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Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 137, 10 June 1911, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Eleven prisoners tto be sentenced, oa Monday. Victoria, arrives from Sydney tomorrow. "Georges" Coronation gift closes on 20th inst. Fifth day of libel action, Masson v. Richardson. Wimmera arrives from Southern ports cto^norrow. Twenty-fiftji anniversary of the Tara.wera eruption. The Belgian Government has resigned on the education question. •Meeting of Auckland Institute in St. Andrew's Hall on Monday night. Fifth anniversary of the deach of New Zealand's late Premier, Mr-Serldnru .... A number of imported cattle and dogs are quarantined on Motuihi Island. Marra, an Italian airman, was.JriUed by a fall from his aeroplane yesterday. An effort is to be made to recover Chamber of Commerce representation oa Harbour Boards. Gray leads Inman by over 2000 in their match of 18,000 up, having scored 6251 to Inmarfs 3,152. Walter Johnson, single, aged 34, was killed in the Kakahi bush yesterday, being hit by a falling limb. Hon. G. Fowlds is an appeal to "Georges" for subscriptions to the Coronation gift to the King. Reported that the Taupo Totara Timber Company proposes to build a railway, down from Mokai to Taupp. A specimen of the mns rattus, an English rat, found in Auckland, and first of the kind seen in the Dominion. The Minister for Marine decline* to erect a lighthouse on Three Kings- as recommended by shipping masters. A board of local citizens has been constituted to administer the Knox bequest for the erection of a home for incurables. The visit of Vardon, the professional golfer, has been declared off, it having been found impossible to come to terms. Renovation of Pitt-street Methodist Church cost £2859 1/, and the ■wholeamount with the exception of £325 has been raised. Mr. Lewis Harcourt has undertaken to give effect to all the recommendations of the Imperial Conference prior to the next meeting. James Bashford, a single man, was killed on the railway construction works at Rakauroa by being smothered in a fall of earth. At a meeting of "Georges" in the Council Chambers last night it was deI cided to open subscription lists and to i put notices up in schools. j Wellington grocers will open on CoronI ation Day unless provision is made for ' the observance of the Prince of Wales' birthday on the same day. I Estate of the late Mr. D. F. Murdoch expected to realise £ 70,000. and death duties probably total £20,000, because private bequest made to connections not blood relations. While agreeing that the Minister was I technically right in his attitude towards i the Parnell tunnel duplication, the Cham- [ ber of Commerce regrets that the work i' is not to be carried out. While a crowd of pilgrims "was watching a bonfire on a flat roof at Mepton, Palestine, the roof collapsed, precipitating 200 spectators upon the rest. Ten | were killed and thirty dangerously | injured. | Ladies' warm coats, latest styles, 18/11 |to 49/6. Hundreds to choose from. See j window.—-J. A. Bradstreet, Draper, Kan. 1 angahape-rd. — (Ad.) i Fancy cashmere hose. A new shipiment, 1/11* to 3/6 per pair. See winj dow.—J. \. Bradstreet.—(Ad.) Pmall parcel slightly soiled curtains, only one pair of each. One-quarter less 1 than usual, from 1/9 pair. Monday I morning.—Milne and Choyce, Ltd —Ad.