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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 77, 30 March 1908, Page 1

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English mail delivered. Manuka leaving for Sydney. Mokoia from Sydney arrived."... Tke American fleet is almost certain" to visit ' Mr. John Burns said the Government intended to pass the Licensing Bill. A sharp shock of earthquake was felt at Wellington shortly before 10 o'clock last night. The United States Senate, by 42 votes to IC,; adopted Senator Aldrich's Currency Bill. Revolutionary demonstration in New; York—one killed, one injured by Anarchist's bomb. Of > 20,000 Anarchists "demonstrating in New York, the greater number were "women wearing the red caps of revolution. ' ■ ' The Government of Spain has congratulated the authors of the Women's Work Exhibition at Sydney on the success of the undertaking. The R.M.S. Himalaya brought over IS tons of silver and copper coin to Adelaide from London, the value being , £43,880. The shipment was iruch the heaviest on record. Draughts players are invited to meet at the Leys Institute, Three Lamps, Pons'onby, to-night (Monday), to arrange for tourneys during the coining winter season.. The vital statistics of New South Wales for 1907 disclose that the estimated population at the end of the year was 1,571,268, an increase on the year of 40,283. in' future bookmakers operating in West Australia will be required to furnish the Income Tax Commissioner with a detailed statement of their operations on every meeting. An officer of the Melbourne Board of Health last week seized about 401b of meat at the restaurant belonging to the Metropolitan Mission, which, was alleged to be unfit for- human food. In reply.toVl question in the House of Representatives, Mr.. Deakin said the Federal Government would' not assist ia sending athletes to the Marathon races at the Olympian games in London. It is stated that in sending the fleet to ■ New Zealand the authorities ara governed partly by the coal facilities, and partly to show, appreciation of Xew Zealand's prompt and cordial invitation. Two children, brothers, were drowned in a waterhole last Friday week, near South Greta Colliery (JSf.S.W.). The bodies were found lying together at the bottom of the hole a day or two afterwards. Mr. Deakin stated last -week that he did not approve of direct taxation by the Federal Parliament, unless the revenue from Customs was insufficient, in which case-he favoured a tax upon the unimproved value of land. While working in a timber yard at Melbourne a few days ago, J. Harrison, champion club swinger of Victoria, got caught in a cutting macEine. His leg was broken, three fingers severed from the left hand, and two from the right hand. The results of the Hospital Saturday collections at Invercargill are said to constitute a record for the Dominion. The total is well over a thousand pounds, of which the town collection totalled nearly £500, and outlying districts about £540.