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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 66, 18 March 1907, Page 1

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Manuka leaving for Sjsdney, ■'--*. Mokoia. from Sydney arrived. ..'.' English mail arrived, yia Suez.- ' • Cambridge won the boat-race day. ' ■ The town of Derwent, in-Ohb stroyed by the floods. ' <>> wai **»\ A flre in the City-road, London N * did damage estimated ai£2oQooo *' H.M.s. Indomitable,. a among cruisers, haa been laughed at Glasgow. '-' " -7 Mr. Botha's salary wUI be £4000 and that of tho next of the XransvaflLTtfin istry £3000 each. ■ ■ J * lm ' Tlie witness Hummel in the TfcaW.cagA , has been shown by the proaeeuiloa -to ta : a habitual perjurer, " . . . .■ : . A forthcoming libel measure ja New South Wales will be. the preteetiob. ofnewspapers against blackmailing .Rations The-Mayorof Sau Francteee: (SehjnMtj'r and the notorious Abraham Jtnef. haw'been committed fer trjal f eE carrupt practices, j j ,' , • ' ' The damage by the floods (U.S.A.) is estimated at twa nrillioiS sterling. Twonty thousand jeejje homeless. :, Messrs Brown and Sons have atandr doned their contract to float the btrqufl Wai-iti, capsized at oh-' January 28. ™ Exports from New Smith ,!Wales W Japan have nearly doublrd \vitWn tha last two years, the figures ior "1906 :be«' ing £033,730. '. ■ ■ . ■_■;• } . The imports from the -United' Kjßgiom; into New South .Wales laifc. year, amounted to £ 10,047,028, as ;'again»t £8,602,288 during 1006. . • ■ • • • The Hashidate, Itsukuehima/ai&'Mal>'' sushinia, of the Japanese training wpadron, -will arrive in -Wellingtpi about the' 25th inst., on' a six days' visit/V". Tho Japanese in Hawaii have- e&mislji protested against a new order, ojfexehK sion preventing them iron* entering tha : . United States w those islands/ ■ A lad named George Pavla, : levsears ef age, died suddenly in tho WaihlMliosplfcHl on Friday, after a severe attack of colic, caused by eating blackberries-and,, grapes,. The valuation of the bojefflh'.'Rf Qis-. borne has increased frem 43158461 Jistj year to £78,010. fljis, The Ijasi". uo overdraft, fte finances b'eiag.';ffiS7;'iii' credit. v . „.,...■-"". > Charles Levin was ehaargej'tljiarnierni ing with Having etabhed AHred Hoitaiv porter of the Aurora Hotels vAJIe T\9 (the prisoner) v/as being ejected from. the premises. ... The residents in Mr. Upton Sinclair's socialist colony in New Jersey; escaped death by fire by jumping tlnengh c iie~ •windows. The novelist himalf bid' V** narrow escape. The weekly return of the Mt. Eden gaol shows that the total- KteAer .-'otj.' prisoners on Saturday wae 219,anen and--22 women, of whom 17 men- and fouewomen were received during the week.." . Halfpenny ordinary fares, in addition to the still cheaper fares already granted to -workingrmen, were probably to. comeinto the' London; Conniiy Council Northern on February. L ; Miss Wanda. Eadford, -tng Australian; child actress, is givmg'_PrinJCess'yictorii' Louise, daughter of the Kaiser, lessons ; in acting. The Princess, who is tha Kaiser's only daughter, is 15 yeais o£ age. The steamer Eipple, which returned to Lyttelton from the Chathams on Saturday night, repoi-ted that 20 signal rockets ■we're seen in the vicinity of dangerous" rocks on the coast of Pitt Island, on the Bth inst. A bill providing for a central toaidto' control fire brigades throughout New. South Wales is being prepared. Pro-' vision will be made in'the bill for en* , forcing contributions from' mnnicijali" ties and Fire Insurance Companies". The Wairoa geyser, at- wKafcarewa*rewa, "was soaped yesterday afternoon, when there was a splendid display. Thewater shot to a height of over a hundred feet. This is the first time the geyser has been soaped.for thraecmontiis. It was suggested in the' cross-exainina-< tion in a London picture posticard case. that there was a combination- among the publishers of twopenny photograph* to prevent the publishers .of . penny, photographs getting .copies from the photographers. A flre in Karangabape-road on -Saturday night partially destroyed 'the formture warehouse of Mr. W. T. Pethybrid«e and the drapery establishment ot Mr. C. Cox, and damaged the-premises-of Mr. G. McGregoi-j a neighbouring jvatehmaker. . \