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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 39, 15 February 1905, Page 1

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+ '"Star" Summary. Band Contest resumed. Sawmill burned, at Eketahona. 'Frisco mail leaves on Friday. Supreme Court Criminal Sessions resumed. State of siege proclaimed at .Vladivostok. Inquest on Mrs Foster opened thia morning. Test piece competition was 'won "by; Wellington band. Shipping disaster on Japanese coast; 94 persons drown-ed. Japs have a light railway running from flank to flank. Annual meeting of the Auckland Club took pkiee yesterday. Russians are prepared in case of retreat to give battle at Tieling. North Sea Inquiry is now complete except for the Commission's iisding. Stated that extensive preparations have been made to give battle at Tieling. A. Wheeler, of the Auckland First Battalion, won the gold medal for B flat bass solo. Trepoff is compelling managers of works to accede to the St. Petersburg workmen's demands. A London County Court has decided that a schoolmaster is a gentleman "in fact, but not in law." Guests at a Moscow ball sang the Marsellaise and made revolutionary, speeches instead of dancing. The English mail via 'Frisco, which left here on January 25, arrived at 'Frisco on the lath mat. at 10 p.m. Anti-Jewish rioters in Russia wrecked a synagogue and flogged hundreds of Jews, killing several of their number. Father Gapon is said to have been a prisoner all through, and the Switzerland story was a semi-official concoction. Mr J. A. Kinsella, Dairy Commis-' sioner. in the course of a lecture at Carterton, said that at Eltham he had seen dairy land sold at £37 an acre. The United States Government has offered Mr Harper, the New Zealand bank clerk, a sum of 400 dollars a* compensation for his having been deported and imprisoned. A large grey salmon, weighing about 401b, was recently found stranded on the beach of the Wararapa Lake. It is said by experts to be a species of the American Alaskan salmon. Mr. F. Trollope, of New Soutli Wales, reports that the careless use of wax matches is the most common cause of bush fires, and that there is no need to prohibit phosphorus poisoning. Bennett, the man who shot himself at Taihape, was formerly in business at Wellington as a member of the firm of Bennett and Maginnity, wine and spirit merchants. He has relatives in that city. Excusing himself from shooting and seriously wounding two employees, a dipsomaniac at Le'Mans, in Biiltany,' declared (says the "Journal") that he intended the shots for Ms wife, who had been putting water in his cider. Fifty jiounds worth of damage has been done to the Governmeiit :B«riia.ings in Lambton Quay,- I?ellilM6n, through .of the ajff- cTM&ebe'rm connection : .witli the water" stipprr for fire purposes being blown off. A couple of electric ears collided, opposite the Government railway station in Wellington yesterday through disarrangement of-;the points, but beyond the aprons cars being broken no damage was ' done, and no passengers were injured. The IS7 Dunedin corporation debentures for £100 each, offered by £he Waipori Falls Power Company to facilitate the distribution of the assets of the company, were over applied for to the extent of £8570, and yielded an average premium of 2/9 A. The export of timber from Greymbuth last week was the largest on record, according to the "Grey Star." and totalled 1,289.336 superficial feet. The total was made up of 840,000 feet of white pine and 449,336 feet of red pine. At a demonstration of spraying potatoes to guard against the potato disease, given by the Government biologist, at Johnsonville (according to a Press Association telegram), most of those present were of opinion that the disease was introduced by early potatoes from Auckland. The Mayor of Wellington has proclaimed a half-holiday for the opening day of the Australia-Wellington cricket match. The Employers' Association refused to declare a half-holiday on that -day instead of Wednesday, as a majority of the shopkeepers are against it. At Grantville. Victoria, a snake bit William Good, a fanner, through a small hole in his boot, while he was walking through a paddock. His son scarified and sucked the wound, and, with ligatures applied, the man was driven by his wife to a doctor at San Remo, 13 miles away. Before the journey was finished he became unconscious, and died as soon as the township was readied. Max Hart, a New , York postal clerk, with a small salary, who has been for years buying unclaimed goods, hoping some day to secure a hidden fortune, purchased in !New York recently an old trunk for 10/, and found in it bonds to the value of £6000. The owner of the securities is dead, and Hart's ownership of the admitted value of the bonds has been legally sustained. "Good credit is better than a deep pocket." was one of the pieces of philosophy uttered in the Flaxbourne estate case on Wednesday. "Due rather to the shape of his head than the star under which he was born," observed His Honor when cross-examining counsel was ecm« menting on the success in life of a witness who had admitted that he was "not much of a scholar."—Wellington "Post." At Bradstreet's sale: Cotton and linen dress goods, 31d, 4R 62d per yard, half-half-price. See window. J. A. Bradstreet, draper, Karangahape-road.—Ad. RHEUMO DOES. Hr W. Wearing, miner, Matanra, states as follows:—"I am 79 years old, and have lived in Mataura 40 years. For seven months I was a great sufferer from rheumatism, so bad that at times I could not leave my bed. I was told of Rneumo aud took four bottles. The result was that I was completely cured of rheumatism Mr MacGlbbon, who is a J.P. and a wei? known merchant here, can verify *niy statement. I shall always bo glad j» tell sufferers what your wonderful medicine Rheumd did for inc." Sold everywhere, 2/G ana 4/6. KEiITTHORNE, 'PKOSSER, AJJD CO., Wholesale Agents.