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Whltcombe'a Bargains. (Ad) England's first innings closed for 259. Australia have loßt 2 wickets for 143 in second innings. General Smuts has gone to Ireland to confer with Sir James Craig. H.M.S. Chatnam leaves shortly on a tour of the South Sea Islands, Amalgamation with the city to be considered by the Avondale Koad Board, Prices at the Wellington wool sales yesterday ranged much the same as in May. Auckland firm of architects won the first prize for a Dunedin war memorial design, Ponsonby resident charged with having sold a book calculated to encourage lawlessness. City Markets Committee to advertise for slaughtermen to fill the vacancies at the abattoirs. Two Maori boys were playing with a shot-gun at Whakatane when the gun exploded and one boy was killed. Tlie new hot spring bore at Helensville was tested yesterday to a yield equivalent to 140,000 gallons a day. Eatana, the Maori healer, returns from his northern tour on Friday to spend a few days among the natives around Auckland. Meeting of Parliamentarians this morning to discuss the furtherance of Auckland's claims to the proposed school of forestry. Serious breakdown in the Eastern Extension Company's cables in the Red Sea. Repair ships unable to work owing to bad weather. Peculiar reading of the Magistrates' Court Act on the subject of tenancy illustrated in a magisterial judgment this morning. Large number of diphtheria cases in the Auckland country districts last month, but a reductior in May, which was a record bad month. Auckland members of Parliament tn visit the rival sources of electric current for the province—Arapuni and Aratiatia. about the end of the month. Suggestion advanced in the Arbitration Court yesterday afternoon for the stabilisation of hours in the furniture trade, in order to minimise unemployment. _A trucker named George P. Jack was killed at the Westport Coal Company's Ironbridge mine yesterday afternoon through being caught by coal tubs on the haulage road. Warehouse clearance of furs and fur coats at "The Boudoir," Kara_ga_ape Road, near Tivoli. Exceptional bargains. (Ad.) 6 Frocks, crepe de chine, from £3 15/; wool jersey frocks, from 59/6, etc.—The Boudoir, Karangahape Road.— (Ad.) Watches, clocks, cheaply, carefully and skilfully repaired; examination and quotations free.—At Silk's, Jeweller.—(Ad.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 158, 5 July 1921, Page 1
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