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Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 27, 1 February 1910, Page 1

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Public schools reopen to-day. Third day of the Kaipara inquiry* King of Greece has agreed to convoke , National Assembly. Geyser in the Heart of Auckland.—See his week's "Graphic." The Gisborne Harbour Board proposed, .o extend the breakwater. Extensive damage to Kaipara.—Striking pictures in this week's "Graphic." Harbour Board opened tenders thii ifternoon for iron, and steel supplies. New comet has been photographed at Greenwich. Its tail extends over about !0 degrees. Belgian Minister for the Colonies ha» innounced the cessation, of forced labour in the Congo. "If a goody-goody man doesn't become a prig, he comes to a bad end."—« Bishop Julius. Second day's racing of the Takapun* Jockey Club's Summer Meeting to-mor-row afternoon. The output of gold from mines on the Bauraki Peninsula for the year 1909 total £1,312.624. Rain is interfering with the harvesting Dperations in Canterbury, and it is feared 'rain in stook will lie discoloured. ■ The first sitting of the Court for the present year' opened __r__ - Auckland to-day, Civil business taken. Jl Three persons were charged, -s"??" \ tempted suicide in the Auckland Police " Court this morning, and were.remanded for a week. Customs returns for the port of Auckland show on increase for the first month af 1910 as compared with' those for January, 1909. Eleven members of "The Black Hand" have been sentenced at Toledo. Ohio, to terms ranging from two to sixteen years for blackmail. A boy, aged 14 years, named Alma: Oscar French, was found, at 5 pjn., yesterday, hanging by a clothes line from a, willow tree at Point Chevalier. An ex-cavalry officer raised, a storm by remarking that the Kaiser should be able to say to any lieutenant "Take ten men and shut up the Reichstag." Gisborne exports last year included 3030 boxes of butter, 347,767 carcases of mutton. 100,542 carcases of lamb, 4334 tons of beef, 41,047 bales and 2337 pockets of wool. Frank Allison, a farmer, of Manaia, Taranaki, was found dead in his 'bed at * boarding-house at Christchurch yesterday. He was suffering from chronic asthma. The Brighton express accident is supposed to" have been caused by a sudden diversion of the point 3 over which the train was passing at the time the coupling tiroke. The dispute between the Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral labourers Union and the threshing-mill owaers of North Canterbury •will be referred to too Arbitration Court. • It is stated by the -"Westport Times that there is a probability of the New Zealand Federation of Miners putting up a candidate for the Grey Parliamentary" seat at the general election. The General Synod of the Angiieail Church has before it an amendment ot the canon the object of which ia. to give women the right to vote, and act on vestries, also' to vote for members or the Synod- . ~ • "There's too much starch in the Church at Home. I don't know if there is out hero. If there is, take it out. There are men who have gone to the devil because of the starch in the Church."—Rev. H. S. Woolleombe at the Wellington Town Hall on Saturday. "I saw the Kaipara give a tremendous list to port when she etruek the shoal," declared a witness in the Nautical Court this morning, who had seen the accident from North Head, "What did you think had happened?" asked Mr. Kettle, "I thought they were shifting the cargo,' replied the witness, and the Court smiled broadly at the extent of the witness nautical knowledge. Attention of pnr readers is drawn to B, Lane's advertisements In this issue.—B. Lane, Dovonport.—(Ad.)