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Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 135, 9 June 1910, Page 1

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. More bad weather. The local racing, season concluded yesterday. The British - Parliament has reassembled. . The Maori footballers drew with.Armidale yesterday. Sating Commission concluded the hearing of evidence. The Albanian, revolt has been completely s-übdued. . The keel of the first-Austrian Dreadnought hae been laid. : 1 United Mission thanksgiving 6ervice at the Tabernacle to-nighfc. It is possible; that.Germany wfll enier the Davis Cup _ listsi next year. Inquest on the "victim of the Chelsea. Works. accident -resumed to^day. - Advices from Yucatan- state that 7000 Maya Indians are onthewarpath. - It i≤ reported that the Somali Mullah has been captured • and' -shot by friendly natives. ".~-"~;~ —... .. ■. ■' _ The Mnister for Railways- Jn. conference -with the Parnell Tunnel Committee this morning. Britain, Eussia, and ' Germany have rpached an understanding upon -the Persian question." : " : :■ : - Foundation' stone of . the. new Grey Lynn School laid yesterday by the Minister for Education. ... ' Five candidates are out to contest the Auckland East seat. The poll -will take place this day week. A party of 32 V-ere drowned at-Inyack,-Delagoa Bay, through.the capeize of their boat in a whirlpool. .It is reported that ifche rebellious Indians" in Yucatan ' have- killed 500 civilians and soldiers. v-Fish appear to Tpe ,Jnore..plentiful off the Hawke's Bay coast, and trawling .prospects are .improving. Thunderstorms have teen frequent in England and; Germany this week; ani several people Ijave been, struck. The >*ew Zealand 3oq£ball ieam hae cabled across for a'couple more men. Avery (Wellington) is 'to ibe sent. "" The Trades and Labour Coun'eil- met last night. The president (Mr A. Rosser)i tendered Ms resignation, and it was accepted.. . ■ " -' ' , j_ _ The Italians ascribe 'EBfi earthquake of Tuesday to the wrath: of St Januafius, and propessipns- to appease -him- are : being made. ■- Big'native-torero at .Tfaahi. Tie Pra-' mier left this morning' to attend, and the Hons. J. Carroll, and A. will also be present. - . ' - (A TS-harf labourer named Vincent feß down a hold on the steamer Surrey,lasfc night, and sustained to the' Ji6ad and Tiaek, hut no. :bofnes.w,ere broken. ' :: The- prohibitionists of" Honolulu are asking the United- States Congress to pass a bill prohibiting tie importation! or liquor in-to -the Sandwich glands- , l"he tender of F. W. Wright has' beea accepted by the Department for-the erection of a. post office at Frankton' Juno tion; The amount.tendered -svas £1049« A (labourer. named Robert Onnsby Tvaa spragging a truck, at last eveaing/ ivhen-the crowiar rebouMed, fr'aoturing'his lower jaw. Heiiajiow; in (hoa* pita-L . • Hons." Dr.Fin-dlay and GecOSowids lefi; for Wellington, last night, the Prime Minister "left for Huntly -ifc-Kla and the-Hon. Millar leaves for Wan-°-anui ' to-nigEt. . ■ , . ■ .."--.:; :,-...;,: The Napier police reported to licensing committee that hotels liaoVieen. well conducted, and that there had been a complete absence -of illegal trading during the year. ... Good continues to 5e made with the construction work on the Gis-' railway.. Tie earthwork in hand extends almost to the summit beyond Beaufoy's, at Rakauroa, and £He foremost gangs... of_na7.vies-.are-40-mile3 from. Gisborne. "*~- ~ ~'~---^ t — -j~ ~ _ '- T? 1 ? : General ' sitting;at PMladelphia, has decided to memorialise. -Congress .to prohibit the transportation of from State >t« State." The -Rev. Dr. G-rannia-blamed .the apathy of the clergy for it being possible to-carry out "a--degrading-contest between .two brutes"- on inde» pendence Day. : Judge Edwards, at TWarigaoriri yester* day, quashed, the conviction of a 'bookmaker and his cleik, sentencea'to .three months-and one month respectively for ; theft in reference, to a" failure to pay; up at the March races. Ifc was state J that a bundle of notes was handed te the clerk by /the bookmaker after thef betting dosed, and the farmer *hen appeared. The -Judge decided that de-> posits -became the -bookmaker's property,' and that depositors -risked his not'his respectability. — ----.-.