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Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 204, 29 August 1910, Page 1

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General cold snap. \Vild weather yesterday. Auckland Institute to-night. English mail \>y the aiaheno ye3terday. Britain defeated-South. Africa at Eugby "by S points to 3. Thames defeated Auckland on. Saturday by 11 to nil. Plumbers' dispute ."before the Conciliation Council to-day. Auckland B defeated Franklin oa Saturday l>y 24 to 6.. Telegraphic communication with the South interrupted yesterday. Sydney, like Auckland, is suffering from the coldest weather of the year. Captain Scott leaves South Africa oa Saturday, aboard the Terra Nova. Auckland hockey representatives defeated Cambridge by seven to nil. The Wellington Rugby team defeated "Wanganui by 24 to 3 on Saturday. Crippen and Le Neve are hack in England, and their trial commences to-day. •Barawa was unable to put out from the Manukau for New Plymouth yesterday. According to French newspapers, Latham and Dubonnet are abandoning aero-' hautics. The Auckland-owned horse Master Soult met with serious injury at Sydney on Saturday. The Kaiser is an anti-suffragist, and says women's place is in the quiet work of the home. Thirty-seven Russian railway officials, accused of. stealing, half a million, have been "arrested. A number of French man-o'-wara-men arrived by the Maheno yesterday, en rolite to Tahiti. ■ . Owing to mildew and brown-rot, there will be practically no champagne ■ made in France during 1910. • Ex-President Roosevelt has been invited to open the Central Canada Exhibition on September 12. - The American Government has declined rain-making experiments with big guns in the fire-swept forest belt. The Crown is conferred by the grace of God alone, and not by Parliaments or popular decisions, Bays the Kaiser. British newspapers are flooded with complaints as to the difficulty in understanding the new land tax papers. The Kaiser will have none of the disarmament cry, and says Germany must keep, her armaments at perfection.. The Broken Hill bakers' strike, organised to raise the price of bread, has ; ended, and the men are seeding re-engage- ! ment. , I King George has sent a gift of £5 to James Doughty, the oldest circusclown living, who, notwithstanding his years, is still performing. . While a ball was in progress at Shepparton, Victoria, some 30 boys cleared off with the whole of the contents of two refreshment tables. Shipping on the West Coasfc had a, lively time during the bad weather yesterday. Waitangi, at anchor at Onehunga, dragged ashore. ... ... : - - " A married man .named Charles Holiia i fell while alighting from a tramcar at the Grafton. bridge stop on Saturday night, and fractured his leg-. Fire in. a four-roomed two-storeyed dwelling in South-street, Newton, early yesterday morning, the occupant and his wife escaping in their night attire. The London port authorities have been ordered to make a careful examination of all arrivals from the Continent, in order to prevent the introduction of cholera. At the. last meeting of the New Zealand. Institute a benellt iund was instituted. The North Canterbury branch of the Institute has decided to contribute £20 towards the fund. The abuse of free railway passes by school children was the subject of comment by Mr. Crowe, secretary of the Auckland Education Board, at the Conference of Boards in Wellington. The Aorangi, one of the boats to be put on the new San Francisco run, is at present undergoing overhaul at Sydney, at a cost of about £20,000. Both the Aorangi and the Maitai will be irjp stalled with wireless plants. It is reported that Moissant, Latham, • Farman, and Paulhan will compete for a j special prize of £5000 that is to be ofI fexed for a. non-stop flight from Paris to Clermont-Ferrand, 212 miles S.S:E. of the French capital. Each aviator must carry a passenger. Mr. Arthur Day, who is well known as an organiser of exhibitions, is a passenger by the RM-β. Omra-h, which reached Fre-mant-le yesterday. The object of Mr. 1 Day's visit is to ascertain the possibuitiea of holding a huge exhibition to celebrate J the foundation of the Commonwealth.