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Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 24, 28 January 1911, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Takapuna. " Milk raised to 4d a quart. "■'"'' Governorarrives to-morroiw. - '-"•■■ Helensrille show ou Monday. i Pltmket Shield; match *o-day -i ... 'Regatta, at Mercer on Monday. Anniversary rega-tta on Monday. .. Mai.eno.diie from. Sydney to-mornnr."-, Aiistraliaa mining delegates arrive to , morrow. Q .• • Kfine Minister arrived. in- Auckland to-dayl .' -■■■ '-"';..' " ..'. -. "\ ' ",.','._ Welcome rain, has fallen over the KaipaTa district. Banquet.itp mining engineers oa Mo* day night. Favourable indicaiions of oE in the W-airarapa. ; Morning, delivery oily of : . lettere--<>• Monday.". , •-■ . -'< TVlormon.meeting house erected by b»tives.at.'Taharoa,. (WJiangarei).: ■: -. , A gas explosion, in France killed cix ■workmen , and injured twelve others. Bulgaria .has commenced a tariff waar against Turkey. \ " <;, . Survey of' Auckland harbour probaUg be commenced next week. ■ ... ..... - "• Dome of Town' Hall tower erected yesterday.; • - ■ ■■ ' Poll on question of, unimproved Trtang to 'be taken at Gialnorne. Mr. W- F. <Massey and Opposition menIbeie left to-day on tour ofthe Nortii.. Proposed coneeryatoriium pi music oi Auckland approved by Senate. . ; , » .. Hon. E. McKenzie arrives in Auckland to-morrow. ' V Prime .Minister, received cordial leeep* tion at New Plymouth last night. * \>f. West End lawn tennis tournament proceeding to-day. Speech by Sir Joseph. Ward <at Devon* jport to-night. T School boy drowned in iTOanganni TSsvet yesterday afternoon; ..' [ "* Body of middle-aged man washed aehpre at Gisbprne. ■Farmer in Ilannevirke district, suffe* ing ill-health, committed suicide.- -- • The death-rate amongst children is England' and Wales last year was fh* lowest otf record thousand. No lewerthan 151. cases ,of enteric i» Eccles, Lancashire, were traced to! ice cream. Fourteen of the patients died.- ■ Russia is enlarging her forts on the, Polish frontier,'-.•and*hae-forbidden Get* man. colonisation of Western. Russia. 'Important-lofiacial statemenjbß.concerar ingWaihi mine and its future develop* ment.:-;^^';..'".' . .- ; '::..".....,■ " Sum of .JE 214 subscribed to-fund foi Teliefof, distressed C!hJnese,' £147 beinj from compatriots in Dominion. ~ Miss. Zemv-Darei tifce post card beauty, has been rfirried to the Hon. Maurice Brett, second : son.of Viscount Esher. .. There is much, interest,.in the selection of the Australian teams for the nest test match. The need for a. slow bowler ie emphasised. :,, \ \ _ Hie JExcelleney the Governor ■will !be present at the iMastertbit A. and P. Association's ehowV on Febrnary 14 and -.' \- -' ~-;::. Mr. RedinonS says that Ireland will decline to;wait for Home Rule until England, Scotland, and Wales want Parliaments. • ..-■-■■ ■-- - * ■ •',- ; Informations against epirit: for mot 'notifying' quantities of liquor sent into no-license districts dismissed at Tβ Kiiiti yesterday. . ; itn'view"of.'plague/outbreak in China . suggests continued activity -along the watoi •'lront' ■ ■-'..-.-■■ ..-...•■ . -■-' v -. ■ "Peter the Painter, of Houndsditch fame, is- defferibedi'as a-man of great intellee* tual; attainments, and one of-the- chief orangisers of ■'< the Russian > revolution of •1908....-;■■.-•■-■..■.--. V:^: :'■..",;.. .:..;■ -.'■ Mr. ,T.^E.-.Taylorenggeststhat the.edni cation;.of tiie,girls of.ihs'cpuntfy should ibear 'directly,, .on', the duty ;of wifehood and woananhood,"and to qualify.for house* worker;.-.-.;'- - ■..';"? ■ ' fe,] ,: An innovation -at the Masterton A., and'P. 'Assbciataon's show on tie new. grounds at ;Sblway next nioiith wHI be a pigeon-flying competition in connection with the local Homing Pigeon Club. Sale .now on—Ladies' "blouse costumes, Teduced to. 5/11 each,' good style and quality.— J. A. Bradatreet, Draper, Kar-aßgahape-rd.-(Ad.) :: - : :."".' ...■;■.'"... .. Safe now da —Balance of our trimmed model hats, reduced to less - 'than half price.— J. A. Bradstreet, Draper, Karan-gahape-rd.—-(Ad.) • ',