NEWS IN BRIEF.

Thames Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 14791, 24 April 1914, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

To-morrow i& St. Mark's Day, Kapier tram-way service to he extended. Fatal quarrel at Sydney. One man/ killed. Strikers aftl! figHifcing agfalneJ airtnj} Rt Colorado. ' Euchro and danoe sooial last nigtf> a. big s .l-coss. Jo\toLl-.v "ile at Read and Go-.V mart tionnorrow. ■■■■Three new hockey referees available this season. Stevenson leading Cray by 111.Q in billiai'd matcH. * Fruit and produce sale at Head's auction mart to-day. I _ Important vnhiiit& paper published! in connection with Ulstfer. '.Meny Rb« won N.Z. Sit. Legetf. a*. Wellington yesterday. C ; Oppdisition candidata outi for B«o*. kn.seat against Mi- Bollard. ° Paymast-ar of cruiser <x£ vera Cruz injured by bulled. Hookey aemson open a at Tlhiaines ore Saturday .-wiith praotioe matches. Premier visits Tlhames on Tuesdar ;*md give® publio address at Higtht. i • /President Wilson is he&itatb'ng' t^ adopt eottreme measures in Mexico* •Btu'glara operating at Hamilton, Sh-md Cafe entered and £19 stolen,.. Hockey eeasoia a'j Thames thii year promises to b& most successful*". New engine turned' out of (PiWff foundry to-day. Had successful ■■trial. run. • Women and children killed in gtrifc*'* ers' engagements Trith troops at Coloiiado. Wellington business men cousidear Aimerican beef trust is operating inj New Zealand. -. General Carranza wants Ameri<sa» to consider him as head of the Mesi* can Elepublio. ' Dr. PageVs alleged consumption! c,uro is % snuffing, prepared tu'oerr 1 culosiis material. One ladies' hookej team to bo formed at Thamea to :ba divided int<> A and B t^ams. Eight Americans killed in Ve«< Cruz engagement b©%e-en Mesicanff 1 and U.S.A", troops. - Infanti child accidentally overlain by -motlher at Auckland S.A:. mater-: nity home and suffocated. Times says Asquiifth only mitervened in Ulster, crisis when preci* pi&ted by hi» colTeagiues. ■■ Oscar Birder, Sm'sa airman, brofee altitude record carrytogi passenger 3ver Bernese; Ailpa tat >I 2', 130tt. Steamer Aftbenic took 12,000 oases >f appes of whioh 9000 oame from kelson. Destined for South aaherieauj' {Aufstji-ailimni *en|tvis ichaanp'ilon d&feated oppament ' ;ia s;emi-fin«l of jhampiionisihap meeting at Mbntreux. Genei«l Sir E. Pjaget accept^ fu'.t for misamderfcanding in jonnwtiofn with ai"my moTenienfe m Jlster. — — , ChTokcnippx outbreak ab Auclaand r particularly in Etemuera disttiriofc e Diphtheriii case's also reported in Auckland. White Wolf, Chinese brigand chief, Has issued prptelamatiau urgingl freeing'of Chiaa from Yuaii-shih' ■ kiii's rule. Fuimers' Auctioneering Co. holdf two sales to-morrow. Houso for removal at Paillie Street and funiituie at Drill Hall. Hauraki Plains settlers complain- . ing of apathy of local business men. v catering; for them. Trade going to" Auckland and M-o^nsville.