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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 87, 11 April 1906, Page 1

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"Star" Summary to-day. Census begins next week. Keassurmg ne\va from. Natal. 'Frisco mail leaves on Friday: Battalion Band in the Albert Parid to-hight..'.'., ■ •. ■ • Great damage was done by th& ashes from "Vesuvius. . >A r ew Education Bill introduced in tba Hoiise ofCommbris. %; . < - - Barricades protect Pompeii from 'fur* ther inroads of-the lava. Under the heVbjll all schools 'it. Ehgland will,be under.public control. '■-'■'. ' : T -,''' New Zealand surplus for the financial year just closed as estimated at i 775---,-000. -,;';-;. It is probable that within a couple of months H.M.s. Powerful will visit Singapore. Some boys trod' on a morass. of cooling lava from ;Vesuvius r and were engulphed. - :"• , . .- ■- Roof of Naples market collapsed under the ashes, killing seven arid injuring seventy.' ...; ■..;>■■ ■..',.. '- ... Mr. E. W. Alison last night agreed ti> accept another years office as Mayor of Devonport. • * Bambaata is now at bay in an. impenetrable forest. The militia is "about to be-dismissed. ' r " Iving arid Queen;; of Italy passe* through the devastated villages at great personal risk;- y/,v. : v . .Anglicans and> (Roman .Catholics in England are strongly denouncing the new Education Bill. \ ' : Premiers' Conference introduced a new clause, transferying :.the State debt* ? to the Commonwealth. Vesuvius has ceased expelling rocks, increasing emissions ofVsarid aire dcinng heavy damage.Sfr: : J J J. Robertson, a well-known grazier, shot himself at Her Majesty's Hotel,, last week. - Pressure of sand from Vesuvius oil. roofs of houses and-church at San Giuseppe caused tKe death of 200 persons. Federal-Hoiilder steamer Dorset is to be the first of the line to trade directly between New Zealand and London.. > ■'.' .'."■ Many amendments -are foreshadowed at the second reading stage of "The Education Bill" in the House .of Commons.;-..' - . . lie Mry Augustine Billerr.^rovided' Bible-teachV I ing (to be optional to the pupil) in all sciibols. . ' ■'.. . ' .-. " " The-Nikko Maru, specially, built 5» Japan for the ', Japanese-Australian mail service, arrived in Sydney* last week on her maiden voyage. "T -•■'* •■ .On the stated; grounds of • fighting the shipping. combination, the Feder ab-Houl--der Company is "reducing its'fares to, 25 guineas and 12-* guineas. "' . Last year's' New:; Zealand revenue was £7,653,300, and expenditure £7.139,300, leaving a balarice of 514,000,-or, with the sum brought forward, £.775,000. ' -Cornelius Crowe,: an ex-eonstablc j; h»9 been cbrnmitted ior trialsaik'Melbourne for sending a threatening letter to G: H. Bennett, M.L.1., demanding £25. ;'. An outbreak of fiiein the Tyser liner ifimii-0 was discoveyied yesterday after-nbonV-OT4-extingqish^-by : aftei; some minor damage''had'■ 'bteeii done. Mr. J. Eamsay Maedonald; (Labbnr)i is to'move an amendment for the.teachr | i n g .°f "secular subjects only withii school hours.and from the public funds. Devonport Borough Council decided I that : -it : was prepared to entertain a- proposal ,by Messrs. Russell and Campbell I for an electric, tramway system in the borough of Devonport. While- supporting the "White AusMr.. George; Reid said yesterday that he was convinced that it should be! one of the great laims "of Australia to get on terms of friendship with Japan. A commission'is "taking evidence in Queensland in regard tp,;the supply Jabour for the.canefields. -Cane farmer! agree'; that when.'/the kanakas(are de» ported there will be a difficulty in get* ting a supply, of suitable labour. : : The Queensland Public: Service 'Boar 4 has requested the resignatipri of Dri J. Stockwell (medical superintendent of the Dunwicb Asylum)... Dr. Stockwell intends to. issue a writ: against tie Government claiming £10,000 damages for; allegedwrongful-disnussal. l-f.