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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 34, 9 February 1905, Page 1

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Serious strikes in Siberia. Te Awaite trial continued. St. Petersburg strikes resumed. Barque wrecked in Bass Straits. Further riots reported from Poland. Val Vousden at His Majesty , ! Theatre. All mobilization of reserves in Poland has been stopped. Gripenbei-g accuses Kuropatkin of 'hitter incapacity." Russian capital flooded with handbills urging resistance. ! Coroinandel child died through swallowing a half-inch* screw. Thousands of strikers have again left their work in St. Petersburg. _Crew on the wrecked barque werefor 37 hours lashed in the rigging. A brilliant Aurora Australis was seen in Southland last Friday night. Probably the Russian Government will shortly convene a congress of the Zemstvos. . To-day is washing day with the Auckland Tram Company. All the cars have been stripped of their curtains. Warsaw Chief of Police, in an interview, said that the Polish movement was revolutionary, not economic. Handbills circulated in St. Petersburg state* that the next demonstration will' be under the red ilag and with weapons. The search of the residence of an arrested St. Petersburg Councillor has led to the discovery of an- incitement to the army to revolt. Mount Roskill School Committee last evening decided to abandon the proceedings against Mr O'Donoghue, headmaster in the State school. Mr Brodrick said that the growth in the trade of India was so enormous that that country must be considered even before the colonies. "Times," while sympathising with the reasonable pursuance, of the "White Australia" aim. attacks the present attitude of the Commonwealth upon the mail question. •-' • ' Mrs Catherine Milligan. who died at Wellington on Monday", willed £600 to the Wellington Hospital. £ 100 to the Home for Incurables., and £100 to the relief of the indigent blind. There is a rumour that a sailing club is about to be formed in Eotorua shortly. The club would certainly he justified" in holding an annual regatta, the number of yachts being very large. The exact legal position with regard to the liability of licensees to conviction for permitting the playing of cards on their premises for drinks will be decided at Christcliureh before Mr Justice Denniston in the second week in March. A Maori canoe, some fifty feet in length, of great historic interest, and now nioored at the mouth of the Wairarapa lake, is to be placed shortly in the Wellington Museum. The canoe has been presented to, the Museum by a Waifarapa chieftainess, and is't'o"W fitted up .with ,fulL equipment); as Jreprpseriti% Madri4&abe , "The boys of -the present .'generation have a • •hiri^tretjeivtnsS^si«n : £hejr ditl - in my day," remarked tfie Mayor of Gisborhe at the Council meeting when the question of a vote to assist the technical classes was under consideration. "I served seven years at my trade, and at the end of that term, when 21 years of age, I was only getting 9/6 a week, and was then making furniture equal to anything I have ever made." . sa>i.At 6000 yards coloured dress materials, 10|d, l/O&d, l/SJd per yard, all halfre- • gnlar prices. J. A. Bradstreet, Draper, Karangahape-road.— (Ad.) At Bradstreet's Sale: A.large lot of ladies' summer blouses greatly reduced in price; sec window. J. A. Bradetreet, Draper, Karangahape-road.— (Ad.)