TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XVII, Issue 235, 6 October 1886, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Last throe nights of " Dark Days." • Mr Burnett at Ponsonby to ni^ht. • Gladstone is hopeful of gaining Home Rule. Tho Maori conspiracy case haa beon dismissed. Heavy snowfall nn the Canterbury ranges yesterday. Tho supposed Caffrey gives the namo of Joe Adams. His "swag" contained a revolver and a piratical fla_\ Ono days imprisonment form-in.lftiightci-at Christchurch. No wonder counsel in the Hall case preferred that Court ! Wellington Caledonian Society has a credit balance of £130. It is feared that the Auckland Society would not show up so well. John Promeroy has got two years' imprisonment for forgery. Mission meeting at St. John's Wesloynn Church, Pon»o.ib3*, to night. The " Sportsman's' gold medal has been presented to Boacli. There aro a number of'tourists at Rotoiua on a visit to tho volcanoes. Jas. Mitcholl or JlcKonzio, for tho Wellington jewellery robbory, has been sent five years to prison. H.M.S. Miranda, at presont en tho Australian station, has been recalled. An empty six-roomed house in Tinnkori Road, Wellington, was gutted by fire last night. Tenders for tho Lower Hobson-streot works will be received up to the 14th inst. Will the property - owners affected by Emily Place works como to a reasonable conclusion to-night ? Mr McEachran will visit Queensland on behalf of the London syndicates interested in mining properties. Tne European public echool at Rotorua was re-opened on Monday last, and thore is a large attendance of children. Tenders are called for the removal of St. , Mary's Church, Parnell, and the erection of part of the new structure. Of 10,000 trout ova received fromDunedin, the Auckland Acclimatisation Society have distributed 6,500, and havo still 3,500 at the Domain ponds. Mr Parnell.in a lecture which he delivered on Ireland, strongly deprecated theoxtensive immigration that has for some years been going on to the great injury of the nation. The Duchess do Maino said to Madame de Stael, " I am very fond of conversation ; everybody listens to me, and I listen to nobody." The Government after all require a scapegoat I It is reported that the resignation of Mr Brewer has been accepted in connection with the Stark purchase. Yesterday a sad tragedy was enacted ir, the Supreme Court at Dunedin. Mr A. D. Larvey, Deputy Registrar, having burst a blood vessel, and died almost immediately. Sir Herbert Sanford, British Commissioner to the Adelaide Exhibition, will probably sail on an early date for Australia. The people of Blenheimaregreatly excited over a dispute between tbe headmaster of the public school and the Inspector. The School Committee's report has been sent to the Inspector for an explanation. The time for receiving tenders for pumping engine, gear, water mains, etc., called for by the City Council, has been extended to the 11th instant. It is alleged that tho prisoner Holt, the ex-bank manager in Sydney, is well treated by the prison authorities, being classed ub a lunatic in order to get special attention. Some crimes are considered a good deal more heinous than manslaughter at Christchurch. Thos. Hooper, for horse-stealing, and two lads named Cecil Williams and I.dward Buckingham, for stealing from a dwelling, were each sentenced to two years' hard labour. In two cases of manslaughter the same judge gave sentence of one year's and one day's imprisonment respectively. Mr G. W. Griffin, U S. Consul at Sydney, acknowledging receipt of a copy of the " New Zealand Parmer," writes : " I very much tLank you for the copy of your interesting and valuable paper. It is one of the be.t agricultural journals in the colonies. Tho classification of the matter ie simply admirable. lam amazed at the superb stylo'in which it is printed."