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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 230, 26 September 1906, Page 5

I We arc assured the Chinese songs ! sung at the Opera House by Miss Rosa Berry are .actually, in the Chinese language, that they, were sung by Miss Berry in a Chinese theatre before a Chinese audience in Honoulu and Manila. At E. A. Perkins and Co.'s auction sale to-day a seven-roomed house and three-quarter acre section at Mount RosTdll sold for £350. The other properties failed to reach .the reserve. An octnpus, thrown up on the beach at Westport, a few days ago, measured nine feet round the body, and had tentacles ranging from five to twenty-hvo feet long. It was computed that it •weighed over three hundredweight. It ■will, be seen from our advertising columns that a combined meeting of the members and supporters of the Auckland Agricultural and Pastoral Association and New Zealand Farmers' Union in the province of Auckland, will be held at 1.15 p.m. on Friday next, in the Chamber of Commerce, "to protest against the 'Government's Land proposals to abolish j the optional tenure."' The, Master Butchers' Association has decided to increase the price of ment from Monday next. The increase will approximately amount to a halfpenny j per pound all round; the rise being occaI eioned by the continued high price of stock.