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Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 168, 18 July 1910, Page 1

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Goodson's sale now on. "/> Arrival of the British footballers.' - Conciliation Council on the 'bricklayer*' dispute. University College Council this afternoon. Maheno arrived with.. Canadian and •Australian mails. A doud-burst in Kentucky destroyed property valued, at £400,000. Annual Trades and Labour Conference sitting in Municipal Chambers. J A young man named Curtis was -killed while bush-felling near Ohakune.' Public welcome to the British: foot bailers by the Mayor this morning. China is asking Germany for offices for the reorganisation of her army. The Tuahine. lighthouse is reported to be in danger of slipping into the sea." Ponsonby, Parnell, and Grafton won in the Rugby championships on Saturday. Sermons on. the evils of gambling afc city and suburban churches yesterday. . The British Rifle Association will attempt to send a team to Australia next year. A pearl of perfect form, valued at £6000, has been found 'on the IWestralian fisheries. Beaurepaire -won the 440 yards saltwater championship of England from Batt'ersby. Wins for 'VarsrtyJ Auckland, and North Shore in the hockey championships on Saturday. Corp. JA Kadice, an Oxford undergraduate, won. the. King's Prize with the record score of 340. The British L.T.A. will send a team to Australia.to.play off the preliminary tie for the Davis Cup. "The woman who gambles is a I say, a horror!"—the Rev. Gray Dixon at St. David's last night. Lord Glasgow's son was injured in a monoplane accident on Saturday, sustaining concussion, of the brain.German newspapera say that Germany will have 17 Dreadnoughts by 1913, not 21, as stated hy Mr. Asquith. . Excitement in KaTangahape-'road on Saturday night. . Burglar hunt by.the police on the roof of. Buchanan's 'build* frg- .', - . . Resolution of indignation' and protest at a Labour meeting in Christchurch yesterday respecting the attitude of air. Justice Sim in the shearers' case. < The inquest on the elderly- arrestwho died at the Napier Hospital resulted in averdict of accidental..death, the arresting constable being ~ held blameless. Dispute between ... the "Wellington Shearers' Union and some 2,000 farmers, members of the New: Zealand Farmers' Union and Hawke's -Bay- Sheepowners' Union. - ..-,,; Mr. Lloyd George denies repeated rumours that he had said that if. he remained in office he would not allow any private citizen a greater income than £10,000. ~,; -.'•'■;. The Waikatp Drainage Association, for the'purpose of forwarding the drainage of all .the low-lying lands within-reach of the -Waikato River, .was, formed at . -. _ ; ... .'-A" public meeting in Duh edin'l'as.t night entered an emphatic.protest against exhibitions: of the Johnson-Jeffries fight, ■ and .called on ; the" Government to ..prevent such exhibitions. , Mr. Lloyd-George says that the world .is spending \ ■£, 450,000,000. annually on engines of destruction, and, for '/this, the nations must.inevitably suffer, since.progress towards the highest civilisation must'be;-retarded. , - ; ; . -.-.-. The .Minister in charge of the Tourist Department has received ,a. telegram, from the engineer in charge at Rotorua, refuting. the statements • made, in- Auckland concerning the. administration of, the - trout; department . at iKotorua.'. - •