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Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 117, 17 May 1920, Page 1

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Several mails from'; Australia this week. •» Lost schooner RetrieVer picked up by Taltine. £ Westralia arrived at-Wellington early i to-day. ! Makiira due from Vancouver next : Sunday.. I Criminal sessions of Supreme Court I opened to-day. ! There were 158 Chinese arrivals in the j Dominion las* month. I Prince spen- t>usy and brilliant day in j Chr : ritchurch on Saturday. I Mayor of 'Wanganui arrested on a charee of attempted murder. Up-to-date fire fighting scheme to be placed before Devonport ratepayers. Brawl on steamer Chepadoa cost the cook and messboy £5 each this morning. Children under 15 prohibited from attending picture theatres in Wellington. Thieving attempt on a Hobson Street pawnbroker's window on Saturday night. Fire fatality at Waihi on Saturday night. Two-year-old chi:a burnt to death. Various local bodies interested consider proposals for increasing the tram fares to-night. Bookmaker fined £30 this morning for bettins at the EUerslie Royal meeting. Domestic tragedy near Balclutna, Father batters in the head of his seven-year-old child. Auckland railwavmen passed a resolution yesterday of sympathy with the suspended jockeys. Two men arrested at Wellington on j charge of rape alleged to have been I committed in Auckland. Ladies' beautifully warm -wool I bloomers, cream, 10/6, 11/55: do., navy, j 11/9. —Economic ( opp. Town Hall). —Ad. j Clothing of every kind carefully ■ cleaned, repaired, or remodelled to j latest fashion by the renowned Empire (Experts for a few shillings.— Empire I Cleaning Co., Opp. Town Hall.—(Ad.) Men's serviceable umbrellas, 7/6 upf men's warm unshrinkable singlets, 8/IL, .Economic (opp. Town Hall). —(Ad.)