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Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 114, 13 May 1912, Page 1

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Great Sale at Goodson's. Supreme Civil sittings to-day. Police raid on Chinese gambling house last night. "Wellington reports a shortage of factory labour. "May Hallett's" husband, Mr. D. Campbell, was drowned in the Titanic. j New convent at Wanganni opened by Archbishop Redwood yesterday. Fifty thousand London tailors and tailoresses are now out on strike. The steamer Victoria, from Sydnej, did not reach A rmlrla.Tvj till this morn- , ing. £2.028 is in hand for a central ambulance station; another £1,000 is needed. ! The production of a new 18-in gun. by the Armstrong-Whitworth firm i≤ i hinted at. Sir Edward Carson saye that Ulster will resist Home Rale to the point oi , the bayonet. ; W. B. Smith, a footballer, had an arm i broken by a fall in a game at Hamilton 'on Saturday. A hundred amendments to the Home Rule Bill have .been tabled in the House of Commons. Roosevelt's committee are very optimistic in discussing his chances for I the Presidency. Dunedin wants £100,000 more to complete the town's long-standing drainage works. Mr. W. F. Buckland, of Epsom, died aboard the steamer Mongolia while on a health trip Home. Winger and Smith's sawmill at Tan. marunui was destroyed by fire on Saturday; damage, £2^oo. The revolt in Albania is beginning to assume large dimensions, and 7000 men are in the field against the Turks. The Auckland Hospital inquiry opened this morning, the central investigation being into the matron's management. There were 263 male and 3i) female prisoners in Auckland: Gaol at the end" of last week, including 32 persons awaiting trial. A stone placed in the points resulted in the collision of two trains at Bluff on Saturday evening, but no person was seriously injured. The 17-months-old girl of Mr. K. Steven, Avondale, wag drowned in a, shallow pool of water near the backyard on Saturday. Mr Walter Runciman, President of the Board of Agriculture, says that disestablishment of the church in England would follow that of Wales. While out shooting at Warkworth on Saturday, a youth, Arthur Carrey, accidentally shot himself in the side. His condition is not considered critical. It is reported in Berne, Switzerland, that had Mr W. T. Stead survived the I Titanic disaster he would have been the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize thin year. , . Thomas Hunter, a labourer,' sustained a broken arm and other injuries at Newmarket on Saturday afternoon by falling ajrainst a tramcar which he had lei 6 while it was moving. , A Territorial wi» attended the Templeton camp states that" the empty "beer"' bottles found on. camping frround had contained nothing stronger than lemonade, which the contractor had put into "quarts' , for convenience. The Chamber of Commerce in Berne, I Switzerland, is taking the. initiative in lan effort to establish, penny postage ■ throughout the world. Its proposal is I that an international congress of Chambers of Commerce should be held at Boston on September 24 to discuss the scheme. It is understood that the new White Star liner Gigantic, now being built at Belfast, will be altered to allow for the inclusion of additional lateral bulkheads, •with a view to minimise the risk of the vessel's sinking in the event of accident. The construction of the Gigantic is to be accelerated in order that the ship may replace the Titanic as soon as possible.