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Auckland Star, Volume XL, Issue 271, 13 November 1909, Page 1

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(Racing at Ellerslia and. Kiecartoa to-day. Cricket championships continued thi* afternoon. Criminal sessions of the Supreme Couxft open on Monday. Otahuhu railway station Iburned to thai ground last night. The Federal House of Representatives has passed the Finance Bill by 39 votes to 27. Over 2000 entries have teen received for the Horticultural Society's siunmej; show—a record. A few trout are being caught at Lake Takapuna —so far the biggest catch recorded is four fish. ■An A. and P. Society has been founded at Kotorua. Easter week is suggested as the date ior the first show. There are 33 criminal cases on thai calendar,, β-etarfc-«t "which:; will be made at Supreme Court on Monday. The War Office is teaching the in* fantry to look after its feet, and has arranged many classes in chiropody. The new timetable has been dra-Tva up for the Auckland and Main Trunk lines, to come into force on December 1. "This * shandy-gaff' arrangement -will please nobody and -will end in smoke. , * Mr. Fisher, MJP.j on the liquor corn* promise. The population of 'Auckland and suburbs is now stated at 93,544, Wellington 73,667, Christehurcb. 76,709, and , Dunedin 61,279. A severe earth tremor occurred at Wellington last night. Parliamentary; Buildings rocked, and the plaster in the Town Hall cracked. * The Warrimoo, whici arrived atNWeli lington on Wednesday- night from Sydney, brought 1000 tons of Mediter* ranean dried fruits. The Newcastle ooalowhers Save in* formed the strikers that tihey mil consent to a conference if the men resume ■work 'within a, week. Bodie, the Scotch quack hypnotist* had a narrow escape ifrom. ibeing thrown into the river by Glasgow students, - and has been warned to leave the city. No mews has been received fronj Jamaica owing to the cables being broken by a. great storm. Great floods •were reported prior to tfee breakage. A robber entered an. Tnfliq.Tm,- bank, rfiot the casMex and president, and "was escaping across a river in ■a, skiff when the police overhauled him. in a motor boat. A man named Arthur Cootes had his leg 'broken this morning "while assisting to load a Salvation Army cart witlh bales of shavings at-Banks and Grey'a factory. The Earl of Crewe ihas informed a; deputation that it is impossible to make ■women's suffrage a party plank.at the next election, Cabinet being divided oa the subject. Birtles, the overlanding cyclist, covered 3056 miles in 45 days on hi 3 ride from JTremantle to Sydney, and finished in good trim, covering 100 miles on each of the last 20 days. Friday, November 19, has been declared by the Education Board a special holiday in all (public schools within 20 miles of Auckland, the occasion being the children's ■ summer flower show. An Illinois mob lynched a negro an* cused of murdering a shop girl, and, failing to find his accomplice, battered in a cage containing a white man accused of-murdering his wife and lynched hinj also. The Municipality of Chicago has organised a police force entirely composed of boys to maintain order among lads. They act under the regular police, and have authority to arrest when necessary} to preserve order. The New Zealand Dairy lAssociatioa shipped 5956 boxes of butter from: Onehunga to-day for transhipment ta the Kimutaka at Wellington—4he record , shipment o£ butter matfe !by any one firm from the Dominion. Peter Bowling, secretary of the Miners' Federation, says that the strikers -will not let the women and children starve. He -would repeat the -words of Cardinal Manning to the dockers: "II you aie hungry, take it."

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