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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 122, 26 May 1930, Page 1

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Many injured in Bengal riot. Zeppelin met storm off coast of Brazil. Improved tone of London dairy market, Governor-General visiting Waikato district. Waikato Winter Show opens to-mor-row. Primary schools reopened to-day after holidays. British submarine flotilla left for Hongkong. Nearly 200 feared dead in pilgrim ship fire at Jeddah. Prime Minister-elect visited Sir Joseph Ward at Rotorua. The 83rd birthday of Queen Mary celebrated to-day. Popular movement in West Australia to break from Commonwealth. Death announced of Loid Davidson, former Archbishop of Canterbury. Rapturous reception given to Miss Amy Johnson on arrival at Darwin. Believed Dusseldorf "Jack the Ripper" arrested; confessed to ten murder 1 ). Australian cricketer, Bradman, made another double century score, not out. Prime Minister-designate, the Hon. G. W. Forbes, returned to Wellington. Mitchell, English golfer, defeated Diegel, of America, in professional match. Reticulation of Silverdale area discussed by Waitemata Power Board today. Cyclist struck by motor car in Dominion Road this morning and gravely injured. Motor competition blamed for loss 'of £20,500,000 last year by German railways. Vatican city deplores attempted assassination of Lord Strickland, Prime Minister of Malta. Spark from shoe of runaway ■ horse set fire to oil pipe in Ripon (Wis.), causing £100,000 damage. Gift of chiming clock by GovernorGeneral and Lady Bledisloe to Jubilee Institute for the Blind. Serious accident on railway works near -Blenheim; truck conveying party of men fell into a creek. Mr. Jas. Baxter, manager of the British football team, described the wingforward as a "deliberate cheat." Over 4400 men placed on Government works through Auckland Labour Bureau since present Government assumed office. Motion to be moved at next meeting of City Council for setting up of investigating committee to inquire into working of various city departments. Sales on 'Change to-day were Bank of N.S.W., £39 10/; , South British, £2 19/6; Bank of New Zealand, £2 18/9: Inscribed Loan, 1932, s±, £98 15/.

Overstocked. We are selling goods below theii' value. Kings, watches, jewellery and many useful gifts can be secured by a small deposit at David Silk, Jeweller, Queen. Street. Illustrated catalogue on request.—(Ad.) Cash Orders.—T. W. Mayson and Co., Auckland's leading Cash Order Co., hare removed from Security Bldgs. to 7th floor Power Board Bldgs, Queen St.—(Ad.) Caudwell's, "The Bargain Drapers." 42. Karangahape Boad: Best place to shop; 10/ reduction, off all blankets this Week. Special reductions in overcoats. (Ad.) ■