AUCKLAND NEWS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XCVI, Issue 14396, 12 June 1907, Page 9

AUCKLAND NEWS.

[Pr.n Press Association.] AUCKLAND, Juno 11. ( It lias been the custom of the Auckland .Chamber of Commerce to entertain the Parliamentary members of Auckland province prior to the opening of the session. The dinner this year has been fixed for Saturday, June 22. Various matters will be brought under tbo notice of members, including the proposed revision of tho tariff, and tho burning question of Auckland’s public buildings. . . i Mr Burns, Canadian Commissioner 'to the New Zealand Exhibition, arrived from tho south this morning. Mr Burns intends to remain in' Auckland for a week or two before proceeding home. The.-Hon G. Fowlds, in a speech at the Richmond Cruising Club’s social last night, said he would encourage aquatics. It was a very great factor in building up a strong and vigorous manhood which would be of immense value to tho colony in days to conun Tho discovery of Maori burial caves at One Tree Hill surprised even Sir John Logan Campbell, who had not the faintest idea of their existence, although he has been familiar with the property for so many yeans. Naturally considerable interest has been awakened by the find. At present the inspection of these depositories of the bones of the ancient dwellers on the Tamaki Isthmus is only to bo accomplished after an intricate acrobatic feat.