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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 165, 12 July 1907, Page 1

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. Sitting room only. Fresh tramway trouble. Second reading of Pure Foods Bill was carried on the voices. To-day Orangemen celebrate their '•'Glorious Twelfth." Rand strike outrages include the blowing up a hotel at Boksburg. Fifty-one years ago to-day the Crimea was evacuated by the Allied Armies. Ihe Kussian .Social Democracies are 'removing their headquarters to London. TB'j King received im enthusiastic reception in Dublin. There was not a note of α-fttnl. An English mail, via Suez, is due. to arrive here per Zealandia from Sydney on 'Sunday nest. "Sydney to Adelaide is the latest in " wireless," - accomplished by H.M.S. Powerful and- Challenger. The English mail, via Vancouver, which left here 12th June, arrived Vancouver 3 p.m. on 4th inst. Chamber of Commerce has asked for the immediate extension of the "verandahs" on the platforms of the Auckland station. A woman, identified as Lizzie Brown, alias White, was run over and killed by. a train near the Perta (W.A.) Railway Station. ' Raisuli entrapped Sir Harry Mac Lean while the latter was bearing a letter of pardon to. some of, his (Raisuli's) own tribesmen. Great inconvenience has been caused, to the public by the refusal of conductors to carry passengers beyond those who can .find seats. Referenea was made in the debate on the Scottish Land Values Bill to the favourable effect of similar legislation in New Zealand. Chamber of Commerce voted an emphatic protest against Mr Fowlds' reply to the appeal for increased railway accommodation at Auckland. The King complimented Mr Keeves on the good display made by New Zealand at the Dublin Exhibition, and conversed with liim about the colony. ~ Deposits of kaolin have been discovered at Smart-road, New Plymouth. The yellow clay is three feet in thickness, and the v'ite clay has not been bottomed. The bill which makes seven years' confinement "in a lunatic asylum sufficient grounds for a divorce was read a second, time by the House of Representatives. Law Practitioners Act Amendment Bill (Mr Laurenson), to allow others than, lawyers to conduct cases in police courts, passed its second reading by 39 votes to 30. '. : j .. «.•; Anglo-Australian Exhibition of Women's work was opened by H.KJEL the Duchess of Argyll. The Princess of Wales contributed a screen worked by, herself. Mr Roosevelt's proposal to appoint receivers to the Tobacco Trust .and. pth'ar corpora lions is criticised as being tantamount to "the adoption of Government ov.-ncrshij). . , ■■•] jOii the latest electric underground, jailwayja London all the engines aft- supplied "with telephones. "There are. new 30 miles of "tubes," and nine miles more under construction. " '■-' ,'■ ■Mr. J. V. O'Loghlen has been elected to. the .Federal Senate by a joint Parliamentary'sitting, by 32 votes to 2S, to fill the vacancy created by the unseating of Mr. Vardon .on a technicality. Scottish Land Values Bill passed its second reading, in the House of Commons. Mr" Balfour warned the' House that the bill would be extended to England, and described it as a "wild cat scheme." The statement of th.c manager of the . New' Zealand Football Team (Mr Wylie) f that*none of the players would join in»t!ie professional toiir of Great Britain evoked great enthusiasm at the reception in Sydney. The Pyramus court-martial found Commander Fitzmaurice guilty of an error of judgment in having failed to give an order that Lieutenant Hurst should remain on the bridge until C reef should have been passed. Sir Howard Vincent proposed to the' London Police Commission the flooding of the districts where the hooligan prevails with "flying brigades" of policemen, ■who would visit different districts -without any previous notice. A hearse-was used as an ambulance in the case of a street accident at Warrington (Lancashire). A lad was injured, and the police stopped a hearse that was returning from, a ■ funeral, put him into, it, and conveyed him to the infirmary. . A lighted wax match thrown from the top of a Liverpool (Eng.) tramcar set fire' to the hat of a lady cyclist namedMiss Edith Barnes. Her brother fortunately extinguished the -flames, and the lady was more frightened than injured. Another London electric x '"'tube" (the eighth) was opened on May 11. This railway links the great termini of Eiiston, St. Pa-ncras, and. King's Cross ■with the "City," and forms a new communication between, jxorth and South London. * The cruiser Arrogant before leaving Plymouth took on board 20,000 troutlets and spawn for conveyance to Gibraltar, whence they will be sent to stock neighbouring streams and rivers in the hope of adding this form of sporfc to the meagre attractions at the Rock. A case of death from burning occurred at Burrabadeen,' a few miles from Dubbo (N.S.W.), the victim being a girl named Jane Hourigan, 9 ye"ars old. She was dressing younger children in front of a fire when her clothes became ignited, and she was so. terribly burned that death, tbok place on the same afternoon. Milne and Choyce's sale remaining open until 9 o'clock this evening.—(Ad.X Ladies' coats from 3/11 to 29/6 at drapery , sale. J. A. Bradstreet, Karan-gahape-road.— (Ad.) -Open all day Saturday. Prices, clipped to the lowest point 'on "Good Goods," noted for their excellent qualities, at McCullagh and Gowers iainoua clean sweep sale.—(Ad.) Ladies' arid maids' ready-to-waar hats greatly reduced. 2/6 to 9/11. New goo"ds drapery sale. J. A. -Bradstreet, Karangahape-Toad.—(Ad.) - Ladies' walking skirts from 5/11 to 19/11, at drapery sale. J. A. Bradstreet, Karangahape-road.—- (Ad.)