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Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 277, 20 November 1913, Page 1

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A French airman looped the loop with a passenger yesterday. A quantity of gin. and -whisky -was •seized by the police latt night in a house in Alexandra Street. An attempt was ma-dp last night, to burn down the new railway station? building at Stockton. A tender of a little under £30,000 ha& been accepted for the erection of the New PI; mouth Hospital. Sydney wharf labourers decided last ■ night to adhere to their decision not to work Sew Zealand cargo. Thirty minere were entombed by an explosion in -a mine in Alabama yesterday. Only three escaped. In the Colquhoun Sculls, on the river Thames, R. Gould, a New Zealand*?:, haa qualified for the semi-final. The steamer .Sotsdyke, with a cargo of -esparto grasis.i s afire in the Channel.. Warships rescued her crew. Clem Hill has been appointed a stipendiary steward by the South Australian racing clubs, and .will retire irom big cricket. Two plugs of gelignite, with detonators and fuses attached, ire stated. to have been found at the Greenlane station yesterday. ( Rhodes scholars liaving ewepfc _thq> board at the OxKrrd Fre&hmeir'e Sports, are to 'be prohibited from participation, in future contests. • A wireless message from Macquarie Island etates that >3£r. Hatch's schooner Rachel Cohen arrived there yesterday morning. Twenty-five thousand French miners have struck with a view to compelling the .Senate to relinquish, amendments iv the Eight Hours Bill. The Harbour Board lias started work on the western tide deflector, 'Which will extend into the harbour from the Freeman's Bay reclamation. Two men ■■were arrested at "WeffingtoTW last night in connection with an attack; m-ae'e by about 20 strike pickets trpon. 5 carter during the afternoon. . •*'.-■ The Opawa will take 44,773 boxes of Auckland butter away with her to-mor-row^ , and the, Maraina will load 16,000 boxes for Canada this "week. A verdict of accidental death ■was returned at ■fthe inquest on the young man. W. C. Hemming, who was found &hot at Howick yesterday morning. The greater part of Northern Mexico •is now in the hands of the Constitutionalists, who are appealing to the United States for recognition. Persistent reports in Berlin that- the Kaiser's favourite son. Prince Eitel Priedrieh, intended to divorce his' wife •have necessitated an official denial. ~ A number of tributes to the late Mr. G. Laurenson. -M.P., weTe paid by members of the Legislative Council and the House of Representatives y«eierday.— I A keen campaign on the local option I ii=sue is o>eing fought in Sew South ! Wales just now. The Alliance ie concentrating its efforts in a few electorates. The '"special" constable Henry Alexander Burbnsh, who wafi'ins&*(iiI SB at - Domain camp on Sunday -by a fall front bis horse, died '-at the Hospital yesterday afternoon. The arrangements for mars-hailing '"special" constables at ChrietelinTch are being kept very secret, but active preparations are being -made at the camp at Addington. A Supreme Court action, Tylden and Spiers v. Joseph Chapman, a claim for £427 commission, was struck out yesterday afternoon, a settlement having beea arrived at. Some missiles were thrown 'at '"specials" by persons aboardi;he 'Maknra; -as the vessel left the wharf last night. It is eta-ted 'that those responsible -were strikers bound for Australia. There was something of a disturbance in Hpbson Street, near the Trades Hall, at teatime yesterday, mounted special constables making some use of their ' ■batoDs in dispersing a crowd. ' ' It i≤ understood that English trades unionists have determined thai there shall be no surrender in Doblin unless •the Irish Transport Union and the right to a sympathy strike are recognised.. .