GENERAL NEWS.
A SUCCESSFUL GATHERING. The Auckland Ladies' Benevolent Society held a floral /Ctc, or carnival of flowers, at Ellerslie racecourse on Saturday. There were about fifty classes for competition, in addition to children's processions, a musical bicycle ride, a flight of 500 homing pigeons and a bicycle procession. It is stated that 15,000 people were on the ground, the laro-est outdoor gathering, yet held in Auckland. The Society gets a Government .£ for £ subsidy on the net receipts. The affair was a magnificent success. A CHINESE OATH. The Official Assignee at Auckland has a difficult point to settle, owing to the fact that a. Chinaman the other day took it into his head to file his schedule. At one meeting of creditors the Assignee and the lawyers became engaged in an animated contest as to whether the chopping off of., a cock's head was the only oath that was binding on the conscience of a naturalised Chinaman, and in the meantime a squabbling in a corner of the room revealed the fact that a "couple of fowls were tied up. there in a kit ready for slaughter. _Lventually the meeting was adjourned, the Assignee undertaking to unravel the mysteries of Chinese oaths m the interval.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 5734, 30 November 1896, Page 2
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