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Auckland Star, Volume XL, Issue 147, 22 June 1909, Page 1

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Navua due from Fiji. Tofua. sailed for the slands. (World's Sculling Oharnpionship to* day. Harbour Board meeting this afternoon. King Edward will review the British Fleet at Cowes on July 21. The Dunedin Licensing Committee has decided to close ten hotels. The National Dairy Show is being opened at Palmerston North to-day. A jeweller's shop was robbei? of jewels worth £6000 on Sunday night. The Grey Lynn Council has decided tc proceed with the work on Richmondroad at a cost of £2000. The English mail, via Vancouver, which left here on May 11, arrived in London on the morning of June 16. Ten passengers were killed and 20 injured in a collision between two caw at Chesterton, Indiana, yesterday. Bottles of liquor to the number of 88 were seized by the police in a boardinghouse in Taranaki-sxreet, Wellington. The Sultan of Morocco's troops have been defeated eigfet miles from Fez, and Mulai Hand's position is very weak. There is said to be great rejoicing io Dargaville over the selection of the western route fox the North Auckland railway. The British Army aeroplane flew a mils and a-half, at a. height of 20ft, ami made three sharp turns, at Ald-ersho: yesterday. '■' A considerable number of eomplainti have been received as to the condftion of Tongan fruit sEipped by the Tofua jto Auckland. The cruiser Sappho had her platel torn under the waterline by the collision | near Dover, while lier trading namesake I was undamaged. A Maori at Taneatua, who cut hi» I throat in despair after being rejected Iby a young native maiden whom he was wooing, is now in a critical condition. The University Council is claiming from the Crown Lands Board the proceeds of the sales by the Board of sev eral sections in the College Endow* ments. A riot at Auteuil, the French racecourse, occurred over the non-recognition by trainers of stablemen, aad the military had to be called out. Several were injur'sdThe Grey Lynn Borough Council has. decided to authorise the Tramways Co. to lay the rails on the Richmond extension in advance of the Council's road contract. As the result of the inquest there appears to be little doubt that the remains found at Xomahawk (Dunedin), were those of Theresa Meade, who disappeared last July. 1 A Remuera Road Board member considers that the correct attitude of the Board is to demand that the Drainage Bill be adhered to as passed, with Claust 19 unaltered. Germany is seizing the opportunity offered by America's desire to participate in loans in China,, to show friendship iot America by supporting her against Britain and France. A British invention of a substitute foi petrol from waste products is now being developed. It is claimed to be mora economical, to cost half the amount, and 'to produce less smell than petrol. ! M. Barthou, French Minister fo* Works, referring to the Casablanca incident, declares that the army is in a posi» tion to face all eventualities, and that the whole country is steadily confronting the enemy. M. Homiakoff, president of the Douma, interviewed,, said that no importance was attached by Russia to the British. > Labour party's protest against the Czar j coming to England as the representative of the Russian nation.

Elsie Sigei, the missioner who was killed and dismembered, is considered to have become the victim of a depraved band of Chinamen, masquerading as converts to Christianity. Scores of letter? from white women were found in £ht murderers' lodgings.

A seven-roomed house at Ashburton, owned by Mrs. Minnis, and occupied by W. J. Elliott, was. with the contents, totally destroyed by fire at 10.30 last night. The insurances are: £150 on th« house in the National Office, and £100 on the furniture in the Liverpool, Lon» don, and Globe.