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Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 250, 21 October 1919, Page 1

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Trafalgar Day. Transport Remuera due Auckland next Sunday. Soldiers' gratuities to be all paid up by Christmas. New theatre to be Iwilb in Dunedin, at cost of £40,000. Big English mail due by K.M.s. Niagara to-morrow. Parliament to diecuss repeal of auti« shouting regulation. Auckland to be a seaplane base in New; Zealand defence scheme. Bottles of whisky stolen from Wairoa Hotel storeroom at Dargaville. Steamer Berwick Castle burned at sea between Capetown and London. Big exodus of passengers from 2\cvi. Zealand to Sydney starts to-day. Mr. R. M. Algie appointed first Pro* feesor of Law at Auckland University. University site definitely fixed at Metropolitan Ground, Symonds Street. Box of matches found in benzine cargo of steamer Awahou, loaded at Auckland. Telephone bureau at last established at Onerahi, the auxiliary port of Whangarei. Maori long-sentence prisoner from Mt. Eden Gaol died at the hospital of peri« tonitis. Janetto Lines (42), farmer's wife, afc Kiwi (Nelson) found hanging in shed at her home. First Xew Zealand contingent of rough-riders sailed for South Africa 20 years ago to-day. Last month the oversea arrivals in New Zealand numbered 244-1 and tho departures were 15 less. Sir James Allen expects the elections the first week in December, and prophesies a Reform party win. Wellington gasworks men discontinue working overtime ac demands for in« creased paj: are not granted. K.S.A. Conference amended constitution by deleting "non-political," but li* ited action to questioning candidates. Engineers unsuccessfully asked Arbitration Court for reconsideration of decision as to bonus not applying to overtime. Cost of foodstuffs is about G per cent dearer in Whangarei than Auckland, according to statement in Arbitration Court. White- towels, 3/11 pair, worth 5/. Sale Roberts, Litd., salvage stock, Economic, opp. Town Hall.— I Ad. 72in. unbleached plain sheeting, 2/d, worth 3/6. Economic Sale, opp. Town Hall.—(Ad.)