AUCKLAND NEWS.
(bv tblkoraph—own correspondent)
Auckland, January 12.
At the annual meeting of the Jubilee Institute for- 'lie Blind the retiring Trustees were re-elected. The Opera House was again packed to the doors tonight, when the Pollard's repeated the performance of the comic opera " The French Maid." A boy named Gordon Ftith had a narrow, escape this " morning. It appears' he emerged from behind a. 'bus whenr crossing Q'leon street, and immediately the' shaft of a passing cart struck him, knocking him down, and the' wheols. went, over his : legs. No bones were broken. The question of alleged "roll stuffing" was again brought iip at the Oily Council meeting lact night, and on the motion of theMiyor it was, after considerable-discus-ion, decided to dispense:, with the service of the j present valuer. - - .. : A fire broke out in an unoccupied six roomed house at Eden Terrace last night, but was extinguished by the Firo Brigade . .Damage, to tba excont of £50 was occasioned, ". ' Eibort Johnson, a,blacksmith,.of Bovonport, died 'suddenly yesterday, having ruptured a,blood vessel. Malcolm Niccol]' Chairman of the Harhor Board, has received a cable from Mr J.. M. Brigham, Secretary of the Board, who is'at present in London, to the.effect that the latter lus arranged)witbthe:Adrairaltyfor a subsidy towards the Calliope Dock of £4244 per annum for thirty yeara as a sioking fund on £32,350. Mr W. Leys, who, recently occupied the position of rOhairman of # the Ponsouby School Committee, is' a candidate'' foi a" seat on the Board of Education.
Eleven-master painters have been cited to appear .before the Conciliation Board to show cause ..why they should not be bright within the scope of the recommendations made by. tho Bjard at the time; of the' recent dispute be tween ■ painters and the Union. ' are:the masters who did not sign the agreement formulated by the Board, •und;thfl Union.no,v ash thattfapy,be;cdied upon to agree to the conditions
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Thames Advertiser, Volume XXV, Issue 9247, 14 January 1899, Page 3
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315AUCKLAND NEWS. Thames Advertiser, Volume XXV, Issue 9247, 14 January 1899, Page 3
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