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Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 72, 23 March 1912, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

A lire iv Tokyo destroyed over 70t houses. The Atua arrived from the Islands thir morning. An S-foot stingaree was caught al Orakei a few days ago. Auckland V.M.C.A. held its annua; meeting last evening. Wei Hug ton's new post office will prol> ably bo opened in July. The net loss caused by the Wellingtoa tram strike was £ 1200. Work has started at the Commonwealth email arms factory. Last round of matvhes in senior competition conuuenced to-day. Heavy booking by outgoing steamers for Vancouver aud Sydney. Third (Auckland). Regiment camp •» Papatootoe eonrhkied to-day. 100 yards ladies' swimming ehampiafaship won by Miss D. Farquhax. Matamatit annua i show on Thursday. Prize money amounts to £225. One Gideon. Scott lined £50 for "slyat Asbburton yesterday. Thousands of strikers' children art being fed daily in the English schools. Threatened tram strike in Wanganui over "importation" of a Dunedin inspec" tor. The second reading of the Coal Mines Bill was carried by a majority of 123 vote 3. An Early Settlers' and Historical Association . has been estaJblishetl at .VYat lington. *f British marine underwriters have lost li millions sterling in the last three months. A nugget of pure gold weighing ten pounds was found in Mudgec, X.S.WV yesterday. ( , At a Liberal party caucus the Hon. T. Mackenzie was elected Leader by 2ri votes to 'J. The American coal mine owners have refused a 10 per cent, increase in wages, and a strike is 'imminent. l'aknranga Hunt Club's annual meet* ing yesterday. Balance sheet showed a credit balance of £238. A poll is to be taken at the Thame* on the proposal to raise a loan lor elec trie lighting of the township. An instructive bulletin on' thfeisiibjecfc of fruit-packing has been published by the Department of Agriculture.; ..- small son of Mr. Vcse, farmer of Pae* rata, jumped oft' the train at Paeratai and sustained severe -k'aip injuries. The striking miners an Britain have lost. £5.000,000 in wages, not one-eighth of which has returned ir, strike pay. Mr. Torri Herbert. VI.P..- proposes that a ruinimiiiii of 5/ for men and 2/ for hoys, he inserted in the Coal Mines Bill. Pl'aifiUir hoii-suited in ease \Yorlrihim v.. Henuiug. hi which -plaintiff -claimed damages for injuries sustained in motor, car accident. '".""•""_"•;; "■.."."" .""■" Captain Amundsen ..has arrived in.Mel-, bo-.irne from New Zealand, He think? that Captain Scott will arrive in Lyttelton next weelc. The Now South Wale 3 State Brick Works are to he increased to three times their present size saviug.dhe.'Goswipeßt £40,000 a year. Mr. J. D, Henry, the oil expert, inter viewed in England, said tha.t the recent development of the 3Jew Zealand oil field* was most eneouj-aging. One of the Brisbane strike leaders hal been sent to gaol for three years for urging the unionists to see that non-union. ists met .with "accidents." Cambridge Co-operative Dairy Co. thit week paid its suppliers no less than £5539. an increase of £2000 over corresponding period of last year. Some of the miners in "North Wales are arranging to return to work on Monday. Many colliers are leaving tha Federation owing-to shortage of funds. A terrifiv hailstorm at Goulburn killed thousands of rabbits- and other small animals and carried away miles of fencing. The stones were piled eight feofc high in places. Sarah Emma Armstrong, -widow, -ot Carter:on, claimed from Charles Bowles, farmer, of Wailiakel*,', the sum of £501 damages for alleged slander. The jury awarded her £ 100. Tire Exhibition Committee met last evening and confirmed the appoinment of' Mr. George Elliott as president. 1* was decided that the Exhibition open oi» December let, 1913. A girl was burned to death in Pertr* yesterday as the result of her clothes catdiing fire while she was rescuing ■ a woman whose clothes were already ablaze. .Sir Edward Gray says that if the Government Bill fails to settle the strike the Government will take means to secure coal which ought not to ibe withheld from the nation. Meeting of residents at Grafton lass evening pledged itself to do every thing possible to secure Mr. Parr's return a* Mayor. Mr. R. S. Briggs is offering him* self for re-election at Parnell. Auckland Garrison Artillery Tcrritor* ials went into tamp yesterday under Lieutenant-Colonel W. H. Hazard, trie No. 1 Company at Fort Bastion, the No, 6 Company at North Head, and the No, 7 Company it Fort Takapuna. The motor-bus service inaugurated s couple of weeks ago, linking Pending with Rongotea and Sanc-on districts, i* steadily growing in favour, and tourist* are beginning to make the round trip, which occupies a,bout two hours. At a well-attended meeting of Welling ton residents, presided over by the Aetr ing-Mayor (Mr. John ftmith), au EarlT Settlors' and Historical Association, of Wellington, was formed with the object of collecting reljcs of the early scttlenienl. and records of the history of the province.