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Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 102, 30 April 1913, Page 1

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11,512 people voted, for Howey iWalkerY "Trip to Japan" competition;.prize £100. The Antarctic ship Terra.—'ova has arrived at Rio de Janeiro. The Onehunga Bras 3 Band will play in Albert Park this-«vening. Crowds of country visitors in town tor the visit of H.M.s. New Zealand. Auckland Club's dinner to the officers of H.M.S. New Zealand to-night. Morrinsville ratepayers have decided to borrow f6,000 for-road_onnation purposes. The shooting season- for the _nt_tand Acclimatisation District opens to-mor-row. •New V.M.C.A. building opened by his Excellency Lord Liverpool this afternoon. The English mail, via Suez, which left here on March 19, arrived in London on April 25. The Sydney Cabinet is,con_d__g tho establishment of a State ferry- to- North Sydney. Civilians in -Scutari suffered greatly through lack of food, children dying i_ the streets. The Napier Hospital Board has -received a bequest of £ 1,383 fromrthe l_te""_x. J. M. Stokes. Two hundred and fifty men. of H_Ls. New Zealand e_ertai_xba£ i—tchec_-ia the Town Hall. A German army <_ptam:s_s been sentenced to six: months- i_,a-facts_a-<EO--cruetty to Tecruits. The Devonport Perry Company has--of-fered to carry all schooL-chQdren to _e> warship free of charge. Rotorua hotelkeepers have decided to maintain the increased summer -tariff right through the winter months; The Colonial Brrtte-rCtammittee -i_ _o_don is taking steps v to prevent icolonied margarine toeing sold as butter. Trouble between Essad Pasha and Djavid Pasha, the Ti__sh Commander in Southern Macedonia, is —garded'aa possible. ■' Walter Shaw, a Timaru solicitor,- who has gone bankrupt, has unsectrred deb'ta totalling £30,603, and assets valued at! £24,041. Prince Danilo, the .Montenegrin ■ coan_ander, has left Scutari north:wards. •Possibly his' aim is to meet an' Austrian land attack. - -:. ,;■'-'' "-■. '-y '--•-•«--' Ten desperadoes-attacked the railway station at ChaviUe', in "Prance, but -were driven off toy the statio.master, and two were captured. -_....• Monuments tb '.five deceased chiefs were unveiled at-Otamatea hist week, in the presence of some 500 natives and 200 Europeans. John Marshall, an- elderly man, was found dead' in a waterlogged dinghy about eight miles out from Half Moon Bay, Stewart Island. _ -French—an shot and critically injured his wife in Sydney yesterday, and then co—mitt—. suicide. Jealousy was the cause of the crime. A young man, known only' by tho name of "Sandy," was killed by a fall of earth while working in a gravel pit at Hedgehope (Otago) yesterday. '.'"' The Government has -.' secured .the •Masonic Hall, Princes 'Street, for the. aceommodaitibn. of school children, visiting town'to see Kits'.' New -Zealand. .''.'■ - Auckland waters—ers earned-out their threat not to work shiftsi'last '--night,.-ia consequence of.. the Harbour Board's failure to give them notice of .the .halfholiday yesterday.. . . ; , •The plmninations last night were considered highly successful by those i\> sponsible for them.- The outlining-- of thi Devonport shore, and Mount: .Victoria «— particularly effective. Albanians regard -Essad Pasha's; bargain-, av—h King -Nicholas, as' an • act ,of treachery, since the abandonment of Scutari .virtually .makes Albania, a dependency of Montenegro and Servia. .; Mr Fisher, Premier of . the..Commonweal—, says that if-the referenda proposals -aa-e defeated "he win proceed: with a revision-of the-Tariff to •give .effectwe protection to the At_toa_m industries. • Dr.- Valintine, Inspector-General. yoB Hospitals, has suggested to-the Welling- . ton Hospital Board that the Health. :Department and the Hospital Boards should co-operate 'in » hact'eriolbgical research work. ■■'■'•'. ■ ■ - • "'*• In the course of his examination' at Hamilton, a judgment debtor 'stated-that he and his family -milked 80 cows, on shares, and that one .of his - children, under ten years of age, had -to get up at 4 a.m. every" day -to assist ;' : ;'_.... Lord Dt_i_it arrives in Sydney ,'«t Saturday to review 30,000 troops, and leaves ' again ' the same day, owing to there being no adequate housing for himself -and staff now that ■_c .State—rcsyerii.ment has resumed Government House. Elections for the City CounciL Harbour Board, Hospital Board, Grey -Lynn, Qhehunga, Devonport, Mount. Albert,-New-market, Northeote, Birkenhead,.-and Mount Eden Borough Councils are. jn progress to-day, as is the poll on the half-holiday question. The chief of police at Karlsruhe: was informed that an attempt was:to:be.he made to take the life.of the Kaiserin the town. The information" was flfrt -regarded as „lportalit, but the Kaifjpchanged- his plans and motored into the town' instead of arriving by train.- : '