," or Master of Commerce." The cemetery at Brookwood, near Wo king, is probably the only one in England that hae a railway station inside the grounds. This is used chiefly for the purposes of the crematorium there. There is a fair-sized platform, with a waiting room upon it, and a small "mortuary," the structure may be so termed. The British football team were stale, says their captain, in accounting for their crushing defeat by Auckland. This was undoubtedly the case to some extent, but there will be nothing stale about the souvenir issue of the "Graphic" issued to-morrow. The finest number of its kind ever issued in New Zealand. Every picture full of life and vigour. "A scratch match" is Manager O'Brien's description of the Maori v. Britain match, and no doubt he was correct. It is equally truthful, however, that there is nothing of the scratch number of the "Graphic" souvenir issue to be published to-morrow. Nothing to equal it has heretofore been attempted in connection with football. It will become as historic as the famous matches themselves. The pictures are unique, and the descriptions of the play the work of experts. "It was a famous victory" the match of Saturday, and everyone is still talking of it. But after eight o'clock to-mor-row morning the equally famous victory scored by the '"New Zealand Graphic" with its souvenir football number will absorb public attention. The panorama of the vast crowd at Alexandra Park specially printed for framing on art paper, unbacked, will hang in thousands of N.Z. homes. Copies should be ordered at once. All the pretty C.B. corsets shown ott C.B. stands are "genuine corsets," no* pasted on for effect.—Ad.