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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 65, 16 March 1908, Page 1

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Suez-mail delivered. Mokoia leaving for Sydney. ' ", Manuka from Sydney arrived. Eden won the senior district championship on Saturday. The American Pacific Squadron is to visit Melbourne and- Sydney.. - - Dairy "school for sTbrth Island is to be located at Palmerstou North. Mr. John Fitt, four times Mayor of Parnell, died yesterday morning. The Governor will return _to Auckland from the South to-morrow. The tram service was again seriously interrupted on Saturday evening. Mr. JUeo.. Myers' residence, at Xewmarket, was much damaged by fire on Saturday night. A Fijian named Sekovi was struck by lightning and killed at Naikubukubu, Ba, on the 20th February last. The floods in the Tamworth district of New Soutj* Wales are the worst for 25 years. The Union Company has granted concessions to their engineers estimated to represent about £5000 a year. One of the Japanese Foreign Office staff regarded the American fleet's visit to Australia as a guarantee o£ peace. Unemployed Workmen's Bill rejected by the House of Commons by 265 vote 3 to 116. There was much cross voting. Mr. Asquith declared that the acceptance of the main principle of the Unemployed Bill would ultimately necessitate complete State control of the whole machinery of production. - - -• The imports into France during January and February decreased by half-a-million sterling, .and tLiQ exports -by , three millions, as compared with the same period of last year. Mr. Lloyd-George anticipates that-the new British Patents Act, compelling foreign patentees to manufacture in England, will have the effect of providing, employment for tens of thousands. The weekly return of the Mt. Eden gaol shows that the total number of prisoners on Saturday was 202 men and 25 women, of whom 30 men and one woman were received during the week. Talk of the town! The values at Histed's sale. Thompson's glove-fitting corsets, sizes 19 and 20 only, 2/11 pair) usual price 6/11. Women's black hoae', 4Jd up. Everything reduced .—Histed. Ponsonby-road. — <Ad.)