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Auckland Star, Volume XL, Issue 138, 11 June 1909, Page 1

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Big reductions Ernest Moore and; Co's sale. Big eruption of Ngauruhoe last night. American barque Kaiulani towed inta . port disabled. A Suez mail is due here, per s.s. yip, toria, on Sunday next. Archdeacon Wright has accepted] th* Archbishopric of Sydney. It is stated that 500 men axe now] out of work in Christchurch. The total outstanding liabilities ot the Dominion amount to £1,405,800. ! A fresh list of railway regulations'l3 published at length, in last night's Gazette. The Prime Minister states that the Timber Commission report anH not he presented this session. Fifty domestic servants (including 28 for Hawke's Bay) arrive at [Wellington by the lonic on Monday. A conversation by wireless telegraphy, has been carried on between Toulon and a warship 100 miles at sea. An earthquake and tidal wave in Sumatra resulted in 330 people being killed and many others injured. The Canadian Presbyterian Assembly, i? opposed to Presbyterians marrying among other denominations. A youth, 17 years of age, named John; Booth, was killed at Ashburton by the accidental, discharge of a gun. •— There is stated to be a brisk demand for small houses in Auckland, notwithstanding any financial stringency. "Compulsory national training has to, come, and the sooner, we make up ouit minds the better.''—Mr. W. F. Massey, M.P. On a good, if slow, wicket, .Australia dismissed Somerset for 93 runs. Whitty took half the wickets for 45 runs. • The "Berliner Tageblatt" announces that the Naval Act of 1911 .will expedite the construction of big armoured i cruisers. J The evidence in the bankruptcy case of Messrs. Mordaunt and Bailey, Te Kuiti, is to be submitted! to the Crown Solicitor. Mr. Austen Chamberlain proposes a' ten to 20 per cent export duty on I works of art sent out of tbe Unite! Kingdom. Excitement in Natal yesterday on the | loss of the referendum was at feverheat, both sides holding nuge demonstrations. I An elderly niaro-ied woman, a resident' of Christchurch, was killed through-fall-ing from a tram at Cnehunga' yesterday, i afternoon. I The tender of W. A. Clark, at £2,037, has been accepted by the Thames. Bor- | ough Council for the erection of the new abattoirs at Parawai. • '-. :'....; The meeting to-morrow of the two [ hitherto .unbeaten-teams this season—■ .-; Ponsonby and City—is creating, much! interest-in ; local circless > .-..,' V •.The-steani! launch. owned'by ' Messrs. Neumann Broe.,;o£ EUSsell,.was..' ~d£s&oyfea'£bycvnre rwbile" moored-- alongside the at Waitangi. ' •' ■ i-It is ."notified in last night's Gazette that a bonus- of 3d. per gallon '<£6j2so)|': will be paid on the first 500,000 gal- ■ lon'i of mineral oil produced in New; Zealand. . "'•■ A. man named Alfred! Parrell was' charged.at the Wellington Magistrate's Court with trespassing on th e Trenthan* Racecourse. He was fined £1, with, costs £8 14/-. The Wellington Builders' I/anourers* Union commenced yesterday to make a register of their unemployed, and already there is a lengthy list. Prospectfor winter are gloomy. Press Conference yesterday discussed!"' Journalism and Literature, Mr. John Morley presiding. The Conference has adjourned till 25th June, when- it resumes consideration of defence. A public meeting, at which the Mayorc. of Wellington will preside, will be held in? the Wellington Town Hall on Tuesday, night to protest against Parliament adi journing during the Premier's absence. . An Otago MJ?. is inquiring in thei House whether the monthly turnover at. Waimarino, a new station on the North; . Island Main Trunk, justifies the Department -maintaining the present staff of two officers. Mr. John Redmond 1 says that the Budget is bad. It will benefit Ireland] to the extent of 2$ millions, but the money could have been better spent, .' The Nationalists will vote against, "the. second reading. The Police at MaTson,' Ohio, have dis- \ covered documents showing that ovefl ■:' a hundred Italian business men are being blackmailed to escape The premises are regarded as the-headV-quavters of the Black Hand. '_.;■ A horse offered by auction recently in!' Ashburton was knocked down to a bidder for the sum of 4/6- It is said the! horse bad a new pair of shoes on when-,,----sold, so that the price given does not really convey a- correct idea, of the valuer of horse flesh. (