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Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 288, 5 December 1910, Page 1

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Canal conference at Hamilton io> morrow. One' hundred and twenty boats were lost in the Broome hurricane. An English and Australian mail of 610 hags arrived 3>y the Maheno yesterday. So far the Unionists have won 62 seats, the liberals 56, and the Nationalists 5. Parliamentary session for 1910 concluded. The longest on the New Zealand records. There were 229 male and 15 female prisoners in the Auckland gaol at tha end of last week. Parliament during the recent session has passed 86 public Acts, 24 local Acts* and five private Acts. Wins were secured by Eden, North Shore, and Parnell in the cricket championships on Saturday. A-special train arrived from Wellington yesterday afternoon with, borne returning Parliamentarians. A man named John F. Schaffer, a resident of HobsonviHe, was drowned in the harbour on Saturday night. Two Italians were killed by the collapse of the motor driving the bi-plane in which they were flying. Sr Joseph Word proposes to leave for the Coronation festivities between tha middle of February and March. The special session of the Anglican Synod to elect a successor to Dr. Neli--1 gan will sit on, February 21 nest. The Brime'Minister has promised that all old soldiers' claims that are admitted to be legal .will be settled during the recess. The first election, in New Zealand in which every male from 21 years upwards was entitled to vote, took place 20 years ago ixulay. Harding, of Napier, lowered, the New Zealand record for the 1000 yards a* the Domain on Saturday, covering toe distance in 250 2-sth. It is proposed to carry out a street collection in aid of Mother Aubert'a Home for Children on Christmas Evej Saturday, December 24. The Hon. Captain Baillie rose an the Legislative Council on Saturday to condemn the quality of -the wines and spirits supplied to members at Bellamy's. , The Eden Terrace loan proposal was ■ defeated on Saturday, the necessary three-fifths .majority not being obtained. The voting was 139 for and 133 against the proposaL A telegram from the manager of the , Great Chaffinch, mine, near the Bullfinch, that gold values had yet to be found, was followed by almost a panic, values falling all round. A Papal decree, to be issued this week^ will, it is said, 'promulgate a rule under which the clergy will be debarred not only from engaging actively in commer- , eial enterprises, but also from lending , their names to influence even charitable ' schemes. Intense indignation prevails in Berlin concerning the assertion of the Paris - "Matin" that the late naval revolt in Brazil was attributable to the adoption ' of German methods of corporal punish- [ merits This statement is characterised as ■ a shameless lie. Count Okuma, the well-known states- ! man, gave the leader-of the Japanese • expedition to lie South Pole a few part- ' ing words of advice. One thing he specially counselled him not to do was to return with any foonrbastic claim of hay- ; ing discovered the Pole unless he had! ■ scientific proofs to 'back up his assertion. Mr. T. P. O'Connor says that the worst • that the Tories can do is to reduce the Liberals' majority by ten or fifteen. But • even then, as lie points out, the Government would have a sufficiently strong following to destroy the Lords and to pass Home Kule. Mr. O'Connor prophesies that the election will leave parties ' pretty well as they stand at present. 1 ■