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Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 187, 7 August 1913, Page 1

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Turkish prisoners in Bulgaria aggregate a hundred thousand. " The Maasey Government's second Budget was presented night. The first through train on the Main Trunk line was dispatched five years ago to-day. General Sir O'Moore Creagh, V.C., Commander-in-Chief in India, is resigning next spring. W. Woods, a jockey, had his spine badly injured yesterday a/fc Hastings by; his mount falling dead. The Budget contains a proposal for •the raising of a loan of £1,750,000 in London for public works. The Dominion's revenue for the past year (£11,734,082) shows a surplus over the expenditure of £652.232. The Government has purchased a house near the tram barn at TAkapuna for the purposes of a police station. Tbe net public debt of the Dominion, as shown by the Budget, is £87,457421, an increase for the year of £5,706,850. It is intended, saya the Budget, to allow the construction of private branch railway lines, subject to certain restrictions. Colonel Seely, Minister for War, stated in the House of Commons that 101 aeroplanes were now in use by the Army. The High Commissioner's Office in London, is to be shifted to new buildings in the Strand, which will be leased for 8G years. ■At the Toxvn Hall Jast night, Johnny •Summers (England) defeated Hock Keys (Australia) in a 15-round bout for a record purse. The Government intends to bring down an Electoral Bill this session, and local government reform will probably be dealt with as well. The Government proposes to raise ieaehers' annual increment* from £3 to £10, pending comprehensive educational legislation next year. • ■ ■-'•' The Hon. Mt. Fraser states that -the Government 'have under consideration. the question of fche mai-ntenajice of main. roads throughout the Dominion. A young man named John McLean, after rendering .first aid to an injured miner at Reefton, collapsed, and viae removed to his home, where he died. The new Consolidated Arbitration Act is intended to. allow disputes, to be heard by the Arbitration. Ooart without the necessity for the partite to be registered unions. i General Abraham Perdomo, well known throughout Central ■Aim»ri«q as a military leader, has been shot dead in the etreet in San Salvador "by ArtuTO Gomez, a journalist. \ Mr. Cyril Asquith, son of the Prime Minister, has carried off a. first-class' in Classical Greats at Oxford University, thus equalling the records made i-by his father and brother. "'Philip James Kelly, a taxi-driver, was committed for trial a£ Chrtstehurch yesterday on a charge of manslaughter arising out of the death of a young woman, Ida. Bradley, who was nm dawn by hi*. car. , '■['"■ ■ ■" -•■ ■• ' '""■•-' ■ The -choirs competition ai lavercargill was won by St. Johnfe Chnrch choir (Invercargill) with a record of .149 points. Ilerr Carl Saver, the judge, said. jhe had not heard better choral work in Australia. The Auckland branch of 'the British Medical Association paeeed a resolution last night declaring the present epidemio to be smallpox and urging universal vaccination aa the best means of eradicating it. '.. , . . The Minister for Ka-ilways is considering the desirability of placing observation care on the Auckland-Wellington, GhTistchureh-Dunedin, Christoirarch-Cass, Otira-Hokitika. railway lines, making a special charge. The • King appeared .at Goodwood races in a grey lounge suit and a boxer hat. The white top hats, which were co favoured by King Edward when the late monarch attended race-meetings, are rarely seen nowadays. While shunting at Wormwood Scrubs, London, an engine was derailed, and turned completely over down a-n embankment. The driver and fireman managed to jump clear, and had-a marvellous escape from death. A London taxi-cab driver has been committed for trial for manslaughter. He was driving at night, and his cab knocked over a truck and killed a woman who was in charge of the latter ( vehicle. The chauffeur pleaded that he was aeleep, and said that he had had no sleep for two nights. '• 1 am advised that the handwriting of New Zealand children compares not unfavourably with that of children of the same age in other parts of the Empire," stated the Minister of Education in answer to ilr. Payne, who suggested the introduction of a uniform system of teaching handwriting laorc efficiently in our schools. Last days of discount., Friday and Saturday morning, 3/ in £ returned on all purchases of 10/ and over.—Grey and Ford, Ltd., Karangaiiapc Road. —(Ad.) ' ' "