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Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 307, 24 December 1912, Page 1

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*. , n ■ —*—-. ». Xmas Concert, Tows Bait tfrWHOw njgbt A Me_Fry/_S__na__, Auckland Cup oa Boxing Day. Special train for .Rotorua to-night. Both Turks and Greeks loet heavily hi a fight at' Janisa yesterday. . Xmas Eve booming for the shopkeepers, 7 Harbour and foreshore sneak thieres are in unpleasant evidence. No postal delivery to-morrow, and only one on Boxing Day. .•■ ' Auckland Provincial Bonriing Aaaoc'iatiou's tournament opens oa Baring Da j. South Australia beat New Sooth Wales at cricket by an innings and 53 ram. In a panic at a B-J e -_- TI theatre 12 were killed and 20 injured. ■ • ; The plague at Noumea ft aow under control. The Forte has invoked the good offices of the Powers to promote aa agreement with the Balkan confederacy. • Officers in charge at the fonr duel telegraph offices will in future be styled superintendents. ' _ •: A "remarkable ha__teton_-_ in. larerea (New South Wales) stripped the trees ot their leaves, and killed many animals. Roumania wants to boy a couple of Chilian 'gunboats sow completing in England. . -- '"•':''>.- Two hundred men* were entombed ia » colliery explosion in Japan yesterday. So fair" only three have been resetted.," Conference between Tramways Union and company adjourned last night till January 6th. ■ .-- .•> " New Zeai—adorn showed improved form against the British temrie champions yesterday, ;OHivier defeating: Lowe. ... V The French airman G_utos has reached Borne -after flying across the Mediterranean from Tunis. \ • rAn anarchist plot to kill Italy's King was discovered by. the man on whom the lot to kill him fell committing' saiadA and revealing the plan when dying. An attempt to assassinate "Vlscoumt Hardinge, Viceroy of India, was made at Delhi yesterday. He wai wounded and an attendant was killed; _";', ... Kcir Bardic thinks that the worker* , should have the right'to get drunk ia their leisure time, and is prepared to support to enforce the right. , The Wahganui Harbour Board has de< cided to dredge the riyier channel np'- to the town to a depth Of 17ft,- The depth on the bar is now 22ft Gin. . '-. . Collision atßrunner yesterdaybetween a timber special and * mixed txain, engines damaged and sem_n_T trricte derailed, but no one hurt * The Board of Governons of Canterbury College has decided to establish a course provided satisfactory arrangements can be made. " The Christchurch Hospital Board ht\& decided r ; to make temporary arrangeImente'3.)i_S the cetabiishment of a dental 1 waii&> r'.;^Ji. '-'.'; City Council has givefajajifcilority iat the preliminary steps .to.. : be r ']taken for "iSe raising of a- loan of : IT. ."-} .. - : <J Aix-Hand was transmitted .tfr-tb&wirea *f.t : the'Pirnell'"seet'on J, freßaf"'' the" citjr's new .powerionfefe alt .the Kiji--way "iwharf; yeaterday.rafternoon. . : ; : ?- • ' lie Parnell Borough Council formally ratified ,the, absorption of the borough ;by £fie"iC.ity last lugbt. ."After duie formalities .borough will be administered by.Jthe joint councils tiU" the-next - •municijw.ielections.' . ... :'.'.'■"'* A maU ; J>bx at itihe corner, of Dominion and Vie*-lioadi*, M'fe. Eden, was damaged Bjr fire late "lasft night. A large number of the 300 or 400. letters and" packages " it contained were destroyed. "' ..'"" ; It is, believed that the man .who threw the bomb at the Viceroy- of India hiaa escapes, though others in the building were • arrested. Verdict of "accidental death" returned at' the Pahi inquest.- Evidence and' jury's -rider indicates that Sayers death wis kno.wn on : £he Saturday night, but tbe ■body allowed to lie on the road _till morning. '■-■ .., 'Nine commissions as lieutenants are to be thrown open to warrant officers and staff sergeants major. of the NX Artillery and permanent staff, seven to l be.in the N.Z, staff corps and two in the ~K!Z. Artillery. A competitive exam, next month will decide the appointments.: