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Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 166, 14 July 1914, Page 1

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Boxing championships—Finals To-night. A nnmlier of changes in the Defence stair are officially notified. The Albanian insurgents have captured Berat. helped by CI reek regulars. P.eninera-Greater Auckland Commission continued its .sittings to-day. Three horses were killed by a locomotive on the bridge near Swanson yesterday morning. T!ic auxiliary schooner ilouto made The trip from AVhangape to Wellington, 4-20 milts, in 40 hours. Mr Astpiith hopes to deal with the Home Rule Amending Bill in the House of Commons next week. The recent oil boom in Alberta resulted in the formation of 400 companies with 70.000.000 dollars capital. The Dublin tailors are overwhelmed with orders for uniforms for the Nationalist Volunteers. It U believed that only minor adjust- | ments are contemplated by the New Hebrides Commission. A bullfighter and a toreador were killed during the course of a bullfight in Madrid yesterday. Sir A. Conan Doyle says that Canada wants farmers, farm hands, and a hundred thousand women. The weather in Sydney is bitterly cold. ■ Heavy frosts and snow have been experienced in the Highlands. Nationalists and Unionists catne into conflict at Killcn yesterday, revolvers being fired and stones thrown. During the past fortnight the. Monnt ! Albert Council issued building permits covering an expenditure of £6012. j The Mayor is convening" a meeting on - Friday afternoon next to consider the , formation of a town planning league. > It is proposed in Britain to make motor buses contribute to the cost, ' of maintaining the roads over which they !' run. The campaign to raise £1500 for fr'-ie Renmera Children's Home concluded last , I night, with £lli4fl in the hands of the ~ committee. ' - ■ : A heat wave has again spread over tho ; East of America and tbe middle West. ' Hundreds an' sleeping out on the Coney Island beaches. The Newcastle (Australia) Infantry Hegimcnt won the Kmpire Day Cup with a *core of 20:«. the 4th King's Royal ' Rifles being second. --■ .. ! Lord McDonnell's amendment to the Home Rule Amending Bill "providing for - proportional representation waa adopted by the House of Lords. The Waitemata Chamber of Commerce > is considering a proposal to erect a larga F clock on. the Devonport ferry ttiiarf for the convenience of the public. The Newcastle colliery proprietors i riave regained the Philippines Oiovernt ment contract for 80,000 tons of coal, • I previously held by the Japanese, j j A valuable 40ft oil-launcb, belonging •j to Mr. H. 11. AYiI liaison.. oT Cape Run•'away, was completely wrecked at Te Aiaroa last Wednesday evening. The Tuttranga Railway League has decided to niake a strong protest to the Government on account of tine slow pro~ • gress the East railway is making. I Tile Remuera, Road Board -has been in- . formed that the authorities are considering -its. iprotes-t against the design or the proposed new Remuera post office. Two ehihiren were -drowned, at iProB--2 pe'e-t Park, Brooklyn on Sunday in sight of several thousand onlookers wbo did * not idler to aid the unfortunate children. Certain financial matters in dispute between the Waitemata County and the BorongU of Takapuna were investigated this afternoon by Mr. F. V. Frazer. S.M. A meeting of protest against the continuation of quarrying. _an_the volcanic - ailrs'bf Auckland will: be lield in the . Mamikatr Water Board's- haH, Epsom, tonight-. . Carson says that the Provisional Government -gay -him power to prevent I Home Rule being placed on tie Statute Book, and he would exercise that power with the grimmest determination. .V A man named James Henry Howard, ■who had been arrested near Dubbo, NjS.W., en a charge of wife desertion, "was sentenced to'••six months' imprisonment by the Palmerston Nortli magistrate yesterday. It to been decided to abandon the sciheme whereby- members of the Auckland Farmers' Union.Waterelde Workers' L'nion, Seamen's Union, and Civil servants were to have combined to utilise r the Farmers' Union Trading Association. Tbe Greater Auckland question was discussed by the Mount Albert Borough Council last night, most of tie members ' considering that the Ratepayers' Association should have consulted .tie Council before approaching the Mayor of Auckland. The Premier of New South Wales (Sir W. A. Holman) lias ordered investigations witb a view to utilising tbe mountain rivers and streams for generating. s an electrical supply. It is alleged that unlimited power is now running to i, waste. • .