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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 69, 20 March 1908, Page 2

At a meeting of the Agricultural Association last year a sub-committee was appointed to ask the City Council for n. subsidy towards prizes for the best kept tlairir- or' over ;ui<l under thirty cows. To-day .Mr. Kobert Hall reported that the (.'oiineil h;ul nut seen it* way to as -Ui. iiolrlinp thnt it- duty rummenord when the milk reached the city. Xlio matter hail, therefore, fallen through. The (nlleetor of I nstoms I.Mr. .1. .Mills) advi-c- ilia I tlic magisterial inquiry into thr cin.-um-tanco«» connected with the collision in the Auckland harbour between flic Union Company's collier Wairuua and the ketch Moonah on the night of the 10th inst.. v. ill hp opened at thr Magistrate's Court. Auckland, at 0..'50 a.m v on Wednesday next. District Judge C. f . Kettle will preside, and C'ap;ains J. Adam.-ion and (Jeo. Jlclvenzie will act a.s nautic-.il assessors. A penciller named Hannah, while watching a race at the \apier Park Uacin:; C'lnh's mcctinp. had his satchel robbed of iSO. Chr.se was •riven one man, but he eluded capture. Another hookmak'-r closed his "bag" early daring the morning-. <;iyinjj he was hit to the amount of JL' 4n:i. These incidents go lo show how quickly motley changes hands ou the racecourse. Sir Joseph Ward lia e i-onsemed to receive a deputation from the Auckland Railways League, on Thursday next at the Chamber of Commerce room. Swanj son-street. It will !,<■ seen by an adver-[ii-e-iM'nt in iiur columns that th" I.easite I invite their subscribers and the general i public.- interested, to be present. At Mr. Thornes' land auction sale today a property having ?,:; feet front ope Ito Abbott's road. Mt. Eden, with a ro ' t tage of 5 rooms theroon. \va- submitted I and sold for £350.