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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 41, 17 February 1905, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

• 4 Orient liner wrecked. ; . Band Contest resumed. '= , Disaster on British submarine. ■ c 'Frisco mail leaving for Sydney. Orizaba ashore—feared total wreck. Lady Onslow aud party arrived last night. Paraell school annual picnic to Motutapu to-morrow. Japs have captured two more British blocka de-r mm c rs. Taylor-Carrington Co. successfully, produced "Only a Vagabond." An English mail via Suez is due to arrive here per Mokoia on Sunday. The W-aipa County Council contemplates passing heavy traffic by-laws. An Engish mail via 'Frisco" is due to arrive here per Sonoma on Monday. Heavy gun-firing- will take jilaee at the North Head after G o'clock tonight. Alleged nuisance from City refuse tip at Mechanic's Bay was referred to the Streets Committee. In the Maori abduction case accused was bound in a surety of £200 to appear for sentence "when called upon. A large number of typhoid cases in Sydney have again been traced to eating oysters secured from Middle Harbour. FremautJe Underwriters' officer saj'3 tbe Orizaba is shifting. A storm. would mean her speedy breaking up. A British coroner recently pointed out that IeOO children are suffocated in bed every year in England—thirty per week. • ■ There is some likelihood of an ; experimental grape-growing station being established by the Government at Hokianga. Sir W. MeCutelieon, of Whangamomona, , Taranaki, has been appointed t* fill the vacancy on the Lands Commission. Six bluejackets were killed and two others are missing, through a gasoline explosion on a submarine at Queenstown. , During 1904 320 courts-martial were held on seanien of the Royal Navy. The most frequent offence was striking a superior officer. It is intended to light a number of the city streets with electricity obtained from power generated at the City dust destructor. Nine thousand Russian cavalry have advanced to the Huh river, in connection with an attempt to outflank Oyam.i's extreme left. Witnesses before the Sydney .Navigation Commission said that the majority of captains preferred Swedish and Norwegian to British sailors. , • City Council adopted the report Tβcommending the Council to establish electric power works to utilise the powet generated by the destructor. Berlin correspondents state that the Oza.r received first news of the St. Petersburg; massacre in some press cuttings sent by special messenger by the Kaiser. The city engineer (Mr A. A. Wrigg)/ is the only permanent official in his department, and the position of %he whole staff will be considered at a v special meeting of the Council. ■ . -The North laland ]lepresentat|Qs4/Commissioners concluded .their , - ;_work< 'of delimitating the single electorates of Auckland and Wellington last night. The new boundaries will be gazetted later on. Rust has appealed in the oat crops in the McuntyEwmers district. In common with other "districts in the Ashburton County, Mount Somers will suffer considerably unless a good drying wind springs up. The Leys' Institute, Ponsonby, is expected, to be opened early in March. The committee of management will endeavour to promote literary, scientific, anil social classes 'in connection with"" the institution. "How do you plead?" asked the magistrate's clerk in the Police Oourt this morning of a prisoner. The man in the dock mistook the phrase, for iae cheerfully replied with a smile: "i fed all right, sir." The belief that lockjaw results from a wound from an elder spike appears to have been substantiated by the death from tetanus of Albert Poyey, a gamekeeper ac Sutton Park, Bedfordshire,, who fell on an elder bush. A number of dairy fanners around Palmerston are dipping their calves with sheep dip. It has been, found that the dip, besides destroying all vermin, makes the skin clear and shiny; and gives, the calves a better chance to thrive. The city abattoir question was not discussed last night. The Finance and Legal Committee reported several matters in connection with the abattoir, which have been already published, and the matter will be further considered by the committee at its next meeting. At Bradstxeet's sale: Cotton and linen dress -g6ods, 3|d; 4|d,: fefif jier yard, half-half-price. See window. J. A. Bradstreet, draper, Karaiigahape-road.— Ad.