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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 144, 18 June 1906, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

■Waterloo Day. . '.Frisco mail due on Wednesday. Premier's funeral takes place at 2.39 i p.m. on Thursday. Memorial services were held in'many Auckland churches yesterday. Further serious disturbances are announced from. Southern Russia. References , 'to Mr. Seddon were made in many churches throughout Australia yesterday. Anderson pantomime " season opened and the circus season closed on Saturday night. . A Catholic priest at Byelostok, in Southern Russia, was blown to pieces by a bomb. ~ ' \ ' The Oswestry Grange, anchored in the stream at Wellington at 10 o'clock on Saturday night.

The American House of Representatives has adopted the lock system of canal for Panama. .

Wool fire in the Pitcairn Island is attributed in London ,'to the • chemical action of the sheep-dip. .

The police raided the States Sporting Club, in Pitt-street, on Saturday night, and arrested 26 persons. The toll telephone question in Australia is to remaitL in abeyance "until the Federal Postmaeteh-General returns from Europe.

The memorial service' to Mr. Scddon in St. PaUl Cathedral, according to the latest cable advice, will take' place at noon on Tuesday. •,

At football on Saturday City beat North Shore (20—0), Graf ton beat-New-ton (6 —0), ond Parnell was defeated by Ponsonby , " (0—8). • '»

Mr. Roosevelt is determined - to secure adequate legislation in regard to the meat abuses'even at the cost of an extra session of.Congress.

The Railway Commissioners are experimenting with a" poisonous specific for the destruction of vegetation on the lines, the use of oil not being a success.

The veteran scullers ? race, in Sydiiey, has been fixed for. August 4." Beach, Kemp, McLean, Green,. Rush, Laycock, Clifford, and Pearce have accepted for the event. , ■ ■

The Union Company's turbine steamer Maheno completed the- passage frprji Vancouver. via Honolulu, Fiji, and Brisbane, to Sydney, in the fast time, of ,21 days 15 hours. . .

The Legislative Council at Capetown by 14 votes to, 11 has accepted ..the Customs convention, but added a rider regrettihg the inclusion of the principle of preference.

The death is announced! from Sydney of George Gilbert/ the veteran, cricketer. He captained the first New South Wales team against Victoria. -He was a cousin of W. G. Grace. . . . -. . .

The Giand Duke Vladimir's motive iv visiting-Berlin is understood to Ije' the arrangement, of an understanding for joint action in. the case of a jising in the western provinces of Russia. ■ ,'".'■ The weekly return of the Auckland ; Gaol shows that the total number in the ■ prison on Saturday was .266 njen and 23 \ women, of whom 28 men and four vromen were received during thQ weels. f „ , ' The -death ot'Mr.j.s 1 Shields, first engineer for railways in I 'iSesv Scutli occurred' - recently in Englaaid. He was engineer- to the Sydney Railway Company in 1849. Sir. Hall-Jones and the rdembers of Mr. , Seddon's family went out to the -Oswes* try Grange as she lay in the stream. Members of Parliament went on board ' to see the body on the arrival of the steamer at the wharf. A wedding party met'with a mishap over the Herberton ■ Range at Atherton (Queensland).- The horse . bolted,' and the vehicle collided with a . bank of the range. The bridegroom, bride, best man, and a bridesmaid were: .

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