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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 230, 25 September 1908, Page 1

TABLE TALK. Dominion Day to-morrow. A typhoon has caused great lass of life in the Philippines. The City Council has now 115 customers ior the supply of electric light. An American mail is, now due to arrive here, per Gymeric, from 'Frisco. The serious increase iv cholera in Sfc. Petersburg is largely due to the gravediggers' strike. I Germ_ay has sent a conciliatory replyto the Franco-Spanish note regarding tha future oi Morocco. Two electric cars collided in a fog as Philadelphia, seven passengers being killed and ~2 injured. It is expected that tenders for Ihe new Auckland Post Otiiee will be invited in the course of a tew days. Redmond and Devlin addressed a United Irish League Convention in Boston, and raided sO.uOO dollars. An explosion at the Dunedin gas works last iiignt resulted in the partial de=true- , tiun 01 the ammonia plant. | The Bahama Islands aave been devas- : tated by a hurricane, honors being destroyed a_i vessels wrecked. j Mr. protests again&t tha ; name of Karangahape-road, as being too long, and hard to pronounce. 3ir. Harry Boyle, agent for the Northern _.S. Co. Ac Te Puke, was drowned yesterday in the Kaituna. River. The ICS. training cruiser Yankee is ashore a: Buzzard's Bay. Massachusetts, with several holes in her bottom. Roosevelt describes Haskell, Democrat!Treasurer, as a corrupt official, and as the tool of the Standard Oil Trust. Lord Brassey, ex-tiovemor of Victoria, expressed profound satisfaction at the Admiralty's new policy in regard to naval defence. The ammonia, plant in the _>_nedin grasworks was partially destroyed by an explosion on Wednesday nigku No person •.vas injured. The Hinemoa has rertrrned from a. fruitless search for the Loch Lomond, having visited the Solanders, the Snarej and the Traps. The Dunedin Trades Council has in- ' vited the ilinister for Labour to proj claim himself as " the champion of tha capitalistic class." Mr. Mackay, at the meeting of the Otr Council last night advocated th c formation of a municipal band, the Mayor also approving the proposal. Canada's preference to Britain. saySir Wilfred Laurier, has benefited tha Dominion, besides being an inspiration and example to the whole Empire. The " Sydney correspondent says that Xew South Wales* swollen surpluses are stage managed for show purposes, and make the State ridiculous. Two hundred and eighty officers and men have been killed by accidents aboard French warships since 1900, while the lo*=_ in property h-i- been 3i millions sterling. It. is expected that the Main Trunk line will be ready for the inauguvation of the. permanent through service by the Railway Departs «nfc about the midtile of December. The arrivals in !New Zealand lasmonth numbered 2433, and th? departures 2094. For the corresponding month, in 1907 the totals were 2-5-10 and 1751 respectively. Two Louden farriers have been afirested for threatening to murder J. B. Joel, the South African mlliianaire. unless fapaid them £-500. They posed as members of a secret society. Mr. Deakin's scheme for the defence of the Commonwealth is for Australia t-o equip and maintain six destroyers, seven submarines, and two d«pot ships, the annual cost being £346,000. i The jury in the Seve-noaks murder casa returned a verdict of murder against some person or persons unknown, tha coroner remarking that he had never known a case in which the police were so completely bafßed. It has been found that it will not rm j possible to institute the permanent- 19 1 hours* express service over the Main Trunk line until some time in December T_"p to that time a temporary time-table will be adopted under which the journer will occupy two day=s. Councillor Mackay, during the outburst of oratory on the question oi banda in the parks, declared that he h.-id eth i joyed the performances on several occasions, but there wcTf no collection boxes.'' "That"- -why you liked it,"* wa3 the quick retort from Mr Parr. The American striped bas= is to ba introduced into New Zealand waters aa soon as the difficulty of transporting tha spawn of Live fish across from America ! r_n be overcome. Th? turbo:. North i Sea herrincr. the haddock and the cod! win also be introduced' as opportunity offers. The overcrowding of verandahs in I ieet Week was recently complained of ly "he City Council, and some propertyowner= were written and informed that they had vio'ated a bv-!aw. 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