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Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 206, 29 August 1904, Page 1

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Spring. Suez mail arrived. Saturday's footbal!. Death of Dean Hole. Paderewski arrived. Taranaki beat Auckland. (Jreat oil tire in Belgium. Port Arthur's last struggle. 'Frisco mail leaves on Friday. Obituary: Capt. I. J. Burgess. Auckland Supreme Court resumed. Eire at the Maiiukan Hotel, Onehunga. Otago beat Canterbury by 20 points to 9. Japs using 300 of their home harbour gains. Marseilles strikers ask six francs (4/0) a day. Kuropatkin withdrawing on his main positions. : Remarkable scenes on a Wellington hockey ground Kuroki is attempting to drive between the Russian forces. There were some 9000 people at Saturday's football match. Inceudiarism is alleged in connection with the Onehunga fire. Sakharoff reports on a Russian attack on the Japanese lines. Queensland general elections have resulted in a big Labour victory. In Saturday's match, Taranaki beat Auckland by three points to nil. , Japanese report Kussian killing of wounded mid mutilating of dead. Complaints are being made that Remuera roads are in places impassable. ■Sakharoff claims to have repulsed the Japanese, but with a loss of 1450 men. Russians are shooting their deserters while crossing the Prussian province of. Silesia. Twenty-threte Japanese fishermen have been killfed by Russians at Kamsehatka. Germans are repatriating Kussian deserters, alleging that they are inipeennious aliens. Germans are said to be supplying Russians witli coal on the north-west coast of Africa. A great oil fire near Antwerp has already cost £250,000, and has entailed a loss of six lives. Foundation stone of Victoria College buildings, Wellington, was laid by the Governor on Saturday. In the fierce fighting at Port Arthur fort Xo. 5 was captured, lost, and recaptured by the Japanese. Crew of wrecked steamer West Australian, who have arrived at Sydney, recount a terrible experience. Two divisions of Japanese infantry and 10 batteries of artillery are operating against Russian main position. Marseilles strikers state that if their demands are not conceded they will extend the strike to all the ports of France. Smolensk and St. Petersburg acted on original Russian Admiralty orders, and ■ , ignored the subsequent orders of Count Lamsdorff. Mr Pirani, M.H.R., appeared as the gallant champion of the sex in a struggle between men and women hockey players at Wellington. Crew of West Australian, after three days' starvation, landed on a desert island, where they obtained a supply of cocpanuts and shell-fish. The Zealandia had a beantiful passage from Sydney.- One passenger was heard to state that the sea all the. wa-y, was "as calm as a mill pond." . ""''i-, - The Birkenhejwl Foresters will, on Friday next, v\hoH r a plain and fancy dress ball in their new hall, to celebrate their third anniversary. The weekly return of Mount -Eiclen Gaol shows thaVthe total prisoners is 171 males and Iβ females, of whom 20 males and no females were received during the week. It was decided last week to commute the death sentence passed at Dubbo, New South Wales, on John Crane, for criminal assault on a girl, to imprisonment for life. Mr Hall-Jones hopes that the Auckland Harbour 80-ard would construct both the llamikau and the Waikaio canals, but points out that the Government cannot make a survey for a private company. An English mail, dated London, July , 22; arrived by the Zealandia from Sydnew last night. The usual personal and miscellaneous news from our London correspondent will be found in this even- < ing's "Star." A shipment of 400 horses, remounts for the Eastern market, left Sydney last week by the "8.1.5-N. Company's steamer Jumna. Of the shipment 120 were from Newcastle. The Jumna, proceeds to Samarang, Singapore, Rangoon and Calcutta. The Australian trade in out-of season fresh fruits from America ; is steadily growing. The latest shipment, which arrived by "the Sonoma recently, comprising pears, plums, peaches and grapes, reached the market in perfect condition, and proved altogether ina<lequate for the demand, the bulk'of it being bonght for other centres in the Commonwealth, as well as some for Noumea. At a recent Melbourne suburban fire a little woman greatly distinguished herself by breaking from fie resfcrax.aing grip of a friend, and rushing irjete ■ the burning building. After an absence of five minutes, she came forth, singed a-nd smoked black, but, otherwise uninjured, and while the cheers of the crowd shook the suburb, it was found that she had rescued a book of blank cheques worth a shilling! The latest "straight front" models -in C.B. corsets are much admired, and are moderate in price.—(Ad.)