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Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 5, 6 January 1920, Page 1

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j Cabinet meete this week. Cashmore's timber mill burned. Only 0.27 inch of rain feE yesterday. Civic reception to X.S.W. State Orchestra to-day. Pacific cable delay consequent upon congestion reported. ' Copper famine and copper hoarding reported by the banks. Plunket Shield won by Auckland by an innings and ICO runs. Rush for outdoor and casual employment following holiday. Ohristchurch building operations retarded by timber shortage. The Makura, with English mail, expected Saturday. Delivery Monday. Mason and Barnes leading in Dominion chess tournament on twelfth round. | Xbw agreement between local shipowners and the Merchant Service GuildSugar shortage threatens to embarras* I the jam-making industry in Christchnrch. f Kimutaka men polled against Prohibition to the tune of 347 "votes against 87» About 100 soldiers returned by Bimutaka arrived in Auckland this morning. Dominion teachers still discneaing Tadin" scheme at Education Conference. Christchurch City Council slaughtermen's wages increased from £4 to £4 10/. Reported threat by miners to "go'siower" if new conference is not conceded. Wellington Oddfellows experimenting 'in the abolition of the medical contract system. ; Auckland man unexpectedly found £3000 awaiting him at the bank this : holiday. . Majority against Prohibition now 2689, : with votes from two transports to be ■ received. i An earthquake in Mexico shook ten i states, destroyed two villages "and caused : several hundred deaths. Applications by local bodies for housing loans from State far exceed Governl ments allocation of £1,000,000. . ' Dempsey's manager has accepted Cofr • froth's offer of 400,000 dollars for a. , match between Dempsey and Carpentier. Fifty-one thousand gratuities, total- - ling £3,000,000, have been paid. Eighty : thousand applications have been re- • ceived. - ; Christchurch tram-waymen will discuss 1 local agreement with Tramway Board j subject to ratification by Tramway : Federation. r British Consols £57, increase, 5/? 1 British war loans £86 and £91, ine crease 10/; N\Z. stocks, £84, £69, £60, r .increase. 7/6. 3 Women's' Emigration delegates are re» '"• porting favourably upon New Zealand as ° field of emigration for land, domestic, . and factory workers. _, . g!; Another. Wellington, rumour" states 2 that Sir James Allen will go to London -. ' with Ministerial rank under arrangement ;. made by last Imperial Conference. 3i A charge against Louis David Nixon, y a fireman, of being, tin the "military s black list, 15 and returning 'home before «* the expiry of ten years, 'was adjourned y for two months by Mr. Wilson, SAT. • I For these holiday times old suits or 3 costumes perfectly renovated by the Emjj plre Cleaners' wonderful secret process, r are just the thing.—Opp. Town HalL Ad. i !