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Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 202, 26 August 1919, Page 1

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Visit T. Clark's Money Saving Sale.—(Ad.) B<3chMteln.Bal>y Grand, Thur., ißici. Arthur Hawke's Bay carpenters and joiners are asking for " compulsory unionism." The steamer Arapawa recently stranded at Waitara, has been reitoated. Meetings of the Government party and the Opposition party are to be ihekl on Wednesday. X.Z. stamp duty, accelerated by the property boom, will this year probably total a million sterling. The butter shortage in Christchurch has resulted in grocers' supplies being pretty severely restricted. The young Maori -who was found in an unconscious condition yesterday morning died at the Hospital last evening. A through express train •will leave Auckland for Wellington to-nigM, the first since the railway cut !has been in operation. Present indications are that the new Cabinet will not number more than ten at the outside, and may not be more than eight. A mysterious shooting affair in which a twelve-year-old boy received a bullet wound in the head, has been reported I from Waihi. , 11.M.5. Ken- Zealand, now lying in Wellington Harbour, was boarded on Saturday last by 15,000 people, and yeai terday by 20,000. For administering excessive punishment to one of hie pupils the headj maeter of the West End. School, Palm- > erston Xorfch, has 'been fined. • It has been decided to replace the porj trait of Sir Joeeph Ward, which has ! been found missing from H.M.s. New ; Zealand with a similar portrait. j Wihilfi on his way to a funeral at Kartigi, Dunedin, the motor car in which he was travelling went over an embankment, and killed William Walter Hay, a married man with four children. ■Boys' and girls' school boots at low , prices at Pearson's Giant Boot Sale, Karangahape Road, Xewton. — (Ad.) 1 David Cleghorn, metaphysician, Palmerston Bldgs., opp. G.P.0., treats success- ' fully nervous troubles. Advice free. (Ad) : Men's box eh. Derby boots, at 17/6 \ pair, at Pearson's Giant Boot Sale, New- _ , ton.—(Ad.) •J