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Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 182, 1 August 1923, Page 1

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See Hall Calne's "Christian"—National, f A<l.J Trotting at Gisborne to-morrow. Manuka from Sydney berthed thii morning. Two black bear cubs have been born at thr Auckland Zoo. Flora due from the Eastern Pacific to-night with a cargo of fruit. Monthly luncheon of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce to-morrow. A 15 per cent reduction in fire ireurance premiums to operate for a rear from to-day. The total collection to date in New Zealand for the Arthur Pearson Memorial Fund is £33,550. There were 64 notifications of diphtheria and 43 of pneumonia in the Auckland health district last month. Two people who tried to evade paring their tram fares were each fined 40/ this morning at the Police Court. Tile Niagara, which airlved at Vancouver at the beginning of the week, leaves again on Friday on her return trip. Eminent physicians consulting with Mr. W. G. Harding's own medical adviser declare the President to be gravely ill. He is however, a little improved. Heavy mist over the Waitemata for a couple of hours after sunrise to-day, steamers having to keep their foghorns sounding. Nine more cases of pneumonic influenza reported this morning, and four deaths. Last month's total for the Auckland district was 78 cases, of which 15 proved fatal. Another valuable city business front, age changed hands, the property in Victoria Street East, occupied by the AHiPTt Dining Rooms, having been sold to the Standard Insurance Company for £600 per foot. A man named Wise, who engaged * carter to remove three loads of furnl' ture from a house in Western Springe Road, from which the owner was ten> porarily absent, pleaded guilty thi« morning to attempted theft, and was/ commited for sentence. Special offer. Ladies" gold armlets, latest style, round, oval and fiat, 20/ each, for this week only, at David Silk, Jeweller, Queen Street.—(Ad.)