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Auckland Star, Volume XL, Issue 160, 7 July 1909, Page 1

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J&orayshire due from London, via* Wellington, to-morrow. Hon. Geo. Fowlds unveils the Seddon Memorial at Royal Oak to-day. America won the international polo cup, beating Jingland at Hurliagham. ! •Mrs. Robert Brough was re-married in. , Sydney yesterday to Mr. Bell, an elec■• ■■trieian. •- - - i; •-A-conference-of local l>ool6B is'"being arranged' on the question of electric lighting.- - ~ : Australia ; scored 446 in their first innings against Warwickshire, Noble; making 131; ' The "Morning Post" reports an offer of ; £ 300,000 to endow a British. National Opera House- "■-.'.' ..." Belfast Lough is to be the headquarters of the warships which will defend thej Irish Sea in wartime* ~ Sixty : were lulled and 600 injured, during Independence Day celebrations in the United States.A parachutist at Portland, Maine, fell 500 ft in the presence .of 5000 people, and was dashed to pieces. There is water in the third,- fourth, and fifth holds of the Whakatane, and in the fore stokehole. A big slip occurred on the Thames-Coromandel-road, near Jamieson's, on Saturday, blocking traffic. A German firm has made a donation of £20,000 to endow a professorship of German at the Cambridge- University. The Huntly native meeting has been postponed owing to the deaths of a> nephew of Slahuau and Mr Jerry Orms- • by. ~~r~ Lemoine- has been sentenced to sis years' imprisonment, a fine of £120, and banishment from France for five! years. Owing to the closing of twenty-eight hotels, a number of the members of the Jotel Employers' Union have joined the unemployed. To-day's sailings include the Navua. for Fiji, Hauroto for Eastern Pacific, and Louisa -Craig for Noumea and Surprise Islajjd. The staffs of the " Wellington City Council -are already doubly manned -on: seme jobs to cope with, the unemployed difficulty. - . Mr A. Rosser. says the Government is to blame for the unemployed distressi ™ for the immigration scheme which ha.s been pursued. s _ A petition signed by 260 residents o? Stanley Bay has been presented to. the HaTbour Board, requesting better wharfage "facilities. •.*"-:■ According to Customs returns, no_new Chinese arrived at Auckland during the last quarter, .as against.: 22 .:fa£_the sa,me quarter last year. Parker, the ex-New Zealand tennis champion, was beaten by R: Powell 0 Canada, in the final of the All-England Plate, 3—6, 6—3, 6—l. During the last eight months the Carpenters' and Joiners' Union have paid away more unemployed benefits than in the previous eight years. A. suffragette deputation waited ia the rain from 3 p.m. to 3 a.m. for Mr. Asquith, but as the House was still sitting they went home "with the milk."' Dr. Erwin, at the Christchurch Presbytery meeting, deprecated what he called the tendency to "a general post" amongst the ministers in rushing to secure different positions. The gross receipts by the Customs ■Department in Auckland by the sale of oysters during the last quarter amounted to £2,388, as against £3,143 in the June quarter of last year. The manufacture of beer in the Auckland district during the past quarter yielded duty to the Customs Depart-, ment of a value of £6,263, as against for~tlre"-_corresponding period last yean- "... ". "As" clergymen, it is clearly our duty to teach "that for peace-which; is based upon the unwillingness to make sacrifices is contrary to the first principles of the Gospel of Christ."—Bishop Wallis on Defence. The Minister for Public Works, writing to Six Massey, states that opera- _ tions in connection with the proposed : traffic bridge over the Waikato River at Huntly, must wait until a requisite vote is passed- : next session. The exports-"from Auckland for the last' three months " totalled £733,892, as, against £622,089 for the correspond- -4sbk ing period last year, an increase -of '. "- £71,803. The imports were valued at||j|, £159,162, representing a falling-off of* £10,450. Information has been received from the "Native Minister that the Government is at present making a valuation of 10,000 acres in the Te Akau block, regarding which arrangements for chase will be completed by the Land Department. The Rev. J- Woodward of Foxton proposed, at the Wellington Presbytery meeting, a scherje for the organisation , of a religious.brotherhood to cope with, religious education, street missions, and religious work amongst bodies of labouring men. A shrinkage in the imports and Customs returns has been noticeable for some months past, <but evidently bedrock has been reached (says the "Post"). In fact, it is stated that the cargo from London by the Turakina is the largest that has been landed for the past sis months. In return. New Zealand i 3 despatching every vessel filled to its caparcity on the Homeward voyage.