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Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 180, 30 July 1913, Page 1

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j Cholera lias broken out at Salonika. ■ America is likely to intervene to restore order in Mexico. - There were dnly three new cases of, smallpox in. Sydney yesterday. The Earl and .Countess of Liverpool will visit Christchnrch next month.' The English mail, via Suez, which left here on June 10, arrived in London, on Jnly 27. It is now expected that the Queen Street tram line will be ready j.or u«a in about a month. ■ An airman dropped bombs on the Mexican gunboat Tampico, completely, destroying the craft. A total sum of £41,000 was collected in London and the provinces for the hos> pitals on Alexandra Day. The consumption of horse and dog fleshis rapidly increasing in Germany, while beef eating is decreasing.- : The body of a man who had been murdered was found tied up in a sack in • Perth, Westralia, yesterday. Preparations "are being made for a great struggle between the miners and: the employers in South Africa. ■ -. ■ • A German landowner who. died recently left his fortune of £100,000 for strengthening the army and navy. The crisis in the Victorian Parliament is.at. an end, the disaffected Liberals baling declined to force the issue, to a vote. "... An American Commissioner is- t» visit the Dominion shbrSiy for the puppose of inquiring into the frozen meat industry. It is stated that the Chinese revolution is being largely engineered from" America with headquarters in New York and San Francisco. According to the Premier of Servia, the Balkan League will again unite -after set-' tling its differences in order to chase theTurks out of Adrianople. Mr. C. J. A. Haselden, formerly Under Secretary for Justice and Registrar of Patents,'died at Takapuna. yesterday afternoon, aged 78. '\ Tlie Home Office is satisfied "with toe result of the Cat and .Moose ;ActT Last month 21 cases were dealt with, compared with 2,200 in the previous June. The Niagara, which' leases for Vancouver on 'Friday, takes 500 boxes of butter from .Auckland, making C 434 boxes sent to Canada, this season. The annual examinations for pianists, conducted by Trinity College, London. were" commenced in Auckland to-dayi and will be continued for a week.' The Harbour Board has referred to the Harbour Master for report the sug-" gestion that the launch AJI&. should be set apart for work in the Manukau 1 Harbour. ... • . ji . The Indrabaxah- was docked yesterday j'at Port Chalmers, and it-is besides the broken propelleM, minor\ i damage to various parts of the hull has been discovered. ■ _ Sir F. H. Carson says that there "will be no'general election before the Home Kule: Bill is?j-passed irnder.the -veto because* "the:; Government is bound by a iJ|ed^e'to-""3^V : " ; * "v 7 '. A' - hydMKaeroplane ':-'.has.- - arrived ,at- • Auckland from America . to- the order of Mr. Hectbr McKenzle, of, Marion; and flights will probably be made here before the machine n% taken south. I As the outcome of the Coroner's finding, James Philip .Kelly, • .the drivef of a taxi-cab which - knocked down and killed Miss Una Bradley in Cashel Street, Christchurch, -was arrested yes-' terday on v charge of manelangliter" • .The clause in-the Magistrate's Court Act Amendment Bill, which provide' that- only solicitors shall be' made magistrates, raised some discossioh in" the House "yesterday, a number of speakers championing the layman, but eventually it was retained by 39 votes to 23: \ ' ' ;' ■ • Busing, a single woman living in .Grey Street,; was found in Albert Park' last night, suffering from lysol poisoning, a . half -empty bottle ' being near. Emetics were' adimnistered art the police station, and the woman was then taken : to the hospifall ' "The Minister for .Marine, in ths House yesterday, informed Mr. p_ Bradney that the Government bad only, received semi-ofßcial information regard-' ing.the discontinuance of the P. and Ov service to Auckland, and he was not in' a position to disclose the nature of it. ; A Weuington company, is to give an exhibition of moving pictures before memfcers of the Board of Educationschool committees, and school teachers,■with a view to determining -the suitability of school pictures for school wor- l- -. WeDington police last nighi raidedChinese .premises where the rsnspected pakapoo was played, and arrested four" Onnese and ten; white incn. '