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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 253, 23 October 1905, Page 1

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Suez mail arrived. "Victoria leaving for Sydney.'Frisco mail leaves on Friday. "Star" summary on Wednesday. Zealandia from Sydney arrived. The books in the Sydney public library: number 167,657. . Five railways converging on Moscow are inactive owing to the strike. Auckland Dramatic Society produce The Schoolmistress" to-night. Thousands of people all day filed past the Nelson colmun in Trafalgar Square. .Trafalgar centenary was celebrated with;great enthusiasm in Great Britain. The rowing season was opened by a> procession on the harbour on Saturday ■ afternoon. A general strike is proceeding in Moscow, and the police are employing forea to suppress meetings. At the Navy League banquet in London Mr. Beeves proposed the toast of "The Memory ol Nelson." Defence forces to the number of 660 men paraded in connection with, the Nelson centenary services. ■ New Zealand and other colonial wreaths were greatly admired at the funeral of Sir Henry Irving. Sir Edgard Grey (Liberal Imperialis* I tie) said that the colonial conference ought to be free and unfettered. Odessa police have been instructed td shoot the crowd without first firing a volley in the air, v aa heretofore. The snake-charmer Cleopatra, ant? Bonita, a Tesaarkable rifle shot, are the two nfew attractions at the Opera House, Some of the Anglbphobes among the Paris municipal councillors- became enthusiastically friendly before they left London. ■;•' Prince Louis Napoleon, the relentless Governor of the Caucasus, has resigned his office owing to dislike of the National Dumas. • The Brisbane Municipal Council has closed the Art Gallery in the Town Hall, pending payment of £ 112, due by the Government as rent. Steps are being taken by the DunediM Prbestant Defence Association to celebrate the tercentenary of the frustrsr tion of the gunpowder plot. The Premier has received a cable from Mr. Coghlan, stating that as many as 700 applications have been sent in in London for farms in New South Wales. German query whether France would support England against her has occasioned indignation in J'rance, where thej press favours a strengthening of the en* tente. Commander Phillips of H.M.s. iVietorious was killed - byfalling machinery while directing salvage operations. connected with the stranding of the naval repair ship Assistance^ The Quarry Gommittee of the Ghristi church Gquncil-is going on a : tour *>f. inspeption.shbrtly, with a view of *«£• ~ v devouring, to (discover some place where obtained. •■• A, /fire in the A railway engine shed at Rbtorua in the small hours of this morning burned out that structure and partially destroyed two locomotives. -Traffic-Was' considerably. delayed. . On Saturday evening the members of .the Nelson branch of the' Navy League niet, drank to h tae memory, of JLord Nelson, and cabled to iJondon: living honours Nelson the immortal." The New South Wales Public Works Committee the "other day began an inquiry as to the,..expediency of .erecting the Mitchell liibrary as part of a' complete design for a National library. Supermtendent Woolley sustained severe injuriesj after being thrown front the fire brigade's horse-cart yesterday, through his foot catching in Jthe, red, causing him to be dragged some distanoe on th'e.Dack of his head. " , . ; . It is understood (says, the Marlbtrrough "Times ,, ) that the; vestry of iX* Church of the Nativity, has accepted an . offer of Mrs. T. Carter to present the congregation with a new. pipe-organ, at a cost of £700, ae'a memorial to' her late, husband. ■' i , ' S