Bevities.

Thames Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 8618, 24 March 1897, Page 3

Bevities.

The hours Jt polling for the Auckland licensing el« |f.on are from 9 a.m. H 7 p m. As on Parliamentary election day, it is unlawful from noon to 7 p in. to soil intoxie.-it-injr liquor in any rc«nsad prenii«r-s The Education Boird has authorised the appointment of Mr D. W. Dunlop as s< eond assistant at the Napier Street school. Professor and Mm Aldis and fanuly have left Auckland. Their destination W said to be the Old Country, The Mayor of Auckland, Mr A. Boardman, who has been prostrated by » severe attack of illness, is recovering and is returning to his official duties. * The Government have received n* official intimation of a new Governor havfea' been appointed, but it is quite possible ttfitt the cable* mentioning Lord Kanfurly as successor to Lord Glasgow may prove correct.—Auckland Star. Typli«'d fever is rapidly increasing in Waihi and Waitekauri. There are at pnacnt 21 cases of fevor in Waihi. On Monday, Te Mare, it is reported, the volcano on Mount Tongariro, was steaming with much activity, the volume of steam increasing as the dny went on. A serious accident happened on Friday last to a man named James Kearse, working for the Waitcknuri Goldrnhung Joinpany. The man was excavating at the back of the kilns, and whilst picking at the face, part of the top broke away, and, being held partly by roots, swung round fend struck Kearse, brenking six ribs and almost burying him. He Mas got out, and Dr Forbes went from Paeroa to attend to his injuries. Keame is now progressing very well.