AUCKLAND WEEKLY NEWS.
ON SALE TO-DAY. PRICE, SIXPENCE. A TOPICAL EDITION. PULL OP INTERESTING ILLUSTRATIONS. ASSASSINATION. VICTIMS OP ANARCHY. GOVERNOR IN COOK ISLANDS. NATIVE FESTIVITIES. SUFFRAGETTE RIOT IN LONDON CARNIVAL AT HAWERA. OPENING OF PARLIAMENT. PROHIBITION DEMONSTRATION. COLLISION IN AUCKLAND HARBOUR. WAIKATO HUNT CLUB. CAT SHOW. PRETTY LITTLE NEW ZEALANDERS. TRIBUTE TO GATE PA DEFENDER. POLITICAL CARTOON. PORTRAITS. MISCELLANEOUS ILLUSTRATIONS. To-day's edition • of the Auckland Weekly News is alivo with illustrations 'of an interesting nature. An exceptionally fine photograph of the late heir to the Austrian throne and his consort, assassinated at Sarajevo on Sunday, shows the Royal couple when on their last visit to England in November. Views of the Imperial Palace and the city of Vienna are also included. Amusing pictures appear of suffragettes arrested during their recent raid on Buckingham Palace. The vice-regal tour of the Cook Islands is the subject of two interesting pages which depict the welcome to Rarotonga, and the various amusements provided in honour of the visitors. The official opening of Parliament and the prohibition demonstration in Wellington aro features of the issue. A departure from the general news illustrations is provided by an artistically arranged page of Persian cats entered in last Saturday's show in Auckland. Another bright page is composed of striking New Zealand child studies entered in the last photographic competition. Amongst many other illustrations aro the raising of the scow sunk in Auckland by collision with the s.s. Clansman, the King at Aldershot inspecting the treatment of " wounded" soldiers, unveiling the memorial to Rawiri (the Maori defender of tho Gate Pa) at Tauranga, the spot on the River. Jordan where Christ is believed to .have been baptised, proposed new buildings of the Dilworth Ulster Institute for Boys, improving tho Main Trunk Railway, a haul of frost fish secured at Waihi, gymkhana and winter show at Hawera, one of Taranaki's largest dairy factories, meet of tho Waikato Hunt Club, Rotorua'fl new post office, and a big draft of cattle in Hawke's Bay. Besides other illustrations and portraits there appears a political cartoon.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15649, 1 July 1914, Page 5
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342AUCKLAND WEEKLY NEWS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15649, 1 July 1914, Page 5
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