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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 24, 27 January 1906, Page 1

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Takapuna races to-day. < Anniversary Day on Monday. Military tournament at iUlersUe. The Colonial Conference of Premier* has been postponed for a year. The Salvation Army's City Band will play in the Albert Park on Sunday afternoon. Arizona and .New Mexico and Ukh*homa have been constituted, new A_a» erican States. Sunday morning service at New, Church Hall. "Calamities and t___ Divine Providence." English mail, via Suez, which left here on 11th December, arrived London afternoon, 21st inst. The Government has granted £3500 for the erection of a technical school in brick, in New Plymouth. Many Lancashire operatives are revolting against the employment of Labour Union funds for political purposes. Six workingmen, three being Liberals and three Conservatives, all favour tariff reform after a visit to Oennany. Mr Balfour has accepted the offer ol the Hon. Aiban Gibbs to retire from the representation of the Uity of London in his favour. An area of 20 acres ot land, opposite the Lower Hutt Railway Station, Wellington, has been bought by a syndicate for £30,000. From the 18th to 22nd inst. 510 trout were caught at Rotorua, the aggregate weight being 17471b. On Friday a Impounder was caught. Miss Jessie Aekercnan, a missionary, recently put on a diver's suit in Ceylon, and brought up from the paara, or pearl oyster beds, seven valuable pearls. The Cape Premier (Dr. Jameson) anticipates the very early concession of gpvemment to the Transvaal and the Orange River Colony. The Premier says that rather, than allow New Zealand to come under the heel of the shipping companies we might as well have steamers of our own and carry freights. A sale of leases look place at Rotorua yesterday. Eighty-nine .sections were submitted and 34 sold. In most eases the sections brought more than the upset price, and in some cases double. A self- levelling bunk for the prevention of sea-sickness, which has been tried for some years past on the Dover Calais service, has been found so successful that it is proposed to mstai it on all steamers. As a consequence of disaster, Charing Uross Station will re* main closed until February. Those familiar with this terminus—one of tbe eight greater stations of London—will realise the dislocation of traffic that this will involve. At a meeting attended by 28 business men held in Timaru, it was resolved to reestablish the Chamber of Commerce for South Canterbury. Mr J. P. Newman, manager of the Farmers 5 Association, was elected'pre_i_lnt,-*;'; ; ; . -The cabled parallels for Mr John Burns' accession to the Ministry after having served a term of imprisonment (for' a, political' offence) -oxoitte'd reference to Dr. Jamesoli, who was" in prison for the better part of a ten-month, sentence for his Raid, and is now Premier of Cape Colony. The ladies and the general public know that MeCullagh and Uower do not sell off all' the year, but when they do they get genuine reductions on "good goods." —Ad. The Stamford Park Estate at back of St. John's College, Epsom, will be auctioned in large sections on Monday, 12th Februrary, by Messrs Warren Blyth and Co. Do not fail to view thii estate.—Ad. ■ •