Colds and coughs. Influenza i 3 prevalent. S.s, Waihora gone South. Cholera is spreading in Russia., • Weather severe on old people. S.s. Richmond left for the Islands. v Sir George Grey is getting better. British Parliament) has been prorogued. Women's franchise movement is advanc ing rapidly. Sir George Grey will probably go to Aus tralia next week. England will shortly be in the thick of the general elections. Change ot programme ab Mr Snazelle'u eiitertainmenb this evening. The late Sir Harry Atkinson; was buried this morning ab Wellington. Sir Harry Atkinson was given a public and military funeral to-day. The City Council want tenders for boring and making and fitting cylinders. Mr Thomas Hartley has been appointed Town Clerk ab Cambridge (Waikato). " The young man William," is whab Bismarck calls the headstrong German Kaiser. A motion to ask the Governmenb to abolish the totalisator was lost in the Houea of Representatives. The fortnightly social of bhe Caledonian Society will be held in the Foresters' Hall, Newton, this evening. Colonel Fraser, M.H.R., severely de nounced the totalisator in the House oi Re presentatives yesterday. The Committee of the Women's Fran chise League will meet in the V.M.C.A. Rooms to-morrow at 2.30 p.m. Prince Bismarck has been very freely speaking his opinion of the German Kaiser. He says there is *• trouble ahead." Auckland University College Debating Society will debate " The Influence of the Stage for Good or Otherwise " this even ing. A grand illuminated matinee is to be given by Mr Snazeile, the celebrated enter tainer, in the City Hall nexb Saturday afternoon. The Rev. J. W. Hope, M.A., Presby terian minister at Lower Hutb (Wellington), died yesterday. He has been in delicata health for some time. Sister Anselm, one of the Order of St. Joseph, of the Surrey Hills Convent, died yesterday, aeed 37, having been in the religious profession 21 years. Sir George Grey says that he vraa very glaa to see that the Government revoked ♦■■he proclamation of a licensing district ab Otorobanga (King Country). The Board of Review of Assessments for the counties of East Taupo, vVest Taupo, Kawhia, and Rotorua will beheld at fcho R.M. Court, Auckland, on the 20th pror. 